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Speaker 1: the BFFs alongside Frank Stafell. I am Greg Suspen Frank.
Speaker 1: What's going on about? Happy Thursday? The week it's almost over?
Speaker 1: It feels like this week's going pretty fast. Agreed, having
Speaker 1: a good time. I honestly felt like this week it
Speaker 1: was almost like last week. We had Monday off because
Speaker 1: it's been going so fast. They didn't feel like we
Speaker 1: worked a whole four days this week. I couldn't I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree more. It's flying by. It's fine. Let every
Speaker 1: week fly by like this, perfectly fine with this, swim away,
Speaker 1: that's good, pertly fine with that. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: But how did you sleep last night? I slept. I
Speaker 1: slept really well. You know, I had to back up
Speaker 1: early this morning, that didn't do some stuff before the programming. Um,
Speaker 1: but I slept really well. I don't believe I woke
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night and at all
Speaker 1: until the alarm went off this morning. But it was
Speaker 1: good for you know what. You know what it was.
Speaker 1: I went on the scale this morning and I liked
Speaker 1: the number that I saw. So after that, I listened to,
Speaker 1: like listening to like a Live the Killers live all
Speaker 1: the yesterday and today. I was in a great mood
Speaker 1: coming to work today. Is Live the Killers a live
Speaker 1: album that's something that just came out recently. No, it
Speaker 1: came out like ten years ago. But the reason I
Speaker 1: decided to listen to it, I mean, big fan of
Speaker 1: the Killers, put me in a great mood, like it
Speaker 1: was awesome. So I'm pretty good mood. Do well, it's
Speaker 1: good to hear great, Yeah, man, how are you I?
Speaker 1: I'm doing it right now? And sorry, And tonight Judy
Speaker 1: is going at dinner with their friends and I make
Speaker 1: a pass for myself, pad to himself. I feel awesome
Speaker 1: tonight he's got the penthouse open. Who wants to chill?
Speaker 1: Who wants to chill? Let's go man, So a bunch
Speaker 1: of baseball tonight for you? Great? Like baking championship a bachelorette?
Speaker 1: Can I watch the Yankees? Yes? All right, solid, Bud? Well,
Speaker 1: what's going on? What's going on? Everything? I slept well,
Speaker 1: it was it was a little intoxicated. I I went
Speaker 1: to a graduation dinner last night and at an Italian restaurant,
Speaker 1: the Treats he is of Williamsburg. Um. We didn't order
Speaker 1: any beer. We had a bunch of pictures of sangria.
Speaker 1: So I had to settle for that. Not really, I
Speaker 1: don't like any wine really, but you know what, you
Speaker 1: have to live with the hand that you were dealt, Greg,
Speaker 1: and that's what I was doing. So I slept very
Speaker 1: well after that. Also, this conversation came up about like
Speaker 1: musical genres that we hate, and I realized it was
Speaker 1: like everything that you love so opposite track, Greg. I
Speaker 1: think it's and that's where we're at right now. I
Speaker 1: think it's what it's been. Talking point was Dave Matthews
Speaker 1: band I said, I kid you not. My co host
Speaker 1: has seen them live over thirty times. I hate them,
Speaker 1: Greg loves them. Yeah, alright, well coo enough shin. It's funny.
Speaker 1: So this year they're playing in Camden Father's Day weekend?
Speaker 1: Uh does Robbie sufsman like he likes? Doesn't love? Rob's
Speaker 1: actually away? More respect now earned for Rob. He's away,
Speaker 1: He's not around Father's Day weekend this year. Well, my
Speaker 1: problem is it's not problems. I'm willing to Judy's your
Speaker 1: Father's Day weekend, which is fine, but I'd like to
Speaker 1: go to Camden to see the show. And Canda's actually
Speaker 1: closer to Philly where she lives. So I was like Judy, like,
Speaker 1: what if we went out to your family Friday night,
Speaker 1: I'll borrow the cars, drive to the concert on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then just drive home to drive back to your
Speaker 1: how Saturday night with your home Father's Day Sunday. All good?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Did you drive yourself? And I
Speaker 1: have no interesting I have no interest in going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more respect for Jude now too, Let's go. And she's
Speaker 1: just here for the Dave Matthews and hate. You know,
Speaker 1: she went with me to the Garden last year and
Speaker 1: like that was fine. She doesn't need basically, she doesn't
Speaker 1: need to go and spend money another concert where I'm
Speaker 1: just like, oh, this sucks, this sucks, just chocks that
Speaker 1: songs good? Oh it sucks. She's like, don hearing me
Speaker 1: and do that. That's what's going on? Is that? Is
Speaker 1: that the reaction of Greg at Dave Matthews band. I'd
Speaker 1: say so, yeah, I'd say she's not wrong. You don't
Speaker 1: love everything that they do. Know. So is it like
Speaker 1: a wrestling relationship that you have, Yes, exactly, yeah, like
Speaker 1: you basically hate most of it? Right, So why do
Speaker 1: you go? I don't know. I can't talk to you
Speaker 1: out of it, Greg, whatever, whatever you want to do, bro,
Speaker 1: what it makes me happy? Right? You know? What makes
Speaker 1: me sound like it makes you happy? Does make it
Speaker 1: makes me happy. It makes me happy to be a
Speaker 1: miserable fan. That's what a true fan is. I think
Speaker 1: Greg really have an hour to talk baseball nowadays, So
Speaker 1: jump in. You want to get right to you said
Speaker 1: that last night? You said last night that or this morning?
Speaker 1: One thing you really wanted to talk about from from
Speaker 1: last night? Was you Darvish, I want to get you
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Did you do just that? Because I wanted
Speaker 1: to start with the Cubs in particular, Craig Kimberal. Craig
Speaker 1: Kimberill signed with the Cubs last night a three year,
Speaker 1: forty five million dollars of the guaranteed. He does have
Speaker 1: an option to make that even larger um in year four.
Speaker 1: But Kimbrall's going to the Cubs, which means Pedro Strope,
Speaker 1: Steve c Sheck, Brandon Morrow, They're all useless to you. Now,
Speaker 1: Kimball could be ready to rock. I read as soon
Speaker 1: as two weeks from today June, he could be ready
Speaker 1: to go. Um inside that bull been doing twenty two weeks,
Speaker 1: and that's for a reliever. So I think the questions
Speaker 1: that you brought up the other day about Dallas Kikol
Speaker 1: are really valid because if that's for a reliever, it
Speaker 1: takes him two weeks to get ready. I mean, how
Speaker 1: long is it gonna take Dallas Kaiko to get ready
Speaker 1: once he signs with the team. Greg, I did want
Speaker 1: to pose this question to you, and I put it
Speaker 1: up as a poll today. I'm a Fantasy VFF Twitter.
Speaker 1: Where where would you rank Craig Kimberell rest of season
Speaker 1: in terms of closer rankings? Is he, you know, the
Speaker 1: normal elite Craig Kimberal's the top five ouption. Is he
Speaker 1: a a closer one and RP one? Is he like
Speaker 1: a more of like a top twelve guy or is
Speaker 1: he outside the top twelve? Where would you rank him
Speaker 1: right now? He's a really good question. Letally seem like
Speaker 1: a figure out twelve names. I like more how's that?
Speaker 1: Let's start there and it does help you too. I
Speaker 1: have the same leaders up right now, but doesn't matter, Like,
Speaker 1: like I know we're trying to do top twelve, but
Speaker 1: like why does it matter if he's in the top
Speaker 1: twelve where he's not? I think some people who might
Speaker 1: have held onto him all year might just want to
Speaker 1: know what our thoughts are on him moving forward, like
Speaker 1: rest of season? You know, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberall or if someone's trying to like buy low
Speaker 1: on him right now or make a trade because he's
Speaker 1: gonna go to the Cubs and they're obviously gonna have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to win a lot of games. And where
Speaker 1: does he kind of fit into the mix for everything?
Speaker 1: I think people might be trying to wonder if I
Speaker 1: want to go out there and acquire him, or if
Speaker 1: I've held onto him. What can I expect from Craig
Speaker 1: kimberll rest of seas. So we're just a little bit
Speaker 1: nervous in regards that Kimberroll. Just see what Greg Holland
Speaker 1: did when he came back was last year where where
Speaker 1: he signed out, he got released by the Cubs or
Speaker 1: at least by the Cardinals rather or traded mane with
Speaker 1: years he was awful and he only missed April, so
Speaker 1: or miss sorry spring training, miss March. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit nervous about Kimberle. So to answer your question, I
Speaker 1: will name the relievers I have ahead of him. You
Speaker 1: could let me know if you disagree, Ready, hers, I
Speaker 1: agree or all this? Chapman, Kenley, Jansen, yep, Roberto Osuna,
Speaker 1: Felippe Vasquez, sure, Brad Hand yes, Josh Heater, Yes, it
Speaker 1: was at six or seven, at seven? Edwin Diaz eight
Speaker 1: like train in nine, Well tryin it has not been
Speaker 1: as good to No. Twelve said it's not really his fault. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's true. That's probably about it makes sense anybody else
Speaker 1: for you? No, I mean, look, as much as we
Speaker 1: love the main green saving machine, he's got one point
Speaker 1: zero eight e r A. I don't know that we
Speaker 1: expect that to last the rest of the season. He's
Speaker 1: got nineteen saves. He's been awesome, but I would probably
Speaker 1: rank him just behind Kimbera and then everyone else that's
Speaker 1: in this mix. You know, Will Smith has thirteen savee
Speaker 1: so the Giants, he's been awesome, but you traded at
Speaker 1: some point, like maybe you put dool little ahead of him.
Speaker 1: That might be the only other name man. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: got thirteen saves, he's got four wins on the season,
Speaker 1: he's got three point zero four either A. What about
Speaker 1: it's another name of kind of mind? What about Ken Giles?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm not a Ken Jahs guy.
Speaker 1: He's been he's been awesome. He's got eleven saves, got
Speaker 1: a fifteen k per nine. It seems like he's finally
Speaker 1: figuring it out. Maybe what he needed was to not
Speaker 1: be pitching for a contender. Maybe maybe he just didn't
Speaker 1: you couldn't deal with that type of pressure. But he's
Speaker 1: been awesome. I think he's probably right in that mix.
Speaker 1: He's right around there. He's like a low end top
Speaker 1: twelve option. I think he's right there. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say like him and Doolittle are like right in that mix,
Speaker 1: like if you're if you're running up top twelve right
Speaker 1: so named nine and probably like kimber Will Doolittle, Ken
Speaker 1: Giles like eleven twelve rounding out the top twelve. Who
Speaker 1: who was the name that you just said, Jackson, Luke Jackson. No,
Speaker 1: he's he's like probably high end to like middling RP
Speaker 1: two closer to in that in that territory. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I agree with that. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: So there you go, Craig kimberll more of like a
Speaker 1: top ten, you know, back end closer one rest of season.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the guy's got. But obviously he's been
Speaker 1: awesome for a long time now. And the Cubs are
Speaker 1: a good team this year. They're thirty one and twenty
Speaker 1: six their game and a half out of first place
Speaker 1: in the NL Central. Is this the best spot that
Speaker 1: he could have landed in. It's one of them. It's
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better than Atlanta. I think the
Speaker 1: Cubs right now are are a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: right on par with Atlanta, maybe a little bit better.
Speaker 1: You're expecting to win more games or or have more
Speaker 1: close games, but better than Minnesota. I mean, Minnesota has
Speaker 1: forty wins on the season. That might have been the
Speaker 1: optimal spot. He might have had his most save opportunities there,
Speaker 1: but lands in a really good spot with the Cubs.
Speaker 1: And you you mentioned you, Darvish, you didn't have a
Speaker 1: phenomenal start yesterday. The wheels kind of fell off here
Speaker 1: for him, but live in the third Endings pitched three hits,
Speaker 1: three walks, two earned runs, five strikeouts against a really
Speaker 1: good Colorado Rocky's lineup. And I tweeted this out before
Speaker 1: the show. If you're into like lying grass and like
Speaker 1: really nerdy things, it's his cutter usage. His cutter usage
Speaker 1: has changed completely from earlier on in the season. His
Speaker 1: first eight starts, the cutter usage eighteen point one percent
Speaker 1: a five point four zero e r A during that time.
Speaker 1: Greg His walks per nine first eight starts of the
Speaker 1: season for you, Darvish, eight point one zero. That makes
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray look like Kyle Hendrix. Seriously. Eight point one
Speaker 1: zero walks per nine. His next five starts the cutter
Speaker 1: usage up to thirty nine percent. That's up over twenty
Speaker 1: percentage points. Cutter usage for you, Darvish, four point to
Speaker 1: five e r A still not where you want him
Speaker 1: to be, but at three point five one x fit.
Speaker 1: And he had thirty four strikeouts in twenty nine and
Speaker 1: two thirds and he's pitched eleven walks during that time
Speaker 1: three point three four walks per nine. That's closer to
Speaker 1: the picture we were expecting you, Darvish to be swinging.
Speaker 1: Strike grade is up during that time. The first pitch
Speaker 1: strike percentage up tremendously from fifty two point six percent
Speaker 1: in those first eight starts to sixty three percent, so
Speaker 1: up ten percentage points on the first pitch strike percentage,
Speaker 1: throwing more strikes, establishing the strike zone early on, getting
Speaker 1: more swings, and mrs getting people to chase more. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that has to do with
Speaker 1: the cutter usage. Greg he threw the cutter fifty two
Speaker 1: times last night. That is too shy of his career high,
Speaker 1: which I went all the way back to his rookie season.
Speaker 1: He was he was throwing, he had a stretch where
Speaker 1: he threw it a lot like this, over fifty times
Speaker 1: per game, throwing his cutter. So if you held on too, you, Darvish, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think it's coming. I think it's coming. So the
Speaker 1: one thing that I'll say next week to start a
Speaker 1: week at Colorado at Los Angeles Dodgers doesn't get much
Speaker 1: harder than that. But it seems like it's coming around
Speaker 1: for you, darbish, You Darvish finally making some changes for
Speaker 1: the good. It looks like he'll be the right and
Speaker 1: you're gonna want him for that to start week if
Speaker 1: you are feeling risky the Dodgers, and of course against
Speaker 1: the Rockies, both in Colorado and in Los Angeles. All right.
Speaker 1: Also last night, I'm gonna get get to the Yankees
Speaker 1: and get to James Paxton, who came up from d
Speaker 1: L last week or I l rather made a second
Speaker 1: start back in Toronto here he's home country, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't very good. He didn't get through five minute he
Speaker 1: was here. He threw no hitter, I believe that's correct.
Speaker 1: Four hits, four runs allowed, only three of them earn.
Speaker 1: The Yankees defense let him down a lot last night,
Speaker 1: three walks uh four striker as Yankee bullpen was bad,
Speaker 1: specifically John and Holder Louis Sessa and Zach Brittain. Admittedly
Speaker 1: I didn't get to catch this game, Greg was was
Speaker 1: was it then Frasier who let him down? Specifically susion
Speaker 1: do anything wrong? Alright? A lot of luke voit prob
Speaker 1: whom was last night? Oh well, those are gonna rear
Speaker 1: their ugly head at times, right, Yeah, I mean there
Speaker 1: were issues. There were labor tores issues last night. It
Speaker 1: was very annoying. Alright, So not great here for for
Speaker 1: James Packson, was there anything that you saw watching him? Greg?
Speaker 1: Because four and two thirds, I mean outside of the
Speaker 1: defense behind him, it seems like he didn't get as
Speaker 1: many swings and mrs strikeouts that he normally does against
Speaker 1: a team that frankly, I feel like he should be
Speaker 1: able to dominate. Yeah, I thought the control wasn't where
Speaker 1: it needed to be last night. You can see that
Speaker 1: by the three walks he allows that it doesn't really
Speaker 1: walk many people normally. I just think he had it
Speaker 1: in a Honestly, he didn't have it last night. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: He still had fourteen swinging strikes on eighty three pitches,
Speaker 1: so terrible. It was like effectively wild, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? But only four strikeouts, but yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: used to seeing the three walks out of James Paxson
Speaker 1: and only the four and two thirds endings pitched. You know,
Speaker 1: I think everyone's ears are gonna perk up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's pay attention here. Is it is he's still dealing
Speaker 1: with anything with this many injury. I don't think you
Speaker 1: don't have any concerned about that. They don't all right, well,
Speaker 1: it could just be him shaking rust off. That's that
Speaker 1: seems more accurate the io. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um pa Toronto vladihit or no data. That was awesome
Speaker 1: for him. Um it was alad my eighth home running
Speaker 1: the year, right, don't look now the ops up after
Speaker 1: a really really slow start, and you know, if you
Speaker 1: look at his zone percentage. I think I mentioned to
Speaker 1: see their last week or two weeks ago. He's basically
Speaker 1: getting the Barry Bonds treatment and he's what twenty years
Speaker 1: old pictures don't want to pitch to him. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I know that he's, you know, one of the top
Speaker 1: prospects in the game, but really he's getting like Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout treatment. I was about to say Mike Trout
Speaker 1: Mint speaking, So I'm glad you bring I'm glad you
Speaker 1: bring up Mike Trout. So I read a good article
Speaker 1: today on ESPN about my Trout, how he lasted and
Speaker 1: what the Angels did in that draft. So they had
Speaker 1: like five picks in the top one or something along
Speaker 1: those lines. They are, including the twenty four overall pick
Speaker 1: and the twenty fifth overall pick, which would have been
Speaker 1: the Mets and the Yankees. The Mets gave up with
Speaker 1: the pick for Frankie Rodriguez. The Yankees get to pick
Speaker 1: from Mark to Shara, the Angels, and a couple of
Speaker 1: other picks. Do you know who they took with all
Speaker 1: this picks? So Trout went at twenty five and they
Speaker 1: took him as the second player that chose to try
Speaker 1: to get the bonus like slightly less. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: know who they picked it? Twenty four? One minute Peter Borges, No,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. It's relevance to what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Randall Gritchick was there pick at four who took the
Speaker 1: Yankees deep not once, but twice last night for his
Speaker 1: eleventh and twelve home runs of the season. Brandon Jury
Speaker 1: also gonna be of revenge last night, his sixth home
Speaker 1: run of the year. Also included in those picks were
Speaker 1: Tyler Skaggs, who was traded away to the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 1: then brought back. Interesting one person who I don't remember me,
Speaker 1: who's never made it, and then the other one was
Speaker 1: you see here. The other pick was, oh god, I
Speaker 1: lost it. Now come on, come on, Greg Garrett Richards
Speaker 1: Richards all right, pretty good? First four? Yeah, pretty good,
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Speaker 1: inside injuries. What's going to Virginia? You guys got from
Speaker 1: me in how are you doing very well? Fantastic? All right,
Speaker 1: So we wanted to get into some of the latest
Speaker 1: injuries and the biggest, one of the most surprising will
Speaker 1: come out of nowhere. With cars crasher last night. It's
Speaker 1: scratched from his start and he has something wrong with
Speaker 1: his his blood that sounds not so good. What is
Speaker 1: his injury? What's the deal with Carlos carrasco. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'll start by saying, we really have no idea what's
Speaker 1: going on here. Um, we have a few things that
Speaker 1: we think could be going on, but you know, they
Speaker 1: want to wait until he feels comfortable and his family
Speaker 1: feels comfortable revealing exactly what this blood condition is. UM,
Speaker 1: we do know he's out in definitely. UM. They're hopeful
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to return later in the season,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like this is going to be something
Speaker 1: that takes multiple months for him to recover from. UM.
Speaker 1: You know some examples of a blood condition that could
Speaker 1: cause a player to miss this much time. UM could
Speaker 1: be something like leukemia or another sort of blood cancer
Speaker 1: like my aloma. UM, it could be a bone mirror disease.
Speaker 1: Any of these things could make you feel lethargic, which
Speaker 1: is sort of what he's been experiencing over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. UM. Of course those sound very scary, and
Speaker 1: they are, UM often very treatable. But Yeah, unfortunately, right now,
Speaker 1: we really don't know what's going on, and I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna know for sure until UM. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a while before they, you know, really
Speaker 1: reveal exactly what's going on with Carrasco. It's crazy because
Speaker 1: we talk like yesterday, Frank, how my clements your story,
Speaker 1: rehab assignment, Corey Klumer, like things are kind of looking
Speaker 1: up for him, and then boom, another starter for Cleveland
Speaker 1: goes down. If your regas hits the I L and
Speaker 1: now Carlos Carrasco as well. It seems like it's been
Speaker 1: the story of the season here for the Cleveland Indians,
Speaker 1: been dealing with so many injuries. But you know, shout
Speaker 1: out to Carlos Carrasco. Our thoughts and prayers go out
Speaker 1: to him. I hope everything is all right and he
Speaker 1: can have a speedy recovery. But I think this, you know,
Speaker 1: it sounds like a pretty good reason as to why,
Speaker 1: you know, he might not have been living up to
Speaker 1: our expectations so far this year from a fantasy perspective.
Speaker 1: So I hope that everything can get right for Carlos Carrasco. Virginia,
Speaker 1: we saw a slugger go down last weekend. We haven't
Speaker 1: been able to talk to you guys since since then,
Speaker 1: but Joey Gallo, you know, going down with this oblique injury.
Speaker 1: And I know recently we were talking with Dr Ray
Speaker 1: and I asked him straight up. You know, with guys
Speaker 1: like Stanton and Aaron Judge, are these guys just too
Speaker 1: big for their own good? Are they too strong for
Speaker 1: their own good? And they swing the back too hard
Speaker 1: which leads to these oblique injuries. And I think Joey
Speaker 1: Gallo is kind of in that category because he's such
Speaker 1: a mammoth of a human being. Is this a similar
Speaker 1: oblique strain to Aaron Judge? Because it seems like Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge has been out forever. Can we expect Joey Gallo
Speaker 1: to be out as long as Aaron Judge? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: one doesn't sound quite as serious, but you just never
Speaker 1: know what oblique strings. Um, these injuries they nag, they
Speaker 1: take forever to heal. Um, And you think it's pretty
Speaker 1: moud and you can come back within a few weeks,
Speaker 1: and then you know we're five six weeks down the
Speaker 1: road like we are with Judge and he's still not
Speaker 1: ready to come back. Um. But like you said, Gallo
Speaker 1: is definitely one of those guys. He creates a lot
Speaker 1: of torque with his upper body, which you know leads
Speaker 1: to these oblique strings. And unfortunately it's just a pretty
Speaker 1: common injury for these power hitters. Um. The good news
Speaker 1: here is we are showing a three week optimal recovery
Speaker 1: time because this sounds relatively mild. Um, whereas Judge was,
Speaker 1: I believe six weeks, So hopefully by around June twenty one,
Speaker 1: we think he'll be ready to come back right now.
Speaker 1: The team is hopeful he can come back in around
Speaker 1: fourteen days. I think it's gonna be a little longer
Speaker 1: than that. Um, it almost always is with these injuries.
Speaker 1: But you know, hopefully this isn't as as serious as
Speaker 1: Judge and he can return within the next few weeks. Alright, Greg,
Speaker 1: So some good news there doesn't sound as bad as
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge three weeks if we get him back, you know,
Speaker 1: June's twenty one or around there late June. Do you
Speaker 1: think there's any Chancey just hold them out until we
Speaker 1: all Star break. I think it's probably no they can,
Speaker 1: but believes are really tricky, and as we've seen with Judge,
Speaker 1: they've been very very careful with him ramping up uh,
Speaker 1: finally ramping up the rehab with Judge. You could be
Speaker 1: back as soon as June twenty one, I believe, is
Speaker 1: when the Yankees head to London to play the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: That was a date that's been rumored. So it basically
Speaker 1: almost be a full two months that Judges out with
Speaker 1: his eight weeks or so. UM. Hopefully it's not as
Speaker 1: serious with Gallup, but they're gonna take their time and
Speaker 1: they don't want to reinjure this because that tork could
Speaker 1: very very well reinjure him. Uh so they want to
Speaker 1: be very very careful, so don't be eight weeks, but
Speaker 1: it won't be anytime soon. I think when it comes
Speaker 1: to Joey Gallup, Tommy has on the round field. It's
Speaker 1: been out for about a week now, Virginia missed entire
Speaker 1: weekend series, but most the first couple of days of
Speaker 1: the latest race series. He expects me back in the
Speaker 1: lineup today. What was originally just backshortness is now not
Speaker 1: really backshortness. Sorry you broke up for a second. Here'd
Speaker 1: you ask about? We're asking about Tommy Fam. He's been
Speaker 1: out of the line up for a while. As we said,
Speaker 1: it wasn't really it was backstortness, so we said, but
Speaker 1: then not really. I think now it's like his calf
Speaker 1: or something. Yep, yep, got it. Um. Yeah, so we're
Speaker 1: actually showing a soft tissue injury. I've got good news
Speaker 1: and bad news here. Soft tissue least severe injury, um,
Speaker 1: not too serious. Usually the optimal recovery time is around
Speaker 1: one week, which is the case for Fam. Um. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like he could be back today. Um, which
Speaker 1: our algorithm is saying is sort of right on track.
Speaker 1: The bad news here, his injury risk is still high
Speaker 1: at that is very concerning. Umcent is to cut off
Speaker 1: to go from elevated risk to higher risk. So he's
Speaker 1: twenty percent above that. That's huge, and that's even though
Speaker 1: he's just hit his healthy to return date. Other bad
Speaker 1: news here his health performance factor is poor at thirty
Speaker 1: six percent. So these injuries you're talking about, um, well,
Speaker 1: you know, his back wasn't too serious. This what we
Speaker 1: think is a little capstrain isn't too serious. Um, we
Speaker 1: think it's enough that it's really going to hurt his performance.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, he's at a very high
Speaker 1: risk of getting hurt, um, whether it's aggravating one of
Speaker 1: his existing injuries or suffering a new injury just because
Speaker 1: his body isn't ready to go. So Tommy Fam who's
Speaker 1: had injury issues in the past, Frank says he's a
Speaker 1: thousand percent of playing today. Who knows that will be
Speaker 1: as consistent that he wanted to be in the lineup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and with Tommy Fam, you know, I loved him coming
Speaker 1: into the season. Awesome power speed combination. But this is
Speaker 1: what we always have to deal with when it comes
Speaker 1: to Tommy Family, he gets all these nagging injuries throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season. Had his issue, had the
Speaker 1: issues with his eyes a couple of years ago as well.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like from this report from Virginia that
Speaker 1: you know, once he comes back, if he puts together
Speaker 1: a few pretty good games in a row, and you
Speaker 1: should probably look into shopping to see what you could get,
Speaker 1: because I would imagine you could probably get like a
Speaker 1: top twenty, top twenty five outfielder in return for Tommy
Speaker 1: Fam via someone who broke out. So far this year,
Speaker 1: he's been awesome for fantasy owners. Has been huntered Dozer. Now,
Speaker 1: it seems like a week ago, maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, now he was diagnosed with a something with
Speaker 1: his thorax. I have no idea what a thorax is,
Speaker 1: but it turns out that this is a chest injury.
Speaker 1: What do you have on hunter dojor how long is
Speaker 1: he expected to be out? Yeah, so he was placed
Speaker 1: on I l M eligible to return June tenth, I believe,
Speaker 1: and he's expected to return around that date. Um, we're
Speaker 1: showing that that's actually pretty realistic. Um, he's an elevated
Speaker 1: injury risk. Right right now, this really seems like it's
Speaker 1: just muscle tightness in his chest. Hopefully not you know,
Speaker 1: a strain, but it could could be a very mild strain.
Speaker 1: Um right now, his held performance factor is also below average.
Speaker 1: It's six, but he's pretty close to that cut off
Speaker 1: getting back into the above average category. UM. I think
Speaker 1: that could actually happen within next week or so. UM So,
Speaker 1: not not too concerned here, but this is one of
Speaker 1: those cases. It was smart of them to place him
Speaker 1: on the aisle, give him a few extra days to rest,
Speaker 1: make sure this doesn't turn into something a little more serious,
Speaker 1: but he should be good to go pretty soon after
Speaker 1: he's eligible to return. Please please be alright, Hunter Dozer,
Speaker 1: because Greg, he's been one of the breakout hitters so
Speaker 1: far from fantasy this year, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people are depending on him now to be their
Speaker 1: corner infielder utility, whatever it might be, maybe even starting
Speaker 1: third basement. He's been a godsend. We need him to
Speaker 1: be healthy. Hopefully he comes back he's ready to rock
Speaker 1: and gets back in the fantasy owner's ladups sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. Mats John went on the I l this week,
Speaker 1: and it's not one of these pictures Frankie that kind
Speaker 1: of out of nowhere Zac Efflyn last week, Matt Strong
Speaker 1: this week. How serious this is injury? And Matt Strong
Speaker 1: here engineer. Yes, they're calling it a left rim strain.
Speaker 1: We actually think it's something called castro chondritis, which means
Speaker 1: there's inflammation where the upper ribs joined with the cartilage
Speaker 1: near the stern um. Um. Hopefully you know, nothing too serious.
Speaker 1: But again we are showing a three week optimal recovery
Speaker 1: time for a Grade one injury. Um, they don't expect
Speaker 1: him to miss much more than the minimum ten days.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he does miss more than that, but we think that,
Speaker 1: you know, the last week in June or so, he
Speaker 1: should be ready to return. Matt Strong was someone who
Speaker 1: gained a lot of helium during draft season, greggy, and
Speaker 1: so at this point he's been all right. He's been adequate.
Speaker 1: He's got a four point zero three e r A.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's creeped up a little bit recently,
Speaker 1: but he's been he's been pretty good for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 1: So hopefully, um, you know, he'll be all right and
Speaker 1: not expected to miss all that meant all that much time,
Speaker 1: you know, two to three weeks whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: So Matt, we'll see what happens. Hopefully in Virginia. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about Charlie Blackman, who went on
Speaker 1: the I l over the weekend. He's dealing with a
Speaker 1: calf injury right now, set to go on a rehab
Speaker 1: assignment starting yesterday, so it seems like he's getting pretty
Speaker 1: close to returning already. It seems like this was a
Speaker 1: pretty mild calf strain. What does the algorithm say is
Speaker 1: that is an accurate timetable for him to return this quickly.
Speaker 1: So we are showing that this is a mild calf strain.
Speaker 1: We have it as a Grade one UM, but that
Speaker 1: still comes with a three week offtim recovery time. UM.
Speaker 1: We've seen so many guys over the last few years,
Speaker 1: you know, guys like Donaldson, now black Men, quite a
Speaker 1: few others that have these calf injuries. They think they're healed,
Speaker 1: they come back, and then right away they either aggravate
Speaker 1: it or they suffer another injury. UM, likely because they're overcompensating. Um.
Speaker 1: Black Men really should not return this week, even though
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's going to we're showing that the
Speaker 1: earliest he should return is around June. UM. He's still
Speaker 1: high risk at and his HPF is below average at UM. Also,
Speaker 1: the calf is an explosive muscle, so really every single
Speaker 1: motion he's going to make, whether he's batting or whether
Speaker 1: he's in the outfield, making cuts, sprinting, rounding the basis,
Speaker 1: everything puts a lot of stress on that calf UM.
Speaker 1: So it's very easy to aggravate UM. So he really
Speaker 1: should not come back, but it sounds like he's going
Speaker 1: to right. I'm a little worried here about Charlie Blackman
Speaker 1: one year older. He's thirty two years old. He's not
Speaker 1: a spring chicken anymore. And it seems like these injuries
Speaker 1: are more likely to flare up with guys who are
Speaker 1: a little bit more advanced. That's the term I used.
Speaker 1: But Josh Jnaldson, we saw that happen to him. And
Speaker 1: you know, Charlie Blackman relies a little bit more on
Speaker 1: his legs. He doesn't steals any basis as he used to.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's he's out there playing center field
Speaker 1: and he's running around a lot. I'm a little worried here, Man,
Speaker 1: and I think you're very right to be. And there
Speaker 1: are fantasy owners and fantasy drafters that felt this way
Speaker 1: about Charlie Blackman right that, like, look as been awesome
Speaker 1: batting average ten homers. He watched the speed decline, and
Speaker 1: you know, the injuries do pile up, and as players
Speaker 1: get into their thirties, you get more cautious about them.
Speaker 1: I think Charlie Blackman is one of those natives. I
Speaker 1: think you have every right to be nervous going forward.
Speaker 1: I really do. Yeah, But you know what, he's one
Speaker 1: of the guys that, even while he's injured, Gregg, I
Speaker 1: still feel like you get a really good return because
Speaker 1: Colorado exposure to that lineup he leads off as well.
Speaker 1: Like even if you tried to trade him now, I
Speaker 1: feel like you can still get like a top fifteen
Speaker 1: outfielder for him, or maybe even wait until he returns
Speaker 1: to get like a top fifteen outfielder. And so probably
Speaker 1: something I would look into. I I worry about this
Speaker 1: flaring up again. Sounds like he's returning too soon. By
Speaker 1: all accounts from from Virginia, we're tellingly Virginia Zak is
Speaker 1: all of inside injuries in Virginia. One name who has
Speaker 1: not played all season long. He's been Justin Upton. The
Speaker 1: Angels finally got back show Otani as a designated hitter.
Speaker 1: Intania has been finally getting high connected home running the
Speaker 1: last couple of days. You can see his strokes back.
Speaker 1: He's finally got his rhythm back, which is good to see.
Speaker 1: But they'd love to add Justin Upton to this lineup.
Speaker 1: When could they expect him back? Yeah, so he was
Speaker 1: originally given an eight to twelve week timeline. UM. He's progressing,
Speaker 1: expected to take live VP this week. UM. He's been
Speaker 1: fielding grounders and reportedly running at full speed UM, which
Speaker 1: is actually a very big deal when coming back from
Speaker 1: turf toe. UM. He also had a knee injury early
Speaker 1: on it spring training, but it sounds like he's past
Speaker 1: that injury. UM. We are still showing though that he
Speaker 1: has not quite reached his optimal recovery time. He's about
Speaker 1: a week away. UM. Even so, his injury risk is
Speaker 1: high at fifty And remember I just mentioned that the
Speaker 1: cutoff for high risk is so he's way above that. UM.
Speaker 1: So you know, pretty much he should He should be
Speaker 1: ready to start a rehab assignment, hopefully within the next
Speaker 1: few weeks. But because he hasn't played it all this season,
Speaker 1: they really need to bring him along slowly, you know,
Speaker 1: have him play a game, take a day off, um
Speaker 1: slowly work back into back to back games and make
Speaker 1: sure his toe and the rest of his body is
Speaker 1: responding well before they activate him. The season seems like
Speaker 1: it might just be a wash for Justin Upton greg
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate because I'm a big just Optic fan.
Speaker 1: I loved him since he's entered the league, But it
Speaker 1: seems like his risk for re injury is is very high.
Speaker 1: He's gonna slowly get work back in, Like maybe we
Speaker 1: don't even see him as an everyday player until after
Speaker 1: the All Star breaks, so maybe then, maybe then is
Speaker 1: like the time when he start to take off second
Speaker 1: half of the season, Like if you could buy him
Speaker 1: super low or someone drops him in your league, like
Speaker 1: that's what you can look forward to. But I'd be
Speaker 1: surprised if he contributes much, if anything, before the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. Ready. Obviously, the big news that
Speaker 1: came out this week, along with Carlos Carrasco Virginia, was
Speaker 1: the injury to Andrew McCutchen. Very unfortunate one of the
Speaker 1: really really nice guys in baseball. Another one of my
Speaker 1: favorites as well, Tour his A c L. We don't
Speaker 1: normally see a c L injuries as often in baseball
Speaker 1: as we do in other sports, basketball and football. But
Speaker 1: and we expect him right now, it's it's June six.
Speaker 1: Can we expect him to be ready for, you know,
Speaker 1: the start of next season spring training when it comes
Speaker 1: around and let's say March. Does that seem like a
Speaker 1: realistic timetable for Andrew mc cutchen. Yeah, A lot of
Speaker 1: it depends on if it's an isolated a c L
Speaker 1: tear or if there's any other ligament damage or damage
Speaker 1: to the meniscus. UM reports so far adjustment to the
Speaker 1: A c L, but a lot of the time you
Speaker 1: don't really know until he undergoes surgery. Um, if it's
Speaker 1: an isolated a c L tear, he has a pretty
Speaker 1: good shot at being ready to go by opening day
Speaker 1: next season. UM. But either way, they're going to have
Speaker 1: to bring him along very slowly at spring training, UH,
Speaker 1: being very careful with him. UM. He also did tear
Speaker 1: his opposite a c L in high school, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: once you tear one a c L that increases your
Speaker 1: risk of tearing the opposite one, even though it's been
Speaker 1: what ten plus a years since that happened. Um, So unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is just a prime example of of how difficult
Speaker 1: it can be. Um, you know, when you've already torn
Speaker 1: one a c L and it was just you know,
Speaker 1: a freak non contact thing. That's how this happens a
Speaker 1: lot of the time. So right now we're just hopeful
Speaker 1: it's an isolated a c L tear if that's the case,
Speaker 1: and no setbacks along the way. Um. Usually the recovery
Speaker 1: time is around nine months, so opening day is realistic,
Speaker 1: all right, So there's some some good news for Andrew
Speaker 1: mccaton owners. I know he's you know, this is the
Speaker 1: twilight of his career, greggy, but if you took him
Speaker 1: in Dynasty, you still expect, you know, some run scored.
Speaker 1: He's not the player that he used to be, but
Speaker 1: he was doing some nice things for Fantasy. Just a
Speaker 1: call of more names. He gets you here with Virginia
Speaker 1: Zakis and we get you now. Athan Eovaldi was one
Speaker 1: of your guys ran coming into this year him alone
Speaker 1: with his teammate Edward Rodriguez. We expected big things from
Speaker 1: and then Evaldi got hurt. Hurt. That elbow once again
Speaker 1: hits the I L what should we expect him back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the reports are saying he could be back by
Speaker 1: mid to late June. I really really hope they do
Speaker 1: not bring him back that soon. UM. He underwent surgery
Speaker 1: on April to remove loose bodies from his elbow. They
Speaker 1: expected him to miss around six weeks, which we said
Speaker 1: was way too short. UM. He also underwent a similar
Speaker 1: surgery last March UM and returned to the rotation around
Speaker 1: two months later. UM. Of course, the team said that
Speaker 1: last year they were being extra cautious because he was
Speaker 1: coming back from his second Tommy John surgery. UM. That
Speaker 1: means he's now had four elbow surgeries. That is a lot.
Speaker 1: So even though surgery to remove a loose body usually
Speaker 1: isn't that big of a deal. UM, there's so much
Speaker 1: going on in his elbow and there's clearly a reason
Speaker 1: he keeps having issues UM and needs to have these
Speaker 1: loose bodies removed. UM. He really should not return before
Speaker 1: the All Star break, and we're actually saying that he
Speaker 1: should wait until August five. That's obviously not going to happen,
Speaker 1: but we don't think his elbow is going to be
Speaker 1: fully recovered until then. Wow, you describe to the people
Speaker 1: what this is. I believe that Frank is throwing up
Speaker 1: an L. That's an L. I will take that L.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Nathan eol Loser Virginia, we only
Speaker 1: have a minute left, real quick. When it comes to
Speaker 1: Buster Poldy dealing with this right hamstring train, someone I
Speaker 1: didn't like coming into the season because he had the
Speaker 1: hip surgery. Um, what what is the optimal recovery time
Speaker 1: when it comes to Buster Posey, Yeah, it's just two
Speaker 1: weeks for this hamstring strain. Uh, he underwent an m R.
Speaker 1: I did show a mild strain, but unfortunately, coming back
Speaker 1: from such a serious surgery on his hip injury, injuries
Speaker 1: like this are very common. Um, it's just tough for
Speaker 1: your entire body to fully recover following something like that.
Speaker 1: And of course playing catcher, he's putting so much stress
Speaker 1: on his lower body UM every single day, so he's
Speaker 1: high risk six. But I don't think this injury alone
Speaker 1: is going to be a long term thing. Yeah you
Speaker 1: heard that downstairs. So on lost the Mackia. It seems
Speaker 1: like you're gonna need a new catcher in the pit league.
Speaker 1: It's not looking good for busted posts. Regina appreciated the time.
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Speaker 1: sports book yesterday. Frank, how was that? It was? Cool? Man?
Speaker 1: You should have put in our best bets forever you
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Speaker 1: had the pirates to win out right, that happened. Big
Speaker 1: looked much better last night. And of course Kevin Gausman
Speaker 1: sucks as he always does. And what do you have?
Speaker 1: I Jimmy Nelson. We should talk about Gimmy Nelson, see you, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: we're talking about it. We should know about Himyson. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: what days before yesterday, I thought there was you know,
Speaker 1: normal rust here. He only went three innings. He ended
Speaker 1: up throwing sixty five pitches, so it wasn't very efficient
Speaker 1: with his pitches, only got two strikeouts, had three walks,
Speaker 1: gave up a home run as well to Brian Anderson.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked rusty overall. So you know, we
Speaker 1: told you yesterday, don't put him in your lineup yet
Speaker 1: even though you did. Um no, I didn't. That's not
Speaker 1: for you to know. But he only had five swinging
Speaker 1: strikes yesterday on sixty five pitches. Was a lot of
Speaker 1: four steamers thirty one four seamers, twenty eight curveballs. The
Speaker 1: four steamers sat ninety two point four miles per hour.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually gonna pull up what his what his
Speaker 1: velo was in twenty event teen, So we kind of
Speaker 1: compare and contrasts a little bit here. So in Jimmy
Speaker 1: Nelson's basketball velocity was ninety three point nine, so he's
Speaker 1: got he's got a little bit of a way to go,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he's gonna build that arm strength back up.
Speaker 1: Still excited about Jimmy Nelson, but I think these first
Speaker 1: couple of times through the rotation, you leave him on
Speaker 1: your bench. Hopefully he gets better and he'll earn our
Speaker 1: trust and then we can get him back in our lineups.
Speaker 1: But for now I would leave him on the bench
Speaker 1: and until he until he gets things going great. The
Speaker 1: Jimmy Nellison hype training was out of control and he
Speaker 1: spread yesterday. I mean we said that like seventy months crazy.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. Shere had our best bets right now?
Speaker 1: Should we wait talking about betting? So let me let
Speaker 1: me I'll do this, take your time with the best bets.
Speaker 1: I just want to say this. So my initial best
Speaker 1: bet for today, it was like a no brainer was
Speaker 1: Patrick Corbyn in San Diego because the air minus one
Speaker 1: oh four, the Patricks are minus one twelve. And I
Speaker 1: honestly think the more I look at this Frank sucker beat,
Speaker 1: sucker beat and you're getting suckered in, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do it because I don't want to be suckered in.
Speaker 1: I think it's a sucker beat. Why is that? Because
Speaker 1: I think people see Patrick Corbyn. You see the gnats
Speaker 1: and you're like, no brainer, easy. The problem is what
Speaker 1: I don't think the general public realizes. Do you know
Speaker 1: what Patrick Corbyn's road et r A is as good
Speaker 1: as he's been this year? Do you know what it is?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I will guess um five and
Speaker 1: a half four point nine six, four point nine six
Speaker 1: on the road this year? Thirty two winnings pitch. Did
Speaker 1: you know that San Diego has a better record than
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals? I didn't know that. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that Washington haven't been great. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: public knows that. I think this is a sucker bat,
Speaker 1: I really do. Or are they hoping that you do
Speaker 1: all this research and that you inception yourself or let's
Speaker 1: say bet sception maybe a new uh maybe a new
Speaker 1: segment grade exception exception, so like a line that is
Speaker 1: so confounding that you start thinking one way and then
Speaker 1: you find yourself thinking too much and it's and it's
Speaker 1: bet sception. Maybe that's what they're getting. Maybe that's atption,
Speaker 1: But overall you don't like this game. I like you
Speaker 1: probably touch that was my first it's downstairs. You were
Speaker 1: like a corbett. And maybe I'm talking to myself out
Speaker 1: of it. Maybe I'm being stupid, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a sucker bat the more I look at it. So,
Speaker 1: do you have something else that you like? Wait, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait till the towards the end of the show
Speaker 1: to reveal that. But yes, there is something else that
Speaker 1: I like. I think that one is a sucker bat?
Speaker 1: Is that reasonable? Apostle's I think it makes sense. I
Speaker 1: think I think you're going down the correct rabbit hole
Speaker 1: right now. I hope. So I'm not trying to like
Speaker 1: overthinking things, but I feel good about that. Washington also
Speaker 1: play yesterday in Washington made the cross country flight. Now
Speaker 1: that they played played yesterday afternoons. It's okay, But I
Speaker 1: like san Diego. Now you like san Diego. I'm not
Speaker 1: touching its sucker I'm not touching it. It's a sucker
Speaker 1: bets been on. I mean, I guess I like san Diego.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's sucker bet on Washington. So, yes,
Speaker 1: I like san Diego. I mean, you don't have to
Speaker 1: bet every game. You could just be a sucker bet
Speaker 1: and you could just say stay away. That's what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. You're saying, I'm trying to say, don't bet
Speaker 1: on Washington. Okay, That's what I'm trying. So he's not
Speaker 1: telling you too bet on San Diego, but he's telling
Speaker 1: you not to bet on Washington. But it sounds like
Speaker 1: something that I would just stay away from completely. Okay?
Speaker 1: Is there anything else we need to hit on from
Speaker 1: last night before we move into all our best best forever?
Speaker 1: What are people asking? You can argue that we buried
Speaker 1: the lead here? Is that Chris Suh No Sale, he
Speaker 1: was amazing last That's the lefty you want to go with. Yes,
Speaker 1: there was two lefties at through complete games, and you
Speaker 1: want to talk about Chris Sale, Dude? Jason Varne's that
Speaker 1: would be a five hits shutout, Greggy, Crystal eight strikeout?
Speaker 1: Better than that is right now? Down to three point
Speaker 1: five seven, Gregg higher, that's actually lower than Christal's exactly.
Speaker 1: Chris Sale? Who who whoo? Jason Vargas is the real
Speaker 1: story here, Greg? We'll talk about both of these guys.
Speaker 1: Let's do Vargus first. Yes, because we don't have a choice.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to talk about, is there? What I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: Is there no fantasy relevance? When it comes to him,
Speaker 1: you know, only because he has a rotation spot in
Speaker 1: the right matchup in a fifteen team mixed league. Like.
Speaker 1: I actually liked him this week going up against San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and I said the two downstairs Greg, If Jason Vargas,
Speaker 1: who averages an eighty five mile fastball, rose a five
Speaker 1: hits shutout against the Giants with eight strikeouts, what does
Speaker 1: that say about Noah Syndergarden. Seriously, just because one person
Speaker 1: has a good game, that means it's not just a
Speaker 1: good game. Though. We're talking to five hits shutout from
Speaker 1: Jason Vargas who has an eighty five mile hour fastball
Speaker 1: on average, you at average, like, and we're getting a
Speaker 1: complete game shut out from Jason Vargas. No, I don't
Speaker 1: have interested in him in twelve team leagues again, and
Speaker 1: only you know, maybe fifteen teams in the right matchup.
Speaker 1: This was the right matchup for him. So if you
Speaker 1: had him in your line up for this one, god
Speaker 1: bless you. That is awesome. But anything shallower than that,
Speaker 1: I'm out on Jason Vargus. The e r RA is
Speaker 1: three point five seven, his x fib is over five,
Speaker 1: so not much to see here. With Jason Vargins. Okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough. What about Chris Sale, who would have to
Speaker 1: a three it shutout last night? Twelve strike and I
Speaker 1: was including an immaculate inning. He was fantastic. He's back bity, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is. I don't feel so bad anymore about taking
Speaker 1: Chris Sale over Garrett Cole at this point, Greggy, is
Speaker 1: there this particular start in your mind that stands out
Speaker 1: as the one where Chris Sale really got going? Greg? No,
Speaker 1: is the one that is one for you? Because I'll
Speaker 1: go with his first double digit strikeout game of the season,
Speaker 1: that was against the Tigers back on April. He went
Speaker 1: five innings pitching that start, he had ten strikeouts. So
Speaker 1: let's see what his numbers look like from then on
Speaker 1: because we can kind of pinpoint that as all right,
Speaker 1: that's when the velocity started up taging. That's when the
Speaker 1: swinging strikes started coming around. Greg. So are you ready
Speaker 1: for this? Yes? You ready for Chris Sales numbers over
Speaker 1: his last two four, six eight nine starts. For Chris Sale,
Speaker 1: that would be a two point four three e R
Speaker 1: A two point to zero five, A two point four
Speaker 1: seven xfit fourteen point five six case per nine two
Speaker 1: point one two walks per nine seventy four point six
Speaker 1: percent left on base percentage, which right in line with
Speaker 1: league to sixty four Babbitt, which seems sustainable. For Chris
Speaker 1: Sale ninety six strikeouts and fifty nine and a third
Speaker 1: ending's pitched. I think he's back. I think so. I
Speaker 1: think I think so. If you had any question marks
Speaker 1: about Chris Sale, you don't anymore. Joe Madden said it's
Speaker 1: normally three weeks in spring training for a releaf picture
Speaker 1: to be ready. That's what he expects for Craig Kimball.
Speaker 1: Three weeks, weeks, three weeks in today's June. Is he
Speaker 1: a top twelve option? Then gosh, man, it's like yeah
Speaker 1: once he starts pitching. But it seems like this guy
Speaker 1: is never gonna pitch. So, Greg, if Dallas Kiko signs,
Speaker 1: when when is he gonna pitch? After they all start break?
Speaker 1: I think it's Ben's weary signs, right. Like how desperate
Speaker 1: a team is Yankees with all their injuries. They're pretty desperate,
Speaker 1: they are, but they could. I mean, they've they've been
Speaker 1: piecing it together. Chance Adams, by the way, Greg, why
Speaker 1: why do they hate Chance Adams? They do? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, although I don't mind him like starting in
Speaker 1: Triple A rather than sitting the bullpen like David Hell,
Speaker 1: why don't you do the opener with Chance Adams makes
Speaker 1: some sense. Have Shane Green, I mean, I got chan
Speaker 1: Green on the mind, the main Green saving machine. How
Speaker 1: can I not have Chad Green open a game? Let
Speaker 1: Chance Adams go five innings? They did that once, and
Speaker 1: I think he came in later on in a game
Speaker 1: and he like would have been eligible for a saving
Speaker 1: close out like the final three innings of the game.
Speaker 1: But this year in Triple A, how did I see
Speaker 1: Adams at three point three five yar A, one point
Speaker 1: one four whip, two strikeouts and forty three innings sixteen walks.
Speaker 1: The whip is good, the e r a is solid,
Speaker 1: and he got off to a really slow start too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, not not really sure what they're
Speaker 1: thinking when it comes to, uh, the Chance Adams sea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean last year he regressed big time. Four point
Speaker 1: seven ar a nings pitch. But even if you have
Speaker 1: him throw, you know, four five innings as a follower,
Speaker 1: a lot of jail and beaks. I think that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense for the yankees I, I haven't
Speaker 1: done it. Greg very analytically driven nowadays, very much so
Speaker 1: Frankie very much. So what else? Last night we have
Speaker 1: to sign off YouTube? We do if we do that,
Speaker 1: probably all right. I think they gotta set up. We're
Speaker 1: gonna sign on YouTube now at the window with Sean
Speaker 1: Washstabakia is coming up next. Sean, I had to covered
Speaker 1: all afternoon. Longest continues the conversation, So stay tuned for Sean.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow for the Friday edition of the program
Speaker 1: Sit the Best Bet Forever. Hopefully we have Florio tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be cool. Yeah, that's right, and he does that.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, It's Florio Friday. We gotta get that song
Speaker 1: going tomorrow as well, Okay, so that everyone can hate
Speaker 1: us again. Robin's gonna yesterday We talking about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was I had that on the rundown. I started
Speaker 1: making a run down and day gave up on it.
Speaker 1: But I wrote The New York Mess, the story of
Speaker 1: Robinson Cano. Robin's gone ran hard and read your squad, well,
Speaker 1: you don't see him run hard very often. This is
Speaker 1: probably why shout out to it was Brad Ziegler wasn't
Speaker 1: it who said this about Robinson Canoe. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: how do we know that Robinson Canoe hasn't been taking
Speaker 1: performance enhancing drugs his entire career and he got caught
Speaker 1: last year. When he came back, the numbers were still
Speaker 1: really good. That's why I personally was still in on
Speaker 1: Robinson Canoe this year. I thought he could be a
Speaker 1: good a good source of batting average, you know, home runs,
Speaker 1: some RBI, some runs scored in the middle of this
Speaker 1: mess lineup. But I think he's getting exposed a little
Speaker 1: bit here. Greg. I think maybe using performance enhancing drugs
Speaker 1: might have been what was keeping and Robinson Cano healthy
Speaker 1: for all those years. The Iron Man quote unquote, So
Speaker 1: shout out to Brad Ziegler. Great great called by him,
Speaker 1: who I believes on the air right now Live with
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Speaker 1: We were too early yesterday, is that correct? Yeah? Greg,
Speaker 1: We just keep crushing it in terms of our baseball bets.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have to go back and look at
Speaker 1: how well we did in terms of prop goes the Weasel.
Speaker 1: I feel like we did it right though. We did
Speaker 1: very well, very well. We did very well. But in
Speaker 1: our baseball bets, specifically this week, Greg, we are six
Speaker 1: and two. That's pretty damn good. Six and two. All right,
Speaker 1: let's make it at least seven. Let's make it at
Speaker 1: least eaten too that maybe one than that. Have you
Speaker 1: found something that tickles your fancy grid. There's only one
Speaker 1: that starts in twenty minutes. That's a little opening to me. Alright,
Speaker 1: so not really useful. Use it. Use it for the
Speaker 1: you can use it for like the record. I'll use
Speaker 1: it for the record. I like the over and the
Speaker 1: Reds and the Cardinals. People listening on demand at this
Speaker 1: point the over in the Reds and the Cardinals nine
Speaker 1: and half Anthony, I like the over. I like the over.
Speaker 1: I like as I said, I think the sucker bets
Speaker 1: and Nats and the Padres is a sucker bet right there,
Speaker 1: absolutely sucker. Don't be a sucker. Don't be a sucker.
Speaker 1: Don't take the Nats and take the Nuts. Anything else
Speaker 1: you you like I'll jump in now if you jump in,
Speaker 1: all right, So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Jay Happ and Edwin Jackson our New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: But for once, I'm not taking a side. I'm actually
Speaker 1: taking the total here, Greg, I like going over the
Speaker 1: nine and a half runs here. Edwin Jackson has something
Speaker 1: like a thirteen e r A. Jay Happ has not
Speaker 1: been great so far this season as well, and the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays do have a lot of right handed bats
Speaker 1: in their lineup that can make some noise looking at you,
Speaker 1: Vladim mcgireo Jr. So even if the Yankees win, which
Speaker 1: they're expected to do, their minus one ninety favorites in
Speaker 1: this game, Jay Hap could still give up three four
Speaker 1: runs and Yankees are in a pretty good spot here
Speaker 1: to put up a monster game against Edwin Jackson. I
Speaker 1: think they go over the number at nine and a half. Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll get another over run there. You're not gonna like
Speaker 1: this one though, all right. He's do not tell me
Speaker 1: that you're going up under the Rangers and Oreos. I'm
Speaker 1: not going under the Rangers in oos. It's it's just
Speaker 1: as bad though that we're about to do Ringing endorsement
Speaker 1: here for Greg it is, but don't take Greg's back tonight,
Speaker 1: take mine. I don't love what I am about to
Speaker 1: tell you, but I'm taking I'm taking the over and
Speaker 1: the twins and the Indians. It's Bower versus Barrios, and
Speaker 1: I'm taking the over. Sneaky. I think it's sneaky. You
Speaker 1: look at what Trevor Bower has done is last five starts,
Speaker 1: seven runs, four runs, four runs and six runs over
Speaker 1: At the Vandal Sports Book, the over is minus one
Speaker 1: D so most people it might be the public, though,
Speaker 1: be the public that's looking at it. But I like
Speaker 1: the over and the twins in the Indians toime, that's
Speaker 1: the favorite, right now. That's it. That's the best bet forever.
Speaker 1: Over the twins Indiens that that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 1: And then over in the Indians. Indians bullpen outside of
Speaker 1: brad Hand is not great either. There you go. That's
Speaker 1: the best bet forever, Frank, all right, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: We will. Let's see here burials for his career not
Speaker 1: as good on the road as he is at home.
Speaker 1: So I took barriers. I took barriers last week in
Speaker 1: Tampa over the weekend. On Friday, I texted you I
Speaker 1: was shocked that he was an underdog in Tampa and
Speaker 1: you did not say it on the air, but I
Speaker 1: did texted to you. I have the evidence. So I
Speaker 1: loved it. This week against Bower, You're like, oh, let's
Speaker 1: be a low scoring game. The total doesn't make it seven.
Speaker 1: It's not one of these like seven and a half totals.
Speaker 1: I would have been all over the over. Then eight
Speaker 1: and a half does make me question a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I'm still going over that number. Yeah. Look, Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer has struggled with allowing home one of the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Twins zoa in bunches, and he's he struggled with commands.
Speaker 1: So next thing, you know, walks a few guys here,
Speaker 1: boom bang bom rerun dinger for the Minnesota Twins, and
Speaker 1: there you go. You already got three runs of them exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. What's Zac Wheeler? Update? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do?
Speaker 1: Zach Wheler update? Zero's across the board. Let's go to
Speaker 1: pitch zero hit zero earned run zero, walks three strikeouts,
Speaker 1: which means he's due to give up a grand Slam
Speaker 1: to Sin and another update Chris Archers. Aren't a lot
Speaker 1: of run things going great. Freddie Freeman over against them.
Speaker 1: I'll take that. Let's take a break for the next
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