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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back into the rasp Ball Fantasy Baseball podcast.
Speaker 1: I am beat On, joined by Spain's Numero Uno fan
Speaker 1: Gray Albright the Fantasy Massallethario.
Speaker 2: How you doing over there.
Speaker 5: Grey yohabla Espano beat On? Yeah, like I said, Numero
Speaker 5: of all that, I said Numero Numero, uh fan out
Speaker 5: of Espana, Uh uh yo lago, uh huego.
Speaker 6: In uh Madrid, oh Madrid, Barcelona, Bara Bartholona, I uh
Speaker 6: juabo a Bartholona go.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there was anything there was any
Speaker 1: substance there, but thank you for your giving us your
Speaker 1: Spanish comprehension then I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm I'm I'm more than dual dual lingo.
Speaker 3: I'm try lingo. You know, I try. I try lingo.
Speaker 1: That's what I do that that feels appropriate, including English,
Speaker 1: you know, you try to speak English.
Speaker 2: In that language.
Speaker 3: I do. I do actually speaking of English. So I
Speaker 3: was I went to Hawaii for the during the All
Speaker 3: Star break. Thanks thanks for asking. And so we were
Speaker 3: staying at this hotel, right, and I'm like, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go do some laps. Even though so a
Speaker 3: little inside scoop on on gray oh break can't really
Speaker 3: swim so well. So uh so I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go down and do I'm gonna go down and do
Speaker 3: some laps, right so uh, you know, stretch out the
Speaker 3: old arms and and and and and and flippers, the uh,
Speaker 3: the feet. Uh so I uh so I go down
Speaker 3: to uh, I go down uh to the pool and
Speaker 3: uh people are like, it's it's Maui man. People are chill.
Speaker 3: People are hanging out by the pool, just relaxing, the reading,
Speaker 3: reading a book or two. Maybe. So I go, I
Speaker 3: go and do one of those jackhammers right, let those cannonballs.
Speaker 3: Oh right, into the water, the big, big old splasharoo
Speaker 3: I do I do one of those. Like, I'm like,
Speaker 3: shamou going into the the water, You'll get splashed. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's a pool, it's it's hot out, you'll
Speaker 3: enjoy the water, the water splashing, right, So I, uh,
Speaker 3: I go in the pool. I'm doing I'm doing laps.
Speaker 3: According to my uh my Apple watch, I did twenty
Speaker 3: laps and uh like that's like three hundred yards like
Speaker 3: a lot. Like some of that was like, So what
Speaker 3: I would do is because the pool was only three
Speaker 3: feet deep, so I would just like swing my arms
Speaker 3: and fool my Apple Watch into thinking I was swimming.
Speaker 3: I just like so I would walk through the pool
Speaker 3: going like this with my arms, just swinging them and flapping.
Speaker 2: So you're doing like the old person at the hy.
Speaker 3: Yah, yeah, I was doing. I was doing aqua aerobics right.
Speaker 3: So anyway, So anyway, long story short is, so finally
Speaker 3: someone who works at the hotel comes up to me
Speaker 3: and he's like, sir, like, yeah, what's up man doing
Speaker 3: my I'm doing laps right, So he's like, uh yeah,
Speaker 3: you see that the sign over there. I'm like, which
Speaker 3: which sign is? That it's like the one, the one
Speaker 3: that says this is a inquility pool, Like it's like
Speaker 3: you're you're you're disturbing people's tranquility. Oh my, my, my bad.
Speaker 3: So that was that was my trip to Mallei.
Speaker 2: And now we know what kind of places Gray stays at.
Speaker 1: He stays in places that have tranquility pools that you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to swim laughs in.
Speaker 2: That's the key piece of information.
Speaker 3: Gray.
Speaker 1: Now somebody's going to track you down next All Star break.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on share that much information.
Speaker 7: Shall We've missed a couple of weeks of call ups
Speaker 7: with the top one hundred with the All Star Break,
Speaker 7: so let's cover a few of those.
Speaker 2: Gray.
Speaker 1: Louis Laura was called up for the Brewers. He didn't
Speaker 1: really have a place to play initially. That may be changing,
Speaker 1: but he's pretty much a speed first type of prospect.
Speaker 1: In seventy eight games of Triple eight at nine home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty four stone bases, he was sending three, twenty one,
Speaker 1: four thirty two and four seventy.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts here on Louis Laura, SU, you'd
Speaker 2: be picking him up now that he might have an opportunity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, with with South Freelick going down, I
Speaker 3: believe he injured his shoulder. Maybe he was in the
Speaker 3: pool doing the doing the walking laps, but South really
Speaker 3: hurt his shoulder. So there's so there's some room for
Speaker 3: Louis Laura to play. And I'd say, you know, because
Speaker 3: of the speed alone, speed transfers from one level to
Speaker 3: the next. So I would say because of the speed alone,
Speaker 3: he's worth picking up. Now, if you don't need steals,
Speaker 3: then yeah, you could probably ignore him for the most part.
Speaker 3: He does make decent contact in a very small sample size.
Speaker 3: He has a fifteen percent strikeout rate actually yeah, just
Speaker 3: under fifteen percent, and also a ninth almost eighteen point
Speaker 3: five walk great eighteen point five percent walk grade. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it's just it's only a week's worth of games,
Speaker 3: what we call it, twenty seven plate appearances, so obviously
Speaker 3: not a huge sample size. But you know, he's hitting well,
Speaker 3: hitting over two seventies so far, with you know, once
Speaker 3: one steal. So but I think the steals are really
Speaker 3: going to be what is you know, the main draw
Speaker 3: for him, right, I do think there could be some
Speaker 3: potential for power potentially, I could see a homer too,
Speaker 3: but I wouldn't. I wouldn't count on that. I would
Speaker 3: you know, I would hope for steals and maybe some
Speaker 3: average and anything else is just you know, cherry on top.
Speaker 3: So you're probably looking at, you know, fifteen teen mix
Speaker 3: leagues and deeper depending on needs. In a twelve team league.
Speaker 3: Twelve team mix league. Yeah, I mean, if he got
Speaker 3: if he got hot, then sure, but I don't think
Speaker 3: you really unless you really are desperate for steals. I
Speaker 3: don't think in a twelve team mix league he's really like, uh,
Speaker 3: he's necessary to pick up in one of the in
Speaker 3: that shadow of a league. So yeah, I mean I
Speaker 3: would say probably fifteen team mix league or deeper for
Speaker 3: right now, unless you're desperate for steals.
Speaker 2: So you're saying self Failak was replaced by self fairly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so so no, Actually, I think what I
Speaker 4: said was, I think he's actually probably closer to h
Speaker 4: a cheap.
Speaker 3: Or a poor man's Bryce Terrang, because I mean Terrang's
Speaker 3: so Terrag's profile is more speed in power, even though
Speaker 3: he has him for a decent amount of homers in
Speaker 3: the majors. But I'm not gonna I'm not saying Louis
Speaker 3: Laura is gonna be Bryce Terrain this year. He's probably
Speaker 3: He's probably not, So I wouldn't count on that. I
Speaker 3: mean he's twenty one years old, so I would count
Speaker 3: on nothing really that much other than steals and maybe average.
Speaker 3: I think South Frielick, I mean, South Freelick's fine as
Speaker 3: a comp. I just think he's a little bit lower
Speaker 3: on average he has. I mean he hit for average
Speaker 3: last year. This year he has. He was hitting two
Speaker 3: thirty six so and he only had six steals on
Speaker 3: the year. South Freelick I think is I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's a little he's a little bit less.
Speaker 3: I mean I think I like Louis Laura a bit
Speaker 3: more than South Freelick. I don't. I don't really, I
Speaker 3: didn't really I didn't like self Reelic at all. That's
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm belaboring a point here. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: Louis lar is fine for deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, say fifteen team, Like you said, that's that's about
Speaker 1: where you want to look if you need speed in
Speaker 1: like a daily twelve team league. I wouldn't mind grabbing him.
Speaker 1: He should be, you know, a good bet for that,
Speaker 1: and he does. He's taking walks across pretty much every
Speaker 1: stop that he's had, so that's part of his profile.
Speaker 1: That's one of those things that if you can get
Speaker 1: that from somebody who's speed first, it does kind of
Speaker 1: help booy their their potential slumps in between because they
Speaker 1: don't particularly hit the ball hard. I will remind you, though,
Speaker 1: that self predic was supposed to be a great average
Speaker 1: hitter when he was a prospect, so it just just
Speaker 1: never really panned out.
Speaker 2: But let's move on Gray.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the A's another injury opening up spot.
Speaker 1: Nick Kurtz is going to miss a little bit more
Speaker 1: time as they're looking into his injury. So Tommy White
Speaker 1: was called up by by them and he's gonna get
Speaker 1: some more playing time. Seventy six games of triple A,
Speaker 1: he has ten one runs, two stone bases. He's hitting
Speaker 1: three oh three, three fifty three and four sixty five.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts here on Tommy White.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's hard to It's hard to be excited about
Speaker 3: Tommy White for a couple of reasons. Number one reason
Speaker 3: is the more Tommy White's around, the less Nick Kurtz
Speaker 3: is around. And that that hurts. That hurts me, That
Speaker 3: hurts my feelings, I want Nick Kurtz back. I don't
Speaker 3: really want Tommy White. There. My other big the other
Speaker 3: big drawback is the ground ball rate, uh for Tommy White.
Speaker 3: I mean it's just it's pretty horrendous for a guy
Speaker 3: with uh, you know, supposed power. So I would you know,
Speaker 3: i'd probably say al only for Tommy White at this point,
Speaker 3: you know, potentially for power. But I mean I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know where the power is coming from if
Speaker 3: he's grounding into that many, if he's grounding out that much.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean it's hard. It's hard to get
Speaker 3: super excited about a guy with a fifty or greater
Speaker 3: ground ball rate, even if he does have power. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I guess maybe eventually he's you know, I
Speaker 3: mean he's he's twenty three. Uh so maybe at some
Speaker 3: point he gets a swing adjustment, so you know, in
Speaker 3: the grand scheme of things, maybe he's better than you know,
Speaker 3: what we're seeing so far in his career. But I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't. Outside of AO only, I'm not interested.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in a you know, a fifteen team,
Speaker 1: I could maybe look at him as a corner infielder
Speaker 1: because there's just there's a lot of bad corner infielders
Speaker 1: out there, and he does get to play in bing bong,
Speaker 1: so that certainly helps.
Speaker 2: That's really the.
Speaker 1: Only thing that's holding me up here at this point
Speaker 1: is the is the park. He does hit for a
Speaker 1: good average, he doesn't really strike out. So those are
Speaker 1: those are two positives on him. But I, like you said,
Speaker 1: I think it's mostly gonna be ale only for him.
Speaker 1: A little bit of a blast room past here, Gray
Speaker 1: Christian Incarnacy o on Strand.
Speaker 2: Is backup in the eight majors.
Speaker 1: If you didn't catch the catch his transaction, you're not alone.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he had moved. But he is over
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Triple A seventy one games, nineteen them runs
Speaker 1: two stone bases. He's hitting two sixty six three or
Speaker 1: four five forty four. You know, as somebody who was
Speaker 1: once an interest to us in the fantasy landscape, are
Speaker 1: you any do you have any interest.
Speaker 2: In him now? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean you know one place that a once failed
Speaker 3: prospect goes that's gonna definitely help him as a Baltimore
Speaker 3: They're they're numerous prospects that we're still waiting on. Maybe,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe after Dylan Bieber's and Kobe Mayo catch on.
Speaker 3: Christian Carci Strand can get on that shuttle, shuttle to
Speaker 3: h fantasy value. I think Christian and Garcia Strands. Let
Speaker 3: me see what his minor league numbers. Oh okay, So
Speaker 3: I clicked the minor league numbers to pop up, and
Speaker 3: my my browsers pinwheel is going. It's it's taken a
Speaker 3: little while for all the minor league numbers to propagate here. Okay,
Speaker 3: so now that the minor league numbers are now up,
Speaker 3: hold on, let me let me scroll up, give me,
Speaker 3: give me a minute. Hold on, still scrolling, still scrolling. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're here. Yeah, I mean he's you know, maybe Christian
Speaker 3: Garcia Strand could win in MVP in the KBO potentially,
Speaker 3: I mean I could, I could see that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, you never know. I guess guys could catch
Speaker 3: on later, uh, you know a little bit of post
Speaker 3: prospect hype possibly at some point. But right now, I mean,
Speaker 3: unless you see something from in Garcion Strand, there's no
Speaker 3: reason to pick him up. And even I would say,
Speaker 3: even in I don't even know if he's rosterbull and
Speaker 3: Ale only leagues at at this point, I mean you
Speaker 3: have to see something. I mean, he doesn't even have
Speaker 3: he doesn't even really have playing time.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The crazy thing is, I mean he's really like his
Speaker 3: stats are still good whenever he's in the miners. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: I mean, he's always in the miners.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And there's clearly I mean as crazy as you know,
Speaker 3: as as crazy making as it was for those years
Speaker 3: when he was in Cincinnati, and I would be like,
Speaker 3: why don't they I mean, at this point, you gotta
Speaker 3: figure the league has decided that he's a quad A player.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if I don't know if he's
Speaker 3: ever gonna play. I mean, you know, Uh, in just
Speaker 3: a half a season of the minor leagues this year,
Speaker 3: he hit nineteen homers. I mean, so he clearly doesn't
Speaker 3: need to be in the minors. But I don't think
Speaker 3: anyone thinks he can hit in the majors. So unfortunately,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think he's worthwhile in really any
Speaker 3: league outside of maybe a flyer and an ale only.
Speaker 3: But that's about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he did that nineteen home runs with a
Speaker 1: thirty point six percent strikeout rate in Triple A as
Speaker 1: a twenty six year old Gray.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's KBO baby. We call that the old
Speaker 3: KBO and a future MVP at the KBO level, don't
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, Yeah, thirty at twenty six years old.
Speaker 3: If you have a thirty percent strike out right, you
Speaker 3: either you need like you need to go to Max
Speaker 3: Monthsey's warby Parker and try and get new glasses, or
Speaker 3: it might it may not be working for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there there may be something that he needs to adjust,
Speaker 1: something to monitor. Just wanted to bring him back up
Speaker 1: because it was more funny to me to see his name,
Speaker 1: and then there's anything. Owen Murphy was called up by
Speaker 1: the Braves. He has two relief appearances, one short start
Speaker 1: you know this is more if he gets a shot
Speaker 1: in the rotation are you interested?
Speaker 2: Type of thing? Ray and sixty innings and triple A.
Speaker 1: He had a three eight eight you'r aa one eight
Speaker 1: with twenty seven percent strekout rate and eleven percent walk rate.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts here on Olden Murphy?
Speaker 3: No, really, I mean I think he was already sent
Speaker 3: back down. If he gets called back up, maybe for
Speaker 3: a fifteen team mixed league if he gets a good matchup.
Speaker 3: So like a streamer in a fifteen team mix league,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, obvious interest in n now only
Speaker 3: if he gets called back up. But I think he
Speaker 3: was very sent down, So yeah, I don't think there's
Speaker 3: anything really there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like if they do need a fifth starter,
Speaker 1: it would be j R. Richie, you know, first, give
Speaker 1: them the first opportunity. Uh, your boy, our boy, Didier
Speaker 1: flint Sez is still in the in the bullpen as well,
Speaker 1: so they do have a couple options already.
Speaker 2: Up on the major league roster.
Speaker 1: Potentially, Let's go ahead and do some first half of prolatives.
Speaker 2: Give some awards away.
Speaker 3: Gray.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the MVP spot and by value, because
Speaker 1: we can obviously go out and look at the player
Speaker 1: raider and see how good James would and Jacob z
Speaker 1: Rowski were in the first half. But by value, who
Speaker 1: is your MVP?
Speaker 2: Gray? Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, I would have to say, uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: guess Jordan Walker, right because I feel like he was
Speaker 3: He was probably drafted at you know, roughly the last
Speaker 3: round of twelve team mix leagues around at least like
Speaker 3: two twenty overall. I would say, and then for you know,
Speaker 3: any like if you're if he's getting drafted like you know,
Speaker 3: in the last rounds of a twelve team mix league,
Speaker 3: and then like you figure as a fifth outfielder in
Speaker 3: a fifteen team mix league. You know, like say like
Speaker 3: three hundred ish overall. I mean there's not that's like,
Speaker 3: you know, if you can get a guy at three
Speaker 3: hundred overall and have a top five season, I mean
Speaker 3: I think you're you know, Jordan Walker is gonna be
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard for Jordan Walker to not be
Speaker 3: the Fantasy MVP for the year, considering where he was drafted.
Speaker 3: Even like you know, knock on wood, nothing bad happens,
Speaker 3: but even if he takes the second half off, he's
Speaker 3: already given more value than you could have ever expected.
Speaker 3: So I'll say Jordan Walker for MVP for value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a pretty clear award.
Speaker 1: Honorable mention to Otto Lopez, he wasn't drafted as late
Speaker 1: as Jordan Walker, but certainly deserving of the war our
Speaker 1: NL only Gray.
Speaker 2: I remember I was on Jordan Walker.
Speaker 1: He went for seven dollars, which was one more than
Speaker 1: I was going to go on him. That's felt crazy
Speaker 1: to go seven even I was like, why is anybody
Speaker 1: bidding against me?
Speaker 2: At seven dollars on Jordan Walker.
Speaker 1: I really really wish I had spent the extra dollar
Speaker 1: on on Jordan Walker. That would have that have drastically
Speaker 1: helped my team kind of just pick up a little
Speaker 1: bit of the you know, little slack here as I'm
Speaker 1: I'm still top three in that week's not too worried,
Speaker 1: But yes, Jordan Walker.
Speaker 2: Has been a monster. Gray.
Speaker 1: All right, Gray, let's move on to least valuable Player.
Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about draft cost here because well,
Speaker 1: that's that's baked into the least valuable part of this award.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of candidates. Some of my fantasy teams
Speaker 1: can't attest to that who is your least valuable player
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 3: So one guy, I was like, I was totally out
Speaker 3: on I was. I was actually I felt a little
Speaker 3: bit like the price for him was so absurd that
Speaker 3: I was not only out on him, but I also
Speaker 3: I didn't even write an overrated post other than I
Speaker 3: mentioned in a few posts like don't draft them because
Speaker 3: it's insane to draft him. But I feel like you
Speaker 3: can't get much worse than cal Raley. He was. He's
Speaker 3: I mean, he's barely in the top four hundred on
Speaker 3: the Player Raider and he was going in like the
Speaker 3: top twenty five overall. Lea, It's just awful. I mean
Speaker 3: not I mean, there is injury, but there's also even
Speaker 3: when he's not been injured and he's been on the field,
Speaker 3: it's like he's hitting one sixty three as of the
Speaker 3: recording of this. It's awful. It's it's barely rosterable really.
Speaker 1: It's it's been pretty bad. I would uh honorable mention
Speaker 1: a few guys here. Obviously, Mookie Betts has been just horrendous.
Speaker 1: He just has not done anything for you this year.
Speaker 1: Along with Kyle Tucker and Vlad they've both been very
Speaker 1: disappointing considering where you drafted.
Speaker 2: Him and the expectations for them coming to the season.
Speaker 3: You know. Also with the with cal Raleigh, I feel
Speaker 3: like this is a thing that I've mentioned this before,
Speaker 3: and it was in relation I think to uh Aaron
Speaker 3: Judge when he was going uh for the al home
Speaker 3: run record, which is a silly record, but anyway, when
Speaker 3: Avery Judge was going for and they brought in like
Speaker 3: the bouncy balls. I feel like with Cal Rowley, like
Speaker 3: he definitely I mean, he was definitely good. Last year
Speaker 3: for most of the year, but at a certain point,
Speaker 3: I feel like they brought in new balls for him.
Speaker 3: There's no way, there's no way he like because like
Speaker 3: I just opened up his player page just to remind
Speaker 3: myself of like what he did last year, and like
Speaker 3: sixty homers. It's just absurd that he hit sixty last year.
Speaker 3: It's like, I mean, he's he's definitely a home run hitter,
Speaker 3: but he's like a thirty to forty home run guy.
Speaker 3: Like sixty homers last year, like man Man was that
Speaker 3: that was just such an absurd year from him. And
Speaker 3: the fact that people got people bought in at like
Speaker 3: the full cost. I actually think, you know, with cal
Speaker 3: Rawley specifically, I feel like there was a little bit
Speaker 3: like I wonder how many people who rostered cal Rawley
Speaker 3: last year and got all that basically for free. I
Speaker 3: wonder how many of those people got in again this
Speaker 3: year at cost, because I feel like there was a
Speaker 3: bunch of people who were like, oh, you know, I
Speaker 3: I was playing with house money because I you know,
Speaker 3: I got sixty homers for free basically last year, so
Speaker 3: this year I'll pay the top twenty five price. And
Speaker 3: also like and just you know, it's like I I,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm paying the price for last year this year.
Speaker 3: And I also think that they still had in their
Speaker 3: like it was still like in their psyche to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, I sixty homers like that was so great,
Speaker 3: Like they were still feeling the effects of that cal
Speaker 3: Raley being so good. Otherwise, I mean there's some we
Speaker 3: were the psychosis going on with someone who's drafted cal
Speaker 3: Rawley in the top twenty five, I mean that was
Speaker 3: it was really like, honestly, his ADP was so nuts.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't even have to reign over
Speaker 3: rated post for this guy. This is so crazy. There's
Speaker 3: no way he should be drafted here, Like it's so crazy.
Speaker 3: But I but even with all that said, I didn't
Speaker 3: expect Calra to be this bad.
Speaker 2: So there's that, No, I don't think anybody did.
Speaker 1: The injuries have certainly not helped with him definitely missed
Speaker 1: some games and questionable about whether he's healthy still.
Speaker 2: But it's just a.
Speaker 1: Really hard position to be good at season overseason, and
Speaker 1: you know, career years happened.
Speaker 2: That's that's what happened.
Speaker 1: They create Career year happened, And congratulations for him on
Speaker 1: that career year. But yeah, I don't think either of
Speaker 1: us expected that to happen. Let's move on great to
Speaker 1: a more happy topic, and that is Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is taking home these awards?
Speaker 7: Great?
Speaker 2: Who are you giving not? Who's taking home at the
Speaker 2: end of the year. Who are you giving it to
Speaker 2: at the break?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I would say probably. Uh. I want
Speaker 3: to still say more comedy, because he was just so
Speaker 3: good and then he got injured, so he missed some time.
Speaker 3: But when he was actually playing, so assuming you weren't
Speaker 3: in too deep of a league where you could have
Speaker 3: gotten more where you could have filled in for more
Speaker 3: comedy when he was injured, like the the the per game,
Speaker 3: more comedy was so good and south Stewart's actually been
Speaker 3: really good too, if I guess he has a rookie eligibility, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: So I don't know, more comedy south Stewart come to mind.
Speaker 3: I you know, I like Kevin McGonagall a lot, but
Speaker 3: and him and JJ weatherhold, I mean, they're both very good,
Speaker 3: but I don't know, I don't know either of them
Speaker 3: really eclipsed south Stewart in more comedy at least more
Speaker 3: commedy when he was you know, healthy, yeah.
Speaker 2: Healthy more comedy was absolute monster.
Speaker 1: I hope he's back to that when he since he's returned,
Speaker 1: and then on the.
Speaker 2: South Sewarts South South Stewart side.
Speaker 1: If he wasn't on the Reds, I feel like he
Speaker 1: would be kind of the front runner for this award.
Speaker 1: But just beat on the Reds has heard him because
Speaker 1: they have been absolutely terrible this year, and and it's
Speaker 1: hurting his numbers, and it's hurting his chance at the award.
Speaker 1: Is nobody's watching him? Let's move on to Breakout Gray.
Speaker 1: There's again plenty of choices here for Breakout. Let's let's
Speaker 1: remove Jordan Walker from this, since he's already got an award.
Speaker 2: Who else deserves this?
Speaker 3: I would have to say absolutely, Miguel Vargas. I think
Speaker 3: it was you know, there was a I mean, Miguel
Speaker 3: Vargas for me, has eliminated any thought I had that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were doing something funny with their prospect grades.
Speaker 3: I think for a while there I was convinced that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were paying off prospect writers to boost up
Speaker 3: their prospect grades so they could trade them. But yeah, Miguel,
Speaker 3: I mean Miguel Vargas has been great. He's absolutely I
Speaker 3: feel like he's he is the stereotypical breakout. Like it
Speaker 3: was like he wasn't he wasn't great. I mean he
Speaker 3: was pretty bad actually, and then he slowly started to
Speaker 3: come around last year and this year it's like the
Speaker 3: full on breakout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's looked he's looked great, great, twenty
Speaker 1: one home runs, eleven stone bases. He's hitting two forty five,
Speaker 1: three five, four ninety. The k raid is the best
Speaker 1: of his career, the walk rates the best of his career.
Speaker 1: Average ex will also be hard hit. Everything is the
Speaker 1: best of his career. Everything looks great there, and if anything,
Speaker 1: he's gotten a little unlucky with a two forty five babbit,
Speaker 1: so the average could actually still come up a little
Speaker 1: bit for him.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to bounce back player Gray. There's again
Speaker 2: a number of options here.
Speaker 1: I mean, we could we could even potentially throw in
Speaker 1: like James Wooden PCA, just because they had to bounce
Speaker 1: back from their absolutely awful second halfs that we.
Speaker 2: Were worried about. But who are you giving this award two?
Speaker 3: It's uh, let's not claim victory yet with James Wood
Speaker 3: and PCA in their second half.
Speaker 2: They could be they could be opposite Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, let's let's get through the second half with
Speaker 3: them still being good before we start patting each other
Speaker 3: on the back.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Bounce back feels like absolutely yord on it. Alvarez like
Speaker 3: he was, you know, one of the worst picks I
Speaker 3: made last year and then one of the one of
Speaker 3: the best picks for someone else this year. It wasn't me, unfortunately.
Speaker 3: I mean I would have loved it again, you were
Speaker 3: Don Alvarez. I didn't draft him, but I would have
Speaker 3: loved to I. Yeah, I mean I feel like you're
Speaker 3: on Alvarez for sure. As uh, probably the biggest bounce
Speaker 3: back maybe, Yeah, I mean I don't know. I guess
Speaker 3: Brian Reynolds. As you know, my new favorite player, Brian Reynolds.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he has been good this year, but
Speaker 3: you're on. I think it takes that bounce back big time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Brian Reynolds had kind of been left
Speaker 1: for dead after last season, or at least at least
Speaker 1: on my end, he was not that I was ever
Speaker 1: a huge fan of his, But yes, it looks much
Speaker 1: better I will throw out another person who I'm you know.
Speaker 1: Still I still don't know if I fully believe it,
Speaker 1: but I have to at this point because I just
Speaker 1: traded for him, and that is Luis Starcia Junior.
Speaker 7: Gray.
Speaker 1: He's, you know, after a disappointing season last year, he
Speaker 1: has bounced back. He's said more home runs in the
Speaker 1: first half than he ever has in his career so
Speaker 1: or in any season of his career so far.
Speaker 2: So he's looked great this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Yeah, I mean, I'm a long time
Speaker 3: lou Gajju proponent fan of I wonder if, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess he is a bounce back. I mean that's fair
Speaker 3: because I was going to say, is he a bounce
Speaker 3: back or is he just a breakout? But he I
Speaker 3: mean I did write a sleeper post for him, I
Speaker 3: think two years ago, and he had a nearly a
Speaker 3: twenty twenty season, So yeah, I guess he is a
Speaker 3: bounce back because he did. He did have a solid
Speaker 3: seats in twenty four and then a bit of a
Speaker 3: letdown in twenty five and now he's back, So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll say bounce back.
Speaker 2: Sure, all right.
Speaker 1: Now, Gray, a little bit of a redemption for us.
Speaker 2: How about it?
Speaker 1: I told you so a Ward, who's somebody you've told
Speaker 1: everybody to draft or everybody to avoid, and you're just
Speaker 1: gonna take a little time for yourself right now.
Speaker 3: I mean I told I told everyone to avoid Mookie Bets.
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember I wrote a I wrote a
Speaker 3: whole post about it. I said, don't draft Mookie Bets, uh,
Speaker 3: because he looked pretty bad last year and he didn't
Speaker 3: look like he was getting better. Also, you know what's interesting,
Speaker 3: So okay, so Mookie, I'll take Mookie Bets as my
Speaker 3: I told youself. But you know it's also pretty humorous,
Speaker 3: is I mean? I know that there's so few meaningful
Speaker 3: things going on in spring I understand why it happens.
Speaker 3: But no matter how many times it happens, you'll get
Speaker 3: people who will just run with narratives and they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts is you know he was he said he
Speaker 3: was hurt last year, he's healthy this year, he's looking
Speaker 3: good in March at spring training, you know he's gonna
Speaker 3: be good. And so that was completely crazy and wrong.
Speaker 3: But you know what, also, I didn't realize I wrote
Speaker 3: this actually in my uh, in my top one hundred
Speaker 3: for the second half. I had a screenshot of this,
Speaker 3: the fact that Jordan Walker his spring training was so awful,
Speaker 3: and yet so people still are like, yeah, spring training, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know it's good to look at like you know,
Speaker 3: uh if a guy's making better contact or it's like,
Speaker 3: it's such nonsense. I don't know why I'm on this topic,
Speaker 3: but anyway, I told you so, Mookie Bets, it's just yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I I guess I'll take Mookie. I'll take
Speaker 3: the victory lap on the obvious Mookie Bets is not
Speaker 3: good anymore and Ford and sadly, I mean, I you know,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I'm not against Mookie Bets having a bounce back,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't look like it's happening.
Speaker 1: No, And somebody who did have that that old age
Speaker 1: bounce back. And then I want to know part of
Speaker 1: this year was George Springer. So that I'll take cam
Speaker 1: as Miny. I told you so. I feel like that
Speaker 1: was a pretty obvious one. So if that doesn't count,
Speaker 1: I'll go on the positive side. Just to give some
Speaker 1: more positive lighted here cj Abrams. I feel like I
Speaker 1: had him ranked higherly Since this got some pushback from
Speaker 1: some of our commentars listeners, and uh yeah, C j
Speaker 1: Abrams is awesome.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know why anybody doesn't love him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm I've been on cj Abrams. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I don't know if I really was like
Speaker 3: it was like I was no true, no Tree, no
Speaker 3: Tree dumbass, no Strae dumbass or what. But I I
Speaker 3: just stepped in it. Like in the preseason in one
Speaker 3: of my leagues, like I drafted. I mean, it's like
Speaker 3: it's too early to be taking victory laps here, so
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm jinxing myself. But like I drafted
Speaker 3: a bunch of Washington Nationals in the NL only League,
Speaker 3: and I mean they like Curtis Med, cj Abrams, James,
Speaker 3: like these guys. I don't know. I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: I'm jinxing myself now, So won't we won't say anything else,
Speaker 3: but yeah, C James. C j Abrams was a guy
Speaker 3: who I felt like was underrated as well. So I'll
Speaker 3: let you have that. I told you so, but I
Speaker 3: was there with you. I also like meet some cj Abrams.
Speaker 1: I mean the guy coming off essentially back to back
Speaker 1: twenty thirty seasons and getting respect. It felt a little
Speaker 1: little too Rodney Dangerfield. Let's let's give a little mayakopa
Speaker 1: right now. I was wrong with Ward because you know
Speaker 1: we have those two.
Speaker 3: I was, you know what, I was wrong about everything else.
Speaker 3: I didn't mention literally wrong. But probably my biggest regrets
Speaker 3: are probably me not me thinking Vinnie Pascatino could build
Speaker 3: on his second half last year was a big time oops.
Speaker 3: I really, I really, I mean talk about and then
Speaker 3: talk about like seeing what you want to see. I
Speaker 3: saw him in like the World Baseball Classic, and I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, man, like yeah, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 3: I mean, man, it's just like World Baseball Classic and
Speaker 3: Spring Training just throw out all that. I don't pay
Speaker 3: any attention to it. So yeah, Vinnie Pascatina, you know,
Speaker 3: really got me. Uh and on the on a positive one,
Speaker 3: A guy who ended up being positive who I thought
Speaker 3: was gonna be bad was. I mean, I can't, I
Speaker 3: can no longer say U Yama Moto is not a
Speaker 3: good picture. It's just like he's just completely lights out,
Speaker 3: like you know, every time he's out there. So I yeah,
Speaker 3: I was wrong on Yama Moto, and I was definitely
Speaker 3: wrong on Vinnie Pascatino, and I was probably wrong in
Speaker 3: other guys to be honest.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean we both have plenty.
Speaker 1: I'm sure if we hit fifty on our calls, we're
Speaker 1: we're doing pretty well. Gray, I will I will take
Speaker 1: the mankopa for Wyatt Langford, even though he did get injured.
Speaker 1: So a little bit of forgiveness on my side.
Speaker 2: He was not he was not doing what I thought
Speaker 2: he could.
Speaker 1: And also Luke Keishall, who I should have I should
Speaker 1: have trusted the numbers. The number said, he's probably a
Speaker 1: little unlucky. He doesn't really hit the ball that hard,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what middle INFI middle infield looks like.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, yeah, he's gonna be good,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't. Lukeishall was not good. So I apologize
Speaker 1: for anybody who listened to me on that one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, well I was wrong on Luke Keishall as well.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately I'll probably be out on him next year
Speaker 3: when he's good. So here's a here's a preemptory I
Speaker 3: was wrong about for next year, I'll be rolling again
Speaker 3: on Luke Keishall.
Speaker 2: Probably he'll go to drive line.
Speaker 1: Gray and He'll get everything figured out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually so did. Were you out on James
Speaker 3: Wood this year?
Speaker 1: I was because of again ignoring what happens before the
Speaker 1: season starts, like in spring training in the World Baseball Classic,
Speaker 1: he was still having just terrible, terrible strikeout issues up
Speaker 1: in his own and could not stop swinging at them.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, it's tough for me
Speaker 1: that I'm just gonna like, I'm gonna drop him a
Speaker 1: few spots in my ranks. And that was dumb. That
Speaker 1: was really dumb to drop James what it all in
Speaker 1: my ranks?
Speaker 3: Well, I hope, I hope in the second half he
Speaker 3: continues to prove you wrong, because I'm still I'm still
Speaker 3: holding my breath, to be honest, I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: I have until until we get to September and he's hitting. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm still like, please please.
Speaker 2: Stay together. You can always train him for Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Grag.
Speaker 2: I mean, that feels like a good move.
Speaker 3: There's a no brainer.
Speaker 1: All right, Great, let's give the people some advice here,
Speaker 1: some top by lows for the second half.
Speaker 2: Who do you have?
Speaker 3: It looks like Fernando Tatis Junior's starting to pick it
Speaker 3: up a little bit with the home run in the
Speaker 3: last two games. Actually you had to slam and leg
Speaker 3: last two games a homer and a steel on Saturday
Speaker 3: and Sunday. So yeah, maybe him. I mentioned last week
Speaker 3: who my Manny Machada was one of my biggest bylows.
Speaker 3: And also on the pitching side, Matthew Boyd is a
Speaker 3: big buy low for me. I think if if if
Speaker 3: you can get Matthew Boyd at just at cost even,
Speaker 3: I think you'll be I think you're gonna be pretty
Speaker 3: happy with that. I let's see, I don't you know.
Speaker 3: I also feel like there's a potential for some of
Speaker 3: like you know, like if you could I don't know,
Speaker 3: I mean if you could buy like some of the
Speaker 3: guys who have actually done well and you know, just
Speaker 3: buy them at cost, like because if a guy's done
Speaker 3: well already, you know, like okay, so I'm thinking of
Speaker 3: like you know, after today's game, Hunter Goodman might not
Speaker 3: be so easy because he just hit three homers, so
Speaker 3: you know, it might be too late on that. But
Speaker 3: like other guys who have you know, done well so
Speaker 3: far this year, like you know, Jordan Walker, who he mentioned,
Speaker 3: like you know, I mean, I believe in the breakout.
Speaker 3: So if you could buy high on guys, I mean
Speaker 3: just do whatever you can really to, you know, try
Speaker 3: and secure the championship. I uh, but buy low specifically,
Speaker 3: I would probably say Tatis, Machado and Boyd are like
Speaker 3: two of my highs actually, and Gavin Williams feels like
Speaker 3: a nice by low, uh because his e array is
Speaker 3: a little high, but his peripherals look pretty good. So
Speaker 3: Gavin Williams is another one. Yeah, I mean that's that's
Speaker 3: a few names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to Gavin Williams call. I had Tatis
Speaker 1: on my list as well. I think Nko Horner like
Speaker 1: he's pretty much much done what you expect from Nico
Speaker 1: Horner and is just you know a little bit lacking
Speaker 1: on the county numbers.
Speaker 2: The average is down a little bit along with the babbit.
Speaker 1: So I really feel like Nico Horner can just be
Speaker 1: himself in the second half, and you know, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a pretty good value for what people are probably
Speaker 1: willing to trade.
Speaker 2: Him for another one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can actually get him out
Speaker 1: of value, but somebody I'm fully willing to buy hi on,
Speaker 1: as you're saying, is Chase the water. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he had the injury, but ever anytime he's been healthy
Speaker 1: and in playing, he looks phenomenal. He would absolutely be
Speaker 1: in the Rookie of the Year conversation if he didn't
Speaker 1: have the injury.
Speaker 2: And then there's always like Loronald.
Speaker 1: Lacunia Junior, like go trade for a guy who was
Speaker 1: injured and see if he gets it back together.
Speaker 2: Especially if you're kind.
Speaker 1: Of hanging a little bit more midpack or low pack
Speaker 1: and you're trying to try to make a big move,
Speaker 1: sometimes the best way to do that is just take
Speaker 1: a gamble the guy and see if they can regain
Speaker 1: their form.
Speaker 2: But they've they've shown Hi, Grace, I'm so highs. Who
Speaker 2: are you trying to move?
Speaker 3: So I think, uh, you know, I said in uh
Speaker 3: Fridays by Cell, I was saying that Max Meyer probably
Speaker 3: is like one of the bigger cell Highs. I think him.
Speaker 3: You know, after his start this weekend, maybe that becomes
Speaker 3: a little bit more difficult because you know, I think
Speaker 3: he only threw like three innings and before the start,
Speaker 3: the Marlins were already saying that they were gonna start
Speaker 3: looking at capping his innings. So yeah, I mean Max
Speaker 3: Meyer might not be sellable anymore, but if you can,
Speaker 3: I think you should move on. Uh, Chase Burns looks
Speaker 3: like a big time cell. I you know also said, uh,
Speaker 3: Zach Nido was Neto was uh you know, probably like
Speaker 3: striking out way too much for you know, his his
Speaker 3: strikeouts are way too high for what the for the
Speaker 3: player he is. Uh? So I you know, I I
Speaker 3: think probably those are some names. Oh Altuve, I also
Speaker 3: had him as a cell. I think he actually homered
Speaker 3: today on Sunday. So if you can use that to
Speaker 3: sell him, I would do it. Because Altuve does not
Speaker 3: look good anymore. He's no, he's no longer the player
Speaker 3: that he once was. So yeah, yeah, I think those
Speaker 3: are some names for you.
Speaker 2: That's that's exactly what they argue. Those are some names
Speaker 2: for us. I appreciate that so.
Speaker 3: High for me.
Speaker 1: I know you said under Goodman earlier. I'm actually gonna say,
Speaker 1: anybody who primarily plays catcher, so like a Trais Dingler,
Speaker 1: Shay Goodman, they get some time outside of catcher, but
Speaker 1: they primarily play catcher, I would potentially look at moving
Speaker 1: them again. Just the full grind of a season at
Speaker 1: catcher can be difficult, and I think you can get
Speaker 1: a lot of good value out of them. Riley Green
Speaker 1: high Babbit's He's a good player.
Speaker 2: There's there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: I just think the numbers are a little high for him,
Speaker 1: and Detroit may just give up at some point because
Speaker 1: they're terrible, and they may just start shipping out everybody
Speaker 1: who's not young from their team. So there's a chance
Speaker 1: that like one of his best you know stats for
Speaker 1: you county numbers may drop dramatically if the team just
Speaker 1: kind of gives up on him. And then I'm also
Speaker 1: gonna throw Atto Lopez in here. He's had a great season,
Speaker 1: you know, everything is looking good for him, and a
Speaker 1: little bit of bias and then.
Speaker 2: I just traded him away.
Speaker 1: But three seventy babbit on a three thirty five average
Speaker 1: feels lucky, even if this is a breakout, which if
Speaker 1: to some extent feels like there's a small breakout.
Speaker 2: He's definitely swinging a little bit, a little bit harder, hitting.
Speaker 1: The ball a little bit harder, But three point thirty
Speaker 1: five feels excessive, and I don't necessarily see him going like,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen twenty in the second half. So the
Speaker 1: upside's a little limited to in my opinion, and of
Speaker 1: course Paul Goldman just to throw in an old person,
Speaker 1: I have to bury an old person in any of
Speaker 1: these lists. Gray Paul Goldschman is been beyond lucky. He's
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: He's seen it two fifty five or fifty home runs.
Speaker 1: It's not great to begin with, but if anybody in
Speaker 1: the league values him, I.
Speaker 2: Would definitely move on.
Speaker 1: He's not hitting the ball hard, he's getting incredibly lucky.
Speaker 1: Just take whatever value you can get for any bold predictions.
Speaker 1: Great for the second half. You want to throw ound here?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, sure, you know. I love me some dominant
Speaker 3: can zone. You know, like you look at Dominic I'm
Speaker 3: surprised actually more people aren't looking at Dominic canzone because
Speaker 3: I you look at stackcash, you look at like the
Speaker 3: top exit velosies, the guys who hit like the best
Speaker 3: barrels per played appearance of the guys who are the
Speaker 3: guys who are just making the best contact, and you
Speaker 3: have like 're it on James Wood, Aaron Judge, Mike Trout,
Speaker 3: Dominic canzone like that. It's like that, that's across like
Speaker 3: so many different like quote unquote good hitter stats. So
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like Dominic Canzone's gonna h etch
Speaker 3: his name and like, uh, you know people's minds for fantasy,
Speaker 3: where like he's gonna he's gonna have that breakout second
Speaker 3: half that has been promised Canzone. I, I obviously need
Speaker 3: to have like one excite I have to be excited
Speaker 3: about one Italian for some reason, Jake cagleone. I'll be
Speaker 3: excited about two Italians now, I'll leave cagleone for you.
Speaker 3: I you know. I also I feel like for the
Speaker 3: second half, another guy who is really was stunning how
Speaker 3: good he hits the ball was Jonathan Aaronauta. I don't
Speaker 3: know because he doesn't steal at all, like literally zero speed,
Speaker 3: So I don't know how much Aaronauto Aaronatta is going
Speaker 3: to be able to for fantasy, really be able to
Speaker 3: break out because of the lack of speed, which is
Speaker 3: a shame, because like he does have good power and
Speaker 3: he's like neutrally a two eighty hitter, so neutrallly like
Speaker 3: a twenty five home er two eighty hitter, which is
Speaker 3: really I mean it's I feel like Jonathan Arenada is
Speaker 3: probably pound for pound, one of the top hitting first basemen,
Speaker 3: unfortunately not one of the top fantasy first basemen because
Speaker 3: of the no steals thing, but I mean he does
Speaker 3: he does hit the ball really well. And then finally,
Speaker 3: I'll say Francisco Alvarez. I know I've been beating this
Speaker 3: trump for a while now, but I do think he
Speaker 3: potentially could have a top like three to five catcher
Speaker 3: second half with his power. I think he could legitimately
Speaker 3: hit fifteen to twenty homers in the second half as
Speaker 3: a catcher. So I like Francisco Alvarez a lot as
Speaker 3: long as he stays on the field, which you know,
Speaker 3: the Mets in his track record, not necessarily gonna happen,
Speaker 3: uh for sure, but I think he's got good potential.
Speaker 3: So Francisco Alvarez, Jonathan are Aranda, and Dominic Can Zone.
Speaker 2: You got it right the last time Gray you stopped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. I appreciate you acknowledging my correction in
Speaker 3: in in the in the right at the end there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like all those calls.
Speaker 1: Great, Uh can Zone can if anybody can Canzone can?
Speaker 2: He does hit the ball just incredibly hard.
Speaker 1: Aronda, we could we could just rewind back the preseason
Speaker 1: and playing back. But I told you about him, and
Speaker 1: that's pretty much what you just told everybody again. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, I like these guys that you have here.
Speaker 1: Jack Caggs in the second half, He's gonna become who
Speaker 1: we thought he was. He absolutely destroys ball. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about can Zone and Mironda. Uh Paglion is
Speaker 1: actually above those guys, like he is absolutely destroying baseballs.
Speaker 1: Just needs to stay healthy and it's starting the show,
Speaker 1: which why. I don't know if you can necessarily get
Speaker 1: him for any kind of discount, but I think even
Speaker 1: paying kind of full price is worth it. Samuel Bassalo
Speaker 1: also on that hard hitting group. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the average is gonna come around this season, but he
Speaker 1: is absolutely destroying the ball. But I could see a
Speaker 1: little breakout coming as there's no reason he shouldn't be
Speaker 1: playing every day for Baltimore.
Speaker 2: And on the pitching side, I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on a little bit edge here and
Speaker 1: say that all three of the Texas Rangers top arms
Speaker 1: are gonna finish his top twenty pitchers in the second half.
Speaker 1: Gray So that is, of course, Jacob de Gram, Athany Evoldi,
Speaker 1: and Mackenzie Gore. They have all three been great this
Speaker 1: season and all three been a bit unlucky.
Speaker 2: So with a little bit of turnaround Kenzie Gore.
Speaker 1: Especially on the home run sid actually all of them
Speaker 1: kind of on the home run side, I think I
Speaker 1: think they could all be really phenomenal for the second half.
Speaker 1: So looking at those guys to have a nice bounce back.
Speaker 1: Let's segn off it upgrade. Not a whole lot this week,
Speaker 1: as we didn't have a lot of games, but let's
Speaker 1: talk about a few places. There might be some stuff
Speaker 1: over in my Cubs bullpen. Trent Thornton and Jacob Webb.
Speaker 1: We talked about this last week. Do you have any
Speaker 1: feelings one way or the other?
Speaker 3: No, but I'll say Jacob web Okay.
Speaker 2: We're in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Mason Montgomery, Greg Grisoto, maybe Johann Ramirez.
Speaker 2: Any feeling here.
Speaker 3: I would like Mason Montgomery, but I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's more that I want Mason Montgomery. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he's necessarily gonna get this I think unfortunately. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Pirates are just such a disaster when it comes
Speaker 3: to actually going out and trading for players. I wish
Speaker 3: they would get erall this or or somebody in there,
Speaker 3: But I don't know if they are. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they're gonna do it, so i'd say I guess
Speaker 3: Mason Montgomery, but no faith in that. Potentially I guess
Speaker 3: greg Risoto potentially could get the job back. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a mess. I mean, they're they're bleeding. Their bullpen
Speaker 3: is just so bad. Unfortunately, it's just like because I mean,
Speaker 3: the offense is good, the starting pitching is good. To
Speaker 3: actually a second half bold prediction, Jared Jones breaks out
Speaker 3: and becomes the pitcher we thought he would be. Uh,
Speaker 3: so there's a bonus one. But the pirates pen is
Speaker 3: just so bad. Anyway, I guess Masonntgomery.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then in Baltimore Gray, anybody you liked in
Speaker 1: this bullpeddon, No.
Speaker 3: I would say kit Rich or Wells, I guess, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't really like them, but I mean someone's got
Speaker 3: to get saved. I guess kit Rich, I kitt Rich
Speaker 3: or Wells. I don't know if I have one really
Speaker 3: that much more than another. I think I guess Tyler
Speaker 3: Wells maybe sixty forty over kit Rich, but pretty close.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if it's one way or the
Speaker 1: other necessarily for me either, I feel like it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit of a flip of a coin on
Speaker 1: who gets the ninth in any given day.
Speaker 2: Why don't you give the people some way of war
Speaker 2: bats Gray.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, Well, there hasn't been that many games, so
Speaker 3: it's hard to say too many guys are actually hot,
Speaker 3: but I'll do my best. Andres Andre Shapiro Chaparo, Schaparo.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm saying that correctly. He's been hot, even
Speaker 3: though I kind of just want Curtis me to to
Speaker 3: play every day. But yeah, Schapiro has been hot. Griffin
Speaker 3: Conine NEPO baby Griffin Conine has been hot in Miami.
Speaker 3: Lane Thomas been hot for the Royals. Brandon Montgomery finally
Speaker 3: starting to click for the White Sox. Jose Trevino hit
Speaker 3: two homers the other day. I guess that's hot. Tyler
Speaker 3: Stevenson hit two homers today. I guess that's hot.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Actually they were both in cores, so you know what,
Speaker 3: forget them. Stephen Kwan's been hot. Leodi Tavaris has been hot,
Speaker 3: Joey Ortiz, Nick Gonzalez, ty France, Jock Peterson, Henry Davis,
Speaker 3: Cole Young, Oh, Cole Young's actually Cole Young has been
Speaker 3: very hot. I would grab him, uh, and Harry Ford
Speaker 3: new Nationals. I guess we could have talked about him. Actually,
Speaker 3: the Nationals called up Harry Ford and he's been you
Speaker 3: know a little bit hot. I guess, uh, he's probably
Speaker 3: playing behind k Bert Ruiz though, so you know, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't go too crazy about picking them up. And then
Speaker 3: finally I'll say Tim Tawah has been hot. I'm saying
Speaker 3: that name correctly as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, Gray, I think you're pretty close
Speaker 1: on all those names for sure.
Speaker 2: For no questions need to be asked about those.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to some streaming options. Gray, there's actually
Speaker 1: a decent amount of options this week. Although I will
Speaker 1: say mid July, post All Star Break, it seems like
Speaker 1: they've also thrown the bouncy balls back in so stream
Speaker 1: at your own peril at this time of year, if
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm being completely honest, but I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you the names anyways, Brandon fat at Saint Louis, Brady
Speaker 1: Singer at Seattle, Grant Holmes at Baltimore. That's about the
Speaker 1: three names that I trust on this list. By the way,
Speaker 1: Brandon sprote versus the Mats, Ryan Johnson at San Francisco,
Speaker 1: Lander Ralph at Kansas City, Rinaldo Lopez versus the Padres,
Speaker 1: Colin Ree versus the Tigers, Eric Fetti at Texas, Meryl
Speaker 1: Kelly versus the Athletics, Anthony k at Texas, Kyler Maylee
Speaker 1: at Kansas City, Slade Sisoni at the Twins in Javier
Speaker 1: asad versus Detroit. Maybe getting a two start week at Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: just depending on how the rotation shakes out there.
Speaker 2: But there are some options for you on the streaming side.
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Speaker 1: start great, start gaining on your standings. Till next week,
Speaker 1: I will talk to you later.
Speaker 3: See you, lates,