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Speaker 1: am Greg Susman, Frankie, what's going on? What's happening? Happy
Speaker 1: Tuesday to your budd Interesting night last there. He had
Speaker 1: some great basketball games. We had Paddock versus de Graham
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. But then after that you went to sleep, Greg,
Speaker 1: how did you sleep? Buddy? So Judy spent like four
Speaker 1: hours watching the met Galla red Carpet. Do you know
Speaker 1: what that is? The met is the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Speaker 1: right um, so I'm guessing they had some kind of event. Greg, Right,
Speaker 1: you're right, So it's like outside of that, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're all good. So it's like the biggest night in
Speaker 1: fashion where all these like celebrities go to the met
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Speaker 1: so all these celebrities were like ridiculous fashion and they
Speaker 1: walk this red carpet and you analyze it like it's
Speaker 1: the Oscars type of thing. So she had DVRD that
Speaker 1: and watched like four hours of it. So by the
Speaker 1: time she was done, it was like I actually worked
Speaker 1: out all right, because it was right at the end
Speaker 1: of the Rockets game, like around midnight, so she was done.
Speaker 1: She came in, she watched like the last minute with
Speaker 1: me good, like I'm great now, I'm gonna go to sleep,
Speaker 1: feeling good. Right. For some reason, she was hyper. It's
Speaker 1: just yapping away and I'm like, listen, I'm trying to sleep.
Speaker 1: I'm tired, and she's just like yapping away. I finally
Speaker 1: fall asleep and I wake up. I'm tired still now
Speaker 1: because I was ready to sleep and I couldn't go
Speaker 1: to sleep, so I was just very tired when I
Speaker 1: woke up this morning. I'm sorry, I'm very tired as well.
Speaker 1: You made a lot of noise when she was getting
Speaker 1: ready for work today, and I know that frustrates you
Speaker 1: exact great. Yeah, I'm not really a morning guy outside
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, a little creepy this morning as well. Um,
Speaker 1: more complaints about the weather. But whatever. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: life is good, Greg, That's always good, Frank, always good.
Speaker 1: Unless you started Merrill Kelly, because I had a home
Speaker 1: league where I started Merrill Kelly and Pedro Stroke. Gregg,
Speaker 1: would you like to take a guess on what they
Speaker 1: combined for yesterday? Your e r A is probably on
Speaker 1: its points league? Oh god, negative points, yes, lots of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: negative twenty combined. I wouldn't have gone that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a negative twenty. That's Pedro Stroke unable to get an
Speaker 1: out against the Miami Marlins of all teams, and Merrill
Speaker 1: Kelly negative eight. Those two basically canceled out what basically
Speaker 1: fanning game. So good times. Well, that's kind of what
Speaker 1: happened in my my whole league where I picked up
Speaker 1: Merrill Kelly, as I said yesterday on the program, and
Speaker 1: started at the same time as I started Blake Snell
Speaker 1: and that they cancel each other out as well. Blake
Speaker 1: Snell was, alright, let's let's start with Merrill Kelly, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned him twice. Blake Snell versus Merrill Kelly and
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. How they returned to dominance where he was
Speaker 1: perfect through five, then hit a batter and allowed basic
Speaker 1: got pulled after six was amazing. Merrill Kelly not as
Speaker 1: much as Merrill Kelly's line here, Frank was four innings,
Speaker 1: seven hits, seven runs, three walks and two strikeouts. Can
Speaker 1: you drop Merrill Kelly? Yeah, I'd say so, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: twelve team leagues, probably even in fifteen teams overall, even
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers are not great. He's got a four
Speaker 1: eight five r A. The underlying numbers are pretty much
Speaker 1: in line with that. He's not a guy that gets
Speaker 1: a lot of strikeouts, and he's also walking a decent
Speaker 1: amount of batters too. He's got a three point nine
Speaker 1: two walks per nine greg and his kper nine is
Speaker 1: just over seven, so it's not really a good combination.
Speaker 1: He doesn't blow people away. He's more of a paint
Speaker 1: the corners kind of guy. Power fact all, he's a
Speaker 1: big curveball. But Oral just doesn't have enough stuff. That's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. He doesn't have enough swinging
Speaker 1: miss stuff. He walks him any batters, So overall, I
Speaker 1: would say you can drop my almost like hate dropped
Speaker 1: him last night. You ever do that, Craig, like hate
Speaker 1: drop a player. Oh yeah, you give me a negative
Speaker 1: eight points hate drop with Meryl Kelly last night. But
Speaker 1: there's like nobody good out there. So he's still my team. Well,
Speaker 1: I have uh fab in my league. My home league
Speaker 1: goes through Wednesday night, Friday night, and Sunday night, right,
Speaker 1: so he'll be off my team Wednesday night. Nice, let
Speaker 1: me pick up for because I'll try to do the
Speaker 1: same thing. I think you can confidently drop him and
Speaker 1: then Blake Snell. Look, if they would have just kept
Speaker 1: him out this long and maybe he came back for
Speaker 1: this start, then we wouldn't have had the two blow
Speaker 1: off starts. It seems like he's kind of getting his
Speaker 1: legs underneath him again, no pun intended, even though it
Speaker 1: was like a broken toe whatever. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: starting to establish himself. Maybe he just really struggles against
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals. Maybe that's it. Because those two
Speaker 1: starts that he had where he was not himself, the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals bombed him. So it's either the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Real see him really well or he was still
Speaker 1: kind of battling this fractured toe that he was dealing
Speaker 1: with and that ultimately affected his production. But either way,
Speaker 1: he got back to dominance last night you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just lights out. This was the
Speaker 1: Blake Snow that we saw earlier on in the season.
Speaker 1: Six innings, one hit, zero runs, zero walks. That's what
Speaker 1: I really love to see, man, the zero walks here
Speaker 1: you mentioned he had the one hit by pitch, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He was absolutely dominant. I just kind of wished, uh,
Speaker 1: just kind of wish the race kept him out for
Speaker 1: a couple more weeks. It seemed like I tend to
Speaker 1: lean towards that he just wasn't and he's probably getting
Speaker 1: closer to that now. So it's good to see. You
Speaker 1: needed to see that as a Blake Snow owner very much.
Speaker 1: If I owned him, which I don't um not that
Speaker 1: I was opposed to taking him, I did have some concerns,
Speaker 1: But if I owned him and I saw these last
Speaker 1: two stars of like this broken toe thing is going
Speaker 1: to be a thing all season long. Now I'd be
Speaker 1: freaking out. So it's good to see a dominant start
Speaker 1: like this and kind of everything down great, very much.
Speaker 1: Agree with that. Two runs by the Rays yesterday, obviously,
Speaker 1: Garcia and Tommy Fam each homer for Tampa Bay. Garcia
Speaker 1: has gotten most of the playing time for Austin Meadows.
Speaker 1: He was three for four, still playing very very well,
Speaker 1: while Tommy Fam continues to, uh, do you very well?
Speaker 1: I know he's just something a little bit. But the
Speaker 1: OBP over four hundred, average still over three hundred. Tommy
Speaker 1: fail Avasale Garcia both doing overly well for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Yondi d has went one for four run scored in
Speaker 1: twelve team league, and I know the o BP is
Speaker 1: still a hundred points higher than the average in twelve
Speaker 1: team leagues. Yondi das droppable. I I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I know that he's kind of cooled off recently. The
Speaker 1: batting averages down to tifties seven. Um, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna see some ups and downs, right Like this is
Speaker 1: his first time as a full time player. Are's still
Speaker 1: doing a lot of really good things. He's walking a
Speaker 1: ton too, he's part of a good lineup, you know,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. I mean they just continue to score.
Speaker 1: They know how to put it together. Right now, Um,
Speaker 1: the walk read, it's almost as high as a strikeout.
Speaker 1: Read does a strike out all that much? So you know,
Speaker 1: even in obviously I mean in points because he's even
Speaker 1: better the fact that he walks almost as much as
Speaker 1: he strikes out, hits the ball decently hard, still hits
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground too much. We saw early
Speaker 1: on and see he was starting to lift the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit more, which is what we've talked about.
Speaker 1: If he can hit more flyballs, if you can hit
Speaker 1: more line drives, because a lot of hitters have this issue.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's basically the way that you're taught to play.
Speaker 1: If the way that he taught to play was taught
Speaker 1: to play was hit the ball as hard as you
Speaker 1: can and hit it into the ground, and that's what
Speaker 1: he's used to. But um, he made some adjustments early on.
Speaker 1: But now we see the groundball rates start to to
Speaker 1: creep back up. It's over fifty three percent. I don't
Speaker 1: think I would drop him great. I think that I've
Speaker 1: seen enough earlier on in the season where I'm intrigued,
Speaker 1: and the walk read is still really good. I would
Speaker 1: hold on. I agree as Oh, I just realized now
Speaker 1: that we moved the batter, I can't see the clock.
Speaker 1: That's an issue. It's twelve twelve, Greg, thank you. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: with YONDI days, he wasn't one of the guys that
Speaker 1: I picked up because they're hot. I picked him up
Speaker 1: because I thought that he could have a long term
Speaker 1: lasting impact. Just because he's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: slump right now doesn't mean that I want to cut
Speaker 1: Yon d d As. I'm holding onto him for now,
Speaker 1: even me, Frank, Yeah, I was looking at the most
Speaker 1: added and dropped players right now and Yahoo and yeah,
Speaker 1: top twelve right now in most drop players. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it was a reasonable question. So let's see
Speaker 1: who's who's the most added to the most added bats
Speaker 1: right now? Chris Taylor, who is red hot right now?
Speaker 1: It hits Chris Taylor a little bit. It's four multi
Speaker 1: hit games in a row. Am I dropping your d
Speaker 1: d s for Chris Taylor? I'm not. I'm not either,
Speaker 1: Derek Dietrich. You see, in a week like this week,
Speaker 1: they face what four lefties, Greg, It wasn't in the
Speaker 1: line up yesterday against Drew palm Rands. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: that either. Nick Senzel, sure if he was out there,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's out there in a lot
Speaker 1: of leagues. This might be a fair question. How about
Speaker 1: Howie Kendrick. He's been really good. He's batting, got five homers,
Speaker 1: sixteen ribs. Even with Anthony Brandon coming back, it seems
Speaker 1: like he's still going to play. I think because Matt
Speaker 1: Adams is hurt, and they, I mean, they could use
Speaker 1: them in the outfield a little bit. They can throw
Speaker 1: him at first base, they can move them around. MHM
Speaker 1: Das or Howie Kendrick probably an DS for me. That
Speaker 1: one was a little bit closer. Man, Howie Kendrick is
Speaker 1: doing some really nice things this year. From a batted
Speaker 1: balled her perspective, that's clo I think I would lean
Speaker 1: with the Andy Das, but I do like some Howie Kendrick. Wait, well,
Speaker 1: nice little renaissance here from from Howie. Here points sticker
Speaker 1: average velocity for Howie Kendrick. His batting average is three
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Is expected batting is three thirty nine, So
Speaker 1: all of his number is pretty much lined up with
Speaker 1: what he's doing hard hit rate. Oh man, this is close.
Speaker 1: If I knew long term to Howie Kendrick would have
Speaker 1: a job because I don't think. I don't worry about
Speaker 1: Yandy his playing time. I feel like he's going to
Speaker 1: be in there regardless of what's going on. They clearly
Speaker 1: traded for him, They clearly like him a lot. Man,
Speaker 1: if I had more of an assurance that Howie Kendrick
Speaker 1: was going to be in the lineup long term for
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals, I probably go with him. Looking at
Speaker 1: looking at these numbers, Greg, I like what I see.
Speaker 1: Before we continue on a bit of NFL news, I
Speaker 1: wanted to just quickly get to Adam Schefter just tweeted
Speaker 1: out that Jason Perre Paul stuffered up potential season ending
Speaker 1: broken neck in a single car accident last week in Florida,
Speaker 1: where he lives. He visited. He will visit next specialists
Speaker 1: this week to get their opinions to see if there's
Speaker 1: any hope to save his season. Wow. I know it's
Speaker 1: not fantasy related, but could affect those wind totals in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. What is it? What is the running right now?
Speaker 1: To him? But you know, I think it was six
Speaker 1: and a half. I feel like I heard Gabe talking
Speaker 1: about it recently and he was really really bullish on
Speaker 1: the Bucks, which way over again, Bruce arians. They obviously
Speaker 1: bring Todd Bowles in six and a half defense, six
Speaker 1: and a half draft Devin White till they get their linebacker,
Speaker 1: but you lose a pass fresh for like Jppt. I
Speaker 1: mean even last year the tamp Bay Bucks defense was
Speaker 1: not good, but he's still He's still performed very well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that could potentially be a huge loss of
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Bucks six and a half right now the
Speaker 1: over under in Vegas when it comes to the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers, Well, that is the division that normally we
Speaker 1: see a lot of halfer, a lot like one team
Speaker 1: will start at the bottom and then now we're here. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a bad one. Say it's so confidently I understand. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Ian, you mentioned how he Kendricks let's get to
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals was up next? Yet Steven Strasberg go
Speaker 1: for Washington against a Leasha Greg I meant Max Scherzer,
Speaker 1: he's mad. Max. Excuse me, I wrote it down, different
Speaker 1: eye colors. I wrote it down. Maxser is the weirdest thing, Greaffer,
Speaker 1: it's two different. I feel like it seen that before.
Speaker 1: It wasn't always that prominent though, was it really even
Speaker 1: back to his tiger's these m all right? I had
Speaker 1: some kind of conspiracy theory in my mind that he
Speaker 1: went and got like one of his eye colors changed,
Speaker 1: a contacting younger or something like that, but he isn't
Speaker 1: like that. It is very it is very interesting thing
Speaker 1: going on there with Max Scherzer's eyes. I do appreciate
Speaker 1: that his his fun um. You can't see the Max
Speaker 1: right now, but anyway, yes, his funcow, different eye colors,
Speaker 1: very accurate. I appreciate that. Chus Or last night was awesome.
Speaker 1: He went six innings, allowed six hits, two runs, only
Speaker 1: one of them were earned. He walked when he struck
Speaker 1: out ten on the other side, at least seen did enough.
Speaker 1: Five innings, three hits, two runs, two walks, three ks.
Speaker 1: Why am I going in this game? Well, Howard Kendrick one.
Speaker 1: The second thing is who got the save in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: last night? The bullpen blewett uh for Max Scherzer and co.
Speaker 1: And for the Brewers. With Josh Hayter needing a night off,
Speaker 1: Jeffy Jeffers pitched the eighth, and Junior Ghetta pitched the
Speaker 1: ninth for his second save of the year. Frank Jeffers
Speaker 1: in the eighth, Garrett in the ninth. So my first
Speaker 1: initial instinct was to go back to the play by
Speaker 1: play and see who was up in the eighth for
Speaker 1: the Nationals. Kurt Suzuki, Brian Dozer, William Dafoe, Wi Willim
Speaker 1: Defoe was an actor. That's right in the ninth where
Speaker 1: you saw Junior Gara, Michael Taylor, Carter Cure Room and
Speaker 1: not Aaron Nola, but someone named Noel still filling in
Speaker 1: a first base for them right now. Not Matt Adams. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's got him. What do you make of this in Milwaukee?
Speaker 1: I think it's just very clearly Junior Gara, former starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: He's been pitching well out of the bullpens. I I
Speaker 1: honestly can't answer that question. But he does have two
Speaker 1: saves on the year. Josh Hayder has nine. They have
Speaker 1: twelve as a team. Alex Wilson had one as well
Speaker 1: earlier on in the season. He is not when they
Speaker 1: signed him, but it does seem like Junior Gara is
Speaker 1: the handcuff here behind Josh Hayter, and it's not Jeremy Jeffers,
Speaker 1: who has also pitched. Well, you got two point zero
Speaker 1: eight er a one batting average against Junior Gara a
Speaker 1: little bit better, one eight teen batting average against a
Speaker 1: zero point seven nine whip. He's get seventeen strikeouts and
Speaker 1: twenty and the third so not getting a ton of strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Listen to this, great, this is crazy. Junior Garra has
Speaker 1: seventeen strikeouts and twenty and one third endings pitched. Josh
Speaker 1: Hayter has seventeen in two thirds innings pits, so about
Speaker 1: to three innings. Lest again, Junior gar had seventeen strikeouts.
Speaker 1: How many do you think Josh Hayter had? He's twenty
Speaker 1: two more strikeouts. That's absolutely insane. I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: reading too much into this, Greg. I just think if
Speaker 1: anything were to happen to Josh Hayder, it would probably
Speaker 1: go to a committee approach kind of thing. But I
Speaker 1: think as of right now, Junior Garat is the next man.
Speaker 1: If you're not in a key re league, should you
Speaker 1: drop Carter keep him? Not yet. I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: give up. You know, we made a lot of references
Speaker 1: to Alex Bregman when Hard keep him first, I got
Speaker 1: called up Alex Bregman did something very similar to this,
Speaker 1: and then he took off. I'm not gonna open. We'll
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Speaker 1: watching the Rockets and the Warriors of the hell of
Speaker 1: Baseball game that's going on out there in San Diego,
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Speaker 1: After getting shut out in San Diego last night, Chris
Speaker 1: Paddocks everything that fantasy experts wanted him to be when
Speaker 1: this season began. Only Hazy s Lozardo was there as well.
Speaker 1: Paddocks seven and two thirds, just four hits allowed, zero
Speaker 1: runs allowed, one walk, eleven strikeouts. He threw just pitches.
Speaker 1: On the other side, take with the ground was very
Speaker 1: good as well, just not as good. He went seven
Speaker 1: intings a lot of four hits, two runs, one walk,
Speaker 1: and he struck out seven. Franc This one was good.
Speaker 1: It was really good. And you're right about most of
Speaker 1: America watching the Rockets in the war as I had
Speaker 1: that on the big screen and then I had Paddock
Speaker 1: and de Grom on the laptop, so I had both
Speaker 1: of those things going on at the same time, and
Speaker 1: it was well worth it. You had to watch what
Speaker 1: was going on in this game, and like Paddock was
Speaker 1: just a madman. Last night I tweeted about how angry
Speaker 1: he pitches. Greg He reminds me of Jake Peavy back
Speaker 1: in the day. A lot of people used to call
Speaker 1: Jake Peve the bulldog you watching pitch, he was just
Speaker 1: like snarl at people while yesterday and addic dude a
Speaker 1: lot of the same man. He's just angry. He's striking
Speaker 1: out Pete Alonso. He's walking off the mountain. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that he had such a rivalry with Pete Alonso
Speaker 1: until I was watching this start, and then I saw
Speaker 1: stuff like afterwards while it was going on that apparently
Speaker 1: on Instagram, Chris Paddock commented on MLB's post about he
Speaker 1: de Alonso winning the National League Rookie of the Week,
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Month or something like that. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see on Monday eyes emoji. So he
Speaker 1: was fired up for this one. He was ready. Um,
Speaker 1: he got the best out of Pete Alonso as well,
Speaker 1: and he just been awesome. Uh. Seven and two thirds
Speaker 1: and eleven strike outsoles were both season highs from obviously
Speaker 1: career highs its first season in in the big leagues,
Speaker 1: twenty one swinging strikes. Overall, this Mets lineup has not
Speaker 1: been good over the past couple of weeks or so,
Speaker 1: so I would not be opposed to streaming starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: I almost went as far as to suggest a Cal
Speaker 1: Quantrill as a streamer tonight on my Patreon Greg, but
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I can't do that. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: must have been bad, but I don't think I can.
Speaker 1: I can recommend. I considered picking Listen. I consider picking
Speaker 1: up Cal Quantrill, who has the project pedigree, uh, former
Speaker 1: top pick for San Diego, who has not exactly lit
Speaker 1: the world on fire in the minor leagues. But I'm
Speaker 1: interested in Cal Quantrill to see what he couldn't become
Speaker 1: in the major leagues. By the way, I just randomly
Speaker 1: looks up because you're talking about Padocks. I looked in
Speaker 1: Hazis Lizardo see if I can find an information. There's
Speaker 1: something been written about him in like the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, and we started a pro throwing program about
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Now do you know where he went
Speaker 1: to high school? The answer is Marjorie Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida.
Speaker 1: Oh really out. And he was supposed to actually have
Speaker 1: uh face live hitters, a live batting practice UM session
Speaker 1: in at Stoneman Douglas because he still works out there
Speaker 1: in the off season. I say, Anthony Risen also went there,
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, I remember he did it. He
Speaker 1: did a lot after everything that happened there. He was
Speaker 1: just obviously spoke openly about it and everything. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would expect Luzardo. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: realistic early June. Maybe we should get an update from us. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1: So he's not supposed to be ready for the minors.
Speaker 1: I think I just right until the end of May.
Speaker 1: So you look at after the All Star breaking back. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Paddocks speached to being ridiculous and phenomenal and well great,
Speaker 1: we have to address the elephant in the room too
Speaker 1: going on here with Paddock. What do you do if
Speaker 1: you own him? You ride the way and enjoy yourself. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we get more of an update yesterday regarding
Speaker 1: his his endings limit, and they're saying hundred and fifty innings.
Speaker 1: I guess what. He just went seven and two thirds
Speaker 1: last night adds a decent chunk to that total. The
Speaker 1: saying I don't know that his value will ever be
Speaker 1: higher than it is right now in Keeper in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: I'm not trading him. I mean, look, I'm just unless
Speaker 1: I get give me your five best players, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to win it all this year. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: I'm holding onto Chris Paddock. But in a redraft, Greg,
Speaker 1: are you really? Are you? Is that how you actually feel?
Speaker 1: You're just you're just riding it out and then if
Speaker 1: it comes, you know, once we get to July, August, September,
Speaker 1: like they'll skip him a few times through the rotation,
Speaker 1: maybe just give him a phantom ay Elston and whatever.
Speaker 1: You'll just take whatever you can get from him whenever
Speaker 1: he starts, because right now you might be able to
Speaker 1: turn him into a top twenty, top five starting pitcher
Speaker 1: who maybe gives you a hundred and eighty innings. You're
Speaker 1: not interested in that in all honesty, I look at
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock and I think more along the lines of
Speaker 1: what you were just saying the second half of your
Speaker 1: statement that this team is contending. A team that is
Speaker 1: built to contend right now with Madame Machado and Eric
Speaker 1: has right and it certainly the future as well, but
Speaker 1: a team that has not been in the playoffs in
Speaker 1: a long time. I want to win now. I know
Speaker 1: that the update with a hundreds maybe he winds him
Speaker 1: in the bullpen at some point for the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: I don't just don't think he just shuts down and
Speaker 1: goes away. They don't think that happens, And I think
Speaker 1: down the stretch, I think he could. He'll wind up
Speaker 1: contributing to your team. Do you think we could have
Speaker 1: like a Walker Bueller situation on our hands here? Similarly,
Speaker 1: how last year he goes hundred and thirty seven but
Speaker 1: then they kind of saved some of it for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Who he ends up going like even when the playoffs combined,
Speaker 1: it was like a hundred and seventies something. You see
Speaker 1: that as like a real situation for Chris Pattick. Well,
Speaker 1: that would put him right around one forty for the season,
Speaker 1: and then then they'll say whatever else for if they
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Obviously, I mean, we've got a long
Speaker 1: way to go for the baseball season. Maybe they're playing
Speaker 1: like a wild card game. I would imagine he'd be
Speaker 1: the starting pitcher for that. A lot can change from
Speaker 1: now to the wild Card game in October. Right now,
Speaker 1: there is no doubt that Chris Paddock is the best
Speaker 1: picture on the San Diego Padres. It's not even close.
Speaker 1: No it's not it's not close. I'm not doubt in
Speaker 1: the town. I am realizing how good he is. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy was acstlutely nasty. He's only allowed one walk,
Speaker 1: or exactly one walk, in six of seven starts. His
Speaker 1: commanded is exactly what it was made out to be.
Speaker 1: His fastball changeup combination is awesome. He has a twelve
Speaker 1: to six curveball that he mixes in. He's absolutely legit.
Speaker 1: Just worry about the longevity of his season. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: there's something that we come back to and maybe like
Speaker 1: a month or two from now, but as we get
Speaker 1: closer to that ending's limit, it's gonna be harder and
Speaker 1: trading away. You know what I just found out. By
Speaker 1: the way, what another note as we continue on, Mike
Speaker 1: Florio still plays in an expit league. Oh no, this
Speaker 1: is how you roll your rise about something over there.
Speaker 1: There is nothing to do with John Gray. This is
Speaker 1: just he's he's an expit league, right Like there's something
Speaker 1: that's just slain to the advanced metrics. They just don't
Speaker 1: care about the results, and I think that's what Mike
Speaker 1: Florio is. You know, Sarah's tweeted out the picture who
Speaker 1: were most projected to bounce backed. Based on Steamer. The
Speaker 1: number one picture is Corbyn Burns. Corn Burns is filthy, right.
Speaker 1: He also allows Homer Homer, Homer, Homer, Homer, Homer, Homer right,
Speaker 1: the option the miners that called back up what he do.
Speaker 1: Homer's like this a lot. I stow stand by. The
Speaker 1: corn burn stuff is absolutely filthy. It is filthy. But
Speaker 1: he sucks. That's all I got. Yeah, and he's not
Speaker 1: I mean from a fantasy perspected to like they've already
Speaker 1: said he's going to continue to be a reliever, like
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a starting pitcher. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he has nasty stuff. He does nasty, it's sick.
Speaker 1: You got to wipe out. But he's not gonna translate.
Speaker 1: It's because he sucks. It's probably gonna come at some point, Greg,
Speaker 1: But I mean just from a fantasy perspective, if you're
Speaker 1: looking down the line, obviously, like if someone if you
Speaker 1: could buy him low in dynasty, sure that's fine. And
Speaker 1: like redraft, he's not gonna help you this year. I
Speaker 1: mean even as a reliever, maybe he'll get you some strikeouts,
Speaker 1: but he does have a ar a. Greg got awful
Speaker 1: he does have the three seven Oh, he's got a
Speaker 1: forty eight percent home run the fly ball ratio. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just insane. I know he he pitches in Miller Park,
Speaker 1: but that's insane overall. I just don't think that he's
Speaker 1: gonna help you much this season. But what you play
Speaker 1: in the Dynasty League, look to buy low. I do
Speaker 1: think that he has good stuff, but you're right. I
Speaker 1: mean the results have not shown that, and I I
Speaker 1: can't defend the results right now, but the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: say that he should be better. Gram As I said,
Speaker 1: it was very very good last night for a message.
Speaker 1: You got no help with the bat at all. Just
Speaker 1: four hits total four that's all night long, two which
Speaker 1: came up from the league. He was having like PTSD
Speaker 1: from last year. You know what, No, because I think
Speaker 1: he was just WinCE. I just think he was happy
Speaker 1: to pitch well again. He I mean, look at his
Speaker 1: his past two starts. I mean he's a lot of
Speaker 1: tour and runs over his last fourteen and he's pitched
Speaker 1: over his last two starts. He had a bit of
Speaker 1: a blow up on April against the Milwaukee Brewers. It's
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers and that was his first game coming
Speaker 1: back from the flu. Whatever was going on in his
Speaker 1: elbow basically, um so give him a pass for that one.
Speaker 1: But his past who starts, he's been pretty standard, Jacob
Speaker 1: the Graham, Um how do you feel about him overall? Right? Now?
Speaker 1: Do you still have the elbow thing in the back
Speaker 1: of your mind? If you're a Jacob gramowner, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't actually own the gun anywhere you need, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been a post to it. I would
Speaker 1: have taken him in the main event. He didn't make
Speaker 1: it to me. You're the Mets fan. Is the elbow
Speaker 1: in your back of your mind every start? Um? No
Speaker 1: matter who the picture is for, the Yobo is in
Speaker 1: the back of my mind. Um No. He had a
Speaker 1: similar issue to the beginning of last year and then
Speaker 1: it proved to be Um So, no, I'm not really worried.
Speaker 1: If he says he's fine, he's fine, but I don't
Speaker 1: trust the Mets managing him if that's the real question. Alright,
Speaker 1: So not really, he seems fine. So there you go. Martinos,
Speaker 1: as the resident Met fan here on the show, are
Speaker 1: you how concerned are you with Like, Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say everything I was going without. One by one,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, how are you by every
Speaker 1: one of them? I am concerned by everyone except Petlan's
Speaker 1: own Conforto you well, yeah, um, I mean I understand
Speaker 1: Pete's gonna go through some ups and downs as a rookie,
Speaker 1: you know, but Conforto is still a beast though. I mean,
Speaker 1: when has this guy ever had protection in the lineup?
Speaker 1: Maybe when Cespitas was healthy. But I'm very worried about Cano.
Speaker 1: He's been hit on the hand twice and he hasn't
Speaker 1: rebounded from it at all. Um nimmos like an almost
Speaker 1: an over thirty stretch. I mean, it's just really, it's
Speaker 1: just awful. It's just it's just like last year. Um,
Speaker 1: and I don't really see them turning it around at all.
Speaker 1: I would put Jeff McNeil in that category too, just
Speaker 1: so far this year. Squirrel, Yeah, I mean, his his
Speaker 1: bat to ball skills. He doesn't strike out again, He's
Speaker 1: a young Daniel Murphy, makes a lot of contact, goes
Speaker 1: two or four last night, uh three, fifty batting average
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, this guy is gonna be a
Speaker 1: legitimate contributor for batting average. Outside of that, I don't
Speaker 1: know that he's gonna do anything else, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know that he has a lot of pop. I don't
Speaker 1: know that he has a lot of speed. But the
Speaker 1: batting average is gonna be there, and if he's leading off,
Speaker 1: he's gonna score runs. Uh. If you know, if these
Speaker 1: guys start to get going again, I mean Pete Alonzo
Speaker 1: over four or three strikeouts, but again, I think they'll
Speaker 1: be all right. I was very surprised to see come
Speaker 1: back soon too, so maybe that's a boost. Where still
Speaker 1: they were talking about shortstop a little bit because Rosario
Speaker 1: has had like ten errors in the past, like six games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw Hetcherea in the lineup last night and it
Speaker 1: was like, why is this guy in the line I don't, well,
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of questions like, well, he does
Speaker 1: play good defense, and I saw some Mets Pete writers
Speaker 1: sweeting about it last night. I think it was the
Speaker 1: como he was saying hegel has made at least two
Speaker 1: plays already to that I I question a Metrosario would
Speaker 1: have made. So that's why he's in the lineup. They
Speaker 1: finally care about defense now. If they come back and
Speaker 1: they put short then they clearly don't care about defense,
Speaker 1: which has been the case for a long time with
Speaker 1: the Mets. You would think they're kind of a team
Speaker 1: more built around their pitching staff obviously, like as good
Speaker 1: as they can be, you would think that they would
Speaker 1: surround them with better defenders overall. But that has the
Speaker 1: pitching staffs that can't hold on two runners on base,
Speaker 1: like Noah, I mean, I mean it's just terrible. I
Speaker 1: mean Wilson Ramos too, That's like, that's a guy who's
Speaker 1: been awful. I think I own him in one league.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just hasn't been able to get the
Speaker 1: ball off the ground. There's been a bunch of groundballs too,
Speaker 1: can't throw anybody out, So I mean it's the same
Speaker 1: old story. They haven't fixed any issues, so it's most
Speaker 1: of the same stuff. But they have Peterlanzo man and
Speaker 1: that's the only difference. Yeah, I would say I feel
Speaker 1: bad for you and other Mets fans, uh, Martino, but
Speaker 1: I'd be lying. In this San Diego game last night,
Speaker 1: Kirby Yates needed the night off and I had also
Speaker 1: blown the last couple of it was Craig Stammon getting
Speaker 1: the four outstad coming in the eighth for Chris Pattick
Speaker 1: getting the out and staying in there in the ninth,
Speaker 1: Stammon's first saving out of the year. Curby rates job
Speaker 1: is not in danger. But Frankie, if anything happens to
Speaker 1: Curby Rates, it looks like stabbing is the handcuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't have my updated closer tracker coming out these
Speaker 1: next couple of days on my Patreon account ding, but yeah,
Speaker 1: basically do who's the closer for each team? Who's the handcuff,
Speaker 1: who's the next man up? And then who's like the
Speaker 1: next man up after that? If you want to get
Speaker 1: real deep and just to have an idea. So I
Speaker 1: think Craig Stammon is unquestionably the next man up. I've
Speaker 1: had him as that all season long. Uh, the strikeouts
Speaker 1: haven't been there this year for Stammon, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: been walking anybody. He's got two seven five e r A,
Speaker 1: he's got three six seven x fips, so overall it's
Speaker 1: getting fifty ground balls. If anything were to happen to Yates,
Speaker 1: who's been, you know, one of the three five best
Speaker 1: closers in Fantasy so far this year, I think Craig
Speaker 1: Stammon would be the next man up. Speaking of closers,
Speaker 1: let me it out to Los Angeles where the Dodgers
Speaker 1: takes up a victory against the Atlanta Braves. As Walker
Speaker 1: Bueller goes seven innings five it's three runs, eight strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Would you think of Buller's performance? I have cautious optimism here, Greg,
Speaker 1: and here is here's why I'll say it. I love
Speaker 1: that he didn't walk anyone yesterday because we've seen a
Speaker 1: few random starts. This here where he struggled with command,
Speaker 1: and that's not usually something that Walker Bueller struggles with.
Speaker 1: He does give up two home runs yesterday, once to
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman, once to Mark Cacus. Those came later on
Speaker 1: in the game, you know, third time through the lineup.
Speaker 1: That was Freeman in the sixth, that was Mark Cacas
Speaker 1: in the seventh. Overall, I was impressed with what I saw.
Speaker 1: He had a strikeouts that was a season high for
Speaker 1: Walker Buler. He goes seven innings. But here's why I
Speaker 1: say cautious, Greg. He through se or seemed fastballs. He
Speaker 1: had a hundred pitches and through seventy five fastballs. I'll
Speaker 1: throw this your way because this is my thinking and
Speaker 1: this is just me being speculative, another conspiracy theory, if
Speaker 1: you will, why is he shying away from throwing breaking balls, Gregg,
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know, and I'll keep going
Speaker 1: back to what we heard in spring training. He was
Speaker 1: dealing with dead arm, something in his arm. It didn't
Speaker 1: feel right. He was going with what was working last night.
Speaker 1: That's fine fastballs. Yet thirteen swinging strikes overall on hundred pitches.
Speaker 1: It was his best start. He was establishing the fast
Speaker 1: the strike zone. I read about it afterwards. Dave Robert said,
Speaker 1: this was my design. Is what we wanted to do.
Speaker 1: We wanted him to establish the fastball. We wanted to
Speaker 1: see good command of the fastball, and that's exactly what
Speaker 1: we saw. But I will just store out there Greg
Speaker 1: that I am, ever so slightly worried that he isn't
Speaker 1: throwing as many breaking pitches this year, and it might
Speaker 1: have something to do with the arm. I'll just store
Speaker 1: it out there. So my answer to last night was
Speaker 1: you talked about how he has struggled this year, how
Speaker 1: you haven't been confident in him. I think he had
Speaker 1: a game plan. I'm just going to work my fastball
Speaker 1: in more that I have get that confidence and if
Speaker 1: it's working, awesome. If it's not, I'll go back and
Speaker 1: trying to throw the junk. And last night, for the
Speaker 1: most part, very successful with those seventy five fastballs. I
Speaker 1: think as the field gets better, he'll go back to
Speaker 1: the breaking ball. I think last night isn't necessarily a
Speaker 1: sign a major sign to come. But I'm not discouraged
Speaker 1: by the thought by the start, and we're encouraged by
Speaker 1: the start. Yeah, I like it overall too because I
Speaker 1: don't want to sound like I'm downplaying it. This is
Speaker 1: another great start that you needed to see from Walker Bueller.
Speaker 1: Of course, you would have liked to not see the
Speaker 1: home runs late in the start, but again it was
Speaker 1: the third time through the lineup. He still went deep
Speaker 1: into this game. He through a hundred pitches, seven innings,
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts. It was overall very good start and didn't
Speaker 1: walk anyone. So I like it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: downplay it too much, but I want to see moving
Speaker 1: forward because overall this season, Gregg he hasn't really been
Speaker 1: using his breaking stuff as much he's used he is
Speaker 1: strowing more fastballs. He was starting about like sixty fast
Speaker 1: fastballs coming into the start. Well of his pitches in
Speaker 1: the start, we're fourcing fastballs. It did work for him.
Speaker 1: It's something that I'm going to pay attention to. I'll
Speaker 1: just I'll throw it out there. I have cautious optimism
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Speaker 1: last night, Frank, which led to a different Dodger. You're
Speaker 1: getting the save and he might have thought you would
Speaker 1: see her bias in there in the ninth, but he
Speaker 1: pitched the eighth United the ga his first career saves.
Speaker 1: Julio Urios the clean an astruck out one his first
Speaker 1: career save. If anything happens to Kelly Jensen. Do you
Speaker 1: believe Youuriosity the guy? It's a situation to pay attention
Speaker 1: to moving forward. Everyone Joe Kelly has been an adject
Speaker 1: failure in this bullpen so far this year. I think
Speaker 1: they like Pairebias more as a set up guy too,
Speaker 1: and he struggled with giving up home runs in the
Speaker 1: past too, So there's not a lot of talent here
Speaker 1: in the back end overall, or at least guys haven't
Speaker 1: shown up. Um. Dylan Floro is another one who's performed
Speaker 1: well thus far but doesn't really have closing experience. I
Speaker 1: think Urias would be in the mix. Maybe it would
Speaker 1: be a thing where they where they play matchups. Maybe
Speaker 1: it would be a little bit of him, a little
Speaker 1: bit of Pedro Bayez based on who's coming up in
Speaker 1: the ninth. But it was it was definitely interesting to
Speaker 1: see you, you you know, Walker Bueler handed off to Tobias,
Speaker 1: then handed off to Julio Urias. So getting major contributions
Speaker 1: from their young players here are the Dodgers. But it's
Speaker 1: not like Urias can't handle it. He's got thirty one
Speaker 1: strikeouts and twenty five and the third and he's pitched
Speaker 1: so far this year on batting average against. We all
Speaker 1: saw Kenley Jansen get bombed on Sunday, gave up the
Speaker 1: Grand Slam to Hunter Renfro, which really has inflated his
Speaker 1: e r A. He still has twelve saves and in
Speaker 1: fourteen save opportunities. It's not the same picture that he
Speaker 1: has been in years past, where he was like the
Speaker 1: number one closer off the board going in the third
Speaker 1: or fourth round as lights out as he has been
Speaker 1: going back to last year I think, um it was seventeen.
Speaker 1: Going as deep into the postseason as he did, then
Speaker 1: he kind of messed him up. He's been doing that
Speaker 1: for so long. He's just not the same picture that
Speaker 1: he once was. But overall, he still has been pretty
Speaker 1: good thus far this season. Um, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a fair question now that we see who are your
Speaker 1: eyes getting the mix? So if anything were to happen
Speaker 1: to Kelly Jansen, I think it would be a mixing
Speaker 1: Maxing Greg mix and match is usually what it turns
Speaker 1: into in these bullpens. When the closer goes down, you're
Speaker 1: asked will be a part of that. But he could
Speaker 1: also get back into their starting rotation. Although I have
Speaker 1: a feeling ros stripling will be probably the next guy
Speaker 1: up if there is an injury in that Dodgers rotation.
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor at his third steel last night. As you
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the program, Frank, you got a little
Speaker 1: bit of hot as of late two or four last night.
Speaker 1: A couple of r B I. Uh, Batty average is
Speaker 1: still to thirty one. Oh, he still sits under three hundred.
Speaker 1: But Taylor has been a little bit hotter as of late.
Speaker 1: Any injuries in him, and if so, how much, I
Speaker 1: would say in a head to head daily league where
Speaker 1: you can set your lineup and get him in there
Speaker 1: whenever he's in the lineup, I think that makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. If any in any deeper leagues, anything
Speaker 1: deeper than twelve teams, like for me twelve teamers. I'm
Speaker 1: not there yet with him, Greg, because I still do
Speaker 1: have some questions about the playing time. But again, head
Speaker 1: to head daily leagues where you could set your line up,
Speaker 1: you could just get him in there whenever he plays,
Speaker 1: or anything deeper than the twelve fourteen teams are deeper.
Speaker 1: If he was out there, if he was dropped, he
Speaker 1: is only owned in well. I wish I could tell
Speaker 1: you Greg, actually, Uh, he's his name is Taylor. He's
Speaker 1: so not a lot of people still overall holding onto
Speaker 1: uh to Chris Taylor. Here. I thought he would be
Speaker 1: owned in a little bit of a little bit less
Speaker 1: than that Greg. But he is hot. I mean, it
Speaker 1: just tells you how slow was already got off too.
Speaker 1: Even with how hot he has been been, He's still
Speaker 1: only hitting two thirty over the past two weeks A
Speaker 1: three sixteen batting average PS, two home runs, eleven ribbies,
Speaker 1: two stolen bases, five runs scored. I kind of like
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor coming into the year. Um that was before
Speaker 1: we knew that he gat Hernandez was going to take
Speaker 1: over as the starting second baseman, just because I thought
Speaker 1: it was cheap exposure to the Dodgers lineup. He has
Speaker 1: a little bit of a power speed combination. He has
Speaker 1: played each of their past six games, so it is
Speaker 1: something to pay attention to. Head to head capital head
Speaker 1: to head daily leagues, and deeper than twelve teams. I
Speaker 1: would be looking for him right now, but both teams.
Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. Great already twelve teamers. Not yet
Speaker 1: for Chris Taylor. You had Ozzie Alvis still his fourth
Speaker 1: base of the year, Dancy Swanson. He's double played partner
Speaker 1: still his third base of the year. Uh Swanson last
Speaker 1: night was betting six one for three, betting two sixty three.
Speaker 1: I mentioned going into the break Frank that I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention I wanted to mention John Means. And what
Speaker 1: John Means was. Now, I don't know if it was you,
Speaker 1: guys or somebody else on Twitter, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: that said hey, and he interested in John Means. This
Speaker 1: is last week. I'm like, no, I don't have interest
Speaker 1: in John Means. And then last night at home against Boston,
Speaker 1: the inspens really really well the finale and was seven innings,
Speaker 1: three hits, one run, He walked nobody and he struck
Speaker 1: out four. His season ear a sits at two point
Speaker 1: four eight. Josh Smith pitch for Boston. Nothing to see there.
Speaker 1: Boel Gibbon's got his fourth save and clearly solidified himself
Speaker 1: after a rough start as a close because we went
Speaker 1: with a month without a save. But he's the closer
Speaker 1: out there in Baltimore. But more importantly, Frank, talk to
Speaker 1: me about John Means, who now sits at four and three.
Speaker 1: He started this season in the bullpen as recently as
Speaker 1: two three weeks ago. He's in the bullpen. Now, he's
Speaker 1: very firmly entrenched in the rotation. He said, I believe
Speaker 1: his last three starts win five innings, four hits, one run,
Speaker 1: struck out six started after that, both against Chicago Whites.
Speaker 1: The White Sox by the way, five innings, six hits,
Speaker 1: four runs to homer and only struck out two. And
Speaker 1: then last night against Boston, I gave you the line
Speaker 1: he had eleven ground ball outs. Frank, what do you
Speaker 1: know about John Means? So I started looking into him
Speaker 1: last night once I saw his line as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just can't ignore going seven innings pitched only one
Speaker 1: earned run against the Boston Red Sox. It's not Boston Celtics, Greig.
Speaker 1: But I'll do you one further. You you mentioned his
Speaker 1: last three starts, his last four starts, two against the
Speaker 1: White Sox, two against the Red Sox twenty two and
Speaker 1: pits seven earned runs, only fifteen strikeouts, only three walks
Speaker 1: as well, though over a four star stretch as a
Speaker 1: two point eight six e r A, the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: for John Means are not I popping. To say the least,
Speaker 1: He's got a two point four e E r A.
Speaker 1: His X fit is four point four three. He does
Speaker 1: get groundballs, as you mentioned, forty percent at the time, uh.
Speaker 1: The swinging strike rate above average as well well above
Speaker 1: average almost fourteen per cent. I do have some interest
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues. If you wanted to take a shot
Speaker 1: on John Means over like a Merrill Kelly. Sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's still gonna have a lot of starts against teams
Speaker 1: in the American League East. He doesn't pitch in a
Speaker 1: great ballpark in Camneen Yards, but he's gonna continue to
Speaker 1: get an opportunity because the Orioles pitching staff is just
Speaker 1: really bad. So as long as he's getting that opportunity,
Speaker 1: and as long as he's pitching pretty well again at
Speaker 1: two point over his last four, you can take a shot.
Speaker 1: But I do think that there is gonna be some
Speaker 1: regression the division that he plays in, the ballpark that
Speaker 1: he pitches in. It's just it doesn't all really add
Speaker 1: up to being fantasy viable Greg overall. But if you
Speaker 1: wanted to take a shot while he's pitching well, dropped
Speaker 1: like a Merrill Kelly for him, I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with it. John Means his second start this week.
Speaker 1: He's on Sunday at home against the Angels. Meryll Kelly,
Speaker 1: who's the example you gave the second start this week
Speaker 1: against against the Braves. Who would you rather start? Means?
Speaker 1: People start means okay? Yeah. The Braves overall this season
Speaker 1: have been still a pretty good lineup. The Angels up
Speaker 1: and down a little bit inconsistent outside of Mike Trial.
Speaker 1: You don't really worry about much there. Um, I'll take
Speaker 1: John Means. Okay, So John Means will be your guy
Speaker 1: in that scenario. As we said, Baltimore won this one
Speaker 1: four to one. All of their runs come on a
Speaker 1: grand slam by Jonathan VR four VR. It was his
Speaker 1: fourth homer of the season. Um the hit that he had,
Speaker 1: Um and that was kind of it was a big
Speaker 1: blow for Baltimore. No other runs were scored. Speaking of
Speaker 1: pitching and guys that you liked, Frank Martine Perez went
Speaker 1: into Toronto and that was the reaction that we just got.
Speaker 1: Martine Pere has seven innings, two hits, walked to but
Speaker 1: he struck out nine. Allow you can know Ronsin's a
Speaker 1: crossed the board for Toronto yesterday. Martin Perez now improved
Speaker 1: to five and oh on the season, Greggy, give me
Speaker 1: all the Martine Perez. I know it was against the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays. They are a very cold lineup right now. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought he used cold lineup and not bad lineup.
Speaker 1: They're cold because I assume that they're gonna get better.
Speaker 1: I mean, is Viao mcguar gonna be this bad all
Speaker 1: season long? No, but everybody else will. Everybody else will
Speaker 1: probably be Come on, don't say that when you're leading it,
Speaker 1: when your top three hitters or Eric so guard Ferreddi
Speaker 1: Galvi's and Randall grit Chick. I don't expect much. I
Speaker 1: don't care what their averages are this season. M any
Speaker 1: doon't expect much. But the reinforcements are coming great, not
Speaker 1: that soon. Frankie Gavon video is mashing in the miners
Speaker 1: right now. We'll see, we shall see. I think that
Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays line up will get better. There
Speaker 1: have been a team that you could take advantage of.
Speaker 1: They swing and miss a lot, they strike out a lot,
Speaker 1: and Martine Perez showed that off last night. He was
Speaker 1: absolutely awesome. Greg Um, you know, he had the seven
Speaker 1: seven shout out and he's here only two hits, two walks,
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts. The nine strikeouts were tied the career high.
Speaker 1: They're obviously a season high him as well. He's now
Speaker 1: five and now he's got a two point eight three
Speaker 1: e r A, get fifteen swinging strikes on a hundred
Speaker 1: and two pitches. Greg I thought it was interesting he
Speaker 1: threw his change up twenty six times. That was a
Speaker 1: season high for him, get five swinging strikes on that
Speaker 1: change up. So he's doing things a little bit differently
Speaker 1: this year. I think it's an additioned by subtraction from
Speaker 1: Martine Perez because his fastball, according to pitch values on
Speaker 1: fan grafts, has been a very bad pitch the past
Speaker 1: couple of years, and now he's adopted this cutter that
Speaker 1: he's throwing about, you know, thirty five percent of the
Speaker 1: time this year. So I think the fact that he's
Speaker 1: using his fourcing fastball lesson using his cutter more and
Speaker 1: starting to to integrate a change up to now that
Speaker 1: he's using um, I'm intrigued. I'm really buying in. It's
Speaker 1: the increased velocity from Martine Perez as well. His last
Speaker 1: three starts twenty one innings pitched, twelve hits, four walks,
Speaker 1: one earned run, twenty strikeouts. Greg, I'm all in, all in,
Speaker 1: all in on Martinez, all in on Marty Perez. In
Speaker 1: our own Frankie Stan I would drop Meryl Kelly for him.
Speaker 1: I could. I could probably find some other starting pitchers
Speaker 1: that I would drop for him to he he needs
Speaker 1: to be owned. I agree at this point Morton Perez
Speaker 1: has done enough that he has to be owned. He
Speaker 1: should be own. Pick him up. You gotta pick him up.
Speaker 1: He's got the second start this week as well, Yes
Speaker 1: he does. That's part of the reason we were trying
Speaker 1: to get on him. We spoke about him yesterday with
Speaker 1: Modica too. I'm looking at the most dropped players in
Speaker 1: Yahoo right now. Vince Velaska has gone. I would drop
Speaker 1: him until of Martine Perez as well. Kevin Gausman, the
Speaker 1: gas man, more like the gas can. He's gone from
Speaker 1: Martine Perez, Carlos Rodan, He's who knows what's going on
Speaker 1: with him. He's about to have Tommy John surgery. He's gone.
Speaker 1: Um Felix turning. Why was Felix changing his own in
Speaker 1: the first place. I know he has two starts, but
Speaker 1: come on, that guy's like a shell of his former self.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't have even been on your team. Gone through Palm,
Speaker 1: RAN's gone, Jeff some margin gone, Kyle Freeland gone, an
Speaker 1: Indiscofani I like to but gone. Look he's gone all
Speaker 1: gone from Martine Perez. He's the guy, He's the top
Speaker 1: pictures that needs to be added right now. I hope
Speaker 1: I got two to everyone, Greg, I'm all in, I'm
Speaker 1: all in. You know a lot of phrases I never
Speaker 1: thought that I would say, are happening this year Greg
Speaker 1: and being being excited about Martine Perez saying I'm all in.
Speaker 1: A Martine Perez has to be at the top of
Speaker 1: the list or the top grade. I never thought i'd say.
Speaker 1: Never's on. Marty Tweaky your twinkies eight, Marty, Marty. Marcus
Speaker 1: Struman dropped to one in five last night. The ear
Speaker 1: a sistance under three. A little regression alert here, uh
Speaker 1: six runs allowed, five of them were earned, two walks,
Speaker 1: two k's eight hits against the ferocious Twins lineup, the
Speaker 1: ferocious This is now two starts in a row. Now
Speaker 1: for Marcus Stroman that we're starting to see a little
Speaker 1: bit of regression. But he wasn't going to pitch to
Speaker 1: the sub one or sub two ear A that he
Speaker 1: had all season long. We knew that Uh still struggles
Speaker 1: with getting swings and misses, filthy walks too many guys
Speaker 1: at times. Uh finally allowed his first home run last night,
Speaker 1: and not only did he allow his first, he allowed
Speaker 1: his second. He allowed to home runs last night too,
Speaker 1: So there was gonna be some regression coming for Marcus Stroman. Still.
Speaker 1: Overall in the season, greggy, he's been very good. He's
Speaker 1: got a two point nine six ear A, but three
Speaker 1: point five five walks for nine. It's just he has
Speaker 1: a lot of movement on his pitches and I think
Speaker 1: at times he doesn't know where they're going to go.
Speaker 1: As well. He has has he struggles with the strike
Speaker 1: zone at times, but he just doesn't strike out enough
Speaker 1: batters to mitigate his walks. Has always kind of been
Speaker 1: an issue for him. He's able to wiggle out of
Speaker 1: it at times because he has the fifty percent groundball right,
Speaker 1: so he gets a lot of double playballs, but doesn't
Speaker 1: really have a good defense behind him. To Vladi mcgurero
Speaker 1: is not going to help out that defense, so overall
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to regress. He's got a two
Speaker 1: nine six ar A. He's got a three nine six
Speaker 1: x fit. I would probably bet on him landing closer
Speaker 1: to that x fit. I think he's probably more so
Speaker 1: three seven three e r A pictures just because of
Speaker 1: where he pitches the defense behind him. The American League
Speaker 1: Geese as well, the Yankees are hopefully gonna get healthy
Speaker 1: at some point. The Red Sox offense is going to
Speaker 1: bounce back. So there there's gonna continue to be some
Speaker 1: more regression for Marcus Stroman. That doesn't mean drop him,
Speaker 1: but he's just not gonna put up the same numbers
Speaker 1: that he was early on in the season. Gree More. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman, you can't drop him unfortunately, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: but maybe Coastle was coming. Yeah. No, Well, a lot
Speaker 1: of people like Marcus Stroman. You know, they've seen what
Speaker 1: he's done in like the World Baseball Classic the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. He's a fiery dude. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: people are attracted to his personality, greg, the way he
Speaker 1: carries himself on act. He's a fun guy to watch,
Speaker 1: so I think that's why he might get a little
Speaker 1: bit overrated at time. You fancy and I've I've been
Speaker 1: a Marcus Stroman supporter in the past, but I think
Speaker 1: we have too much of a sample size now. I
Speaker 1: think he has really good stuff. You watch him pitch,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason there are, he's just not consistent enough.
Speaker 1: He doesn't put it together altogether enough for me. I
Speaker 1: think if you were able to harness all of the
Speaker 1: talent that he has on a more consistent basis, then
Speaker 1: you know, maybe potentially he would be a top thirties
Speaker 1: starting pitcher for a fantasy purpose, and he'd be able
Speaker 1: to help out the Blue Jays a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Now there's a chance that he gets traded. They've already
Speaker 1: talked about that. There was a report from and Rosenthal
Speaker 1: over the past couple of weeks that the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: are gonna be fire sailing anyone who's over the age
Speaker 1: of twenty five basically, so that would include Marcus Stroman.
Speaker 1: I think he's talented, but for whatever reason, Greg, he's
Speaker 1: never been able to put everything together on a consistent basis. Nope,
Speaker 1: hes very very frustrating for Minnesota. Though. I wanted to
Speaker 1: have a conversation here on Hoy Polanco because he had
Speaker 1: the seventh whole run last night. I mentioned previously at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, I thought Eddi Rosarios was
Speaker 1: underappreciated player in baseball, like Polanco might kind of hold
Speaker 1: that mantel now Yea, So we actually had a question
Speaker 1: Greg and I feel like it's a good time to
Speaker 1: talk about this. We just spoke about Jonathan VR as
Speaker 1: well from Nick Luciano on Twitter. He asked us to
Speaker 1: rank we could kind of maybe do a little bit
Speaker 1: of a deeper dive on each one of these guys,
Speaker 1: but Tim Anderson, Elvis Andrews, Hory Polanco, Fernando Tatis, and
Speaker 1: Johnny v R. Five. Really it seems like now under rated,
Speaker 1: undervalued shortstops coming into the season. They're all mashing. He
Speaker 1: actually brought up a pretty cool confident I haven't really
Speaker 1: thought about. He said, Hory Polanco reminds him a little
Speaker 1: bit of Jose Ramirez past couple of years. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have the same speed, He's not gonna run as much.
Speaker 1: I mean, even with Josierra is struggling this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he still has nine or ten stolen basis,
Speaker 1: so he's been up there. But the bat to ball
Speaker 1: skills are absolutely I could see that comp with Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez because thirteen point seven percent strike out rate. He
Speaker 1: makes a lot of contact. He's making great contact this
Speaker 1: year overall, too, when he's putting the bat on the
Speaker 1: ball forty two percent hard hit rate, hitting more fly balls,
Speaker 1: something we've also seen Jose Ramirez due the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. He's up to a fifty four percent ground
Speaker 1: ball rate. I would argue that that's even a little
Speaker 1: bit too high for a guy like Jorge Polanco, but
Speaker 1: he has been awesome. Three seventeen A, three eight O
Speaker 1: b P, six homers, twenty runs scored, only twelve ribies
Speaker 1: because most of the time he's at the top of
Speaker 1: that lineup. But as the weather starts to heat up
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, he could potentially be better. And you know
Speaker 1: the run scored are gonna be there because he hits
Speaker 1: at the top of this lineup. Grey Polanco pretty good
Speaker 1: ball player, greg, So how do you rank him, Frank?
Speaker 1: That was the question of Nikola Giana of I would
Speaker 1: rank him, Man, It's interesting because I guess it would
Speaker 1: depend what format you playing, because everyone else that he's
Speaker 1: kind of lumped in here is gonna give you more
Speaker 1: stolen basis. So in Rhodo he might be towards the
Speaker 1: bottom of the list. And and it's no fault of
Speaker 1: his own. It's just the fact that everyone else on
Speaker 1: this list is gonna steal basis. Anderson these the American League.
Speaker 1: In stolen basis, Elvis Andrews gives you a little bit
Speaker 1: of a power speed combination. Bernando Tatis saw him steal
Speaker 1: like what three or four basis and and Johnny bar
Speaker 1: can run. We can talk about this a little bit
Speaker 1: more when we get back, But yeah, and and these
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys that he likes you, so
Speaker 1: I would I would like to hear from We'll break
Speaker 1: it down, but Roto, I might have to rank him
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