WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 19th, 2022 (Ep. 598) 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.079 Leading off starts right now on a happy Monday to 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.799 all of you peanuts and crackerjacks and everybody out here 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.120 that is still grinding some fantasy baseball into your playoffs. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.200 The final stretch of Roto, It's all on the line 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:30.880 and we are here to help you. I'm Chris Well. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.520 She could find me on Twitter at is it Welsh 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.360 and joining me today is Andrew Seifter on Twitter Andrew 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.160 underscore Sifer. What's up, buddy? How are we doing? Play? 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:39.639 All right? 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.040 We went in but like you said, grinding and out 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.440 to the end in my oldest home league, and it's 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.320 a Roto league, and I'm up by ten points in 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.800 the standings right now, which feels great, except that I 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.640 am on pace to breeze past my innings cap and 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.040 my games playing cap. So I'm just going to be 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.200 sweating out that last week of the season seeing if 0:00:58.200 --> 0:00:59.320 anybody can catch. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.360 Me, hoping that they can't do anything. Is that a 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.800 move where if you pass your innings cap, will you 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.440 still pick up starting pitchers to take them off of 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.399 the wire so your opponent cannot you know, have good options? 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.840 Yeah, I will use any tool at my disposal. You 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.720 know another thing, this is a Yahoo leak that you 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.720 can do is the day that you're gonna go over 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.560 your innings cap. You can go as far over it 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.800 as you want that day. So I will often pick 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.880 up like six starting pitchers on the final day of 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.760 my innings cap and go over in style. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.400 So gamesmanship. You're definitely gonna play gamesmanship at the end there, 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.920 whether you're picking up and taking guys out the wire 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.640 when you can't start them final day. Hey, whatever you 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.840 gotta do to win. If you're not cheating, that's not 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.120 quite cheating. You're not winning. You're not trying to win. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.240 That's what they in the rules. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.680 If you're losing. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.120 Exactly, you gotta like a fudget a little bit if 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.559 you need to Walkie says, I'm in a two week 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.160 championship matchup against a guy with no fab. I feel 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.800 like this is an advanta that I might misuse and 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.080 screw myself out of winning. There's definitely always that thing 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.600 where like you get up and then you're like should 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.440 I bench everybody? But then you start talking yourself into 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.560 like the fear of could this happen in that? And 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.760 sometimes you just have to play it out. And sometimes 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.720 the biggest advantage is a curse, at least to you mentally. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.920 But it's a grind, man, It's the fantasy baseball grind. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.280 Someone actually said to me this morning, They're like, baseball 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.000 still going on. Like, yeah, it's still going on. This 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.280 is what it's all about. This is why it is 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.919 special in so many hearts. I mean, you know, football 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.240 does own the space fantasy, but baseball is it's really 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.200 its own ecosystem and its world. It's longer, it's a 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.560 much bigger grind, and they all feel good to win. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.040 There's something about winning a baseball championship though in fantasy 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.200 that holds just that little bit of weight for how 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.600 much whether it is playoffs or roto, with how much 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.320 work that was put in on a daily grind, the 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.640 payoff is pretty good. Andrew. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.120 Absolutely, it's the hardest earned championship in sports, a fantasy 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.160 baseball championship. And you know, I have to say being 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.960 in the industry has sort of helped me in terms 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.440 of my lack of regret about mistakes, because you know, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.880 now I feel more like I want to give other 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.400 people good advice, so I don't hate myself as much 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:14.960 when I mess up my own teams. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.320 Because we will, because we will. I had a matchup 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.320 yesterday where I had de Gram and Strider going and 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.640 I still didn't win, and I still lost right at 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.679 the end because of a blow up earlier in the week. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.160 So I'm still reeling from that. But we got lots 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.400 of news and notes for you as we moved through 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.600 here getting a set for the day. And how about 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.440 Aaron Judge hit homers number fifty eight and fifty nine 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.040 is part of a four to five game with the 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.320 Yankees top the Brewers twelve to eight on Sunday, and 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.280 we are going into if I remember correctly, we are 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.480 going into the final two weeks. But this week one 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.120 homer away from sixty for Judge and then what is 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.640 it two? Because Maris is sixty one? So what are 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.320 we two homers from tying that or three homers from 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.560 breaking it? And then we're two homers away for pool Holes. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.240 This could be a big week. This has the potential 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.240 to be a really big week. I have a I 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.200 feel like the pool Holest thing is going to happen. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.320 I feel like both a sixty and the pool Holes 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:09.640 thing are both going to happen this week. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.200 Andrew, how exciting would that be. Yeah. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.480 I you know, I write the weekly Waiver Wire column 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.640 at Fantasy Pros and I actually made Albert Poohols my 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.839 number one headliner pickup of the week. And I just 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.760 love the fact that we are here in late September, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.680 in the twilight of his career and we can still 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.480 in good conscience recommend him as a must add player. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.960 Yeah, especially with theoretically we would expect him to get 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.000 all the playing time moving forward. We'll talk about a 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.800 couple year waiver any other guys you have here in 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.200 just a couple of minutes, But Aaron Judge making about 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.560 Aaron Judge just phenomenal stuff kind of hit that sixty 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.080 marker unless anything crazy happens. And you know, if the 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.680 debate will just continue on if there is a debate 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.320 as far as Judge versus Otani and all this stuff. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.240 But everyone's going to hit their markers, which I think 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.719 is going to make it the most interesting. Everything will 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.880 hit its fun marker of like Judge is. I mean, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.040 I went, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised of Judge as 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.480 sixty five by the end of this and the O 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.599 there's two more weeks. Judge is gonna be over that 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.360 sixty marker, and then you're gonna have you know, Tawny 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.000 have done what he's done, and then we'll just you know, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.120 I mean, I would say we let the the baseball 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.960 gods decide, but unfortunately we're gonna let writers decide and 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.560 we'll see how that goes, and we know how that 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.480 plays out. But Aaron Judge number fifty eight and fifty nine, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.640 and Aaron Judge, I do believe should be crowned the 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.400 home run champion even of Fantasy pros on our board, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.520 because I believe five more than the next person. It 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.320 would take a miracle for our crew to pass Aaron 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.440 Judge at this point. Pretty incredible. Speaking of incredible, Jacob 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.560 de Gram struck out thirteen was given a no decision 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.719 after allowing three runs then five plus against the Pirates. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.680 J Gram's had a little bit of that last couple 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.400 games in that like runs are starting to stack up 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.839 a tiny bit becoming a little bit more hittable, while 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.560 also not it's like that one thing that opens him up, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.640 because he's still striking out double digits at almost every 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.359 other start. But he's had a couple of these multi 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.200 run performances as he ends out the year, but you know, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.279 he's still looking elite and still looking like a theoretical 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.599 number one sp next year if anyone has the Gutsandrew. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.120 Yeah, well, you know, he just ran into the unstoppable 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.080 O'Neal Cruz, so that was his problem. But yeah, I 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.039 mean he's you know, of course, Cruz struck out in 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.560 two of his other at bats, but he did send 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.120 one over the fence against a Gram, and that's that's 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.400 kind of par for the course, right, It's, uh, ninety 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.720 percent of the time the Gram will dominate, but then 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.320 O'Neal Cruz, it just takes that one, you know, huge 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.360 exit velocity smack and it puts a dent in that era. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.159 Yeah, so this is a stat. Mayor actually tagged me 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.720 and wonkey and it's pretty incredible. This is from Kevin Gorman, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.640 pg H and the tweet was mets age. Jacob de 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.320 grom Is allowed a hit to a leadoff batter in 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.359 the first inning twice during the twenty twenty two seasons. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.400 Let me repeat that has allowed a hit to the 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.000 leadoff batter in the first inning only twice his whole season, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.800 both to Oneal Cruz. ONeill singled to lead off the 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.600 second game of a double hitter on September seventh at 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.120 P and C and doubled today which was yesterday in 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.560 the leadoff spot in city field with a one hundred 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.200 and eleven EV. So just a fun ONEO Cruise Jacob 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.880 de Grom combination, as you were kind of alluding to, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.720 that is maybe part of his kryptonite, as making consistent 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.680 contact is o'neo Cruz's kryptonite. Jacob de Gram's is high high. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.160 EV's really really strong, guys. So Jacob de Gram with 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.760 thirteen if I asked you this before, like where you're 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.760 going to place da Grom next season at? Like, I 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.720 feel like I can stack on top of asking this 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.680 as he looks healthy, he strikes out everybody, Like what 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.760 level of sp do you think he will be for you? 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.520 I mean he's number one for me. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.400 He'll be number one good good, Good for you for 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:52.160 joining the club. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.440 As long as as long as he's healthy, you know, 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.120 as long as the reports in next next spring are 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.200 all positive, I think he has to be number one. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.320 Yeah, you know, I just thought of something and I 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.120 want to take it back. This is bad hostsmanship here 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.920 because Walk brought this up saying, you know, I saw 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.400 Red Sox on Twitter saying Devers should go, they should 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.000 let Devers go and Boston should sign them, blah blah blah. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.480 So I saw somebody post this in We've got a 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.320 whole Patreon and group me stuff at my end this 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.640 league side, and someone in a group me room said, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:28.040 is Judges season this year the greatest walk season of 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.760 all time? And I thought that was such a great question. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.320 And the only retort I saw someone say was maybe 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.720 a Rod do you think this is the greatest walk 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.800 season in baseball history with what Aaron Judge is doing? 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.720 Because I don't remember the walk year of a Rod, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.400 but I don't imagine it was like this. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.719 It's really hard to say. I need to see a 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.520 list of walk heres. But I also question whether anything's 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.080 really a walk here when you're with the Yankees, because 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.600 if the Yankees decide that they don't want you to walk, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.720 they can they can keep you where you are. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.719 I agree, except that, like someone asked Judge about this 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.800 like a couple of weeks ago, and like he's still 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.800 kind of like, I don't think they're gonna sign me. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.840 I don't think they're going to pay up. I don't 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.800 like he seemed really negative about it. But I mean, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.640 at the end of the day, I guess we can't 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.160 call it a walk here unless he does go and 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.080 sign with somebody. But like, it's the greatest walk into 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.800 free agent year I think we've ever seen. It's just 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:19.760 an insane. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.120 Well, when you're trying to make an impression on the 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.440 team with endless money, having the walkier of all walk 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.600 heers is probably a good business strategy. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.199 Yeah, good point. Saniel Contra allowed one run on Sunday 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.640 and a complete game victory over the Nets. It was 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.520 his fifth complete game of the season. No other team 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:44.040 has three, even has three andrew saniel Contra. Pretty dang good. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.360 Yeah, I mean this is like a throwback, you know, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.040 if Judge is a throwback to like the steroid era 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.960 with the home runs, you know, Al Kantara with the 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.000 complete games of the throwback to like the fifties or something. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.240 I mean, we just don't see that very much in 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.319 today's game anymore. So, you know, I've taking little shots 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.320 at him in the past about the strikeout rate and 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.440 things like that, but that's kind of what you need 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.880 to get those complete games, because if you're striking out 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.600 double digit guys every game. You're going through a lot 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.760 more pitches, higher pitch counts. You're not gonna make it 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:13.120 through nine. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.880 Well, look get to Grom. I mean, like you only 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.800 have so much margin for error where it's like you 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.280 strike out thirteen, you also give up a couple of runs. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.200 You're not making a past a six like to the 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.240 six you have to be, like you have to be 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.839 a really high end pitcher for that even to happen. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.720 You're probably going at best to the fifth on al Contra, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.520 by the way, I haven't looked here the Cy Young. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.600 He is currently minus four hundred on DraftKings. The next 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.600 closest is Julio Urrias at plus six hundred, so more 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.920 wrapped up according to betters than the al side of 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.720 Justin Verlander who's minus three seventy and Dylan C's plus 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.439 three ninety, so nothing more locked up on the say 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.400 Young race and Sandio Contra just wanted to point that 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.800 out to everybody, but LUs Ringifo, Man's there been anybody 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.120 hotter than the least from Guifo this last month? What 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.440 a way to go into next year for fantasy Ringuifo 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.480 two for four two homers three rby on Sunday, Angels 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.040 were able to win five to one. And he has 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.240 established himself from a potential platoonish type of player to 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.000 what looks like in everyday role and hitting in predominant spots, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.520 hitting a lot of three and he has kind of 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.520 led to the call he's kind of beefed up. I 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.360 remember when he was a fun prospect to tout because 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.120 of stolen bases and everything, and Ringifo probably still one 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.840 of those players that is not highly owned in dead 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.360 you know, deadish leagues. His ownership percent is probably still 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.280 going to look low because of the amount of dead 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:36.920 league's Andrew. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.440 Yeah, and I think that's a fair point that he's 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:45.040 going beyond platoon player, but he still has pretty dramatic splits. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.280 Let's just state it for the record. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.560 I mean, he has ten home runs in one hundred 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.760 and thirty seven at bats against left handers, hitting three 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:55.040 thirty six against righty's two forty six five homers in 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.400 two hundred and eighty one at bats, so for the 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.240 season as a whole, and you know, as we get 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.880 to the offseason. Right now, he's clearly really hot. But 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.480 as we get to the offseason, we start pouring over 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.800 the data and everything, I feel like there'll still be 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.600 some questions about that. But if he's got an everyday job, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.160 I mean, right now, he's just he's like completely on fire. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.040 So you got to ride it. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.520 Two seventy five batting average, fifteen homers, six stolen bases 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.760 on Yahoo alone, qualifies at four different positions, if you 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.000 want to think about that. Over the last month, hitting 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.080 two ninety two with six homers, of stolen base, fourteen RBI, 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:33.080 twelve runs, and has been moved between Yeah, I mean, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.480 I'm seeing he's been. He's been in the leadoff spot 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.720 the last three games. He's been in the leadoff spot 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.839 where he has two of three games with multi hit 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.000 He's hit out of five. I know, I've seen him 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.280 out of three and four. I mean, you know, with 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.040 a team that's had like Jared Walsh everything, I know 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.320 there's some questions, but I think he's going to be 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.640 a mainstay for this team. He's the new He's the 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.600 new what they wanted David Fletcher to be. And I 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.360 think he's going to be a mainstay that hits at 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.400 the top of the lineup, who's showing power and has 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.839 some stolen bases regardless of the splits. Just kind of 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.680 interesting guy. I don't want to throw him into that 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.920 like Fantasy League winner or anything like that, but just 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.400 free production at the end is what was key for 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.200 him and key for you guys. And then Rob field 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.280 Evers went four for six to three RBI on Sunday, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.240 leading the Red Sox to a thirteen to three blowout 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.840 victory over the Royals. And Spencer Strider got ten strikeouts 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.959 over six innings on Sunday to win over the Phillies. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.679 And I think Striyder is going to be a fantastically 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.880 fun person to talk about in the offseason about how 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.360 you rank him. Do you have any initial thoughts about 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.280 where Strider's going to be as far as SP's go 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.960 for you, because I've done my sp ranks and Striyder's 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.920 going to be quite high. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:38.560 Yeah. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.360 I mean, I haven't done any re ranks in the 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.160 last couple of weeks, but I gotta feel like he's 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.560 going to be definitely top twenty and potentially, you know, 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:49.280 top twelve. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.200 Yeah, that's why I think, I think, I think is 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.000 an easy way to say it. On the injury front, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.520 Luis Savarino expected to return on Wednesday. He's going to 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.160 start against the Pirates, so that's good. Yankees manager Aaron 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.000 Boone said on Sunday that Harrison Bader is likely to 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.680 be activated for the Tuesday series against the Pirates, so 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.040 maybe some cheap stolen bases if he's sitting out there. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.880 And Tyler glass Now for the Rays, had two perfect 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.240 innings on Sunday in a minor league rehab start over 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.960 in tripa A. I don't know if there's much production 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.200 or much to be had about him coming back. I 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.800 love that he's coming back, but I don't think it 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.160 means much more for next year because he'll be limited. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.240 Speaking of glass Now, glass Now and Bader could potentially 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.480 be on this What do you got on any pickups? 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.760 You have the Waiver Wire article that people can check out. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.880 You talked about pool holes kind of being a leading off. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.880 Any other guys that we should be looking at this week. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.160 Yeah, well, I didn't have Beata in there, but I 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.080 would definitely recommend him as a pickup. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.080 I feel like he's always. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.520 Kind of sneaky, valuable, kind of like a Romo and 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.240 Loreano type who can give you a bit of power 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.080 and a bit of speed. But because he doesn't really 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.040 stand out in any one category, he sort of flies 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.480 under the radar a little bit. But especially with the Yankees, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.880 I mean, the run production opportunities should be really good 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.720 as long as he's getting regular playing time. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.600 So I do like him to pick up. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.400 Not so sure about Glass now, but he's, like you said, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.160 a good story, Nicolodolo. He's still only fifty one percent roster, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.000 at least he was as of as of Friday, and 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.160 he's just been on a roll lately. He's facing the 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.280 Red Sox tomorrow, so it's kind of a tough assignment. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.600 But he's just been so good lately that I don't 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.960 have a problem using him at all, especially if you 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.560 need a little boost in the strikeout department and then 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.480 if you need a boost in the stolen based apartment. 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.240 Even better than Harrison Vader is Bobba Thompson, who's still 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.880 not very highly rostered. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:31.520 And I get it. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.240 He has a lot of swing and miss to his game, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.360 like not, there's no power in the batting average is 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.680 probably not going to be great, although we can leg 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.040 out some infield hits potentially, but the speed is just 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.120 off the charts. I mean, he's the kind of guy 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.320 that can single handedly win you head to head matchup 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.600 in the stolen based category just by having him in 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:50.160 your lineup. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.760 Good stuff, And you guys go and check. Is that 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.480 on your Twitter that people can find a quick easy link. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.960 Yeah, it's it's well, actually it's it's under. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.760 My profile at Fantasy pro. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.640 So if you just google Andrew Seifer and Fantasy pros, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:06.720 that'll pop right up. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.320 Here's one thing, so Wonky put together found some of 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.120 the seasons. So I put I went to the seasons 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.720 and we're just going to do two of them in 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.040 place of a trivia question or this day in baseball. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.640 But we were talking about walkers and Walkee found a 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.040 list of the big walk years. Number one was a 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.760 Rod in two thousand, Bonds in nineteen ninety two, we 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.640 had Beltie in two thousand and four, a Rod in 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.600 two thousand and seven, and Zach Granki in two thousand. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:31.760 Actually I don't see the date, but I'm guessing the 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.440 Granky was the cy youngest year. So on the a 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.680 Rod front, a Rod in two thousand, in his final 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.680 his walk here from Seattle where he goes to the Rangers, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.760 had forty one homers one hundred and thirty two RBI, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.520 fifteen stolen bases, hitting three sixteen, it's a pretty good year. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.440 It's not sixty homers like Judge in two thousand and seven, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.520 I think is the more applicable year, two thousand and 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.520 seven with the Yankees, but it looks like he re 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:04.880 signed and he had fifty four homers, one hundred and 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.560 fifty six RBI, and twenty four stolen bases while hitting 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.879 three fourteen. Those are the two a rod walkiars. The 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.320 very Bonds year was going from Pittsburgh to the San 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.520 Francisco Giants, and that year in nineteen ninety two, Bonds 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.080 hit thirty four homers and stole thirty nine bases while 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.840 hitting three eleven with a four fifty six OBP. So 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.200 are any of those seasons better than what Judges doing 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:32.560 this year? 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:34.439 Probably not. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.640 I mean, you can't really compare, you know, those Alex 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.280 Rodriguez statistics to what Aaron Judge is doing right now. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.879 You have to compare the player to the players in 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.119 the same year. That's the only way that you can 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.600 look at it. We know that things change in terms 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.399 of ballparks, things change in terms of performance enhancing drugs, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.560 things change in terms of pitcher quality and depth in 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.440 terms of the baseball itself, There's so many different factors, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.880 and really the only way to account for all that 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.439 is just to compare the player to their own league 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.560 mates at that given year, and Judge is just so 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.720 far in front of everybody else in the home run department. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:10.919 It truly is incredible. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:12.840 That's an interesting way to take it. I mean, even 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:17.040 if you do just go do like categorical stats and stuff, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.679 you can maybe make an argument on the two thousand 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.600 and seven A Rod year with the stolen bases and 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.520 the homers, but judges and the RBI look crazy. But 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.960 Judges a potential to eclipse one hundred and forty RBI. Here, 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.280 he's hitting a higher batting average than a Rod did. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.840 He's gonna be over sixty, and he's going to become 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.960 close to twenty stolen bases. I think it's the best 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.880 categorical walk year in history. It is close, though, because 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.159 I think that one A Rod year is there, I 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.600