Speaker 1: What's up, Frandos and welcome in too Clean clean Up.
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Speaker 1: we're gonna whatever we want to talk about. This is
Speaker 1: where we can talk about Canoli's, or we can do
Speaker 1: rainbow cookie testing. We can do whatever we want because
Speaker 1: it's our show. It's your show. Joe, are you with me?
Speaker 1: My friend?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Can you hear me? Oh?
Speaker 1: We can a little phony phone, but it's like it's
Speaker 1: like you're a guest caller on my radio show. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 2: This is Joe.
Speaker 1: This is Joe from New Jersey. Joe. Nice to hear
Speaker 1: from you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: This is terrible. It's the worst thing.
Speaker 4: It's showing my microphone in the computer hooked up, but
Speaker 4: it's not picking up anything.
Speaker 2: So you just kind of lead the show here because you.
Speaker 1: Actually say pretty much better than you think. I told you.
Speaker 1: The iPhone stuff sounds pretty good. Uh, are you able
Speaker 1: to see the chat and everything? Because we've got lots
Speaker 1: of questions. We got multiple hands.
Speaker 2: Raised, so we can out the hands.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, first, should I do you want to
Speaker 1: save it testing? Should I do a rainbow cookie testing
Speaker 1: before we get hands or just go to hand?
Speaker 2: No, they had to wait a long time. Let's get
Speaker 2: the people in. Let's be the people.
Speaker 1: Let's get to some hands. And I'm a first person
Speaker 1: up here. Let's go with I need to make this
Speaker 1: bigger so I can see who this is. I cannot
Speaker 1: even see your name. It starts with an M. This
Speaker 1: is M. What's up? Hello?
Speaker 3: How's everybody?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm lead up, I'm good, Joe is good? What
Speaker 1: do you got for us?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 5: I can't believe this is the first time you've ever
Speaker 5: had That just blows my mind.
Speaker 1: I know when I uh, when cousin Donnie heard, he
Speaker 1: was as offended as Joe. So it definitely was like
Speaker 1: a partial Italian thing that I learned that. It's like
Speaker 1: that was offensive. But I'm happy to join the ranks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, sorry, what do you got?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 6: So I got an offer there, so I have it's
Speaker 6: a ten team head to head five by five tynasty league.
Speaker 3: I have Freddy Freeman and Bryce Harper.
Speaker 6: So he offered me Tobar, Brian Reynolds and a first
Speaker 6: rounder next year for Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1: Tovar, Brian Reynolds. What is the first round equivalent to.
Speaker 3: H It's a rookie. It's a prospect rookie draft there, So.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'd be like, yeah, i'd be like one
Speaker 1: of the first rounders and yeah, yeah, like a Travis
Speaker 1: Bazanna or something like that. My gut says no, but
Speaker 1: that's not a bad offer. Are you competing?
Speaker 3: I am, I'm competing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so. Like Tovar is fine, he's
Speaker 1: been playing a little bit better. I'm Brian Reynolds also fine.
Speaker 1: But like I think Freddie Freeman can lead the league
Speaker 1: in RBI. It's and the best offensive team in baseball.
Speaker 1: Like if I were middling or something like that, I
Speaker 1: might do that trade, but I don't think I can. Joe,
Speaker 1: do you feel any different?
Speaker 4: No, I would not make that trade. I think I
Speaker 4: would hang on to Freeman. I think I'd want a
Speaker 4: little bit more of something. Sure I was getting back
Speaker 4: for Freeman, even though that a first round pick is nice.
Speaker 4: You know, who knows how long that's going to take
Speaker 4: for that player to get there or if they ever
Speaker 4: get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's a good question though. But yeah,
Speaker 1: now I would probably hold like if I were getting
Speaker 1: Reynolds and like a big stronger piece or something that
Speaker 1: kind of like is a future play and also helps me.
Speaker 1: Now like those both help you. Now, it's just not
Speaker 1: quite enough. It's not a bad trade, but I would
Speaker 1: stick with Freddy Freeman, especially since you're competitive. What is
Speaker 1: your name, by the way, because I only see m
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I'm only seeing initials mctundah. All right,
Speaker 1: well mctunda you rock brother? Anything else?
Speaker 3: That's everything?
Speaker 1: Thanks, all right, thanks brother?
Speaker 2: All right, let's you can't hear me now, can you? Welsh?
Speaker 1: Can you sound fantastic? Just sound even better now?
Speaker 2: All right? So I think I figured out what the
Speaker 2: hell is the problem here?
Speaker 1: What's the problem?
Speaker 4: Well, the problem is what was going on is that
Speaker 4: for some reason it's the microphone and the headphone need
Speaker 4: to be turned to the same thing or something like that.
Speaker 2: And know why I was hearing out of the microphone headphone.
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 4: All I know is it's there discore can be weird.
Speaker 4: Let's get to another person about Bovia night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can hear.
Speaker 2: What's up, Champs.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it, all right, Joe, you should bring him
Speaker 7: to some any one of a thousand bakeries here in Jersey.
Speaker 4: And Jersey's got some outstanding spots, you know, Jersey for pizza,
Speaker 4: Jersey for bake goods.
Speaker 2: Pretty good. I gotta say, do you think that the time?
Speaker 1: Is this like equivalent of me being like, hey, it's
Speaker 1: the best pizza place in Arizona? Like, do I is
Speaker 1: that what I'm feeling about? This can only like this
Speaker 1: is probably like a six where you guys are.
Speaker 4: If that probably which is which is astounding because if
Speaker 4: you like that, your socks are gonna get knocked off
Speaker 4: if you ever come over that.
Speaker 1: Pretty white cake box and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: They all come in that white cake box. That's how
Speaker 2: they come here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's some many good places here. You get to
Speaker 7: actually just pick what your favorite is because they're.
Speaker 2: All yeah, they're all good.
Speaker 3: All right, So.
Speaker 2: Sorry, don't apologize.
Speaker 3: You're wasting your time.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right?
Speaker 7: So ten team keeper League keeper situations. You can keep
Speaker 7: guys for three years. They cost initially two rounds more
Speaker 7: than what you paid, right, so tenth would cost an eighth,
Speaker 7: and then it's just one round up for the three
Speaker 7: years you keep them. Team and benches are like shallow, right,
Speaker 7: so there's the waivers are always stocked. I got offered
Speaker 7: Jackson Curio, who could be kept for the sixth next
Speaker 7: year and the fifth year after, and then Vaulpe who
Speaker 7: would cost the sixteenth, fifteenth, and fourteenth for the next
Speaker 7: three years straight up for Soto, who I took in
Speaker 7: the first and has no keeper value going forward. And
Speaker 7: I'm kind of stocked with young talent. I've Hendrick Gunner,
Speaker 7: I've got Holiday, I got cold in the tenth this year,
Speaker 7: so he'll have keeper value next year. So I'm going
Speaker 7: to have a you know, in theory, i got Wyatt Langford.
Speaker 7: In theory, I'm going to have very good keepers going forward.
Speaker 7: But this would put me at like, you know, an
Speaker 7: upper echelon of keepers.
Speaker 2: But probably hurt in theory.
Speaker 3: Hurt me a little bit.
Speaker 7: But those two are pretty comparable.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, if you keep soda, you cannot
Speaker 1: keep Soda.
Speaker 7: And not keep Sodo.
Speaker 1: Nope, are you and are you like highly competitive too?
Speaker 7: I mean We're in week three, so I'm first week
Speaker 7: I got smoked and then second week I won like
Speaker 7: I was up eight four. It's it's points categories, so
Speaker 7: head ahead.
Speaker 4: You can't keep Sodo, but you're getting Volpi and Churio
Speaker 4: for two years? Am I hearing this correctly?
Speaker 7: Valpi for three years and it's only twenty rounds, so
Speaker 7: Valpi at like a late round for three years.
Speaker 2: I'm doing this trade.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love more than anybody, but I mean,
Speaker 4: this is it for him, So you're the way those
Speaker 4: legue is structured.
Speaker 2: You'd be crazy not to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's such a way, so does such a value
Speaker 1: in points. But like not being able to keep him,
Speaker 1: I'm so up on Vulpy. I mean that's one of
Speaker 1: those you know, just I'm happy to say, you know
Speaker 1: was in my what my breakouts and we talked about
Speaker 1: him and this is the end. It worked out, Like I.
Speaker 2: I'm on the show so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and sure, that's kind of a no brainer, man.
Speaker 1: I think that's it's it's a no brain good over everybody.
Speaker 1: But I understand why you asked it. I totally understand
Speaker 1: why you asked it, But yeah, I would I would
Speaker 1: totally do it.
Speaker 3: Shoulder. Yeah, I was looking over my shoulder like I
Speaker 3: should take.
Speaker 1: This righty, Like, what's wrong? Why am I getting trio
Speaker 1: and vulpy?
Speaker 2: This is crazy?
Speaker 4: So you can news to see if an any volpee
Speaker 4: lose a foot or something. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: To listen man.
Speaker 7: As always, I'm a Fantasy pros user for life.
Speaker 3: You guys are great. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Well watch Man. Without you guys, we are
Speaker 2: not employed, so you know it, win win.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed being employed. I've spent some time not employed recently,
Speaker 1: so I enjoyed the employed.
Speaker 2: Right, let's go to the baron. The Baron is up next.
Speaker 4: Well, Angel Hernandez still has a job Welsh, then I
Speaker 4: think yours is safe.
Speaker 1: I like to think like that if he can have
Speaker 1: a job, like I can keep having a job, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he still have a job.
Speaker 4: All right, Baron, come out, you're on the stage here.
Speaker 4: You get the baron going once. But seriously, Union, like,
Speaker 4: how does he have a job still? That is pretty
Speaker 4: astounding at time point.
Speaker 1: It is just like League Protection. He is one of
Speaker 1: the worst at his job. He's one of the most
Speaker 1: criticized at his job like he. They should not. We
Speaker 1: should not know that they exist, we should not know
Speaker 1: their names, and that we do. It's reason why he's
Speaker 1: a disaster.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Wizard here first. Baron, We're
Speaker 4: gonna wait for you because you were slower on the uptake,
Speaker 4: So just hang in there. Baron, you're still on the stage.
Speaker 4: I just muted you. I'll mute you in a second.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the gd wizard. Wizard, what's your question?
Speaker 3: Hey, how you guys doing so.
Speaker 6: I'm currently sitting at my battle workstation watching all of
Speaker 6: the current baseball games on television.
Speaker 3: I got Michael King and School pitching.
Speaker 6: Nice, so hope, hopefully we'll get a couple of solid
Speaker 6: outings out of those guys. I actually wrote into the
Speaker 6: YouTube show not too long ago about some of the stashes.
Speaker 6: I have Junior Camonaro Edward or Rodriguez Bradish and.
Speaker 3: I forget who the other one is because I'm stashing
Speaker 3: a few.
Speaker 6: I now have Royce Lewis Hurd, I have Garrett Cole,
Speaker 6: who I drafted out of value. I'm just sitting on
Speaker 6: pretty much all my bench spots are injuries at this point,
Speaker 6: and it's just hard to see all these waiver guys
Speaker 6: go by, So you have to make tough decisions, like
Speaker 6: I just dropped Riley Green for Colton Kowser, and I
Speaker 6: don't know, some people would probably disagree with that, but
Speaker 6: it's it's worked out so far.
Speaker 3: I guess my question is how.
Speaker 2: Long so far? I got no problem with that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's worked out so far.
Speaker 6: But you know, you look at roster ship and Riley
Speaker 6: Green somewhere like eighty five percent.
Speaker 3: He had a solid year last year. People are kind
Speaker 3: of high on him going into this year.
Speaker 6: He's sitting third, He's sitting first, And I don't know,
Speaker 6: I just I just don't see it. With the Tigers,
Speaker 6: I'm also watching them all the time. I got tor
Speaker 6: wosin They're just disappointing.
Speaker 1: But right now, Too got is a huge disappointment those
Speaker 1: like he had all he has all the metrics to
Speaker 1: be like, if he could just hit for a little
Speaker 1: bit of contact, it's gonna work. And it's not like
Speaker 1: Riley Green I feel different about. But Torque is a disaster.
Speaker 1: But sorry, so I.
Speaker 4: Feel like Too is the next like Torkosen's already like
Speaker 4: last year, at least in the second half, he had
Speaker 4: a great second half, so I'm gonna be a little
Speaker 4: bit more patient, but still well, you know, it's almost
Speaker 4: in that same string of like I remember Nick Senzel
Speaker 4: was the guy that could not miss and then he missed,
Speaker 4: and I'm starting to wonder if Torcos is gonna be
Speaker 4: that next guy. Was like, hey, advance college bat He's
Speaker 4: gonna go in there and play right away and then.
Speaker 2: He's gonna miss. To you like, I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: it's starting to get frustrated.
Speaker 1: No, it's one of those guys, like I said, like,
Speaker 1: you guys, if you've listened to anything that I do,
Speaker 1: you'll hear me talk like Beryl And it might be
Speaker 1: annoying by the way, but I don't have to tell
Speaker 1: you like, oh you are hard hit percentage and barrel
Speaker 1: percentage launching. Those are three things that are like that's
Speaker 1: where I start when I look at someone and he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that was like elite, hard hit,
Speaker 1: really good barrel gets the ball up in the air
Speaker 1: and then his expect and because of that you see
Speaker 1: expect batting average numbers higher. But there's also players that
Speaker 1: never live up to that. We know, so like if
Speaker 1: it clicks. He's got the stuff to be this thirty
Speaker 1: five home round hitter, but it's not clicking. There's only
Speaker 1: so many years we can stomach a two to ten
Speaker 1: batting average and stuff like that. But sorry, we didn't
Speaker 1: even get to the actual question.
Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, there is not too much of
Speaker 3: a question.
Speaker 6: It's more just to bringing up a conversation around some
Speaker 6: of these slow starters, like to listen, did start off
Speaker 6: slowly last year, he ended really strong, ended up with
Speaker 6: thirty plus bombs. You get him for that upside, But
Speaker 6: how long do you hold on to a slow starter
Speaker 6: because even in a twelve man categories league, some of
Speaker 6: these some of these free agent guys are really enticing
Speaker 6: when they're off the hot starts, and then there's always
Speaker 6: other stashes you can you can hold on too that
Speaker 6: might have higher upside later down the road.
Speaker 1: I think there's like a non like not physically in
Speaker 1: front of you math equation of like what you invested
Speaker 1: in the early player versus what's available on the wire,
Speaker 1: because not only twelve teams are created equal, where like
Speaker 1: in a ten team, I could see a little bit
Speaker 1: more like the getting rid of a guy like Riley
Speaker 1: Green and a twelve team might be less likely. But
Speaker 1: if guys are and Kwser and Michael Bush have been
Speaker 1: sitting out there, that's where you can make those tougher decisions.
Speaker 1: So you know, you get players outside the top one hundred.
Speaker 1: I think it starts to become a little bit easier, uh,
Speaker 1: to stomach and stuff like that. But the higher the investment,
Speaker 1: we do have to remember it's very very early. Like
Speaker 1: I still believe in Riley Green. Like I think at
Speaker 1: some point you're gonna probably be looking at Riley Green
Speaker 1: and trying to pick him back up.
Speaker 3: But you got yeah, I agree for sure. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: people sitting on the waivers like JD.
Speaker 6: Martinez who could be back soon, but he also keeps
Speaker 6: getting pushed back. I want to sash get a. I
Speaker 6: could get Jack Whighter on my on my squad to
Speaker 6: add some arms.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm down with Lighter going tomorrow against the Tigers. By
Speaker 1: the way, I actually think that's a decent start for
Speaker 1: a spot start or something like that.
Speaker 3: But you don't think he'll on the in the rotation
Speaker 3: for too long.
Speaker 1: I think if he has a good start, there's the
Speaker 1: possibility that he's going to stick around. But like the
Speaker 1: clock is ticking for when Suzier comes up. You know
Speaker 1: sure is going to be here in like about a month.
Speaker 1: So then it's gonna come down to how has John
Speaker 1: Gray performed versus like is Cody Bradford healthy like stuff
Speaker 1: like that, Like there's definite possibility they believe in him,
Speaker 1: but it could just be a spot star. But hey,
Speaker 1: in leagues where you have the ability to uh take
Speaker 1: these swings and shots because the wires are more robust,
Speaker 1: I think it's more fun to to be able to
Speaker 1: go and pick up a guy like Lighter and see
Speaker 1: if it works out that same thing you would have
Speaker 1: done with a guy like Colton Kowser.
Speaker 4: So just to throw my two cents and there was
Speaker 4: I would say that anybody that you drafted as a
Speaker 4: bench guy, you want to drop them, that's fine. Like
Speaker 4: it's one thing when you drafted somebody be your starter
Speaker 4: and you really believe in them, it's hard to drop
Speaker 4: them in April. But you know, like you get like
Speaker 4: a Nolan Jones and you paid, you know, a fourth
Speaker 4: round pick for him, You're gonna hang on to that guy.
Speaker 3: But I think anybody that's Cnacion Strand and I have
Speaker 3: torical sin.
Speaker 6: So I'm just looking at all these first man, my
Speaker 6: team's doing well other than those three, but I just
Speaker 6: I want to drop them all the time.
Speaker 4: But I know, but it is again, it is only April,
Speaker 4: and it's a long season, and guys.
Speaker 2: Get off the slow starts, Guys have bad months. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's just the perfect storm of things.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think patience is good, and if
Speaker 4: you're trying to get out from under one of them,
Speaker 4: you have to wait and just be patient. It's only
Speaker 4: the seventeenth of April, so you've got plenty of time there.
Speaker 4: But you know, eventually, I think you'll get at least one,
Speaker 4: if not two, of those guys to hit Welsh. Some
Speaker 4: more breaking news to at Oral, Rodriguez moved to the
Speaker 4: sixty day IL now. So yeah, I figured that would
Speaker 4: be a reaction.
Speaker 1: That's so frustrating. I was so like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: they're talking literally days after the setback, the first one,
Speaker 1: the very first one. It was like, hey, I'm ninety
Speaker 1: five percent, I'm good to go, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: I drafted him in a bunch of spots and then
Speaker 1: having this setback, getting nothing out of him. It's more
Speaker 1: critical why Jordan Montgomery was signed and Ryan Nelson playing good.
Speaker 1: But it is immensely frustrating, and it's to the point
Speaker 1: our ils are probably so full. Why hold on to him?
Speaker 1: If your iel is full and you have to make
Speaker 1: tough decisions on the il, he would be one of
Speaker 1: those guys that would get off. By the way, I
Speaker 1: also wanted to note you'll participant Carrie Carpenter hit a Homer.
Speaker 1: I wish I would have landed on him.
Speaker 2: That's gotta hurt. That's got a steak, Aaron. Thanks for
Speaker 2: being patient, buddy. How's it going doing great? Man? What's up?
Speaker 5: Thanks for everything this year. I am the biggest loser
Speaker 5: in my fantasy team every single year, but this year
Speaker 5: I subscribe to you guys and I'm top four and
Speaker 5: just like, yeah, just rocking and rolling this year. So
Speaker 5: I just really appreciate everything that you guys are doing.
Speaker 5: Also to a super peanut butter and jealous of your canoli.
Speaker 5: I'm sitting here eating an apple, getting my freaking sugar intake,
Speaker 5: and you guys keep from bringing out these grees trying.
Speaker 1: I am trying to get back into like being in
Speaker 1: decent shape, which is gonna take me so much work.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I've been working out the last couple
Speaker 1: of days and then this delivery comes and this cannoli
Speaker 1: is sitting in front of me and a box full
Speaker 1: of just nonsense, and I'm like, oki is funny.
Speaker 4: Well, now that you said that you should try a
Speaker 4: rainbow cookie now quick, right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah you should. I don't know how good.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's with green.
Speaker 4: It's enrobed in chocolate. So it's not green. Green is
Speaker 4: not a flavor, you dumb as.
Speaker 1: It's it's flavored green, white, and red. These are the flavors.
Speaker 1: Joe with chocolate flavors.
Speaker 2: It's like eating the flag.
Speaker 1: Alright, all right, I'm it's in the mouth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody knows.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you now, that's my speed. That thing
Speaker 1: is my speed. Oh my, I love that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, the thing is those are very expensive typically because
Speaker 4: those are a very labor intensive cookie. You gotta make
Speaker 4: all three different sheets of that cookie. Then you got
Speaker 4: to assemble all three layers. Then you gotta in roebit
Speaker 4: and chocolate. So it's a whole lot going on.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you you pay a crapload for that.
Speaker 4: But that those are expensive. But those are my favorite.
Speaker 4: But when they're wrong, they don't taste good. When they're right,
Speaker 4: there's nothing better.
Speaker 1: The green flavors really popping, Joe the green flavor.
Speaker 2: You're the worst baron. Let's get your baseball question. I
Speaker 2: love you guys.
Speaker 5: I'm up here and I'm up here in Toronto, and
Speaker 5: our version of that is the naimobar and I I
Speaker 5: snuck one yesterday and immediately my stomachs are hurry. But
Speaker 5: I'm so jealous of you guys. Really quickly.
Speaker 1: A very interesting.
Speaker 5: Trade came across me this morning, and I'm trying to
Speaker 5: figure out what you guys think of it. I think
Speaker 5: where we start is just how do we feel about
Speaker 5: Shaw and Iyah. My league is is super picture heavy
Speaker 5: and concerned until we go nine pitchers, and a lot
Speaker 5: of the points come from pictures. And the good thing
Speaker 5: about Manaia is he's listed as a relief on ESPN
Speaker 5: and so I could actually use him as a starter.
Speaker 5: But what we're looking for, what the guy wants is
Speaker 5: Jackson Merrill so lightly.
Speaker 1: And absolutely is it a keeper? Well it doesn't actually matters.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's keeper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even more so, absolutely not. Because I was actually
Speaker 1: gonna talk positive about Sean Manaia that I've kind of
Speaker 1: been I've been kind of impressing, like some of the
Speaker 1: changes that have been overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're impressed by the six earned runs he game
Speaker 2: up against Kansas City this weekend.
Speaker 1: Not that, but I'm talking a lot of the of
Speaker 1: spring training, the k numbers. He has a career high
Speaker 1: strikeout percentage right now. But back to like what you're
Speaker 1: kind of alluding to, Joe, his barrel percentage he's giving
Speaker 1: up is thirteen percent. He has a higher expected batting
Speaker 1: average than his four point two nine, and he's walking
Speaker 1: a ton. So like min, here's the point, I would
Speaker 1: probably drop Manaia for Jack Lighter in a league just
Speaker 1: to spot start at this point. That's how I've moved
Speaker 1: kind of off. So there's no chance I would move
Speaker 1: my home run my wheeled home run player Jackson Merrill,
Speaker 1: who's hitting over three hundred, getting lead off opportunities and
Speaker 1: is gonna start showing some of that power potential in.
Speaker 2: A keeper league.
Speaker 1: Nah, that dude. I love the spark and stuff, but nah,
Speaker 1: he's got a kick.
Speaker 4: Right Look, I know he's had two good starts at
Speaker 4: one bad start, but just for perspective, again, let's go
Speaker 4: back in time. Twenty twenty three a four point four
Speaker 4: to four era, twenty twenty two, a four point nine
Speaker 4: to six era.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that, that's who that guy was.
Speaker 4: And then he had a four And then when he
Speaker 4: pitched for Oakland in twenty twenty one yet three nine
Speaker 4: one era. Okay, like that was pretty decent. Now, the
Speaker 4: strikeout rate, you know, over that time has been pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's always been consistent.
Speaker 4: But the problem is he has these outings where he
Speaker 4: just blows up and yeah, I do I trust him. No,
Speaker 4: I'd rather be you know, Bhutto or Christian Scott if
Speaker 4: you know, if you need pitching, like Crab, one of
Speaker 4: those guys.
Speaker 1: If struggles, Scott could be a guy that they know
Speaker 1: they've got it.
Speaker 2: But Manai has also spent time in the bullpen. Like
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 4: There's there's absolutely every chance that he could go back
Speaker 4: there this year if they needed some help there.
Speaker 5: That's correct, That's why he's not changed. His listing hasn't
Speaker 5: changed on ESPN, He's he's still an RP because they
Speaker 5: can send him right back to the bullpen. And I
Speaker 5: actually think that he's going to get lit up by
Speaker 5: the Dodgers this weekend probably, and uh, I mean, there's
Speaker 5: always that chance the Dodgers could just drop it like
Speaker 5: they did to Washington. But like, I think he's gonna
Speaker 5: get lit up this weekend, and you know, I'm really
Speaker 5: trying to compete, and I don't I think I'm I
Speaker 5: think I'm getting to say to Jackson Merrow. But I
Speaker 5: you know, it was just confusing because I was like, Damn,
Speaker 5: I could really I could, or darn I could really
Speaker 5: I could really use him.
Speaker 2: You could say, Damn, at least is fine.
Speaker 5: All right, Sorry trying to be trying to be respectful.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know if this was your Canadian and
Speaker 2: sometimes yeah.
Speaker 5: That's exactly we just say sorry no matter what.
Speaker 4: That's why Chris medi is my favorite person of the planet,
Speaker 4: because I just Canadians are the better Americans.
Speaker 2: Never forget that, Baron. I never can.
Speaker 1: I've always kind of, you know, it's.
Speaker 5: Funny to swing up to Toronto, welch and and we'll
Speaker 5: take you to some Canoli spots.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, I have multiple.
Speaker 4: I've been to Montreal. Montreal's got some decent food places too.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, Montreal is definitely a good restaurant town.
Speaker 5: But there aren't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look, man, Toronto's on my list. Man. But Baron,
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're kicking button.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you found us, and I'm glad you're hanging
Speaker 4: out with us, and hopefully we'll keep keep that team
Speaker 4: on top for you. Here's a question from b D
Speaker 4: ten and Bead can't join by microphone because he's a
Speaker 4: sacred agent or something's going on, or maybe he's just
Speaker 4: at work like a normal person. All right, So here's
Speaker 4: the question. In a ten team head to head fifteen
Speaker 4: keeper point league, I was offered Luis Castillo for CJ.
Speaker 2: Abrams.
Speaker 4: I know that Abrams is emerging, but I was thinking
Speaker 4: it's probably worth it to add a slow start, top
Speaker 4: tier starting pitcher with good undire numbers, since I'd already
Speaker 4: lost Spencer Strider. But curious about your thoughts or context.
Speaker 4: I have Bishet and Kim is my shortstops already. Kim
Speaker 4: is also second base, but I've also got India Bush
Speaker 4: Jazz with all that second base eligibility. So Castillo for CJ. Abrams,
Speaker 4: would you make that trade? In the context of the
Speaker 4: team Welsh.
Speaker 1: I would rather move Baschette for Luis Castillo than I
Speaker 1: think I would Abrams.
Speaker 2: Just I would agree. I would agree. I don't like
Speaker 2: the way Toronto's going, I think, you know, But it's.
Speaker 1: Also it's head to head, like the stolen bases. If
Speaker 1: this are points, i'd feel different. I'd actually like instant
Speaker 1: do this if this were points. But it's not, and
Speaker 1: Abrams really looks locked in a stolen bases are on key,
Speaker 1: you're hitting for a pretty batting average, like I'm I
Speaker 1: think this is even if you did it, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get reamed for it or anything like that, or
Speaker 1: you're not gonna probably have like insane big buyer's remorse,
Speaker 1: except that there's a pretty big age gap long term.
Speaker 1: But also in ten team leagues, you can replace, I don't.
Speaker 1: I just think of all the things here, Abrams might
Speaker 1: be the tougher thing to replace, as far as like
Speaker 1: those elite stolen bases and stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would try to do for Kim. People
Speaker 2: love Kim too.
Speaker 1: Oh, he said this is a point league. I didn't
Speaker 1: even see that it is point league. You know what,
Speaker 1: I would do it. I'm sorry I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: was a head to head point because it said ten
Speaker 1: team head to head fifteen keeper point league. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I would be comfortable doing this in a point league
Speaker 1: head to head category.
Speaker 4: Or head to head you want the pitchers, I would try,
Speaker 4: like you though to I like Abrams too right now.
Speaker 2: I like what I'm seeing out of him.
Speaker 4: My worry about the Blue Jays is this is like,
Speaker 4: I know they won a couple of games in a
Speaker 4: row here, and I know, like you know, today's a
Speaker 4: very important game here with Gosman. Gosmin doesn't look right
Speaker 4: or go forbid, you know, something goes south here with him.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's I get a bad feeling there about so far.
Speaker 4: Maybe will turn around, maybe to take Gospin drags out
Speaker 4: nine Yankees and everything goes in the right direction.
Speaker 2: They turn things around.
Speaker 4: But I would see if you could turn this around first,
Speaker 4: because the rest of season, how would you rank them, Abrams, Bishett, kim.
Speaker 1: In in a points yeah, I mean it's maybe Abrams
Speaker 1: by like a little bit like Bishett kind of thrives
Speaker 1: the still in a few bases, he thrives more in
Speaker 1: a points league format, though he's been ticking down. I
Speaker 1: would say it's that order that you said. But in
Speaker 1: a category based league. I think the gap is bigger
Speaker 1: between Abrams and Bashett and a points league. I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty minimal, and getting Luis Castillo is like pretty awesome,
Speaker 1: so I would do that.
Speaker 2: Look, Baron, I see you in the chat.
Speaker 4: I am hoping Costin is better because I would like
Speaker 4: that because I was rooting for him. But the minute
Speaker 4: that shoulder popped up in the spring, I got really.
Speaker 1: If he's bad today, I think this will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's going on the al I think it's like an
Speaker 1: and Ricky tee.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the darbish iell I was looking
Speaker 2: to see what it was? Is that neck issue?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Why can't we just skip a start?
Speaker 1: Like what it's a sad neck? I mean, have you
Speaker 1: woken I have woken up to some next.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's like it's like Joe, you know, you
Speaker 4: got a toothache, but you can't do a show, you know,
Speaker 4: but that's okay, you only do a show every five days.
Speaker 2: Like I'll be I'll be better by then.
Speaker 1: I don't know you a.
Speaker 2: Little too. What right now? I feel like it's gotta
Speaker 2: bother me. But d D, thanks for the question, buddy.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you out there. Welsh. Any final thoughts today before
Speaker 2: we wrap up here for the people.
Speaker 1: Let's see not I mean like I'm hoping pubble up
Speaker 1: as doesn't walk anybody. I'm excited to see how the
Speaker 1: bets kind of go early games. I think tomorrow we
Speaker 1: got a pretty dead slate that's going to be going on.
Speaker 4: But well that's okay because we got the big prospecting
Speaker 4: with the Welsh on the short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, get locked in. My
Speaker 1: article is going to be out tomorrow. Ten prospects of
Speaker 1: Stash and then some to watch, and that's gonna be
Speaker 1: for Redraft. I saw somebody the other day on one
Speaker 1: of the videos I did say, this has got to
Speaker 1: be for Redraft. Most of that stuff unless it's designated
Speaker 1: as Dynasty is for Redraft. And then we'll do the
Speaker 1: prospecting with Welsh segment tomorrow. That'll be fun. And I
Speaker 1: gotta get oh my god, I think Gunnar just Jackson Holliday,
Speaker 1: hold on, oh Jackson Holly just hit went to the wall.
Speaker 1: I gotta get these Connoli's and all these things out
Speaker 1: of my office otherwise I'm gonna just start picking at
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 4: Well, give them to your children, if if you're allowed
Speaker 4: to and then give them to them. Also, there's one
Speaker 4: of the things too. How important now is that Jordan
Speaker 4: Montgomery signing? Now that did where Roriguez?
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh yeah, I mentioned that. It's critical.
Speaker 1: I mean that it's just yeah, Ryan Nelson and Tommy
Speaker 1: Henry out there every single day. You can't. Ryan Nelson's
Speaker 1: a sneaky.
Speaker 2: Well Tommy Henry just got optioned, by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh diddy, I didn't even see that.
Speaker 2: Who did they bring up three minutes ago?
Speaker 4: I just saw it on the wire. It doesn't say,
Speaker 4: but I assume it's the Jordan Montgomery move.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what, You're right, because I think
Speaker 1: he's pitching today at tomorrow. I think he's pitching Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the Jordan Montgomery move. So you know, get
Speaker 1: the lefty out of there. Ryan Nelson will stay in
Speaker 1: the lineup. Pretty critical because the Diamond Back Diamback's bullpen
Speaker 1: is absolutely atrocious. Bullpens have been really bad lately. Al's
Speaker 1: a lie blowing this. We've seen a ton of blown
Speaker 1: saves recently, so it's gonna take a little bit for
Speaker 1: things to stabilize.
Speaker 4: All right, everybody, So thanks for joining us. We'll be
Speaker 4: back again next Wednesday for the show, after the show,
Speaker 4: cleaning up right after leading off.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next time. Kids, enjoy your baseball
Speaker 1: And your Canolis.