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Speaker 2: But that's why Bubba and myself are here to take

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Speaker 1: Bubba, how are you doing on this fine Monday.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great. It's always a pleasure as usual talking

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Speaker 3: baseball with you and keep going. With three weeks left

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're down to the final I guess

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Speaker 2: are gonna start with the headlines and we're gonna keep

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Speaker 2: it the way we usually do here, but we're gonna

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Speaker 2: start off with some rather tough news, and it's justin

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Speaker 2: Verlander just getting destroyed again. Eight earned runs over three

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Speaker 2: innings against the Diamondbacks, a couple of home runs, he

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Speaker 2: allowed eight hits, did not record a strikeout. What we've

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Speaker 2: seen from him in fourteen games this season has been awful.

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Speaker 2: A five thirty ERA, a one thirty eight whip, the

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Speaker 2: worst strikeout and walk rates that he's had in ten years.

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Speaker 2: Is Verlander finished?

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Speaker 1: Bubba?

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Speaker 2: Is there any hope that he can kind of come

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Speaker 2: or is it just kinda he's going to go out

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Speaker 1: Is going to end.

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Speaker 3: I think this is kind of where we're headed. He

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Speaker 3: We saw this last year before he got hurt. Things

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Speaker 3: are slowing down. He's still was serviceable, still could get

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Speaker 3: strikeouts from time to time, but he's now a pitcher,

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Speaker 3: not a thrower, like and he still was a picture before,

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Speaker 3: but you know what I mean, when you're still pumping

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Speaker 3: high nineties and the seventh or eighth in and that's

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Speaker 3: a thrower a lot of the time. But Vernon is

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Speaker 3: just getting old. Father Time is undefeated in these situations,

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Speaker 3: and it's a shame because he is one of the

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Speaker 3: best pictures of most of our generations. Like he's very,

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Speaker 3: very good, and he's up there in the probably i'll

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Speaker 3: say top ten, potentially top five, depend on who you are,

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Speaker 3: but I think this is about the end of it.

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Speaker 3: I wanted nothing to do with him when he's coming

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Speaker 3: off the IL. I rooted for him, but it's like

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Speaker 3: I'm going to pass on this one and I see

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Speaker 3: where it goes. I'm quietly, sadly not surprised by what's

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Speaker 3: to be the guy that put him to his grave, No,

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Speaker 3: but I thought something like this could happen.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy, Pavid Smith will want much of him later,

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Speaker 2: just like one of the games of the season for anybody.

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Speaker 2: But Verlander, I don't know what to expect from him

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Speaker 1: He is as older.

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Speaker 3: Than he's older than me. That's just a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: That is pretty old. I'm just playing with you.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know if we can really trust him

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Speaker 2: going to his age forty two season. He is a

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Speaker 2: see myself drafting Verlander unless we're talking about if he

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Speaker 2: that name value alone, I feel like he won't fall

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Speaker 2: Any chance you have any interest in Verlander at a

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Speaker 1: Just a full fade.

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Speaker 3: post too fifty, like one of your last round picks,

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Speaker 3: I'll be out on the Verlanders show.

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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the end.

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Speaker 2: And of course, like you mentioned, he's one of the

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Speaker 1: He's going to the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Its just it's sad to see it kind of go

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Speaker 2: sy Young like a David Ortiz type of sendoff a year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why I figured that would be what

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Speaker 2: going to get that. He's kind of just stuck around

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Speaker 2: for a little bit too long at this point. Forty

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Speaker 2: to be a major league player at forty two. Jamie Moyer,

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Speaker 2: he's not coming back through that door anytime soon. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about Julio Rodriguez six hits over the weekend in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. That's a three to fifteen

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Speaker 2: batting average, three home runs, three stolen bases. It obviously

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Speaker 2: hasn't been great. It's been a pretty miserable season as

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Speaker 2: there's a chance he goes twenty two? Funny, in a

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Speaker 2: miserable season, we know that he can go thirty thirty,

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Speaker 3: Next year, Uh, yeah, wouldn't shocked me. He went thirteenth

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Speaker 3: Never hurts to have a strong finish to the season

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Speaker 3: strong finish from Julio will remind people of how talented

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Speaker 3: he really is. I think he might have been hurt

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Speaker 3: quite a bit this season, more than let on because

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Speaker 3: But the finish is strong, so I think he'll find

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Speaker 2: The power hasn't really I mean, fourteen home runs the

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Speaker 2: just how bad the team has been around him. Forty

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Speaker 2: nine REBI, sixty runs scored. Yes, part of that is

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Speaker 2: that definitely has not helped things out. I feel like,

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Speaker 2: we know that he's capable of giving you a top

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Speaker 2: I could see him getting there on a consistent basis.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk Jack Flaherty dominant outing, which has kind of become.

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Speaker 1: What we've been used to this season.

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Speaker 2: Seven and the third shutout ball with six strikeouts against

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Speaker 2: a whole. I mean, Jack Flarerty has done some amazing things,

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Speaker 2: about Jack Flarerty in the preseason. A two eighty six

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Speaker 2: it's second in Sierra. I don't know what to do

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Speaker 2: good years from Flarity out of like seven. Are you

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Speaker 3: You think? I think as an SP two potentially. I'm

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Speaker 3: injury history, like there's no denying that, and even the

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Speaker 3: there are some of those lingering concerns. We've seen him

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Speaker 3: We've also seen the opposite side of that spectrum, which

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Speaker 3: free agent where's he gonna land? That's a big piece

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Speaker 3: I'd like SP three. He won't be there as an

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Speaker 3: then he is worthy of an SP two. It's just

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Speaker 3: there is a lot of risk with one of your

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Speaker 2: Yeah, location is gonna be big. If he goes back

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Speaker 3: I'd hate it. I'd hate it, so yeah, go for it.

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Speaker 1: That was a Giants fan.

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Speaker 2: If you guys, we're aware, but that statement probably does

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Speaker 2: make you aware of it. I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 2: him where he's probably gonna be going, which is top fifty,

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Speaker 2: Bubba and I, we're gonna probably do how many teams

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Speaker 3: Twenty, it's like twenty's gonna go with that To keep

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Speaker 3: It's just the consistency he brings. You mentioned three straight years.

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Speaker 3: This is the problem with him is the talent is undeniable,

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Speaker 2: I'll always be interested in Edward Cabrera because he's just

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like Tyler McGill. I just I don't

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Speaker 3: I'm very interested. I know I in DC's I took

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Speaker 2: Maybe that price falls pretty far. Maybe we'd hear he's

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Speaker 2: just wait for next year.

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Speaker 3: On I'm probably waiting un till next year. I've brought

436
00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,600
Speaker 3: him up in fab from time to time in deep leagues,

437
00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,879
Speaker 3: like you're saying, there are a lot of middle infield

438
00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,760
Speaker 3: options that have popped up over the last month or

439
00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,560
Speaker 3: so that kind of, you know, go over the top

440
00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,640
Speaker 3: of Sweeney. But the skills are there. Hit a couple

441
00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,560
Speaker 3: of home runs over the last week, so that's good

442
00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,760
Speaker 3: to see, but the consistency, like you mentioned, has not

443
00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,440
Speaker 3: been there. So I'm probably more excited about Sweeney for

444
00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,199
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, But depending on your format, he is

445
00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:33,560
Speaker 3: going to be viable most likely.

446
00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:36,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so as well. I kind of undersold

447
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,480
Speaker 2: the Tigers return there. I just think I compared it

448
00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,840
Speaker 2: directly with like the Kakuchi package, and it didn't seem

449
00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,359
Speaker 2: like they really got enough back considering how good Flairty

450
00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,720
Speaker 2: had been. But it looks like they could have a

451
00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,040
Speaker 2: couple of decent pieces here, with Sweeney being among them.

452
00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,480
Speaker 2: Connor Norby's another guy I want to talk about in

453
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,240
Speaker 2: the rookie Lokie. I think he's been more valuable over

454
00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,399
Speaker 2: about twenty games than Trevor Rodgers was for the entire season.

455
00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,639
Speaker 2: He had three home runs drove in sevengainst the Phillies

456
00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,160
Speaker 2: over the weekend. As a Marlin, he has one thousand,

457
00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,840
Speaker 2: forty three ops six home runs in eighteen games. There

458
00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,760
Speaker 2: are some numbers, however, below the surface that aren't really

459
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,840
Speaker 2: that great. Average hes of velocity eighty six miles an hour,

460
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,520
Speaker 2: thirty eight percent hard hit rate. He's striking out thirty

461
00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,560
Speaker 2: percent of the time, but he's got a fourteen percent

462
00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,120
Speaker 2: barrel rate. There are things that I like, but it's

463
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,000
Speaker 2: kind of a mixed package in terms of the analysis

464
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,239
Speaker 2: because it's a bad park, it's a bad team. But

465
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Speaker 2: he's looked really, really good. What's your interest level in

466
00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,080
Speaker 2: Connor Norby here for the final three weeks and also

467
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Speaker 2: again to kind of keep the theme going and you're

468
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Speaker 2: gonna have any interest heading into twenty twenty five.

469
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Speaker 3: For the final three weeks. I want him everywhere I can.

470
00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 3: Very excited about what we're seeing from him. Young player

471
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,840
Speaker 3: getting some run and he seems to get better. Even

472
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Speaker 3: had a slump at one point and we've seen a

473
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Speaker 3: breakout of that. He's got a seven game hitting streak

474
00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:51,040
Speaker 3: starting off Monday here, So that's pretty promising. So I

475
00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:52,879
Speaker 3: am loving that, and in twenty twenty five I want

476
00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,040
Speaker 3: him a lot. You know you're gonna join me later

477
00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:56,760
Speaker 3: today on bench with Bubba to kind of talk about

478
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Speaker 3: the early twenty twenty five draft, and Norby wasn't picked ours.

479
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 3: Actually thinking over the weekend seeing his stat line that

480
00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,920
Speaker 3: I'm like, Norby might be one of my top options

481
00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,200
Speaker 3: coming back in the twelfth round and we kick things

482
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Speaker 3: off because I need a second basement, and the fact

483
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,960
Speaker 3: he'll be second base third base, well next year he

484
00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,119
Speaker 3: might be third base only in NBC. Let's keep in

485
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Speaker 3: mind in that, but for the rest of the season

486
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Speaker 3: here second base, third base. I love Connor Norby, and

487
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,159
Speaker 3: this is the guy I'm very excited about going to

488
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Speaker 3: the next season.

489
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Speaker 2: Something else to keep in mind is that for this

490
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,800
Speaker 2: week they're facing a bunch of lefties and he destroys

491
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,320
Speaker 2: left handed pitching. So if you're looking even for just

492
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,320
Speaker 2: a short term hitting stream, Connor Norby is one of

493
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,960
Speaker 2: the top options that you can find still available in

494
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Speaker 2: a lot of leagues too. Just taking a look at Yahoo,

495
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Speaker 2: Norby is on what are we.

496
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Speaker 1: Talking about here?

497
00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,800
Speaker 2: Fifty six percent a roster, so bit of a toss up,

498
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,800
Speaker 2: but you'll probably probably confined him if it's a bit

499
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,840
Speaker 2: of a shallower format, and I think he is worth

500
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Speaker 2: starting in a lot of cases. Let's go to the

501
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 2: three up and three down. Pevin Smith we mentioned earlier

502
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,119
Speaker 2: one of the games of the season, three home runs,

503
00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,359
Speaker 2: eight driven in. If you played him in DFS, or

504
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 2: if you happen to say, okay, let's just stream Paven

505
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 2: Smith today, what's the worst that can happen? You did

506
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,640
Speaker 2: very well for yourself. A funny thing that I also

507
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,720
Speaker 2: learned yesterday just going through fangrafts. Of anybody who has

508
00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 2: thrown a pitch this year, Peven Smith has the best stuff.

509
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,680
Speaker 2: Plus at two h six it's because of the obscure

510
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,119
Speaker 2: nature of the delivery or something. I'm sure it was

511
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,199
Speaker 2: one inning, but yeah, the two way player coming out

512
00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,719
Speaker 2: of nowhere is Peven Smith out there in Arizona, stinking

513
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 2: in Arizona. Janio Suarez four for five with a home run,

514
00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,959
Speaker 2: four run scored, a couple driven in. He's been incredible,

515
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 2: Like he has gotten to the point where he's like

516
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 2: a top ninety or eighty player overall for the season.

517
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 2: After he did essentially nothing for the first half. He's

518
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 2: just been on fire. And then Jared Jones seven innings

519
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,959
Speaker 2: of two run ball with nine strikeouts against Washington. He

520
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 2: looked very very good yesterday, Bubba. Among this group, Peven Smith, Suarez,

521
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Speaker 2: Jared Jones. Any major thoughts rest of season here on

522
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Speaker 2: this group.

523
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Speaker 3: It's Aojuno Swarz for me, like I had him dead

524
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Speaker 3: to rise. I know I was on a loan at

525
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,320
Speaker 3: one point. I'm like Jordan Lawler is about to get

526
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Speaker 3: called up Cannae dfaid, he's been that bad. And then

527
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 3: Lawler gets hurt yet again, and then Aohanio finds the

528
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 3: fountain of youth and we thought, okay, it's a couple

529
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 3: of weeks. It hasn't stopped. Like the dude just mashing everywhere.

530
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,399
Speaker 3: And I'm very thankful I grabbed a couple of shares

531
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Speaker 3: when I could, because it's been beautiful thing to see.

532
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:13,400
Speaker 1: Man.

533
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 2: I wish I did, I wish I did. He has

534
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 2: been I mean, the term league winner is thrown around

535
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 2: a lot. But if you saw Suarez sitting on your

536
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 2: waiver wire and you picked him up right when this

537
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 2: was getting going, there's a good chance you're looking pretty good.

538
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 2: Right now, and you're still listening to the show because

539
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 2: you are still in the hunt. I'm going to the

540
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,040
Speaker 2: three down Caden Dana Angels, rookie pitcher, not good stuff,

541
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Speaker 2: five earned runs and seven hits over one inning, Miles Michaelis.

542
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 2: If you thought about streaming him in against the weak

543
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners, your season could be over because of it.

544
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 2: Two innings, six run ball with nine hits aloud. He

545
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 2: did strike out three for all the good it did you,

546
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 2: but not good stuff for Michaelis. And then finally Noelvi

547
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 2: Marte over four with three strikeouts.

548
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: Buba.

549
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Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of Neelvi Marte, but

550
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Speaker 2: coming off the ped suspension, he's hitting a buck ninety nine,

551
00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 2: four homer, six tolen bases. Are we He's starting to

552
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 2: think that maybe there was some impact of the peds

553
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,160
Speaker 2: that now he's feeling without it. I mean, I don't

554
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 2: want to read too much into it, because he was

555
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 2: such a great prospect from such a young age. I

556
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 2: don't think that he was juicing in high school necessarily,

557
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 2: But what's the impact there and what does it mean

558
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 2: towards your future evaluation of Marte?

559
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: It?

560
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's not as shiny of a toy as

561
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 2: he would have been about a year ago. But are

562
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: we out on him at this point?

563
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be a very intriguing value

564
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,479
Speaker 3: next season because I think a lot of people are

565
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 3: going to be out on him. I'm going to kind

566
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 3: of chalk this one up to a lost season between

567
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 3: the suspension and everything else. He's young. I don't think

568
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 3: the talent just disappeared.

569
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 1: Now.

570
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 3: Could it have been steroid involved potentially, Like that's definitely

571
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 3: an option. But I still think he's a pretty darn

572
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 3: good ball player. So I think I'm willing to chalk

573
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 3: this one up to it just a lot going on

574
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 3: in a young man's head for this season and take

575
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Speaker 3: the value of it in twenty twenty five.

576
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Speaker 1: I think you're probably right.

577
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, the price is going to be so cheap, especially

578
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 2: in the casual home league's ESPN YABU leagues. He might

579
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Speaker 2: not get drafted a lot of the time last couples.

580
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 2: I don't mind taking a chance on him in that ballpark,

581
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 2: a year older, et cetera, et cetera. The things could

582
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: turn around for him, But man, has it been ugly

583
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 2: rest of season? Is there any need to roster gonna

584
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 2: you think.

585
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 3: No, No, I dropped him in a lot of places already,

586
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 3: so I think I think you can wait for twenty

587
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: twenty five when it comes to Newell of you more two.

588
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 1: That's totally fair.

589
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the injury updates. Finally, finally, Kyle

590
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,919
Speaker 2: Tucker made his return to the Astros lineup after three

591
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 2: months plus being out. I think it was I think

592
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 2: it ended up being more than three months. It was

593
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: like one hundred plus days he missed. He was daching

594
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 2: both games over the weekend. Not much to do here

595
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 2: other than put him back into your lineups and hope

596
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 2: that he can kind of make up for lost time.

597
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 2: Not gonna happen all the way, but hopefully he can

598
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 2: hit a few home runs and steal a few bases

599
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: down the stretch for you. Luis Castillo had to leave

600
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 2: his start early on Sunday due to a hamstring injury.

601
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 2: He's gonna undergo some testing today, Bubba. What's your early

602
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 2: concern level here for Luis Castillo? Is he going into

603
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 2: weekly lineups for you?

604
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 3: I think he's going to the IL. That's my weekly

605
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 3: concerned So I think it season's done, essentially, if it

606
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 3: comes to fantasy and they're just doing the imaging to

607
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 3: make sure that it's that kind of situation. But leaving

608
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 3: a game hamstring pitcher. We've seen this all season long.

609
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 3: It's at least a minimum fifteen days.

610
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and at that point, I mean fifteen days from

611
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 2: now is the twenty fourth of September, season ends on the.

612
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 3: Till last week in the season ninth, Yeah, it's over.

613
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 2: May at one start. But I mean, yeah, the Mariners,

614
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 2: I mean, they're essentially toast at this point. I don't

615
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 2: think there's really much of a chance for them. Certainly

616
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 2: the division. I think that is pretty much done.

617
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: What is it.

618
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: They're four and a half back in the wild card

619
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 2: they're three and a half, so maybe not fully done,

620
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 2: but this is definitely a fatal blow for them if

621
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 2: they have to lose a steal for too long. Although

622
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 2: pitching is a strength for them, but I don't think

623
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 2: this is going to bow too well going forward for

624
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 2: the Mariners to alscar Hernandez avoided a serious injury after

625
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: taking Matt Boyd slider off his foot on Friday. All

626
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 2: scans came back negative, so that is a positive. I

627
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 2: saw a couple of questions about him in the chat

628
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 2: looks like he's going to be okay. Maybe we get

629
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 2: a day off or two, but avoided anything too serious.

630
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 2: There something interesting, and we hadn't really mentioned him on

631
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 2: this show, but Trevor Story. He came off of the

632
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 2: IL over the weekend. He went two for seven in

633
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 2: this first couple of games back. What's your interest level

634
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 2: with Trevor storre you seeing him on the waiver wire?

635
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:16,479
Speaker 2: Are you picking him up?

636
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 3: Very interested? I talked about him with bubb Or Bloom,

637
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 3: Bubble and Bloom last week and he was playing really

638
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 3: well in rehab. Supposed to come back Friday or Saturday

639
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 3: and Max Saturday. It looks good. I'd be very, very

640
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 3: intrigued to going forward the rest of the season.

641
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 2: I wonder if we'll ever see Story get back to

642
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: old Colorado Trevor Story. I kind of doubt it, but

643
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean he can't have value in a top

644
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 2: five lineup in a real hitters park. Could be a

645
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: really interesting piece there for you if you are looking

646
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 2: for is he just second base eligible at this point

647
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 2: or is he shortstop eligible? In a lot of cases,

648
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: I think he just shortstop on Yahoo, but he did

649
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 2: have second base for a while didn't.

650
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 3: He Yeah, I think it's shortstop. Maybe I know he's

651
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Speaker 3: playing shortstop when he came back. Right now, they've moved

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Speaker 3: us Den Raphael at a second so it should be

653
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Speaker 3: should be shortstop for sure, Maybe a little second base,

654
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Speaker 3: depending on your formats.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it was when they had Maybe it was

656
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Speaker 2: when Bogarts was there, he had second base eligibility or

657
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 2: something like that.

658
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Speaker 1: Maybe him just I'm just caught in a different year

659
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Speaker 1: at this point.

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Speaker 3: Let's shortstop. If he shortstopped only on Yaho, it' pretty

661
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 3: much where he's going to be everywhere else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, Yeah, that's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Who all you gotta do is, you know, fall over

665
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 2: second base and they'll give you second base eligibility. Jeff

666
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 2: McNeil is going to miss the remainder of the season.

667
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Speaker 2: We talked about this last week, everybody getting hit by

668
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Speaker 2: pitches and injuries coming all over the place. Jeff McNeil

669
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Speaker 2: fractured rist, so he is done for the season. It's

670
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 2: a shame because he'd actually really turned his year around

671
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: in the second half. He's been a nice play for

672
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 2: deeper leagues, but not looking great for him at this point. Obviously,

673
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Speaker 2: he's he's done for the year. Gavin Stone also went

674
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Speaker 2: on the IL. He was scratch from his start that

675
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 2: was supposed to happen over the weekend with shoulder inflammation.

676
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Speaker 2: Not good, Bubba. I guess Gavin Stone is probably in

677
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Speaker 2: the same boat as Luis Castillo here, likely done for

678
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Speaker 2: the year.

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Speaker 3: Yep, you can move on from Gavin Stone. That's for

680
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Speaker 3: darn sure.

681
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 2: Just looking at the Dodgers IL rotation is actually insane

682
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: because all the jokes are usually like, okay, you could

683
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: make you can make a rotation out of who they

684
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: got on the IL. You could make two rotations out

685
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 2: of who they have on the IL glass Now, Gonsolin Kershot,

686
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: May River, Ryan Emmett, Shean, Gavin Stone, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto

687
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Speaker 2: are all on the injury list.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know is.

689
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Speaker 2: There anything I mean, people have talked about how the

690
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 2: Dodgers can be a little reckless maybe or something, and

691
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: they cause these pitching injuries. I haven't dug into that

692
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: at all. Is there any truth to that that the

693
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: Dodgers maybe caused some of these injuries or is that

694
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 2: just nonsense?

695
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: You think?

696
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 3: I know, Yamamoto coming over from Japan, Kershaw's old glass

697
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 3: now from Tampa. There are a lot of those guys

698
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Speaker 3: that are from their system, though, the Stones, the Sheans,

699
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: the Ryan's like, there's something there, so I don't. There's

700
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Speaker 3: probably a little bit yes, a little bit of no.

701
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to go full accusatory. I think the

702
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 3: Rays are more to blame for their issues than the

703
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 3: Dodgers aren't for theirs. But there is something to team

704
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 3: contact with certain injuries, for sure.

705
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Speaker 1: Something I want to dig into.

706
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: But in the off season too is usage, not in

707
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: game usage, but how teams prepare. I think this is

708
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 2: like an EEno question probably, but like the behind the

709
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: scenes strain that goes into pitching development our team, like

710
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: in terms of how many pitches guys throwing warm ups,

711
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 2: how many pitches they throw on off days. I feel

712
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: like Eno, there's probably an article out there or something,

713
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,479
Speaker 2: but it's not just the end game stuff that impacts

714
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 2: a pitcher. Obviously, that's the thing that gets the most

715
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 2: pressed and we see it, but that's a hundred pitches.

716
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Speaker 2: The guy's throwing tons of pitches throughout the week, and

717
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Speaker 2: I wonder how much the actual training part of it

718
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 2: actually impacts what.

719
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:38,719
Speaker 1: Happens to pitchers. I don't know.

720
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: Again, that's probably a question for Eno or somebody a

721
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 2: lot smarter than us, But something I want to dig

722
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 2: into over the course of the off season a little bit,

723
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 2: a couple of more pitchers, and then we'll move on.

724
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 2: Max Scherzer had a great rehab outing. It was for

725
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: scoreless inning, striking out eight. There was some talking with

726
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 2: pulled with a perfect game or something like that. I

727
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 2: saw this tweet go out, and it's like, I don't

728
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: think Max Shuzer gives a crap. If he throws a

729
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: perfect game in the minors, it would be a footnote

730
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 2: on his resume at best. He could return this week

731
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Speaker 2: for Texas. At this point, I guess Suresia's going into

732
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: our lineups right when he comes back, because we don't

733
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 2: have a lot of time. But is he though, Like,

734
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Speaker 2: are you at all concerned about starting Scherzer in his

735
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Speaker 2: first first time back.

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Speaker 1: On the mountain.

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Speaker 3: Nope. If he's good to go, I'm good to go.

738
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Speaker 3: He could reaggravate it in one pitch. I'm not naive

739
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 3: to that. But if he's good enough to pitch, I'm

740
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 3: good enough to take the results he's gonna bring with it.

741
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 3: So Scherzer will go right back in the lineup.

742
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Speaker 2: For me, I think I agree, And the same thing

743
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 2: can be sad about Jacob deGrom, who we mentioned last week.

744
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: Looks like his season debut is coming at some point

745
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 2: this week. The Rangers have Arizona and Seattle. I think,

746
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 2: based on everything, we would all prefer that comes against

747
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: Seattle because Arizona has been a great offense. But I mean,

748
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: it's Jacob Degram, right, if he's facing the twenty seven Yankees,

749
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: we're probably putting him in our lineups.

750
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any any case where you wouldn't

751
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 1: start Jacob Degram right.

752
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: There's there's no situation where you'd want to bench him

753
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: at all.

754
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 3: No that you'd have to have one heck of a

755
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 3: pitching staff to not need to start Jacob de Grom

756
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: at this point in the season. So yeah, the Grom

757
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 3: it is for me.

758
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: I think there's probably unless it's like like an eight

759
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: team league, like you said, you just have a loaded

760
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: staff and you don't need to take the chance, then

761
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: maybe don't. But I think in most cases here you're

762
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 2: pretty safe putting Jacob the ground back into your lineups.

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Speaker 1: Bubba, it's time where.

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Speaker 2: what do you have for us today on the betting.

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Speaker 3: Side, Well, I'm not a big fan small slate, but

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Speaker 3: we're attacking Walker Bueler. Folks. I know there's a question

771
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,959
Speaker 3: that chat to ask if we are trusting Bueler. I

772
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Speaker 3: am not. Give me peekrow armstow. I'm over half a

773
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Speaker 3: run for plus one sixty five odds. Use that one

774
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 3: last week and it paid off. It's it runs are tough,

775
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 3: but I think there's some offense to be had here.

776
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 3: And Cody Bellinger coming back to La over one and

777
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: a half total basis at plus one forty five. Would

778
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Speaker 3: I almost took Cody as my home run call the day,

779
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 3: just for fun, and then we'll stick with chicag I

780
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 3: could go with the White Sox. Take it on Cantijo

781
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 3: of Cleveland, who is horrible seven plus era. Give me

782
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 3: lubob over one and a half total basis at plus

783
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 3: one twenty five coming off a big Sunday game. So

784
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Speaker 3: I'll take those three at plus one twenty five or

785
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 3: better odds.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Bubba is the plus money man. I'm Friday.

787
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: How did you do on Friday, Bubba? I had a

788
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Speaker 1: bit of a tough Friday.

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Speaker 3: I think Friday was one and two or so. It

790
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 3: wasn't a good Friday. Swept Wednesday. Friday wasn't so great.

791
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: Wednesday. We were on fire. Friday.

792
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: I think I was one and two as well. So

793
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: we're getting back on the horse today. And that's why

794
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: I'm not going too crazy with my picks. I'm going

795
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: with some favorites and we're starting off with Paul Skins

796
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 2: Marlins strikeouts. That's I mean for me, over six and

797
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: a half for Paul Skins against the Marlins feels very

798
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 2: attainable as long as they don't pull any weird crap

799
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: and pull them after four innings or something like that.

800
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 2: I think that this is a pretty easy one minus

801
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: one sixty. The books also expected to happen. Look who's

802
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: in the chat though, Ryan Bloomfield. But but the plus

803
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: money man, he's gonna have to use that one. So

804
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: make sure we're tuning into Bubba bubb in the bloom

805
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: So we can hear Ryan use Bubba's new nickname. My

806
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: second bet Kyle Hendricks over two and a half earned runs.

807
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 2: He's facing the Dodgers, and they said it at two

808
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: and a half. I would have thought this one. When

809
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: I went to check, I was like, it's gonna be

810
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 2: a three and a half. It's going to be too high.

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Speaker 2: If Kyle Hendricks doesn't allow three and runs against the Dodgers,

812
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: then there's something wrong with the Dodgers lineup because he

813
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: is beyond cook. There's no need for Kyle Hendricks to

814
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: be pitching at this point. He is simply doing it

815
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: because the Cubs are desperate for starters. With Justin Steele

816
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: going down against the Dodgers, I think this is a

817
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 2: very easy one. And then I mentioned him before Tyler McGill,

818
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: and I mean Ryan is another in the chatt if

819
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: he's still there, another Ryan, Tyler McGill guy going back

820
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: for years.

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Speaker 1: We've been fans of his. But Vlad mcguerrero over.

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00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 2: One and a half total bases at plus money still

823
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: feels like a very good bet. Vlad has cooled off

824
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: a little bit over the last couple of weeks, and

825
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: that's only been a three thirty five batting average, so

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00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 2: I think that there's still a very good chance that

827
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Speaker 2: he is able to get a couple of bases tonight

828
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: against Tyler McGill. So just the recap, Paul Skeen's over

829
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 2: six and a half breakouts, Kyle Hendricks over two and

830
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: a half earned runs, Flat Guerrero over one and a

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Speaker 2: half bases, and for Bubba, Peter Armstrong over zero point

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Speaker 2: five runs, Luis Robert over one and a half total bases,

833
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,240
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Speaker 2: few weeks of the season, Bubba, one last thing to

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Speaker 2: do before we sign off today, and that is the

839
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Speaker 2: home run call. And I think you've already kind of

840
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: hinted at who you're gonna go with today.

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00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was almost belly bombs, but we're going with

842
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 3: lou Bob taking Cantillo deep. It's I think it's a

843
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: big day for lou Bob and the White Sox might

844
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 3: actually they've scored seven runs on Sunday. They might do

845
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 3: it for the first time. Well, I'm just guessing first

846
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 3: time all season and back to back games, it should

847
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 3: be a good game for shutdown.

848
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 2: I'm going with my most niche home run call of

849
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Speaker 2: the season here. People are gonna laugh at me, but

850
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: I'm going with Danny Jansen, and the reason is because

851
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: Danny Jansen destroys left handed pitching. It has been a

852
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: bit tough for him recently. But against k Povic, a

853
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: guy who has struggled quite a bit throw his first

854
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: go around in the big leagues. I know he destroyed

855
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: the White Sox last week, Bubba and I could probably

856
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: shut down the White Sox on a given day, So

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00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: I'm not reading too much into that Kid Povich start.

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00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: I am thinking Danny Chanson getting back in the line

859
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: up tonight is going to take one over the Green

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00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: Monster against kid Povid. So that is my home run

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00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: call for the day. Bub about any final thoughts here

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00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: before we sign off, No.

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Speaker 3: Just good luck to everybody. Saw a lot of Championship

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Speaker 3: week stuff going on in the chat. If you guys

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Speaker 3: have any questions, hit me up on Twitter. I'll try

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Speaker 3: to help you out before your locks and everything. But

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Speaker 3: other than that, no, my friend I'll actually see you

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Speaker 1: If you're not sick of us, then go check us out.

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Speaker 2: You'll find the links over Twitter at bad Entrick for Bubba,

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Speaker 2: at Joel Rico ninety nine for myself, and we'll be

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Speaker 2: back again on Wednesday. This is a full Joe and

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Speaker 2: Bubba week. Like we mentioned earlier, wels we're supposed to

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Speaker 2: be on, but football commitments week one and everything that

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Speaker 2: at you, whether it's well doing Dynasty stuff. I got

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Speaker 2: a couple ideas. I'm sure, Baba, we'll do some stuff.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff that's going to be going on,

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Speaker 2: But that will do it, guys. For Casey Bubba. I

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Speaker 2: am Joel Rico. We will see you on Wednesday. Everybody,

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