Speaker 1: Leading off starts right now on a happy Monday to
Speaker 1: all of you peanuts and crackerjacks and everybody out here
Speaker 1: that is still grinding some fantasy baseball into your playoffs.
Speaker 1: The final stretch of Roto, It's all on the line
Speaker 1: and we are here to help you. I'm Chris Well.
Speaker 1: She could find me on Twitter at is it Welsh
Speaker 1: and joining me today is Andrew Seifter on Twitter Andrew
Speaker 1: underscore Sifer. What's up, buddy? How are we doing? Play?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: We went in but like you said, grinding and out
Speaker 3: to the end in my oldest home league, and it's
Speaker 3: a Roto league, and I'm up by ten points in
Speaker 3: the standings right now, which feels great, except that I
Speaker 3: am on pace to breeze past my innings cap and
Speaker 3: my games playing cap. So I'm just going to be
Speaker 3: sweating out that last week of the season seeing if
Speaker 3: anybody can catch.
Speaker 1: Me, hoping that they can't do anything. Is that a
Speaker 1: move where if you pass your innings cap, will you
Speaker 1: still pick up starting pitchers to take them off of
Speaker 1: the wire so your opponent cannot you know, have good options?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will use any tool at my disposal. You
Speaker 3: know another thing, this is a Yahoo leak that you
Speaker 3: can do is the day that you're gonna go over
Speaker 3: your innings cap. You can go as far over it
Speaker 3: as you want that day. So I will often pick
Speaker 3: up like six starting pitchers on the final day of
Speaker 3: my innings cap and go over in style.
Speaker 1: So gamesmanship. You're definitely gonna play gamesmanship at the end there,
Speaker 1: whether you're picking up and taking guys out the wire
Speaker 1: when you can't start them final day. Hey, whatever you
Speaker 1: gotta do to win. If you're not cheating, that's not
Speaker 1: quite cheating. You're not winning. You're not trying to win.
Speaker 1: That's what they in the rules.
Speaker 2: If you're losing.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you gotta like a fudget a little bit if
Speaker 1: you need to Walkie says, I'm in a two week
Speaker 1: championship matchup against a guy with no fab. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is an advanta that I might misuse and
Speaker 1: screw myself out of winning. There's definitely always that thing
Speaker 1: where like you get up and then you're like should
Speaker 1: I bench everybody? But then you start talking yourself into
Speaker 1: like the fear of could this happen in that? And
Speaker 1: sometimes you just have to play it out. And sometimes
Speaker 1: the biggest advantage is a curse, at least to you mentally.
Speaker 1: But it's a grind, man, It's the fantasy baseball grind.
Speaker 1: Someone actually said to me this morning, They're like, baseball
Speaker 1: still going on. Like, yeah, it's still going on. This
Speaker 1: is what it's all about. This is why it is
Speaker 1: special in so many hearts. I mean, you know, football
Speaker 1: does own the space fantasy, but baseball is it's really
Speaker 1: its own ecosystem and its world. It's longer, it's a
Speaker 1: much bigger grind, and they all feel good to win.
Speaker 1: There's something about winning a baseball championship though in fantasy
Speaker 1: that holds just that little bit of weight for how
Speaker 1: much whether it is playoffs or roto, with how much
Speaker 1: work that was put in on a daily grind, the
Speaker 1: payoff is pretty good. Andrew.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's the hardest earned championship in sports, a fantasy
Speaker 3: baseball championship. And you know, I have to say being
Speaker 3: in the industry has sort of helped me in terms
Speaker 3: of my lack of regret about mistakes, because you know,
Speaker 3: now I feel more like I want to give other
Speaker 3: people good advice, so I don't hate myself as much
Speaker 3: when I mess up my own teams.
Speaker 1: Because we will, because we will. I had a matchup
Speaker 1: yesterday where I had de Gram and Strider going and
Speaker 1: I still didn't win, and I still lost right at
Speaker 1: the end because of a blow up earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: So I'm still reeling from that. But we got lots
Speaker 1: of news and notes for you as we moved through
Speaker 1: here getting a set for the day. And how about
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge hit homers number fifty eight and fifty nine
Speaker 1: is part of a four to five game with the
Speaker 1: Yankees top the Brewers twelve to eight on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: we are going into if I remember correctly, we are
Speaker 1: going into the final two weeks. But this week one
Speaker 1: homer away from sixty for Judge and then what is
Speaker 1: it two? Because Maris is sixty one? So what are
Speaker 1: we two homers from tying that or three homers from
Speaker 1: breaking it? And then we're two homers away for pool Holes.
Speaker 1: This could be a big week. This has the potential
Speaker 1: to be a really big week. I have a I
Speaker 1: feel like the pool Holest thing is going to happen.
Speaker 1: I feel like both a sixty and the pool Holes
Speaker 1: thing are both going to happen this week.
Speaker 2: Andrew, how exciting would that be. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I you know, I write the weekly Waiver Wire column
Speaker 3: at Fantasy Pros and I actually made Albert Poohols my
Speaker 3: number one headliner pickup of the week. And I just
Speaker 3: love the fact that we are here in late September,
Speaker 3: in the twilight of his career and we can still
Speaker 3: in good conscience recommend him as a must add player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially with theoretically we would expect him to get
Speaker 1: all the playing time moving forward. We'll talk about a
Speaker 1: couple year waiver any other guys you have here in
Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes, But Aaron Judge making about
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge just phenomenal stuff kind of hit that sixty
Speaker 1: marker unless anything crazy happens. And you know, if the
Speaker 1: debate will just continue on if there is a debate
Speaker 1: as far as Judge versus Otani and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But everyone's going to hit their markers, which I think
Speaker 1: is going to make it the most interesting. Everything will
Speaker 1: hit its fun marker of like Judge is. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised of Judge as
Speaker 1: sixty five by the end of this and the O
Speaker 1: there's two more weeks. Judge is gonna be over that
Speaker 1: sixty marker, and then you're gonna have you know, Tawny
Speaker 1: have done what he's done, and then we'll just you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I would say we let the the baseball
Speaker 1: gods decide, but unfortunately we're gonna let writers decide and
Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes, and we know how that
Speaker 1: plays out. But Aaron Judge number fifty eight and fifty nine,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Judge, I do believe should be crowned the
Speaker 1: home run champion even of Fantasy pros on our board,
Speaker 1: because I believe five more than the next person. It
Speaker 1: would take a miracle for our crew to pass Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge at this point. Pretty incredible. Speaking of incredible, Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram struck out thirteen was given a no decision
Speaker 1: after allowing three runs then five plus against the Pirates.
Speaker 1: J Gram's had a little bit of that last couple
Speaker 1: games in that like runs are starting to stack up
Speaker 1: a tiny bit becoming a little bit more hittable, while
Speaker 1: also not it's like that one thing that opens him up,
Speaker 1: because he's still striking out double digits at almost every
Speaker 1: other start. But he's had a couple of these multi
Speaker 1: run performances as he ends out the year, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's still looking elite and still looking like a theoretical
Speaker 1: number one sp next year if anyone has the Gutsandrew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, he just ran into the unstoppable
Speaker 3: O'Neal Cruz, so that was his problem. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean he's you know, of course, Cruz struck out in
Speaker 3: two of his other at bats, but he did send
Speaker 3: one over the fence against a Gram, and that's that's
Speaker 3: kind of par for the course, right, It's, uh, ninety
Speaker 3: percent of the time the Gram will dominate, but then
Speaker 3: O'Neal Cruz, it just takes that one, you know, huge
Speaker 3: exit velocity smack and it puts a dent in that era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is a stat. Mayor actually tagged me
Speaker 1: and wonkey and it's pretty incredible. This is from Kevin Gorman,
Speaker 1: pg H and the tweet was mets age. Jacob de
Speaker 1: grom Is allowed a hit to a leadoff batter in
Speaker 1: the first inning twice during the twenty twenty two seasons.
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that has allowed a hit to the
Speaker 1: leadoff batter in the first inning only twice his whole season,
Speaker 1: both to Oneal Cruz. ONeill singled to lead off the
Speaker 1: second game of a double hitter on September seventh at
Speaker 1: P and C and doubled today which was yesterday in
Speaker 1: the leadoff spot in city field with a one hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven EV. So just a fun ONEO Cruise Jacob
Speaker 1: de Grom combination, as you were kind of alluding to,
Speaker 1: that is maybe part of his kryptonite, as making consistent
Speaker 1: contact is o'neo Cruz's kryptonite. Jacob de Gram's is high high.
Speaker 1: EV's really really strong, guys. So Jacob de Gram with
Speaker 1: thirteen if I asked you this before, like where you're
Speaker 1: going to place da Grom next season at? Like, I
Speaker 1: feel like I can stack on top of asking this
Speaker 1: as he looks healthy, he strikes out everybody, Like what
Speaker 1: level of sp do you think he will be for you?
Speaker 2: I mean he's number one for me.
Speaker 1: He'll be number one good good, Good for you for
Speaker 1: joining the club.
Speaker 3: As long as as long as he's healthy, you know,
Speaker 3: as long as the reports in next next spring are
Speaker 3: all positive, I think he has to be number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I just thought of something and I
Speaker 1: want to take it back. This is bad hostsmanship here
Speaker 1: because Walk brought this up saying, you know, I saw
Speaker 1: Red Sox on Twitter saying Devers should go, they should
Speaker 1: let Devers go and Boston should sign them, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So I saw somebody post this in We've got a
Speaker 1: whole Patreon and group me stuff at my end this
Speaker 1: league side, and someone in a group me room said,
Speaker 1: is Judges season this year the greatest walk season of
Speaker 1: all time? And I thought that was such a great question.
Speaker 1: And the only retort I saw someone say was maybe
Speaker 1: a Rod do you think this is the greatest walk
Speaker 1: season in baseball history with what Aaron Judge is doing?
Speaker 1: Because I don't remember the walk year of a Rod,
Speaker 1: but I don't imagine it was like this.
Speaker 3: It's really hard to say. I need to see a
Speaker 3: list of walk heres. But I also question whether anything's
Speaker 3: really a walk here when you're with the Yankees, because
Speaker 3: if the Yankees decide that they don't want you to walk,
Speaker 3: they can they can keep you where you are.
Speaker 1: I agree, except that, like someone asked Judge about this
Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks ago, and like he's still
Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't think they're gonna sign me.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to pay up. I don't
Speaker 1: like he seemed really negative about it. But I mean,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I guess we can't
Speaker 1: call it a walk here unless he does go and
Speaker 1: sign with somebody. But like, it's the greatest walk into
Speaker 1: free agent year I think we've ever seen. It's just
Speaker 1: an insane.
Speaker 3: Well, when you're trying to make an impression on the
Speaker 3: team with endless money, having the walkier of all walk
Speaker 3: heers is probably a good business strategy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good point. Saniel Contra allowed one run on Sunday
Speaker 1: and a complete game victory over the Nets. It was
Speaker 1: his fifth complete game of the season. No other team
Speaker 1: has three, even has three andrew saniel Contra. Pretty dang good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is like a throwback, you know,
Speaker 3: if Judge is a throwback to like the steroid era
Speaker 3: with the home runs, you know, Al Kantara with the
Speaker 3: complete games of the throwback to like the fifties or something.
Speaker 3: I mean, we just don't see that very much in
Speaker 3: today's game anymore. So, you know, I've taking little shots
Speaker 3: at him in the past about the strikeout rate and
Speaker 3: things like that, but that's kind of what you need
Speaker 3: to get those complete games, because if you're striking out
Speaker 3: double digit guys every game. You're going through a lot
Speaker 3: more pitches, higher pitch counts. You're not gonna make it
Speaker 3: through nine.
Speaker 1: Well, look get to Grom. I mean, like you only
Speaker 1: have so much margin for error where it's like you
Speaker 1: strike out thirteen, you also give up a couple of runs.
Speaker 1: You're not making a past a six like to the
Speaker 1: six you have to be, like you have to be
Speaker 1: a really high end pitcher for that even to happen.
Speaker 1: You're probably going at best to the fifth on al Contra,
Speaker 1: by the way, I haven't looked here the Cy Young.
Speaker 1: He is currently minus four hundred on DraftKings. The next
Speaker 1: closest is Julio Urrias at plus six hundred, so more
Speaker 1: wrapped up according to betters than the al side of
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander who's minus three seventy and Dylan C's plus
Speaker 1: three ninety, so nothing more locked up on the say
Speaker 1: Young race and Sandio Contra just wanted to point that
Speaker 1: out to everybody, but LUs Ringifo, Man's there been anybody
Speaker 1: hotter than the least from Guifo this last month? What
Speaker 1: a way to go into next year for fantasy Ringuifo
Speaker 1: two for four two homers three rby on Sunday, Angels
Speaker 1: were able to win five to one. And he has
Speaker 1: established himself from a potential platoonish type of player to
Speaker 1: what looks like in everyday role and hitting in predominant spots,
Speaker 1: hitting a lot of three and he has kind of
Speaker 1: led to the call he's kind of beefed up. I
Speaker 1: remember when he was a fun prospect to tout because
Speaker 1: of stolen bases and everything, and Ringifo probably still one
Speaker 1: of those players that is not highly owned in dead
Speaker 1: you know, deadish leagues. His ownership percent is probably still
Speaker 1: going to look low because of the amount of dead
Speaker 1: league's Andrew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's a fair point that he's
Speaker 3: going beyond platoon player, but he still has pretty dramatic splits.
Speaker 2: Let's just state it for the record.
Speaker 3: I mean, he has ten home runs in one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty seven at bats against left handers, hitting three
Speaker 3: thirty six against righty's two forty six five homers in
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty one at bats, so for the
Speaker 3: season as a whole, and you know, as we get
Speaker 3: to the offseason. Right now, he's clearly really hot. But
Speaker 3: as we get to the offseason, we start pouring over
Speaker 3: the data and everything, I feel like there'll still be
Speaker 3: some questions about that. But if he's got an everyday job,
Speaker 3: I mean, right now, he's just he's like completely on fire.
Speaker 2: So you got to ride it.
Speaker 1: Two seventy five batting average, fifteen homers, six stolen bases
Speaker 1: on Yahoo alone, qualifies at four different positions, if you
Speaker 1: want to think about that. Over the last month, hitting
Speaker 1: two ninety two with six homers, of stolen base, fourteen RBI,
Speaker 1: twelve runs, and has been moved between Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing he's been. He's been in the leadoff spot
Speaker 1: the last three games. He's been in the leadoff spot
Speaker 1: where he has two of three games with multi hit
Speaker 1: He's hit out of five. I know, I've seen him
Speaker 1: out of three and four. I mean, you know, with
Speaker 1: a team that's had like Jared Walsh everything, I know
Speaker 1: there's some questions, but I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: a mainstay for this team. He's the new He's the
Speaker 1: new what they wanted David Fletcher to be. And I
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a mainstay that hits at
Speaker 1: the top of the lineup, who's showing power and has
Speaker 1: some stolen bases regardless of the splits. Just kind of
Speaker 1: interesting guy. I don't want to throw him into that
Speaker 1: like Fantasy League winner or anything like that, but just
Speaker 1: free production at the end is what was key for
Speaker 1: him and key for you guys. And then Rob field
Speaker 1: Evers went four for six to three RBI on Sunday,
Speaker 1: leading the Red Sox to a thirteen to three blowout
Speaker 1: victory over the Royals. And Spencer Strider got ten strikeouts
Speaker 1: over six innings on Sunday to win over the Phillies.
Speaker 1: And I think Striyder is going to be a fantastically
Speaker 1: fun person to talk about in the offseason about how
Speaker 1: you rank him. Do you have any initial thoughts about
Speaker 1: where Strider's going to be as far as SP's go
Speaker 1: for you, because I've done my sp ranks and Striyder's
Speaker 1: going to be quite high.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I haven't done any re ranks in the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, but I gotta feel like he's
Speaker 3: going to be definitely top twenty and potentially, you know,
Speaker 3: top twelve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I think, I think, I think is
Speaker 1: an easy way to say it. On the injury front,
Speaker 1: Luis Savarino expected to return on Wednesday. He's going to
Speaker 1: start against the Pirates, so that's good. Yankees manager Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone said on Sunday that Harrison Bader is likely to
Speaker 1: be activated for the Tuesday series against the Pirates, so
Speaker 1: maybe some cheap stolen bases if he's sitting out there.
Speaker 1: And Tyler glass Now for the Rays, had two perfect
Speaker 1: innings on Sunday in a minor league rehab start over
Speaker 1: in tripa A. I don't know if there's much production
Speaker 1: or much to be had about him coming back. I
Speaker 1: love that he's coming back, but I don't think it
Speaker 1: means much more for next year because he'll be limited.
Speaker 1: Speaking of glass Now, glass Now and Bader could potentially
Speaker 1: be on this What do you got on any pickups?
Speaker 1: You have the Waiver Wire article that people can check out.
Speaker 1: You talked about pool holes kind of being a leading off.
Speaker 1: Any other guys that we should be looking at this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I didn't have Beata in there, but I
Speaker 3: would definitely recommend him as a pickup.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's always.
Speaker 3: Kind of sneaky, valuable, kind of like a Romo and
Speaker 3: Loreano type who can give you a bit of power
Speaker 3: and a bit of speed. But because he doesn't really
Speaker 3: stand out in any one category, he sort of flies
Speaker 3: under the radar a little bit. But especially with the Yankees,
Speaker 3: I mean, the run production opportunities should be really good
Speaker 3: as long as he's getting regular playing time.
Speaker 2: So I do like him to pick up.
Speaker 3: Not so sure about Glass now, but he's, like you said,
Speaker 3: a good story, Nicolodolo. He's still only fifty one percent roster,
Speaker 3: at least he was as of as of Friday, and
Speaker 3: he's just been on a roll lately. He's facing the
Speaker 3: Red Sox tomorrow, so it's kind of a tough assignment.
Speaker 3: But he's just been so good lately that I don't
Speaker 3: have a problem using him at all, especially if you
Speaker 3: need a little boost in the strikeout department and then
Speaker 3: if you need a boost in the stolen based apartment.
Speaker 3: Even better than Harrison Vader is Bobba Thompson, who's still
Speaker 3: not very highly rostered.
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 3: He has a lot of swing and miss to his game,
Speaker 3: like not, there's no power in the batting average is
Speaker 3: probably not going to be great, although we can leg
Speaker 3: out some infield hits potentially, but the speed is just
Speaker 3: off the charts. I mean, he's the kind of guy
Speaker 3: that can single handedly win you head to head matchup
Speaker 3: in the stolen based category just by having him in
Speaker 3: your lineup.
Speaker 1: Good stuff, And you guys go and check. Is that
Speaker 1: on your Twitter that people can find a quick easy link.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's well, actually it's it's under.
Speaker 2: My profile at Fantasy pro.
Speaker 3: So if you just google Andrew Seifer and Fantasy pros,
Speaker 3: that'll pop right up.
Speaker 1: Here's one thing, so Wonky put together found some of
Speaker 1: the seasons. So I put I went to the seasons
Speaker 1: and we're just going to do two of them in
Speaker 1: place of a trivia question or this day in baseball.
Speaker 1: But we were talking about walkers and Walkee found a
Speaker 1: list of the big walk years. Number one was a
Speaker 1: Rod in two thousand, Bonds in nineteen ninety two, we
Speaker 1: had Beltie in two thousand and four, a Rod in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, and Zach Granki in two thousand.
Speaker 1: Actually I don't see the date, but I'm guessing the
Speaker 1: Granky was the cy youngest year. So on the a
Speaker 1: Rod front, a Rod in two thousand, in his final
Speaker 1: his walk here from Seattle where he goes to the Rangers,
Speaker 1: had forty one homers one hundred and thirty two RBI,
Speaker 1: fifteen stolen bases, hitting three sixteen, it's a pretty good year.
Speaker 1: It's not sixty homers like Judge in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: I think is the more applicable year, two thousand and
Speaker 1: seven with the Yankees, but it looks like he re
Speaker 1: signed and he had fifty four homers, one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six RBI, and twenty four stolen bases while hitting
Speaker 1: three fourteen. Those are the two a rod walkiars. The
Speaker 1: very Bonds year was going from Pittsburgh to the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants, and that year in nineteen ninety two, Bonds
Speaker 1: hit thirty four homers and stole thirty nine bases while
Speaker 1: hitting three eleven with a four fifty six OBP. So
Speaker 1: are any of those seasons better than what Judges doing
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can't really compare, you know, those Alex
Speaker 3: Rodriguez statistics to what Aaron Judge is doing right now.
Speaker 3: You have to compare the player to the players in
Speaker 3: the same year. That's the only way that you can
Speaker 3: look at it. We know that things change in terms
Speaker 3: of ballparks, things change in terms of performance enhancing drugs,
Speaker 3: things change in terms of pitcher quality and depth in
Speaker 3: terms of the baseball itself, There's so many different factors,
Speaker 3: and really the only way to account for all that
Speaker 3: is just to compare the player to their own league
Speaker 3: mates at that given year, and Judge is just so
Speaker 3: far in front of everybody else in the home run department.
Speaker 2: It truly is incredible.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting way to take it. I mean, even
Speaker 1: if you do just go do like categorical stats and stuff,
Speaker 1: you can maybe make an argument on the two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven A Rod year with the stolen bases and
Speaker 1: the homers, but judges and the RBI look crazy. But
Speaker 1: Judges a potential to eclipse one hundred and forty RBI. Here,
Speaker 1: he's hitting a higher batting average than a Rod did.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be over sixty, and he's going to become
Speaker 1: close to twenty stolen bases. I think it's the best
Speaker 1: categorical walk year in history. It is close, though, because
Speaker 1: I think that one A Rod year is there, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't probably throw bonds in there. There's some interesting one, but.
Speaker 3: The Belcher one really got me laughing because I totally
Speaker 3: remember that it was so it was the classic walk
Speaker 3: here he was the classic player that, like you know,
Speaker 3: could could just be extra motivated to get that money.
Speaker 1: And I'll give you the stats. What year was that.
Speaker 2: I think it was two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here it is. Yeah, because in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four with the Dodgers, he hit forty eight homers
Speaker 1: while hitting three thirty four. He had seven stolen bases,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one RBI, one hundred and four runs,
Speaker 1: and he never came.
Speaker 2: Within What did he do the next season?
Speaker 1: The next season, the first season in Seattle, he had
Speaker 1: nineteen homers and hit two twenty five. He hit one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten points lower, and he had twenty nine
Speaker 1: less stolen bases, and he never came within twelve homers
Speaker 1: in his career. Of those forty eight he actually only
Speaker 1: eclipsed thirty four more times. This was in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, when he was twenty five. His entire career,
Speaker 1: which he played till thirty nine, he only hit thirty
Speaker 1: homers four more times that entire career after the forty eight.
Speaker 2: And it's no hate.
Speaker 3: He had a very solid career, but that one year
Speaker 3: was just off the charts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wonder why they're off the charts. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to SAT heroes. Martin Maldonado four to four with
Speaker 1: a homer, four RBIs with four runs yesterday. That categorically
Speaker 1: will help you if you were looking for some runs
Speaker 1: going into your championship from the catcher spot. Eloy Jmenez
Speaker 1: three for four, a homer, three RBIs, couple runs. Aliset
Speaker 1: Wan Gifa, who we talked about, had two homers, three RBI,
Speaker 1: two runs, Oswaldo Cabrera three for four two one homer,
Speaker 1: two RBI, two runs. Juan Soto had a homer off
Speaker 1: Ryan Nelson. He went three for four. He needed that.
Speaker 1: Jan Gomes a homer three RBI, Tyron Taylor three for
Speaker 1: four with a homer, Christian Bettencourt had a home run,
Speaker 1: and Colton Wong one homer, three RBI. Do you think
Speaker 1: of that group, is there a big, massive win of
Speaker 1: a pickup. Do you think oswald Cabrera, Betton Court, Wong.
Speaker 1: Is there somebody that you've kind of latched onto which
Speaker 1: is going to be a helper for the last two weeks?
Speaker 3: Well, I did just pick up Betton Court this morning
Speaker 3: in a league. I think if you're trying to fill
Speaker 3: out catcher games, and a lot of times people fall
Speaker 3: behind in that category. So if you're in a daily
Speaker 3: lineups league and you can just pick him up for today,
Speaker 3: for example, because a lot of teams are off today
Speaker 3: and he's playing. So that's the kind of micromanaging that
Speaker 3: you need to do down the stretch in a lot
Speaker 3: of leaks. But in terms of just an overall pickup,
Speaker 3: I would say Osuilo Cabrera is pretty interesting. I mean,
Speaker 3: this guy went twenty twenty in double A last year
Speaker 3: and he's getting every day playing time right now for
Speaker 3: the Yankees. So there's a lot of moving parts there.
Speaker 3: You know, depending who comes off the il, maybe the
Speaker 3: playing time drives up. But if it's not, I mean,
Speaker 3: he's got the raw skills and the really favorable hitting environment,
Speaker 3: so that's intriguing.
Speaker 1: On the pitching side, you Darvis struck out eight over six.
Speaker 1: He has been very, very consistent on this back half
Speaker 1: of the year, really helping people out. Joe Ryan five
Speaker 1: strikeouts seven and two thirds only give up three hits.
Speaker 1: Samuel Contra we said went complete games, striking out seven striders,
Speaker 1: struck out ten over six, and Andrew Heeney struck out
Speaker 1: four over eight, which actually That's interesting because of one
Speaker 1: of the bets today actually was a Heini one, so
Speaker 1: that must be incorrect. Off to fix that because Heini
Speaker 1: had eight strikeouts, zero's Mark Matthias and Jakeswinsky oh for
Speaker 1: four with four k's Riley Green had three strikeouts, Gunnard
Speaker 1: Henderson three strikeouts, Big Old Rookie set there CJ Crown, Hunter, Renfro,
Speaker 1: Aristide Zechino, Seth Brown, Matt Olsen, Chris Taylor all oh
Speaker 1: for four with three strikeouts. On the pitcher side, Chris
Speaker 1: Bubach two and two thirds, five earned runs, he walked three.
Speaker 1: Drew Hutchinson gave up six earned runs, kN Walde Chuck
Speaker 1: gave up five, and Glenn Otto gave up four. You know,
Speaker 1: if you were actually dealing with any of those players,
Speaker 1: God bless you. If you were maybe ken Walde Chuck,
Speaker 1: I think turn any of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, long term, if you were doing it in the
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs, like Drew Hutchinson, probably should not have been
Speaker 1: a player that anybody was messing around with, you know,
Speaker 1: just going out on a limb here.
Speaker 3: But if you're trying to get wins, it's probably not
Speaker 3: the best option right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that, over to the home run board.
Speaker 1: Kat Fox and El Skel are in a head to
Speaker 1: head dog fight. I don't again, I don't have a
Speaker 1: I'm going to press them for the final week to
Speaker 1: get us some art by the way, so we can
Speaker 1: get it like every day, because I think that'll be fun.
Speaker 1: They've just slacked on it on the back end. But
Speaker 1: Cat Fox is up to fifty four. The leader had
Speaker 1: Mike Trout yesterday did not go, but l Scale had
Speaker 1: Judge up to fifty three. So it is a fifty
Speaker 1: four to fifty three head to head match up Helpless
Speaker 1: in Miami and Highcubby both at fifty one and d
Speaker 1: Blum at fifty. The contest is tight and at the top.
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Speaker 1: some of those bets. So I realized why I had
Speaker 1: that because on my betting pros board it still had yesterday,
Speaker 1: so that is why that was not updated. So let
Speaker 1: me go through and I'm gonna give you some of
Speaker 1: the top bets here. And the number one bet of
Speaker 1: the day is Gunner Henderson over one total base minus
Speaker 1: one ninety on DraftKings. So Gunner Henderson, who just had
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of strikeouts the other day, he's the
Speaker 1: number one as far as any of them go. But
Speaker 1: it is minus one ninety, which is a pretty big
Speaker 1: number to bet. So if you're gonna bet it, you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna want to put it together with something else.
Speaker 1: If you want an even money play, you can go
Speaker 1: Mike Trout one and a half total base is over.
Speaker 1: He's projected at two and a half and that is
Speaker 1: over on DraftKings as well, so you can play both
Speaker 1: of those for even money over. On the strikeout front,
Speaker 1: the number one strikeout play today is Max Scherzer. It
Speaker 1: is only at five and a hat so check us out.
Speaker 1: It's a five and a half. He's projected at eight
Speaker 1: and on Draft Kings it is minus one fifty five.
Speaker 1: You can play that. That is a pretty dang good
Speaker 1: number that we usually don't see, especially on sureser five
Speaker 1: and a half something the books know that we don't,
Speaker 1: which seems a little fishy. And the plus money play
Speaker 1: is Kyle Wright against Washington. He's projected at six, it's
Speaker 1: five and a half. You get plus one twenty five
Speaker 1: all of these on DraftKings, baby, So what do you
Speaker 1: think here? You got Mike Trout, You've got Gunner Henderson
Speaker 1: on total bases, and you've got Kyle Wright and Max
Speaker 1: Scherzer on strikeouts. Kyle Wright and Mike Trout the plus
Speaker 1: money plays anything.
Speaker 3: You like, Well, I think you nailed it on that
Speaker 3: Scherzer one. I think you have to go with that,
Speaker 3: But you know, the Trout one is interesting as well.
Speaker 3: You know he is facing Logan Gilbert who's been pitching
Speaker 3: well lately, but Trout has just been really great down
Speaker 3: the stretch this season, and we know how good he
Speaker 3: is when he's healthy and going strong.
Speaker 2: So he's a guy I'm always happy to bet on.
Speaker 1: And everybody's pointing out in the chat like the reason
Speaker 1: it's lower we saw I want to point out we
Speaker 1: saw this exact same thing with We've seen it with
Speaker 1: Ja Gram and we saw it with Justin Verlander. He's
Speaker 1: coming back. You got you can call pitch counts, but
Speaker 1: my only argument is, like guys like Verlander and stuff,
Speaker 1: and even there's there's not a lot of pitch count stuff,
Speaker 1: and normally a guy coming off an injury, this would
Speaker 1: be a bet I wouldn't do because of exactly what
Speaker 1: you guys are pointing out. But Surezier, I give the
Speaker 1: pass for Sureser and Verlander. I will always give the
Speaker 1: pass for in this type of an instance because A
Speaker 1: they can do it in three innings and B they're
Speaker 1: guys that are just going to go longer into the
Speaker 1: season at this point. So I get, I get the
Speaker 1: concerns everyone might have, but that's a guy I'm willing
Speaker 1: to go with.
Speaker 3: You tried telling Max Schurzer to come out of the
Speaker 3: game exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, I don't think so. Also, it's you can
Speaker 1: kind of play it like it's minus one fifty five.
Speaker 1: That's not great. You don't want that type of juice
Speaker 1: on those type of bets, but like you can still
Speaker 1: play it and feel relatively good about it. And the
Speaker 1: mic trout one even at one and a half. I
Speaker 1: don't know, these are some good bets. I kind of
Speaker 1: dig these today. And let's go over and talk about
Speaker 1: some home run calls. Well in that Bad Boy DFS
Speaker 1: is out there. It's a short slate today. I'm just
Speaker 1: pointing out for everybody. I guess I don't mean to
Speaker 1: like jump over it or anything like that, but there's
Speaker 1: some OK matchups. You got Logan Gilbert at nine to
Speaker 1: nine over on FanDuel today, Duress Musen against it, but
Speaker 1: it's against the Astros, which you don't particularly like. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of runs in that Baltimore Detroit side.
Speaker 1: Kyle Wright up against Washington. Kyle Wright is ten to
Speaker 1: one over on over on FanDuel. If you wanted to
Speaker 1: put him out there, And there were some obviously some
Speaker 1: big implied runs on the Dodgers and then the Giants
Speaker 1: Rockies game has an over eleven total run implied total
Speaker 1: according to Fantasy Labs, So you might be able to
Speaker 1: stack some of those guys. Wilmer Flores is cheap at
Speaker 1: the three spot. Jonathan Daza you could throw out there.
Speaker 1: So look at the top of the lineup on some
Speaker 1: of these shorter slates, and you have to play around
Speaker 1: with some of the pitchers, you know, maybe throw out
Speaker 1: a sunny Gray, Maybe throw out that I'm meanto Kyle Wright,
Speaker 1: though he'll probably be highly played, but home run calls
Speaker 1: a stranger Seichtter. What you got to get on the
Speaker 1: board here?
Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to jump in on that Dodgers lineup
Speaker 3: against Meryll Kelly. I see our colleague Mike Mayor already
Speaker 3: has Mookie Betts called, so I will I will pivot
Speaker 3: off of that and go with Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well I was gonna go. I'm going with Mookie.
Speaker 1: I'm I can't. Mayor always takes this from me every time.
Speaker 1: Credit to him for getting there early. Mookie is a
Speaker 1: BVP play on Meryll today. He's got a couple I
Speaker 1: think three career homers. He's got a great batting average
Speaker 1: over three fifty plus career wise on on MARYL. Kelly
Speaker 1: and the Diamondbacks, and I'm gonna join Mayor on it
Speaker 1: because again what am I playing for? So you've got
Speaker 1: Freeman I and Mayor have Mookie Betts, Wonkey is going
Speaker 1: with Matt Olsen today and of course Joe has got
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge as he always does friends he always always does.
Speaker 1: And that is it. That is it for the show.
Speaker 1: Andrew would anything to play. You got the article going out?
Speaker 1: I know you've got everything else anything new?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's Waiver Wire every We got one more
Speaker 3: left actually after so there's the one from Saturday and
Speaker 3: then there'll be one more next weekend to get people
Speaker 3: over the finish line. Doing a lot of fantasy football
Speaker 3: stuff right now on my own podcast, the Rest of
Speaker 3: Season Rankings Podcast with my co host Bart Wheeler, and
Speaker 3: we're doing rest of season rankings at our website ROS
Speaker 3: rankings dot com.
Speaker 1: Cool stuff if you guys want. On the prospect side,
Speaker 1: it just did an episode this past weekend of Prospect
Speaker 1: one with James Anderson from roadte Wire talking about some
Speaker 1: of the top statistical finishes from the minor leagues. I'll
Speaker 1: be doing another one breaking down the Arizona Fall rosters
Speaker 1: that are coming up and of course over in this league,
Speaker 1: rocking two episodes as we continue out the grind. Actually
Speaker 1: next week we're going to be doing a early twenty
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