Speaker 1: And Grant changes everyone to trit twelfth Walkman to Fantasy
Baseball Live.
Speaker 2: Today is Father's Day. It is the twenty first, which
I think also Tim, it is the summer solstice, right,
so it's the longest day of the year. Happy Father's Day, Tim.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you Rich and back at your happy Father's Day.
You know this would be the perfect lead in to that,
to that dad, to that joke that you told me
prior to going on there. That's a j that's a
jee I love that one that asked my he.
Speaker 2: I assistant before we came on the air, just give
me five dad jokes. And the second one made me laugh.
Here it is everybody. I told my wife she's should
embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug.
Speaker 3: That's really good, well done, well done. Yes, speaking of mistakes.
Looking at today's games, we've got a few pitching phautopause,
don't we.
Speaker 2: I saw where the Royals scored six runs. I got
all excited and I went in to see how Bobby
wit Junior was doing. I forgot he's not playing. He's
still on the bench.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you've got to be bragging about you know,
Lofton with a two run Homer. I don't know who's
bragging about that, but you know he dust and May
spotted a where was a nine to two lead going
the second he allowed for He's allowed six earned runs
in two innings. But Stephen Cola takes a big prize
there with nine earned runs over one and two thirds,
And that would be a lesson in how you turn
and outstanding two sixty eight year ra into a four
fifteen ear ray in one outing?
Speaker 2: Was that Dustin May?
Speaker 3: No coler because.
Speaker 2: Dustin May's back up to fourth and code Duston May
look like he had turned a corner and just was
setting at the last few outings and just blew up today.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, Uh, Dustin May's ear a went from three
seventy five to four fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Did did you see what the Mets did with Freddy
Peralta yesterday?
Speaker 3: You mean two inning Freddy?
Speaker 2: Two inning Freddy? Was it ten earned runs?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Ten earned runs? Yeah? I have to I said
a prayer, okay yesterday because he was going up against
who is he going up against? Peralta?
Speaker 2: I start wasn't a great team. Uh, let's see Mets
are going up against Uh the Philly. So it was
a good team.
Speaker 3: Yes it was. Who was he going up against? We
started uh Sanchez and kept the bar all hit on
our bench in one league, and I just thought, thank
you Lord, okay, not having to deal with that for
those that decided to take the well, I'll start both
and hope for the best. Let's hope you had the
Philly starter, all right, I had, You know, my NFC
team was hitting has been great, but my pitching is
just I just I can't get any pitching.
Speaker 2: And I got Freddy Parolton. I had started to make
some hay and then it just I haven't even checked it.
I was just it just that's Yeah, that's just a shot,
a punch to the gut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a serious, serious punch that one. Yeah, No,
I everybody will be racing around today to see who
had collect going okay, and hopefully it wasn't them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 3: So the Astros.
Speaker 2: Astros are up two to nothing of the guards, which
is who's pitching their ting, who's been up and down
as well? Alvarez with his twenty fifth home run.
Speaker 3: Till Yeah, twenty five, that's a big number.
Speaker 2: That's a big number. He's going to hit fifty, and
we thought that was always possible if you can stay healthy,
and Tim took him in the first round. So I've
got a lot of feedback on our first round that
we did on Friday, people questioning O'Neil Cruz over Corbyn Carrol,
which I think is fair feedback on that. I took
O'Neil Cruz eighth, ninth or something like that, and I
do understand the batting risk there, but it was curious
that Corbyn Carrol fell all the way to the fifteenth
pick there. But the speed is off this season, so
I mean I I you know, as you and I
talked about on Friday, you can argue pretty much everybody,
but Bobby went and show Heyo Tani you can. You
can make an r give in a lot of different
ways on each of these players this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, once you get through that the first couple of players,
I'll throw one soda in there too. I think he's
a relatively safe dare. But once you gets through the
first three four, hey, you can justify picking just aboute
anybody to fill out the you know, the rest of
that first round. We've seen a lot of injuries, a
lot of first round players, hurting, a lot of first
round players getting a little bit older and judging Ramirez.
So yeah, I's it's an open book right now. How
is that?
Speaker 2: I don't remember it being this convoluted because we do
this stuff for a living, to mean, we we come
on the air, we talk about it, we do mid
season drafts all the time, and I can't remember being
as afraid to pick a guy six and seventh as
I was on Friday, just unsure of whether it was
making the right decision or not even a good decision.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's very very unstable right now because of
because of injuries, because of age, because of some of
the young players that are really stepping up in a
big way. Could Pete prol Armstrong rega, I'm gonna be
a first round pick if he doesn't repeat the second
half of last year and continues on even a mini
tear for the balance of the season. Uh, he's posting
some huge numbers and guaranteed of the players that we
listed and talked about on Friday, there's going to be
three four more that are going to join the group
over the over the next three plus months of the season.
It's going to happen somebody's going to get hot in
the second half and their value is going to go
right through the roof.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The guy that I felt really confident forgot right
I picked him was James Wood. I mean what he
is doing and the bat speed. He's number one in
hard hits in the in Major League baseill, number two
in exit velocity. Six foot seven, still got really good
speed hitting lead off. It's just a monster, Tim.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Ad another RBI today over one with an
RBI sackfly somewhere in there.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the sackfly that I was watching the game
hit it to the deepest part of Tropic Canna Field,
which it might not be called Tropic Canna Field anymore,
but that that place down in Saint Petersburg. It would
have probably been a home run in twenty nine O
the ballparks. It was just an absolute bomb. It just
flicked his wrist him and it just.
Speaker 3: Went m Yeah. They're very, very, very impressive. Okomodia was
another home run your guy? Yes, yeah, yeah, yesterday? Yeah,
and it was it was a bet. It was. It
was the way home run swings. It was only three
seventy seven in Chicago and regularly, but it was the
type of home run that you loved to see because
he just it was just a grippet and rip it.
It was a perfect home run swing. He made connection
with it. Majestic it was, it was, It was a
sight to behold. I was very, very impressed.
Speaker 2: Timmy said that the Brewers did not respect their elder
race elder six innings pitch, having a good season, twelve hits,
eight urned runs. It wasn't in the carts for him today.
Speaker 3: No, it most certainly wasn't. And uh, yeah, it happens.
There are very few pictures that you can count on
game in game out to deliver really consistent. You know,
I was looking at even yesterday. Okay, I had four
pictures going okay yesterday in one of my leagues, and
I'm sitting there trying to make a decision, okay, because
it wasn't a really easy one, and that I had
a choice with Paul Skins pitching in Colorado, Okay, done,
I started them, okay U Yamamoto at home, okay, And
then I had a choice between Will Warren.
Speaker 2: And let's have you choice, Will Warren. Oh, I guess
we'll Warren only gave up two earned runs, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a choice between Warren and Abbot, and
I got a pile of story coaches yesterday, but no wins.
Abbot outpitched. I took losses from the three pitchers. I
started Yamamoto, Skins and Warren. It didn't hurt me. It
generated twenty four strikeouts for me on the day and
the three h nine e arra. But would you start
Abbot over Warren? It was just one of those days
where if I didn't have any luck that would you
have had any something like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't know. This is that's why
fantasy baseball is so it's so much more frustrated than
fantasy football. I mean it just the guys go out pitch.
I mean, yeah, my mode pitch well, yeah, but you know,
the the believe it about Treman Rogers pitch better. I
mean it's like who would have thought that?
Speaker 3: And schemes only allowed to earned runs in Coors with
eight strake codes Yeah yeah, yeah, great outing and he.
Speaker 2: Lost I know, and I guess, And your point is,
I mean, it's just, yeah, this is white.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why do we drink? Let me count the ways?
I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like Ben Rice let not hit a
home run off the Chase Burns. It lead off the game,
but he's Ben lead off two ninety batting average. With
his twenty second home run. We talked about twenty five
home runs being a big number, twenty two home runs
for Ben Rice.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, what is interesting in this is Elma Rodriguez
had himself a real good game going until he allowed
a home run, a three run shot to Stevenson. But
what I find interesting is that the Yankees are running
up twos in the stolen base category, Domingus with two,
Bellinger with two, Jazz Chisholm with two. Six stolen bases.
Chase Burns doesn't check runners, does he? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was just about to say it's either that I
don't think Stevens has got that bad of an arm,
so it's probably on Chase Burns. So without looking at
the data to determine that, you would have to just
agree that that's probably what's going on. They're just running them,
They're running wild on them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah. And what's what's also interesting. I didn't
think Chase Burns was going to get through five. He
must bore down because he was up over seventy pitches
or close to seventy pitches after three innings, he ended
up at ninety six.
Speaker 2: He's he's in line for the win.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it doesn't pitch all that well, gives up
run runners running all over him, and still only gives
up one run. That's what the hundred mile an hour
fastball will do for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was going to say there's a reason that
he has jack runners right on base normally, and number two,
yeah he gets it. He gets home late with lots
of gudeap on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look a lot of there's a lot
of theory about you guys that get distracted by runners
on first base, then don't bear down on the guy
because a guy at home is more important than the
guy on first base. And if you've got great stuff
like Chase Burns, I mean, why this with the guy
on first base? Because chances are going to get stuck
at first or second anyway. So what do I care
about the guy? And I think the day's outing proved
it where he didn't have his best stuff and he
still gets through a really good lineup. You know it's judgeless,
but still a really good lineup.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you know, the only the only hit that
did damage was Ben Rice's homer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is correct. Let's see what else we got
going on here. The Marlins up to one on the
pathetic Giants, John the thirty one and forty five. I
think that that's appropriate to say pathetic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is. Yeah. But on a positive note, Rich,
this is important for everybody. You remember in the future
that April showers bring June's hours.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I hit another home run. Yeah, so yep,
his eighth thought I should give you a rim shot
on that. That was That was a very bad dad
pun on this Father's Day. I think we will allow that.
So uh, let's see Marcy another Oh for he's hitting
two of five. Really shocked to me that they have
moved him down the line if they have done something,
I mean, it's just I mean, I get the eighteen
stolen bases, but it was a three twenty seven one
base percentage. But the powers is not there and the
batting average is not there. It's been tough season for.
Speaker 3: Him, Yeah, it has. You know who it hasn't been
a tough season for is Auto Lopez. He is If
I'm not mistaken. Auto Lopez is the first major leagueer
to one hundred hits this year, did it yesterday?
Speaker 2: So he should be the Marlins representative on the on
the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: I would think, yeah, yeah, definitely when you're looking at
a player that's, yeah, batting three point thirty two with
a three sixty four OVP, one hundred hits and fifteen
stolen the bases to go with five home runs. That's
quite the year out of Otto Lopez for a player
that was drafted it as a as a late middle
infield type.
Speaker 2: Esther, remember him? Tell me an NOPs of nine twenty
one he gets?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow? And and and you know who the Giants
nominee should be looking at that game, Casey Schid forty
second RBI. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Can we up with best your Ruiz? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Yes, my my, the career minor league leader in the
stolen bases that Estuary.
Speaker 2: Ruiz seventy at bats, fourteen stolen bases, four home runs,
three sixty one on base percentage five fifty seven slug
But is he just facing left handed pitching? Is that
what's going on here? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And picture running probably.
Speaker 2: Tell me that that's not horrible.
Speaker 3: No, it's not. No, no, no. You know what also
also is interesting is the Giants offense. Okay, didn't have
enough gusto to get by Gusco.
Speaker 2: You're reaching McLeod.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you go with the.
Speaker 3: Give you a pity bothers giving you a.
Speaker 2: Pity of rimshot. Okay, yeah, okay, that that one took
a lot.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, my friend, I thank you. There'll be
two Christmas cards this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, hey, hey, check that Texas Ranger score out
our buddy Wyatt Langford one for three with a three
run home run.
Speaker 3: He has, uh, he's been hot. He's making up for
lost ground rather quickly. I would say, what's that given
home run? Up to six home runs now and they've
all come this month.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let's see. Let's take a look at his
game log.
Speaker 3: We won't.
Speaker 2: We don't have Yesterday's in there, Today's in there. But
since six five, when he came back, that is four
home runs, five home runs today batting three oh four
with a three sixty one one base percentage and a
fine eighty nine slug. That was the guy we thought
timmy coming to yes season, That's who we thought we
were going to get everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did minus April and May. Yeah, well he
didn't playing, yeah, exactly. Yeah, and Lucas Giolito's getting roughed
up for the Bogger is eh.
Speaker 2: I got a question here, and I'm just going to
go to and then we'll take a break because one
of my questions for Tim this is crazy Manny Machado.
Thirteen home runs, one stolen base. Do you know he's
hitting one seventy eight.
Speaker 3: I knew it wasn't good, but I didn't know it was.
I I'm good.
Speaker 2: That's all. Wow.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's a that's a that's a big wow.
Speaker 2: So this is Manny Machado, I mean, borderline Hall of
Fame player, uh thirteen, one stolear base, one seventy eight.
Who would you rather have the rest of the season
many Machado or Tatist Junior? Were two homes Tim eighteen
stolen bases in a two eighty two batting.
Speaker 3: Average because he's Junior's no, he's hitting. Yeah, Machado has
leaned into was it heat home runs? But he's not
hitting well thirteen. I'll take the stolen bases and the
guy who's hitting over the power and the guy who's
gone man him.
Speaker 2: Chadda used to be able to steal some bases. His
sprint speed is fifth five percentile. So it's just that
just seems weird like this last season. Last season was thirteen.
So yeah, he's just I mean, he's just not the
same guy anymore.
Speaker 3: No, I think me and my walker get down to
first base quicker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, everything is off to him. He's just
you know, he's thirty three, and you know, you wonder
if he's really thirty three because it was back in
the day when guys they have very good Well, he
was drafted, right, so I don't I don't know, so
maybe he is thirty three, but he's definitely on the
downward slope now and Tatist Junior is still pretty young,
so I'm going to go with Tatisa as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take this. I'll take the speed and the
lack of power, but it'd be nice to be picked
up the pace a little bit. Just to Tad.
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's the problem, Tommy. He's hitting the ball
extremely hard ninety one point five, not quite what he
did last season ninety three point three or the year before.
But he's got a four he's got a five degree
launch angle. He's hitting everything on the ground. That's just
you're not going to any home runs hitting everything on
the ground. And this is what's happened. I'm not sure
why he is doing that, but that's what's happened.
Speaker 3: The fact that he's playing at a leadoffs slot might
come into play.
Speaker 2: Well, he's never been a big angle guy or a
big launch angle guy, but I mean it's gone from
ten degrees to nine point four to four point eight.
To me, Timmy, he might be sneaky next season if
he comes in with six or seven home runs. Because
guy hits the ball that hard, you would think somebody
would sit down with him, go, hey, why don't you
just tweak this a little bit and you could really
unlock some big power there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, show some highlight real clips of locomotive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go in sprint speed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that would Hey, I expect when I look
at the dso you look at that, you know the
launch angle. Yeah, it makes total sense. Fix that though,
when you got twenty five hole runs to go along
with the thirty to forty stolen bases, right, that's right, Yeah,
that's right. Yeah, that works.
Speaker 2: So the superstar player based on the data, is still
in there. He just needs to tweak to his swing.
And why he's gotten into the habit of just sitting
everything on the ground, I don't know, but I know
he signed to a long term contract, so there's not
a kind of incentive to improve. But maybe you know,
the padres can just sit down and work with him
and say, look, this is what this is, what's happening.
Do you want to get better or not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, what's Blad Junior? What's his launej agle? I
don't bet it's not much better.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look Lad. That's an easy one to spell,
Lad Junior eight point three degrees. Okay, Yeah, so it's
another guy that's hitting too many balls on the ground.
Just ye, I mean I don't get it. I mean
Lad is a great hitter too. I mean it rarely
strikes out and hits the bullster, hits the ball hard.
It's another guy that, to me, if he winds up
with ten or eleven home runs, he would be on
my list, just because the data suggests that there's still
big boy power there.
Speaker 3: Well, sure there is. You know, he's still he can
he can still rep it. It's just yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: You don't go from twenty three to whatever Pacy's on
now for eight to ten. That just doesn't make sense
when you're twenty seven years old, that just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: No, and he's in good shape.
Speaker 2: Yep, well he's in good, lad shape. I'm gonna give
myself a rimshot as we take a brink here.
Speaker 3: Yes, is still a shape.
Speaker 2: I like that McCloud round. There's still a shape.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, it is a shape. Maybe not good shape,
but it's still a shape.
Speaker 2: So Tim, we we just give everybody update on my
little personal life here. We finally were able to sell
our old apartment that we had here, so we're down
to one place. Yeah, so it closed Thursday, which was Yeah,
it was really good news. Young lady bought it or
father bought it for which was kind of cool. Uh.
So now we're here with just one you'd never still
getting used to this place up here, and we've got
a microwave, Tim, that looks like it could could launch
a spacecraft. I mean, it's got more buttons loder than
I've ever seen, but I think it's too fancy for
its usage. Right, So why do you use a microwave
for I don't know. One of the big reasons we
use it is the pop popcorn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say popcorn. Popcorn has got to
be the number one used. Warming up coffee is my
prefer but that's that's where I get the most.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean popcorn warm up leftover spaghetti or so,
you know. I go and so Lord goes, say, let's
have some popcorn. This was yesterday. Go okay. So it's
just it's very fancy timmy. Uh, and it's got a
metal It doesn't have a glass like yours. Probably has
a glass. Everyone we've always owned has a glass tray
in it. This this, this one's got a metal one
because it's also a convection of it, which again we've
had convection ovens as well, but they've all had glasses
in there. So I put the you know this side
up on the popcorn press, the popcorn designation on there.
After trying to find it with all the thousands of
butts on it, and I'm going to say six six
kernels popped six the number between five and seven six.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, that's not good. So here we
call it.
Speaker 4: We call a diet popcorn popcorn, right, So I'm like, okay,
well maybe just a yeah, I guess there's bad bad bags, right,
so all right, let me put all another bag and
try it, and six or seven pop kernels popped.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this isn't good. So lots of research and
they finally asked why AI assaystan like, what the heck
is going on? Well, it could be all kinds of stuff.
Something called a megatron, which is this heating element could
be bad, but more than likely you're if you're using
a metal uh tray, popcorn won't pop. Popcorn won't pop
on that. The AI system went into all kinds of
reasons physiologically why that doesn't happen. So get I have.
There's a fancy microwave that of your usages. You can't
do pop popcorn yet, So I said, well, can I
get a replacement tray? They go no, they they don't
have it for this, and there's some third party ones,
but they probably won't fit. Right, this is what you
should do. Put in a plate upside down to lift
the bag off of the metal thing and it'll pop.
I'm like, that's the dumbest thing. I've ever heard. So
what do I do? I get? I get I get
a a like a metal plate or excuse me, glass plate,
and I put it there. I put it on it.
I've got little I've got the fire extingisher outside of
the microwave, and within a minute and a half it
starts popping and it comes out perfectly. I I some
my assistant calls that it's called the plate trip, the
inverted plate trip of metal trays and microwaves. I'm like,
holy crap, that's what Father's Day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you build, you buy yourself a thousand dollars
microwave and you got to use a forty nine cent
ceramic plate to get it to work?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Is there something? Is there something wrong with that picture?
Speaker 2: It's it's it's just ridiculous. So these what I don't
understand why this this thing we bought doesn't have like
normal appliances. It's got all kinds of fancy stuff that
that don't work for normal people. Maybe yeah, no, I
don't get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't get it either. I would probably go
down to Walmart by myself a sixty nine dollars micat
wave exactly. Show Yeah, put the other one away in
a box somewhere Christ present for one of the kids.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking here, Rekift, This fancy Mirco is
a really fancy name. One. I've got a replace it
of a sixty nine dollars Walmart thing.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, sponsored by orbal Rittenbucker Ruh exactly. So.
Speaker 2: I got a couple of other questions observations that I
made after watching some games this weekend. Look, I know
Zach Galen was once a really good picture, in fact,
a very good picture, but last year was rough. This
year it's been I don't know if you're following what
Zach Galen's doing. It is in May and June a
seven to seventy six ear. He's got thirty five strikeouts
and fifty one and he's striking out less than six
per nine. My question to you is why are people
still holding on to him? Is it just because he's
Zach Galen he can't be this bad? Or is it
just time to move on?
Speaker 3: Well, the reason people are holding on to him is
because the only two options that they had for the
weekend Zach Galen and Steve Cooleck. What do you mean
Colick allowed niner and runs at the Gallant. Okay, that's
why they're holding. You don't have any choices or any options.
Find a middle reliever, find right, Okay, yeah, fine, find
somebody that's not going to find as shit. You can't
sustain on your fantasy squad a two month ARAT of
a full time starter that's over seven. You are going
to find yourself. You're going to find yourself in the
bottom three spots in the ARRA. Yeah, Zach.
Speaker 2: I got one league and I hadn't started him for weeks,
and he had a pretty juicy pretty I forgot who
It was a pretty juicy matchup, and he just kept
blown up, and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm done here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to be done, I think rich. Yeah,
Or what happens is galant. He'll go out and he'll
pitch a gym against affiliates, right, and his next start
is uh is against the Marlins, and you'll allow niner
and runs. You'll suck you in for the easy suppose
it easy start and just continue blowing up your ear race.
So yeah, I think it's time, Hey, cut bait, move on.
Speaker 2: I love it. Part of the reason I like playing
in so many leagues. I love the emotion that you
see him on owners right, so you'll see zach Gal
getting blown up in the middle of this game. Somebody
will drop him. It's just so fantastic. Who was that.
Speaker 3: Player that was cut when we were doing the podcast?
It was right jury of the podcast. There was only
a few weeks.
Speaker 2: It was Andrew Kittridge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we were talking. We were talking on the
podcast and you'll low and the old somebody cut him
right then and there. Perfect.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, so I started and I can't battle me
because he was terrible coming into it, but this was
a legitimate time. If you can't start z Gamalon against
the Twins, then there's really no point in having him.
He for four innings pitch, he gave up nine earned runs.
He got two strikeouts, gave up nine earned runs.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, yeah that two strikeos you can get
out of any middle reliever on a bad day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he hasn't. He hasn't given up. So there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine his last nine starts he hasn't given He hasn't.
He only gave up two earned runs on the eighteenth.
Otherwise it's three or more and no, no, not one
outing goes over five innings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't know what happened, but it did,
and all you can do is react to it and
move on. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 2: By Buddy Alma. Rodriguez got a spot start today, pitched
ok until he got roughed up a little bit, and
so he's still not quite ready yet. But I guess
the thing I have to ask you is they backed
up Cole's start tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Should we be concerned about that? Or is that just
the Yankees trying to do the right thing to not
overtax him.
Speaker 3: I'll go with I'll go with auption be there. Yeah,
he's coming. He's coming off major surgery. They need him
for September October. Okay, they need him for the playoffs
is what they need. So there'll be I think they're
being cautious, and I think there's nothing wrong with that.
You know, when once the Dodgers clinched the division, are
they going to be starting O TWI every fifth sixth day. No,
they'll they'll be. They'll push him back a little bit,
and I think most veteran pitchers will be in that
same situation. You know, Hey, once once you get into August.
There are teams that are going to be wrapping up
their their playoff their playoffs situation, teams are going to
get rest. And the Yankees, with Cole coming off that
surgery and just getting back, pushing him back a day
or two, I think is a smart thing to do.
Speaker 2: I mean the elephant in the room with Garrett Cole
as well. I mean it's again, it's a two fifty
seven era. He's pitched well, but he's only struck out
seven point seven per nine, right, and it's a guy
whose secondary stuff is not quite back yet. As we
start to turn our attention to the second half to
twenty twenty seven, you're gotta be bullish on Garrett Cole
or still a little squeamish going into the draft.
Speaker 3: All of I'll like him as a number two, a
strong number two, but not an ace, I don't think. Yeah,
he's also not getting any younger. He's thirty five, So yeah,
I was gonna say, yeah, I would look at twenty
to twenty five very good starts at Garrett Cole, and
that's what I'm going to sort of be planning around
hitting into next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just worried about the you know the stuff.
I mean, he's still throwing it hard, but I mean, look,
not a if you're striking out seven point seven per nine.
So if he throws two hundred innings, which is great,
I mean you're talking one hundred and forty strikeouts. One
hundred and fifty strikeouts, Yeah, which isn't great.
Speaker 3: No, I think he'll get it. I think he'll get
it back to just a little bit less than a strikeover.
Speaker 2: Any Okay, I hope you're right. Let's move on the Jackson.
Holiday leave Saturday's game with a grind injury. I think
the Orioles are playing the Dodgers, so I don't know
if he's been put.
Speaker 3: On the ael or not. But uh, I haven't seen
anything yet.
Speaker 2: So do you do something this evening to grab somebody
in his stead for next week? Or do you just
roll the dice and say, hey, Holiday is going to
be fine.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the problem with trying to grab somebody
is we know what Baltimore is going to do pretty well,
and they got they got Jeremiah Jackson that they can
put in there, and they can shuffle a deck around
a little bit, maybe get Blaze Alexander to play some
of the time. So unless you're looking at one of
those two players right now, I don't see any rush
like for the waiver wire to add somebody, because I
think the players are already there. It's got to be
one of those two guys.
Speaker 2: If you're in a fantasy league with holidays or second baseman,
are you worried that he's going to miss the week
and so you want to pick up somebody. I guess
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if if there are options out there and you
have room, sure, but I sure wouldn't. We don't even
know if he's going to miss time yet. You know,
maybe we'll know later in the day. They from what
I can read, they seem to believe that they caught
whatever the problem was before it became a big problem.
But if it comes, if it comes, if it comes
to if it comes to Monday, well hey, if you
got twice week, we moved, throw somebody in for the
first half of the week. I didn't need to wait
to see more information, and hopefully we'll get it.
Speaker 2: You probably didn't hear the tone of my skeptic Yeah,
uh huh. This week, go back to Randy. We can
go back to Randy Rosarene. Just this past week, Randy
Rosearene and somebody else who had a Bruce flood and
he was, oh the guy Angel Martinez.
Speaker 3: Bruce broken food. They're close. They both start with B right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes these these mild injuries, mild hamstrings turn into
you know, a Grade three ham string. He's gone for
the season, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like micro day to day.
Speaker 2: So were we wrong on holiday entering? This is we
both were pretty excited about him and the potential. But
it's nothing good. I mean, it's two hundred batting average,
has four home runs and three stolen bases. Is he
just not completely? I mean, did he get so far
off track with the handmaid surgery that he hasn't a
chance just to come back as what we thought? And
this is just some growing pains or is there something
more to be concerned with here?
Speaker 3: I think it's a combination of growing pains and the
fact that not everybody heals the same way. Okay, you
know that Handmaide situation. We've seen some recover very very
quickly and do very very well. And holiday halfway through
his rehab he had another issue come up, I believe,
and he was pulled from his rehab and then he
went back to it. I think it was hand pain
or wrisk pain or something right, So it's not a
real even recovery from that injury, and I think that's
playing on it. I am not overly concerned about jackson
holiday long term, think that most of what we're seeing
now is knocking the rust off and that slow recovery
from the AMMI theory. Tim.
Speaker 2: I got a note from our patroon remember if you
want to join us at the Patreon site. Everyone, it's
btr o n dot com Forward slash Prospect three sixty one.
Tim is moving around telling dad jokes on the on
the discord site, and I'm just trying to manage everybody's
everybody else's questions and we're having a lot of fun
and hopefully people are getting a lot of value from it.
But I got a note from someone who said, I
think it was buddy Tim Weber, that he's surprised at
the power that Travis Bazana is showing, and I kind
of wanted to I had two home runs last night,
I believe, and I think that's probably where his question
was coming from. I kind of always saw him as
like a fifteen home run guy. I don't see any
reason to up that. Maybe a little bit that will
add a little bit more pop. But what's your take
on Travis Bazana's start to his career and what do
you you see for him now long term of what
we've seen over the first couple of months.
Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I would I would sort of
question is because of the the injury Jose Ramirez, is
Bizanna trying to do a little bit more from a
power perspective. Maybe he's not that Yeah, maybe he's not
that player, and maybe he has looked at you know,
maybe maybe Cleveland's asking him, okay, to attempt to hit
for more power. I don't know, because let's face it,
with Ramirez out of the lineup and Angel Martinez who
had what nine homers in about the same number of
stolen bases, Cleveland's got no power in that lineup, do they? Yeah? Yeah,
it's maybe they're asking him to do a little bit
more in that direction. I agree with you. I think
he's a fifteen fifteen home run type where the hit
tool is going to be his It's going to be
his long term key to success. And I think what
he does best getting on base. Yeah, he's going to steal.
He's going to steal bases, not huge bases, but yeah,
I'm fifteen to twenty type guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's a good player, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a very very good player. But I don't
see him ever hitting forty home runs thirty home runs, but.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, he could sneak in twenty home runs
in a season. I think he's like a fifteen ish
type of guy who's going to hit with some speed.
That's kind of player. That's a good player. I mean,
I I yeah, I think as you're penciling in your
fantasy charts for next year, I think putting in more
for Travis Bizan it's probably a mistake. I mean, I
think these guys are who they are. It just doesn't
have the physicality eighty nine mile hour eggs, velocity, et cetera,
et cetera. All that kind of points to what we're
seeing the play or do, which is good.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's sort of this whole thing leads
leads me to sort of thinking about Gunzales in Pittsburgh.
M hm, okay, hit the hit too was fine. He
decided he wanted to muscle muscle him out for big
power that he really honestly didn't have. Now he's gone
back to being the nick Gunzalez we expected him to be,
and he's playing very very well. So I don't I
don't think tinkering too much with bizan or long term
would prove to be something that would generate successful results.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I also kind of tumbling down with that say
that sometimes you hope for a player and wish for
a player, it's just a it's an exercising futility. I mean,
it's if it's not in the player's you know, kind
of profile. I mean, you can wait and you can
want all you want, but it's he.
Speaker 3: Is who he is, right, So yeah, the old adage,
if it's not broken, don't fix it.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, speaking of Gonzales, can we talk about
Jacob Gonzales.
Speaker 3: Jacob Gonzalez. Isn't he the guy that replaced Murakami in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Sixteen first sixteen games? You got the one home run
sitting one eighty two, obviously two fifty slog not it's
been disappointing, disappointing to the fact of just drop him
or is this a guy that maybe just needs to
get acclimated, and he's going to be a little bit
better than what he's showing.
Speaker 3: I think Win's acclamated, He's going to be a little
bit better than he's showing now. They Chicago did bring
up Junior Perez and I passed on the waiver wire.
But what are your thoughts ken on Perez? Is is
he a guy that could potentially, through shuffling the echo
a little bit, affect Jacob Gonzalez.
Speaker 2: Is he going to play first base? I mean he's
early an outfielder.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, could that be in the cards? I
don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if look, I'm going to memory, Junior
Perez is never He's always struck out way too much.
I mean I think I've always remember him striking out
a third of the time, least going back to the
memory as fading as I get a little older. But
that's that was always my concern. He's got a little
bit of power. I think he when he was with Oakland,
didn't he hit like twenty somehow, twenty plus on runs,
twenty plus stolen bases. He's couldn't hit and I game
going back, I think that's who the player is. But
quite Frankly, that's who the White Sox. Love him or
hate him or love them. This is how they've been surviving.
They just throwing out guys that just hit balls a
long way, and maybe Junior Perez is yet another one
of those guys. I mean, they haven't really cared about
contact at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you look Junior Pez, I'm just looking back
at his numbers. Twelve home runs in twenty three, one
hundred and fifty strikeouts and four thirty four at bats. Yeah,
he's always struck out a ton, and looking at twenty
twenty six eighty six, I'm just adding quickly here, eighty
six strikeouts in just over two hundred at bats.
Speaker 2: That's a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a big number. That's why I didn't include
him this week because I don't think with that hit tool,
he's never hit more than fifteen home runs and that
was an enable, stole a lot of bases, but didn't
hit for the buck, didn't it for much, Bob, you know, twell, fourteen.
Speaker 2: So let's look at Jacob Gonzalez. I mean we kind
of warned everybody with I'm going to memory, I think
it was eighteen home runs or something like that.
Speaker 3: Trip Tola. I mean the Charlotte effector.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Charlotte's a huge hit or spark. He's got
an jacksonvillast in the early going eighty eight point five
launch agle fifteen point four. That's enough to be a
fifteen home run guy. There's no speed, and I think
he hits a little bit. I think, yeah, I mean
that's kind of who the guy.
Speaker 3: Is right well, and what are the options in Chicago
right now? He's got a little bit of time, I think.
I don't think they're going to be Yeah, the White
Sox are playing good baseball and Montgomery Montgomery Inc. Is
getting it done Ben and Tendy and Miguill Vargas, and
to not achieve, yeah, I think they exercise in patience
with Jacobzallas.
Speaker 2: I think long term, if Jacob Gonzale stays at first base,
that's not going to work from the fantasy standpoint. There's
not enough enough power there. It feels a lot. It
feels a lot like Nolan Shandy.
Speaker 3: Well to me, Yeah, I'm looking I'm looking at Triple
A and the only you know, they got Dustin Harris
down there. But Nolan Jones can play some first base.
But this Corey the like, Yeah, there there's not a
lot of options that I think they won't exercise patients,
especially with the team playing well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yep, agree, Tommy. Let's take a break. Oh,
I got one more question Jordan Lawler. That was the
last Tim and I talked about Jordan Lawler got on
the air. It's just it's sad to me. I don't
know what else to say. I mean, yeah, I kind
of compared him a lot to Akunya and Bush from
a health standpoint. But at least we know Akunyon Bucks
and are great baseball players. We have no idea what
Jordan Lawler could do because he's never stayed healthy enough.
Speaker 3: To know he's ahead of the curve from a health
perspective or lack thereof.
Speaker 2: Outside I don't need to say anymore.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, No, Yeah, it's just the most recent when
the hamstring.
Speaker 2: It's a hamstring which you know should be back in
a few weeks. But if if you're in charge of
the Arizona Diamondbacks at some point, you just got to
you got a list over there that says you can't
trust this guy and either move them or do something.
I mean, you can't I think he's just going to
get left by the wayside, be my guess.
Speaker 3: You know, the hams string is connected to the ankle bone,
the ankle bones connected to the towbone, and the hamstring
going in the other direction. There's who knows. It's just
been one injury after another. And how do you You
got to feel for the guy right now. I think
it's very fair to say he just cannot stay healthy.
With all the skills talent in the world, you got
to get on the field every once in while and
show it off right, And unfortunately for him and I
feel for him, it's not happening.
Speaker 2: And look that the world does not stay still. I
mean there are players that are getting better in the
minor leagues that are going to come and take his
job and then all of a sudden, he's going to
be buried.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I don't know. I almost I almost came, Yeah,
I almost came close to bringing up Tommy the Tank, Okay,
who has hit four home runs in his past three games.
He's finally showing some power. But at some point I'm yeah.
Speaker 2: You see, he's on my hot Prospect of the week.
I just right about I think that's his nickname Tommy
the Tank.
Speaker 3: Tommy the Tank, Tommy Tommy White. Yeah. I got into
trouble in a in a draft last March because I
drafted Tommy White. I was told he's already rostered, and
I said, no, he's not. That's Thomas, not Tommy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I.
Speaker 3: Put Tommy the tank and the take in and it
cleared it up there rather quickly. Who's timing the the
guy who had eight hundred home runs for that college
team years ago? That guy?
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, so let me read you what I wrote.
Speaker 3: Okay, curious, I've.
Speaker 2: Down shifted on Tommy White, given the lack of leverage
in a swing, the overly aggressive approach, and the growing
platoon splits. He crushes lefties, but I'm starting to worry
that worry that might end up being his primary role
once he reaches the major league. So that's my intro.
And then down in the body, I right, Tommy White,
the Athletics first pick in the second round of the
twenty twenty four draft, has yet to show the same
thunderous power that was my AI engine. Put that word
in thunderous means thunderous power. Explain in college where he
posted home run totals of twenty seven, twenty four, and
twenty four across three seasons, the last two at LSU.
The ex of lastegers are still well above average, but
he's still hitting too many balls in the ground, and
when he does elevate, his average launch angles just eight
point two degrees. Until he lifts the ball more consistently
here will remain more of a doubles hitter. So let's
there's no speed. So I got him as a twenty
twenty five home round guy with a two to sixty
batting average, and watch efforts on base percentage because he
never walks.
Speaker 3: No, I was going to say, there's no speed, and
watch out for the back hole that will be needed
to fill in the hole if he ever decides to run. Yep,
he's a big yeah, he's a big boy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, Timmy, let's let's break come back into your
waiver where my friend.
Speaker 3: Okay, it sounds like fun now.
Speaker 2: My Hot Prospects of the Week on Tuesday for our
Patreon members is going to be good because there are
a lot of not famous guys on the list, and
I think that's what people love. Everybody knows, you know,
the famous guys and they're good. But when you start
to pull up some guys that who's this, I think
that's what it gets fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I tried to do that.
Speaker 3: Yes, we we discussed one before we went on air.
And I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm looking for dude doing
some digging this evening. Because again I didn't have a
clue that's that's your gig Rich. I just read the
emails as they come flowing through, and there are some
great emails there really are people should be subscribing just
for your hot prospects. The guys off off the radar,
because like you said, everybody knows the guys on the radar,
that's not a problem. They're finding the guys that are
breaking out okay and showing a change in skills that
you know. It's hey, that's important you get these guys now,
or somebody else will.
Speaker 2: I will say, it's when I see we have to
do a list like this, or want to do a
list like this. It takes a lot more time because
I don't know the players that well. I got to
research the player. I've got to look up the data
and sometimes I've got to go beg for some non
stat cast data to find out. You know what kind
of interests are throwing. I gotta watch games just to
come up with two paragraphs. Yeah, I spent an hour
and a half researching the guy for two paragraphs. But
the job I've selected to them. So that's what that
is a crossic bear exactly to me. I think your
waiver wires pretty darn good. But you thought it was
challenging to put together, tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I pulled out what little hair I had had
left trying to scrape through and pull up names. Today,
I think I pulled up some interesting names. But at
the same point in time, it was one of those
weeks where, yeah, I'm currently having trouble sitting rich because
I worked my ass off. Okay, I don't know where
it went. It was a tough week.
Speaker 2: Well, if you lost your ass in the process, that's
not that's a win, right, So.
Speaker 3: No comment, there's an opportunity. I'm no comment. I'm zipping it. Okay.
Speaker 2: So the other thing that we've done, at least I've done,
is now that we've got enough data from Tim McLeod
and all, my AI assistant now knows how Tim Wrights
knows that to edit Tim's material and knows kind of
how Tim thanks and can scan the internet as well.
We've also got I've asked the AI assist that we'll
do this. At the end, all the guy's Tim lists
who are the two guys that he would pick up
and based on that. So I thought that was kind
of fascinating and I kind of liked what the guy
came up with.
Speaker 3: So uh as do I? Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. So it's it's fun that you've got
Tim writing the content and then further analysis being done
by an AI assistant who looks at what he's saying
and goes, ah, this is what this is what I
like from it, which I think is pretty cool. So Timmy,
we go for your first name, Josh Bell, which I
laughed out loud when I saw his name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's hot, you got to put him in
your lineup because the O for sixty four is on
its way. So yeah, well yeah again I took a
look and I laughed as well. You know, he had
a two homer Gay Day on May eighteen, then he
went totally quiet until June seventh, and now he's back
two Omber seven RBIs in the past five games. Hey,
pick him up this week and hope you get another
week out of him before he goes quiet again for
due to three weeks.
Speaker 2: It's it's really really but he's going to wind up
with eighteen to twenty home runs. That's just what he's
going to do. And you know that's that's that float
your boat. That's what you're gonna get with Josh Bell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's close to fifty RB. Eyes he's been. He's
been generating OURBI numbers all year pretty much. Yeah, so
twenty three percent rostered for close to fifty RBIs happay
through the year. He should have a little bit more
love than twenty three percent.
Speaker 2: I agree, it's just again, I have studied Josh Bell
because I've owned him for years. What's frustrating is day
after day after day seeing overs and you just as
soon as you drop him or taken out of the line,
and that's when he does something and you just you
it's gotta close your eyes. He's at nine home runs
forty seven, he's on pace for twenty one hundred.
Speaker 3: Yes he is, yeah, yeah, but with a.
Speaker 2: Two forty seven batting average, which isn't great, but for
a corner infielder, you could do a lot worse than that.
Speaker 3: Yes, believe you me, you could. I'm proving it. Yes,
Black Gerrera Junior or anybody. Sorry, there you go.
Speaker 2: Tim is bitter, Andrew been attendee. I am struggling with
this one. Yeah, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 3: I'm happy because I finally, finally totally stumped your assistant. Okay,
I put no Benny no longer brings the jets.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, he said Benny no longer brings speed to
the table.
Speaker 3: Yes, Benny and the Jets, Elton John.
Speaker 2: I know I got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he changed it to no longer bring speed. Sorry,
AI assistant, you don't know music.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. I should have called that when
that was actually a very good pun. I apologize on
his behalf.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's okay. I just wanted to. Yeah, hey, the
proofs into pudding.
Speaker 2: He might have been a shot at you, going, why
the hell are you putting Andrew pen.
Speaker 3: On this list? That could be true. That could be
very true too. Yes, because he's got six homers. He's
got two homers, six RBIs and the thirteen O one
ops and the best sweet you're looking for you're looking
for somebody to feel to fill an outfield hole. Okay,
give him a look, he's gonna play. He's hot.
Speaker 2: Here's an oldie but goodie, Walker Peeler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one sort of sort of surprised me. But
you look at what he's doing, and in the past
four starts he's only a lot of four and runs. Okay,
it's struck O twenty two who he definitely deserves a
little bit more love in a pitching shorted world, the
one we live in than the thirty three percent roster
at CBS. He's been pitching well in you very well.
I don't think it's not it's not Walker Buehler of
old it's Walker Buehler of new. But he's getting it done.
And that's what we need right about now, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you need anything time. I mean, as
we know, we've been talking about pitching all season long,
and it's it's been tough. It's just been really tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has.
Speaker 2: Here's a good one, Jose Cabrera, who is kind of
almost getting to the point of career. Minor league again,
a guy from the Dominican so but he's been out
there starting the DSL and was I think he was well,
he was twenty twenty one. He was drafted, so he's
been kicking around for five years and was about ready
to make his major league debut.
Speaker 3: Well, hey, you look at the Diamondbacks rotation. Okay before
today in calling up Cabrera, they're down to three starters
and using the term starter in Zach Galen in the
same sentence is probably oxymoron is sho. Okay, you got
Merrill Kelly, who's thirty seven going on thirty their age.
You got Edward or Rodriguez Galen, they had, they had
along with Jordan Lawler. They had Ryan Nilson and Michael
Siroca both hit the il towards the end of the week.
Uh five, five into into four. Because I'm not counting
Zach Allen. The Diamondbacks have got problems big time. The
one thing, if I recall looking at Cabrera, I like
the fact that I don't know what to expect. Okay,
I really don't, but the walk rate was down a
little bit this year, and that gives me pause for
maybe there's a bit more there than a number five
type starter. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, See, he's got decent stuff fastball, slider, sinker, change up, cutter,
so it throws any curveball, throws a lot of stuff,
primarily a sinker slider. Guy sinker averages ninety four miles
an hour, gets a ton of ground balls with it,
and a decent slider that misses some bat So I
mean change up could be a little bit better. So
some splits going on here, but otherwise, I mean he's effective.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and you look at the numbers he posted
in Reno, Okay, and it was a pinch shy of
four for the area with the one nineteen. In a
real park, that's probably a two in one point eight.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're right. Arena is a very challenging place to pitch,
no question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Yeah, it's tough. So basically what I'm saying
is he's pitching today, see what happens and bit accordingly, Okay,
sort of go from therebody's in the name it that
I felt had to be brought. They're going to keep
him around for a few starts, I think. So give
is he pitching? Ah? Who is he pitching against? Today? Arizona?
They got the twins and Josh Bell.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, because we just talked about what Zach
Galen did. Let's see if there's any splits with mister
Cabrera before we get too excited. Here splits twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Let's see what's going on here.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, left handed hitters city slugging four thirty six
versus right right hand and it hitters three thirty one.
So this again, the data show that change up wasn't
as good asn't throw it very often, so I'm not
surprised that he's got some splits going on there. So
he needs a better change up. But I mean again,
the slider fastball was very good last year. Last year
a sorry last year. Left handed batters hit slut five
sixty four off of him. So so yeah, ten home
runs and versus six home runs against right handed batters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and today he's gone through three innings so far,
allowed to hits, no runs, three share goes.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. So yeah, interesting guy,
not perfect by any stretch, but that's that's what you
get with almost everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a picture.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just good to understand what their limitations are.
So you know, if they're they're going to struggle against
left handed batters, and you up against a team with
a really strong left hand, a sign maybe you said them. Yeah,
that's what's the importance of understanding the profile of the player?
Speaker 3: Yeah, most definitely. And the reason I brought him up
is because he's definitely going to get an opportunity, and
so far it looks like he's doing okay.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, there's there's a couple of diamondback pictures on
this list. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Victor Karantina, who's kicking around and kicking around for years.
Why is he on the list.
Speaker 3: Again? He's he's on a streak eight for fourteen, two
home er, six RBIs in the past week. I just
bought ride the hot hand.
Speaker 2: Well roster, So I know this is impossible to answer this.
This is my struggle. So owen Airs probably never heard
of owen Airs. Owen Airs was my hot prospect of
led the hot prospect of the week last week, and
he was he had everything.
Speaker 3: I just call him.
Speaker 2: Fifteen for twenty and he's a late bloomer catcher and
but he's played extremely well this week. So I write
about him last week as hey, there could be something here.
This week he's one for twenty. I'm I'm making that up.
He hasn't hit at all. Hey, that just happens, like.
Speaker 3: You're sure it does.
Speaker 2: So how do you how do you play that game?
It's never worked for me.
Speaker 3: I play that game by trying to get two week
hot streaks, okay, and just because to try and predict, Okay,
to try and successfully more than average predict people who
are going to head into a hot streak is impossible. Okay,
we don't know when Josh Bell is going to go off,
but what I'm attempting to do is alert people to
the fact that he is right now, should you wish
to take the chance. Same with Walker Buehler, same with me. Okay,
they're pitching well, so I think you have to utilize
that and just hope that it continues long enough that
you get some you know, you get the ability to
extract value from these players.
Speaker 2: I think the difference. Victor is pretty good baseball player there,
even last twelve runs. Hits the balls hard, yeah, yeah,
ball has got some leverage in a swing. I mean,
so makes good contact, he walks a little bit. I mean,
he's a pretty good baseball.
Speaker 3: Player, exactly. I'm not I'm not recommending, for the most part,
players who have gone over twenty in the past two weeks.
In some cases maybe you should because they're they're due
to break out if they've got job security, right. But
in a lot of cases all those players are already rostered.
Speaker 2: But we do.
Speaker 3: Record, third, fourth, fifth, throughout picks.
Speaker 2: You do reckon meant Jaydean Hill, but we we digress.
That was a shot. I'm sorry, sorry about that. I
will get myself a rim.
Speaker 3: Shot, as you should. Yeah, if I had control, i'd
be hammer and that button right now.
Speaker 2: I laughed at it. It was funny because when I
saw that jayde Ham, I think it was yesterday I
got this to say. I said to myself self, Jade
and Ham will be on the waiver He's going to
be on the report, guaranteed. And sure enough, there it was.
Speaker 3: You read like a cheek book.
Speaker 2: It's okay, let's take a print, Tilly, come back and
finish up your waiver report. Tim Drohan's name up on
Friday and look, Yeahki pictures. You have to be interested,
but it is ain't row.
Speaker 3: Yeah, reliever converted to the starter who's said basically four good,
four solid outings, okay, and they've encours. Yeah, kept it
to three runs over six and the third time he's
the number five type starter. But we know the situation
as far as starting pitching is concerned. I think it's
only fair to list anybody that has a bit more
than a pulse on the waiver wire when it comes
to pitching, and I'll continue doing that looking for looking
for deep, deep options that are a bit off the radar.
Speaker 2: Chad Durbin. Chad Durbin second base, third basement with the
Boston Red Sox. Why is he on this list.
Speaker 3: He's on the list because he's another player who's had
a good June after a and absolutely horrible April and
May over the past three weeks. For Homer nine RBIs
three stolen bases in two eighty one beverage betting average.
Not spectacular, but twenty useful right now as a corner
infield in the fifteen teen formats. So it seems like
he's playing to the potential that I sort of envisioned
heading into the year. I was a little higher than
on Durban than most. But April and May were dreadful.
They really will, they were horrible.
Speaker 2: It's the first of the Coopers. We'll do, actually do
the Coopers together. So as I was thinking of Cooper,
there's a new Apple. I think it's in its second season,
New Apple. New to me an Apple series called Neighbors
and Friends. It's with John Hamm. Tell me you're familiar
with John hann the good looking guy that was in
uh oh, the advertising show. What was that TV series?
But anyway, so Cooper, this guy Cooper on the television
series plays a very wealthy hedge fund manager that the
first episode, his whole life goes sideways. He loses his job,
his wife sleeps with his best friend, dumps him, his
kids hate him. I mean, his whole life goes to
shit literally within the first twenty minutes. And he decides,
because he lives in this extremely wealthy area in Connecticut,
decides that all of his rich friends don't need all
of the stuff that they have, So he starts to
go and steal watches and so forth. But he doesn't
keep the money himself. It's almost like a Robin Hood
type thing. So he starts to giving money away to
other people that actually need the money as well. So
it's a fascinating story there, and so two seasons so far,
we've gotten through most of the first season totally hooked
on it. With the main character's name is Cooper. He
goes by Coop. I don't know if Cooper goes by Coop,
but there you have it to me long intro to Cooper.
Speaker 3: Ingle, Yeah, very long. My question, damn.
Speaker 2: Couch trying to be charming and you know, information for
all our listeners. It just really long.
Speaker 3: Okay, which point of the two Coopers, if I had
to rank them, is the mini Cooper?
Speaker 2: Who was the mini Cooper?
Speaker 3: Oh? Sorry? Sorry that was that was bad? Well, no
mini Cooper car.
Speaker 2: That I know, but like, okay for the joke, that
makes sense when I'm going to be small, right or
just we're just.
Speaker 3: Throwing out okay, yeah, none as big as the other, yes,
and ranking purposes, you know what. We're off the rails.
We're done. We're done.
Speaker 2: We're trying to analyze Tim's dump jokes working well as
Tim makes one of my television pop culture. Tim has
no sense for pop culture.
Speaker 3: At all, No, none, whatsoever. Pop c It's cocor cocher PEPSI.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's Coke classic, Coke classic? Or did you did
you ever buy into the new Coke when it came out?
Speaker 3: No? No, it was dreadful. Yeah, it was dreadful. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think right you you worked for freedom life, so you
had to be a pepsi guy, right.
Speaker 3: No, I drank coke, I asked him. I asked him
at our first big our first big, big meeting that
we had executives. Okay, my question to them is, how
come we don't have coke here? The I did, Honest
to god, they looked. I immediately incurred, scoring and all
the boys around the.
Speaker 2: Table were just to get ahead. Written by MC.
Speaker 3: That ain't the way. But I wasn't going.
Speaker 2: I wasn't getting ahead.
Speaker 3: It's easy when you're not getting ahead. Things like that.
Speaker 2: Wow, wow, okay, yeah, so funny. All right, Cooper Angle,
we're way off the rails. Why why is he on
this list when they when they just signed Patrick Stewart.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and they and they just called up Khalil Watson. Well,
I mentioned in the narrative about Khalil. I don't think
Khlil Watson's gonna stick. Nobody that strikes out that much
is going to last, I don't think. And that leaves
you with your yeah, which leaves you with your next option,
which is Cooper Angle. Okay, the bat's ready. Okay, you
saw him last week? What club three of them. Didn't
you weren't you at that game? Us there?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I think so was I there? No,
I don't. I don't know if I was at that game.
But uh, he's not hit.
Speaker 3: The kid he did it three. Yeah, the kid can hit.
Hitting is not a problem. Finding a place for that
bat in the lineup that could be a challenge. But
at some point in time if Cleveland doesn't make a trade,
like what are their options they It's not like Cleveland
being the system that they are, the way that they
run their team, they don't have an abundance of options
sitting in the high minors looking for power bats. So
I I honestly I hate predicting failure for somebody and
and Watson, but the STRIKEO is.
Speaker 2: He can't be got great, can't hit.
Speaker 3: So if you got room, I would stash Cooper angle
right now because I think he's not far down the road.
I'm a big fan and I think I think he
can hit, and right now the Guardians need anybody who
can hit.
Speaker 2: Can definitely hit. He's got average power. I know he's
got twelve home runs. It does have a huge launch
of eighteen degrees max a velocity of one oh seven.
So it's not huge power, but I mean you're right.
I mean, when you it doesn't matter. He's got more
power than probably six of the of the nine guys
starting in that lineup half.
Speaker 3: So yeah, right now, yeah.
Speaker 2: But there I think you will agree there's something they
don't like about him.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and it's it's probably they prefer the defensive
type catcher. That has to be you know, when you're
looking at they traded for Patrick Bailey and they got
Austin Hedgers. They got two great catchers sitting there to
work with pitching. But at some point in time they're
going to have to get some offense.
Speaker 2: Totally great, and you and I are violent agreement about this.
It's I get you want to have these great defensive catchers,
but you're going to come in third place with great
defensive catchers. I mean, at some point you do have
to score runs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And right now that lineup is not
geared other than Bizangna and a few players. With Jose
Ramirez out of that lineup, it's it's bleak. It really is,
the fact that they're continuing to win games is impressive.
Speaker 2: Really, I thought your next selection of Sean Keys is
really interesting. I've written about him a lot. This season's
shown a lot more power. He's always had big power.
I mean there's some real challenges on how much he's
going to hit, and he is only in double A.
But I mean, Sean Keys is interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're AI assistant changed in the narrative a
little bit because I put have combined for as Rich
Wilson said, the number between three and five. I quoted
you on that one, hey, and he took you out
of it.
Speaker 2: Oh may I see that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Keys is killing it. Okay, he's he's hitting well.
Fourteen homers and one hundred and seventy winner bas at
double A. I'm moving to Buffalo. He's got four more
than forty seven at bats. I don't know how the
Jays figure to get him in the lineup with Springer,
Dhing and Kazuma Okomobile walked in at third, But the
Jays need some power and I would watch Keys very closely.
This is just an FYI type recommendation. I don't the
road's very good. I have to do something right.
Speaker 2: He's got big boy powers, some very good Whether he
hits or not, I don't know. But if I were
the Tronto Blue Jays, I would sit down with Lenn say, look,
you're our franchise guy, repaying you, you know, a bucket
of money. We need more power from you. You got
to start and some leverage. You've got to start trying
to yoke some of these balls out because we need
we need some production and see where it goes. Maybe
they've already sat down with him, but I mean, come.
Speaker 3: On, yeah, three and five is not what we expect there.
And I just wanted to take a look at the
Jay to see what the Jays had as far as
potential future power. And Sean Keyes leaps right off the page,
doesn't he.
Speaker 2: I totally agree. I love the call. Whether it happens
or not, don't know, but I love the call there.
Brandon Fat. A lot of people forgotten about Brandon Fat.
He's down in Triple A being stretched out.
Speaker 3: Yes he is, and you can be guaranteed looking at
that system. They called up Cabrera today and so far,
so good, but that only leaves him three pictures. Still
be four if he counts that gallon in there. And yes, exactly, yeah,
they need another arm and it's only a matter of
time before Brandon gets a call. Uh yeah, we've we've
seen a lot of strikeouts from in the past and
it looked like he was journing a car. I remember
he was a real sexy pick a couple of years
back last year based on one hundred and eighty strikeouts
from twenty twenty four, and yeah, it just didn't happen.
But he is going to get an opportunity. That's that's
a guarantee. I think barring injury stuff.
Speaker 2: Is really good. Pitch well in the playoffs a few
years back when there's going to made that run and
but the command as has been terrible, just throws up
meatballs and until he gets nibbling on this on the
fringes a little bit better, he's just going to be
hit able. And it's a real shame because he's got
a great arm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so again, opportunity. Let's let's see what the kid
can do do with it.
Speaker 2: The other Cooper is Cooper Pratt, and Tim is all
over himself with Cooper Pratt.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I like Cooper Pratt a lot. And you know,
we discussed Luis Laura last week. Okay, hey, Brewers went
with Cratch, which makes total sense. But he's another player
that they signed to a long term deal while still
in the minors, and he's had a good first week.
It was funny what they what they did to him
in his uh, in his debut. Did you catch that
by any chance?
Speaker 2: I did not?
Speaker 3: Okay. You know when the players go out on the
field at the beginning of the game, they all spread
out to their positions, right, Well, what they did.
Speaker 2: Was is sprint is loosely sprint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Yeah, they stroll out to their positions. Yeah,
everybody everybody else stood in the dugout and he was
out there by himself.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But anyhow, he's gone six for sixteen this week,
three stolen bases. Hey, the wheels are definitely solid so far.
Speaker 2: He's hitting thunder too, so he's you could definitely stay
at short so you know that's gonna help because they
need the defense there too.
Speaker 3: Well, let's face it, the DFA Luis rin Ethel, so
they're not looking at Proud as a short term option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just a real shame about Jet Williams,
who's also that organization. He just he's not hit this
season at all. It's a it's a real shame. I'm
not sure what's happened, but he's really really struggling. And
the name I gave tim is count Hell. Look, he's
close to returning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, thanks for the heads up on that one.
Rich greatly appreciated. Got an email from you, was it yesterday?
The day before? And yeah, you know, hey, let's face it,
Drew Romo and Edgar quarr aren't going to block him
once he's determined to be ready. And I know it's
triple a Charlotte, but he's eight for sixteen to start
his rehab assignment. It ain't gonna be long before we
see him back in Chicago. I would if I had
I guess this week at some point.
Speaker 2: I think so, I would think so. Edgar Quaro has
been a real disappointment. I thought he'd be a better
player than would have turned out to him. Maybe eventually
he will be, but it's just he just has not
done much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Drew Drew Romo can't hit. He can he
can kill the ball when he makes contact, but that's
not very and frequently. You know enough, you know, yeah,
we'll have home runs, but that's He was defa.
Speaker 2: By two teams. He was TFA by the Rockies and
then picked up by was it the Yankees or Mets
or somebody, and then d there and then eventually going
over to the brewer. I'm sorry to the White Sox.
So that's that's what we got with Drew Romo.
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, I ods are pretty good. At some
point in time. It will happen another time. Was you
know it would be one of those two catchers is
going down right to the miners. It's as simple as that.
It would be, my guest, Yes, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Let me take it out of the rate. Come back.
Let's see what our AI assistant after Tim's writing, Let's
see who he picks. This is two favorite. So again
I asked, we're introducing a new segment to Tim's Waiver Wire,
asking the assistant to say, okay, based on what Tim
has said, said in past weeks, etc. I'm not feeding him,
don't know how to do this yet, not feeding him
the podcast, but it somewhat highlights Tim's biases. We all
have biases, but the two players that he feels like
Tim is articulating the most and first, as Walker Bueller,
he writes this clear must add of the week. Tim
rarely plants a flag. That's firmly in a picture returning
to form, which is interesting because again he goes back
and looks at all the stuff that Tim has written
and he thinks that Tim is a little bit more bullish.
And Walker Bueller here talks about his fortune starts and
he says the market is slow to react, which is
exactly when you want to strike. So yeah, he likes
your call, Walker Buehler.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only thing I would question is planning a
flag on Hey. It's starting pitchings, so I have a
tendency to elevate a little bit more, and I don't.
I'm not planning a flag on Bueler, but if he's available,
I'm definitely looking him at him as the best of
the pitching options of this week. Yeah, definitely. So your
assistant nailed it pretty much.
Speaker 2: You just don't like the planning, you don't like that vernacular,
or you just think it's too strong.
Speaker 3: Of it's too strong. It's too strong for me to
plant a flag behind the starting picture. Yeah that to me,
Planning a flag to me means Yamamoto, Hunter Brown, Christopher,
you know what I mean. It's Yeah, it's an elite
level pitcher, and I'm not insinuating that with Buehler, but yeah,
of this week's selections, Yeah, he's definitely. He's definitely the
pitching guy I think, Jase.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will give that feedback back to him. But
what I have found working with this guy for the
last two years of.
Speaker 3: My life, he.
Speaker 2: Challenges you, right, because then you have to sit there
and go, what did I say that made him think
I'm planting a flag? And then you kind of go
back and rethink your approach a little bit because he
came up with it. Maybe maybe he just said it
just because he was trying to be cute and you know,
fantasy friendly, or maybe you said something was too strong.
Speaker 3: So maybe maybe I used the word shovel at some point.
Speaker 2: There you go. And of course his second guy is
none other than Cooper Pratt. So clearly Tim is Oliver
Cooper Cooper Pratt. He's been over him for several weeks,
and I think first guy I think in the industry
that's been all over Cooper Pratt.
Speaker 3: So well done there, Thanks Rich, I appreciate that. And yeah,
and he nailed this one. Okay. Milwaukee has shown they'll
play their young long term contract guys. The fantasy profile
he's exactly the type that becomes a league winner in
July August. Shortstop eligibility makes me even more value. Yeah,
your your assistant gets full marks for Cooper Pratt and
the way I the way I see him. So yeah,
well done.
Speaker 2: His honorable mentions go to Shane Drohan, Sean Keys, and
Jaden Hill. So let's let's see it with that closer report.
J Hill gets the I think it was just one
save that he got.
Speaker 3: No, actually had three chances. He got two saves and
he blew one, but he blew the middle one. Okay,
so they wheeled him out right away for the next one,
and and he managed to hold on to it. But
again it's it's a rocky closer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my bunny, my buddy Bombnic is back too, so
he's he was activated off the IO, I think on
so he's gonna have to beat him out of the job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. I think the next opportunity comes his
way again, it's Colorado. The or attacks that comes with Coopers. Yeah,
it's it's real. But right now, if you're in desperate
need of saves, he would happen to be the favorite
in Colorado, I believe.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at how Cole Carrig is doing.
How is Cold cag doing. If he's not hitting four hundred,
he's better work. Oh, he's two thirty seven two walks today.
I think he said a home run if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: And I think he's hit a few.
Speaker 2: Three home runs with once wow, three home runs with
one stolen base. Yeah, so he's been pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, so far he's getting the job done. He's
I I can't remember what his uh I remember looking
at him, and he's he's owned in excess of fifty percent,
I believe heading into this week, So I didn't I
didn't expend upon I think I mentioned him last week.
But yeah, it's if he's if he's available, go get him. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: Wow, this this rocky lineup is just junk in the
trunk comes to mind. I mean, Castro Rumfield, Tyler Freeman,
call Carrick's pretty good, Julian the Kid, the kids, second Basement,
that was with the Twins for a spell, Sterling tops,
and just I mean it's just eah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good, honest, it's an above average triple
A lamp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. And then your second guy
is Ryan Rollison.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one that this is this is one
of my tim specials. I'll call it rich. I'm looking
at Chicago Okay, and Plenty is out again. Okay, and
apparently it's just a mild sprame of lency. Hasn't been
healthy all year, so you're looking at two to three
weeks on the elbow. Lately, the guys that are supposed
to be stepping up have stepped out. Okay, field Bar
and Web have been terrible the past week, both of
them getting rocked pretty pretty solidly. At the same time,
roles And has thrown twelve straight scoreless appearances since May twentieth.
He picked up his first hold yesterday. I believe more
late enning opportunities are going to come, especially if Theelbar
and Web don't get the job done, and they haven't
been getting the job done. So this is the type
of guy that I will target. Okay, even though he's
third fourth on the depth chart, the fact that he
has thrown twelve straight scoreless appearances he picked up his
first hold yesterday, that says to me, Chicago's Chicago's got
a good team. They want to make the playoffs, and
I don't think they'll put up with much from fieldbar
and web. So I am looking at adding rules in
a lot of my leagues this week, just because I
can get them. I can get them for a Bucker two.
I can stash them. I can see what happens. And
the worst it happens is I spend a bucker two
And if I spend a Bucker two, that gets me
at best a small fry at McDonald's. I'll take my
chances on rules.
Speaker 2: I think it. It sounds like a good car. I
need to check him out in leagues I play in
as well, Tony, I mean, an outstanding job. And thanks
for having fun with me to uh to tease you
about stuff. It was. It was a lot of fun.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I Hey, we always have fun. We've we've been
doing this now for fifteen sixteen years, and I still
look forward to it as much, if not more, each
and every Sunday as I did on that on that
first one. Rich So.
Speaker 2: First one, remember.
Speaker 3: That, Oh man, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I confident in McCloud. Wasn't so confident in the first couple,
but he got you found your sea legs pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's been a lot of fun. It really has,
and I thank both you and our listeners for wetting
up with the dad jokes and the ongoing commentary, because,
in the words of the great Popeye, I ams where
they am, and I am so where they am.
Speaker 2: A couple couple additional questions, just looking back through the.
Speaker 3: Scoreboard here right, what's happening?
Speaker 2: JJ Weatherholt. With two more home runs, he's up to twelve.
Weather Hold or Bisana.
Speaker 3: For the rest of the season, weather Hold, weather.
Speaker 2: Holder, Pasana for the next five years.
Speaker 3: Weather Hold.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, not.
Speaker 3: No, no. I I like Bazanna and don't get me wrong,
but I think Weatherhold could be a Randy a Rose
Arena type with a bit more power for a long
time and hitting at the top of that lineup, he's
going to score a hundred runs year after year after year.
I think Weatherhold could. We could be looking at a
budding star, possibly superstar rich. Yeah, that's how high I
am on one weather Hold. What are your thoughts on Weatherhold?
Speaker 2: I like Weatherhold a lot. I'm not sure Randy a
ros Arena that would be great. Let's just take a
look at weather Holt. I mean, he's played really well
in the minor leagues. Wow, a whole his his baseball
savant page is pretty red, which in the weird way
is red is good for some reason. But yeah, just
as a great hit or look at that, Chase Ray
just doesn't expand the strike zone. He makes great contact,
he walks average exa velocity of ninety point four launch
agle of fourteen degrees. It's just all perfectly set up
for twenty stolen bases. Excuse me, twenty home runs. I
mean he's an average runner. So that's why I'm not
sure it's the Randy Arosa, but he's he's going to
hit with twenty home runs and ten to twelve stolen
bases as a baseline hitting at the top of the lineup.
All of a sudden, the lineup that looks pretty good
with a resurgent Jordan Walker.
Speaker 3: And Mason Winn is a lot better player than what
we've seen. Injuries have really hurt Mason Win. I I'm
still very bullish on Win. My love for Mason Win
has not faided yet.
Speaker 2: It's when it does when when when the love fates
were tim it turns dark, very very quickly. So wh yeah,
it was always great. I was thinking, you know, the
word star with JJ Weatherhall. I mean, the stars are
so subjective. If you recall the twenty minute discussion we
had about Josh Young, it's just the star. Yeah, I
don't want to with JJ Weatherhole. I think JJ Weatherhold
is better player than Josh Young. But uh yeah, but
uh yeah, I think weather it's a real too. Let's
ae what else we got going on today? Here? Sex
Us up? Now, I go ahead, tex Us up four
to three?
Speaker 3: What were you sayeah? I was just going to say, uh,
we saw five innings of three hit shadow ball from
Cabrera today only three strikeouts, So he's going to be
a little bit costly tonight. That's all I was going
to mention there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it could be the Athletics up to
four to three and all of a sudden, well he's
not playing because he's doing splits. But Lawrence Butler started
to look a little bit better over the last couple
of weeks, but still just just going against the right
handed pitching at the moment. Soulderstrom has also looked much
better for the Athletics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's yeah, they're yeah. The day they had a
great first inning, who did they against? Read Debt Mers aout,
three hits and three walks in the first inning.
Speaker 2: My great great this season as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just passed the four E or a mark yep.
Doesn't take much, No, it doesn't. You look at the
Angels lineup and other than Zach Nido and Joe Odell,
there ain't much there.
Speaker 2: And Jack zach Needo has not been great this season.
He's beat in two twenty five. I don't think the
sixteen home runs eleven solar basis.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's our speed's still there.
Speaker 2: But the batting average has been off, but he's walking
a ton. So I'll take a three twenty eight to
one base percentage. Sixteen home runs, it's eleven solar bases, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: But you look at the rest of it. You guys,
what after Nito at one and Nadella three, you got
Meckler at two, Janual at four, Guzman who's got potential
as a younger player. You got Guzman more, some Walton
guy in the d H rule and Logan o'happy at
Serri Jose Siri. Yeah, series got.
Speaker 2: Powerful Kristin Moore. I just think that was a wasted
draft pick. I'm not sure he's in the development too much.
Denser Guzman. Yeah, I agree with I think there could
be something there. Shanwell is twelve to fifteen home run
first basement.
Speaker 3: Okay, I asked. I asked Siria about Siri and he said,
Jose okay.
Speaker 2: Uh and Donovan Walton aged thirty two.
Speaker 3: That's I could see the worst offense right now in baseball.
Speaker 2: It would be run up there. How many bets is
Donovan Walton half? Oh, I don't know, three hundred in
the major league, so he's just been a journeyman.
Speaker 3: Ben Goodie's getting the opportunity. I don't be grudge from that.
But the Angels are rather wolf team. How's that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's terrible. And that's why the guy that I
brought up to Tim had, you know, before the show
started as somebody who's going to dig in because there
is opportunities in Los Angeles for some young players to
come up. And now it's the time to go picking
those guys up. So Tim's gonna tell you next week
maybe if he just thinks it's a good idea or not.
Speaker 3: H Tim thinks it's a good idea, has to do
is digging, and that name will be there for you
Rich based on what I've seen to at this point
in time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you want to know, that name is
joined us at the patroons because our patreon memberies you
know about this chat chap, Timmy. That is a wrap,
my friend, and starting to be punched drunk here we've
gone for almost an hour and a half, so actually
an hour and a half, so I'm gonna call it quits.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that's a good plan and go out
and enjoy the rest of Father's Day, my friend. Happy
Father's Day to all of our listeners. Be safe, be well,
and looking forward to catching you again next week.