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Speaker 2: How you doing, Yeah, I'm good man. So, so I
didn't realize Nolan Ryan is a junior. That's interesting. I
never knew that. I'm assuming that's the right Nolan Ryan. Yeah, okay,
I just want to Yeah, it is the right Nolan Ryan.
He's the one with three hundred and twenty four wins. Yeah,
So I was looking, so I was, so here's So
here's what I was thinking, because I had, like, you know,
I had one of these big brain moments, right, So
I was like m Gray's thinking, right. So I saw
that David Peterson was traded from the Mets to the
Cubs this weekend, and he then went on in his
first start with the Cubs through his best game of
the season by far wasn't even close. So that got
me thinking, and I was like, you know how they
always are like making fun of the Mets for trading
away Nolan Ryan when he was like a twenty two
year old, And I was thinking, maybe what the case
is if No One Ryan wasn't ever traded, maybe he
wouldn't have became Nolan Ryan, right, I mean if he
stayed on the Mets, maybe he always would have been terrible.
Speaker 1: This was inspired by David Peterson. Yes, that is quite
the jump. I've met David Peterson would be impressed to
know that you saw his name and said, yeah, that
reminds me of Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 2: No One Ryan, Actually, David Peterson from now on is
Nolan Ryan junior junior. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it. How did that work out for him? Today?
Speaker 2: It worked out for Nolan Ryan junior junior. Really well,
actually that's because he got out of the Mets. That's
what I'm saying. Like Kodai Sanga not so good. Maybe
he would like to be traded.
Speaker 1: Could be Nolan Ryan junior junior junior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you get like and then it's like, oh,
Ronnie Mauricio, let's see uh Nolan Ryan junior junior junior
at shortstop. Huh, this is possible. I mean, I don't
know what No One Ryan junior junior junior at shortstop.
It looks like maybe it looks like Elie Day look Cruise,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love it. Well. We're speaking here on June twenty eighth.
As you can see, the hot weather has driven us
all a little bit wild as we're making it our
way through the thick of the summer, and we're gonna
focus on June's standouts. We're just about wrapped up with June,
so I figured it'd be good for us to go
back on that thirty day player raiders, see who's been
taking off, who's been getting scorching hot along with the
weather out there. And so before we do that, though,
we've got a few call ups where I don't think
anybody's going to be really rocking the boat here, so
I think I'll kind of rattle them off in succession
so that we can focus the main subject of our
pod here on the hot players of June. So we
got two bats joining the Ale only pools this weekend.
We've got Cooper Engle being called up for the Cleveland Guardians.
Was a catcher and it looks like he's getting some outfit.
Old DH time for the Guards two eighty four four
sixteen five point fifty one slash line with twelve bombs
before getting called up and then Sean Keyes joined the
Blue Jays over the weekend. He's a little bit more
of like a corner infield. DH Batt was hitting two
eighty four four oh nine six nineteen over sixty seven
games with twenty one homers and seven stolen bases across
two levels for the Blue Jays. If you had to
put one of these guys on your Ale only squad,
who are you pursuing this weekend?
Speaker 2: Well, definitely, uh, Cooper Angle, I think is the move.
I think he's actually probably the move even in a
fifteen team mix league with two catchers because the catcher
eligibility obviously, So I mean it's not like I don't
think like I wouldn't expect that much. But you know,
twelve homers in fifty one games for Cooper Angle in
TRIPLEA this year hit to eighty four, so I mean
it wasn't a terrible Uh, it wasn't a terrible line
in Triple A. And to catch your eligibility is really
the clincher for him and Sean Keys. Yeah, I mean
he is ale only, but also I want to say
Sean Keys was because he's a cornerman. I think he
was first base really, so I think he was kind
of brought up just to be like, just so Vlad
Junior is like, oh wait, who's that breathing? I'm down
my neck, what's going on? What's going on? Why? Why
is there someone standing right behind me? I I'm hoping
that's why Sean Keys was brought up, and uh, we're
not going to get to Monday and it's gonna be like,
oh yeah, Vlad actually has had a bad back for
the better part of a month, so we're gonna I
l him or something. I don't honestly, I'm saying that
because I don't know why Sean Keys was brought up.
I mean, it doesn't like his numbers aren't bad necessarily
in Triple A or even in the minors, just in general.
But I don't know where he's playing, and like, as
of like Sunday, he hasn't really played, So I don't know.
I don't know. I have no clue why he was
brought up, other than maybe anticipation, like if Lad is
not feeling well, maybe he's back. I don't know. Something
seems like Vlad. I was saying this with Taylor Ward
not that long ago, but I think Vlad might also
be a situation where we could get to the end
of the year and Vlad could be like, oh, yeah, well,
technically I was hurt for the better part of the
year and that's why my numbers look so bad, because
I just don't buy that Vlad Junior is completely healthy
and putting up these numbers like it just doesn't make
any sense. So I'm guessing Sean Keys was brought up, potentially,
maybe to get Vlad a couple of days off and
let Vlad like DH Maybe. I don't know. It's not
clear why Sean Keys was brought up other than you know,
he was hitting well in the minors, So you know,
maybe they were just like, we'll promote him and use
them off the bench. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think Cooper Engle is definitely the one
to pursue, just because he's got a great sense of
the zone, he's got that cat eligibility, and yeah, Keys,
it does feel like I think Edison Barterer's out on
a rehab assignment here too, so I'm guessing when he's
ready to go, they'll send Keys back down. So you know,
maybe you'll get one week of runtime with Keys. But
I think Engel could stick with the Guardians for a
much longer term because they're in a much more dire situation,
even though I mean things are falling apart for the
Blue Jays in general, but they line up in Cleveland
has been tough since they lost Jose Ramirez and well
Chase the latter came back today, but then they all
so lost on Hell Martinez there too. So yeah, I
think I'm with you on Cooper Engle.
Speaker 2: Let's call it, let's Cooper Angle. I think Cooper Angle,
we should h keeping with the theme, which Cooper Angle
is a one I would say, one eighth of a
Nolan Ryan Jr. So and Sean Keys is one sixteenth
of a Nolan Ryan Junior.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll figure out the ratio. I'm trying to like
calculate the ratio on the fly, but it does seem
like it's gonna be quite the It's like it's like
when you're in Zimbabwe and like the inflations just going
like crazy and like your money devaluing before you. I'm
trying to figure out the Nolan Ryan conversion scale.
Speaker 2: Here many times in the many times in Zimbabwe. I
speak from experience when I say it's exactly like when
you're into Bob exactly the same purpose. It's like Nolan
Ryan Junior, you take the Sean Keys is just the
NL of Nolan Ryan Junior. That's it. No, that's that's it.
And uh, I guess Cooper angle is the NOL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get the you get the L, you get
the L with angle you fill the out. Okay, Well,
we've got two pitchers that have been called up in
the NL West for n all only leagues that can
provide a little bit of relief. We'll have to see
where they fall on the Nolan Ryan Junior to Junior
Junior Junior scale. First we have in Arizona. Jose Cabrera
came up. He's a twenty four year old, had been
pitching relatively well in Triple A and across two levels
before his call up. Three sixty nine ERA over sixty
one innings with a nine point four K nine. Has
pitched twice already for the Dbacks. Looks good in the
first one where he had a scoreless outing, and then
got touched up a little bit in the second outing
total of a three sixty e RA over his first
ten innings, and then JP Sears came back up for
the Padres. Just this is the guy who will never die.
I think out of the Padres system is always lingering around,
and honestly, it was pretty good before he came up
in Actually I take that back because I did not expand.
But in the time that he has come up, he
looked good. In his five and two thirds, allowed two
runs and struck out five. The slider looked nasty, but
he was struggling in the PCL with a seven ninety
two ERA sixty three and two thirds innings. There. If
you had to pick up one of these guys for
animal only team, which one you're pursuing you're going with
the more steady known quantity of JP Sears. Are you
trying to take the dart throw on Jose Cabrera?
Speaker 2: H Well, I mean, if I could choose neither, I
probably would, So neither is my first option. My second
option would be Jose Cabrera. But I'm not really that
impressed by his stuff. You know, I think he's probably
usable in an NL only league, maybe as a streamer
in a fifteen team mix league, but it's really you're
you're pushing it a little bit with Jose Cabrera in
a mixed league. I think you know, he's probably you know,
low low, not great strikeouts more than likely his command
is okay, maybe a four and a half ERA, Like
I'm looking at some of the projections for him, and
you know, the projections for him, they look like they're
around five eras on the projection, so you know, not
good obviously, uh. And JP Sears is a I would
say a touch worse. So so that gives you my
my my my immediate thoughts are neither. Hopefully you don't
have to try either of them, but if you do,
I guess Jose Cabrera for upside, but I don't really
want to either, and they might not even they might
be blow Sean Key so on No. One and Ryan
Junior scale, they're just like they're in, They're in. N
that's it.
Speaker 1: You could go backwards, Benjamin, Well, the first line of
the end going because you haven't even you can't even
do this slant off of the end. I guess this
will bring up Yeah, how do you write your ends?
You where do you start to? You start upper left,
bottom left or somewhere random.
Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta start. You gotta start bottom left,
I think if you're starting anywhere else on an end
top left really wow, wow wow, I didn't really, I
didn't realize you were a top lefty. That's interesting. Okay,
it's you know, this is actually this is nice of us.
It's like we're bridging the gap between a lower left
and a top It's kind of nice for the audience
to be able to hear both sides of the end.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let's stay in Arizona because we do have
another call up there. I mean, I think this is
another very deep league shot, but we have Max Kepler
returning from ped suspension, and the Rays announcers took a
shot at him in a flyout this weekend where he
had it to the warning track and they said eighty
games ago that would have been out of the park,
so woh be ready, yes, because hey'd be ready to
be the butterfort the jokes out there, Max deep like
actually that Ray's announcer sounds like a could ride for Raspball.
I know, icy I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say Max Kepler actually probably the top guy
for only leagues, So I don't really like Max Keppler
for mixed leagues necessarily because of the eligibility. I would
say Cooper angle over Max Keupler. But Max Kepler for
NL only is probably going to be pretty valuable because
I see no reason why he wouldn't start most games,
even though it's Sunday as we record this and he
didn't start today, so you know, there goes that. But
I would say for the most part, he's going to
start at least against Alrightyes, and you know, I mean
I wouldn't expect anything good. But for NL only, you're
you know, you really just went at bats for a
lot of your guys, so I think people may more
or less know Max Kupler at this point. I would
say from now until the end of the season, so
what half half year. I would put him at a
round maybe ten to twelve homers, two forty average, no
real speed, so nothing really exciting for most leagues, but
only there's some value because he's going to get a bat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair, and I mean it is
a situation though, where if he does fail, I think
they'll find another option. They saw of Ryan Waldschmidt hanging
around and they part of the reason they put Kepler
on the roster is because Jordan Lawler strained that hamstring
and went on the il. So he does have to hit,
I think to keep his job, and if he doesn't
then they'll probably ship him right off. But certainly worth
picking up in most and only leagues, especially because the
Dbacks have a week of all home games coming up
and so that should help boost a little bit of
value out of them. Okay, let's get into those June standouts,
because the player raider, I mean, we've got a lot
who have really risen to the top within the past
month that stand out as you know, you expected them
to be there. And then some pretty fun names and
this is over the last month, so it's not a
total flash in the pan. You know, it's guys that
have been showing skills and hitting well or pitching well
for you know, roughly the full month of June when
things are heating up, and as I was alluding to earlier,
it looks like the balls are getting juicier too, So
it could be a fun month ahead and rest of
the summer as we try to navigate this overall. So
let's focus on the bass first. I'll rattle through the
top ten and then one guy who probably will be
in the top ten after tomorrow, well in tomorrow's Player Raider,
because we're speaking here on June twenty eighth, the Sunday.
The top ten PCA, who we talked about just last
week up to seventy point seven dollars with the value
over the last month. Jackson Turio, who you talked about
the other week with beat On Nick Kurtz, is third.
Hunter Goodman is up to fourth after the three homer
game this weekend. Dylan Dingler has been going ham too,
so he has popped nine homers over the last month.
Is fifth on our Player Raider. Jeremy Pania has been
looking good since his return from the IL, hitting well,
stealing bases popping Homer's Jack Kaglione, who he covered last week,
is sixth in the plate or seventh in the Player Raider.
Jung Hu Lee a surprise there at number eight and
number nine and ten are ones that I think I
want to talk about with you because they don't get
more boring and more old than Paul Goldschmidt and Brian Reynolds,
who round up the top ten with nine and ten
on the Player Raider. What is up with Paul Goldschmidt.
I have no clue how to interpret this. He has
been filling in very admirably as Aaron Judge, has been
out been keeping the Yankees afloat, and honestly, he looks
like his old self. So is Paul Goldschmid somebody that
you are comfortable leaning on for first base production in
any league at this point?
Speaker 2: H Yeah, yeah, I would say definitely, yeah, you know,
I was, uh, I mean, I think with Paul Goldschmidt,
the part, I mean, I don't know, maybe the park
helps in ways that we don't necessarily know, because like
it's obviously you know, as a which would call it,
as an older player, he was struggling, you know, coming
into this year for in the past couple of years
with power, but the you know, the home park, I
would I would guess it would help. But then you
look at like his splits and he's actually been much
better on the road. So it's like it's always hard
to know, like how much something like that, like you know,
the confidence of the home park, maybe it transfers itself
a little bit. Maybe I don't know, I might be
making something up in my head, but he's definitely been
better on the road. So it's hard to see like
unless you know, I mean, unless there's a like like
he's an older player obviously thirty eight, and you know,
so at some point he could have like a nagging
injury and you know, that could drag down his overall
his overall performance. So and it might not be something
that is like necessarily takes him out of the lineup,
but it just like you know, hinders his bat a
little bit. Like you know, there a lot of things
could happen. So am I locked and loaded with Paul
Goldschmid from now until the end of the year, like
sent him and forget him, I know, but you know,
for now until like we see something else, Like maybe
you know, i'd say, after this month, he probably has
a good you know, another month aside from like an
il stint or something like he has a good month
of you know, is he's not coming out of my
lineup for a good month, like he has a good
he has a grace period of a good month before
I'm really like, I get actually concerned that it was
just a hot streak, I would say, and then like,
you know, maybe in August if he's had if he
has a badger, maybe in August then he gets he
gets yanked, pun noted, and you know, probably could have
been avoided, but wasn't wasn't avoided, but he probably could
get to August and get yanked from the lineup. But
as of right now, yeah, I mean he's got he's
got some runway to play if I have him in
you know, any league where I would so you know,
I guess, set it and forget it for thirty days
and see where you're at then you know, but I
I think he could potentially, like I said, like he's
doing better on the road, like if the home park
helps him at all for the next month, you know,
then you're you're two months in and it's like two
months into this hot streak, and you know then at
that point it's like, oh, then you know he's he's
had basically a good year. I mean, you know, to
have a good year, you only really need like if
you have one top ten uh month like the guys
you mentioned, if you have you know, a good top
ten month like that, I mean, you really don't need
much more to be valuable across the entire season. Like
you know, if Goldschmid has a good July and not
even great, but just a good July, then you're looking
at you know, it's basically he's like, you know, a
top fifteen to twenty overall first basement after a good July,
and it's like, well, at that point, it's like it's
a good season.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like you don't you don't have to do a
ton to make a great month turned into a good season.
Like you know, Pek grow Armstrong who you mentioned had
the number one sees the number one hitter month for June,
like he basically because his June was so insane at
seventy plus dollar value, I mean he really he can
have like a mediocre month or two and still is
gonna be valuable for the season because of this how
good his June was, and if he has like a
great July, then you're looking at a guy who's potentially
you know, top five to ten overall for the season.
Like if he has another great month, so you know,
a top ten month is definitely goes a long way
to having a really solid season. Like Dylan Dingler, you know,
because he's a catcher, and Hunter Goodman for that matter,
but Dingler more so because you know, Goodman did this
last year, so he's more or less he's, uh, he's
been good now for you know, a season and a half.
So but Dingler like he has I mean he's basically
at this point, Dingler is like he's gonna have a
hard time not being a top five catcher for the year.
Like he's like he's almost a you know, he's at
forty four dollars on the season. Excuse me, excuse me,
that's for the month. Wait, I switched tabs.
Speaker 1: On the season thirty.
Speaker 2: So Dinglers at thirty dollars for the season and he's
having he's the third best catcher like that. I mean
that like he could do nothing for the rest of
the season at catcher he's basically a top ten catcher.
You could write him in as a top ten catcher
for the season just after having one incredible month like
he just had in June, so you know, And you know,
Jeremy Payna who you mentioned also as a top ten
guy for June. I saw he struck out four times
on Sunday in the Astros game, and I was actually thinking,
because I didn't realize he had such a good June.
I was thinking that it was Jeremy Paynya struggling. So
it's just like, you know, things definitely get you know
when guys don't necessarily hit home runs, like, uh, Jeremy
Paanya doesn't, you know. I mean he's not He's not
like the biggest home run hitter, right, I mean, he's like,
you know, he's basically he's a good all round hitter.
Don't get me wrong. I like Jeremy Payne a lot,
but the fact that like he only had five homers
in June, like even who me who I cover? You know,
I cover these games like daily, and I even missed
the fact that Jeremy Paynya had such a great tune.
So you know, as far as that goes, I mean
there's a chance someone you could possibly trade for him,
you know, potentially, because like you know, five homers doesn't
jump off the page as being like, you know, this
incredible month, but I mean he did everything, Jeremy Paenya
and for the month of June just did it all,
which I hadn't realized. I don't have him in any league,
so you know, it was it was news to me
when you mentioned his name. Anyway, you were saying, Brian Reynolds,
mister excitement, Brian, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Know exactly, mister, you're just like so enthused to talk
about what I could tell.
Speaker 2: I think with Brian Reynolds that like he's he's been.
I mean last year was a little unh right, but
he's been he's been pretty valuable. Like I give Brian
Reynolds a lot of crap because he is kind of
so boring in general, but outside of last year, I
mean he's had a good career for Fantasy I mean
it hasn't been bad. It's like, you know, he averages
like twenty four homers, ten steals, hits, two seventy good
runs in RBIs because he plays every day. It's a
totally I mean, it's it's like a solid number three
outfielder in the like a twelve team mixed league. That's
a solid number three outfielder that you can more or
less set it and forget it, even if even if
last year was a bit of a struggle to rostrum.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess my question though with Reynolds, is
is he more than that going forward. It's a career
high hard hit rate, it's a career high max EV
this year. It's a career third highest barrel rate. It's
a career high bat speed, it's a career high walk rate.
So pitchers are afraid to come into the zone against him.
Right now too, he's hitting the crap out of the ball.
He's hitting two eighty nine four oh two four seventy seven,
career high one forty five WRC plus would be on
pace for roughly twenty two homers, ten steals, one hundred
and ten runs, one hundred and ten rbi. So is
is this a different level from Brian Reynolds you think?
Or is he about to morph back into boring gold
Brian Reynolds in another couple weeks.
Speaker 2: I would probably put if I had to bet whether
or not he's going to continue or if he's gonna
regress back to what he was, what he's been, I
would I would probably go with regressing because like that's
more or less what the career path he's been on
for his most Like, you know, it's like he feels
like the kind of guy where I like, he got
to August first with twenty homers, he would still end
the year with twenty four homers. Like he's just he's
in twenty four homer, ten steel, two seventy hitter, which
is fine. I mean, it's not a bad thing. I
just don't I'd be shocked if, like, at his entire
career he's never hit more than twenty seven homers in
a season. He's you know, I mean he's actually hit
over three hundred one year, but it was a while ago.
I was back in twenty twenty one. So and the
steals are always around the same, you know, like a
high as twelve steals one year. So I mean, I
just like, if you got a if you're gonna bet
on a guy, you know, exceeding his career your norms
for like in his you know, year thirty one season,
I don't think it's a great bet he could I mean,
he might be this year's George Springer, though maybe he
has a career year. I mean as possible, you know,
as like anything as possible, but I wouldn't bet on it,
you know, necessarily.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm maybe a little bit more bullish
than you are that I think there are a lot
of changes under the hood for Brian Reynolds and the approach.
And I think, you know, sometimes when you see a
player like this who you know, was a decently high
draft pick, went to Vanderbilt, has a lot of pedigree,
sometimes it can just click, you know, he finds a
new coach, he does a little work with drive line
Jj Bledei. I think has been in this vein a
little bit this year too. But I think I'm a
tick higher. But especially if you're sitting on Brian Reynolds,
your draft cost for him was fantastic. You got to
keep riding him. I think the rest of the season,
I think he is a trade candidate because I don't
think he's going to totally regress to where like, you know,
if you've just averaged this out to get him to
his normal average, it'd be a pretty crummy second half.
But I think he can be something like a two
seventy five to two eighty hitter, a little more pop.
And I think part of this is that the Pirates
lineup around him has gotten better, so the runs in
the RB high are gonna I think he's gonna push
one hundred on each So uh, a little bit of
a breakout for Brian Reynolds. I think we've got to
talk about the other breakout we've been seeing recently. He
is just off the top ten of our Player Raider
for the last month, sitting at sixteen. But I think
when people open up the Player Raider tomorrow he will
probably get into the top ten because he cracked two
homers today. Is your boy, Lugaju release Garcia Junior from
the Nationals, And wow, what a stretch it has been
over the last thirty days. Before the two homer game,
he had popped ten homers, was hitting two ninety one one.
Has the lineup on the season to two seventy nine
three oh seven five forty three so one thirty one
WRC plus sixteen bombs with fifty five RBI eligible at
second base and first base. He's twenty six years old.
I think this is a real breakout here. For Garcia junior,
where I've always loved the hit tool and the swing
and he's finally putting it together. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I one hundred percent, absolutely I I you know,
I wrote a sleeper post for him. I think it
was like two years ago, and so I've liked him
for a few years now, and like he always felt
like a solid bet for a twenty twenty season, even
though he hasn't done twenty twenty yet, but he came
close eighteen homers twenty two steals in twenty twenty four.
What I really like the contact though, I mean around
a fifteen percent strikeout right he hits, so he hits
neutrally like two seventy five. Like he's not a He's
not bad in any stretch of the imagination across all
the categories except for maybe runs and RBIs. And that's
simply because they don't play him every day because he's
a lefty, so they plat tune him a little bit
so that takes so he gets a hit on runs
and RBIs, So the counting stats are a little bit
lower than they could be. But everything else, like I mean,
you mentioned all the other numbers. I I feel like
he could get to thirty homers this year, Like I
I really buy I buy luga Ju big time. I
think he's he's breaking out. Really, I think there's uh,
you know, there's there's definitely like value to him previous
seasons with the you know, eighteen homer twenty two steal
two eighty two average in twenty twenty four, and then
he had a little bit of a down year last year.
And I but I do think there, you know, the
breakout seemed to have already happened, but I think there's
even another level that he's going to right now. And
like if he gets to even if he gets to
twenty seven homers, Like the steals have been low so
far this year, he only has two steals, but I
think he could steal like he can steal ten bags
in a month or something like or even say twelve steals,
twelve to fifteen steals from now until the end of
the year, So half a season, he could steal fifteen bags.
If he gets to twenty seven fifteen, two seventy five,
that's a breakout, Like that's a good that's a really
good season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the multi positional eligibility, so he can plug him,
play him anywhere. That's fantastic. Okay. I'm looking at the
rest of season projections that we have on the site
for Second Basement. Let's play like the I don't remember
what it's called, but the price is right game with
the yodeler kind of going over the edge. Let's see
how far up the Second Basement rankings we can take
Lugaju for you. Okay, so currently he's projected to be
twelve by the projections, but that obviously is a computer
in the back of Maybe it's in Rudy. Rudy's garage, right,
I'm sure he's got a whole main frame set up
in his garage pumping the AC down in Austin to
keep it all cool.
Speaker 2: But let's let's see her subscription money goes directly to
bottles of water for him to pour it on the
mainframe so it doesn't overheat.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okase, everybody was curious. So I think that like
it's not picking up some of these new just like
this breakout that he's been going through. Garcia has been
and things are getting hot. So eleventh Jose al two
you want Garcia or all two? Fa?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, Garcia okay.
Speaker 1: Tenth is Xavier Edwards for the rest of the season
Edwards or Garcia.
Speaker 2: Ah Man, Garcia, lugajelugajew.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. Yeah, you are chanting
him up the mountain. Ninth is Ozzie Albi's.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that's okay.
So Albi's is gonna get a lot more run than
rbi was. Probably waves are a solid, solid lineup. Man.
See the audience right now really wants me to go
another one, like they they really they want me to
keep going up the mountain here. But man, I think,
I I think I gotta I gotta stop at Albi's.
Speaker 1: I think, okay, Well, eighth would be Luisa Rise. But
would you rather have him than over a rise?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, over a rise? Yeah? Got you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you take Alvi's up there too. So top
seven is where it starts becoming. I think a little
bit more Dicey. Seventh is weatherhol sixth the Attle Lopez,
fifth is Sadan Rafaela, fourth is Terring Jazz is third,
Marte second, Tatisa's first. So I think you're probably putting
Luke a jewis like the eighth overall second baseman ninth
overall second basement for US year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's fair. And he has you know,
if like these this hot streak in June, if ites
to get through to Baterra and convince him to play
him against lefties, then you know, then we were talking
maybe even higher than that for luga Jew because you know,
then the runs and RBIs will be there. It really,
it's so annoying, like I have, I have him in
one league and it is super annoying when he's not
playing like it is. I get it. I mean, I
know people probably have the same frustrations because like you
see him on your team and then it's like, oh,
he's not playing today, So it's like, you know, then
you're like, well, a guy who's going one for four
with zero runs and zero RBIs suddenly becomes more in
interesting even though like in the big picture, luga Ju
is still good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it does also kill him that he's terrible
in the field. That's why they've moved him the first base.
They let him give up second base to the seam Nuniez,
so that's not gonna help him. But yeah, we are
pro luga ju on this podcast and want to see
him in that lineup more. Let's get onto the mound,
let's talk talk pictures. So things haven't changed since. Uh,
you know, it feels like every time I've been filling
in for beat On doing this pod, the Mizz is
just chilling out and number one on the Pitching Player
Raider over the last month, still up there, ten ten
bucks above second place at sixty and a half dollars
over the past month, thirty five innings, forty six k's,
a point seventy seven ERA, A one to sixty three FIP,
a point sixty six whip. He hit one oh five
five on the gun this weekend against PCA. I'm running
out of superlatives for the Miz. Do you have any left?
Speaker 2: No? I mean, you know, I you know, he's currently
on the top of the season long player Raider, and
you know, it's it's hard for a picture to be
on the top of the Player Raider to be you know,
totally honest. It's it's, uh, you're gonna really blow people away. Uh,
and he's been doing that, I think. Uh. You know, also,
like all the superlatives that were used for the Mizuh
in May with like him and Chris Sanchez had that
insane May, and it's like, you see, Chris Sanchez is
June not terrible, but obviously he couldn't have kept that
up what he was doing in May, whereas like the
Miz actually did keep it up. He's still I mean,
he's still having an insane He had another insane month,
where like if he would have had a little bit
of a come down in June, I don't think anyone
would have faulted him for it because his May was
so insane, but his June was good too, So yeah,
I mean, crazy season for the Miss so far. I
just hope he continues, you know, to stay healthy and
pitched as well as he has, because you know, I mean,
I want to I have him in the league and
I want to win that league.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can understand. Well, yeah, I think he'll
be number one until I mean, honestly, injuries maybe the
only thing that can trip him up at this point,
because he's not even it doesn't even look human out there.
He's totally breaking baseball. The rest of the top ten,
you've got some pretty standard names, I would say, so
number two Logan Web, I mean he's looked wonderful since
he's got back from the IL that like it looks
like prime logan web just ground ball after ground ball.
Yamamoto was third, Bryce Miller is fourth. He's been really hot.
Zach Wheeler has been fifth. He's been untouchable. Sixth gauge
jump Brookie from the Athletics and some of those starts
that were in Sacramento and Las Vegas still came in
six with a one nineteen e arra, a zero point
seventy nine whip thirty k's and thirty and a three
in a third innings. What have you seen engaged jump in?
Do you trust him enough to start him in Sacramento?
Speaker 2: Uh? At this point I will be starting him in Sacramento.
I didn't start him. Maybe I did his last start.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There was a there was a good start there where
I did bench him, and he looked really good even
in bing Bong, so I I probably at this point
I would start him everywhere. I you know, unfortunately his
numbers aren't really jumping off the page, like his stuff
actually looks better than his numbers currently, Like you know,
his era obviously is awesome, and you know he's had uh.
He had a great month, for sure, but you know,
the k's and the and the walks are okay. I
mean they're okay. It's like everything looks fine, but I
could see like some regression coming for him. So I
you know, I like him. I'm kind of surprised he's
not pitching better. It's kind of weird because like in
the minor leagues he pitched amazing, he was great. And
then and you know with the a's, like the surface
numbers look good, but the numbers underlying that don't look
as good. So I feel like there there's gonna be
some come down here with UH with gauge Jump unfortunately.
So you know, I guess jump off of them. Whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa watch out whoa? Hold on WHOA? So I
like him, and I would you know, I would say
I would be selling if I could. I don't know
if you can really sell gauge Jump in any league though,
unless you know, maybe in a dynasty league or something,
and there I would be really hesitant about selling them.
So I would like, you know, if anyone in a
re draft league wanted to buy him, I could see
selling him there. But yeah, I mean and more than
likely he's the kind of guy where you get you
were fortunate enough to pick him up off a waivers,
so you just you ride it out until you know
the wheels come off.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I mean, I think that he's going
to be really great on the road. I mean, we
saw it really. He pitched in a pitcher's park for
the first time this past week at San Francisco, put
up nine k's over five innings with nowhere and runs,
and you can see the talent there. But the downside
will always be Sacramento because even though he's pitched well
and survived in his starts there except for the first
one his first outing gave up four against Seattle, but
against Colorado and the Angels, and the Colorado one was
in Vegas, so survived those. But yeah, it will also
be depending on what lineup he's facing, how righty heavy
they are, how good their rights are. So certainly I
think more of a matchup based streamer. If you've got
somebody in your league who values him more towards what
he showed against the Giants, then you might be able
to find a window there to sell. Let's get back
to the breast of those top ten pitchers from the
last thirty days. Number seven Sandi al Kantara, sneaking up
there just in time for the trade deadline for the
Marlins to flash a little talent Logan Gilbert at eighth,
Drew Rasmussen at nine. This guy clocked in at ten
after his great start yesterday, and I want to talk
about him, Foster Griffin of the Washington Nationals. I guess
it's just a very Washington Nationals heavy podcast, probably, I mean,
certainly more exciting than whatever two hundred and fiftieth Anniversary
of America fair that's going on in Washington right now.
Go see and Nats game instead, to see our boys,
Luga Jew and Foster Griffin, who's been really good since
coming over from NPB. The totals on the season, how
are ninety eight innings with a two ninety three era.
It is a four to twenty one FIP. But the
he's getting about a k print inning And every time
I turn of Foster Griffin start on, it's pretty good stuff.
He's like a good pitcher. It's a kind of it's
an old school kind of approach where nothing stands off
the page in terms of like he doesn't throw one
oh five. He doesn't have a super nasty slider, but
it is a seven pitch mix coming from a pretty
high slot lefty six foot three. It's a big guy.
What do you think about Foster Griffin?
Speaker 2: Uh, you mean Luga Jews teammate.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan.
Speaker 2: I became a fan this month. I didn't think much
of him outside of like I thought he was basically
a streaminator pick up for you know, most of the
season up until, like, you know, what he's done in
the last month. His numbers are you know, they're they're
clocking as potential number three fantasy starter in mixed leagues.
They it doesn't look much worse than that, maybe a
number four, but definitely roster ball in in most like
twelve team mix leagues and deeper, you know, in a
ten team mix league. It's so shallow that's it's hard
to say, but I I will say Foster Griffin looks
solid underneath the surface. Like I'm surprised at how much
I like him, to be honest, now, I think there's
much more upside with gauge jump, and gauge jump on
the road does look amazing, So I don't want to
like I don't want to put down gauge Jump too much,
but Foster Griffin looks as good as gauge Jump, and
I think he's probably super cheap to acquire. I would
guess Foster Griffin, that is I you know, I would guess,
you know, you could probably get him either off of
waivers or for like next to nothing in a trade,
like as a throw in or something. He looks really
usable for fantasy. You know, a lot of innings he's
throwing solid. He's throwing solid innings each game, keeping runners off.
Solid command. I think he probably he must have unlocked
I want to say he unlocked something when he was
in Japan, you know, over the last couple of years.
Like it looks like, you know, I will say, like
his command was a little wanting in uh, you know,
before he went, when he was over in like k
C and stuff. But now that he's back, they unlock
something there. His command looks much better. It looks solid,
you know, and if you can, if you can manage
to keep runners off, you don't have to do that
much with strikeouts. And he's done plenty. I mean, he's
you know, pushing a nine k per nine if he
can get you know. I mean, even if he falls
to probably more realistically like an eight point five in
a barely two walk per nine, that's pretty usable for
most mixed leagues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm right there with you. And
the other thing here is that the line even looks
worse than it actually is, because if you remember, on
May fourteenth, he got annihilated in Cincinnati, he gave up
nine earned over four and a third. Since then, he's
put up forty seven and a third innings, a forty
nine to seven k to BB with a forty five
percent ground ball rate, a two two eight era and yeah,
great control. He's a quality start, just mastered. He's got
four straight quality starts. So I know lots of people
are playing more so in QS leagues than win leagues nowadays,
and so yeah, I think if you're looking for somebody
gives you a little length and is flying underneath the radar,
Foster Griffin right there, where's he ring for you? On
the Nolan Ryan Junior scale, uh, I'd probably.
Speaker 2: Put him at uh oh, an unfortunate, unfortunate place to stop,
but i'd probably put him out of Nola. Unfortunately, it's
not great because of the connotations with Aaron Nola. I
might even I might even give him Nolan. I might
give him the second Yeah, I might, I might give
him the whole name. I like to avoid the Nola
comparisons because we don't we don't want to Aaron Nola
comparisons here, So I'll say Nolan. I'll give him the Nolan.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go, Foster Griffin, You're halfway there. All right,
Let's let's look on the other side of that player
raider where things have gotten ugly for some some players.
Speaker 2: So the past, where's Missoski on the Nolan Nolan Ryan
junior scale. I mean, he's basically Nolan Ryan junior. Maybe
he doesn't have the period at the end of the junior, right.
Speaker 1: I mean it might be even an infinite junior at
this point, because like this is like peak Nolan Ryan
and beyond for the miz. Like it is true, honestly
like it. If he keeps this up, like he might
start getting into like peak Hall of Fame questions because
if like he's just throwing one oh five in the zone,
like what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I just knock on wad that he
stays healthy because me too. That's always the worry when
someone's thrown under five. Like yeah, I mean you saw,
like I mean we so recently with like Mason Miller,
he basically had to become a closer because it was
like he just couldn't stay on the field as a starter.
Speaker 1: So hopefully, yeah, okay, well let's get into those cold
players because the and this is a little bit hard
to pick out because like if you're down at the
bottom of the player raider for cold guys in the
last thirty days, you're gonna get, you know, guys who've
been injured, guys who are been called up halfway through
the month. So I tried to pick out a handful
of names, especially on the hitting side, where they've been
playing all month and pretty much full time jobs and
have been just racking up negative value for those fantasy
rosters out there and are probably pretty highly rostered. So
you've got Salvador Perez, Austin Riley, Chandler Simpson, Luke Rayley,
Nico Horner who we talked about last pod Xander Bogarts
are five of the just like coldest. I guess that's
six names, six of the cold cold six pack of
players right there. So are you worried about any of
those guys? Are anybody else in the player raider where
you're just like, oh my gosh, I gotta do something
with this guy and get him off my roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know, honestly, I was. I think
it was Saturday. I turned on the Was it Saturday
the Royals? Yeah, the Royals White Size game. I think
it was Saturday. I turned on the game and Salvador
Perez actually happened to be at the plate, and I
didn't realize he was hitting two hundred for the season,
and I was like, I was thinking he was at
least as of Saturday. Anyway, I was thinking, like, remember,
like I think it was like two years ago, people
were like, oh, Salvador Perez has become a Hall of
Famer from this, like, you know, that great year he had,
And I was like thinking, like, has he basically become
a non Hall of Famer in this season because he
looks terrible. I mean, you know, he seems like a
he seems like a good guy, but he's he also
seems like he should be retired. He seems so bad.
Like it was like he swung it a couple of
pitches and basically I eventually I think he grounded out.
Uh and like you know, I mean he runs so slow.
It's like, oh my god. I mean Salvador Perez like,
come on, man, someone hit the someone hit the fifty
seven on the bottle to get him moving faster. He
was like so slow. Oh god, it's painful to watch
Savador Prez. So, you know, looking on the on the
third day Player Raider, we also have you know, roster
the percentage that a guy's rostered, and Savador Prez is
at one hundred percent. And that's crazy because he he
looks terrible. I mean, you know, maybe he gets hot
at some point. But it's also like that's a two catcher,
that's two catcher roster percentages, so you know that might
have something to do with it. But if you have
a Savador Perez in like a non two catcher league,
what are you doing? I mean, Okay, So moving on,
because that was a lot about Savador pres. Austin Riley
also I think is really dropable in most leagues, Like
he has not looked good. We're going back years now,
he hasn't looked good. He hasn't looked good for a while.
Chandler Simpson I think is probably pretty good to actually
pretty good still if you need steals, So I wouldn't
like if I needed steals, I would be picking up
Chandler Simpson or or holding him if I had him
in a league, Like I would not be dropping Chandler
Simpson because like he's the kind of guy who could
steal twelve bags in a week or something, So I
would absolutely be holding. Luke Raley feels like a it
feels like a hangover from like April when he was good,
and people haven't really either people have checked out on
their fantasy teams or they're just not paying attention because
he wasn't as good as he was in April. So
you know, if you can move on from Luke Raley,
I would do that. Nico Horner I think is gonna
get better, but like we mentioned last week, it's like
the good Nico Horner is like is it worth holding
onto that? I don't think so. And Xander Bogarts is
just like he's the most boring player to have a
fantasy I mean, he's so boring. It's like you're doing
a play for runs in RBIs and even those are
kind of like eh, I mean, I'd probably be looking
elsewhere at Xander Bogarts too.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I mean honestly, he's got a lot of
Nico Horner inside of them too, so like they're they're
very the same vein. So let's look at some of
the cold pitchers, some of the guys that have been
towards the bomb of the player Raider. Another cold six
pack here, Zach Gallon, Mitch Keller, Andrew Paynter, who actually
got sent down to Triple A this week so he
can't hurt you anymore. Merril Kelly's in there, Randy Vasquez,
the magic has worn off. And then Kevin Gossman, I
want to I want to get your take on this one, because, uh,
it is he's been straight poop in the past three
times that he's been on the mound. It's been eight innings,
thirteen nerd runs, seven strikeouts, six walks, four homers in
those eight innings, just gotten absolutely shelled. And the first
of those two, the velo was way down, it came back.
The second one. He is thirty five years old and
he's looked like at the past two times. Are you
are you worried about Kevin Gossman because before that it
was pretty solid work. It was Kevin Gossman. Before that,
you know, he was his normal self where he was
a three forty one era over the previous eighty seven
innings with a K per an inning and you know,
getting those wins and qs's for you. So, uh, this
kind of happened out nowhere. You're worried about Kevin Gossman.
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I mean I am worried, but I also
think that he's probably this is just the ups and
downs of the season. I think he's probably okay. Like
I like, if anyone's expecting like the Kevin Gossman of like,
you know, twenty twenty one to suddenly reappear, I wouldn't
expect that. But you know, like he's for the last
two years at least, he's been roughly a three seven
five pitcher with like you know, a little bit over
an eight and a half k per nine and that
seems about right, like and that's that that with that
comes you know moments where you know he's just not
that great. So I think he's okay. Like I wouldn't
expect more than I want to stay at this point,
maybe a three to eight earra on the year, which
is you know, I mean it's it's like he's basically
a number five, number four to number five starter for
fantasy in like I want to say twelve team mixed
or deeper. And if you can do better in a
twelve team mixed, and I imagine some some teams can
probably do better, then you know, I mean you I
would see I could see moving on from Kevin Gausman
in a twelve team mix league if if you can
do better. But right now, you know, for what it's worth,
I have him in a twelve team mix league and
you know, I mean it's not been great. I haven't
enjoyed it, but I'm not necessarily dropping him. I mean,
I think I have gone to the point where I
have started benching him. It's a weekly league, so you know,
in a weekly league, you get two good matchups from
another guy, and it's like, oh, I can bench Kevin Goussman.
I have a you know, say Foster Griffin or something,
so it's like, yeah, I can bench Gossman. So I
would probably not drop him in a twelve team mix league,
but I could see potential for dropping them if there's
opportunities to move on and the pitcher's better out there
on waivers or something in a I would say, in
a ten team mix league, yeah, I mean, I think
he's probably drop a ball. Like I said, I mean,
he's a three eight ear a guy the rest of
the year. That's borderline, and a you know, in a
ten team mix league that's pretty borderline. That's like streamer stuff.
So yeah, I could I could see moving them on
and moving on on like the shallowest of leagues, you know,
And unfortunately in deeper leagues where you have to hold
and hope that he gets better. I do think he'll
get a little bit better. So there's that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think I'm right there with you
where you've got to be a little bit more careful
with the matchups, and Gousman, maybe you've been previously. The
other factor here is last year the Blue Jays were like,
by far, the best defensive team in baseball, and this
year they've come back to maybe where they're in the
back end of the top ten. So something else to
keep in mind with somebody like Gaussman, who is groundball forward,
where you know, if you're depending on that defense, the
Blue Jays have not been elite the way that they
were last year, so something to factor in as well. Well,
we've gotten to the sagnof portion of our podcast, so
let's talk some bullpens because we've got a bunch of
the same problem children coming back to this discussion week
after week, and one of those has been the Chicago
White Sox, where Sir Anthony Demingez has been up and down,
up and down, up and down. It's a four four
five ERA over twenty eight and a third inning so
far this year. Blew a save on Monday, but Grant
Taylor also blew a save on Monday. Grant Taylor also
took a loss on Wednesday. The only save that went
to the bullpen for the White Sox this past week
was Seawan Newcomb, who picked it up in like a
longer three inning sort of portion where you're just out
there eating some innings trying to save for the rest
of the bullpen. So what are you doing with this
White Sox bullpen, because Sir Anthony Domingez has not been
good when he's been in there. He's actually been much
better in non safe situations. Grant Taylor is like one
of the elite relievers of all of baseball, But the
White Sox don't seem to be willing to put him
fully into that closer role. They liked using him as
an opener, as a bridge guy to get to Dominguez.
Do you have faith in Dominguez or are you moving
on to Grant Taylor? Is there somebody else he might
be factoring into this bullpen?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah? So I have Sir Anthony Dominguez in a
league and I saw, I think it was today, I
saw that he was pitching in the sixth inning, and
at that point, I was like, why do I have
Sir Anthony Dimengaz on my team? Like I feel it's
kind of pointless. I don't think they necessarily the White
Sex it is. I don't think they're necessarily going to
Grand Taylor, who should be the closer. I would, you know,
I would guess at some point he will officially become
the closer. And you know, I think we're seeing the
point where, like, you know, it's like when Devin Williams
was behind Josh Hater in Milwaukee. Like at a certain point,
Grant Taylor will emerge and become the lights out closer
that everyone knows he can be. But I don't know
if we're there yet, So you know, I would probably
roster Taylor just hoping to get as many saves as
I can, and you know, also the good ratios that
come with just having Taylor because he's good just in
general and the case so anything Domingos, I think at
this point it's like like you mentioned, I mean, he's
better in the sixth inning, but I don't want a
sixth thing, Sir Anthony to mangas, That's not what I
signed up for, So I would I'm probably going to
be dropping the manga as soon. I don't really need
the saves that badly. Brian Hudson has been solid, but
he's a lefty. Sean Nuko has been okay, but he's
a lefty. So I would probably just go grand Taylor
and that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm right there with you that I
think they're probably going to mix and match this bullpen
a lot and maybe even acquire somebody at the deadline.
So yeah, I don't think you need to be be
holding to Vengos. But I don't know if I see
who's going to be getting the majority of the saves
in this bullpen right now that I think it's probably
going to be traded for within the next few weeks,
as the White Sox probably are starting to sniff that
division and might make a run for it. Okay, well
this is now we're getting into the real problem children here,
because the Athletics are back. You want to talk athletics
bullpen again. We've got Elvis Alvarado blue a save this
week has looked really shaky. Mason Barnett picked up the
latest save in this bullpen, and he's been pretty good
since moving to this bullpen. You know, this season he's
got fifteen and third innings with a one to one
seven ERA. But it is the Sacramento Athletics. They play
in Bingbong Stadium. They've cycled through tons of dudes. They
cut Scott Barlow this week that like, that's how far
he went down the drain, And uh, is Mason Barnett
maybe the next hot name to own in this bullpen?
Or are you just tired of trying to figure out
what's going on in Sacramento?
Speaker 2: Actually, you know, because I was I was looking at
for my by column. I was looking to see which
teams were the worst for bullpens just in general, that
teams with the worst the arrays, and I thought the
A's would be the worst, but they're actually they're not. Uh,
there's worst teams and uh. And then when I looked
at the teams who are worse, I was like, oh, yeah,
those teams are Those teams are awful as well. It's
the Rockies, the Nationals, the Twins, and the Royals. So
they're all terrible. The Royals actually, Lang has sort of
stepped out and become like a decent closer, and Gomez
has been okay for the Twins even though the guys
in front of him haven't been great. The Nationals are
awful and the Rockies are terrible, and I wouldn't mess
with the A's either. So it's like the A's, the Rockies,
and the Nationals. I'm not messing with any of them really,
you know, I think probably Push came to shove for
the A's probably say like, you know, uh, Hogan Harris,
I guess, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't be enthused about it,
like maybe in a al only, but you know, it's
really stretching the imagination to go with like, you know,
even him, who's you know, I mean, he has a
three point five eight e ra and eleven plus k
per nine, So I mean, he hasn't been awful, but
the command is really bad, and he feels like, you know,
he's he's a lefty also, so there's that. And he
also feels like he's gonna blow up at any moment.
So like you know, even my even my recommendation feels
terrible in a lot of ways. Mason Burnett seems seems
like he's been good, but he's also got a terrible command,
and it's like it's only in what fifteen innings, So
I don't know. Maybe maybe Barnett emerges as the actual closer,
but I wouldn't I outside of Al only, I want
to mess with any of these guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I think that's fair. And then the other
one that I know that you loved talking about every week,
the Angels Bullpen. We're back, baby. It's the worst eve
in the AL outside of the Royals, I guess. And
it looks like, well, Sam Bachman had picked up a
save last week, then today we had Sammy Natara Junior,
who is totally a real player and I knew existed
before you put him on the rundown, got the save
today Kirby Yates got the save on Saturday with Sam
Bachman getting the hold and Zephyr John getting the win.
Is this another bullpeny you're just avoiding because of the
chaos or is there actually any talent here that you
might be pursuing.
Speaker 2: You know, it's actually Samy Natara Junior. The junior is
is the that's the giveaway there, right, because that's like
a guilding the lily. Like it's like Sam and Atara.
I would have believed, but once you put the junior there,
it's like, oh, that's not a real person anymore. That's
totally that's a made up name because they had they
had to add the junior to pretend like it was
a real person.
Speaker 1: Like there just Sammy went one m, right.
Speaker 2: Sammy with one M. I mean, it's just there's so
much there that's like, oh, you guys, come on man.
Like if you would have just said Sam Natara, I
would have been like, yeah, maybe okay, But Sammy Natara Junior,
that's not a real person. He's actually The crazy thing
is with Sammy Natara Junior, he's uh, I mean, his
command is awful, but he's got like an under one
ear ray he's not pitching. I mean, he's not really
pitching terrible, but I mean he's also like I mean,
he's probably just an overliever. I guess, Sam Bachman, I guess.
But another it's another bullpen where outside of ALE only.
I think I mentioned this before that like I have
Kirby Yates in one ALE only league and I haven't
even started him because I don't need to saves that
bad to like mess around with, like I don't I
don't want, I don't want. I don't want that. I
don't want whatever's gonna happen. And like with the ratio
blow up and everything, even though like Yeates has been okay,
but he hasn't been the go to guy either. So
I guess, Sam Bachman, they Yeats has I think one
more save, but no one for whatever reason. I guess
it's the reason is the Angels just don't have they
don't have leads, yes, but they have, like they have
so few saves coming out of that bullpen that it's
just not really worth it outside of ALE only and
in ALE only, I'd probably go Bachman if I had to,
but you know, push came to shove, I would try
and avoid the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yep, I think I'm there with you too, especially you've
got to start viewing the Angels bullpen as the Rockies bullpen.
Where I mean, the Angels arms have a little bit
more talent, but the team is never winning and they
also play especially that park plays pretty hit her friendly
as it gets really warm throughout the summer, So you're
just asking for a blow ups when they do have
a lead. It's a dangerous situation. But yeah, if you
have to pick saves and you're that desperate, Bachmann's probably
the one to go to. Let's stay in California as
the Giants have a bullpen that has been tumultuous over
the past week as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Ryan Walker has re entered the mix. He's been up
from TRIPLEA. But Caleb Killian has been serving as the
main kind of closer for the Giants this past week.
On Tuesday, he picked up a safe, then he melted
it down and blew the save. On Thursday, as we're speaking,
on Sunday, he picked up another save. So what are
you doing with Caleb Killian Because we've seen him be good,
we've seen him be bad. The k raid is fine,
but the walk rate is enormous. Actually, everybody in this
Giant's bullpen has a walk grate over ten. So maybe
you don't want to be touching anybody in this bullpen.
But is it Killian or is there somebody else that
you might be targeting? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would probably go Killian if a too.
I mean, actually I don't know. I feel like Killian
probably is like he's not I mean, it's not great,
but you know, stick Saves, I mean he was probably
it was a double of what Daniel Palencia was. Killian
was laughing Palencia. So yeah, I would probably i'd go
Caleb Killian, you know. I mean I wouldn't put him
in the top twenty closers by any stretch of the imagination,
but I would probably say he's worthwhile and in most
like mixed leagues, maybe the shallowest of mixed leagues probably
can avoid him. But yeah, I mean twelve team mix league,
I think I would. I would have Caleb Killian. I
would I would roster him.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's fair. All right, Well that's going
to wrap us up on the second off portion. So
let's get into some waiver wire ads out there. Gray,
who are you picking up on the hitter side.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Caleb Durman, uh seem to get it going
the last week plus Red Sox their basement has second
base eligibility and yahoo, Uh so I would grab Caleb
Durban for a hot bat. Also, Uh, let's see we
have Nolan Chanelle at the first base said for the Angels, Anaheim,
Uh not really Los Angeles Angels. He's been hot. Nick
Lofton's been hot. I saw he got a hit in
the old the Grapes on I think, yeah, so I
love to see Lofton's feeling under uh you know, under
the hood. But uh, he's been hot. Carson Kelly has
been hot. Ty Franz has been hot. Really some excited
names here, Lawrence Butler has been hot. Samad Taylor. I
I told people pick him up like two weeks ago.
He's still still hitting really well over four hundred for
the last week. Uh, Randall greed Check has been hot.
I mean that's so random, random green Check. Denzar Guzman
another real person the Angels shortstop slash third baseman eligibility
has has been hot. Jack Peterson hit another home run
on Sunday. He's been hot for a good week. Or two.
Jose Siri has been hot. Another angel, jor Bit Vivious
has been hot for the Nationals. Actually, he was the
guy who's playing in front of Luga Ju, so we
don't like that at all, but he has been hot.
And finally Ryan Kreedler hit another home run on Sunday
and he's been hot, so go out and grab him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is quite the list of names, so many angels.
That's great, okay. With from the picture side, two starters
I'd be targeting this week are Sean Burke of the
White Sox. He's got at Baltimore and at Cleveland. Javier
assad from the Cubs. He's got two home matchups against
the Padres and the Cardinals, and the Cubs have been
pretty hot, so might be a little work on those ratios,
but certainly can pick up those wins for you. Brandon Sprote,
he looks great in his last outing, struck out ten guys.
He's got Cincinnati at home before he goes to Arizona.
And then if you're just looking for one start streamers first.
I'm streaming anybody I can against the Cleveland Guardians. They're
a little bit better lineup now that Chase the latter
has come back, but without Jose Ramirez and on Hell Martinez,
that has been one of the worst lineups I've seen
in maybe like the past five or six years. So
you've got the Rangers and the White Sox facing the
Guardians this week. All those pictures can be streamable. Yes,
even Eric Fetti can be streamable against the Guardians this week.
Luis Castillo, he looked pretty good in his last outing
and has been doing well with the Piggybacks. He's got
a matchup against those lowly Angels and then Tatsuya in
my right in two straight games of ten plus ks,
and he's got a pretty decent home matchup against the Twins.
So hopefully those pickups can help you and all your
leagues out there, and good luck everybody. I will be
out next week as Beaton will be returning. So great.
It's been good filling in and having some summer fun
with you discussing all of these hot players of June.
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