Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into Fantasy pros. This is
Speaker 1: leading off live the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Joel Rico, joined by Casey Bubba once again, and today
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you all the baseball news that you
Speaker 1: can possibly take here on a Friday. Happy Friday, everybody.
Speaker 1: Really nice way to end off the week talking baseball
Speaker 1: with Bubba. I did miss the show the other day.
Speaker 1: I was recovering, as you guys have joked about on
Speaker 1: the podcast the other day. Oh I still listen. I
Speaker 1: still listen even when I'm not here. I hear all
Speaker 1: the slander from you and Welsh, but no, seriously, I
Speaker 1: went to see the Food Fighters, phenomenal show. I recommend
Speaker 1: everybody those see your favorite bands if they're coming to town,
Speaker 1: even if it feels expensive, go and see your favorite bands.
Speaker 1: Bubba can probably speak to this as well. I think
Speaker 1: Lars Ulrich has a wing on his home just because
Speaker 1: of Bubba going to see Metallica shows. So, Bubba, I
Speaker 1: hope you guys had a good time on Wednesday. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be back in the saddle with you.
Speaker 2: My friend. To be back with you, it's I always
Speaker 2: tell my friends, if I'm not giving you a hard
Speaker 2: times because I don't care. So that's why we were
Speaker 2: messing with you being out. And yes, Metalie already got
Speaker 2: my tickets to see him with his sphere for two nights,
Speaker 2: So I understand if you live music, there's not a
Speaker 2: whole lot of things that are better. Maybe a baseball game,
Speaker 2: which we'll get to you, but live music is pretty
Speaker 2: sweet and you look like you had a heck of
Speaker 2: a time, so good for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Dave Grohl's a personal hero as a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: love Nirvana, a love the Food Fighters. It's been it's
Speaker 1: been a cool year for concerts, but I want bore everybody.
Speaker 1: We have the time stamps. Skip ahead two minutes into
Speaker 1: the show, and we're gonna start off here as the
Speaker 1: resident Blue Jays homer with mister Dylan sees, how can
Speaker 1: we start anywhere else? Even if I wasn't a Blue
Speaker 1: Jays homer, I think I'd probably still be starting with Dylan.
Speaker 1: See's another cy Young worthy performance against the Cubs on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Seven shutout innings, two hits, striking out ten. The Jays
Speaker 1: did end up blowing it for him, which is very
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Blue Jays, but he's sitting on a
Speaker 1: two twenty eight ERA and a one zero five whip
Speaker 1: over his twenty one starts this season. I got some
Speaker 1: trivia here, some fun not so fun facts, I guess
Speaker 1: for Jay's fans in a second. But but first off,
Speaker 1: what have you thought of Dylan Cees this year and
Speaker 1: at this point as the cy young in the American League?
Speaker 1: His to win?
Speaker 2: First off, I've been team ceased for years and I've battled.
Speaker 2: There's been years. I feel like I'm John Snow in
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones fighting people because it's like, oh, his commands,
Speaker 2: this his commands that you know what I'm talking about
Speaker 2: as a Cease fan, But I level what we're seeing
Speaker 2: from Ceas. He's pounding innings yet again, he's racking up
Speaker 2: a ton of strikeouts yet again. I know people hated
Speaker 2: the two hundred or more k's and x amount of
Speaker 2: straight seasons. People hated that we'll get used to it,
Speaker 2: so it's going to add another year after this one.
Speaker 2: He's been nothing short of out standing yet again, and
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, some years the whip will be high,
Speaker 2: but this year it's not. And to your point, the
Speaker 2: cy Young he should be definitely near the top of
Speaker 2: the list, especially with mister scuball out of town. Now,
Speaker 2: Seas should have just walked right through that front door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dylan Cees is a guy that I was kind
Speaker 1: of interested in coming into the season. I didn't think
Speaker 1: he would be this good, But he has followed this
Speaker 1: pattern going back to twenty twenty one, really when he
Speaker 1: became a full time starter, alternating the even and odd
Speaker 1: years and looking at what he's done, whether he wins
Speaker 1: the cy young or not, Cease is going to be
Speaker 1: in the top three of voting top four I got
Speaker 1: absolute worse. It feels like top three. Will he be
Speaker 1: a fade for you next year? Because the price will
Speaker 1: be back up into the probably second, third, fourth round
Speaker 1: type of range. For me personally, he's a guy I
Speaker 1: want to buy after the bad years. Buying him after
Speaker 1: the good years he feels a little bit risky given
Speaker 1: the volatility. So do you think you'll be in on
Speaker 1: Cease as a presumptive top thirty, top forty pick next year?
Speaker 2: Uh? Probably just for a couple of Like I'm in
Speaker 2: on Seas pretty much every year. I understand the increase
Speaker 2: in price is a question, but when we're looking at
Speaker 2: pitching in general, there's like two or three guys we
Speaker 2: think we can trust, and we thought that was Scuball,
Speaker 2: Crochet and Skins this year so far, Scoobl's about it
Speaker 2: in that regard. Skins is even fluttering right now, still
Speaker 2: very good with fluttering. And then it's just like a
Speaker 2: pool of what do we have here? And you know,
Speaker 2: if the only thing I have to worry about his
Speaker 2: potential ratio issues with season, that's a big deal. I'm
Speaker 2: not like this talking down on it. You know who
Speaker 2: you what you're getting with Ceasebard injury, and that's like
Speaker 2: a lot to be said with an early pitching pick.
Speaker 2: So I'll probably still be in unceas and if he
Speaker 2: does fall around four, I'll be very happy with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm talking to myself more and more
Speaker 1: into him. It's a very very big season from him
Speaker 1: in terms of strikeouts. He's always been a big strikeout guy,
Speaker 1: but up to thirty six percent of something we haven't
Speaker 1: never seen from him. Thirty one point nine was his
Speaker 1: previous high. The whip down at one oh four is
Speaker 1: the lowest that we've ever seen from Dylan Sees. His
Speaker 1: sierra has never been below three, and it is this season,
Speaker 1: so it does seem like he is an improved version
Speaker 1: of himself this year. And I do have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a fun fan. Not so fun fact for
Speaker 1: any other Jays fans listening, but it got me thinking
Speaker 1: about Jays cy Young's over the years and the seasons
Speaker 1: that have happened when the Jays do have the cy
Speaker 1: Young winner and going back nineteen ninety six, Pat Henkin
Speaker 1: won the cy Young for the Jays. They go seventy
Speaker 1: four and eighty eight and missed the playoffs. Roger Clemens.
Speaker 1: The next year ninety seven Cy Young Jays go seventy
Speaker 1: six and eighty six, missed the playoffs. The next year
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens ninety eight, the Jays won three consecutive cy
Speaker 1: Young's and the Jays once again missed the playoffs. In
Speaker 1: ninety eight, a better season at eighty eight and seventy four,
Speaker 1: then Doc Halliday and three Cy Young the Jays go
Speaker 1: eighty six and seventy six, missed the playoffs. Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, the Jays go ninety one and
Speaker 1: seventy one and probably should have made the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they were just the odd team out so there have
Speaker 1: been all of these sy youngs in Jay's history, and
Speaker 1: not a single team has made the playoffs. And it
Speaker 1: looks like we're going to continue the pattern this year.
Speaker 1: But but what do you think about that? I know
Speaker 1: it's a stupid little piece of trivia, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: help myself today looking at that one.
Speaker 2: I saw this on a sheet and in the second
Speaker 2: you started talking like, and you wonder why they can't
Speaker 2: get rid of the Jays homersm on this show. But
Speaker 2: it's it is a nasty trend. I know a lot
Speaker 2: of like people in the bettings fhere, like I'm probably
Speaker 2: even on betting pros, go, oh, trends are trans bub
Speaker 2: like they all think it's it's something you can't follow.
Speaker 2: But that's pretty substantial right there, and it will follow
Speaker 2: suit this season. So that is pretty crazy to think
Speaker 2: about that. You know, it reminds me of you want
Speaker 2: to flip into MVPs when a Rod won the MVP
Speaker 2: with the Rangers and they're like the worst team in
Speaker 2: all of baseball. It's like, how do you have the
Speaker 2: best hitter or the best pitcher and you still can't
Speaker 2: even Like the Jays aren't even really sniffing the playoffs,
Speaker 2: which is great, Like it's it's really odd to have
Speaker 2: that kind of dominance and still struggle.
Speaker 1: And probably, you know, maybe not the best reliever in
Speaker 1: baseball and Louis Varland, but like a top three reliever,
Speaker 1: and they're just pissing away that season, pissing away cease.
Speaker 1: But it's what we've come accustomed to this year in Toronto.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about a non Blue Jay,
Speaker 1: and that's fran Ra Valdez. Although a very good point
Speaker 1: brought up in the chat here by game OV Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: all those MVP years totally waited for the Angels and
Speaker 1: Otani's for the I think they have five MVPs in
Speaker 1: the span of ten years and didn't make the playoffs
Speaker 1: in any of them. So it's dark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's really bad.
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad. I do want to talk about something
Speaker 1: a little bit brighter, and that's fraan Er Valdes. His
Speaker 1: first dominant start, maybe of the entire year. It was
Speaker 1: seven shutout innings, five hits, and struck out five. It
Speaker 1: was the first time he pitched shutout ball since June sixteen,
Speaker 1: when he went six innings against the Astros, his old team,
Speaker 1: but probably it's been a pretty poor year from Framber Valdez.
Speaker 1: His ERA is over four for the first time going
Speaker 1: back really ever as a full time starter. The previous
Speaker 1: time it was was in twenty nineteen, when he was
Speaker 1: a starter and reliever his happy fun ball. He was
Speaker 1: still young, so you can kind of forgive him for that,
Speaker 1: But this is a legit bad season. The strikeouts were
Speaker 1: never really amazing to begin with, there around league gaverage,
Speaker 1: and now he's down to eighteen percent. The whip is
Speaker 1: at one thirty seven after a one twenty four last season.
Speaker 1: What do we think is wrong with Framber Valdez? Is
Speaker 1: he simply just passed his peak a little bit here?
Speaker 1: Is it just a regular bad season, first year of
Speaker 1: a new contract. What do you chalk this all up
Speaker 1: to his struggles in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2: Karma, I guess I don't know we can start there
Speaker 2: or you wanted actual analysis? Sorry, yeah, VALDEZI it's one
Speaker 2: of those. He's thirty two years old. One thing that
Speaker 2: always made him very, very, you know, serviceable for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 2: He'd need innings, tons of ground balls, tons of ground balls.
Speaker 2: Ground Balls can be volatile for the babib world. But
Speaker 2: he survived that, and he also got enough swing and
Speaker 2: miss to make things work. Like right now is swing
Speaker 2: and miss. His swinging strike rate's low ten percent, and
Speaker 2: yesterday's quote unquote dominating start he had a four point
Speaker 2: two percent swinging strike rate. That's called running real, pure folks,
Speaker 2: and that that kind of sums up because he's not
Speaker 2: going to overpower people on the mound. So if he's
Speaker 2: not getting in the ground balls are slightly down. There's
Speaker 2: still abovely gatherage, but for Framber's style, it's down, so
Speaker 2: you're getting less flyball or less ground balls, less swing
Speaker 2: and miss. Stuff's not that dominant. He's going to get
Speaker 2: in trouble, and he's fighting that trouble this year, and
Speaker 2: my surprise, I guess not Like did you think it
Speaker 2: happened this fast?
Speaker 1: Probably not as well though, so is he The way
Speaker 1: you're talking, it sounds like he'll be a full fade
Speaker 1: for you going in next year.
Speaker 2: Do you think he was a fade for me this year?
Speaker 2: I have zero Frambers, So yeah, I'm pretty much done
Speaker 2: with him. If he figures it out, I'll tip my cap.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm not in on fram ravalve this going forward.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can be either. I just I
Speaker 1: tend to target guys more often than not who are
Speaker 1: going to give you a ton of strikeouts have the
Speaker 1: ability to give you a ton of strikeouts, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the building block for me from a fantasy
Speaker 1: point of view. If you're not striking guys out, you
Speaker 1: have to be so elite in so many other categories
Speaker 1: for me to be interested in you. And this doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like anything is going right for Framber this year.
Speaker 1: It was a good start yesterday, but doesn't change a
Speaker 1: lot for me going forward. I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about Bryce Miller, and this will be somewhat of a
Speaker 1: deep dive here. I don't know what's happened to him
Speaker 1: over the last few starts. Hell lot five hits, walk
Speaker 1: to and allot four runs over five innings against those Tigers,
Speaker 1: and this season has really collapsed so far. If you
Speaker 1: look at what he did to start the season, he
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. His first eight starts of the year. He
Speaker 1: had a one to seventy one ERA, he had a
Speaker 1: point six six whip and he had a thirty percent
Speaker 1: strikeout to walk great in his five starts he's made
Speaker 1: since then, it's a five eighty one ERA, it's a
Speaker 1: one fifty two whip, and it's a five percent strikeout
Speaker 1: to walk. Right, It's truly baffling. Coming into the season,
Speaker 1: we didn't expect much from Bryce Miller. He has this
Speaker 1: increased velocity, looks like the best pitcher in baseball, and
Speaker 1: now he's looked awful for the last several starts. What
Speaker 1: do you make of him? Bubble, because I see this
Speaker 1: and I think there's got to be some kind of
Speaker 1: injury going on here.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing that can make sense. Because I
Speaker 2: kind of pulled up some some stats I like to
Speaker 2: look at from pitching, and yeah, the ERA and the XCRA,
Speaker 2: like over the last month it's five eight one ERA,
Speaker 2: five six nine x CIRA. That's similar to Sierra for
Speaker 2: those who keep track at home. But you mentioned the
Speaker 2: five percent k to walk, because it's a fourteen percent
Speaker 2: k rate. That's it's baffling. But then I look at
Speaker 2: it and it's like the same ball Percentagury hesed to
Speaker 2: a thirty four percent swinging strike Rate's still ten percent
Speaker 2: on the season's thirteen point two, so a minor dip,
Speaker 2: but should it be that volatile? Probably not. Velocity's got
Speaker 2: It's still ninety five Fords ninety six to one on
Speaker 2: the season, so it's not like that's crazy. His ground
Speaker 2: ball rates similar like so many things that in line
Speaker 2: don't just jump off the page, which then leads to
Speaker 2: the point you're making. Is there an injury and that's
Speaker 2: what I want. I'm wondering with him, And we've talked
Speaker 2: about the home road splits with the Manners, but hey,
Speaker 2: he was at home yesterday, folks, so that is a concern. Also,
Speaker 2: we know he came off the injury this year. Is
Speaker 2: he fully healthy? I don't know. But you know what
Speaker 2: that sound you hear right in the background, that's the
Speaker 2: Kate Anderson siren coming on. Because Bryce Miller might need
Speaker 2: a breather or at worst a piggyback situation. And we
Speaker 2: know how much Bryce Miller likes those, he's a big fan.
Speaker 2: But that might be coming into the freight pretty soon.
Speaker 1: I think it probably should. I mean, it's a very
Speaker 1: weird trajectory. After Bryce Miller at the end of last
Speaker 1: season got hurt, he came back in the playoffs. He
Speaker 1: threw a really good game in the ALCS against the Jays.
Speaker 1: I think there was Game one, maybe Game two, and
Speaker 1: then I don't think there was much interest throughout the offseason. Really,
Speaker 1: he wasn't that expensive, nobody really expected much out of him.
Speaker 1: It's just a weird trajectory, and I think maybe in
Speaker 1: the off season we'll get some clarity. He was trying
Speaker 1: to pitch through something, he wasn't fully healed coming into
Speaker 1: the year, et cetera. But this is very strange, and
Speaker 1: I think I'd have to agree with Lee that he's
Speaker 1: probably a drop. I know it feels crazy after the stats.
Speaker 1: I was rhyming off earlier in the season. You know,
Speaker 1: zero point six whip and all that, But is he
Speaker 1: a drop across the board? Bobba? Even in fifteen's for.
Speaker 2: You, fifteen's is tricky just because there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of options. But I did my fab show yesterday with Ryan,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot more fifteen options this week than
Speaker 2: usual do to trade deadline and other stuff. So there
Speaker 2: are discussions like he got Lezynski coming in from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: you got Dobbins for Saint Louis, you got Tidwell for
Speaker 2: the Giants, Like there's gonna be a bunch of fifteen
Speaker 2: options which do make Bryce Miller potentially drop fifteen twelves
Speaker 2: and below. Yes, you can move on from him. This
Speaker 2: is the time of year. You don't wait around and
Speaker 2: see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's really tricky, especially with name brand
Speaker 1: type of guys. Christian Yelich is a guy who's in
Speaker 1: the side. I've gotten a ton of questions about he's
Speaker 1: on my ten team waiver wires. I pick up Yellichhi
Speaker 1: Bilo on him, and it's like usually i'd see that,
Speaker 1: it's like Yellowich is on the waiver wire, like what
Speaker 1: the hell is going on? But it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. He's been awful this year. He got
Speaker 1: all the back stuff. It's certain name values you have
Speaker 1: to detach from the actual production of the player, and
Speaker 1: I think Bryce Miller is one of those situations. Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's move on and let's talk about Foster Griffin, who's
Speaker 1: also had a little bit of a tough time recently.
Speaker 1: He had his Guardian's debut and lasted just four innings,
Speaker 1: allowed seven hits, a couple of walks. He got lit
Speaker 1: up for five earned runs. This is now back to
Speaker 1: back bad starts for him. He's a lot of eleven
Speaker 1: earned runs in his last two starts. The previous twenty
Speaker 1: one starts was thirty eight earned runs for the entire
Speaker 1: duration of the season before that. Has he lost some
Speaker 1: steam here, Bubba? I know he felt like a popular
Speaker 1: regression candidate. Not the biggest stuff guy, not the biggest velocity,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. I saw Nick Pollock dropped him
Speaker 1: about twenty spots in his starting Pincher rankings from the
Speaker 1: previous update. Are we really concerned about Foster Griffin or
Speaker 1: is this more just a blip on the radar. We
Speaker 1: don't want to say I'm not concerned, but I want
Speaker 1: to see a little more with him. Like, if you
Speaker 1: don't want to start him, that's fine, I totally get it.
Speaker 1: But there's there's always the like a lot of people
Speaker 1: love to just look at the numbers on their computer,
Speaker 1: and that's what it is, and that's fine, gets you
Speaker 1: a lot of good places, but when it comes to
Speaker 1: like the game of baseball, there's also the mental factor.
Speaker 1: To me at Foster Griffin flat out said the last
Speaker 1: start in Washington, he knew he was going to get
Speaker 1: traded and it messed with him, like he was they
Speaker 1: gave him a shot to come back in the BIGS,
Speaker 1: like all these things. He talked about it, like very openly.
Speaker 1: First start with the new team, he struggles, like I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if there's like a transition going on here in
Speaker 1: his brain. Again, not great analysis, but I think there
Speaker 1: could be something to that because the drop off was
Speaker 1: steep and it's a back to back starts. But similar
Speaker 1: to Bryce Miller, like, it's still like it's it's a
Speaker 1: four percent walk right over the last month, eight percent
Speaker 1: over the last in his last start, so it's a
Speaker 1: little higher than you see, but still he's pounding the zone. Swing,
Speaker 1: the miss was a little down, a little more fly balls.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to see another starter or too before
Speaker 1: I panic with Fluster Griffin. But if you don't want
Speaker 1: to start, and I totally get it, Yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: especially looking at the schedule, his next start, his lineup
Speaker 1: to come against the Tigers, and I think the perception
Speaker 1: around the Tigers is they're no good, they sold off,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Over the last three weeks, the Tigers
Speaker 1: have the highest WRC plus as a team, a one
Speaker 1: thirty w RC plus. They're hitting two eighty four over
Speaker 1: the last twenty game, so they're not such a cupcake
Speaker 1: matchup right now. I think that he is at least
Speaker 1: a sit for the time being for that next one,
Speaker 1: just because of how hot the Tigers have been, and
Speaker 1: we take it from there. It's catcher time and this
Speaker 1: is not just Bubba centric. I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about Dylan Dingler even if Bubba wasn't here, but it's
Speaker 1: perfect we get the catcher expert here. Dylan Dingler has
Speaker 1: become one of my favorite players to watch. He had
Speaker 1: himself another massive day, three for six. He hit his
Speaker 1: oney sixth home run of the season. He's now slashing
Speaker 1: two seventy eight, three forty one, five thirty six. That
Speaker 1: is an eight seventy seven ops. And the question I
Speaker 1: pose here and people will probably say, are you insane
Speaker 1: Joe for even asking, but is Dylan Dingler approaching superstar territory?
Speaker 1: The only players with a higher winsbub replacement this season
Speaker 1: are Jordan Alvarez, who has him edged byero point one
Speaker 1: with an extra eight games, and then Peter Armstrong who
Speaker 1: is well ahead. And then I guess if you can
Speaker 1: buy o tawny pitcher and batter, then he would be
Speaker 1: slightly ahead. But that is the company that Dylan Dingler
Speaker 1: is keeping a higher winsbub replacement this year than Bobby
Speaker 1: Wood Junior, than James Wood, Camon narow Elliet, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Are we looking at the next catching superstar here,
Speaker 1: Bubba considering what he does on both sides the plate.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's Dylan Dirk Dingler for those at home that
Speaker 2: aren't aware, but he's He's awesome. I was a big
Speaker 2: fan of him as a catcher too, just because of
Speaker 2: his price tag this year. I picked him up everywhere
Speaker 2: when he got promoted last year. The hit tool is legit.
Speaker 2: It was the playing time, and the playing time's there
Speaker 2: because even going into this year, the reason he fell
Speaker 2: in drafts is during spring training he was dealing with
Speaker 2: I believe, like a shoulder injury or something. So people
Speaker 2: were kind of nervous. But we always know a spring
Speaker 2: injuries like how bad are they? Like, what do we
Speaker 2: really know? We don't And he's proven to be just fine.
Speaker 2: He is the next best thing. And he's playing in
Speaker 2: a pitcher's ballpark for crying out aloud, like imagine if
Speaker 2: he was hanging out with Goodman in company like you
Speaker 2: look at Player Raiders. Right now, Dylan Dingler is the
Speaker 2: third catcher off the board, behind Ben Rice and Hunter Goodman,
Speaker 2: and then there's a drop off a decent one to
Speaker 2: the next one at Drake Baldwin. Dingler's awesome. This is
Speaker 2: the next one of the next best things. It's something
Speaker 2: I've like, you know, you gave me my catcher's a soapbox.
Speaker 2: This is your fault. But when I get to when
Speaker 2: I get to break down catchers, and I've done it
Speaker 2: a lot over the last like five or six years,
Speaker 2: there's been a youth movement at catcher and Dingler was
Speaker 2: one that I kind of looked at about three years
Speaker 2: ago and it was one of those when when will
Speaker 2: the Tigers move on from Drake Jake Rodgers. Well, folks,
Speaker 2: they traded Jake Rodgers. So Dylan Dingler is the dude,
Speaker 2: and I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Speaker 1: He's just incredible. Like even if he was just doing
Speaker 1: what he's doing defensively, I think I would still be
Speaker 1: a huge fan. I'd love a great defensive catcher, and
Speaker 1: he's arguably the best. But then you're also looking at
Speaker 1: twenty six over seventy eight Ribbi in one hundred and
Speaker 1: six games with a good batting average. He's just been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And you look back going to the start of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Dylan Dingler is eighth in war among all
Speaker 1: major league players. We're starting to get something real special here,
Speaker 1: I think going forward with Dylan Dangler the Tigers. The
Speaker 1: more I think about their decision to sell off, the
Speaker 1: more it kind of pisses me off a little bit.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm a Tigers fan or anything close to it,
Speaker 1: but they're three and a half games out as of today.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, they had the hottest offense in
Speaker 1: baseball over the last month. You had Scooble, you had Mies.
Speaker 1: Why why not just you know, make a go for it.
Speaker 1: I understand, you know, trading Schooble and you know, resetting
Speaker 1: the prospect hall a little bit, but I don't know
Speaker 1: when you were as hot as the Tigers have been.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that whole situation? Now?
Speaker 2: It's like the more I've watched the dust settle and
Speaker 2: I did a bench with Bubba talking prospects on the
Speaker 2: side of the trade deadline as well, and it kind
Speaker 2: of opened my eyes and thinks with Martin Sikulski, and
Speaker 2: I get it from the baseball the business standpoint, I
Speaker 2: as the fans, the fantasy person, it makes no sense
Speaker 2: at all. But if you sit back and take a
Speaker 2: step back and see what they did to keep rebuilding
Speaker 2: and stay competitive at the same time, they've done a
Speaker 2: lot of really good things. And I know they're hoping
Speaker 2: for Jackson job to come back Saturday and pitch well,
Speaker 2: They're still hoping for a lot of things, but they
Speaker 2: can still win that division. I think that's what they're
Speaker 2: looking at. And then once you get in the dance,
Speaker 2: anything can happen. And at the same time, as like
Speaker 2: keeping Trek Scooble, is that enough to beat to say
Speaker 2: the Dodgers or somebody like that. That's a big question
Speaker 2: where at least now you rebuild, you can still make
Speaker 2: the playoffs and see what happens and go from there.
Speaker 2: So I get I'm probably on the minority on that
Speaker 2: one of the As time goes on, it might sink
Speaker 2: in a little more.
Speaker 1: I've kind of gone back and forth on it a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: Just like I get both sides. I'd be angry if
Speaker 2: I was a Tigers fan to I get it, But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I've kind of gone back and forth a
Speaker 1: little bit wishy washy. Why don't they do something? Why
Speaker 1: did they do something? But I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: I think mostly just comes to the fact that I
Speaker 1: hate that the Dodgers have schoogle now, but we can't
Speaker 1: do anything about that anymore.
Speaker 2: That's just they've lost like six straight. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Who's keeping track? Who's keeping track?
Speaker 1: You mentioned uh karma earlier in the show. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: going to come back around on them. Who knows. Let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit Alex Bregman here. He's actually been
Speaker 1: really good recently, and I have to chalk it up
Speaker 1: to our friend Torres Torres Takes on Twitter, who went
Speaker 1: out and posted that he's going to be benching Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman a few weeks back and then that lit a
Speaker 1: fire under his rear. End would very much appreciate that, Torres.
Speaker 1: We do love you. But over the last month, Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman hit in two sixty five nineteen runs, sixteen RBI,
Speaker 1: five homer, and a steal. Is he back? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been kind of whatever for most of the season.
Speaker 1: But as Alex Bregman re entered the point where he
Speaker 1: should be started, regardless of matchups, regardless of alternative options. Like,
Speaker 1: has he just a set it and forget it again
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 2: I think we've gotten there. Yeah, there was definitely a
Speaker 2: time where that was not the case. Right now, he's
Speaker 2: feeling it and he's a streaky guy. We know that
Speaker 2: with Bregman, and usually he's one of those veterans by
Speaker 2: the end of the season in the back of the
Speaker 2: baseball card will match up now, probably put himself in
Speaker 2: too big of a hole this year, but he's looking
Speaker 2: like he's putting that production to the table. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm rolling with it, and you're gonna do it because
Speaker 2: also third base, what are your options is the other question.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he seems like at least in I'll say
Speaker 2: twelves and deeper, he's a set it and forget it
Speaker 2: for now.
Speaker 1: I think so too. We're going to do one more
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Speaker 1: the son of Scott Bagman, who has really good as
Speaker 1: of late. It kind of came as a bit of
Speaker 1: a surprise. I'm not watching every single Blue Jays game anymore.
Speaker 1: I just can't do it to myself. But over the
Speaker 1: last month, Alejandro Kirk hitting three forty four get four
Speaker 1: hits yesterday, a couple of homers as of late as well,
Speaker 1: and the overall season line it's still not great, but
Speaker 1: we're getting there, bubb But he's about back up to
Speaker 1: a one hundred WRC plus. It's kind of a washout
Speaker 1: season for him, just playing forty two games. But I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of people kind of disavow Alehandro Kirk
Speaker 1: this year and say he's not that great anymore. There's
Speaker 1: no interest in Kirky. I think that, you know, the
Speaker 1: injury tells a lot of the story here. This is
Speaker 1: still a great catcher, a guy that i'd be happy
Speaker 1: to have as my seat two next year, but I'm
Speaker 1: interested in what you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a C two, he's a solid C two.
Speaker 2: He's the injuries have hurt him a ton. It's like
Speaker 2: two fifty five. That's not who he is. He's a
Speaker 2: two to eighty guy. You're just hoping for, Like, can
Speaker 2: he run into fifteen home runs and get me like
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty runs in
Speaker 2: RBIs combined. I got that's what you're wanting, which is
Speaker 2: a catcher too, And that's what he is. And honestly,
Speaker 2: you mentioned through forty two games, Okay, he's hitting two
Speaker 2: fifty five with four homers, ten runs and sixteen steals.
Speaker 2: Would you like the countiest hats to be higher? Sure,
Speaker 2: but if you like calculate that out, we're pretty much
Speaker 2: in the ballpark, is what we're looking for. Malhuna Kirks,
Speaker 2: So he kind of it's the old dentist screen.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: He is who we thought he was, and everyone is
Speaker 2: not letting him off the hook right now. So I'm
Speaker 2: fine with him for next year as a catcher too.
Speaker 2: He's not a priority, but he's in the catcher two pool.
Speaker 1: Ten runs, in forty two games.
Speaker 2: It's bad.
Speaker 1: It's horrendous. But the part of that is also that
Speaker 1: the Blue Jay is just suck off it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds good. It sums up this season in Toronto
Speaker 2: because like, okay, I mentioned this, I can't remember as
Speaker 2: Welsh or Bloomfield. At one of my shows, I was
Speaker 2: on over under two and a half home home runs
Speaker 2: for Vlatti the rest of the year. He has none
Speaker 2: so far. I want your thoughts.
Speaker 1: That is how you're gonna do me on a Friday, zero,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say zero.
Speaker 2: Because I had the argument with him. I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna drop him in a twelve team league and
Speaker 2: he's like, how can you drop Flatty? I'm like, take
Speaker 2: the name out of it, look at the stat line
Speaker 2: and tell me why I'm holding onto this.
Speaker 1: Somebody or today on Twitter, I think it was Eric
Speaker 1: Cross posted Hi France or Vlattie rest of season and
Speaker 1: it was like fifty to fifty and it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, like, what the heck?
Speaker 2: It's reasonable?
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, oh no, it's reasonable. Joe g was asking
Speaker 1: the other day something about dropping Vlattie for like forget
Speaker 1: who it was, and I was like, good lord, is
Speaker 1: this where we're show. Yeah, it might have been. I
Speaker 1: just it's all a blur, and being a Blue Jay
Speaker 1: fan tends to be a bit.
Speaker 2: Of a blur. I get it. I get it.
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Speaker 1: up on your opponents. But I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about Braxton. I was about to say Braxton Ashcraft. For
Speaker 1: a second, I thought I was like, oh, really, okay.
Speaker 1: He's been a topic of conversation a lot between myself
Speaker 1: and Welsh recently, and it hasn't been good. It was
Speaker 1: a Braxton Ashcraft VERSU Skeens discussion and turns out that
Speaker 1: the answer was neither of them. Recently, but Braxton Garrett,
Speaker 1: he was recalled from Triple A by the Cubs. It
Speaker 1: has not been announced what he will be doing specifically.
Speaker 1: I believe there is no scheduled to start on the
Speaker 1: books for him. Roston Resource has him in the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and obviously the Cubs have about twelve starting pitchers at
Speaker 1: this point. Do you see Braxton Garrett getting a shot
Speaker 1: in the rotation soon? And do you think he's worth
Speaker 1: picking up in the meantime. The thing that stinks is
Speaker 1: when he was traded from Miami. I'm like, I love
Speaker 1: he's out of Miami because they apparently don't like him,
Speaker 1: But like, now he's behind too many pitchers in Chicago,
Speaker 1: So when he got called up, I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I think he's a long reliever right now. Unfortunately, if
Speaker 2: I knew he's in the rotation, I'd be pumped. But
Speaker 2: Clay Holmes is coming back this weekend. Edward Cabrera like,
Speaker 2: you're throwing one more rehab started to think sixty five
Speaker 2: pitch is on Wednesday, So you're Edward Abrera back soon.
Speaker 2: So that means like even Colin Ray in company are
Speaker 2: leaving the ring. They have nine or ten twelve pitchers,
Speaker 2: like you said, so I think it's a long reliever. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: that means he's not fantasy viable right now. But man,
Speaker 2: if we get different news, I am all aboard. I
Speaker 2: love Braxton Garrett and I'd be all all about that life.
Speaker 1: I do too. I'm not really sure why they wanted
Speaker 1: to trade him. You'd figure he would have been a
Speaker 1: part of their rotation of the future. I don't know
Speaker 1: why the Cubs felt the need to go get him either,
Speaker 1: with all the starters they have and the guys they'll
Speaker 1: have coming back, you know, Horton and Steele. Eventually, A
Speaker 1: bit of an odd trade, A bit of an odd trade.
Speaker 1: I do hope he gets a chance to start with
Speaker 1: regularity there. I do want to talk about Ronald Acunya
Speaker 1: Junior's home run from last night, though just briefly, because
Speaker 1: this was a bizarre one. He hit it to the
Speaker 1: gap and left center, and I'm not sure if it
Speaker 1: hit I had a glove, a hand, a shoulder bounced
Speaker 1: over the over the wall for a home run. A
Speaker 1: Counya was standing there at first base, like, what the
Speaker 1: hell just happened here? Should I keep going? And yes,
Speaker 1: it was a whole run. Did you see this one, Babba?
Speaker 1: This was a bizarre, bizarre play last night.
Speaker 2: I only saw it once you posted about it, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I was in an out last evening. But that was
Speaker 2: a wild one reminiscent of mister Kenseko back in the day.
Speaker 1: I wish that they would major League Baseball would just
Speaker 1: let us show the video, but we'll get in all
Speaker 1: kinds of trouble for that, So go ahead and check
Speaker 1: it out yourself over on Twitter or YouTube wherever you
Speaker 1: guys should be able to find it. Let's do a
Speaker 1: little three up and three down the best and worst
Speaker 1: of last night. Lu Bob Luis Robert came alive three
Speaker 1: for six with a pair of runs scored, Bryce and Stott,
Speaker 1: who's been quietly pretty good for a while two for
Speaker 1: four with a pair of doubles, he walked and drove
Speaker 1: in a run. And then Dustin May, in his Brewers' debut,
Speaker 1: went six innings while allowing two runs, three walks, and
Speaker 1: struck out five against the Pirates. Baba, any thoughts on
Speaker 1: any of the ups there.
Speaker 2: Scott's been super super impressive over the last like two months.
Speaker 2: He's hitting like close to her over three hundred now
Speaker 2: power still not what you want, doesn't play every single day,
Speaker 2: but super super useful, especially the middle and field position.
Speaker 2: So love that. And man, I really hope this is
Speaker 2: the year the Brewers pitching and keeps it together in
Speaker 2: the postseason, because every year they get there and then
Speaker 2: they have no one to show up. But man, they've
Speaker 2: They've built the rotation that I think they could legit
Speaker 2: battle the evil Empire of the West Coast. And I'm
Speaker 2: very excited about that.
Speaker 1: I hope so too. I wanted them to go get school.
Speaker 1: I wanted them to go make the trade, and maybe
Speaker 1: they didn't need to because their rotation is pretty stacked.
Speaker 1: I know Harrison left the other day, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like it's anything too seriously that time.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I saw that he left and I was immediately thinking
Speaker 1: the arm was troubling him again, But I think it
Speaker 1: was a cramp or something. The Mizz Logan Henderson, Harrison,
Speaker 1: Dustin May who has been really good, Shane Drow and
Speaker 1: Robert Gasser. Like that's a pretty stacked rotation. I was
Speaker 1: more just upset that they didn't make the offer for school,
Speaker 1: or maybe they did make the offer for school, and
Speaker 1: they said they fact that they tried.
Speaker 2: Well they did, but the Tigers came back and they
Speaker 2: wanted Logan Henderson and either made or Paynia as a
Speaker 2: part of the deal, and they quickly said no. And
Speaker 2: I don't blame him for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I don't blame them either. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want somebody to put up as
Speaker 1: strong of a fight as they can against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Do you see Chris Rose's rant about this the other day?
Speaker 1: He was ranting about the Brewers and the Rays. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're Chris Rose. Guy. I really like
Speaker 1: Chris Rose.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love Chris Rose. I'm bummed he doesn't have
Speaker 2: his podcast really anymore. In the rotation he has a
Speaker 2: smaller formed on them. But yeah, I love Chris Rose.
Speaker 1: Yeah he does the job boys stuff. But he went
Speaker 1: on this rant with Trevor Ploof about the Brewers and
Speaker 1: the Rays, about how many World Series they've won and
Speaker 1: about how many times they fully pushed all the chips
Speaker 1: into the middle, and it's like, just make the effort.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever you've done throughout your franchise's history does
Speaker 1: not work to this point. You got absolutely dog walked
Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year. Make the big move. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. I hope that it pays off for them,
Speaker 1: really hoping that the Brewers can make some noise and
Speaker 1: dethrowing the Dodgers. Let's go to the downs. Nolan McLain,
Speaker 1: who's been really good as of late, a little bit
Speaker 1: of an up and down season earlier on in the year,
Speaker 1: he really settled into a groove and then yes, today
Speaker 1: he got smacked by the Guardians five and runs eight
Speaker 1: hits and three walks. Ryan Reynolds, who has had a
Speaker 1: very good season overall, oh for four with three k's,
Speaker 1: and then Luis Lara oh for three with three k's
Speaker 1: as well. But any thoughts there on any of those guys.
Speaker 1: Lilan McClain, any concern there for him at all?
Speaker 2: Not really with McLain, Oh Plea's not just getting tired,
Speaker 2: which is one start. He's been really good, as you mentioned.
Speaker 2: But Lara's the one I'd keep a keep an eye on, folks.
Speaker 2: He's only getting playing time due to injuries right now,
Speaker 2: Like Bowers is banged up, but Laura has not been
Speaker 2: really that impressive to me, So if you're rostering Laura,
Speaker 2: you could probably move.
Speaker 1: On from that. I think so too. I think in
Speaker 1: most leagues, I feel like the majority of you guys
Speaker 1: are penning twelve team leagues, you can definitely move on
Speaker 1: if you're still holding him. There, let's take a look
Speaker 1: at some injuries. It's an interesting injury report today, So
Speaker 1: the Red Sox could look to bring back Errett Crochet
Speaker 1: later in the season as a reliever. Fordunt to manager
Speaker 1: Chad Tracy, stretching him out to six innings by September
Speaker 1: is probably not feasible, and they will look to see
Speaker 1: if they can get some relief innings out of him
Speaker 1: down the stretch, and then maybe who knows, once October
Speaker 1: rolls around, maybe he can give you five or six
Speaker 1: innings or so. Let's say we hear that Crochet is
Speaker 1: coming back for three to four inning spurts any fantasy
Speaker 1: interest there. We saw him in that role a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago and it wasn't super fantasy viable at
Speaker 1: the end of his White Sox tenure. But if we
Speaker 1: know he's getting three innings, any interest at all.
Speaker 2: No, not at all, Like this whole season, Crochet has
Speaker 2: a watched to me, and I know the Red Sox
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, and so they need even three
Speaker 2: innings in October, it'd be awesome out of him. But yeah, fantasy,
Speaker 2: what has I'm out?
Speaker 1: I think so too. I'm always so tempted in those situations,
Speaker 1: like what if he gives you three innings, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: zero zero ratios every time. But like after the year
Speaker 1: he's had, missing the entirety of it, coming back and
Speaker 1: looking like Pete Crochet is probably not going to go
Speaker 1: super super well, So I think I'd agree there. He
Speaker 1: also said Chat and Tracy, that is said that Adley
Speaker 1: Rutchman is close to going on a rehab assignment but
Speaker 1: still has some boxes to check. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: been about Adley this year? I think the trade was
Speaker 1: one of the most shocking. It was more shocking to
Speaker 1: me than the school trade because we knew that was coming.
Speaker 1: Adley getting dealt into Vision was pretty wild. What do
Speaker 1: you make of Adley in his career to this point?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at Fangraf's war in his career,
Speaker 1: I think he's third or fourth among catchers, but there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of mistime. What do you make of
Speaker 1: him up about the stage of his career.
Speaker 2: I've kind of been an anti Adley guy for the
Speaker 2: last few years, Like he had a monster twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: but average is dropped every year. Power has been inconsistent,
Speaker 2: more impressed. More importantly, it's been injuries have been catching
Speaker 2: up with him, which happens at the catcher's position. I
Speaker 2: was also worried about him and Besillah at the same
Speaker 2: time this year, but they made that work surprisingly. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm not an Adley guy. I get flak
Speaker 2: for it every year when I make my stance, and
Speaker 2: I'll continue to make my stance because it's worked for
Speaker 2: three straight years, and we'll see where that still goes.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean, he went from one incompetent organization
Speaker 1: to another one certain respects. I mean, the Red Sox have.
Speaker 2: Been very good as the Jay's finn, this is true,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 1: Mean the Orioles just disastrous with their prospects over the years.
Speaker 1: The Red Sox trading history of the last couple years
Speaker 1: not looking great. But we'll see. I mean I heard
Speaker 1: people saying, like, how could they give up this crazy
Speaker 1: prospect Hall and then Lance Brasdowski went out there and said,
Speaker 1: like they got some damage goods here for lack of
Speaker 1: a better term, and they might have got screwed a
Speaker 1: little bit with their return. Who knows, who knows? With Breslo,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Connolly Early speaking of Red Sox trades
Speaker 1: that are dodgy to the point, it looks like a
Speaker 1: lose lose to this point with Meat getting hurt and
Speaker 1: now Connolly Early's throwing program was paused after he experienced
Speaker 1: forearm tightness in between innings of his VP session earlier
Speaker 1: this week. I don't think we see him again this year, Bubba,
Speaker 1: especially with the one Nationals are looking. I think he's
Speaker 1: done for the year.
Speaker 2: There's zero reason to push him right now. Like that trade,
Speaker 2: I liked it. It was a good trade for both sides.
Speaker 2: The meat is what the Red Sox needed at the time,
Speaker 2: early controllable years of a potentially pretty good arm. You're
Speaker 2: building him for the future. Don't push this at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Wood is hurt. They traded Luis Garcia,
Speaker 1: they traded Foster Griffin. Like they're five games under five hundred.
Speaker 1: There's no need to push something here, Tommy j Early,
Speaker 1: I mean we might be getting to Tommy Jay. We
Speaker 1: hope no, but probably I hope not, but I think
Speaker 1: we can kind of see the writing on the wall
Speaker 1: right now. Speaking of pitcher injuries, we'll head back to
Speaker 1: my neck of the woods. Traya Savage has a moniscous
Speaker 1: injury and will be evaluated by a specialist on Monday.
Speaker 1: Specialist always leaves the potential for surgery open here. My
Speaker 1: guess is that we don't see Tray Savage again this year.
Speaker 1: The Jays have absolutely no need to push things. There
Speaker 1: had been some ups and downs, a lot of command
Speaker 1: issues from Treya Savage. To see a full drop across
Speaker 1: the board, bubber or do you want to wait for
Speaker 1: some more news first?
Speaker 2: When I heard specialists, he's a drop for me. If
Speaker 2: you want to wait till Monday, you're probably going to
Speaker 2: realize you're dropping him next weekend. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: like you said, the Jay's aren't in it. Your Savage
Speaker 2: has been struggling with command of late. When they say
Speaker 2: he's got a minisk injury, usually they'll tell you if
Speaker 2: it's torn. They didn't say anything, So that makes me
Speaker 2: wonder what's really going on, then the specialist, Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: go on for me, I'd be shocked if he pitches
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: If the ja's were in contention, maybe they'd want to,
Speaker 1: you know, do something they get him back, you know,
Speaker 1: injections this, whatever. There's no point. There's just there's just
Speaker 1: no point to push the guy who's probably the future
Speaker 1: ace of the staff or one and two a cease anyway,
Speaker 1: there's just there's just no need for it. Joe Ryan
Speaker 1: is dealing with the gluten strain and it looks like
Speaker 1: he's headed for the injured list, and at this time
Speaker 1: of year, I think whenever anybody goes on the injured
Speaker 1: list you have the keeper drop question, things would look
Speaker 1: pretty rough for him. You posted that quote in the
Speaker 1: leading off chat a couple of days ago about how
Speaker 1: hard it was for Joe Ryan to be pitching right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic going forward this season, Bubba, Is he
Speaker 1: a drop for you? At this point?
Speaker 2: I want to see more news from him, actually, like
Speaker 2: I want to see what's going on. You put on
Speaker 2: the IL later today most likely, but I want to
Speaker 2: hear works. I think he's supposed to get a second opinion,
Speaker 2: which never good either but it was weird because like
Speaker 2: he had the dead arm that made a start get
Speaker 2: pushed back, and then he comes out and says he
Speaker 2: has a lower body injury and now he's got So
Speaker 2: that's the glute we're talking about. I want to see more,
Speaker 2: but it's one of those like if he's out for
Speaker 2: four weeks, we have seven weeks to go, so he'll
Speaker 2: probably be a drop. I'd like to hear a little
Speaker 2: more of a timetable for him, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I agree with you on that front.
Speaker 1: Some good news that Jake Bowers is hopeful to be
Speaker 1: back in the Brewers line up on Friday, continues to
Speaker 1: work his way back from an abdominal strain and Spencer arraghetti.
Speaker 1: Of course, the newest Blue Jays acquisition had to leave
Speaker 1: his rehab start on Thursday after appearing to re injure
Speaker 1: his right foot. So definitely no bueno there. Let's head
Speaker 1: to the home run board and we do want to
Speaker 1: make a shout out. Actually, this one comes from Kelly
Speaker 1: from the Wonky Penguin. The shout out CCD goalie who's
Speaker 1: loyal follower had trouble getting on Discord all season long.
Speaker 1: I can definitely relate as a guy who is pretty
Speaker 1: bad with tech stuff, and he got his first home
Speaker 1: run call yesterday, So shout out to CCD. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the big board, Hi, Coby. I mean
Speaker 1: I've been saying it for a couple of weeks. Starting
Speaker 1: to pull away a little bit here, fifty homers, league
Speaker 1: goal at forty three, solar flare at four, forty, whips
Speaker 1: of forty, Jay's fans club at forty. It's looking pretty
Speaker 1: dark for pretty much everybody else here. I mean at
Speaker 1: Lee's saying in the chat, slow down, you never know.
Speaker 1: But Hi, Koby has just been absolutely dominating this contest
Speaker 1: for pretty much the entirety of the season. But where
Speaker 1: are you going today for your home run call? See?
Speaker 1: We can try and catch up here.
Speaker 2: There's this Merril Kelly guy pitching in Arizona against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to take a some like considered easy,
Speaker 2: but I don't care, because you took the guy I
Speaker 2: really wanted. I'm going show hey O Tony tonight, show heyo,
Speaker 2: TONI I think he's as bad as then he has
Speaker 2: been for him, the power is still there. I think
Speaker 2: he's going deep. Might even be a Lee left home
Speaker 2: run tonight, I.
Speaker 1: Could definitely see it. CCD is saying only forty nine
Speaker 1: back now, there's a lot of season left. Its close
Speaker 1: to forty some odd days. He hit a homer every
Speaker 1: single day. You never know what could happen. I am
Speaker 1: going with WILLI or bray you today he's facing Jack Perkins, who,
Speaker 1: my god, a six seventy two era, a one forty whip.
Speaker 1: You've just been getting lit up all season long. And
Speaker 1: will you are brak you has been spicy hot as
Speaker 1: of late, so we're going to take will You're there.
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Speaker 1: a look today and Jake Bauers, who looking like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be back plus four hundred, looking like the best
Speaker 1: value on the board, Joe mac versus George Glass And
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Speaker 1: a look at George classenstats so far this year, small
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Speaker 1: There's a couple of comments about the prospects in the chat.
Speaker 1: Culpepper was culled up by the Twins Mike Curlin can
Speaker 1: finally be happy there, and then George Lumbard Junior for
Speaker 1: the Yankees, who hit a home run in his first game.
Speaker 1: He had a hit in the second game. What's your
Speaker 1: interest level on both of them going forward, Baba? And
Speaker 1: if you had to choose between one and the other,
Speaker 1: where would you go?
Speaker 2: Here? Culpepper is the better prospect in my opinion. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm not a tremendous prospect person, but he's a better prospect.
Speaker 2: But we know Lombard's got the job. I'm assuming Colepepper
Speaker 2: gets the job if they're calling him up. So if
Speaker 2: we by the end of the week we see Colepepper's
Speaker 2: playing every day, I'll take Culpepper. But both are pretty
Speaker 2: good choices. In my opinion.
Speaker 1: I think I'll go Culpepper too. There. The Yankees as
Speaker 1: a whole. Holy god, man, if you look back, I've
Speaker 1: talked about the stats over the last month, the Yankees
Speaker 1: are like the twenty eighth, twenty ninth ranked offense over
Speaker 1: the last month. It really shows you how important Judges.
Speaker 1: Obviously we know Judge is important, but to the degree
Speaker 1: that he impacts the rest of that lineup, my god.
Speaker 1: Without him there, they're not great. And I know I've
Speaker 1: been bashing the entirety of the Al East today, but
Speaker 1: what do you expect from it from a Jays fan.
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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman or Austin Riley for next season, Man, it's
Speaker 1: a toss up for me right now, they'll probably ranking
Speaker 1: pretty closely. I think maybe Riley I'd take all the
Speaker 1: bounce back, but I've also been saying that for four
Speaker 1: years now, So what do you think, Bleba?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll probably be out on both, but I'd take
Speaker 2: Riley just because the ceiling's there. He's so frustrating. He
Speaker 2: still hit them all so darn hard. It's just he stinks,
Speaker 2: and so this season Bragman, next season, potentially Riley. It's
Speaker 2: I hope I don't have to make that decision.
Speaker 1: Not either Ryan Jeffers or Von Herrera. Rest of season
Speaker 1: standard categories plus on base percentage.
Speaker 2: Jeffers is really good at OBP, but Jeffers is her
Speaker 2: Ara has been nice cold the last like two months.
Speaker 1: And we'll do one more here. Start Nathan Eavaldi today.
Speaker 1: Anthany Uvaldi today will be going up against the Baltimore Orioles. Baba,
Speaker 1: what say you?
Speaker 2: I start him, But I understand the question because it's
Speaker 2: been bad of late. I wrote him up last night
Speaker 2: for an article, and like three or four of his
Speaker 2: last five starts, it's basically been three runs or more.
Speaker 2: He came out six runs in his last outing. But
Speaker 2: the strikeouts are still there, like the stuff is still
Speaker 2: there for Yuvaldi. He's just getting hit around the park
Speaker 2: a little bit. And I take my chances against Baltimore.
Speaker 2: But I understand the trepidation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would too. You know, he really
Speaker 1: ranks high if you look at like rest of season
Speaker 1: projections and things of that nature. Still And actually it's
Speaker 1: an easy way for me to plug the show that
Speaker 1: I have coming out this weekend. Marty Tallman was my
Speaker 1: guest on the Fantasy Pros Baseball podcast this week for
Speaker 1: my weekly guest show, Love Marty, Great guy. We caught
Speaker 1: up for the first time in a while and we
Speaker 1: talked rest of season projections. We went over the bat
Speaker 1: X Top thirty rest of season hitters Top thirty rest
Speaker 1: of season pitchers just talked a boy some of the
Speaker 1: names that stood out to us, So that one a
Speaker 1: lot of fun six pm Eastern today on the YouTube
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Speaker 1: next week because you will see a duo that I'm
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if Bubba, have you been a
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Speaker 1: show before? It probably has been a while if you.
Speaker 2: Have not on Fantasy pros. No, they've never let me
Speaker 2: have the keys to the car, but they might not
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have Bubba and the Wonky Penguin here coming
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