Speaker 1: Greeney's Societations. Everyone at Chrich Wilson walking to Fantasy Baseball Live.
Speaker 1: Today is the twenty sixth of July. As we come
Speaker 1: here towards the end of July, the trading deadline just
Speaker 1: around the corner, about three o'clock in the afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: as always, I'm here with my good buddy, mister Tim McCleod.
Speaker 1: Tim and I had a nice little catch up before
Speaker 1: the show, talking about grandchildren, talking about the terrible weather
Speaker 1: up in Canada, and then we started talking baseball and
Speaker 1: that's when I got the pressing. So because Tim starts
Speaker 1: off with everybody that's injured.
Speaker 2: So well, yeah, we had a bonus one this morning
Speaker 2: in shanel Angeleres's meniscus issue. That sounds like it could
Speaker 2: be a long, long process and that's a shame because
Speaker 2: he's having a great year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's only two months left, so with
Speaker 1: meniscus four to six weeks something like that, that's not
Speaker 1: that's not horrible. It's not like an a c L.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's probably he's probably gone. He's probably done
Speaker 1: for the Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the one of the guys on the discord,
Speaker 2: so uh, he goes by thoughts of dots. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure who he is, but he's looking for al catchers today.
Speaker 2: So we were a group of us were putting our
Speaker 2: heads together and there's not much out there. It's no
Speaker 2: but but ugly. Brian Servan, Chadwick Trump. Yeah, just watching
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Orioles Atlanta game and Chadwick Trump just
Speaker 1: uh just made out. So yeah, he's not that good.
Speaker 1: He did get he did get a challenge call right
Speaker 1: a few innings ago, So there you go.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I I'm sure the gentleman looking for catchers
Speaker 2: will be happy to know that if he has getting
Speaker 2: Chelge calls right in his league. Hey, that's that's interesting category.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should start looking at adding that one at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I agree, that would be fun. I will
Speaker 1: say that I think one of the stranger injuries is
Speaker 1: Bobby with Junior. Not the fact that players get hurt,
Speaker 1: but I think it's his first time he's been on
Speaker 1: the I.
Speaker 2: L that could very well be. He plays a lot
Speaker 2: of games year after year and back tightness.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, I remember the first time I
Speaker 2: saw that with Christian Yelich And yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or it could just be you know, just a
Speaker 1: pull muscle. We don't know, but uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: could be Aidan Miller of the of the Philadelphia Phillies
Speaker 1: in the minor League, still hasn't played yet. I mean
Speaker 1: he had an ablacious no. I mean, so he had
Speaker 1: this weird radio active blation thing. It wasn't surgery. It
Speaker 1: was trying to like bring like you pound your lower
Speaker 1: back to try to get blood rushing to it to
Speaker 1: try to self heal it. It's a somewhat new technique
Speaker 1: that they're doing because they don't want to do surgery
Speaker 1: on them. Hopefully that will work. But I mean that's
Speaker 1: you know, backs are baseball players have bat backs. I
Speaker 1: mean it's a lot of torque in the in the swing.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and when you start looking at a player
Speaker 2: like Bobby Wit with thirteen home runs and thirty stolen
Speaker 2: bases and thirty five attempts and on pace for pretty
Speaker 2: close to one hundred runs scored on a team that
Speaker 2: might only score on the Royal Tea, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's that's that's a big hit to us fantasy, It
Speaker 2: really is. That's that's going to change the landscape a
Speaker 2: little bit. If he's out for an extended period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't heard one way or the other how
Speaker 1: long he's going to be out. But I mean, Ronald
Speaker 1: Accoon is getting close to returning, so that's good. And
Speaker 1: we've had some other guys come back, and then want
Speaker 1: Sota went out. I mean, it's just these big guys.
Speaker 1: Because I bet I got one so to and Bobby Windle,
Speaker 1: a couple three dynasty leagues, and they obviously have been
Speaker 1: carrying those teams. It's like, oh, you don't even want
Speaker 1: to look because you just know it's not good on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: No, it's not. And when you start looking at the
Speaker 2: players drafted in the first round, I think there's only
Speaker 2: one or two players first round picks that haven't spent
Speaker 2: time on the i L this year. All Skeen is
Speaker 2: one of them.
Speaker 1: I can't Maybe he should, he's he's not been great
Speaker 1: of late.
Speaker 2: No, he had a good, reasonably good one going. Yes,
Speaker 2: they struck out a file, but then it just sort
Speaker 2: of all unfolded. I think it was either the fifth
Speaker 2: or sixth inning or the sixth inning and yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's been okay, but it hasn't been Paul skeenish. I know,
Speaker 2: you know, we expect more from Paul Skeins.
Speaker 1: We do. It's just the way it is. And uh,
Speaker 1: Brax and Ashcraft, I think he's pitching okay, though he's
Speaker 1: given up four earned runs and six innings, but he's
Speaker 1: in line for a win. But he's now got a
Speaker 1: four h five eu A. So the Pirates all of
Speaker 1: a sudden and run into a bit of a wall
Speaker 1: here with their pitchers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, But on the other hand, the other kids
Speaker 2: pitching extremely well. They just can't get all of them
Speaker 2: playing at the same time. I can't remember Jared Jones.
Speaker 2: Jared Jones, Yeah, he's been pitching very well of later,
Speaker 2: but I'm not mistaken. But they they've got to get
Speaker 2: some two or three of those guys firing on all
Speaker 2: cylinders at the same time, and it hasn't been happening.
Speaker 1: Well, that's all lined up for them at some point
Speaker 1: with Bobba Chandler, Jared Jones and Paul Skeins, all three
Speaker 1: of those guys upper nineties fastball, nasty secondary pictures, and
Speaker 1: then you throw in Brax and Ashcraft is a really
Speaker 1: good pictures. I mean, that's that's and seth Rnando's coming Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean wow, that could be the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, today moving forward to you know, just incredible
Speaker 2: depth in the pitching that.
Speaker 1: That throve in harder than those guys do.
Speaker 2: So uh yeah.
Speaker 1: But Timmy, I woke up this morning with a trade.
Speaker 1: There there was a trade on my and my Twitter
Speaker 1: feed or whatever feet. I don't use Twitter anymore, so
Speaker 1: it must have been whatever feet I'm using so and
Speaker 1: I wrote it up for our Patreon members. It was
Speaker 1: between the Nationals and the Red Sox. And the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: you know, Timmy, they get on a little bit of
Speaker 1: a run here and they say we need more depth
Speaker 1: than they bring in. Curtis Mead, one of my buddies
Speaker 1: that I've long been had long affection for. He's having
Speaker 1: a really nice season and then give up calmly early.
Speaker 2: What did you think of that? The first thing that
Speaker 2: crossed my mind was how bad is early hurt? You
Speaker 2: know that's because on my first reaction was, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: I'm not happy for Curtis med But weren't the Red
Speaker 2: Sox planning on a rotation around early in toll? But
Speaker 2: then again a little longer I thought about it, you know,
Speaker 2: I thought about the injury, and then I also thought
Speaker 2: about the fact that they had somebody in Bennett step
Speaker 2: up this year, and they had somebody in the minors
Speaker 2: step even more in. Uh, was it? Ierson?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, honestly, you've got a mini waiver war two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, I did that half an hour ago.
Speaker 2: That's old news.
Speaker 1: Suarez is coming back, Sonny, great pitched. Okay, what would
Speaker 1: you rather have?
Speaker 2: Would you rather have early in Toll or would you
Speaker 2: rather have Toll Bennett? And there's that combination because I
Speaker 2: think that came into play in this deal Rich all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the pitching depth.
Speaker 1: The Red Sox have pitching depth, and they dealt for it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, look, Kindley Early, a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought coming into the season he was a number two starter.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's a number four to five, and the
Speaker 1: data supports that. As I've been saying all along, total
Speaker 1: he's got the bigger stuff, he's the better pitcher. But Early,
Speaker 1: he's a nice guy, left handed pitching that has some
Speaker 1: major league success. Those guys are valuable. I like Curtis Mead,
Speaker 1: I always have. But the data is just okay with him.
Speaker 1: He's a step in the bucket kind of guy. Doesn't
Speaker 1: hit the ball all that hard. It's a good hitter,
Speaker 1: but he's fifteen to twenty home run guy that's got
Speaker 1: some platoons split, so he's probably going to be a
Speaker 1: strong side D eight. He's not a very good defender.
Speaker 1: Do you give up the lefty? That's a three seventy
Speaker 1: five four twenty five kind of year a for Curtis Mead,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that seems like an hour to make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which brings us back to the fact how much
Speaker 2: did the elbow come into play something we don't know.
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good point because if he's
Speaker 1: you know, if he's got to have Tommy John surger
Speaker 1: or Brace surgery, then he's gone for next year. So
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that five years of team control
Speaker 1: is down to three and a half to four years, right,
Speaker 1: because he's he's since spending a year and a year
Speaker 1: and a half out of it. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: So it's a really good point, and maybe that's we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out in a couple of weeks that Connie
Speaker 1: Early is having Tommy John.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you guys like what I think with Washington.
Speaker 2: Did they get the highest scoring offense in the game. Okay,
Speaker 2: they got Wood, they got Abrams, yep, and the cast
Speaker 2: cast of of hundreds. Okay, they can they can partner
Speaker 2: with Curtis Meat and take a chance on pitching it because,
Speaker 2: let's face it, getting pitching under the age of twenty five,
Speaker 2: that's got even number three four upside, it's not easy
Speaker 2: to do, you know what I mean. And let's face it, Washington,
Speaker 2: Washington has to improve the rotation. You know, cavel A,
Speaker 2: I think's fine. Foster Griffin has got for another year. Well,
Speaker 2: actually they don't. Foster Griffin's a free agent anything in
Speaker 2: the next year. So basically they got they're going to
Speaker 2: move him. Yeah they they Oh yeah, Foster Griffin should
Speaker 2: be moved at the deadline. That that that to me
Speaker 2: is a no brainer. They only designed him. I believe
Speaker 2: on a one year deal. I could I could be wrong,
Speaker 2: but I think Griffin was a one year deal.
Speaker 1: I will show you continue to talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So again then that's need pitching and it's not
Speaker 2: easy to come by. So it makes sense as to
Speaker 2: what they did, total sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one year signed for one year. Wow, what a
Speaker 1: deal one year, five and a half million dollars. Well,
Speaker 1: it's great, but yeah, so he he he. He's gonna
Speaker 1: make a lot of money in the offseason, so good.
Speaker 2: For him, a lot more than five and a half million. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I could see three years, fifty sixty million, Yeah, somewhere
Speaker 2: in there. See.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I liked it for both teams.
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I I don't think either one
Speaker 1: of the players involved, Curtis Mead or Connelly Early. I
Speaker 1: don't think any one of them is going to be
Speaker 1: an All Star, like a true All Star guy that
Speaker 1: makes three All Star appearent. I think they're they're nice players.
Speaker 1: I think there's more upside. I think I agree with you.
Speaker 1: It's harder to find lefty pitching at the level that
Speaker 1: Conley Early is, even though it's a number four guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's I think that's way more
Speaker 1: valuable than a fifteen to eighteen home run guy in
Speaker 1: Curtis Meat. They can hit a little bit that's got
Speaker 1: some platoons splits. That's the way I look at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, Boston was obviously treating from his strength,
Speaker 2: as was Washington. Both of them trying to fill fill
Speaker 2: holes in their lineup, So it makes sense all the way, right.
Speaker 2: You know, what I really hope this trade does is
Speaker 2: for some activity because up till this this deal, we
Speaker 2: haven't seen much, have we?
Speaker 1: No, And I wrote, I wrote both to our Patreon
Speaker 1: members and also in our notes here. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was interesting that Phil Rosenthal, that Phil Rosenthal, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the that's the that's the comedy guy who Ken Ken, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal wrote in The Athletic over the weekend. I
Speaker 1: thought this was fascinating that he's you know, he's talking
Speaker 1: to you know, all the executives, like why aren't you
Speaker 1: making moves? And apparently everybody in the American League is
Speaker 1: waiting to the last minute because they know their teams
Speaker 1: aren't very good, but they also know they're still in it,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of funny, like like why,
Speaker 1: I think that feels about right? So you got allows
Speaker 1: he like, the Orioles don't have a very good team,
Speaker 1: but they're still in it. The Red Sox don't have
Speaker 1: a very good team, but they're still in it. But
Speaker 1: you and we've already seen the Red Sox, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about previous podcasts that they're going to go for it.
Speaker 1: They're close, and it looks like that's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But others, you know, if Rosenthal's right, they're going to
Speaker 1: wait till the last minute.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the fact that you know, Trek's Google might
Speaker 2: be off the market, that changes things in a rather
Speaker 2: big way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, have you have you heard that he's off
Speaker 1: the market.
Speaker 2: Well, he saying he wants to contract and Detroit wants
Speaker 2: to stay there all of a sudden, so in Detroit
Speaker 2: and Detroit is moving to it. In wildcard situation too,
Speaker 2: you know, a situation where they'll be wild card eligible.
Speaker 2: So what what do the Tigers do? My cake would
Speaker 2: be so just you gotta come back negotia in the
Speaker 2: contracts as a free agent and go for it. Right,
Speaker 2: you take what you can take in the short term.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta trade them, or you gotta sign
Speaker 1: them before the before the trade deadline to you know,
Speaker 1: a gigantic contract. You can't. You can't go in with
Speaker 1: Scott bars as your agent and hope that they're going
Speaker 1: to re sign some gentlemen's agreement or something. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's gonna go Who's ever gonna be in
Speaker 1: the most money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and it'll be down to the penny.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's go to the wildcar status here and
Speaker 1: let's see, so the Twins so in the wild card
Speaker 1: of the Yankees, Red Sox in Cleveland, game and a
Speaker 1: half for the Twins still but there they got to
Speaker 1: be sellers, right, But then, of course their biggest chip
Speaker 1: and Joe Ryan has got arm fatigue figures the Astros
Speaker 1: should be. I mean, they're probably still in it because
Speaker 1: they're at the end of their window. The Mariner is
Speaker 1: gonna be buyers or you'll say they're gonna be buyers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Detroit is three games out, but they've got they got
Speaker 1: to jump over five teams. I don't know, man, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That that seems to be a bit of a reach
Speaker 2: to me. They'd they'd have to go on a heck
Speaker 2: of a tear and they'd have to be betting on
Speaker 2: the White Sox and Cleveland the Guardians falling off a
Speaker 2: cliff and uh, I think they're both five hundred plus
Speaker 2: a bit teams. So I don't see either. I don't
Speaker 2: see either happening. So, yeah, they need a lot of
Speaker 2: things to break, right. Yeah, you know what's fascinating is
Speaker 2: the Rangers behind all world Whitett length for there in
Speaker 2: first place in the AOS. Now two games over five hundred.
Speaker 2: Uh impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but by the way, White were everybody. We were
Speaker 1: right with White length for We didn't we didn't expect
Speaker 1: them to get hurt for so long. But he's it's
Speaker 1: been an us their numbers and let the time he's playing.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, I saw yesterday the news that
Speaker 2: he twisted or turn did something to his ankle, Like,
Speaker 2: oh hell, not again.
Speaker 1: But I think he's playing.
Speaker 2: I think they said he's playing. He's playing today. I
Speaker 2: think you got to get in this first.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Toronto Blue Jays seven
Speaker 1: games under five hundred. There are five games back, which
Speaker 1: is crazy, right, But they seem like they're out of it,
Speaker 1: but they were the al representative in the World Series
Speaker 1: last season. Do they try to do a little trimmy,
Speaker 1: maybe move a George Springer something. I mean, they don't
Speaker 1: do big moves, but they try to make a few
Speaker 1: moves here to to kind of retool a little bit.
Speaker 1: Or do they keep going for it.
Speaker 2: After what I'm seeing today they're down three nothing to
Speaker 2: Boston and it is highly uninspiring to watch this team
Speaker 2: right now. I think they're going to. I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna look at moving Springer Varshow. I would say those
Speaker 2: two are definitely on the block. Kevin Gossman's another one
Speaker 2: that could be on the block. Shane Bieber Okay, he's
Speaker 2: a free agent hitting in the next year. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think they're going to. They're just going to say it
Speaker 2: is not happening, and they're going to They're going to
Speaker 2: part with as many players as as they can. They've
Speaker 2: been hurt by injuries, is no doubting that. But at
Speaker 2: the same point in time, the past past month and
Speaker 2: a half has been uninspiring as being the kind way
Speaker 2: of approaching it. You know, when Chandler Simpson has a
Speaker 2: higher OPS and Black Guerrero does something, Is that true? Yes,
Speaker 2: that was true yesterday. I think by one point it
Speaker 2: was either OBP or OPS or one of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you can't you know other than Kaso Kamoto okay,
Speaker 2: and Dylan Cee or any Clement, I'll put him in there.
Speaker 2: He's had a fine year. Other than that, it's been
Speaker 2: total disappointment. Blue Jay Len.
Speaker 1: That's all around. Gerrera I mean, look, that's that's theirs.
Speaker 1: That's their guy, right, that's that's the five hundred million
Speaker 1: dollar guy that's supposed to hit you thirty home runs.
Speaker 1: He's got what six?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and some of it I blame on the
Speaker 2: manager in his loyalty. You know, he's stuck with jeff
Speaker 2: Off and probably cost them five games. Okay, Well, Louis
Speaker 2: Iarland was throwing up zero after zero. They well, the
Speaker 2: move finally got made. But how many games that cost
Speaker 2: from the main time, you know, hey, in a tough
Speaker 2: division like that, four or five games, it's a big deal. Okay,
Speaker 2: So it's just a combination of things. But I think
Speaker 2: the Jays have to unload some talent as much as
Speaker 2: it it might hurt, but I think it's the right
Speaker 2: thing to do. They're going to finish in the last
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look that they've got players, They've got some
Speaker 1: bullpen guys they can move as well. But the athletics,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jeffrey Springs, is that gonna is that gonna
Speaker 1: bring much? I mean, everybody's looking for you for for pitching.
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals, I mean, would they move any of
Speaker 1: their pictures? I mean, the Angels have They don't have much.
Speaker 1: I mean, so those are the three teams that are
Speaker 1: definitely sellers, but they don't have much to sell except
Speaker 1: for Mike Trout.
Speaker 2: Well, you got Freddie Berld and you got maybe Gosman.
Speaker 2: You know Gosman out there.
Speaker 1: In the National League. Yeah, he's definitely gonna get moved.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there are a few pictures that are gonna
Speaker 2: get moved, and he Schoogle should get moved unless I
Speaker 2: agree with you, unless they have some sort of agreement
Speaker 2: in place, carved in stone, uh and edged into your
Speaker 2: kitchen table. All go with all all all hands on
Speaker 2: deck there. Yeah, no, you got you gotta make that
Speaker 2: moves as simple as.
Speaker 1: That without get without looking Timmy, m hmmm. Freddy Perolt
Speaker 1: to pitch today for the New York Metropolitans. How many
Speaker 1: innings did he pitch?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna go with today he was instead of
Speaker 2: the five inning Freddy, he was a four ining Fredy.
Speaker 1: He was a four inning Freddy.
Speaker 2: Ninety three pitches, ninety three to get through for how
Speaker 2: many you walk for two? Okay, he just ran everybody
Speaker 2: to a full count and then they yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Just just not coming together. Tell me I take a
Speaker 1: break and come back and start looking at some of
Speaker 1: these games. I'm gonna do an unfair guest. The player.
Speaker 2: You're with me, Tim Yeah, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1: An unfair guest. The player you were talking about injuries
Speaker 1: and so forth. There's a player that should have been
Speaker 1: in the major leagues this season, but he was hurt
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season with Tommy John or
Speaker 1: actually have brace surgery. He is now back, hitting, destroying,
Speaker 1: just like he was last season.
Speaker 2: Who is that player, just like he was last season?
Speaker 2: Top ten prospect, top ten prospect, I have no guesses.
Speaker 2: Texas Rangers, Oh yes, the kid, yeah, Sebastian Yeah.
Speaker 1: Back and will be on my Hot Prospect of the
Speaker 1: Week a couple of games in complex, think back in
Speaker 1: Double A, and he's only he's only dhing because it's
Speaker 1: only I think he had surgery in February, brace surgery.
Speaker 1: So they're not letting them throw the ball yet. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's great to see. I mean, like in my world,
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, look at this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they're going they're going, They're going all over
Speaker 2: tawny on them. Eh yeah, I mean if given give
Speaker 2: him a bad but we're not going to work the
Speaker 2: arm do it, which makes sense. Yeah, if the cake
Speaker 2: can swing a bat, he's not going to hurt himself.
Speaker 2: Get him out there, right, Let's.
Speaker 1: Hope he doesn't hurt himself. Yeah, but that's God was
Speaker 1: February twenty third was his surgery, So that's February, March, April, May, June, July.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you could throw a little bit here
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, but they're probably not
Speaker 1: going to push it at all. But anyway, good to
Speaker 1: see from He would have been out to me. And
Speaker 1: you know you're talking about why Lankfort he could have helped.
Speaker 1: He could have really have helped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have definitely made a difference. So I'm
Speaker 2: glad he's back on the field early. That's that's good news,
Speaker 2: good news for all concerned.
Speaker 1: Indeed, uh, let's if you do have the Dodgers up
Speaker 1: on the Mets three to one, Freddy per Alta again
Speaker 1: with this four were any Freddie Tani. They're not saying
Speaker 1: TONI might not pitch much the rest of the way
Speaker 1: because of his of his knee, but I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm assuming that's gonna hurt his when he's
Speaker 1: out there running I'm not sure what's what's going on
Speaker 1: with Otani? Do you know.
Speaker 2: He's day to day until the playoffs and then he
Speaker 2: will play every possible second and throw two no hitters
Speaker 2: in the playoffs to go along with fourteen home runs.
Speaker 2: And when the Dodgers in other worlds. Yeah, and why
Speaker 2: push Okanni? There's no reason to push Otani right now.
Speaker 2: Give him as much we're at rest as he needs.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are in it to win it, so they
Speaker 2: want him as close to one hundred percent as they
Speaker 2: can get him heading into the playoffs. So it makes
Speaker 2: total sense. Hey, if you're counting on stolen bases from Otanni,
Speaker 2: I would say, don't.
Speaker 1: He's only got six for this season. He hasn't stolen
Speaker 1: a base, and going in the way back machine to
Speaker 1: less last one I see is make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say at the beginning of me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been hurting off and on since and so again
Speaker 2: they don't need to push him, So why would they.
Speaker 2: You know, what's happening makes total sense. The better shape
Speaker 2: he's in come October first, the better off the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Scoopa's going to He's going to the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Right, that would be my guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I read something that, uh but oh the Brewers
Speaker 1: are all in. That's what I read. They might go
Speaker 1: for a scoopl And then I heard the Rays were
Speaker 1: all in and I stopped reading the article.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, as
Speaker 2: there're the Pirates, as long as they don't spend anything
Speaker 2: more than they spend on Ryan O'Hearn. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Tim talked about the uninspiring play of the Blue Jays. Wow,
Speaker 1: six hits, three to nothing, losing to the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: To the Red Sox and Suarez, my buddy Suarez only
Speaker 1: got four innings though, six strikeouts, no walks, four hits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I make that five nothing now and I got
Speaker 2: the game one in the background.
Speaker 1: Day, Oh, something else to just happen up. You have
Speaker 1: to just post it.
Speaker 2: So Brian littles in and like, I don't know who
Speaker 2: got the head, but somebody just drove a couple runs in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, we've got the Pirates up eight to four.
Speaker 1: Talked about that briefly with Brax and Asscraft. Pitch better, uh,
Speaker 1: but still four innings for runs. It looks like he
Speaker 1: is going to get the win, and from a fantasy standpoint,
Speaker 1: it's the most important thing. Ryan o'harn with a grand
Speaker 1: slam my buddy, Ryan.
Speaker 2: There we go. Best money the virus ever spent. Also
Speaker 2: the most money the virus spent.
Speaker 1: I think that that's just to me. It's a definitely
Speaker 1: Ryan o hearn is a definition of a late bloomer,
Speaker 1: a guy that just kind of stuck around, stuck around.
Speaker 1: It was always platoon problems, kind of figured that out
Speaker 1: a little bit, developed a little bit more power, and
Speaker 1: he is a twenty twenty five home run guy that
Speaker 1: can hit a little bit. He's a good player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I take my cap off. I'm continually ragging on,
Speaker 2: you know, Ryan O'Hearn in the big contract Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and the pirates. But yeah, Ryan O'Hearn has earned whatever
Speaker 2: he makes. He toiled as a platoon player and a
Speaker 2: bench sort of guy for a long time, got it
Speaker 2: together and he is. He's a nice little player, he
Speaker 2: really is. And hey, that's yeah, good for Ryan O'Hearn.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of these players, you know, five six, seven, eight,
Speaker 2: nine years in the minors and they finally get an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I love when they capitalize on that opportunity and you know,
Speaker 2: take advantage of it because a lot don't. So I've
Speaker 2: always been an underdog sort of guy. And yeah, Ryan
Speaker 2: over and I think that's that Bill looks.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the UH at the Washington Nationals game,
Speaker 1: and I just got stuck on my buddy Harry Ford
Speaker 1: had that great opening day and Tim recommended them last
Speaker 1: week and that hasn't hit much since then, Tim, So what's.
Speaker 2: Your shaving it up for the playoffs? Shaving it for
Speaker 2: the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Playoff run or the playoffs? So yeah, but again you.
Speaker 2: Look at the lineup, okay, And you look at the
Speaker 2: score six to four, okay, James Wood surprise surprise of
Speaker 2: the home home run. CJ Abrams with two home runs.
Speaker 2: That would be five of your six runs. Score today
Speaker 2: by Washington Radio's got to hit and C.
Speaker 1: C Abrams got. CJ Abrams got twenty seven home runs? Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What as twenty nine? I know? Okay? And you
Speaker 2: look at the RBI totals, Abrams is up to eighty two.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I would have predicted that to be a full season
Speaker 2: for CJ Abrams, not two thirds of the season.
Speaker 1: He's going to get some I mean, what's going to
Speaker 1: get some MVP consideration. Abrams says too as well. I
Speaker 1: mean they're not going to win it, but I mean
Speaker 1: that's yeah, those are big ass numbers. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: saying where Brady House is back, I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: can hit enough, but he is back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he's a twenty eighty type of guy,
Speaker 2: and I think he's got an opportunity to play full time.
Speaker 2: So I start of like Brady House this weekend. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I think he's going to play every day,
Speaker 2: and I think he's going to be Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Is he going to hit enough?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He had two thirty five.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so that's not enough.
Speaker 2: So but you know, you combine it with the twenty
Speaker 2: eighty potential and that makes him a low win type
Speaker 2: third base. But over the next two months, so the
Speaker 2: National is gonna are they're going to make a move
Speaker 2: to strength to third base, I don't think so. They'll
Speaker 2: They'll run it out, They'll see what House has, and
Speaker 2: over the balance of the year, I could see five
Speaker 2: to eight home runs out of the House and twenty
Speaker 2: five rbisk, which is useful in our game. Maybe not
Speaker 2: maybe yeah, maybe not long term, long term but short term,
Speaker 2: especially in regraft leagues, he should generate some interest and
Speaker 2: n'l onely so he'll be a big luck by okay,
Speaker 2: because you know everybody's sitting back wait for the trade
Speaker 2: deadline to see who switches leagues. So yeah, I said
Speaker 2: he's not going to be a star, but as an
Speaker 2: ad to the final two months of the season, I
Speaker 2: think he's worth recommending.
Speaker 1: In the Nationals, tim they're not out of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: we didn't really talk about them, but there are two
Speaker 1: games out of the walk car spot of there are
Speaker 1: game over five hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they're not. They're not out of anything. And
Speaker 2: if Connolly early, if they can get some work out
Speaker 2: of him, that certainly won't hurt their cousin. I find
Speaker 2: it shocking when I look at the NL East okay,
Speaker 2: and I look at the Nationals with five hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy four runs scored, and the Phillies have scored basically
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty runs less. They're up sixty. They're
Speaker 2: up sixty on the Atlanta Braves like nobody. Nobody saw
Speaker 2: that coming. There is no way you've predicted that the
Speaker 2: Nats would be the they score the most runs of
Speaker 2: any team in baseball. Yeah, people would have laughed at
Speaker 2: you for making that prediction, but lo and behold, that's
Speaker 2: where they're at. They're scoring a file of runs. They're
Speaker 2: also allowing a mess of them. But yeah, it's hopefully
Speaker 2: they get Early back and maybe being one game over
Speaker 2: five hundred with the lead today two games over, there
Speaker 2: are only three games behind the Phillies, and the Brave
Speaker 2: is once very big lead is down to six games
Speaker 2: on the Phillies. So it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 2: what happens over the next two three weeks.
Speaker 1: Look, you, when we were talking about the you know,
Speaker 1: the trade of Mead for Connie Early, you said, well,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you looked at it from the Red Sox perspective.
Speaker 1: Maybe Early has hurt more than we think or let's
Speaker 1: be reported, Yeah, but maybe they share the medicals with
Speaker 1: the Nationals. The Nationals think that he could come back.
Speaker 1: You could take a look at it from their perspective
Speaker 1: and say, hey, let's make this deal because we could
Speaker 1: use the help here. And you know the second half,
Speaker 1: so I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you need bitching, we need we need hitting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a fit, that's a that's a type of that's
Speaker 2: a type of trade that you would make in the
Speaker 2: fantasy league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I agree. It's good to see major
Speaker 1: League Baseball teams are doing that now. So the Athletics
Speaker 1: are just really and many. They're losing again seven nothing
Speaker 1: that they lose Shane langleirs And it's just a team
Speaker 1: that's that looked pretty good at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: And you know, they just Kurts Is back, which is good.
Speaker 1: Maybe that'll give them a little bit, but they're just
Speaker 1: not hitting Timmy. They're pitching is terrible. Springs got demolished again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got no bullpen to speak of. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: they're in trouble, big time in trouble. H they you know,
Speaker 2: and when you start looking at at the division they
Speaker 2: happen to be playing and yeah, and again you can't
Speaker 2: a team like that should not be sixty sixteen games
Speaker 2: under five hundred. Yeah, yeah, no, but again they built that.
Speaker 2: They built that situation themselves. They moved into a park
Speaker 2: where I don't know what they're going to do about
Speaker 2: their pitching. Their offense will be fine I think moving forward.
Speaker 1: But well, they got one more year in Sacramento. They
Speaker 1: got one more year in Sacramento. The hope is, again
Speaker 1: I mentioned and I hope this is true, that they
Speaker 1: can get some physics students from the University of Nevada
Speaker 1: Las Vegas that can gus I'm serious about this, that
Speaker 1: can help them figure out the wind tunnels and whatever.
Speaker 1: In Las Vegas that's going to be an outdoor stadium.
Speaker 1: We know the humidity is not going to be there,
Speaker 1: so they got to do something Tommy with scoreboards, with
Speaker 1: something to try to deaden that environment. It's way above
Speaker 1: my pay scale and understanding of how stuff works, but
Speaker 1: clearly shouldn't there be scientists that can figure that out
Speaker 1: to say, hey, if we do this, that and the other,
Speaker 1: we can you know, make this more of a fair environment,
Speaker 1: which that maybe they push the the walls way back.
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe, hey, maybe they go to Colorado and find
Speaker 2: out what their secrets successes.
Speaker 1: I mean, but if it's now a second, if we
Speaker 1: now have we've got two teams now, but hopefully Las
Speaker 1: Vegas is going to be better. But if it's not now,
Speaker 1: so you've got two teams that are unplayable, uh for
Speaker 1: in a major league, in a major league grow I
Speaker 1: just think that's unacceptable.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and I know they don't care about it,
Speaker 2: but the rush to acquire Las Vegas starting pitching might
Speaker 2: be minimal. They might have built themselves a situation where
Speaker 2: they'll they have to live with what the Rockies have
Speaker 2: lived with for their entirety. Okay, and that's yeah, well
Speaker 2: what's starting pitcher? Hey, you know, we can offer you
Speaker 2: the bright lights. We can offer you free buffets and
Speaker 2: unlimited gambling, which seems to be major League Baseball thing. Anyways.
Speaker 2: We can offer all that to you. We just can't
Speaker 2: offer you a p where you'll be able to sustain
Speaker 2: an era under five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're not. It's been driven the Rockies can't
Speaker 1: uh you know, look, it's it's not good for baseball
Speaker 1: to have a place where balls are just flying out
Speaker 1: like that and a fantasy. I mean, it just can't.
Speaker 1: Can't roster these guys. I mean, Cage Jump has just
Speaker 1: gotten destroyed. I mean it's just is all the good
Speaker 1: will that he had to getting called up is gone.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's he's been a Sacramento Sacramentarized.
Speaker 2: So yeah, how much would it take for Trek Scoogle
Speaker 2: to sign with Sacramento or Colorado? Is there a number
Speaker 2: I think there is.
Speaker 1: Scott Baris is his agent, so there is a number.
Speaker 1: But if if one of those guys did, you would
Speaker 1: just questioned like what are they doing? Like why why
Speaker 1: would they do this? And you would know it's all
Speaker 1: about money.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah. No, it's because we've seen how the
Speaker 2: Rockies can't recruit if he if Sacramento, Mento puts himself
Speaker 2: in the same situation, and no, you're right, it's not
Speaker 2: good for the game. No, that's you know, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's two problems.
Speaker 1: To looking at White Sox for a comedy. Is this
Speaker 1: his first home run since coming back?
Speaker 2: I was going to say it is in fact his Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he came.
Speaker 1: Back on the tenth. Then it took him fifteen days,
Speaker 1: but he finally got his first home run. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And Jeremy Jeremy Penue with two home runs today and
Speaker 2: he's hurt. It seems like he's hurt every day, but
Speaker 2: then he's back in the lineup, so I, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know what's happening there. Blanco for five five innings
Speaker 2: for for Houston and Eric Vetti for four.
Speaker 1: And a third blockout in a dynasty. He was kind
Speaker 1: of setting the waiver wire, and I'm thinking, let me
Speaker 1: give it a whirl here, and I think he might
Speaker 1: be okay coming back from Tommy John So I haven't
Speaker 1: played him yet so so, but I'm hoping for long term.
Speaker 1: Maybe he comes back and be a number four starter
Speaker 1: for me. Well, speaking of the Astros, Cam Smith has
Speaker 1: been a disappointment. I expected more from him. I expected
Speaker 1: bigger power.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I was a little worried about is he wouldn't hit,
Speaker 1: but I expected more than a two of seven batting average.
Speaker 1: I mean he's not been.
Speaker 2: Good too, No, he has not. You know who hit
Speaker 2: the other home run for Houston today, our old friend
Speaker 2: and buddy, Taylor Trammel.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, really that's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's playing in center field. You look at
Speaker 2: the Astros team, okay, and it's pretty amazing that they're
Speaker 2: close to five hundred. When you got Way Junior at
Speaker 2: first base and your outfield is batting catch this. Their
Speaker 2: outfield today is hitting seven, eight, nine, and Tremel Smith
Speaker 2: and Dezenzo. The fact that there are two games under
Speaker 2: five hundred is a credit to Jeremy and your Dan Alvarez.
Speaker 1: Especially your Dan Alvarez. I mean that that that's what
Speaker 1: I'm monsterrous. So if I'm sorry, can I go back
Speaker 1: to camp Smith? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say he's going to be on my,
Speaker 1: uh my target list next year. I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: guy that hits the ball hard. No, there's not much launch,
Speaker 1: so that's something that he needs to fix. He's got
Speaker 1: speed ninety third percentile, so there's definitely stolen base. But
Speaker 1: essentially he's thirteen armed runs, ten stolen bases. His batting
Speaker 1: average of balls and play is two forty two. With
Speaker 1: how hard he hits the ball, it should be higher
Speaker 1: than that. I think there's opportunities with camp Smith. I
Speaker 1: think there's fifteen to twenty arm run power, fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty stolen and I think he's gonna hit more than
Speaker 1: two o two two eight.
Speaker 2: There you go, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah no. And you're
Speaker 2: not gonna pay anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna pay anything for him. I mean
Speaker 1: he might be if he might go fifteen to fifteen
Speaker 1: this season, and that's going to give people some interest.
Speaker 1: But if he stays at two ten to fifteen something
Speaker 1: like that. As a betty, I think there's growth there.
Speaker 2: I agree by the way, man the bells and whistles
Speaker 2: are going off. Four inning. Freddy's off the hook for
Speaker 2: the loss because Tyrone Taylor hit a three run homer
Speaker 2: and the Mets now have the lead over the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: For he's hid a lot of big home runs here
Speaker 1: in the last few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's up to eight, which puts him he's
Speaker 2: at the team leader. Oh no, it's probably total Yeah, yeah, no, yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know who they're I don't know who they're
Speaker 2: gonna move, but they they got lots, they got lots
Speaker 2: of options.
Speaker 1: I think they're moving. I think they're moving everybody. Anybody
Speaker 1: that's not nailed down, they're.
Speaker 2: Moving and they're not moving. You ing, and they're not moving.
Speaker 1: Correct, They're not using they're not they're not the kad
Speaker 1: guys that are team minimum. They're they're they're moving anybody
Speaker 1: that's got money and they're going to read Love with
Speaker 1: more money guys next year and do it all over again.
Speaker 2: Wash rents repeat because it's necessary. Yes, Yeah, Tigers have
Speaker 2: got the lead now, O Dougie.
Speaker 1: And the Rangers are. The Rangers got the lead to
Speaker 1: two to one over the.
Speaker 2: Mariners Franchiseelde's actually picked pitched five innings for Detroit today
Speaker 2: and didn't get bombed.
Speaker 1: That's he's been tough to.
Speaker 2: Oh yfore history walks.
Speaker 1: He might. I mean, they might have to eat some
Speaker 1: of a salary, but that would be a picture that
Speaker 1: people would want.
Speaker 2: Well maybe left not for the club, club house, not
Speaker 2: for the club os karma, that's for sure. That's and
Speaker 2: this is this is just and this is his second
Speaker 2: year of pitching poorly heading into the second half. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying it's gonna gonna last like last year, but
Speaker 2: last year was brutal. I gave UPJJ Weather for Bramber
Speaker 2: Belt is trying to make a push for a title. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what the title I got was d a dumbass.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's good. I gave you shot there ye
Speaker 1: coming up. That's that's dumbasses. Better like that. So so
Speaker 1: the Tigers are up four to three, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's oh and we were talking about the Rangers,
Speaker 1: our buddy White Langford with another hit one for two,
Speaker 1: uh pitching, Well, so there, you know, it's how they're
Speaker 1: doing it. Lengthford is obviously it's been all world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been airing it up since he came back
Speaker 2: there's no.
Speaker 1: I mean they don't have a lot of boppers in
Speaker 1: that lineup.
Speaker 2: M No, got some power, but yeah who Miguel Vargus
Speaker 2: with a two run shot, breaking the tie. The White
Speaker 2: Sox are now up five to three and one step
Speaker 2: closer than me seeing Joe Biden. Mall so, I mean
Speaker 2: one step closer to the division titles.
Speaker 1: That is for sure. That break and it's time to
Speaker 1: you do to your waiver wire, my friend. I've actually
Speaker 1: got some more questions for you, but let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. Come back. I got some questions for you.
Speaker 1: To take a break and then uh.
Speaker 2: Wave a.
Speaker 1: Lot of these questions we've already talked about. Uh how
Speaker 1: a green got blown up all of a sudden. I
Speaker 1: looked down to him. He's got a seven oh six earra.
Speaker 1: That's not what I expected.
Speaker 2: No, that's probably about four runs higher than you were expecting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's no, it hasn't been good. I would expect Cincinnati
Speaker 2: to start bringing up some of the kids, you know,
Speaker 2: I know I was bullish on their outfielder. Oh it
Speaker 2: was a Rodriguez. I think we'll see him. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think we'll see him fairly soon. Uh, they got to
Speaker 2: do something. It's just well, when I look every day,
Speaker 2: if it's not the Blue Jays that are inspire me,
Speaker 2: who are down six nothing, now it's Cincinnati. You know
Speaker 2: when you look at some of the talent in that lineup,
Speaker 2: they should be a lot better than they are.
Speaker 1: It just hasn't worked him. I mean it's just no,
Speaker 1: just go straight down the line. Besides led La Cruz
Speaker 1: Alberte really hasn't done it. No, I mean you just
Speaker 1: it just have underperformed. It's a lot like the Orioles,
Speaker 1: where we expect that the Jackson Holidays, even the Counnor
Speaker 1: Henderson has been really good this season, He's not been
Speaker 1: super stardom like you know, that's what we expect. Now,
Speaker 1: he just hasn't done it. Adleie Rutchman has been okay
Speaker 1: where he got hurt. I mean just Cowser's up been
Speaker 1: very good. Beaver's has not been very I mean just
Speaker 1: and the same thing is true with the Reds. I
Speaker 1: mean it's just like they come up, they have a
Speaker 1: lot of fanfare and they just say it, they're.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, he's not okay, He's not good enough,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I haven't looked closely.
Speaker 2: You know, South Stewart's had a great year, very much
Speaker 2: and Eli, Yeah, but after that, I don't know what
Speaker 2: Spencer Steeer has done this year.
Speaker 1: Not much.
Speaker 2: Dane Myers in center field today, Edwin Arroyo hasn't he
Speaker 2: hasn't rocked anybody's world. You know, they got Martez now
Speaker 2: back on the bench, Friedel's on the bench. It's just, hey,
Speaker 2: I know the injury to Matt McClain hurt and Nick Rudolo.
Speaker 1: And I guess it did, Yeah that that hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but still you got to have enough to be But
Speaker 1: even when Matt McClain was playing, this is a guy
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be potential star level talent and
Speaker 1: he's just not.
Speaker 2: And no I need yeah, yeah, you look at the rotation. Okay,
Speaker 2: you got hundred green, Andrew Abbott's solid, Chase burn is
Speaker 2: a great young but your Brady Singer. You would expect
Speaker 2: with those four that you would have a little bit
Speaker 2: better record than what you got. I think what they've
Speaker 2: got to do is they've got to they've they've got
Speaker 2: to got some of those bats and get some give
Speaker 2: some of the younger players a shot. I bet betting
Speaker 2: on it. Happening.
Speaker 1: Dylan sees tem Me with another gem. I know there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of talking about Kem Schlittler winning the
Speaker 1: cy Young, but Dylan sees my friend is right there.
Speaker 1: He's only won seven games, and part of that that
Speaker 1: it's because the Blue Jays are terrible. But he's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has. I think he went to one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty pitches somewhere in that range yesterday, and I
Speaker 2: know in the ninth inning after he allowed to walk,
Speaker 2: he just sort of brushed his glove one of those
Speaker 2: towards the dugout and said, nah, I'm going to finish
Speaker 2: this or up and he did. He's been outstanding. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 2: between him and Okamodo, the highlights for the Jays this year.
Speaker 1: It's got a bit of a rubber arm, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm looking back to twenty twenty one, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five innings, four one seventy seven, eight nine, one
Speaker 1: sixty eight one there. I mean, this the guy that
Speaker 1: just has not been hurt.
Speaker 2: No, and I think he's going to be a workhorse
Speaker 2: until the day, isn't it. And when that happens, it's
Speaker 2: going to be rather sudden. But no, a great performance,
Speaker 2: and you know what was what was fascinating. I was
Speaker 2: listening to part of the post game on that his
Speaker 2: lost he in the first inning was on the fastball.
Speaker 2: It was like ninety three, ninety four, and instantly there's
Speaker 2: red flags, danger, Will Robinson posts going up all over Twitter,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you know, what's what's wrong with Dylan Cees?
Speaker 2: And in the post game he said that his arm
Speaker 2: just didn't Yeah, it felt fine, but it just wasn't happening.
Speaker 2: And by the second inning, the velosity was back up
Speaker 2: and everything was good, and he threw the most pitches
Speaker 2: he's thrown, I think in his career. So it was
Speaker 2: really weird to watch. He didn't have any he didn't
Speaker 2: say he had arm problems or anything along those lines.
Speaker 2: It was just the velosity just wasn't there.
Speaker 1: His dead arm lasted a half in any yes here
Speaker 1: for three weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just bizarre. Like he said, there was
Speaker 2: no reason for it. He didn't feel the arm, didn't
Speaker 2: feel bad. He felt it felt a little tight, but
Speaker 2: loosened up in the second ending and he's back in
Speaker 2: ninety five to ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Right, as I mentioned before, Once Soto hits the eel
Speaker 1: with a great two strain, not good tim that's usually
Speaker 1: more than two or three weeks. I'm wanting to see
Speaker 1: Juan Soto back this season.
Speaker 2: It is a possibility. Don't you know? His calf is
Speaker 2: calved more?
Speaker 1: Can we say bad season? He doesn't like Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I don't know, man. It doesn't
Speaker 1: feel good. And I got him in a couple of
Speaker 1: they I don't know what to do. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: putting Tyler Solder stroll for him. That's that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: In one league. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: There is nothing to do, Ecuce. I've said it out
Speaker 2: and hope for better days ahead. It is disappointing though
Speaker 2: that how many more years do they have in that contract? Seventeen?
Speaker 1: Yes, he's still really young too. I think he is fine.
Speaker 1: They look we talked about it at NASE. I think
Speaker 1: they got to do something with that clubhouse and the
Speaker 1: Team's just that there's too much talent on that team
Speaker 1: for them to be as bad as they are. And
Speaker 1: I hate words like playing on inspiring baseball and because
Speaker 1: I mean, I always feel like it's it's about the date,
Speaker 1: It's about what these guys can do. But the Mets,
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, they're all uninspiring. Man, they just look
Speaker 1: like they're going through the motions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the problem, the thing that bothers me about
Speaker 2: the Soto situations. They can resolve that club host problem.
Speaker 2: But does that mean the next guy they bring in
Speaker 2: isn't going to be the same thing? Like at some
Speaker 2: point in time, don't the players just have to play
Speaker 2: and live with then live with the fact that they
Speaker 2: might not actually be fishing buddies with all their teammates,
Speaker 2: but they still got to get out there and do
Speaker 2: their job.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if the if the Mets bring in two three
Speaker 2: players that he doesn't like, he's had runnings with it
Speaker 2: in the past, do we see the same thing all
Speaker 2: over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's one sort of that important to an organization that
Speaker 2: he can dictate certain things. I look, I don't know, I.
Speaker 1: Know, I know it's I know it's fictional, but my
Speaker 1: wife and I are rewatching Ted Lasso. I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen at the Apple show of the
Speaker 1: soccer coach, it's wonderful. He's uh, he's this Kansas City,
Speaker 1: He's a came from a coaching a Kansas City college
Speaker 1: program and he goes over. He's having problems with his wife,
Speaker 1: and his wife basically, we need to take a break.
Speaker 1: So he takes this job coaching a premier football team.
Speaker 1: He knows nothing about soccer at all, and he goes
Speaker 1: over and it's this warm, positive energy that he brings
Speaker 1: that's this folksy kind of Midwestern style, and it's just
Speaker 1: like a wonderful show. It's just a wonderful show. But
Speaker 1: it also shows like how he was able to work
Speaker 1: with the players and they had all these big stars
Speaker 1: on the team and nobody was working together, and just
Speaker 1: like a calming presence of what a manager can provide.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if some of these teams need some of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, because the talent is there. I mean, nobody
Speaker 1: has as much talent. A few teams have as much
Speaker 1: talent as the as the Mets do. And the World
Speaker 1: Series runner up is the same kind of role. I mean,
Speaker 1: is there a problem at the top because that is
Speaker 1: the role of the managers to make that team cohesive.
Speaker 1: They're just not well.
Speaker 2: No, maybe you don't need baseball people as managers. What
Speaker 2: you need is a combination social worker psychiatrist.
Speaker 1: So there's on this Ted Lasso. There is a woman
Speaker 1: who is and a lot of teams have this as
Speaker 1: sports psychologists that are there and these guys pump these
Speaker 1: guys up, and a lot of teams have those either
Speaker 1: or half those people on call are actually have them
Speaker 1: on staff. I think the Dodgers have two of them,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. So it just shows you how
Speaker 1: important were the better teams put their moneies. The Rockies
Speaker 1: don't have anybody. Just in case you're wondering, now.
Speaker 2: You tell them to go down to the barbershop or
Speaker 2: the bar neighborhood bar and talk to the guy who
Speaker 2: normal fix you up. He knows there you go.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see if I got any other questions here
Speaker 1: for you. I've now lost my notes here. Oh let's see,
Speaker 1: here we go, reports Ken Rosenthal. Oh, Nick Kurtz are back.
Speaker 2: So that's that's okay. Thing. So and hopefully Angel Martinez
Speaker 2: riche Grubert's deform. He's off to a slow start coming
Speaker 2: back and the broken, but the Angel Martinez is back
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: So solid. All right to me. Let's go to your
Speaker 1: waiver wear my friend. Uh. Ten ten players on the wave.
Speaker 1: We're wearing another three on the Closer Report. How how
Speaker 1: is it trying to figure out looking for players? How
Speaker 1: do you feel the depth of the players you provide
Speaker 1: at et cetera. Well, it was, it was.
Speaker 2: It was tough. There hasn't been a lot happening, and
Speaker 2: you know, there were there were some late minute editions
Speaker 2: because of the Mead trade. Okay, I found some names,
Speaker 2: but it's it's a little bit later than I was expecting,
Speaker 2: hoping to see more happening in the real game as
Speaker 2: we approached trade deadline. I'm sure next week and the
Speaker 2: week after, especially next week, hopefully we're going to see
Speaker 2: some activity this week and it won't be all last
Speaker 2: minute on the Monday, because for purposes of our game,
Speaker 2: that's not really what we want. It was, it was,
Speaker 2: it was tough sliding this week. Rich.
Speaker 1: We might have to do a special podcast on like Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think that might be a good idea
Speaker 2: based on what we're seeing early on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure. Or so all right, let's
Speaker 1: get into it. We got oh boy, c yep, there
Speaker 1: we go. CS leads it off Christen and perne on
Speaker 1: Strand Now with the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2: Yes, been tearing it up. Yeah, they called him up.
Speaker 2: Five games, three homers, nine RBIs eight or nineteen at
Speaker 2: the dish. Kobe Mayo's got problems. If he's not looking
Speaker 2: over his shoulder, he should be. So he's starting to
Speaker 2: lose time already, and I could I could see that
Speaker 2: trend continuing moving forward.
Speaker 1: Well, Kobe Mayo can hit home runs, but he's striking
Speaker 1: out a third of the time and he never walks. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it's this is I mean a guy with an
Speaker 1: on base percentage of two sixty three. That's not a
Speaker 1: major league baseball player. So I don't care if you
Speaker 1: can't hit twenty twenty five arm runs and not a
Speaker 1: major league baseball player. So yet another one of the
Speaker 1: Bootimore oriole guys that just has not taken the next step.
Speaker 1: You look like a at miss prospect and he missed him.
Speaker 2: Yep, it hasn't worked out well. So I don't think.
Speaker 1: You can strand is not the answer either, my friend.
Speaker 2: No, he might be short He might be short term though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I get that. It's a fine inclusion,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we're going to see the Orioles
Speaker 1: announcing a long term contract in three years for cees,
Speaker 1: I would find that highly unusual.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would think the odds, yeah, are not stacked
Speaker 2: in that direction. But short term, hey, any anybody can
Speaker 2: be a star for two three weeks, and two three
Speaker 2: weeks were at the stardom in our fantasy rosters at
Speaker 2: this time of the year can go a long way
Speaker 2: in getting you into the money.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a segment on our Friday show,
Speaker 1: I know one week that had when will they get demoted?
Speaker 1: And Kobe Mayo was in that list. He survived, and
Speaker 1: I don't think for much longer. I just think this
Speaker 1: is gonna end. This is gonna end poorly for him.
Speaker 2: Agreed.
Speaker 1: Next guy is ty France.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who thought we'd have to go to France to
Speaker 2: get first base? Lfay?
Speaker 1: You want you want to? You want to rimshot? All right? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: I was looking at the splits of of of Kobe Mayo,
Speaker 1: so that's what I was doing. So, Uh, okay, Kobe
Speaker 1: Mayo hitting two eighty against left handed pitching, that's pretty good,
Speaker 1: right runs? Do you care to venture what he's hitting
Speaker 1: against right handed pitching? Uh?
Speaker 2: One with three home runs? Because I think he's got
Speaker 2: thirteen total.
Speaker 1: He has he's one fifty three with three home runs.
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
Speaker 2: He's overachieving by my standards.
Speaker 1: That's that's a real this is this is not good.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's got platoon splits and he's
Speaker 1: a right handed hitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you're facing three out of four righties
Speaker 2: versus lefties or whatever, the number is got to be
Speaker 2: close to that. Yeah, one forty or one fifty three average,
Speaker 2: it's not good. That ain't gonna work. No, that's I'm good.
Speaker 2: But by Francis hitting everything.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to belabor this.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, one hundred and seventy one.
Speaker 1: Plate appearances versus right handed he's got three home runs
Speaker 1: and twenty four hits. Half as many plate appearances against
Speaker 1: right handed hitters, and he's got the ten home runs
Speaker 1: and as many hits. A real, real problem, Tom.
Speaker 2: Yes, you don't want to be rostering platoon bats that
Speaker 2: only play against south buzzs. No, that is that's right,
Speaker 2: not good.
Speaker 1: All right, sorry, my friend expound ty France and do
Speaker 1: your joke again.
Speaker 2: So something I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we have to turn to France to get help it
Speaker 2: for his base. Uh yeah, past three weeks six homers,
Speaker 2: four In the past week he's driven in sixteen runs
Speaker 2: eleven seventy five ops. He's only rostered twenty four CBS.
Speaker 2: Is an opportunity to boost one's power numbers. Take advantage
Speaker 2: of it. He's playing on a regular basis, and he's
Speaker 2: he's on a here right now, Go get him a look.
Speaker 1: Let's do one where if we take another break Anthony Ansen,
Speaker 1: this is you brought him up earlier. You think he's
Speaker 1: going to get a shot here.
Speaker 2: I I don't know if he's I would say the
Speaker 2: odds are against it. But long term, Hey, the Boston
Speaker 2: could go all three tree you savage, couldn't they that's
Speaker 2: what you want? They could? They could do that. Am
Speaker 2: I betting on it? No? But I think when you
Speaker 2: start looking at keeper dynasty formats, if he's sitting in
Speaker 2: your free agent pool, take care of that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: I had the guy.
Speaker 1: If any of our leagues are Patreon members, are a
Speaker 1: member of it, don't already own him. The shame on them.
Speaker 1: They should unsubscribe. They're not paying attention.
Speaker 2: So I'm in a twelve team keeper salary cap, just
Speaker 2: a twelve team. I added him this week he was
Speaker 2: still sitting out there, believe it or not. Monday.
Speaker 1: He's a roster. He's a top one under prospect. It
Speaker 1: might be top fifty. I don't even know. I don't
Speaker 1: have my list up, but yeah.
Speaker 2: He's been lights out this year, so this this is
Speaker 2: more for the future. But I think there's there's an
Speaker 2: outside chance. Hey, they could bring him up. Why why
Speaker 2: couldn't they? The Jay's brought up your Savage last year
Speaker 2: worked out well for them.
Speaker 1: One thirteen. Era is walking a few too many guys,
Speaker 1: but he's got nasty stuff, ground ball machine. It's good
Speaker 1: to me to take a break and come back and
Speaker 1: finish up your list. I have to make a confession
Speaker 1: jump last week, you graciously started our podcast early so
Speaker 1: I could watch the World Cup and watch the halftime
Speaker 1: halftime show of the World Cup with Madonna and so forth.
Speaker 1: The halftime performance, I don't know if you've got a
Speaker 1: chance to watch. It might have been the worst twelve
Speaker 1: minutes of television I have ever seen. Madonna. She let
Speaker 1: it off, she lip synced it. She wasn't even on
Speaker 1: the field. They had her kind of singing in a
Speaker 1: car coming into it. It could have been pre done
Speaker 1: weeks ago. It was terrible. And then they had whatever
Speaker 1: the Muppets are in a are in a half. I'm shill,
Speaker 1: you know you got problems. So the Muppets were there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a.
Speaker 1: Bunch of people I never heard of that we're singing.
Speaker 1: It was awful to terrible.
Speaker 2: So in other words, that's twelve or fifteen minutes of
Speaker 2: your life that you're never getting back.
Speaker 1: It's it's about seven minutes because I bailed about seven.
Speaker 1: It just was as soon as I saw the Muppets,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm out of here. That's like we're just
Speaker 1: jumping the shark on television programs here. That expression that's
Speaker 1: when you know that a musical performance has jumped the
Speaker 1: shark is when the Muppets come on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's yeah. I haven't waited for the Muppets
Speaker 2: or anything. No. Back to your.
Speaker 1: Waverward Joonaheim cature with the athletics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, shame shade. Langelaires is Is is down and out.
Speaker 2: So we got to find ourselves some catchers. So hey,
Speaker 2: when Jorda him who has hit nine homers during the
Speaker 2: thirty two runs so far, which is which is solid
Speaker 2: numbers from from a backup catcher, and he's only rostered
Speaker 2: to the two and to ten percent. He's going to
Speaker 2: get the bulk of the playing time and he's playing
Speaker 2: in that band box for half his games. So if
Speaker 2: give him a look, Yeah, he's well I think, I mean,
Speaker 2: he is what he is, So yeah, you could you
Speaker 2: could get five to eight home runs over the next
Speaker 2: couple of months with twenty twenty five RBIs and that
Speaker 2: two thirty two forty batting average. But people are gonna
Speaker 2: have to find catchers somewhere. I think he's could possibly
Speaker 2: be the best option still sitting in your free agent pool,
Speaker 2: So give it a look.
Speaker 1: Brady House talked about him early. Big, big power guy
Speaker 1: does get a shot with the Curtis need being moved.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Yeah, he most certainly does. And I think
Speaker 2: he's gonna play. I think he's going to play time,
Speaker 2: full time, right through to the end of the year.
Speaker 2: So again, I think he's a twenty twenty homer eighty
Speaker 2: RBI who strikes out too much. But short term that
Speaker 2: could be five to seven home runs over the next
Speaker 2: couple of months with twenty five thirty RBIs. That's that
Speaker 2: might help you out in your corner corner infield slot.
Speaker 2: I again, the opportunity is there, and it's not like
Speaker 2: he played all that bad in his first stint this year,
Speaker 2: he just, I think, is who he is, and he's
Speaker 2: going to strike out too much. The batting average is
Speaker 2: going to be a problem. But if you need some
Speaker 2: power numbers, he's out there. Eleven percent roster.
Speaker 1: Hendrick Pinaga, why is he back?
Speaker 2: We're we're skipping my Colorado started a good goal.
Speaker 1: I am saving, saving youth, embarrass all right, all right,
Speaker 1: bring it up. I was hoping it would just graciously
Speaker 1: skip over him. But Tim by recommending Gabriel Hughes, and
Speaker 1: he says it's tough recommending him, but yet he goes
Speaker 1: on to try to convince himself this is a bad ball, Tim.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, whenever you're arguing with yourself, okay, on something
Speaker 2: that has been proving over a long period of time,
Speaker 2: I'm just good, it's not gonna work out.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the longest right up of everyone, And so
Speaker 1: it's trying to convince himself and twelve that Gabriel Hughes
Speaker 1: is a pickupy. He's not. But go ahead him, please
Speaker 1: by all means, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I think we covered enough already, Rich, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Your hander open ango.
Speaker 1: Wait minute, So let's see in the last three outings
Speaker 1: only six earned runs. Three at home against the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: truck out eighteen matters.
Speaker 2: There you go, right, Yeah, he's off to a good start.
Speaker 2: Ninety two mile hour pastoral. He's got a great extension. Mmm,
Speaker 2: big gum. I think he's in the top. I think
Speaker 2: he's somewhere on the extension. Hey, it's a long shot,
Speaker 2: very much so. But I just how often do we
Speaker 2: get the opportunity to it?
Speaker 1: It's fun. I'll give you that. I mean, no, no
Speaker 1: one's gonna have him. I mean, no one is quite
Speaker 1: to have him. So I'm going.
Speaker 2: To add him just to prove the world wrong. Damn it. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll bring this one up later down the road.
Speaker 1: Look, yeah, you've you've got the White Sox call so.
Speaker 1: I mean anything Whitening can't strike twice with you, So
Speaker 1: I I will give you that. Gabriel, she used winds
Speaker 1: up with a with a three and a half array
Speaker 1: to finish the season off. I will come back and
Speaker 1: say that you were the lord and master of the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. But I don't think anybody's still going to
Speaker 1: pick him up. I'm not holding my breath on either one. Right, Nope,
Speaker 1: Okay you Hendrik p n trying to say this phonetically, Pinago, Pinago,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the J's are going to move our
Speaker 2: show Springer. I think it was going to be an
Speaker 2: opportunity for playing time right now he slotted into a
Speaker 2: regular slot. But I think it'll just a little by
Speaker 2: his value. You know, he's rostered to the tune of
Speaker 2: four percent, five homers twenty RBIs and I think it's
Speaker 2: about one hundred and sixty at bats. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 2: looking for an opeler's going to play every day and
Speaker 2: not hurt you, I think you should give give him
Speaker 2: a look.
Speaker 1: I probably included Pinaga and three dozen Patreon Daily daily notes.
Speaker 1: I've written about him a ton, and it's a fun
Speaker 1: it's a fun player because he got stuck in High EN.
Speaker 1: He could not get out of High A, and he
Speaker 1: came in last season a little bit stronger and it
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden started to click for him.
Speaker 1: He moved out of High A quickly, went through double A,
Speaker 1: gotten a triple A, and then bam, he got a shot.
Speaker 1: He's a nice little player. He's not going to be
Speaker 1: a star, not even gonna be an impact player, but
Speaker 1: it's a nice little player, and it's you got to
Speaker 1: give him a lot of credit for just persevering. I
Speaker 1: think it was parts of four seasons he was in
Speaker 1: high A and he finally.
Speaker 2: Got WHOA, that's that's insane. Really Yeah, No, I think
Speaker 2: he's Yeah. I think it's gonna be full time at
Speaker 2: bats over the balance of the year. And I don't
Speaker 2: think they're going to be bad at I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna be okay at that's four percent rostered. Hey, if
Speaker 2: you're looking to try and fill an oatfield goal, I
Speaker 2: think he's an okay option.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, just parts of four seasons. Twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: he had twenty four games, then one hundred and eight games,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen games and twenty two, one hundred
Speaker 1: and four games and twenty three and then one hundred
Speaker 1: then twenty nine games. Yeah, so it was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Luis fe which we haven't talked about it at all
Speaker 1: this season. He's been very not been very good at all.
Speaker 1: I think he got did he get dfa'd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe so. Yeah, it just didn't you know,
Speaker 2: he had a couple of good years with the Angels
Speaker 2: and it just ended with a thud, and very very quickly.
Speaker 2: But he's now with the Padres, and you know, over
Speaker 2: the past week or so, eleven for twenty four pair
Speaker 2: home runs seven RBIs, you can stole a base. I
Speaker 2: don't he have to spend much. He's only rostered to
Speaker 2: the two to three percent. But who's to say he
Speaker 2: can't have another week like he had last week. I'd
Speaker 2: been a few bucks second base, third base, and outfield
Speaker 2: eligibility is sitting there for for a buck or two.
Speaker 2: I take a chance on it. Ring Ethel just to
Speaker 2: see what shakes down in week two of his tenure
Speaker 2: with the Padres.
Speaker 1: To the Padres move Mason Miller, Well, when.
Speaker 2: When we when we get down to the closer report,
Speaker 2: I think I think there's I think there's a chance,
Speaker 2: and I've recommended war drown. Okay, I think there is
Speaker 2: a chance that they move them.
Speaker 1: Well, they said they, I mean they apparently they're open
Speaker 1: to it. So they gave up Lewis of Leo DeVry,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, we'll see if they get like
Speaker 1: value in return. I mean, Mason Miller is a monster,
Speaker 1: So maybe they will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because because you know, when we get down
Speaker 2: was a good picture, he can more he can more
Speaker 2: than capably move into the ninth inning and do a
Speaker 2: very fine job, I think in San Diego. So if
Speaker 2: I was the Padres, I'd be looking at it. Get
Speaker 2: what you can out of Miller. You've got You've got
Speaker 2: somebody there who can already do the job. It's not
Speaker 2: how much are you losing versus how much can you
Speaker 2: potentially gain?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I I it's I think it's an
Speaker 1: interesting call, and particularly if you think Mason Miller is
Speaker 1: going to be moving Kendrie Rojas starting picture with the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, better known as the other half of the Louis
Speaker 2: Arland trade off to a solid start. My bread is
Speaker 2: dealing with a bleak issue. You can find himself on
Speaker 2: the il and we could be looking a little bit
Speaker 2: more so. Basically, I went to the Patreon page and
Speaker 2: pulled off pulled up your review and it's it's a
Speaker 2: fairly good one. Rich. I'll let you expand from here.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking at some other stuff and I've got
Speaker 1: to talk now. Okay, So two Sam or four Samer
Speaker 1: the row is reasonably hard in mid nineties fastball up
Speaker 1: the nineties seven. That's directly from stat cast. The problem
Speaker 1: has always been his his finding a decent breaking pitch.
Speaker 1: But it will the slider will will flash plus. But
Speaker 1: the change up is what his what his weapon is, right,
Speaker 1: so that his weapon of choice is his change up. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a back of the rotation guy,
Speaker 1: maybe a number four starter. Maybe if he can find
Speaker 1: a better spin on a slider, he can move to
Speaker 1: the number three starter. But I I yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think there could be something there. Again, came up
Speaker 1: as a Ray and now is with the Royals. Twis
Speaker 1: I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I I just saw his last f for
Speaker 2: yesterday and he pitched well. Yeah, so I thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: with the health concerns around Ryan and he might be
Speaker 2: somebody of interest in deeper league. Should be indefinitely an
Speaker 2: el always.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, I bet your area of expertise trying to
Speaker 1: predict when they're going to come up. But uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see if he if he gets the call. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last guy is James Triantos, second base with the with
Speaker 1: the Cubs, and I think Petri Ramirez is still playing
Speaker 1: fairly well with them, and.
Speaker 2: So he's still Yeah, a good game yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought I thought, I'm bummed about Moys's Bellisterius
Speaker 1: and another guy that I got wrong. I thought he'd
Speaker 1: be good. He's just was not so anyway.
Speaker 2: James Triantos, Yeah, I was only surprise when he got
Speaker 2: called up because he really didn't have any place to play.
Speaker 2: But he's a nice I like Treandos. I think he's
Speaker 2: a nice little player. He's got a little pop, a
Speaker 2: little more than just a little bit of speed, knows
Speaker 2: his way decently on the strike zone. Where does he play,
Speaker 2: that's the question. And yeah, if you're looking at NL
Speaker 2: only formats, yeah I would, I'd be looking at him
Speaker 2: this week. But I just don't know how he fits
Speaker 2: into the big scheme of things in UG. I was
Speaker 2: a little surprised he got the call, especially with Yeah
Speaker 2: you look at you look at the Cubs in their
Speaker 2: middle endfield and yeah, but you got Nico Horner and
Speaker 2: zagon base and got Dans we swore and Swans and
Speaker 2: his short stuff, and then you got Trientos and you know,
Speaker 2: Pedro Ramirez has been playing at d H. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: no shortage of middle infield, maybe maybe outfield depth. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, they got Conforto on the bench, so I
Speaker 2: don't know how he fits into things and why the
Speaker 2: call up, But I don't think we can totally ignore
Speaker 2: it because there's some potential there for fantasy free friendly numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah he plays, Hey, one game, just one one at bat,
Speaker 1: got his first hit, so that's all good. Let's see
Speaker 1: if he's played. He's played a little center field in
Speaker 1: the miners, a little right old this season, a little
Speaker 1: left field, so he's played a little bit of the outfield,
Speaker 1: but it's primarily been at second and at third base.
Speaker 1: I don't see as a center fielder, but he could
Speaker 1: play one of the corner outfield spots.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but you got Ian haf and say, is
Speaker 2: Suzuki there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he grow strong in center field. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: I said, it caught me off guard because I certainly
Speaker 2: wasn't expecting it. But I don't think we can totally
Speaker 2: ignore it. That makes sense, Yep, I don't buy that.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's take a break, come back, and let's
Speaker 1: do your closer report. I got at you way some
Speaker 1: really good names in there. Who who would you be?
Speaker 1: Who would be? At the top of your list to
Speaker 1: pick up.
Speaker 2: Who would be at the top of my list? Uh off,
Speaker 2: this week's we were Let me just flip back to it.
Speaker 2: A Yeah House, Ring Epo, ty France, those some combination
Speaker 2: of those three. I would I would probably be looking
Speaker 2: at at Brady House because he's going to play all year.
Speaker 2: An Angle an Angle or ring Etho have that same
Speaker 2: sort of potential. But right now I'm looking for I'm
Speaker 2: looking for guys that are going to play every day.
Speaker 2: So that's that's what my focus would be on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Ces is on a heater right now, but that can
Speaker 2: cool off as quick as he heated up.
Speaker 1: But he's right, I mean he's he's.
Speaker 2: Who is that?
Speaker 1: That's Ces?
Speaker 2: You know he's been called up. He's at three homers
Speaker 2: and driven in nine runs in the past five game
Speaker 2: in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Oh in Baltimore. Oh okay in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know he's up already.
Speaker 1: Oh okay. It looks like Kobe Man just scored the
Speaker 1: tying run, so at least he's still getting some So Timmy,
Speaker 1: I have spent yet another week busy writing about prospect.
Speaker 1: So if that's what you like, I encourage them and
Speaker 1: to join us at the Patreon site. Coming out on
Speaker 1: Wednesday will be an update at top five hundred, including
Speaker 1: seventy two of the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: draftees ranked within news. So some might have to do
Speaker 1: some alterations because Monday is the last day they can sign,
Speaker 1: so that's why it's coming on a Wednesday. Gave me
Speaker 1: an extra dake. Maybe have to take some times out.
Speaker 1: But I ran across two guys they wanted to tease
Speaker 1: our listeners with. They're not in the list, but I
Speaker 1: went through and gory. One guy is worried details, So
Speaker 1: just names Timmy, I think funny names, and I kinda
Speaker 1: would like, yeah, I haven't shared these names with you,
Speaker 1: so I've had time to prepare.
Speaker 2: But okay, if the first if this picture.
Speaker 1: Winds up on your waiver wire, what pun would you include?
Speaker 1: That's that's the topic here, so you ready?
Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, pines, Yes, okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: Cameron Flukey just got called up. Cameron Fluky just got
Speaker 1: caught up. What is Tim McCleod going to say?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's all about the dicection.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good, that's very clever. Anything anything else, well.
Speaker 2: It depends on what team he's with. Okay, if he's
Speaker 2: with the Rockies, you better be fluky to enjoy success.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's very very good this one. I'm not making up, Timmy.
Speaker 1: I'm not making this guy's name up. Okay, that's sim
Speaker 1: I gotta gotta get the team he got signed with. Here,
Speaker 1: holder for a second, crap, let's see, let's see. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Mets in the let's see the Mets. What did
Speaker 1: they Where did they draft us? I'm gonna get it right.
Speaker 1: Fourteenth round? So outside shop never appear on a waiver war,
Speaker 1: but he could, Timmy. The Mets have just called up
Speaker 1: Zach Krockfelt. What are you going to say, Zach? What's that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Crack old crotch Felt? Ok yeah, yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say in the four keh round, if you plan on
Speaker 2: making it, you better get a grip.
Speaker 1: That's correct. When I saw that name pop up, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my, poor guy. Can you imagine growing up with
Speaker 1: a name like Crotchfelt.
Speaker 2: He's probably got his black belt in some m m
Speaker 2: A type. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you were to make
Speaker 2: fun of my name, you know. Yeah, kid Bro learned
Speaker 2: to scrap at a young age. Yeah, but no, I
Speaker 2: would say, get a grip and hey, balls to the
Speaker 2: wall for you guys.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get let's get to your close report.
Speaker 2: What was that? Hey, I got Now, I got a
Speaker 2: question for I got a Yeah, I got a question
Speaker 2: for you. Okay, now that the Marlins have have signed
Speaker 2: rin Taro Sazaki, he made his decision. He's not going
Speaker 2: back to Japan. He's gonna His dream was always to
Speaker 2: play in Major League baseball. Okay, did you include rin
Speaker 2: Tero Sazaki in your list of players that you added
Speaker 2: after the draft or did you pass?
Speaker 1: Uh? I didn't even know he signed.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, he.
Speaker 1: Wasn't just I just I will include him if you know,
Speaker 1: if you feel it's appropriate.
Speaker 2: So somebody's years old, you know, college kid, Yeah, a
Speaker 2: couple of good years with Stanford.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, he decided he was drafted in Japan as well
Speaker 2: as drafted here. And the money he could have made three,
Speaker 2: three or four times of money, I believe in Japan
Speaker 2: as compared to here. But he's his dream. He came
Speaker 2: to Stanford. His dream was to play in Major League baseball.
Speaker 2: So he signed with the Marlins. For I had six
Speaker 2: or eight hundred thousand something like that. Cool story. Anyways,
Speaker 2: my eighth eighth.
Speaker 1: Round pick, number two thirty five chose to sign with
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins two hundred ten thousand dollars bonus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he didn't sign for a whole lot. So all right,
Speaker 1: I'll dig into him. I did not include him.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, no, I was just curious if you did,
Speaker 2: so I did not. It's an interesting it's an interesting
Speaker 2: story because of the fact that.
Speaker 1: It was just four days after I Wonder when No
Speaker 1: No Wonder didn't hear about it.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, yeah, it was just a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago. But I just said I'd toss it. But
Speaker 2: you know my love for players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see what terrible record.
Speaker 2: So he is. He's a bat right, Yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: big beat very bet Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maximum ex of velocity one fifteen point four. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So he hits the ball, Oh, yes, he does.
Speaker 2: He can hit a long way too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been burned by so many these Japanese players.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I know, maybe I know. It's
Speaker 1: number five hundred.
Speaker 2: That would make my day rich.
Speaker 1: Sixteen home runs last year, decent strike out, the walk ratio,
Speaker 1: absolutely no speed, first basement. Stamford kids. So he's Stanford kid,
Speaker 1: so he's probably reasonably bright. Yeah, get the Stanford Yeah yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you got to dig into him, Tim, I don't know what. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you for the opportunity to now spend three hours
Speaker 1: tonight looking up for in Taro Sasaki.
Speaker 2: So you're welcome. It's it's it's a crutch for the moment.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is yeah, okay, yeah, thanks for the reach around,
Speaker 1: my friend. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You're welcome at least what you do, and you strive
Speaker 2: to do the least.
Speaker 1: All right, let's there we go.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: After spending all this time working on all these players
Speaker 1: to ask about Sasaki. Is he's a.
Speaker 2: Big guy, right, Oh yeah, he's huge, massive, oh.
Speaker 1: Six one two seventy. Just just the kind of player
Speaker 1: I like the roster. I know that bad body Japanese players,
Speaker 1: boy chicks, all the boxes.
Speaker 2: No, I mean you might need to break here. I'm
Speaker 2: lapping at coffee.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's get your let's get your
Speaker 1: closes report. We got Jordan Ramonto, Yeah we do.
Speaker 2: Uh? I was I summed it up? I thought rather
Speaker 2: eloqui very well.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was funny.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, yeah, it loud. Only one run the past
Speaker 2: seven appearances. Check four saves in the past six appearances.
Speaker 2: Check currently owns a nine ten check. He pitches for
Speaker 2: the Rockies. No check, Yeah, yeah, what do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think you got to bring the guy up. He's
Speaker 2: the Rockies closer right now. But what do you what
Speaker 2: do you do?
Speaker 1: You know, roster the guy that got fired, right, I
Speaker 1: mean he got het.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe if Gabriel Hughes doesn't work out as a starter.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I mean I will roster Colorado Rockies closers. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: but not not starters. But I don't know. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not going I'm not delving into this, but I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean I totally get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not delving it into it either.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll get moved because I don't think anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can move. I don't think anybody believes.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody wants them. I'm talking major league.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, He's bounced around all over the place the
Speaker 2: past couple of years, and he hasn't been successful. He's
Speaker 2: on a roll right now, and he's got an opportunity,
Speaker 2: So I think to roster him it's the highest of risks.
Speaker 2: But if you hey, if you need a half a
Speaker 2: dozen saves to gain a couple of points in your league,
Speaker 2: I don't think you can totally ignore that risk at
Speaker 2: this stage of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got some I've got some team, So I
Speaker 1: just don't have any any closers at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're just they're just bad. I mean they've all gotten
Speaker 1: hurt or traded or something. His Era six fourteen expected
Speaker 1: Era four twenty six, it's not bad. So that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Let's see here his fastball still coming in at ninety
Speaker 1: four decent slider, Yeah, it's still two pitch pitcher. How many?
Speaker 1: How's he walking? Is whoa thirteen fourteen percent walk rate?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, so he's still walking too many?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't really know where it's going.
Speaker 1: Never has no even worse this year though, because his
Speaker 1: walk rate's always been like nine eight seven percent and
Speaker 1: that's up at fourteen percent this year. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it's been like since he joined the Rockies. But okay,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, there you go. First one Eddie yeen
Speaker 1: e a y.
Speaker 2: E a n Yes, this is my I've had a
Speaker 2: phenomenal amount of good fortune over the past few years
Speaker 2: and picking up pitchers like Louis Berland and Gomez in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and this is more of this is more of a
Speaker 2: deep hunch on my behalf. Okay, then that's bullpen has
Speaker 2: been a mess this year. Clayton Beaders got the job.
Speaker 2: He's blown five at a fourteen chances, he's walked nineteen
Speaker 2: and thirty two. There's he's got the job. But Eddie En, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he throws our a Ady een was just called up.
Speaker 2: He's got a big fastball ninety seven point six miles
Speaker 2: an hour. I think there's an opportunity in Washington, much
Speaker 2: like there was an opportunity in Minnesota a couple of
Speaker 2: months ago that Gomez seized. And I'm calling this one
Speaker 2: one of my tim hunches. But if you've got room
Speaker 2: on your reserver, your minory league roster and dynasty formats,
Speaker 2: I find a home for this kid, because I think
Speaker 2: with the general all around instability in Washington the bullpen,
Speaker 2: if this kid pitch as well as he has and
Speaker 2: continues to pitch well, I think he could move into
Speaker 2: a position of prominence reasonably quickly. Okay, so it's a hunch.
Speaker 1: He's never been able. He's never been able to to
Speaker 1: throw a lot of strikes, and that's been his problem.
Speaker 1: He's also he's also a sinker change up guy, which
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting. But a sinker guy is not
Speaker 1: gonna have huge strikeout totals. But okay, yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: one of my for in a couple of leagues, I
Speaker 1: might take a gander.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you got to lose. He's not roster.
Speaker 2: You're gonna throw a buck for me.
Speaker 1: I get a chance to make fun of you.
Speaker 2: So for me, I've got enough. I've got enough rocky
Speaker 2: starters and closers on here. You got lots of targets.
Speaker 1: It's a good call by you know, it's a well
Speaker 1: thought out I appreciate that. I mean, I didn't realize
Speaker 1: Clayton Peter was was that was not getting it done.
Speaker 1: And you know, look, if the Want Nationals think they're in,
Speaker 1: I think they might actually trade for a closer. I
Speaker 1: mean that could be a possibility as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's entirely possible. All I know is that things
Speaker 2: can happen relatively quickly in the world of closers. Louis
Speaker 2: Louis Varland was won this year, and Gomez in Minnesota. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's got the job and he's owning it and pitching
Speaker 2: very very well. So you can't have pictures that are
Speaker 2: just in, you know, the right situation at the right
Speaker 2: time to make hay And I think tossing a buck
Speaker 2: or two down at some of these pictures on occasion
Speaker 2: Kennery huge rewards and it's something I've done very well
Speaker 2: over the years. So it's a hunch, but for a buck,
Speaker 2: I think it's an okay hunt.
Speaker 1: Last guy is Adrian Moore John Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know we've talked about, you know, the Red
Speaker 2: Sox moving Chapman a while back and with with luck
Speaker 2: and you know that's that's not gonna what could happen there.
Speaker 1: That's not happening Chapman.
Speaker 2: No, not in Boston, Yeah, not in Boston. But it
Speaker 2: should be happening in New York. You know the Mets,
Speaker 2: they should be Yeah, you know, so in the event
Speaker 2: that the Padres do get an offer they like Adrian
Speaker 2: Mordron moves into the closure rule and he's more than
Speaker 2: capable of doing the Job's great stuff, uh, proven history. Hey,
Speaker 2: there's no saying what's going to happen with Miller. But
Speaker 2: if you want to toss a couple of bucks down
Speaker 2: tonight on a guy that could be the closer a
Speaker 2: week from now, I think he's one guy worthy of
Speaker 2: a couple bucks.
Speaker 1: Good call, love it and let's before we leave. I
Speaker 1: want to just Scot A. Rosser resource good to the
Speaker 1: Mets and knowing that the Mets are going to implode
Speaker 1: that team, I say, Levin Williams and Luke Weaver gets moved.
Speaker 1: Who do I want? Brooks Raley?
Speaker 2: Nobody. Brooks Railey is probably the guy I would I
Speaker 2: would think that would get the first opportunity.
Speaker 1: I don't know of thirty eight, so he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: get moved too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The guy that sort of interests me there as
Speaker 2: we were because he's on a pretty expensive I think
Speaker 2: he's on about an eleven million dollars deal over next year.
Speaker 2: He's big. The Mets signed him for pretty big bucks,
Speaker 2: so I I'm not I'm not saying that Devin Williams
Speaker 2: is cheap. He's not, but I think the focus would
Speaker 2: be more on moving Williams and for se wea we
Speaker 2: I think there's still an oeeside chance that we were
Speaker 2: stays in.
Speaker 1: New York two years, twenty two million dollars or so. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so but although he's better than Devin Williams.
Speaker 2: Yeah he has and if you yeah, they might want
Speaker 2: to go into next year with Luke Weaver as their closer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think he gets moved. He I mean, this
Speaker 1: is really good this season. Ten come on, straight out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: two point four walks for nine and one or a.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Where is he going though? Is the question? Philadelphia
Speaker 2: in a setup role as a possibility with a Mets
Speaker 2: trade with the Phillies. Yeah, but I mean you look
Speaker 2: at the playoff teams. He ain't going to the Dodgers
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers are getting in when Diaz back this week,
Speaker 2: so they're deep, their deep, solid bullpen just got a
Speaker 2: deep and more solid, you know, hoping. Well, he could
Speaker 2: go to Bolt Baltimore supposedly all in and they could
Speaker 2: take they can take a shot at a picture like
Speaker 2: Luke Weaver, and he might move into the closure the Cubs.
Speaker 2: There's an opportunity for Luke Weaver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I think I'll just
Speaker 1: be it. I think he'd be a depth arm and
Speaker 1: I think most of the contenders would want to have
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver in their bullpen pitching the six, seventh, eighth,
Speaker 1: an any kind of stuff. I don't think you need them. Remember,
Speaker 1: these these big teams, they're going to all load up
Speaker 1: with bullpen depth. And that's what screws fantasy managers at
Speaker 1: the end of this at the end of the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: always the closer goes and becomes a sixth inning guy somewhere.
Speaker 2: Right, But when you look at the match, who you
Speaker 2: who you want in there? Aj Minter, he's still kicking around.
Speaker 2: He saved some games in the past, where as a
Speaker 2: Bend maybe.
Speaker 1: He's he's forty years old. They got a bunch of
Speaker 1: old guys to Tommy that, Yeah, there's really no reason
Speaker 1: to keep them around. I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: speculate on anybody at the moment. Maybe it is Jonathan
Speaker 1: There is the.
Speaker 2: Youngest member of the Mets bullpen right now is Daniel
Speaker 2: Daniel Duarte, who is turning thirty this year. Everybody else
Speaker 2: is over thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even singers there thirty yeah wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's thirty four. Yeah, so I for the balance
Speaker 2: of the year, Brooks, Brooks, Raley or Brazavin or Mintor.
Speaker 2: I don't see sele Gres being able to do it, but.
Speaker 1: A longtime Orio guy could never do it. There. Yeah, yep, Tommy,
Speaker 1: that is a that is a wrap, my friend. Great
Speaker 1: stuff went for an hour and a half made up
Speaker 1: for lost time that we didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: do on Friday. Apologies everyone, I had grandparent duty on
Speaker 1: Friday and that took precedent to me. What am I
Speaker 1: going to say? Right, Sometimes you.
Speaker 2: Have to do what you have to do well. At
Speaker 2: some point in time, your grandkids, okay, we'll be coming
Speaker 2: to visit you in the nurse home and hopefully they
Speaker 2: remember all the candy you brought them, okay, and they
Speaker 2: return the favor. So we have to look after our
Speaker 2: kids and our grand kids, don't we.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do, we do indeed. Wow, just a
Speaker 1: great play by Matt Olsen screaming bassis load at bottom
Speaker 1: of the tenth inning, Atlanta Orioles Henderson hits a screaming
Speaker 1: line drive right at the first base and he catches it,
Speaker 1: tags out, Uh Pete Alonzo for the double play.
Speaker 2: Wow you mean Pete Alonzo? With those fast we couldn't
Speaker 2: get back to first base.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. He Dove. I just it was just
Speaker 1: a great play. It's really great play and field brought in.
Speaker 1: So now they're doing Boy, look at the ties got
Speaker 1: to go to the runner. It looks like it's they're
Speaker 1: kind of doing one of those back and forth as
Speaker 1: you know, instant replace. I'm sure they're going to challenge it.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens to me. It is a wrap,
Speaker 1: my friend. We will see you on Friday. I will
Speaker 1: be there Friday this week and uh looking.
Speaker 2: Forward to it. Yes as am I. Everybody out there, Hey,
Speaker 2: good luck filling those injury holes this week. And let's hope,
Speaker 2: let's hope that all those specclosers and all of the
Speaker 2: moves were anticipating. Let's hope we see some of them
Speaker 2: come to fruition because so far it has not been
Speaker 2: a great run up to the trading deadline. Be safe, bewail,
Speaker 2: We'll catch your off, writing