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Speaker 1: is Frank Stamville. I am Greg Susan. April's finally over. Frank,
Speaker 1: we made it finally. The longest month in the history
Speaker 1: of Humanity's over. I can't believe he went an entire
Speaker 1: show yesterday without saying it's going to be May about today.
Speaker 1: I don't really do that. You're not into it. Like
Speaker 1: I literally saw like a fake tweet from Justin timber
Speaker 1: Leg saying he effing hates this month. Was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that joke. It's It's pretty good, Grouchy Greg today, No,
Speaker 1: just busy. Greg's busy. Greg. Admittedly I wouldn't say I'm
Speaker 1: grouchy day. You're a little off. I agree very well.
Speaker 1: I agree you're you're a little You're a little high
Speaker 1: strung today. I don't know what's going on. You're a
Speaker 1: little high strung today. Maybe maybe the show will you know,
Speaker 1: get it out of me, Greg, I hope so, Frankie,
Speaker 1: wake me up a little bit. Wait before it's over.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't think of a better way to
Speaker 1: kick off May than with a nice, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: degree day here in New York City's quite cold, perfect,
Speaker 1: it's quite cool. What we wanted. I'm wearing. We get
Speaker 1: through April all the uh, all the rain cloudiness of April,
Speaker 1: and we start off May with a fifty degree day, perfect,
Speaker 1: and think of a better way to Smarrow I think
Speaker 1: supposed to be like seventy and rainy, a lot of
Speaker 1: rain coming up to it. Seems like April's over. But
Speaker 1: everything that April normally brings not over. Greg, I realized
Speaker 1: the Yankees are on. Yes they are big Merrill Kelly
Speaker 1: on the MOUNTA had to start him in the league. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: why Unfortunately there's the Yankees unfortunately, because I bench Spencer
Speaker 1: Turnbull for him Burnbull pitch pretty damn good. Left, It's
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row that Spencer Turnbull loses double start.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to have a two star week this
Speaker 1: week lost it. So I see his only starts at Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I don't really love guys with one start at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: so I ben Spencer Turnbull. He ends up having a
Speaker 1: great start in favor of Meryl Kelly, hoping the Yankees win,
Speaker 1: but hoping Merrill Kelly gives me quality start. Let's go
Speaker 1: with that grant. By the way, I know we're doing
Speaker 1: this before um double head checks off between the Oil
Speaker 1: and the White Sox. Trey man Cini is back in
Speaker 1: the lineup for Game one against the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 1: Very nice, Carlos the town's home run homewer two days
Speaker 1: in a row. I don't know what start fright, Well,
Speaker 1: what's what's what's your options here? What do you got?
Speaker 1: What do you got going on? I don't know. Nobody
Speaker 1: cat cares, so I'm not gonna go through it. I care,
Speaker 1: but like, well, I'm happy you brought it up. Greg.
Speaker 1: If no one cares, just being honest with you, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what it cares. Why do you even
Speaker 1: bring it up? Then? Because I care, it matters to me,
Speaker 1: so do it during the break. I'm gonna do just that.
Speaker 1: I was looking at lineups for today and that got
Speaker 1: day baseball. I love Wednesdays, Greg. It's not a minute.
Speaker 1: It's been a good first two days of the week,
Speaker 1: I think, and I like to Yeah, I mean, Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer a little underwhelming last night. You know, crazy to say.
Speaker 1: You still go seven innings and gives ten strikeouts, but
Speaker 1: four earned runs against the Marlins. Let's start right there,
Speaker 1: because you you played daily last night and you do
Speaker 1: whatever you could, get Trevor Bauer in your lineup. How
Speaker 1: did you perform? Oh? Overall, actually performed well because that
Speaker 1: friend will raise in my line But I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: of course at one time that I put Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: in my lineup. It's like I'm the omen for him
Speaker 1: where he gives the four earned runs against the Miami
Speaker 1: Marlins of all teams. I was watching the start, it
Speaker 1: was the second ending was just a really weird one.
Speaker 1: They get caught in like a suicide squeeze situation where um,
Speaker 1: nobody was covering third because jose Marius came in. So
Speaker 1: the guy's like halfway down the line, ends up throwing
Speaker 1: at the first that scores a run, gives up a
Speaker 1: home run to Curtis Granderson. Later on an absolute moon
Speaker 1: rocket by the way to to Curtis Granderson, which eliminates
Speaker 1: the quality starts. So a little bit frustrating. And I
Speaker 1: was looking at the Trevor Bauers numbers last night. He's
Speaker 1: a really interesting guy. I mean, outside of the usual
Speaker 1: stuff that we talked about with Trevor Bauer being an
Speaker 1: interesting dude. Like, the walks are back up this year.
Speaker 1: The walks are over four per nine, Greg, which is
Speaker 1: not great. The case per nine last year was over eleven.
Speaker 1: This year he's right around ten, so that's down, the
Speaker 1: swinging strike rates down. I just think he's trying to
Speaker 1: do a little bit too much, Greg. He throws like
Speaker 1: six different pitches, and all of these pitches have phenomenal movement,
Speaker 1: but I think half the time he can't even harness
Speaker 1: where these pitches are gonna go. Just me watching it
Speaker 1: last night, he has nasty wipe out slider. It seems
Speaker 1: like all of his pitches have this crazy movement, but
Speaker 1: most of the time, he can't throw them for strikes,
Speaker 1: so he's getting guys to chase his pitches, obviously, but
Speaker 1: it just seems to me like Turnbauer is trying to
Speaker 1: do a little bit too much. Swinging strike rate down
Speaker 1: a little bit, oh swing is down, so they're laying
Speaker 1: off those pitches outside the strike zone and those are
Speaker 1: resulting in walks, and his first pitch strike percentages down too.
Speaker 1: So I know he had the game where he left
Speaker 1: with the no hitter and it was an awesome start,
Speaker 1: but overall it's been kind of a mixed bag when
Speaker 1: you look at the underlying numbers when it comes to
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer seven eights, four hits, four runs, four walks,
Speaker 1: ten cages with the final line for Bauer over his
Speaker 1: seven inies of work against the Marlins. Sandy Alkantar has
Speaker 1: also been a disappointment for Miami. Five innings, seven or
Speaker 1: getting seven hit, six runs, four of which we earned,
Speaker 1: three walk only struck out one. That's not going to
Speaker 1: get the job done. You mentioned Curtis Grandisans Moon Rocket,
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana went deep for the second day in a row.
Speaker 1: He's mad only the middle a mini slump, but his
Speaker 1: third home run there of the year. Satanna's average, which
Speaker 1: is never going to be high, is down to three sixteen.
Speaker 1: The O b P, which is going to be high,
Speaker 1: is up at four thirty here on the season. Greig
Speaker 1: may interested in Carlos Gonzalez at all. Seems like he's
Speaker 1: heating up a little bit. Well, tell me about him. Well,
Speaker 1: over the past week for Carlos Gonzalez, he all right,
Speaker 1: not a great batting a seven, but he he does
Speaker 1: have two on runs for r b I s four
Speaker 1: runs scored, and he hit an absolute rocket yesterday to
Speaker 1: classic Carlos Gonzalez. I love to see it too, when
Speaker 1: when these older veteran players they still so you got
Speaker 1: a little something left in the tank. He just smacks
Speaker 1: and pitch just drops the bat immediately. It was just
Speaker 1: one of those classic Carlos Gonzalez. Um Carlos Gonzalez swings.
Speaker 1: But you know over the past or games, he has
Speaker 1: two multi hit games. He he hits the big three
Speaker 1: run homer last night. He has two runs scored last
Speaker 1: night as well. Look in deeper leagues in rodo you
Speaker 1: gotta start five outfielders. Seems like these players are dropping
Speaker 1: like flies there where you need to start five ail fielders, Greg,
Speaker 1: I take a shot. I take a flyer on Carlos Gonzoz. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the shallower than five outfielders. Probably not so
Speaker 1: I've always had the I've always really liked Carlos Gonzalez. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know, this is usually the point of the
Speaker 1: week we tell about to talk about some terrible veteran
Speaker 1: you want to pick up like that's that's usually where
Speaker 1: we end up on about Wednesday or something. Um like george'
Speaker 1: zuerman and Whomer Bailey coming to tell me to not
Speaker 1: buy instant Carlos Gonzalza. Well, you know, but I think
Speaker 1: he did it break this time right and five outfielder leagues,
Speaker 1: Carlos Gonzalez batting the middle of the order, playing every day.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I'm finally taking shanan. Carlos Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Hamley Ramira is the fomer Indians vetterman. You take a
Speaker 1: shot on. I believe that the Indians cut him before
Speaker 1: we did, so our fault I would get to Carlos Gonzala.
Speaker 1: I'm finally Carlos Gazela isn't caution anything. Oh this great.
Speaker 1: His launch angle negative three point six. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like that's gonna work very well for you. Probably not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's batting two sixty one, but his expected batting averages.
Speaker 1: There's something I want to talk about. Raised raise the
Speaker 1: launch angle a little bit, Cargo, Let's let's get some
Speaker 1: bombs here. I want to talk about Frankie, a player
Speaker 1: that three April I could not have been more wrong about.
Speaker 1: And you told me, and you begged me in March.
Speaker 1: Don't let my biases affect anything. Don't let it affect anything.
Speaker 1: Modica more than Anybody's like, you're being an idiot, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, no, this guy stinks. The problem is
Speaker 1: he doesn't stink. And that's Louis Castillo, who last night
Speaker 1: against the mat six and two thirds, five hits, two runs,
Speaker 1: He walked three, which isn't good. He struck out seven
Speaker 1: on the evening. He finishes the month of April with
Speaker 1: a one point four five e r A Jason Varius
Speaker 1: by the way, he goes five intes, three hits, one run,
Speaker 1: He also walked three and he struck out of five.
Speaker 1: That makes four starts in a row where Jason Vargas
Speaker 1: did not make it through six innings, two of them
Speaker 1: he didn't make it through five, but he allowed just
Speaker 1: one run. Interesting to note and probably nothing else. Come on, great,
Speaker 1: you don't want Jason Vargas feder and we can add
Speaker 1: I do not Jerry's familiar. It was pushed up to
Speaker 1: full innings. It did not work out as he blows
Speaker 1: this one um in the night and he blows it
Speaker 1: really in the ninth and the Reds come back to
Speaker 1: win it in the tenth. Yeah, I mean Mets come
Speaker 1: back to win it rather in the tenth. Regarding Louise Castillo,
Speaker 1: You're right, Greg, he he has been awesome. And I
Speaker 1: think part of this something that's been overlooked is the
Speaker 1: fact that they poached the pitching coach from the Milwaukee Brewers,
Speaker 1: Dereck Johnson, who was the pitching coach for the past
Speaker 1: three years. It's clearly working because we're getting some bounceback
Speaker 1: performances here from Luis cast the year from Sonny Gray.
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray has been awesome to start the season as well.
Speaker 1: If you if you watch Louise Castillo pitch, it seems
Speaker 1: like he's learning how to pitch now. He's kind of
Speaker 1: pitching backwards. He knows that his fastball is not his
Speaker 1: best pitch. In fact, it's probably his worst pitch. That
Speaker 1: was something we highlighted multiple times while talking about Louise
Speaker 1: Castio before the season with Matt Modica. He has a
Speaker 1: really really bad fastball. Yes, he throws it really hard
Speaker 1: miles per hour, but a lot of times it's straight
Speaker 1: as an arrow and it gets hit hard. So I
Speaker 1: think he's learning how to pitch backwards and using his
Speaker 1: changeup to kind of establish the strike zone and using
Speaker 1: that slider a little bit more. The changeup has been
Speaker 1: absolutely deadly this season, and he's he's throwing it more frankly,
Speaker 1: and his hard hit rate is down significantly. The biggest
Speaker 1: difference greg between Louise Castio last year and this year.
Speaker 1: He's only allowed to home runs this season. Last year
Speaker 1: he allowed twenty eight home runs. That was a huge
Speaker 1: issue for him. Now, once the weather starts to heat
Speaker 1: up and he has more stars in the Great American
Speaker 1: small park and he's going up against the Brewers and
Speaker 1: the Cubs and the Cardinals, those home run numbers jump up.
Speaker 1: I do have a tad bit concerned. Look, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna pitch you an ear under two for the entire season,
Speaker 1: but can he be the picture we all, well, not
Speaker 1: all because you didn't think he could be this, but um,
Speaker 1: can he be the picture that pitches to a load
Speaker 1: of mid three's e r a with over a strikeout
Speaker 1: for Enning and in a whip that doesn't kill you.
Speaker 1: I think the answer is yes. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some regression at some point because he's not gonna pitch
Speaker 1: you an ear a under two. But overall he's been
Speaker 1: awesome and I think a lot of credit goes to
Speaker 1: their pitching coach, Dereck Johnson. Right sell Glaciers allows his
Speaker 1: first run, his first earned run since over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks or so, have you been surprised by his
Speaker 1: workload and where they've used him or now he's still
Speaker 1: getting the majority of the correct save opportunities. He has
Speaker 1: taken on a pretty big workload so far to start
Speaker 1: the season. He's appeared in twelve games, he's got he's
Speaker 1: right around thirteen and he's pitched. But they have seven
Speaker 1: save opportunities this season. I mean I have nine save
Speaker 1: opportunities this season. He has seven of those, and he
Speaker 1: has six of their seven saves. So I had concerns about,
Speaker 1: you know, where were they gonna use him again with
Speaker 1: Derek Johnson coming over. Was he gonna make them their
Speaker 1: version of Josh had something that he did with the
Speaker 1: Brewers the past couple of years. I did have my concerns, uh.
Speaker 1: And overall, you know, Righty Glaciers does have four losses
Speaker 1: on the year, he has a three point three eight
Speaker 1: yar a, but twenty two strikeouts in thirteen and a
Speaker 1: third ending s pitch and the fact that he has
Speaker 1: six of the seven saves. I think if you drafted
Speaker 1: right Stilly Glaciers, you'll sign up for what he's done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I completely agree. And I was actually more on a
Speaker 1: Glaciers than than you were, kind of believing he was
Speaker 1: clearly the best reliever, and I thought that he would
Speaker 1: find his way in the ninth inning. It was a
Speaker 1: little manager speak, and it seems like, at least through
Speaker 1: April that seemed to be the case. Good news, of course,
Speaker 1: they're for those that own Glaciers stolen base wise last night.
Speaker 1: Ever since for Azim in the leadoff role, he's slowly
Speaker 1: gotten hot. As you kind of called here, Frank, he
Speaker 1: stole his fourth base. He's stole his fourth base of
Speaker 1: the season. Ye stole his third. Please's obviously been struggling
Speaker 1: over four. He did walk last night, still batting under
Speaker 1: two hundred week. We talked about him a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. Anyo Suarez name we have not mentioned this season.
Speaker 1: He had his what seventh home rung on this season
Speaker 1: a round he which is kind of crazy. Seven home
Speaker 1: runs in the season only batting to thirty. What do
Speaker 1: you think of what au Henyo Suarez has done thus
Speaker 1: far this season? I did have some concerns regarding Suarez
Speaker 1: coming into the year. They just didn't think that he
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to live up to what he
Speaker 1: did last season. And the battle ball data last year
Speaker 1: was awesome, but the second half he slowed down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh And so far this year, the hard
Speaker 1: hit rate is still very high. I mean it's forty
Speaker 1: seven percent and last year was forty eight percent. He's
Speaker 1: hitting he's hitting more ground, he's hitting more flyballs this
Speaker 1: year as well, but the line drive rate severely down.
Speaker 1: But for his BABI to be to thirty nine, he's
Speaker 1: a three fourteen career babbib, I mean there is positive
Speaker 1: regress and coming for a u Henyo Suarez. Is he
Speaker 1: gonna live up to what everybody wanted him to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, thirty four home runs and a hundred and
Speaker 1: four rubies last year. That's a really really good season
Speaker 1: out of a U Henio Suarez. I think he's also
Speaker 1: come close to thirty home runs, maybe even eclipse it,
Speaker 1: just because of the ballpark that he hits in UM.
Speaker 1: But overall the slow start to the rest of the
Speaker 1: Red lineup, I don't know that he's gonna come close
Speaker 1: to the one RBIs positive regression coming for the batting average.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's probably gonna climb up into
Speaker 1: that two sixty two seventy range to sixty two career hitter.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's like a two seventy hitter and the power
Speaker 1: still comes close to thirty home runs, maybe approaches it UM.
Speaker 1: But I think the RBIs are probably gonna all short
Speaker 1: of what we were expecting, just because of the slow
Speaker 1: start the Cincinnati Reds lineup overall. But you look at
Speaker 1: his bad ball data, a lot of it is pretty
Speaker 1: much in line with what he was doing last year.
Speaker 1: He said he just had some bad bad luck to
Speaker 1: start the season. Fair Enoughrez picking up on the other side,
Speaker 1: you don't even want to meague you we talked about
Speaker 1: the mental yesterday. Is he's obviously struggling in the field,
Speaker 1: he's gotten benched because of it, but he was two
Speaker 1: or three last night. He's s those third base of
Speaker 1: the season. Rosario is batting two seventy four no b
Speaker 1: P a three night team. I tell you those lots,
Speaker 1: those numbers. I think fantasy owners are gonna be pretty satisfied.
Speaker 1: Are you satisfied what you've seen from nitors are and
Speaker 1: what can we expect? Yeah? I am. I don't love
Speaker 1: the strikeout rate as a guy who, you know, a
Speaker 1: speedy guy who should be putting the ball in play.
Speaker 1: But the fact that he's improved his walk rate this year.
Speaker 1: It's still not great, but six point two percent compared
Speaker 1: to a four point nine percent last year and four
Speaker 1: and a half percent overall for his brief major league career.
Speaker 1: So he's taking the steps to get better as a hitter,
Speaker 1: walking a little bit more. Uh, the two seventy four
Speaker 1: batting average, I think that's fine. Like if you were
Speaker 1: to hit around two seventy seventy five for the season,
Speaker 1: that's great. Counting stats have been pretty good. A little
Speaker 1: bit of power, two on runs, a little bit of speed,
Speaker 1: three stolen bases, seventeen r b I s probably weren't
Speaker 1: expecting that this early on in the season. The hard
Speaker 1: hit rate up tremendously last year arty eight percent. So
Speaker 1: I think overall of the strides that a lot of
Speaker 1: people were expecting a meta Rosario to make this season.
Speaker 1: Remember he's still only twenty three years old. So far,
Speaker 1: he's been off to a pretty good start. Greig, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you want even more speed. He has three
Speaker 1: stolen bases, but you know, if he could give you
Speaker 1: maybe five stolen basis pretty good. Absolutely, people were just
Speaker 1: expecting like this big breakout, maybe like fifteen homers, thirty steals.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure we get that, But overall to start
Speaker 1: the season, he's been pretty damn good. Absolutely, what do
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Speaker 1: I did tell the moment beforehand. If I can get
Speaker 1: if my kids something, it's gonna be May. I I
Speaker 1: got it one note joke though, like I just all right,
Speaker 1: I got I have fun. I don't like it. I
Speaker 1: got It's gonna be May. It's justin timber Lakes, says
Speaker 1: May instead of me. I got it all right, Greig,
Speaker 1: way to rain on the parade. If everyone who likes
Speaker 1: jokes around here, I like jokes, all right, So tell
Speaker 1: me a joke. Craig m M. Do you remember when
Speaker 1: you were younger and you can just tell you had
Speaker 1: all these jokes lined up. I'll tell you a joke,
Speaker 1: Craig Vincent Alaska's that was not nice. I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: was asking for it, dude. That was not nice to me.
Speaker 1: You know how how sensitive aunts of Vinny? What was it?
Speaker 1: As I am about jeans? Yeah? How how are the
Speaker 1: jeans looking today? Greg? They're good there, all right, look
Speaker 1: a little bit better, a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: bit slimmer. I like the socks. Greg's rocking the polka
Speaker 1: dot socks today. Yeah. I got the blue food that's
Speaker 1: all blue. And of the socks, the socks Vinnie's. He
Speaker 1: did not have it against the tires. He went three
Speaker 1: and two thirds, six hits, three runs, three walks. She
Speaker 1: got seventy through pitches through his less than four innings
Speaker 1: of work. Not great pop. Yeah, I guess the Detroit
Speaker 1: Tigers lineup um of all teams too. Pretty good matchup
Speaker 1: on paper here for for Vincent Alaska's But again, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this is part of the problem when it comes to him,
Speaker 1: and I've kind of talked about this. He's he's gonna
Speaker 1: be inconsistent at times, he struggles with command. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that he's ever gonna put it together for
Speaker 1: what we were ultimately expecting from him. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: he had a few alright seasons, some some major upside flashes.
Speaker 1: I remember he had a few double digit performances that
Speaker 1: were great, But overall, I mean, you still get the
Speaker 1: strike ats. You get seven strike ats yesterday, you get
Speaker 1: thirteen swinging strikes one pitches. But to give up six
Speaker 1: hits and three walks on only three and two thirds
Speaker 1: any space, I mean, it was just a disaster here
Speaker 1: going up against a lineup that, frankly, you should have
Speaker 1: been able to dominate in the Detroit Tigers. So, um,
Speaker 1: just when you think you can trust Vincy Alaska is
Speaker 1: in the right matchup, because I'm out here and he
Speaker 1: does this, So I wish I could tell you that
Speaker 1: he's I gotta you stream Greg in the right matchup,
Speaker 1: but this was the right matchup exactly. I think he's
Speaker 1: a picture who used him for a two star week
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues, you know, fifteen team broto when the
Speaker 1: right matchup looks like it's on paper obviously against the Marlins,
Speaker 1: like you could stream him there. But overall, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be inconsistent, Like there's gonna be these starts
Speaker 1: where you think it's gonna be a great matchup, you
Speaker 1: start him, he doesn't come through, and then there's gonna
Speaker 1: be games where he's a tougher matchup and he's on
Speaker 1: your bench, and those are the ones where he puts together,
Speaker 1: you know, the six shutout endings with eight strikeouts, and
Speaker 1: you're just kind of left there scratching your head. So
Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot of frustration when it
Speaker 1: comes to owning a Vinny Velaska's. I think I think
Speaker 1: there is as well. Unfortunately, on the other side, it's
Speaker 1: all about the ball. I'd like there ain't. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: that's great. We had to going back and forth. You
Speaker 1: tweet me about Shane Green and send you some some
Speaker 1: Tigers because I couldn't do the the you know, the
Speaker 1: sound effect I normally do it. I couldn't do that
Speaker 1: over text. So I send you with some tiger emojis
Speaker 1: and then you send me back the bull emojis. Spencer Turnbull.
Speaker 1: The underlying numbers are not good. They're not Just to
Speaker 1: be clear, he's not good. No, I still like him, though,
Speaker 1: I still think that I think that the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: are kinda are gonna normalize a little bit like I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna I think the underlying number are actually
Speaker 1: gonna come closer. He looks he's not gonna pitch to
Speaker 1: a two five three e R A three six seven five.
Speaker 1: Maybe he pitches to a little bit higher than that.
Speaker 1: His ex FIP is four point five zero. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's that bad at a picture, but he's
Speaker 1: also not a a two point five three e R
Speaker 1: a picture either, But averaging almost a strikeout for Enning
Speaker 1: so far this year has struggled a little bit with
Speaker 1: walks he has. He throws two breaking pitches. He throws
Speaker 1: a curveball on a slider. He gets a lot of
Speaker 1: movement on these pitches, but at times struggles to command
Speaker 1: those breaking pitches, and then that's how he gets in
Speaker 1: trouble with Wax. But you know, throws a mid nineties fastball. Greg.
Speaker 1: I like Spencer Turnbull. The swing strike ray is above average,
Speaker 1: above league average. And you know, I say he struggles
Speaker 1: with the walks oft times, but his first pitch strike
Speaker 1: percentage really good, sixties seven percent. It's much higher than
Speaker 1: the league average. You know, he gets he gets opponent
Speaker 1: opposing batters to chase pitches outside the strike zone at
Speaker 1: about a league average rate thirty thirty one per cent.
Speaker 1: So overall, I like the Arsenal Spencer Turnbull. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna keep up a two point five three e r A.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably in that mid to higher threes
Speaker 1: e r A range when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: I think he's a pretty good picture. Man. I like
Speaker 1: Spencer Turnbull. I know you're not a fan the one
Speaker 1: time he started against but if you look at the
Speaker 1: other starts Greg like, he hasn't allowed more than he
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed more than three runs in any starts this season.
Speaker 1: He's allowed one and run over his last three starts
Speaker 1: at seventeen names pitch combined. He's getting it done right now.
Speaker 1: And that was against it was at Philly, that was
Speaker 1: at auston his last start, and then Pittsburgh three starts ago,
Speaker 1: which he was supposed to dominate and he did. He
Speaker 1: was also gonna have done. Who's that Jane Green? Jane
Speaker 1: Green at the side last night. I wish I could
Speaker 1: say that he's leading the league and saves Greg close.
Speaker 1: He's very close, man. Curvy Yates as really really well,
Speaker 1: you know they saved Curby Yates last night. N Ego
Speaker 1: Goodrum had his third home run of this season. Only
Speaker 1: sits at three seven very good. Is that the pun
Speaker 1: intended Greg very good, but he actually has taken some
Speaker 1: pretty big strides so far this year and he's hitting
Speaker 1: two thirty eight, not great. He's expected batting average Greg one,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And the fact that he's walking as
Speaker 1: much as he is. He has a forty nine percent
Speaker 1: hard hit rate according to Baseball Savant. The average tags
Speaker 1: the velocity of about three miles per hour this year.
Speaker 1: He's a versatile player for the Detroit Tigers. He can
Speaker 1: move all around the diamond. I think he's gonna play
Speaker 1: more often than not. He's got a seventeen percent walk
Speaker 1: right this year, so he's really good in ob P formats,
Speaker 1: really good in points leagues. He's the guy you're kind
Speaker 1: of stick in your lineup everywhere. Really really valuable place
Speaker 1: this year for Nico good Drum, and I think positive
Speaker 1: regression coming for the batting average as well. Great. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Nico vid Drum. I think he was a good fine
Speaker 1: I hope people were on him last year and he
Speaker 1: picked him up this year. The eligibility is fantastic, and
Speaker 1: he's been pretty good spring speed. He's in the ninety
Speaker 1: one percentile to Greg. I mean, this was the guy
Speaker 1: that I felt maybe he can hit fifteen home runs,
Speaker 1: fifteen stolen bases. You know what the first month of
Speaker 1: the year, three homers, three stolen bases on you know,
Speaker 1: he's on pace for about, you know, seventeen eighteen home
Speaker 1: runs at seventeen eighteen stolen basis. I mean, that'd be
Speaker 1: a really really valuable year, especially for a guy with
Speaker 1: that kind of O b P. Even even being in
Speaker 1: the in the Detroit Tigers line up, I like it.
Speaker 1: There's lots of like obviously, lots of like. Um now,
Speaker 1: so I have a dilemma in my league. This isn't
Speaker 1: about my lineup again, this is a different one that
Speaker 1: I think more Africa. I didn't do it during the break.
Speaker 1: I was look at other things. It was like at
Speaker 1: fan grafts. Um So, I don't need a closer in
Speaker 1: my home league. I have four of them, and they're
Speaker 1: arguably the four best thus far this season. Arguably right
Speaker 1: I got I got Chanel mccirby, Yates as two of them.
Speaker 1: Some things are going well. I don't I don't need
Speaker 1: a closer, but jos look clerk last night blew another
Speaker 1: one against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The clerk was awful in
Speaker 1: allowing three runs on four hits, and immediately after the game,
Speaker 1: Chris Woodward says, we gotta look at this. Sean Kelly's
Speaker 1: pitched very, very well this season. How's the closing experience? Now?
Speaker 1: He pitched the seventh. Chris Morton Peach is the eighth.
Speaker 1: Last night. He's been good. But everyone's assumption will be
Speaker 1: that if Jose look clerk, he's taken out of this role,
Speaker 1: Shaun Kelly will get the first opportunity. Sean Kelly is
Speaker 1: available in my league right now. Should I think him
Speaker 1: up even with four closures? I guess it depends who
Speaker 1: you drop. But I could drop. I could drop Alaska.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. But if I pick up Kelly, then
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to hold on too. Kelly,
Speaker 1: like Alaska is, I could drop for like a different
Speaker 1: starter or something else I need during the we I
Speaker 1: have like that swingsman type of roles in a head
Speaker 1: to headley where you could have someone to drop for
Speaker 1: streaming pictures or whatever. So I don't mind anyone else.
Speaker 1: You can drop who else is on your bench. Zach Eflin,
Speaker 1: Maggy Montas, Oh, we just dropped flyin in league. Greg.
Speaker 1: That was a mistake. That's fine, was it? Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a complete game. Curry Yates, Felipe Baska, Shane Green, and
Speaker 1: Greg Holland they're good. Yeah. I would probably pick up
Speaker 1: Sean Kelly, let him get like a savor to and
Speaker 1: try and trade him. You're there's a lead trade for
Speaker 1: like random closers that just pick up the job, especially
Speaker 1: from the Texas Rangers. Yeah, I mean someone's pick him
Speaker 1: up by the time that this podcast gets published. Is
Speaker 1: a good chance he picked up, so then I would probably,
Speaker 1: I would probably pick him up. He's gonna be He's
Speaker 1: gonna be the closer at least for the short term here.
Speaker 1: The Rangers have invested in la Clerk and that's part
Speaker 1: of the reason why we liked him. We didn't think
Speaker 1: that he was gonna lose his job, but deservedly so.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has not been good. The guy can't
Speaker 1: do anything right right now. And you know, after last
Speaker 1: night's tobacco he's got an ear a over eight, while
Speaker 1: Sean Kelly has a one point five zero ear a.
Speaker 1: Sean Kelly throws a clean ending, believe he gave up
Speaker 1: one hit and he also had one strike out. But
Speaker 1: La Clark just can't get anything done. Right now. So
Speaker 1: at least for the short term. You know, it could
Speaker 1: be two weeks, it could be a month, it could
Speaker 1: be longer than that. It looks like Sean Kelly is
Speaker 1: going to be the closer. A couple of people brought
Speaker 1: up Chris Martin to me, Greg, because Sean Kelly pitched
Speaker 1: Chris Martin pits eight. But overall, Sean Kelly has a
Speaker 1: little bit more closing experience, and Chris Martin just doesn't
Speaker 1: miss enough bats. It's like six case per nine this
Speaker 1: year and has never been a picture that gets a
Speaker 1: lot of strikeouts. So I just think Sean Kelly profiles
Speaker 1: more as the closer the short terms. So if you're
Speaker 1: out there and you own jose La Clerk, or if
Speaker 1: you just need a speculative closer, I mean, just go
Speaker 1: out there and get Shann Kelly. He's the guy right now.
Speaker 1: If I were you, I would probably add him. Okay,
Speaker 1: then I'll trust you, all right and did Yeah, all right, job, Greg?
Speaker 1: All right is what it is, man, is what it is?
Speaker 1: All right? Let me let me go back this Pirates
Speaker 1: Rangers games. Because Jordan Lyles walked four guys, two runs,
Speaker 1: three hits, shrug out of five is the walks of
Speaker 1: the Bugaboo. You know, people want to like Jordan Lyles,
Speaker 1: and he got himself in and out of trouble is
Speaker 1: a reason to hold on at Ranals. He's still done
Speaker 1: some nice things so far this year, and despite his
Speaker 1: past couple of stars haven't been great, he still does
Speaker 1: have a two point four to ear a. I would
Speaker 1: law to him in deeper leagues fifteen team mixed leagues obviously,
Speaker 1: and only just because he had a job. But anything
Speaker 1: shallower than that, you know, your twelve team league, I
Speaker 1: would have to imagine that there's somebody with more upside
Speaker 1: out there, like a Griffin Canning, or take a shot
Speaker 1: on another prospect that just got called up in Nate Low,
Speaker 1: or you want to pick up a two star pitcher.
Speaker 1: I know Venture was telling me that stairs that Anthony
Speaker 1: Disclafani has a double star week next week, greg against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Who starts against the Giants Anthony Discofani? Should
Speaker 1: I jump shot the best picture of all time? Should
Speaker 1: drop Sean Kelly for Anthon Lafani? Probably not, but hey,
Speaker 1: look you don't have to be the best picture of
Speaker 1: all time to do all right against the Giants. That's
Speaker 1: that's a really good two star pitcher. So something like
Speaker 1: that in the twelve team league, I don't think you
Speaker 1: need to own Jordan Wiles, but you know, fifteen teamers
Speaker 1: and those deeper formats, I would probably hold them there.
Speaker 1: But if he's your worst player, I don't mind dropping it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm annoy to myself why I would rather have Sean
Speaker 1: in that type beforemat at least? All right, so what happens?
Speaker 1: You flip flop alot? Greg? You're right, man, you know
Speaker 1: this isn't like, this isn't like new to you. You know,
Speaker 1: but you just picked up a closer. I have closer.
Speaker 1: I have closers. I could have Desk Lafanti. How long
Speaker 1: do you think Jose Lacord is out of this roll? Greg?
Speaker 1: They're invested in him, there are, and so I don't
Speaker 1: think they wanted to be I don't think they want
Speaker 1: it to be a long time. So do you drop?
Speaker 1: That's like ultimately question, right? Probably not? I agree. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. This isn't a Cody Allen situation. Someone
Speaker 1: asked me should I drop Cody Allen last week? And
Speaker 1: I said no. I actually told whoever asked me, I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't drop Cody Allen because look, it was a
Speaker 1: one year deal that they signed him to and they
Speaker 1: said he's not the closer quote right now. But his
Speaker 1: next performance that he came in, he got blown up
Speaker 1: again and Handel roll boats converted to save last night
Speaker 1: and then he lands on the I L. So it's
Speaker 1: not the same situation. I would have dropped Codey Island
Speaker 1: last week. I would especially drop Cody Island now. But
Speaker 1: Rosie la Clerk, he's shown talent at time, especially last
Speaker 1: year's second half. Last year he was awesome. I mean
Speaker 1: he's swinging miss stuff. Last year, Um, he really really
Speaker 1: lowered his walk rate in that second half, and we
Speaker 1: were what we were hoping for coming into this year
Speaker 1: was that he was going to pick up on those
Speaker 1: games that he made in the second half from a
Speaker 1: control department, but he the most part has struggled with command.
Speaker 1: Didn't walk anyone last night. But what happens is he
Speaker 1: pitches in his own and he starts to get hit around.
Speaker 1: You know, he gives up. He gives up three runs
Speaker 1: and what was the game? He almost got out of
Speaker 1: it too. So he struck out two batters, one of
Speaker 1: the one of them being Starley Marte with runners I
Speaker 1: believe on second and third, and then Josh Bell comes
Speaker 1: up last out of the game and he hits a
Speaker 1: double to tie the game. So he gave up an
Speaker 1: early run and then he almost wiggled his way out
Speaker 1: of it. But overall he just hasn't been good. Chris
Speaker 1: Woodward actually just now on the network radio that they
Speaker 1: will be pulling him from the closer role. I'm putting
Speaker 1: him in low leverage situations for now. I don't think
Speaker 1: I would drop him though. Okay, if you look in
Speaker 1: my in my home league, head to head points league,
Speaker 1: you only start two relievers there. I mean, there's closures available.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna drop him just because we only need
Speaker 1: two relievers. And this is overall we don't value relievers
Speaker 1: very highly in that format. But in the roto league
Speaker 1: and head to head categories, I'm gonna hold because I
Speaker 1: think it's it's sooner rather than later that he gets
Speaker 1: a job back. I believe, assuming that he can perform
Speaker 1: in these low leverage situations makes sense makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: Um Flivia Baskets on the other side, allowed to run
Speaker 1: this first of the year. I believe earned run his
Speaker 1: seventh to save of the season were Vasquez selling Marte
Speaker 1: hits the blow in extras his third home run of
Speaker 1: the season for Morte, who just got activated off the
Speaker 1: I l yesterday only hit of the game was that
Speaker 1: home run that won the game for them. I could
Speaker 1: see Starling Marte going deep again. It's good to see
Speaker 1: Martine Polanco back in the same lineup. Colt Tucker two
Speaker 1: per five. He needed that one, Frankie, Yes he did.
Speaker 1: Regarding Starling Marte, you know, I was looking into the
Speaker 1: biggest differences in batting average and expected batting average again
Speaker 1: last night, and he is among one of the top ones.
Speaker 1: He's hitting two hundred. I believe he's expected batting average
Speaker 1: is like two eighties something. So better days are coming
Speaker 1: for Starling Marte. After last night's home run, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit harder to buy him. But if
Speaker 1: there's someone in your league that's just like here, take
Speaker 1: Starling Marte off my hands, like the guy's always hurt.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I drafted him. I would
Speaker 1: be pouncing on that owner right now because I do
Speaker 1: think that the batting average, especially for Starling Marte, it's
Speaker 1: gonna come around. Yeah, I tend to agree market where
Speaker 1: it's just got hurt. So I think people that own
Speaker 1: him are going to be after trade him. He just
Speaker 1: got back right, so it's like, yeah, it's you're likely
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to well, you might be able
Speaker 1: to find the right owner out there. The expected batting
Speaker 1: average for Starling Marte the actual batting average of two hundred,
Speaker 1: so lots of lots of positive regrets difference there. Yesterday
Speaker 1: against Oakland rip port Sella when eight shut out innings,
Speaker 1: he allowed just two hits walking to struck out eight.
Speaker 1: Excellent performance, Porcella, Yeah, it was a great one. I thought.
Speaker 1: What was really interesting He accomplished a feat last night,
Speaker 1: greg eight shutout innings with eight strikeouts, the seven swinging
Speaker 1: strikes that is that is impressive in its own right. There.
Speaker 1: He has not been good to start the year, and
Speaker 1: that's me, you know, kind of being nice about it.
Speaker 1: But you know a lot of people draft Porcelo because
Speaker 1: he goes deep into games and they you know, they
Speaker 1: let him go well over a hundred pitches and the
Speaker 1: fact that he has the Red Sox lineup behind him.
Speaker 1: You draft this guy for quality starts. You expect to
Speaker 1: get wins. Out of him. I mean that's where he's
Speaker 1: been most valuable in the past couple of years. Seventeen wins.
Speaker 1: Last year when he won the side young he won
Speaker 1: twenty two games. But overall he's been really bad. To hear,
Speaker 1: look at the command has been a big issue for him.
Speaker 1: It wasn't last night, but even after last night's great performance,
Speaker 1: his walks for nine four point nine or so. As
Speaker 1: the walks begin to come down, I think you'll see
Speaker 1: some of those solid performances from Rick pork Sello one
Speaker 1: and just remember, like this is not the guy from
Speaker 1: his cy young year like three years ago. You can
Speaker 1: get the low four's e r A out of him
Speaker 1: and no win double digit games, maybe close to him
Speaker 1: team because he's with the Red Sox. I think you'll
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Speaker 1: You do Man. I'm doing all right, Starting to wake
Speaker 1: up a little bit more here, feeling better as the
Speaker 1: day goes on. You mentioned you dost lat up yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the fact that you had fremill rays
Speaker 1: any rays It's two home runs last night against Julio Ron,
Speaker 1: leading the Padres to a four or three victory in Atlanta. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Padres were led once again by Chris Paddock, who
Speaker 1: had six and allowed four hits. Two runs, walked one.
Speaker 1: He struck out five for another quality start from Paddock.
Speaker 1: Curvy ates a lot of hit but picked up his
Speaker 1: fourteen save. Now of the season, Julio tron with seven things,
Speaker 1: five hits, four runs, walking one and struck out eight.
Speaker 1: He allowed the three home runs shoot a friend mill Reys,
Speaker 1: the other one coming from Eric Hosmer. Friend mill Rays
Speaker 1: is going to be an absolute beast. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: this right now. He's up to eight home runs on
Speaker 1: the year, double dong performance last night for him, um,
Speaker 1: and he's starting to come around. Look all the expected
Speaker 1: numbers and this guy's a stack cast hero right now.
Speaker 1: Eggit velocity. He's in the percentile hard hit rate, percentile,
Speaker 1: expected wOBA percentile, expected slugging percentage seven percentile, expected batting
Speaker 1: average ninety one percentile. He hits the ball hard, He's
Speaker 1: got the ideal launch angled nine four point seven mile
Speaker 1: per hour average, eggs of velocity. He's lowered the strikeout
Speaker 1: rate this year. Big things are coming for friend Malreius.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge, huge fan of his. Uh. Look, if
Speaker 1: someone in your league is not buying into him, I
Speaker 1: think this guy has legit. You know, top thirty outfield
Speaker 1: upside maybe even better than that. I just had concerns
Speaker 1: about it coming into the year if he was gonna
Speaker 1: play every day, but it seems like that's pretty much
Speaker 1: a thing of the past. He's been playing quite regularly
Speaker 1: for the San Diego Padres here. Absolutely love what I've
Speaker 1: seen from him recently. I think he's gonna only get
Speaker 1: better as well. And then Chris Paddock. This is a
Speaker 1: nice little glimpses of the future. Unfortunately many Cancato has
Speaker 1: not come around yet for the Padres, but you know,
Speaker 1: two of their youngest studs and friend Malreius and Chris
Speaker 1: Paddock showing up huge in this game. And Chris Paddock
Speaker 1: has now gone at least six innings Greg in three
Speaker 1: straight starts. He hasn't allowed more than three runs in
Speaker 1: any start this season, has allowed exactly one in the
Speaker 1: walk in five of six starts. So that's stellar command
Speaker 1: that we loved coming into the year. Greg. It's shown
Speaker 1: up for Paddock. He hasn't had the biggest swinging shrike rate,
Speaker 1: but overall you just watch him pitch and the guy
Speaker 1: just he gets it. He knows how to. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got the mid nineties fastball, he's got the good command.
Speaker 1: You watch him, he knows where to spot these pitches. Uh,
Speaker 1: he knows you know how to mix in the changeup obviously,
Speaker 1: that nasty change up that he throws. And started throwing
Speaker 1: the curveball a little bit more last night as well.
Speaker 1: So nice to see the two future studs for the
Speaker 1: Padres coming through last night, and friend Will Race and
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock. I love both of them. Futures right for
Speaker 1: both of these guys on the squad. Uh, lots of
Speaker 1: love Eric Hosmer name that we weren't on really in
Speaker 1: draft seasons back two fifty two, three oh eight. Is
Speaker 1: his O B P fifth one running the season for Hosber?
Speaker 1: Is he raising the ball more? Is he's still groundball machine? Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a fair question. Let's look into that, Greg. I
Speaker 1: know overall he got off to a terrible start. The
Speaker 1: fact that his batting averages up to toft two now
Speaker 1: he's he's he's been hot the past couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and he actually is. Greg. I'm looking at the average
Speaker 1: launch angles so far this season seven point eight whereas
Speaker 1: last year negative one point to this is the guy
Speaker 1: that's always struggled um with hitting too many groundballs and
Speaker 1: I say he struggled loosely because he struggled to hit
Speaker 1: for power. But it's worked for him in the past.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what helped him get this huge, long
Speaker 1: term contract with the San Diego Padres. Just doing what
Speaker 1: he's always done. He's been a guy that typically in
Speaker 1: the past has been able to hit for good batting average.
Speaker 1: But he does hit a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: balls on the ground. He makes a decent amount of contact,
Speaker 1: just you know, a consummate pro hit from the middle
Speaker 1: of the line up. You know, if guys get on
Speaker 1: base ahead of him, he's gonna end the year with
Speaker 1: five plus Ribby's. And I think that's what the San
Speaker 1: Diego Padres wanted in him. They kind of want to
Speaker 1: build a winning culture and he was the first piece
Speaker 1: of that puzzle. But overall, he's hitting two fifty two
Speaker 1: this year, He's got an expected batting average of two
Speaker 1: sixty six, and has raised the launch angle dramatically. We're talking,
Speaker 1: you know, nine degrees overall on average this year. So
Speaker 1: he's hitting more line drives, he's hitting more flyballs, and
Speaker 1: that's something that can only help Eric Hosmer. And you
Speaker 1: see that with what he's done in the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, getting that batting average up over two fifties.
Speaker 1: So us like, better days are actually coming for Eric
Speaker 1: Cosmer and the entire Padres lineup. You know, Frand will
Speaker 1: Rays is coming around now, Greg. The last one to
Speaker 1: come around many Machado. And once that starts clicking, I
Speaker 1: mean the team is already winning games. And that's without
Speaker 1: Manny Machado really doing anything. So better day is coming
Speaker 1: for the San Diego Padres. One day that you wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about yesterday, we didn't get a chance. He
Speaker 1: was Mannie Machado. And why he's like you're looking at
Speaker 1: the perfect Bilow superstar. It's Machado. How come? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look at the numbers overall, Greg, we have
Speaker 1: enough of a sample size of Mannie Machado now that
Speaker 1: and we've seen this before where he gets off to
Speaker 1: these slow starts. But overall, I mean he's hitting two
Speaker 1: thirty six. He's a career to eight one hitter. Greg.
Speaker 1: The battle ball data is pretty much in line. I mean,
Speaker 1: the hard hit rate that's higher than his career norm.
Speaker 1: It's higher than it was last year. Um, he's setting
Speaker 1: a few more groundballs this year, but these things will
Speaker 1: well even out. He's got a you know, he's got
Speaker 1: a two nine two Babbitt right now. Um, it's just
Speaker 1: we have enough of a sample size from Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: Now he's only got four home runs. He was drafted
Speaker 1: in the second round and he's not performing like a
Speaker 1: second round player. So there might be someone who's panicking. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: he's changed leagues. I mean, the strikeout rate is up
Speaker 1: this year, but he played for the Dodgers last year.
Speaker 1: Greg in the same division. He performed really well with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers last year. So I don't really have concerns
Speaker 1: when it comes to Manny Machado. If someone in your
Speaker 1: league is freaking out, I'm trying to take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Fair enough many Machado a bye right now for our
Speaker 1: own Frankie Stanfeld. You know he's gone forty eight minutes
Speaker 1: as far in the program, frank and we haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: our guy, you and me that hey us you love
Speaker 1: are more Michael Florio's guys definitely not our guy. Definitely
Speaker 1: not our guy. But Hazzi's Aguilar once again goes deep loyal,
Speaker 1: promised us they come in bunches. Coming bunches last two days,
Speaker 1: three home runs over his last two days as he
Speaker 1: leaves milwalking to a four to three victory over the Rockies.
Speaker 1: Your boy, you least shaw seen. Goes six innings, t
Speaker 1: walk three, only struck out one. That's not so good,
Speaker 1: Josh Hatter because the seventh c but did allow a
Speaker 1: run in the ninth on a two run shot by
Speaker 1: Ian Desmond. Interesting and Mon Marquez. Your boy Chris goes
Speaker 1: seven innings, six hits, four runs, didn't walk anybody, but
Speaker 1: struck out six against a tough Brewer's lineup that was
Speaker 1: once again without Christian Nilog. Yeah, and he just got
Speaker 1: in trouble in that final ending when he gave up
Speaker 1: that three run homer to Aguilar. He was actually cruising
Speaker 1: in the start. He was perfect through five innings, had
Speaker 1: five innings pitched, no hits, no walks, He had five strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Um struggled a little bit in the sixth, got out
Speaker 1: of a basis load of jam, only allowing one run,
Speaker 1: and then gives up the big three run flight to
Speaker 1: Hayese's in his final ending. So maybe he was just
Speaker 1: kind of running on fumes here. I think he was
Speaker 1: getting close to uh just running on e here and
Speaker 1: you know he just ran into uh ha who again
Speaker 1: hits his third home run. He three home runs in
Speaker 1: the past two days, and he hits it to the
Speaker 1: opposite field. And that's what I said yesterday is you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of just see what uh he's just taking
Speaker 1: what pictures are giving to him. Now. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's trying to do too much. Maybe he was trying
Speaker 1: a little too hard earlier on in the season, but
Speaker 1: you know, sees that that pitch up and just takes
Speaker 1: it the opposite way. So I'd like to see that
Speaker 1: from him. And if he was dropped in your league,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you absolutely need to go out
Speaker 1: there and get Hayes. Oh my god. If you dropped him,
Speaker 1: I gotta go pick him back up. But if you
Speaker 1: have someone on your bench who's not performing, you know,
Speaker 1: there are worse things in picking up a guy who
Speaker 1: just hit you know, three three five home runs last
Speaker 1: year and drove in over a hundred ribbies. So I
Speaker 1: think now is the time to do that if he
Speaker 1: was dropped in your league. Overall, I thought his performance
Speaker 1: for her Man Marquees was another promising one. I really
Speaker 1: love the fact that didn't walk anyone here, just got
Speaker 1: doomed by that big fly light from Hayes Saguar. So
Speaker 1: a little bit um, not a little bit, but a
Speaker 1: lot to be impressed with that. With her Momaz through
Speaker 1: the first month of the season, I've certainly been impressed.
Speaker 1: Another one of the ones I quite frankly just got
Speaker 1: wrong happens Ian Desmond with his third home run over
Speaker 1: the season. Still batting under two hundred, though, is Ian Desmond?
Speaker 1: Ryan McMann, after getting super hot over four again yesterday
Speaker 1: at two strikeouts to four. Now Garant Hampson continues not
Speaker 1: to play. Uh, he was over one. He shrugged out
Speaker 1: his pinch in appearance. He's also betting under two hundred,
Speaker 1: So Greg, would you say that Ryan McMann is now
Speaker 1: super not for the past two weeks, he's ten for
Speaker 1: forty two. He's betting two thirty eight with two home runs,
Speaker 1: which I believe came in the same game, right, He
Speaker 1: had that more back performance first came back and hasn't
Speaker 1: really done much since. What are you doing, Ryan McMahon,
Speaker 1: Are you holding him just because he plays every day
Speaker 1: in the Rockies line At this point, I am yes,
Speaker 1: pretty much right, and you own him, right, I do.
Speaker 1: I do. I own him in a in a home
Speaker 1: league where I believe I have now four Rockies Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy remember story of David dal and right McMahon, I
Speaker 1: have four Rockies players I had. I think when they
Speaker 1: get shut out, I'm screwed. Greg, I had four as
Speaker 1: well until I dropped Hampson. Um I have doll Arnado McMahon.
Speaker 1: They start every start, every day. I don't even have
Speaker 1: another second basement on my team to fill in at
Speaker 1: the moment. So you know, walk grate is solid for
Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon, I mean almost a twelve percent of walker.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. K's a little too much. We talked
Speaker 1: about guys who are hitting too many balls on the ground.
Speaker 1: Greg fifty two percent groundball right for Ryan McMahon's gonna
Speaker 1: get the job done. That's not I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: care if you're playing Corpsfield, you have the ball in
Speaker 1: the ground. Yeah, maybe you'll give me a single, but
Speaker 1: I gotta turn into a homer hard hit right, So
Speaker 1: they're pros and cons here. I like the walk rate.
Speaker 1: I like the hard hit, the hard contact that he's making,
Speaker 1: but roundball rate being to strike out rate. There are
Speaker 1: pros and cons. When it comes to Ryan ning Man,
Speaker 1: I think overall I would still hold on to him
Speaker 1: just because he has that positional versatility and he plays
Speaker 1: every single day for the Colorado Rockies. But you know,
Speaker 1: over the over the next couple of weeks, I know
Speaker 1: that May is a big month for Colorado Rocky sitters.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of games at home, they have
Speaker 1: a lot of games against like questionable pitching staffs. So
Speaker 1: May is a big month for Rocky s hitters. If
Speaker 1: we go through this month and rightning Man doesn't really
Speaker 1: turn around, I'm gonna hold him. I'm gonna hold on
Speaker 1: to him for at least at least the next two
Speaker 1: maybe three weeks, Greg. But if he doesn't start to
Speaker 1: turn it on by then, we're probably looking at dropping
Speaker 1: Ryan McMann. Let me go over to who you could
Speaker 1: drop Ryan McMahon four potentially, and at this moment, it
Speaker 1: maybe Brandon Jury, who's one of the hotter hitters oddly
Speaker 1: enough in baseball. He's over three out of his last
Speaker 1: four days, and the thought was he was so cold
Speaker 1: and so bad once Vlad came up ran the Jury
Speaker 1: may be released from the Toronto Blue Jays Instead, he
Speaker 1: continues to play every day and all he does is
Speaker 1: hit home runs. He's fifth of the season yesterday against
Speaker 1: the angel A lot of uh, kind of break down
Speaker 1: from this game. So let's try our best to hear
Speaker 1: Frank so Jury hits the home run, Vladimir Guerrero goes
Speaker 1: over to He did walk twice, which was good. But
Speaker 1: it was the debut for the Angels for Griffin Kenning.
Speaker 1: In that debut, he went four and a third, allowed
Speaker 1: four hits, three runs. He struck out six while walking
Speaker 1: just one. Uh. The big blow for him was that
Speaker 1: Brandon Jury at home run a couple of runs allowed
Speaker 1: or allowed run a lot earlier in the game was
Speaker 1: on his own wild pitch for the Angels who wanted
Speaker 1: to know what was gonna happen late in the game
Speaker 1: of the lead well Ty Butcher came on in the eighth,
Speaker 1: struck out of batter, the say clean anything. In the
Speaker 1: ninth was the undertaker hands at the rod lass who
Speaker 1: walked the Platt walked the batter, struck out a batter
Speaker 1: and picked up his second save of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's start here with with Griffin Canning. I think
Speaker 1: I thought it was a solid debut he wasn't efficient enough,
Speaker 1: and that's why he only goes to four and one
Speaker 1: third endings pitch and got his pitch count up all
Speaker 1: the way up to eighty two. It is worth noting
Speaker 1: that the third run that he allowed was actually Cambridge
Speaker 1: Jojan who came up, came in and gave up a hit.
Speaker 1: So when he left the game, he had allowed only
Speaker 1: tour and runs, but there was a runnerund base, So
Speaker 1: the line ends up looking like four and a third,
Speaker 1: four hits, three runs, six strikeouts, like he had eighteen
Speaker 1: swinging strikes yesterday. The Toronto Blue Jays are a lineup
Speaker 1: that tends to swing and miss a lot, but eighteen
Speaker 1: swinging strikes on eight two pitches really like what I saw.
Speaker 1: The fastball sitting ninety three miles per hour, seemed like
Speaker 1: he had good command of it, kind of has like
Speaker 1: a Hurrice Jerky delivery. Overall, I like what I saw
Speaker 1: out of him. No uses a curveball, uses a slider,
Speaker 1: some nice bite on his breaking pitches there. If he's
Speaker 1: available in your league, I would find a way to
Speaker 1: get Griffin Canning on my team. I would drop Jordan
Speaker 1: Lyles for him. I would drop I would drop into
Speaker 1: Alaska's for him. Some of these other friends starting pitchers
Speaker 1: that we've talked about would drop those guys for Griffith Canny.
Speaker 1: I do think that he has some upside. Again, he
Speaker 1: was their top pitching prospect in the organization Ancel Robots.
Speaker 1: You mentioned it as we suspected. Pretty much comes in,
Speaker 1: gets to save relatively clean ending, gives up one walk,
Speaker 1: doesn't give up a head, gets one strikeout, converts to
Speaker 1: save brand injury. Interesting one here because you're right that
Speaker 1: we question the playing time, But seemingly the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: this guy has played every single game. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: his game log on Yahoo Greg. He's been in there
Speaker 1: every single day and he is just red hot for
Speaker 1: this team. But when everyone's healthy, when Freddy Gallavis is healthy,
Speaker 1: when Eric Sogard who left the game last night, is healthy,
Speaker 1: he's still gonna play every single day. I think he's
Speaker 1: playing every single day right now because he's hot. But overall,
Speaker 1: long term, I know you're the short term guy, so
Speaker 1: I guess I'll throw this your way. Are you picking
Speaker 1: up brand injury because he's one of the hottest sitters
Speaker 1: in baseball long term? I do have question marks though,
Speaker 1: when it comes to him. I think cavan Video is
Speaker 1: coming up at some point for this team later on
Speaker 1: in the summer. Uh Bobachett is gonna be up for
Speaker 1: this team. And we got the report yesterday, um might
Speaker 1: have been from Was it from Rosenthal? It was from
Speaker 1: somebody someone whatever national Baseball writer that the Blue The
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are looking into getting rid of all of
Speaker 1: their older pieces. They want to build around a young nucleus,
Speaker 1: guys that are in their low twentiasies prospects similar age
Speaker 1: of Vladimir Guerrero said that they can all grow together.
Speaker 1: Not that Marcus Stroman is old, but they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: try and trade away him and Sanchez and and Justin Smoke.
Speaker 1: So this is a team that's looking towards the future
Speaker 1: and letting their young kids play. What do you think
Speaker 1: havan Video is going to be up sooner rather than
Speaker 1: later for the Blue Jays, which is just another name
Speaker 1: in the mix here for them. So what are you
Speaker 1: doing with with Brandon Jury? I think it's a good question. Um.
Speaker 1: I think for me, he's hot, right and he's playing
Speaker 1: every day. I don't like these banging the bottom of
Speaker 1: the line up eight, six and seven. Oh the past
Speaker 1: three days. But I think if your second basement is
Speaker 1: dying and not getting the job done, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's hot. Obviously broke his hand, so it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be Yeah, it's it's gonna be post All Star Break
Speaker 1: a little while. Yeah, let's not forget man like Brandon
Speaker 1: Drewry had some hype over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: and he's only twenty six. The guy has got the
Speaker 1: short end of the stick everywhere that he's gone. I mean,
Speaker 1: Yankees trade for him and then they end up making
Speaker 1: a slew of moves and Miguel and Nohard comes up
Speaker 1: and he's awesome, and you know, he basically gets Wally
Speaker 1: piped here. And we thought that he was gonna have
Speaker 1: a role with the Yankees that doesn't come to fruition. Um,
Speaker 1: they let him go. He latches on with the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: We thought that he was basically just gonna fill in
Speaker 1: until Vladimir Guerrero comes up. But this is a guy
Speaker 1: that had some upside Greg. I mean, just a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, we were were pretty excited about him.
Speaker 1: He does strike out a lot. I mean, he's are
Speaker 1: on a thirty five percent strikeout rate this year. But
Speaker 1: hitting hitting the ball in the air more this year
Speaker 1: and a forty nine percent hard hit rate. I agree
Speaker 1: with Greg Man for the short term. If you need
Speaker 1: a second baseman, you need a third baseman his multi
Speaker 1: positional eligibility. I'm gonna ride the hot hand when it
Speaker 1: comes to Brandon and I think this line is gonna
Speaker 1: get better considering that Vita mc guerrero. He's been up.
Speaker 1: He hasn't necessarily done anything yet, so I think the
Speaker 1: line is gonna perform better. He's really hot. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem picking him up, but just no long term.
Speaker 1: I do have question marks there. There's many questions marks
Speaker 1: your long term. It's not a long term play. Data
Speaker 1: though Man hard hit rate can argue with that, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Numbers don't lie. Numbers never lies. What we've been told
Speaker 1: hands A Robost, hands A Roboists, Sean Kelly Robst When
Speaker 1: I told you, I told you should have picked up
Speaker 1: HANDL Robosts too. I think we're talking about it. You
Speaker 1: should have asked me before I forgot, I would have
Speaker 1: told yeah, Handsel Robolists. I think he has more staying
Speaker 1: power long term here. John Kelly Again, I think j
Speaker 1: Kirk is gonna get this job back at some point,
Speaker 1: because I think it doesn't mean that it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I'll throw this your way. Adri Strope last night I
Speaker 1: have been My lineup doesn't come in a safe situation.
Speaker 1: Did dropped him for a handsome root. I just think
Speaker 1: stroke that the night off all right. I'll trust him.
Speaker 1: Chris Bench joins the program. It's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: second hour. You'll enjoy it.