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Speaker 1: it's come on a happy Tuesday. How much's going on?
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Speaker 1: Big Yankee comeback. It was an interesting night in baseball.
Speaker 1: Only one hour today abbreviated program. So for this abbreviated
Speaker 1: hour we are joined. But the Closer Christ, what's up, guys?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? It's your boy The Closer Chris
Speaker 1: Ventry here and yeah, big Yankee win last night. We're
Speaker 1: in first place. He's looking good for New York. Right
Speaker 1: now we are in first We are not New York
Speaker 1: in general not in a great shape. The Giants quarterback,
Speaker 1: the Jets, the Mets are jokes. So Baseball New York
Speaker 1: basically our entire lives, Greg even No, I mean the
Speaker 1: Giants have been there, but like it's pretty much been
Speaker 1: the Yankees as the constant and then everybody else this
Speaker 1: a ray everywhere else. That's basically the your sports. Why
Speaker 1: would have changed now? It wouldn't, Frank, I mean, the
Speaker 1: Giants franchise have been you know, yeah they're not bad.
Speaker 1: They haven't been bad they are now but now they're bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very dumb, very dumb people. They they're all about culture.
Speaker 1: The Giants now, Oh yeah, they got a great so
Speaker 1: they got rid of Landing Collins and Odell and they
Speaker 1: all defended chother yesterday. Check baby, check. That's a nice
Speaker 1: little culture right there. Checkdown culture. That fantastic videos of
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones during the wall to the running back. I
Speaker 1: gotta love that. Do you this picture show? You haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. I don't know what you're talking about
Speaker 1: it to you. This picture is not photoshop in anyway.
Speaker 1: Which ones he like? I actually did see that. I
Speaker 1: assume he's the one in the foreground. So basically, there's
Speaker 1: a good face. There's a picture. It's too small for
Speaker 1: me to show everybody, but like, it's literally just the
Speaker 1: same guy. It's a joke, Unbelievaniel John's any same guy,
Speaker 1: same guy. Le big deal, le big deal all right.
Speaker 1: On the program today, little backpacking where you get your
Speaker 1: um your best pick, best bet everbody, the best bet ever,
Speaker 1: best bet forever? What it was, best bet forever? It
Speaker 1: was best bet ever? Whatever were your best bet forever.
Speaker 1: A little bit later on the program, Frank, we technically
Speaker 1: made three of three of them mester at your best
Speaker 1: bets forever, go three, and out of course we did.
Speaker 1: They were the best best forever. They were as advertised, Greig.
Speaker 1: We'll try, We'll try and keep it going again today.
Speaker 1: Let's see see what we can do. Le's see if
Speaker 1: we can start up a little streak here. When I
Speaker 1: looked at it, when I looked at it last night,
Speaker 1: I was pumped. I was really more intrigued by the
Speaker 1: Twins and Angels game than I should have been great. Oh,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt when there was no one score him.
Speaker 1: It's not the biggest Jaco to Rees fan, but you
Speaker 1: were last night. I was last night big fan Jacoreesy.
Speaker 1: So let's start there. Let's start with Jacob are Easy.
Speaker 1: Is that okay? Fantastic? Because Jake Odor Easy and Frank's
Speaker 1: Minnesota twins going to l A and defeat the Angels
Speaker 1: three So one under easy five shut out anything, three hits,
Speaker 1: two walks, he struck out six. Felix pain on the
Speaker 1: other side with five innings, a lout of four hits,
Speaker 1: one run, walked, one, struck out three. Once again, he
Speaker 1: was your uh with the term I heard yesterday for him?
Speaker 1: What his role is that? What his follower? Yeah, right
Speaker 1: after the open? What do you have after an opener?
Speaker 1: You have a follower? Cole pitched one and then he
Speaker 1: pitched five. All right, so I'll go with pseudo starter. Alright.
Speaker 1: So Painia was your follower as it froll into the purposes,
Speaker 1: he was your starter, Taylor Cole was the opener here ty,
Speaker 1: but Sherty takes the lost Hunzle rob last picture of
Speaker 1: the ninth pitches actually very solid ninth right there, which
Speaker 1: you think godoresis performance right now? Down to two point
Speaker 1: three eight, franc I mean this has been pretty standard.
Speaker 1: Jake Goderizy, he only had eight tweetings strikes yesterday in
Speaker 1: ninety pitches. But the Los Angeles Angels are a team
Speaker 1: that does not strike out very much at all. They're
Speaker 1: actually among the league le leaders in terms of strikeout
Speaker 1: right and swinging strike rate. So they're just really good
Speaker 1: in that regard. And now it's been this to four
Speaker 1: six eight straight starts that Jacob Reezi has allowed three
Speaker 1: earned runs four of his last five. I believe zero
Speaker 1: runs allowed, that is correct. Yeah, so he's getting it
Speaker 1: done right now. Greg, there are some underlying numbers here
Speaker 1: with Jacob Reezi. You can try and turn him into
Speaker 1: someone else that you trust more long term. That's probably
Speaker 1: something that I would look into. He's got a two
Speaker 1: point three eight e R ray. Looking into the rest
Speaker 1: of the number his numbers, it's not like he's doing
Speaker 1: anything vastly different than he has in years past. He's
Speaker 1: using his curveball a little bit more this year. The
Speaker 1: v low on his fastball is up a mile and
Speaker 1: a half last year one point one mile. Is proud
Speaker 1: of this year ninety two point six, but he's got
Speaker 1: a two point three eight ear a, he's got a
Speaker 1: four point five nine x fit Greggy, I think I
Speaker 1: would try. I think I would try just float them
Speaker 1: out there a little bit and see what you can
Speaker 1: get in return. Venture That's exactly what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: I think this is the ultimate sell high picture right now.
Speaker 1: The problem is jakeodre easy and everybody knows that if yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody's gonna people have been playing or you know,
Speaker 1: watching baseball for a long time. No, yea, So it's
Speaker 1: very hard to to do that. You would probably you
Speaker 1: would have to do it for someone who's struggling, like
Speaker 1: it would have to be like a classic sell high,
Speaker 1: sell high by low situation. Who would you rather have?
Speaker 1: Jake Odoreesi or Mike Minor Because Mike Miner last night
Speaker 1: my man six innings of two run ball. He struck
Speaker 1: out eleven at Seattle Mariners last night and that was
Speaker 1: the second double digit strike out game of the season.
Speaker 1: No big deal, what is going on? We got blast
Speaker 1: in the past here with Mike Miner and Jake Odoreesy,
Speaker 1: two of the most relevant starting pictures in baseball to
Speaker 1: be honestly lowers his e R rate to two point
Speaker 1: six four. Now you have two guys here with sub
Speaker 1: three e R a s. Mike Miner yesterday with nineteen
Speaker 1: swinging strikes on a hundred and seven pitches going up
Speaker 1: against the Seattle Mariners. We've talked about how they've come
Speaker 1: back down to earth. They got off to a blistering
Speaker 1: hot start their offense, and you know there are all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like four games under five hundred, so
Speaker 1: they've they've come crashing back down to earth. Greg But
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers, they're actually pretty similar to to Jake Odorezy.
Speaker 1: But I think I would go with Mike Miners. These
Speaker 1: guys are close and it's a fair strike, and if
Speaker 1: you look at the ballpark like you probably lean with
Speaker 1: Odoreesy over Mike Miner, who pitches in Texas, which is
Speaker 1: not frankly just not a good pitching environment. But I
Speaker 1: first what I'm seeing from him a little bit more
Speaker 1: than I am. Odoreesi doesn't walk as many guys as
Speaker 1: Odoreeze either, the hard hit rate against him isn't as
Speaker 1: high as well, the underlying numbers are a little bit better.
Speaker 1: The first pitch strike percentage better as well. So it's close,
Speaker 1: but I would lean with Mike Miner and if I could,
Speaker 1: but probably try and dangle both out there and what
Speaker 1: he wants Jay Gunner easier, Mike mins Nobody wants these
Speaker 1: guys Pitley. I had a Mike Minor and he talked
Speaker 1: me out of keeping him, so I dropped him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she said, it's Mike Minor, what are you doing? Probably
Speaker 1: not true exactly what happened. If. I definitely didn't tell
Speaker 1: you to drop Josh Bell either, so I think he
Speaker 1: did that. I did not tell you to drop Josh Bell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody did. I think he just probably
Speaker 1: told you so that he could try and pick him up. No, No,
Speaker 1: he had a bad first week, so I dropped Mike Minor,
Speaker 1: like and that's why you don't do what Breg Susman
Speaker 1: does and and just lose patients on your players after
Speaker 1: the first week. But you also can't wait too long.
Speaker 1: Now Josh Bell is gonna win the n L m
Speaker 1: v P. Probably it's either him or Stick. He's got
Speaker 1: hurt sticking looking for players are like in the range
Speaker 1: as what RESI and Mike Minor. Minor in my home
Speaker 1: league is top twelve starting pitcher right now. Speaking of Texas, Frank,
Speaker 1: you were tweeting about this last night, drink. Chris Martin
Speaker 1: came in for not to save, but to close this
Speaker 1: game out there up four runs. He left three of
Speaker 1: them in the ninth inning and did ultimately close this
Speaker 1: one out. But Jose Clerk has looked very, very good
Speaker 1: in his rollabill as an opener. Uh and in the
Speaker 1: middle inning Shawn Kelly activated off the aisle last night.
Speaker 1: This could be the end of Chris Martin the closer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean three r and runs last night,
Speaker 1: gives up another home run to Dan Vogelboch, who we
Speaker 1: spoke about yesterday, who is officially hot once again. He
Speaker 1: was hot to start the season, got cold. This is
Speaker 1: the player that Dan vogelok is gonna be. But regardless
Speaker 1: of Chris Martin, this is three straight appearances now where
Speaker 1: he's allowed to run. He allowed three ear and runs yesterday,
Speaker 1: the ear a all the way up to four point
Speaker 1: six six. Conversely, Jose La Clerk has gone three straight
Speaker 1: outings without allowing a run venturous. So I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody, whether it's Sean Kelly or Jose la Clerk.
Speaker 1: They're probably taking this over from Chris Martin, and I
Speaker 1: would still put my money on it being Jose La
Speaker 1: Clerk sooner rev than later. I agree Martin, you know
Speaker 1: obviously falling apart and you know it really doesn't have
Speaker 1: the experience. I would take a flyer on Kelly though,
Speaker 1: you know I would actually, I'm sure he's very long
Speaker 1: the only five on ESPN leagues, so because he's been
Speaker 1: on the I L you could also stash until he
Speaker 1: comes back, which is soon, and then you know you
Speaker 1: have a potential closure here that le Clark could be
Speaker 1: you know, you know, all over the board. Like you said,
Speaker 1: these these closers are becoming guys that pitch in situations
Speaker 1: where you know they're most needed. So Kelly could end
Speaker 1: up getting a lot of saves and you're getting him
Speaker 1: for nothing. Really, I think you could put his zero
Speaker 1: one dollar bit or something on him and grab him. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I agree with you on that and the
Speaker 1: other thing. Mike Minor and ODORREESI back to that for
Speaker 1: a second. They're like the same guy in their career too.
Speaker 1: There are guys that have been around for well, never
Speaker 1: really put it together. They had a couple of good
Speaker 1: glimpses here and their career, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they're having this kind of breakout late in their career.
Speaker 1: I do trust Minor a little more, but both of them,
Speaker 1: I think, try to sell right now if you can.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're gonna be able to get
Speaker 1: for them, Like I'm just looking at my home league
Speaker 1: points lee right now. Like players who are significantly below
Speaker 1: them who I'd rather have. I mean, they're all big names.
Speaker 1: It's Jack Flaherty, we always talk about, Zach Wheeler, Carlos Carrasco,
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola. I mean, if anyone's freaking out about those pictures,
Speaker 1: obviously you'd rather have them. Even if David Price, who
Speaker 1: just came back off the I l of course you
Speaker 1: loved all right yesterday. So these are just some of
Speaker 1: the names. I'll throw them out there is like, can
Speaker 1: you flip them for that highly doubted but crazier things
Speaker 1: have happened. What we had someone say they traded glass
Speaker 1: Now for Chris Sale right or something like that earlier
Speaker 1: on in the season. So crazy things happen in leagues.
Speaker 1: So you could also package the deal. Yeah, float float
Speaker 1: some of these guys out there well, I will say this,
Speaker 1: it's not impossible to kind of have this career renaissance
Speaker 1: later on in your career, Like look at Jay Hat.
Speaker 1: When Jay Hab first came up with the Phillies, he
Speaker 1: was you know, took the league by a storm. Everyone
Speaker 1: was so excited about him. You know, he bounced around
Speaker 1: certain locations. And then the past couple of years with Toronto,
Speaker 1: you talk about a guy like in his mid thirties
Speaker 1: randomly starting to take off again. That was Jay Hab.
Speaker 1: Greg So, I don't think it's impossible that some of
Speaker 1: these pictures figure things out, but you're right it is
Speaker 1: probably unlikely. Who do you think it's the next same
Speaker 1: opportunity for Texas? I think it's Sean Kelly. I agree, Adventure.
Speaker 1: I think it's Sean Kelly. He pitched. He pitched well
Speaker 1: before he came off, before he went on the I
Speaker 1: l for the most part. Although the clerks look good,
Speaker 1: I think they light the role that the clerks in
Speaker 1: right now. I don't think you want to mess with it.
Speaker 1: I think they give it a Sean Kelly. I agree
Speaker 1: with christ. The only reason I'll bring this up is
Speaker 1: because Floria willingly called himself out for it in our
Speaker 1: text change, so I feel like I could call him
Speaker 1: out now you can come for anything, you know that,
Speaker 1: And you know I don't. I don't care at it.
Speaker 1: Of course he convinced us to pick up Chris Martin
Speaker 1: over Steve c Check. Yes, I also supported. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look great supported it. I'm pretty sure I was on
Speaker 1: team c Check. I picked him up in the man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he had a little bit more staying power.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a lot of mounts there in
Speaker 1: Texas with the clerk, and now Sean Kelly is back,
Speaker 1: and I guess there's a lot in Chicago as well.
Speaker 1: But a they're gonna win more games, and Becheck has
Speaker 1: done a pretty damn good job, so I think if
Speaker 1: he continues to do well, they might just leave him
Speaker 1: in the closed role for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like pick your poison, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then with c Check last night, the Cubs had
Speaker 1: a savor opportunity. But the night before he went like
Speaker 1: what two and a third innings pitched, so he was
Speaker 1: not available last night. And what happens, Brad Brock comes
Speaker 1: in to close the game out for the Cubbies, and
Speaker 1: he blows it that just further in trance to Steve Schick.
Speaker 1: And the best thing about that for the Cubs, as
Speaker 1: it really turns out when patro stroke if Peter Show
Speaker 1: comes back, when if Brandon morro goes back, looking after
Speaker 1: they go into that role has seemingly run away with it.
Speaker 1: How many times have we heard this before? Greg where oh,
Speaker 1: once this reliever is back from injury, he's no doubt
Speaker 1: gonna take the closer role back. And they find someone
Speaker 1: who's performing so well in the role. And Patriot Strope
Speaker 1: had a ton of experience as a setup man anyway,
Speaker 1: So I don't think they're gonna mess with this. By
Speaker 1: the way, she's like quick for you here. Malex Smith
Speaker 1: had three strikeouts last night, up to one seventy two
Speaker 1: the average. So all right, so him and Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: neck and neck for player of the year. There you go,
Speaker 1: um to Meckham, Chris is ninth homer here, you don't
Speaker 1: have anymore right dropped him? Oh yeah, he's gone. I
Speaker 1: got Travis instead. He was three for four. He's starting
Speaker 1: to lose playing time to the team. Just called shed
Speaker 1: long back up as well. It looks like Ryan Healey
Speaker 1: might hit the I L So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: mouse here with TIAD and I think as the season
Speaker 1: goes along, they want to see what they have. And
Speaker 1: some of these young players j P crawl for shed
Speaker 1: long as well, so I don't really have a problem. Plus,
Speaker 1: tattle Seeker is gonna be back soon too. And if
Speaker 1: you play in deeper leagues, I am stashing him in
Speaker 1: the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitation. I think I picked him
Speaker 1: up for like three bucks out of a thousand and
Speaker 1: past week. So if you're playing the deeper league AO
Speaker 1: only or like a fifteen team mix and you need
Speaker 1: a corner infielder, I think now is the time to
Speaker 1: statch Kyle Seeger. You're gonna be back within I believe
Speaker 1: the next week. Right. Elvis Andrew is also in the
Speaker 1: same game. We heard he's on a rehab assignment starting today.
Speaker 1: He went on the last week with a hamstot injury.
Speaker 1: You thought that might have been three to four weeks.
Speaker 1: It looks like he could be back as soon as
Speaker 1: this weekend, if not next week, which means good news.
Speaker 1: It was Elvis Andrew's owners out there. Um he's been
Speaker 1: one of the survivor surprise shortstops. Of the season, certain ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Seegar comes back, will it be Beckham moving? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't see JP Crawford holding down the shortstop job
Speaker 1: like Beckham. My Place show. They traded for him, right,
Speaker 1: so I think that they want to see what they
Speaker 1: have it. They technically traded for Beckham too, did they
Speaker 1: Did they sign him? No, they traded for him. They
Speaker 1: traded with Baltimore for who. Look, JAP Crawford is younger,
Speaker 1: you know that, and he did have not hitting well though,
Speaker 1: well you know Tim Beckham did that prospect pedigree too.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, you're right they signed him in January.
Speaker 1: I apologize. So they traded for JP Crawford and that
Speaker 1: was part of that Jane Sigura trade. So I think,
Speaker 1: if anything, they want to see what they have in him.
Speaker 1: It might be a split, but I would imagine it's
Speaker 1: probably JP Crawford getting more of the point and Beckham.
Speaker 1: Beckham had five abbuys that last night. You're right, three
Speaker 1: for four, big, But like, can he keep doing it consistently?
Speaker 1: If he does, he could hold down that job. I
Speaker 1: think where to take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: the Mets get a much needed victory over Patrick Corbyn. Finally,
Speaker 1: that was good. We mentioned one of our bets from
Speaker 1: yesterday when we get into today's bets, but also the
Speaker 1: other bet from yesterday, which was Mike Szarroka doing Mikesaroka things.
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Speaker 1: favorite debts of the day were The Twins and the
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Speaker 1: was Mike Saroca taking on the San Francisco Giants and
Speaker 1: Alsa Rocca did was once again be awesome. Eight hits,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, eight hings, two hits, one run, struck out seven.
Speaker 1: The only run he allowed him on a Brandon Crawford
Speaker 1: solo shot in the sixth. Only one other hit other
Speaker 1: than that. It was a marvelous performance. But because he
Speaker 1: allowed one run, his era actually went up slightly, which
Speaker 1: is crazy. The ear A now states at one point
Speaker 1: zero one coming on for the save Shaw on Newcomb
Speaker 1: after Luke j actually really pitched the day before. I
Speaker 1: don't know that's true as it is, but it's just
Speaker 1: thing unless really fell off. Mike Sarrocca five and one.
Speaker 1: Frank on the season. Mike Sarrocca is absolutely phenomenal. Man
Speaker 1: I tweeted out about this last night. I was not
Speaker 1: being too hard on myself. I legitimately hated myself in
Speaker 1: that moment for not having Mike Sarrocca I can't believe
Speaker 1: it because I was one of the biggest guys even
Speaker 1: from last year, but I was worried during the spring,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of my biggest lessons from
Speaker 1: the spring. Greggy is normally I don't like to have
Speaker 1: injury optimism for guys who are hurt during spring training.
Speaker 1: But if you look at a lot of the guys
Speaker 1: who were hurt, they're perfectly fine right now and they're awesome.
Speaker 1: Lindoor has come back and has been great. Tommy fam
Speaker 1: has been awesome for the season. He was dealing with
Speaker 1: a shoulder thing. Marcelo Zuna, aside from scaling a wall
Speaker 1: and then falling off and looking ridiculous awesome for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 1: Walker Bueler not as great consistent. He's coming around, but
Speaker 1: Mike Saroka was dealing with the shoulder injury. And all
Speaker 1: we kept hearing where the Braves have all these possible
Speaker 1: starting pitchers that could be in their rotation, all these
Speaker 1: different prospects, and they tried with this guy, and they
Speaker 1: tried with that guy, and to try with that guy,
Speaker 1: and then the one guy who they tried out who
Speaker 1: has stuck around the longest. Well, there's two. Max Freed
Speaker 1: has been great too, but Mike Saroka man and I
Speaker 1: knew how good he can be. His combination of command,
Speaker 1: he has a four pitch mix that is legitimate. He
Speaker 1: gets groundball outs, he gets a decent amount of strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He's not ever gonna be a guy who's like Tan
Speaker 1: eleven case per nine. But he's up over eight so
Speaker 1: far this year, and he has allowed one earned run
Speaker 1: or less in all seven of his starts this season.
Speaker 1: And he's starting to give you length going deep into
Speaker 1: games as well. If you look at three of his
Speaker 1: last four starts, he's gone at least seven innings pitched.
Speaker 1: Last night just absolutely masterful his first start of the season,
Speaker 1: where he didn't allow a single walk. He's just been ridiculous.
Speaker 1: At one point zero one e R the strand right,
Speaker 1: the strand rate is high, it's eight seven percent, and
Speaker 1: he has a two oh three bad like he's not
Speaker 1: going to be able to maintain some of these things.
Speaker 1: I realized that he's got a three six nine exfit.
Speaker 1: I think when it's all said and done, we're probably
Speaker 1: looking at a low three's e r A. And I've
Speaker 1: had some people asking me, well, should I sell high
Speaker 1: on Mikesaroka. No, the answer is no. You watched the
Speaker 1: guy pitch with the fastball. He's got a changeup that's
Speaker 1: like twelve difference. I mean, that's the difference that you're
Speaker 1: looking for between a fastball and a changeup. And it's
Speaker 1: a really good changeup. And then he has a slider,
Speaker 1: Greg it looks like a curveball. I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: a power curveball. The guy's got the complete package. The
Speaker 1: only thing that I would worry about him with him
Speaker 1: is that he's probably gonna be on an Endy's limit,
Speaker 1: like similar to a guy like Chris Paddock. But as
Speaker 1: much hype as Chris Paddock has gotten, Mike Saroka has
Speaker 1: been just as good, maybe even better. Well in a
Speaker 1: shorter time frame. Right, it's only even it was one starter,
Speaker 1: so more right pitch. But yeah, So Roca has seven
Speaker 1: and seven starts so far, he's got two thirds and
Speaker 1: I have one second. Paddock has pitched one start, iras
Speaker 1: at one point three. They're both pretty good. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're splitting hairs here. But Paddock got blown up
Speaker 1: once I think recently, so it's not right to give
Speaker 1: him a pass. We'll give him a pass. But if
Speaker 1: you these two guys, especially and keep his leagues, you
Speaker 1: have to hold. The thing is obviously there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some regression for both of them. I mean both of
Speaker 1: them under a two e R A this one one
Speaker 1: point one. Oh, that's impossible to sustained. But I would
Speaker 1: say that both of them will end up with even
Speaker 1: possibly even a high two e R. Not even low threes,
Speaker 1: maybe even high too. They're that good, both of them,
Speaker 1: like dominant with the control uh their stuff everything, like
Speaker 1: you said, both of them possibly even you know, future
Speaker 1: legitimate aces on major league teams for years to come.
Speaker 1: Both of them. Maybe Sirocca more of a deuce because
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the k upside you said, like a
Speaker 1: paddock will, I think, but both. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: ask for any more from both these guys right now.
Speaker 1: I got two of them on the same team, which
Speaker 1: is pretty crazy. But it's not gonna it's fun. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be good at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Yeah, I got I got serious, Pomo.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Mike, he was your boy all
Speaker 1: the last year, Frankie, he was your guy. Got hurt, struggled,
Speaker 1: finally healthy and obviously performing very very well for the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves. They did look up when the last time
Speaker 1: Luke Jackson pitched. It was actually on Saturday. He did
Speaker 1: not pitch on Sunday, but he threw. He threw and
Speaker 1: blowing them that save. On Saturday. It was a second
Speaker 1: day in a row that he pitched, So getting two
Speaker 1: days off kind of makes sense. Any worry at all
Speaker 1: here with nucom kind of getting worked in. He's been
Speaker 1: much better as a reliever since he's come back. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say this also on Saturday. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they don't have to give him as much rest because
Speaker 1: he's more so stretched out to be a starting pitcher
Speaker 1: and he could throw a few more innings, throw a
Speaker 1: few more pitches, so we might see. As you know,
Speaker 1: these things changed when it comes to bullpens, like from
Speaker 1: one minute to the next, these things can change so quickly.
Speaker 1: So as much as we love Luke Jackson, and we
Speaker 1: said that he's been pretty good in the opportunities that
Speaker 1: he's been given. And you know, I saw like there
Speaker 1: was a feature article written about him by I think
Speaker 1: it's who is it, David O'Brien, the writer for Atlanta whatever, athletic.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he were like a feature about Luke Jackson
Speaker 1: and how he's their closer. But I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they kind of makes nukeomb in here, like if
Speaker 1: there's lefties coming up. Since he's gone to being a
Speaker 1: reaver reliever, his fastball velocity has gone up over two
Speaker 1: miles per hour he was normally sitting. Now he's he's
Speaker 1: up around ninety five. So I mean you're starting to
Speaker 1: see the velo for Sean nucom and and he's performing
Speaker 1: quite well as a reliever too. Yeah, I'm intrigued by
Speaker 1: I like Nukem. I liked him last year. He was
Speaker 1: pretty good for the most part last year as a starter.
Speaker 1: He kind of tailed off at the end a little bit,
Speaker 1: and you know every other start he kind of get
Speaker 1: blown up, wouldn't go deep into games. Well, I didn't
Speaker 1: expect him going to the bullpen this year, but listen,
Speaker 1: if he's in the bullpen, any starter that goes from
Speaker 1: a starter to the bullpen that was at least halfway
Speaker 1: decent or above the average as a starter is going
Speaker 1: to be good in the bullpen. It's just easier to
Speaker 1: go one inning as opposed to five and you know,
Speaker 1: completely dominant, and you could actually go all out in
Speaker 1: that one inning and throw as hard as you can
Speaker 1: and really dominate for that one inning and focus on that.
Speaker 1: So I think Nwcomb could actually take over the closing
Speaker 1: role at some point here, like I would. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if Luke Jackson starts to falter a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, does work. It does bear mentioning that we
Speaker 1: are about eleven days away until Craig Kimberroll is eligibly
Speaker 1: signed without draft pick compensation, And yeah, he can factor
Speaker 1: into the mix here for Atlanta as well or some
Speaker 1: other teams we spoke about s Scheck, I mean he
Speaker 1: could factor into the Chicago Cubs as well. Since returning
Speaker 1: Gregan on May six, has made seven appearances, has not
Speaker 1: allowed a run, has not a lot of walk, pitching
Speaker 1: very very well out of the bullpen for the Atlanta Braves. Frank,
Speaker 1: why don't you turn around for everybody? Because yesterday was
Speaker 1: Glabor Day the New York Yankees, as it has been
Speaker 1: seemingly every single time that they have faced the Orioles
Speaker 1: this this season, Labor is ten home runs Chris against
Speaker 1: overall this season. Do you know how many of those
Speaker 1: will come against the Orioles. I think I heard you
Speaker 1: guys say this though everybody else. Eight eight out of
Speaker 1: his ten home runs this season has come against the Orioles,
Speaker 1: and they actually before his second home run the night
Speaker 1: last night in the eighth inning. Yes, in a montage
Speaker 1: of all the home runs Glabor has hit this year
Speaker 1: against the Orioles. Next pitch gone off of Michael Gibbons
Speaker 1: last night? Who blew it? Uh? I watched this game
Speaker 1: and I was texting back and forth with you, Frank.
Speaker 1: The Orioles maybe the worst thing I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: my life. Like I was saying before the season, I
Speaker 1: think they're over under for wins was fifty nine. Last
Speaker 1: year they won forty seven. I said, how is this number? Like?
Speaker 1: How are people not pounding this under? How are the
Speaker 1: like they're they're legitimately they may be the worst team
Speaker 1: I have ever seen in my life. And I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: like I understand the overall. Yes, I understand you have
Speaker 1: bad hitters, and I understand you have bad pictures that
Speaker 1: that happens, but their inability in the field, He's like, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I will explain. Did you watch the game in the
Speaker 1: last night, Christion. But but like I gotta talk about
Speaker 1: white Smith for a moment. Right was hitting great though
Speaker 1: he is three for five last night. Dwight smiths look great.
Speaker 1: The problem was in left field. Dwight Smith caught a
Speaker 1: ball that there was the second and third one out right,
Speaker 1: Brett Gardner's at third base. That's a kind of speed
Speaker 1: that's out there. Dwight Smith catches one in left field.
Speaker 1: What the right play is you throw it to third
Speaker 1: because it was a deep play ball. You were not
Speaker 1: getting Gardner coming home. Right, did you see this? Or no?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, okay, Dwight Smith catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Arn't Hicks sits it to the left field. The proper
Speaker 1: baseball player, he throws the third to the runner can
Speaker 1: advance or maybe you get it down. Dwight Smith throws
Speaker 1: it into the dugout. I don't think he was trying
Speaker 1: to do that. He airmails it. He wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: third the third trying to throw it home. He airmails
Speaker 1: it and it goes essentially all the way into the dugout.
Speaker 1: I think, obviously cameraminating advance is the third base obviously
Speaker 1: extremely not even anything in the ninth fitting, but dude
Speaker 1: does the same thing. He did it twice, same situation.
Speaker 1: He airmails it again. Runners advanced, the runner did score,
Speaker 1: but runner advanced. Oh my, what are you doing? And
Speaker 1: then it gets worse. Did you watch the ninth the
Speaker 1: ninth ning, Frank I did not. Okay, do you know
Speaker 1: what happens other than Gary Sanchez? H right, that's the
Speaker 1: eight thing. So the ninth inning, Yankees tied up seven seven.
Speaker 1: There's a runner on third two acts Luke Void three
Speaker 1: two cats to him right. Michael Gibbons throws the pitch.
Speaker 1: Luke Void pops it straight up like straight up, okay,
Speaker 1: slams his bat on the ground. Camera Mayban, who's on
Speaker 1: third base again running comes, I mean comes home, right,
Speaker 1: it's it's it founds a right to it, right. Hadri Sevorino,
Speaker 1: the Orioles catcher, throws the mask and it goes like this.
Speaker 1: It was like this, and the ball lands over there.
Speaker 1: Not even I am not exaggerating at all. It is
Speaker 1: worth going to watch, gentlemen. Is this the real life
Speaker 1: embodiment of the bad News bear? Legitimately goes like this
Speaker 1: and the ball lands over there. Next pitch is found
Speaker 1: the way next pitch voit walks. Garrison just comes up
Speaker 1: for your own bombed Yankee. They should have been out
Speaker 1: of the inning. It was a foul pop up right
Speaker 1: behind home plate. His ball easily, no one else, no one.
Speaker 1: Those like this waives everybody aloft like he has it
Speaker 1: lands over there. I have never seen a worst organization
Speaker 1: than what the Orioles did. Like with the Yankees bad feelings,
Speaker 1: we talked about that, but this is embarrassing. Man, and listen,
Speaker 1: Luke Void had a bad pop up drop earlier in
Speaker 1: the game, but this was a joke. I will find
Speaker 1: it for you, gentlemen during the break. You can't find
Speaker 1: it yourself because there's not an aspect of the Orioles
Speaker 1: that is even like it's not even the farm system either,
Speaker 1: Like you don't really have much to look forward to either.
Speaker 1: Understand they have used Neil d As he was the
Speaker 1: big piece that they got back in the Manny Machado trade.
Speaker 1: But I said this last year. I said this during
Speaker 1: the preseason as well, when we were talking about using
Speaker 1: Neil Diaz. I can't believe at the Orioles couldn't get
Speaker 1: more for Manny Machado than they did. I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like they got fleeced because the Dodgers have all
Speaker 1: these prospects. You're telling me you couldn't get Manny Machado,
Speaker 1: I mean man Machado Superstar. I understand it was a rental,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't give Verdugo. You couldn't get like Julio
Speaker 1: your Rya is somebody. He was still coming off injury
Speaker 1: at the time. So even like they have used Neil Dz,
Speaker 1: I like Ryan Mountcastle a lot as well, and I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be here sooner rather than later. And
Speaker 1: I like Austin Hayes. So you have some young hitters
Speaker 1: that you might be able to build around. And I
Speaker 1: understand you probably more so want to care about offense
Speaker 1: with a team that plays in Camden Yards, and you
Speaker 1: want to pitching, but they don't really have much pitching
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Maybe these guys developed well, but like,
Speaker 1: who was the last great Orioles starting pitcher that they developed?
Speaker 1: Greg That was a long time ago. Oh no, Eric
Speaker 1: Bdard was not. He was he started, he started, was
Speaker 1: gonna trade to the Mariners. Yes, he wasn't even great either,
Speaker 1: but I mean and he was good for the Orioles.
Speaker 1: I'm just named the Orioles that but that's like, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm telling Like they couldn't develop him, took the
Speaker 1: Cubs to develop. Well, it was supposed to be, right,
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gallasman
Speaker 1: and Chris Tilman, like those three guys were supposed to
Speaker 1: lead them into the future. Just a weird spot, and
Speaker 1: I think they're going to continue to, you know, sell
Speaker 1: some pieces off here, Like whatever you can get for
Speaker 1: a guy like Johnny VR, you could get for for
Speaker 1: a tree Man Seny Blowser's that was bad. Oh, that
Speaker 1: was awesome. Yeah, they don't really have to top prospects either,
Speaker 1: Like it's just they don't what did they get from?
Speaker 1: Like what did they got? They got used Neil Ds it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure they got like a few other
Speaker 1: like lesser prospects and maybe these guys can develop. But
Speaker 1: I used Neil das this year at double A A
Speaker 1: everybody hitting two it's one five with one homer read
Speaker 1: doubles seven ribbies with a b P. Yeah, they might
Speaker 1: have tos in double A using neil ds main piece
Speaker 1: of the many Mattado trade. They need to like revamp
Speaker 1: their whole scouting you know, no work they did in
Speaker 1: the off season. I'm pretty sure they made huge front
Speaker 1: office changes, right, Greg, didn't they like they changed everybody? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they have still organizational problem and they got rid
Speaker 1: of their manager. Obviously, they got rid of their general
Speaker 1: manager of president baseball operations, who was Dan Duquette. So
Speaker 1: they brought in a new president. But he comes from
Speaker 1: the ownership where Peter Angelo has never really wanted to
Speaker 1: spend money and now his sons are running it. But
Speaker 1: you don't know, like know which son is. Brady Anderson
Speaker 1: has a lot of influence there. It's like, ultimately they
Speaker 1: ended up choosing to spend on Chris Davis rather than
Speaker 1: there has there has been. Yes, they ultimately did Brendon
Speaker 1: Hides there. They're just not enough talent. There's just not
Speaker 1: enough talent as Oriels team, and Frank you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: There's just tell you there's hope in a moment, there
Speaker 1: isn't hope. We and we've seen it time and time again.
Speaker 1: I Mean, the Astros were the worst team in baseball
Speaker 1: by far for years and then they got the number
Speaker 1: one pick. A couple of years in a row or
Speaker 1: three years in a row, and but now, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be like a long standard. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those five It's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those five year rebuilds. But that's the thing though, the
Speaker 1: Astros actually had like they did well scouting their prospects,
Speaker 1: that got good prospects. Yes, they had first picks for
Speaker 1: many years in a row, but they turned this team
Speaker 1: completely around. But it took it took a one like
Speaker 1: four years, right something like that. They were they were
Speaker 1: really bad. Oh I remember when they were when they
Speaker 1: when they were from the n L to the a L,
Speaker 1: is when they were really bad. Basically one they got
Speaker 1: rid of Berkman. That was like the end of the
Speaker 1: Astros right time they were good. That was like the
Speaker 1: Orioles that they were remembered they were, they used to
Speaker 1: have meals. He used to be one of their Actually,
Speaker 1: it actually started even worse than we remember, Chris. So
Speaker 1: it started when they're the n L. So back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and uh two eight they went eighty six
Speaker 1: and seventy five, finishing third division, right, So that was
Speaker 1: the end of the era. That was the end of
Speaker 1: the era. Before that finished fourth like I was, before
Speaker 1: that finished seconds that was the end of the era.
Speaker 1: Was two thousand eight, two thousand nine and central, seventy
Speaker 1: four and eight, two thousand and ten, seventy six and
Speaker 1: eighty six rock bottom, so we thought, was two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven still in the end. By the way, fifty six
Speaker 1: and one oh six. A year later, they're even worse.
Speaker 1: Fifty five and one oh seven their first year in
Speaker 1: a O West, even worst, fifty one and one eleven.
Speaker 1: They were laughing. They were the stock of baseball for
Speaker 1: five years. A year later seventy and ninety two starting
Speaker 1: to turn around there, and then twenty fifteen they turned
Speaker 1: it around. When eighty six and seventy six, that was
Speaker 1: the year I believe they beat the Yankees in the
Speaker 1: wild Card game. Year stretched, they were horrible. It was
Speaker 1: the Stretchers won two, three or five five years before
Speaker 1: you saw progress. Really sick. That's five year looking at
Speaker 1: maybe worse. Who knows. They don't have prospects. To take
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Speaker 1: Chris Milwaukee. I've like Milwaukee since the beginning to Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Milwaukee tonight as well. Grey heard Gabe talking
Speaker 1: about this. He said, Uh, the Milwaukee Bucks are twenty
Speaker 1: one and one coming off a loss this year straight
Speaker 1: up in their eighteen and four against the spread, So
Speaker 1: that just shows you they have a lot of resiliency,
Speaker 1: Like once they lose a game, they bounced back. And
Speaker 1: you kind of saw that in the Celtics series where
Speaker 1: they got punched in the mouth early on. They lost
Speaker 1: that first game, won the next four in a row.
Speaker 1: So I think they kind of needed another wake up
Speaker 1: call here from Toronto. And I think Milwaukee bounces back.
Speaker 1: Remember Jesson, we scored twelve points in that game and
Speaker 1: it took double overtime and a herculean effort from Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard in order to win that game. So just does
Speaker 1: anything like what we're used to seeing from him, then
Speaker 1: they probably win this gentleman sweetly. By the way, my
Speaker 1: my friends, my friends were looking at during March madness,
Speaker 1: I think we're around there maybe a little after. They
Speaker 1: were looking at the odds to win the NBA championship, right,
Speaker 1: and they sell the Bucks. At the time, it was
Speaker 1: plus eight hundred. They're like the Bucks like probably the
Speaker 1: best team in the East, had the best record in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Where did they rank among all the teams
Speaker 1: that like? I believe it was third behind the Warriors
Speaker 1: and the rock I don't know the Rockets probably, so
Speaker 1: I believe they were third. But there were plus eight
Speaker 1: hundreds of time, and my buddy was really in the
Speaker 1: basketball like this. This is a crazy number because they
Speaker 1: the best record in the NBA, and the East is not.
Speaker 1: They don't have to go through Golden State in Houston,
Speaker 1: a gat there and if they get to the finals,
Speaker 1: they'll take your shot against Golden State. By the time
Speaker 1: you put the bet in at the Vandal sports book,
Speaker 1: it went down to plus seven fifty. But all my
Speaker 1: friends basically I didn't do it. I'm an idiot. But
Speaker 1: because the Bucks are not winning it, you could hedge it.
Speaker 1: Now they're not. They make it sure that they to them.
Speaker 1: It's not going to make money off it if you
Speaker 1: hedge anyway, because you have to put down so much
Speaker 1: for the world. Do remember the Warriors, the Bucks of
Speaker 1: home court advantage that But so they all put like
Speaker 1: about a hundred bucks on it each like they can
Speaker 1: walk away with nice, nice windings and then walking can
Speaker 1: I mean, there are two games away from making with
Speaker 1: the finals. Would I think it would be a fun
Speaker 1: series against Golden State, But I don't think they realistically.
Speaker 1: Do you think they need Kevin Durant back to win eight? Geez?
Speaker 1: It would make each No, do you have anything for tonight,
Speaker 1: we'll go. So there's one thing I like that I knowed.
Speaker 1: We we mentioned this briefly because we were excited about
Speaker 1: our pats. Uh, there's one thing we both like. There's
Speaker 1: there's if I have to choose my own, I will
Speaker 1: I'll go first. So we were talking about this a
Speaker 1: little bit downstairs. And the one that really stood out
Speaker 1: to me this morning, Uh, I was on the bus.
Speaker 1: I was looking through some of the lines for today
Speaker 1: and the Tigers going up against the Marlins. This game
Speaker 1: is in America. I really like the total here at
Speaker 1: seven and a half, and I realized that it's a
Speaker 1: low number, but like the undergrad, you're looking at two
Speaker 1: teams that are twenty nine and thirtieth and run scored
Speaker 1: this year in the Tigers and the Marlins, and Caleb
Speaker 1: Smith and Spencer Turnbull both have sub three e R rays.
Speaker 1: So I think we're in for a pitching clinic tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also take the under there, even though it number
Speaker 1: at seven and a half. I also I also like
Speaker 1: Spencer turn Bowl and the Tigers in this game. In general,
Speaker 1: it's completely a toss of it's pick him game is
Speaker 1: really good. He is really good, but both Fends are
Speaker 1: really bad. So that's kind of my thought. The other game,
Speaker 1: I like, I know this is weird, but Joe n
Speaker 1: was talking about it this morning. I'll make it rain.
Speaker 1: I like the Padres Matt Strom tonight against the Arizona
Speaker 1: Diamonbacks and Zach Grinky. Griggy left that last last start
Speaker 1: with something kind of wrong with him, and I wonder
Speaker 1: if he has a little bit of debilitating effects from that,
Speaker 1: Like he's extra cautious, something like along those lines. So
Speaker 1: I like the Padres money line and listen, Vegas is
Speaker 1: onto this too. Over at the at the Fantal Sports Book.
Speaker 1: They're both sitting at my just went away. So I'm
Speaker 1: not against that, but it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: you kind of look like that kind of seems weird
Speaker 1: given that it's grinky and strong because that I like
Speaker 1: Matt Strom and I like the Padres tonight. That's a
Speaker 1: that's me. You got anything that you like adventure? I
Speaker 1: haven't really looked all right, It's fine, there you go.
Speaker 1: So our picks tonight Marlins and Tigers under mine is
Speaker 1: Matt strong and the Padres against the Dimebacks. I have
Speaker 1: to give you a second one I'll take the Tigers
Speaker 1: in that Marlins game as well. There you go. Those
Speaker 1: are three tonight. Those are your best that's ever here
Speaker 1: on the BFFs parrently three. Now keep it going out here, Grady,
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can keep it rocking and rolling.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to last night, gentlemen, for a moment
Speaker 1: where Carlos Carrasco did not give you the quality start.
Speaker 1: He went five inutings like the last seven, hits, three runs,
Speaker 1: striking out at four while walking to Fred Anderson actually
Speaker 1: out pitched them. Lucavino let up a run, as did
Speaker 1: Blake trying, but he ultimately got his eighth save of
Speaker 1: this season. By the way, Frank, tell them the look now,
Speaker 1: Oh well, man got five outs last night, fourv the strikeout,
Speaker 1: his ear a sins at one point six nine. You
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. That would be the phenomenal. Hey,
Speaker 1: Jay Cole, all right, well, this is just another weird
Speaker 1: infatuation that Gregor has really, really bad major league baseball player.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna completely ignore what you just said and
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Carlos Carrasco and why I
Speaker 1: think right now is a really good buying opportunity for him.
Speaker 1: Before this start, he had gone to star in a
Speaker 1: row where he went twelve innings, didn't allow a run.
Speaker 1: Both starts were against the White Sox, and here against
Speaker 1: the Oakland A's didn't have his best stuff. I was
Speaker 1: watching a lot of this start. Five innings, three earned runs,
Speaker 1: four point three zero e r A, which is basically
Speaker 1: in line with what we normally get from him in
Speaker 1: the first half in his career. In the first half,
Speaker 1: Charlos Carrasco four point zero four e r A in
Speaker 1: the second half three point three seven. He's just a
Speaker 1: guy that gets better as the season goes along. I
Speaker 1: owned him last year. That was the case last year
Speaker 1: as well. And if you look at the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: for Carrasco, they're all really damn Anybody in your league
Speaker 1: is freaking out about Carlos Krasco. He's got a four
Speaker 1: point three zero ear A, three six two FIP, three
Speaker 1: point to five x fit over eleven case per nine.
Speaker 1: If the season ended today, that would be a career high.
Speaker 1: One point five five walks per nine. If the season
Speaker 1: ended today, that would be a career low. There's lots
Speaker 1: of like about Carlos Carrasco. If someone's freaking out nap,
Speaker 1: I'm all over that. Totally, totally agree with that as well.
Speaker 1: There was no love it soft for a J Cole.
Speaker 1: It happens. I guess Matt Olson Frank fourth homer of
Speaker 1: the year, Matt Chapman Frank eleventh homer of the season.
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman had been a little bit cold recently. I
Speaker 1: actually got a few tweets yesterday about match Chapman. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Man, Um, he's been cold. I can't necessarily
Speaker 1: but aunces back yesterday, multi hit game, two hits, three ribbys. Um,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna happen. I think he always
Speaker 1: kind of was overperforming a little bit when he was
Speaker 1: hitting over three. Remember this was a guy who struggled
Speaker 1: mightily with strikeouts in the minor leagues, and he was
Speaker 1: more of like a hit for low average but hit
Speaker 1: for power kind of guy, like a two thirty two
Speaker 1: forty hitter in the minors that would hit like thirty bombs.
Speaker 1: So I was never realistically expecting a three batting average
Speaker 1: from him. I still think he'll be better than two
Speaker 1: sixty four. But Ventura, I think if you drafted Chapman
Speaker 1: you still have been puzzle be surprised he's giving you
Speaker 1: tho far. Yeah, you're still very happy. I mean because
Speaker 1: he started so hot and so good, Like you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's getting cold now, and you're upset obviously, But this
Speaker 1: is what you uh, this is what you paid for for.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you did. You got a kind
Speaker 1: of a discount on him on draft day, and yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna cool off a little bit because he's not
Speaker 1: gonna hit three hundred. He's not that type of guy.
Speaker 1: He's giving you eleven homer, he's got eleven doubles, twenty
Speaker 1: seven abuis. He's doing everything you wanted for where you
Speaker 1: drafted him. So don't panic about, you know, him cooling
Speaker 1: off a little bit yesterday to foward a home or
Speaker 1: through ours. That's what you want to see. As long
Speaker 1: as he could keep the cold streaks to a minimum,
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. Yeah. And looking at the underlying numbers,
Speaker 1: last year, three thirty eight babbit for Matt Chapman led
Speaker 1: to a two seventy eight batting average. This year a
Speaker 1: two sixty five babbit as let's wait, two sixty four
Speaker 1: batting average and interesting, it's not like he's hitting a
Speaker 1: ton of flyballs. Normally, if you see a guy who's
Speaker 1: hitting a lot of flyballs or hitting a lot of
Speaker 1: home runs, uh, that means you're probably gonna have a
Speaker 1: low babbit. But is flyball rate last year thirty roe
Speaker 1: point three percent this year forty point eight percent, so
Speaker 1: that's not really out of whack. And his hard hit
Speaker 1: rate still really good last year forty three points percent
Speaker 1: this year forty eight but still really be good. So
Speaker 1: I would expect both the babbit and the batting average
Speaker 1: to jump up here. He's lowered his strikeout rate tremendously
Speaker 1: last year twenty three point seven percent, this year fifteen
Speaker 1: point nine. So this is part of the natural progression
Speaker 1: that I was talking about before the season when we
Speaker 1: did the third base preview, that he took huge steps
Speaker 1: forward last year, and it looks like from a plate
Speaker 1: disciplined perspective, he's taken even more step forward, more of
Speaker 1: a step forward this year. I would expect the batting
Speaker 1: average to get even better. Yeah, yeah, not to mention,
Speaker 1: he's also twenty seven times so far this year as well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: eleven point six percent walk create that's also up two
Speaker 1: percent from last year as well, so just making massive
Speaker 1: improvements at the plate. For MATCHA, Jose Ramira is still
Speaker 1: batting under two hundred. As we get towards June one seven,
Speaker 1: the average sits j Ramirez at the movie he has
Speaker 1: a two hit games goes up to one crazy seven.
Speaker 1: Absolutely go on a crazy test soon. Gotta come at
Speaker 1: this point he's played so much and where it's not
Speaker 1: impossible because we saw what he did last year to
Speaker 1: start the season, like those first two months, first three months,
Speaker 1: he was ridiculous. It was almost I think he was
Speaker 1: almost a thirty thirty player in the first half. I
Speaker 1: sear Greg it's how ridiculous he was. So we know
Speaker 1: what he's capable of when it when it comes to
Speaker 1: like going on a hot treat, and he still is
Speaker 1: giving you twelve stolen basis. So for all the bad
Speaker 1: that he's done, well stolen bases is great. But I
Speaker 1: think overall, if you were expecting a I drafted him
Speaker 1: a few places and I like, I'll as soon as
Speaker 1: I draft someone like, I'll put in projections to see
Speaker 1: where like my Rhodo standings are at, and I was
Speaker 1: probably expecting like a two eight batting average. He's not
Speaker 1: going to get there s something like crazy, miraculous. Even
Speaker 1: if he goes on a run like hell, he'll probably
Speaker 1: get it up to like two best. But what you
Speaker 1: were expecting coming into the season, we are not going
Speaker 1: to get from Hoss. But if he does get to
Speaker 1: like two sixty or even a little higher than that,
Speaker 1: that means he had a great second half. From your out,
Speaker 1: that means he's probably gonna hit. So you don't want
Speaker 1: to get rid of you don't want to sounding stats
Speaker 1: by the end of the season are not gonna look
Speaker 1: good because if teen rb I s seven team runs
Speaker 1: scored four home runs on one, I mean he would
Speaker 1: have to do something miraculous. He's capable, capable, But based
Speaker 1: on the way he's struggling with breaking balls again and
Speaker 1: what he showed last year in the second half struggling
Speaker 1: against breaking balls, I don't really have faith that that's
Speaker 1: going to happen again. Quickly, guys, moving only about five
Speaker 1: minutes ago. In the program for the Astros last night,
Speaker 1: brat Pecott continued to pitch very very well. He allowed
Speaker 1: just two hits over his five and his of work,
Speaker 1: which is the annoying part because he didn't throw anyone
Speaker 1: pitches despite not walking anybody, struck out nine batters. Bullpen
Speaker 1: for Houston was particularly excellent. Run uh Roberto being up
Speaker 1: his twelveth saved on the other side of the White Socks.
Speaker 1: Nothing really to speak about as Ryan Pressley gone like
Speaker 1: dings or something like that without a run. He he's
Speaker 1: quite good. Zero despicious year also has two saves whenever
Speaker 1: they need to give Roberto as soon a day off. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean I drafted him in our safe plus holds league.
Speaker 1: He was one of the top relievers to grab in
Speaker 1: that format just because he is lights out as a reliever.
Speaker 1: Brad Peacock Now, since getting blown up on May second
Speaker 1: against the Twins, Greg He's gone seventeen innings, pitched one
Speaker 1: earned run in with twenty four strikeouts. So Brad Peacock
Speaker 1: has been very good since getting blown up. Something Colin
Speaker 1: mckugh was not able to do so at least one
Speaker 1: of those pictures. Similar. Range has been able to right
Speaker 1: the ship. And we said this all along, like he's
Speaker 1: not gonna give you he's not gonna go deep into games.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna give you a lot of quality starts
Speaker 1: because they kind of limited him to five innings a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, but roto he'll take it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course we will. Absolutely Yeah. Tyler White, by the way,
Speaker 1: finally gets on the board with his first one, first
Speaker 1: home run. Thanks Buddy, Happy, you came, Happy showed up
Speaker 1: and the Mets win. I mentioned exactly where I was going,
Speaker 1: and amazingly, the Mets finally get away font on them
Speaker 1: against the Nationals. They have no fifth starter at the moment,
Speaker 1: as when we're five to get the start. The person
Speaker 1: that they announced was going to start the game early
Speaker 1: on was Drew Gagnon, who pitched as the follower in
Speaker 1: this one. UH pitch to shutout innings there for the Mets,
Speaker 1: Patrick Corbyn, they finally get to him. Five innings, six hits,
Speaker 1: four runs, walk three, struck out seven. Pete Alonso had
Speaker 1: a really long home run in the first inning. Azario
Speaker 1: also hit his UH hit his fourth home run in
Speaker 1: the first inning of this one. A lot of damage there,
Speaker 1: of course against Patrick Corvin. Here for the Nats, Anthony
Speaker 1: Rendon hit his ninth home run of the year. For
Speaker 1: Rendon batting three forty two with the OBP of four
Speaker 1: thirty three. Remember Anthony Bardon a free agent after this season.
Speaker 1: Complete beast. Yeah, we'll see what happened our m v
Speaker 1: P Frank, our m v P pick. Look, if you
Speaker 1: didn't get hurt, he's stilled any three forty two. I
Speaker 1: understand he plays in the same UH league as Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger and Christian Yellot, so his opportunity for the m
Speaker 1: v P is probably gone. But because of the counting stead,
Speaker 1: he still can't be awesome for fantasy, and I expect
Speaker 1: him to do just that. For Patrick Corbin, this was
Speaker 1: the fourth time already this season that he faced the
Speaker 1: New York Mets. I would think the more time can
Speaker 1: you face a team, the more it favors the He
Speaker 1: seen so many times and so he's been absolutely dominant.
Speaker 1: His last time out was against the Mets. Eight innings
Speaker 1: pitched with eleven strike aus. So I kind of give
Speaker 1: Patrick Corban a little bit of a pass. And he's
Speaker 1: been so good. Even after this start where he allows
Speaker 1: four and runs in five innings, he has a three
Speaker 1: point to five yar a venture. I kind of give
Speaker 1: him a pass here. Yeah, absolutely. I mean he's been
Speaker 1: as advertised where you drafted him, be a happy way
Speaker 1: you got him. He's been exactly as he was last year,
Speaker 1: he's got the k rate up like it was last year, right,
Speaker 1: maybe not as high, right, just but still above acape
Speaker 1: rading um. And yeah, consistent as they come. This was
Speaker 1: It wasn't even that bad of a start. He at
Speaker 1: seven ks, so I'm not gonna worry about that. What
Speaker 1: I am worried about is Victor Robles really cool and
Speaker 1: off lately to forty four batting average and just doing
Speaker 1: really not much of anything lately. I know he's got
Speaker 1: a homes, eight bags, but are you worried about Victor
Speaker 1: rob At least you got the eight homers and eight bags,
Speaker 1: so he's contributing it. Yeah, he's in a slump, but
Speaker 1: the young players slump. I'm not worried because we're getting
Speaker 1: what you need, which is the home runs and the
Speaker 1: Steelers that combination. That's why he draft Or Robles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see more batting average. I spoke about
Speaker 1: this a little bit last week that like, the underlying
Speaker 1: numbers for Victor Roblests were not great, but you took
Speaker 1: it because you were still getting eight homers, eight stolen bases,
Speaker 1: and thirty runs scored. But the hard hit rate is
Speaker 1: twenty one percent. League average is like low thirties percent
Speaker 1: percentage and he's had last year he was at thirty
Speaker 1: five point four percent. And uh, the strikeout from last
Speaker 1: year to this year this year six point nine and
Speaker 1: the walker it has gone down to, like walking numbers
Speaker 1: for Victim Robust are just not great right now. So
Speaker 1: to answer your question, venture, I am a little bit
Speaker 1: worried about him. Um, he still had this interesting mix
Speaker 1: in terms of that power speed combination, but I mean
Speaker 1: the batting averages coming down in a major way. He's
Speaker 1: hitting under two thirty in the month of May, and
Speaker 1: that's the problem. If you can't bat to forty and
Speaker 1: two thirty, if you're a guy that doesn't even get
Speaker 1: on base with the walks much, you're gonna get yourself
Speaker 1: into a lot of zero point games, you know as
Speaker 1: in fantasy for us, and that's not good. He needs
Speaker 1: to bat for hot a much high average in that,
Speaker 1: like two eight plus. The good thing for him is
Speaker 1: they don't really have anyone to replace him with, so
Speaker 1: he'll get it shot. Playing time is fair. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: speaking of playing time and getting an opportunity harder key boom,
Speaker 1: let's remember the name living for thirty five with four
Speaker 1: home coming, we need for Chris venture in frank Stample.
Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow. We hope fix