Speaker 1: What is up, Friendoz, and welcome in to leading off
Speaker 1: right here on Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 2: I'm back.
Speaker 3: It's the Welsh I got Casey Bubba in the house.
Speaker 1: For the final countdown. It's the final week of the
Speaker 1: fantasy season, the regular season. We ended all it is,
Speaker 1: like Michael Ipo said in the chat, yes, bittersweet at
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. All good things must
Speaker 1: come to an end. But it's only like the phoenix
Speaker 1: to burn it down. So we rise again, bigger and
Speaker 1: better into next year.
Speaker 3: What an introduction.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here with you all, Glad to
Speaker 1: talk to you all in this final week, Bubba, you
Speaker 1: guys have been holding it down like champs. A lot
Speaker 1: a lot of baseball this year, a lot of crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: In the show, we're going to be talking about a
Speaker 1: few streaming pitchers you can do.
Speaker 3: Over the next couple of days. We've got the biggest.
Speaker 1: News, We've got some injuries, and obviously we've got our
Speaker 1: big bets. But hot tip to you and Joelrico where
Speaker 1: on Wednesday that'll be your guys' last like show together.
Speaker 3: As you guys have been holding it down a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's been great. Love coming on every September
Speaker 2: for the last couple of years now to help bring
Speaker 2: the people home to the championships. Hopefully all the football
Speaker 2: people go do football things and in typical football fashion,
Speaker 2: they'll be back on Friday, folks, So enjoy the show.
Speaker 2: But thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: Well, that's right, that's right, I will do it. Some
Speaker 1: good stuff in the chat here. Patrick took down my
Speaker 1: championship with twenty two homers and one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: forty seven total bases in just one week.
Speaker 3: Thanks for all the.
Speaker 1: Advice, Welsh Bubba, Joe and Joe all the Joe's out there.
Speaker 1: Michael also is saying started doing fantasy baseball eight seasons ago,
Speaker 1: started listening halfway through my first season, and the last
Speaker 1: seven seasons have finished first or second every time.
Speaker 3: Championship week.
Speaker 1: Mah beautiful love love to hear it on the episode. Boy,
Speaker 1: do we have the most ridiculous thing ever to talk
Speaker 1: about that the news has carried over a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff, So hopefully we can carry you into this
Speaker 1: final week.
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, are you.
Speaker 1: Big into I feel like a lot of people, maybe
Speaker 1: more leagues than I was prepared for. We're playing into
Speaker 1: this week? But are you a big play the final
Speaker 1: week fantasy guy? Like, in many instances people are done,
Speaker 1: you ended before the final week. I've said this a
Speaker 1: couple times since I've been on. Things have changed. In
Speaker 1: the old the forty man, you know, September call up days,
Speaker 1: like everything would get disastrous and ruined because you'd have
Speaker 1: these weird rosters. Now it's different because there's not as
Speaker 1: many players up. But are you a big play till
Speaker 1: the you know this Sunday the final game stuff?
Speaker 2: Well, I play season long, rod. Oh, so that that
Speaker 2: is the case.
Speaker 3: I guess that's a head to head question.
Speaker 2: I just asked you for head to head though. No, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm helping my people messaging me questions and it's just
Speaker 2: insanity of what they're trying to do streaming and whatnot.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I think you should do not play
Speaker 2: the final week. I'm starting to become more of a
Speaker 2: Joe piece of po let's stop on September first type guy?
Speaker 3: Uh huh, I am too.
Speaker 1: I like you know, I've mentioned and we did this
Speaker 1: new version of a league, our home league, where it
Speaker 1: was two leagues split into one. It's the first half
Speaker 1: at all Star break, it ends that's Rodo and then
Speaker 1: we play from All Star break on and we do
Speaker 1: head to head and it goes into a playoff mode
Speaker 1: and you can have two champions to kind of keep
Speaker 1: people more invested. We also redraft at that middle point.
Speaker 1: That would be an instance where I think I would
Speaker 1: be good going into the very very final week obviously, but.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I'm still a proponent of like ending last
Speaker 1: week and not going into this week.
Speaker 3: Not to say that.
Speaker 1: There aren't some important things and not that there's like
Speaker 1: a bunch of dudes that are gonna get pushed off
Speaker 1: of starts and not starting and whatnot, but injuries are
Speaker 1: more brut I mean, roe Field Dever is.
Speaker 3: Just like, oh he's done, just done for the you
Speaker 3: can take that. We're out, We're not going to do it.
Speaker 2: So we're going to see a lot of that this week.
Speaker 3: And that's a lot of stinks, and that's what kind
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Speaker 3: To look at it like that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Cj Abrams this weekend was optioned to class A West
Speaker 1: Palm Beach and the collective Internet. Sometimes I actually enjoy
Speaker 1: not being the immediate person that reacts, because all anybody
Speaker 1: did was go.
Speaker 2: Was the.
Speaker 1: Then we found out cj Abrams was optioned to everybody's
Speaker 1: shock because he violated team curfew by staying out at
Speaker 1: a Chicago based casino until eight am. Now there's a
Speaker 1: lot of I don't know if it's this information whatever.
Speaker 1: There are photos that are out there. Some people are
Speaker 1: saying it's from some time before. There's internet social media
Speaker 1: chatter that part of this eight am session was because
Speaker 1: CJ Abrams. This is all alleged lost one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars gambling. And I will tell you as
Speaker 1: a as a gamblers, as a person that has left
Speaker 1: the casino has entered at night and left in the morning.
Speaker 1: Poker player, the only reason you're usually there too ungodly
Speaker 1: hours is you're chasing your tail, and that, unfortunately seems
Speaker 1: like a chasing the tail situation.
Speaker 3: This bad one, this is gonna haunt.
Speaker 1: There's this really funny moment in the Mets broadcast where
Speaker 1: they were talking about it, and then Keith Rnandez is like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I get four am, but not eight am, Bubba. Do
Speaker 1: you think this is gonna carry over into next year?
Speaker 1: Are we just gonna kind of move past Are we
Speaker 1: gonna move past past this like we are like Jamison
Speaker 1: Williams who bet and had parlays last year and everyone
Speaker 1: loves him now in football, we're just gonna move past
Speaker 1: it and just not think about this with a or
Speaker 1: do you think this could be something in the off
Speaker 1: season where maybe they move off of him.
Speaker 2: I think it's just a weak punishment. He's on timeout,
Speaker 2: pype deal and he'll be back. They've already said he's
Speaker 2: a part of their future, he's part of their family.
Speaker 2: They'd be crazy to move off of him. The talent
Speaker 2: like he was actually heating up again before this took place,
Speaker 2: so he'll be back. He'll be there on opening day.
Speaker 2: And I think this is more of a hey, you're young,
Speaker 2: you made a dumb decision, get it right, and we'll
Speaker 2: move on from here. Because they did the same thing
Speaker 2: to Luis Garcia last year. They sent him down for
Speaker 2: disciplinary reasons. So this is a Nationals situation.
Speaker 3: Was he at the re light table? Was that part
Speaker 3: of the problem.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Maybe he was getting a massage.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But he was out late apparently and
Speaker 2: got a punishment as well. I'm just speculating. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not going to go any farthers of fans.
Speaker 1: But pretty far from saying out gambling and getting a massage.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? What do you think would
Speaker 1: keep you at the casino until eight am?
Speaker 2: Oh he's losing. He's losing his dire game.
Speaker 3: Clearly he's losing.
Speaker 1: Abrams lost a lot of money in the last week,
Speaker 1: not just gambla. You know what, probably I don't remember,
Speaker 1: you know what, if he's done his old contract or
Speaker 1: his rookie contract. Now i'm thinking about it, the gambling
Speaker 1: was probably more any normal athlete. You probably lost more
Speaker 1: money than what was just gambled by being kicked out
Speaker 1: over the next you know, week and a half. But yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the game that's going to keep you there?
Speaker 2: For me, it's black chack. It's always been blackchack. I
Speaker 2: can play blackjack till the sun comes up like that.
Speaker 2: If you have a good crafts table, that's goore. But
Speaker 2: that can you can lose money quickly. Blackjack will sit there.
Speaker 2: Craps is amazing, and you need a good table. Like
Speaker 2: those people that sit there and play crafts by themselves.
Speaker 2: That's a lonely life, that really is. But if you
Speaker 2: have a good table, craps is amazing, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2: But for me, I'll sit there and play a blackshack
Speaker 2: till the sun comes up. I've done that many times,
Speaker 2: and most of the time it is chasing the dragon
Speaker 2: type scenario. But it's that now. I heard the new
Speaker 2: cool thing is people go play was it pie galla
Speaker 2: or whatever that goes till the god ungodly hours of
Speaker 2: the morning. But I'll play blackjack all day, every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think blackjack is an ob one. I think
Speaker 1: the picture of him was at a roulette table.
Speaker 3: Poker.
Speaker 1: For me, poker's an easy, easy one to just play
Speaker 1: all night keep going. But blackjack definitely has an element
Speaker 1: because like poker, even like a twelve hour session and
Speaker 1: just it's whatever, But blackjack is chasing the dragon type
Speaker 1: of situation.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's something to keep an eye out for.
Speaker 1: I think the obviousness for this team. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of young talent. They've got James Wood, They've got
Speaker 1: Dylan Cruz. You don't want to set a precedent of
Speaker 1: one of the I don't even know if they would
Speaker 1: consider him a leader out till eight am, you know,
Speaker 1: rocking a blackjack table, and maybe they want to, you know,
Speaker 1: have him. It's not a scapegoat even it's just like
Speaker 1: you can't do that.
Speaker 3: That's part of it.
Speaker 1: I do think there's something to take a look at
Speaker 1: that this team could just be like, hey listen, this
Speaker 1: guy up and down, we don't maybe he's really contrite
Speaker 1: about it and whatever. I wouldn't be completely dismissive that
Speaker 1: this team doesn't look to do something in the offseason,
Speaker 1: not saying that they will if this is a major problem,
Speaker 1: because that is a dramatic punishment that's not like like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit for the rest of the season on
Speaker 1: the bench and you're gonna support your players and you're
Speaker 1: going to show up two hours early. That's get the
Speaker 1: hell out of here type of punishment. And that's why
Speaker 1: I'm making maybe making a tiny bit more about it.
Speaker 2: But real quick question. So this was eight am for
Speaker 2: a one PM game. What if it was a seven
Speaker 2: pm game? But this has been a big of an issue.
Speaker 2: Probably not, that's my point. Yeah, so CJ not tell
Speaker 2: you to get him out of the doghouse here, But
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's more to it than just this
Speaker 2: one time.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, there's.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what I'm talking about too. This could
Speaker 1: be like a thing, this could be I've experienced it.
Speaker 1: We have casinos out here in uh area. Actually been
Speaker 1: there right next to Salt River Field. Yes, I've been
Speaker 1: there behind Top Golf. Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: us have been there, and like I've gone there. Athlete
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley would hang out there. I remember being on
Speaker 1: field a couple of years ago in the Arizona Fall
Speaker 1: League and god, I'm forgetting the guy's name, who's the
Speaker 1: Yankees prospect. He was so excited he told everybody around
Speaker 1: him about how he went out and was at the
Speaker 1: I see you know all night that night and won
Speaker 1: twenty one hundred dollars, and he was telling everybody that
Speaker 1: would listen to him. Not I don't even think he's
Speaker 1: in baseball anymore at that time. So it's not uncommon
Speaker 1: for them to, you know, kind of feed that need.
Speaker 1: But eight am is part of the problem, So CJ.
Speaker 1: Abrams will be on the lookout for it in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some other stuff in here. How about
Speaker 1: the White Sox. They are record holders and mate might
Speaker 1: make more records on Tuesday. White Sox now have tied
Speaker 1: the record for most losses since nineteen hundred with one hundred.
Speaker 3: And twenty and they got six games to go. Bubba, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're gonna break some records.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, No, it's pretty much a lock. I could
Speaker 2: even agree with the Nightingale who tweeted it, who usually
Speaker 2: ruins everything from happening. So for some reason, the White
Speaker 2: Sox sweep the final six games, you know what direction
Speaker 2: to point. But I'm thinking they lose least four of
Speaker 2: these six just the way they're playing, And this might
Speaker 2: be like one hundred and twenty four games and one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two game season. Just wrap your head
Speaker 2: around that.
Speaker 3: That is insanely I think they.
Speaker 2: Will be horrible. Like they make movies called Major League
Speaker 2: about this. They weren't even that bad bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's historically bad, you know, and hat
Speaker 1: tip to them for being like literally the worst in
Speaker 1: over one hundred years. Like they're they're gonna stack that,
Speaker 1: Like think about that like a team. How embarrassing for
Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughn and Luis Robert and Garrett Croche. Garrett Crochet myred,
Speaker 1: I mean up and down season. I believe he's like
Speaker 1: the first or the third or it's like it's not
Speaker 1: many with under one hundred and fifty innings pitch over
Speaker 1: two hundred strikeouts. That's an absurd number. But they will
Speaker 1: always be remembered as the worst, so you know, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to carry that in the next year
Speaker 1: because they also said they're not going to spend they
Speaker 1: want to cut payroll today. Care definitely will have an effect.
Speaker 1: If Garrett Crochet were a brave, we'd be talking about
Speaker 1: him as a top five sp but we can't with
Speaker 1: the White Sox because not only are they historically bad,
Speaker 1: they're probably going to get worse next year.
Speaker 2: Now, which record gets broken first, the White Sox lost
Speaker 2: record or cal Rifkin's record. There's your debaate for first
Speaker 2: take on Monday, September thirtieth, and there's no baseball going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'll tell you White Sox are going to
Speaker 1: put out a similar roster next year, So they're going
Speaker 1: for gold.
Speaker 2: Baby, I can't wait too. If you're a runder is
Speaker 2: on bet three sixty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: The Reds fired David Bell as their manager. We got
Speaker 1: that like a week or so and a half before
Speaker 1: the end of the season. I kind of took this
Speaker 1: as a way too talented of a team to disappoint.
Speaker 1: Maybe at the level that you had, maybe they want
Speaker 1: to get new blood in there. Maybe he wasn't speaking
Speaker 1: to the culture of the clubhouse. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any thoughts on David Bell,
Speaker 1: and I would pay attention.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the managers can have effected.
Speaker 1: I don't want a manager that's going to come in
Speaker 1: and slow down this team from running. I want them
Speaker 1: to be hyper aggressive. I have no idea who they'll
Speaker 1: bring in, though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting because he has signed a extension
Speaker 2: through twenty twenty six this season, so that that's a
Speaker 2: big oof. And the management already came out and said
Speaker 2: there was some differences between the two sides, and it's
Speaker 2: tough for David Bell when you look at that roster. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of good players, don't give me wrong,
Speaker 2: but when like Benson and Marte and company aren't producing,
Speaker 2: it's kind of tough to be successful. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, in a fun note, I just
Speaker 1: want to throw out here. You guys know Bubba's wearing
Speaker 1: his Peria Havevelina's hat. If you saw my photo back here,
Speaker 1: I've got my customized AFL jersey. Well, the rumor is
Speaker 1: today or tomorrow the Arizona Fall League is going to
Speaker 1: release the rosters, so we'll know all the guys that
Speaker 1: are going to be sent to the Arizona Fall League.
Speaker 1: Some of you probably don't care about it. I cover
Speaker 1: it because I go every single day starting in October
Speaker 1: to all the games of note, Christian in Karnosi on
Speaker 1: Strand is set to come and play in the AFL,
Speaker 1: which is kind of weird. We don't see that a
Speaker 1: lot we have seen in the past, like Kyle Schwarber
Speaker 1: returning from a season long injury, came and played in
Speaker 1: the AFL for three or four games. Tyler O'Neill last year.
Speaker 1: I believe it was came for like one game if
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were to advance. Those things can kind of
Speaker 1: happen occasionally, maybe those two years ago. But in Karnacion,
Speaker 1: Strand is like lost his project prospect eligibility. So I
Speaker 1: think they're giving him an exemption because of the season
Speaker 1: that he's lost. And so there you go. There's a
Speaker 1: Reds player that's going to be out. Christian and Karnashianstram
Speaker 1: scheduled to play in the Arizona Fall League, which starts
Speaker 1: October seventh, and Bubby, you will be out like roughly
Speaker 1: a month, roughly about a month or so.
Speaker 2: Five weeks.
Speaker 3: It gonna be awesome and you get to see him.
Speaker 1: Some notes on some players from Sunday here. Tristan Cossis
Speaker 1: big game, three homers, seven RBI now twelve homers in
Speaker 1: a little under two hundred of bats this year. Just
Speaker 1: a quick you know, are you gonna be a big
Speaker 1: buyer on Tristan Cossas. I think he might come at
Speaker 1: a discount esque type of flow because it's like one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety something about but two forty one batting
Speaker 1: average right now, so he's gonna have an under two
Speaker 1: fifty season, a lot of injuries. Production's okay, I think
Speaker 1: his costs could probably be relatively nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm a big fan. He will come at
Speaker 2: a bit of a discount, but first base drives up
Speaker 2: rather quickly in your drafts when you start prepping for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and Costas is one of the last
Speaker 2: men out there for now. That could change, but I
Speaker 2: am a fan of the potential price tag on hopefully
Speaker 2: a healthy season from Tristan Cossus.
Speaker 1: Almost you almost hate to see having a three home
Speaker 1: run day because that's like that little oomp that pushes
Speaker 1: the stats up. Had he not had no it would
Speaker 1: have been, like, you know, maybe under two forty season,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets to ten homers by the end of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 3: But it's this just like irked it.
Speaker 1: And pushed it up just a tiny bit more, which
Speaker 1: is san Speaking of insanity, and those stats moving up
Speaker 1: show Heyo Tani combo meal yesterday. It seems like a
Speaker 1: decade ago that we cared about a fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: because Otani is now up to fifty three homers, fifty
Speaker 1: four stolen bases. He had one homer two stolen bases
Speaker 1: on Sunday legit shot at fifty five to fifty five,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people just kind of jokingly being like, hey,
Speaker 1: sixty sixties not out of the realm of possibility for show, Heyotani.
Speaker 1: I also saw a lot of instant Atlanta brave accounts,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people complaining about like Lucien Okunya
Speaker 1: was forty seventy really dismissive, Like what O'tani is done
Speaker 1: is uniquely incredible. The guy might pitch into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: he's the one one across the board. Do you think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be any discussion about Otani being the one
Speaker 1: to one as a DH next year in Fantasy? Do
Speaker 1: you think that's even because that was something I said?
Speaker 1: If people remember TONI was adp like ten nine. Somewhere
Speaker 1: in there. I pushed him up in that final month
Speaker 1: of the season we were talking about shows.
Speaker 3: I pushed him up to like five, and I was just.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, let's kill the like I don't care
Speaker 1: about the DH. I care about the stat return, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to put a hyper focus and not even
Speaker 1: worry about the DH thing, but that's always in people's minds.
Speaker 3: Bubba, do you think.
Speaker 1: That is completely scwashed going into next year or do
Speaker 1: you think Bobby Witt, Aaron Judge DH. Let that be
Speaker 1: a differential factor and moving him down maybe a notch
Speaker 1: or two.
Speaker 2: There will be some people that use it as a factor.
Speaker 2: It should not be a factor. I think if you
Speaker 2: did one hundred drafts show, hey probably goes number one,
Speaker 2: like ninety of them, I would say, and then you'll
Speaker 2: get some cute you know, Bobby woos and Judges in there,
Speaker 2: but the utility DH things should not factor at all.
Speaker 2: He's an absolute monster and that should continue for you
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 1: A couple pitching things to throw actually, also speaking of
Speaker 1: the other guy that could be out there, Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: two for three with a homer, a couple walks. Judge
Speaker 1: up now to fifty five, breaking some other of his
Speaker 1: own I think career highs, not the home runs. Probably
Speaker 1: not going to get to the sixty, but you know what,
Speaker 1: he could have a three home run day and never
Speaker 1: say never with a guy like Aaron.
Speaker 2: Dude missed like a month of baseball two, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: Some pitching updates.
Speaker 1: Luis Heel got his fifteenth win this weekend against the
Speaker 1: A's win five and one third, actually one of his
Speaker 1: worst outing because he gave up four runs. But this
Speaker 1: note on rote World I thought was interesting. He had
Speaker 1: allowed one or no runs in thirteen of his previous
Speaker 1: fourteen appearances, which he is actually the presumed Ale favorite
Speaker 1: for Rookie of the Year just because nobody else really
Speaker 1: took it. I know William has been out there, Colton
Speaker 1: Kowser was holding it for some time, but Luise Heel
Speaker 1: might be it. And I sure hope not for my
Speaker 1: own bet, but we might have two pitchers taking the
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year awards in Skenes and Luise Heel.
Speaker 1: Also on the pitching front, shotte I Managa six hits
Speaker 1: over seven innings, has a fifteen to three record, a
Speaker 1: two nine to one era egg on my face forever
Speaker 1: thinking he wasn't going to be able to just completely dominate,
Speaker 1: and he never really fell apart. And you Darvish picks
Speaker 1: pitch six and one third of an inning of two
Speaker 1: run ball, struck out nine against the White Sox. It's
Speaker 1: a White Sox, but the main thing there was Darvish
Speaker 1: kind of getting back his sea legs before the end
Speaker 1: of the season. He has one more game to go,
Speaker 1: and it'll be against the Arizona Diamondbacks, I believe, probably
Speaker 1: Friday in this final series, which could have an l
Speaker 1: West implication or more Wild Card implications with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: so it there could there's a theory that like the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks could maybe even get eliminated depending what happens. So
Speaker 1: the rest of the way through, are you gonna trust
Speaker 1: you Darvish in this final start against the Diamondbacks this week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to. If you're look at a lot
Speaker 2: of the matchups that are out there, a lot of
Speaker 2: potential good pitchers that might not even pitch a full
Speaker 2: game this weekend. You got to roll Darvish out there
Speaker 2: and rock and roll.
Speaker 3: You got to roll it out. I think you can
Speaker 3: be comfortable with it. Same thing.
Speaker 1: I think Heel's got one more start, you know, be
Speaker 1: good with it. He did get hit a little bit,
Speaker 1: but you know, thirteen to fourteen to one or zero
Speaker 1: runs pretty dang good. I wanted to move injuries up
Speaker 1: here because I do think it's more relevant to have here.
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor said after Sunday's game that he thinks he's
Speaker 1: going to have to play through the pain when he
Speaker 1: attempts to return from his back injury. Says he wants
Speaker 1: to get back out there for this final week, but
Speaker 1: trainers have got to clear him the Mets if they're
Speaker 1: going to do this. They just pulled off a win
Speaker 1: against Philly, which was absolutely critical. I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 1: if Lindor gets the activation just like that, And I'd
Speaker 1: point out someone in the chat very smartly said, because
Speaker 1: they're right, this is the week. There were already weeks
Speaker 1: of this, but this is the week. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who you cut. It doesn't Matt just you just go
Speaker 1: for it depending on what's available in your league. Lindor, is
Speaker 1: that one little tiny one where it's like I kind
Speaker 1: of want to hold out hope, just because I do
Speaker 1: think there's a possibility he could just pop up for
Speaker 1: the last you know, five games or something like that.
Speaker 1: All they got to say is like, you're good to go.
Speaker 3: And he's just gonna play through that pain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the It's like a yin and a yang,
Speaker 2: like he's gonna be in pain, So you know, it's
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, but he's ready to rock and roll
Speaker 2: and try to get the Mets into the postseason. Like,
Speaker 2: like Angela mentioned, his Mets and Braves will be epic
Speaker 2: this week. That's gonna be. It's gonna be some musty
Speaker 2: that and then the Dodgers Padres because technically a Padres
Speaker 2: winning out the year and Dodgers losing the rest of
Speaker 2: the year, Padres win the division. Like, there's some craziness
Speaker 2: still going on for this final week. But that Mets Braves,
Speaker 2: oh boy, gonna be a fun one.
Speaker 1: Also, Diamondback fans gotta be rooting for the Mets because
Speaker 1: the Braves are the ones that are tailing back up
Speaker 1: if the Diamondbacks falter a little bit. They got the
Speaker 1: Giants for the next couple and then they're gonna be
Speaker 1: playing the Padres.
Speaker 2: Giants just knocked the Royals down a few pegs, So
Speaker 2: watch out, folks.
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks and the Brave slash Mets. They could all
Speaker 1: be vying for their life this coming weekend. And you
Speaker 1: want to know it's crazy, I hope it means something.
Speaker 1: I'm going to the final game of this season. My
Speaker 1: kids actually have a thing at the stadium with the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 1: So I'll be there on Sunday, and it might be for.
Speaker 3: All the marbles, the marbles.
Speaker 2: Let's see e Rod for all the marbles. You must
Speaker 2: be so excited about that.
Speaker 3: No, well, no, it's going today though.
Speaker 2: He's got a two step. He goes Sunday.
Speaker 3: Oh god, is he gonna go Sunday because.
Speaker 2: They have everyone plays six games this week except the
Speaker 2: Reds and Guardians only play five because they play it
Speaker 2: two this week. So yeah, he'll go Sunday. He's he's
Speaker 2: for now schedule for.
Speaker 1: Something, and the Padres might throw out like they might
Speaker 1: throw like a Michael Michel. King goes tomorrow, but they
Speaker 1: might throw like Michael King.
Speaker 2: And yeah, Michael King would be the guy on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's my boy too, Michael King a couple of that
Speaker 1: is an amazing matchup. Speaking of the Mets code, Sanga
Speaker 1: will not return to the Mets before the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season after feeling tightness in his triceps after
Speaker 1: his rehab appearance Saturday for Triple A Syracuse. Also, minor
Speaker 1: league seasons are over now, so any work that anybody's
Speaker 1: getting there doing on the backfields as instructs are going
Speaker 1: on across baseball CODEI Senga Gabriel Moreno continuously hurt all season.
Speaker 1: He told reporters after Sunday's loss that he's going to
Speaker 1: undergo an MRI today on his abductor. I think this
Speaker 1: could end his season unless he's gonna play through pain.
Speaker 1: This is like the third time he's done this. There's
Speaker 1: a possibility he could rest for.
Speaker 3: Two days again.
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks are doing instructs, so he could then just
Speaker 1: run over to Salt River Fields, maybe a little casino trip,
Speaker 1: do a game, and then he could get back to
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I suspect with the lingering injuries, this could be it
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I'm leaning. They're saying it's not as
Speaker 2: bad as the previous injury, but I don't care. Like
Speaker 2: I expect Adrian del Gestio to be on a ship
Speaker 2: back to Arizona here by Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. And then Jordan Alvarez undergoing imaging
Speaker 1: on his right knee according to the Astro's manager, So
Speaker 1: another thing to keep an eye on. Hey, little playoff prep.
Speaker 1: But but I have four pitchers that I think are
Speaker 1: available relatively I did compare it to Fantasy pros consensus ownership,
Speaker 1: but you know that's going to alter ESPN Yahoo numbers.
Speaker 1: Most of these guys are all under like ten percent,
Speaker 1: but you know active leagues, they just move up and down,
Speaker 1: probably forty to fifty percent.
Speaker 3: In CBS.
Speaker 1: I have four pitchers that are pitching on Tuesday and
Speaker 1: Wednesday that I'm going to I want to get a
Speaker 1: yay or nay from you. If people are trying to
Speaker 1: stream points leagues, I think these guys are all options.
Speaker 1: Not looking at Zero's headhead rodo you do have like
Speaker 1: maybe some concerns and then on Wednesday you and Joe
Speaker 1: can do that for like Thursday, Friday, and then Friday
Speaker 1: will do it for the weekend to kind of finish
Speaker 1: you out. So these guys, I believe everyone I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you is on Wednesday because I think Tuesday's
Speaker 1: set is garbage.
Speaker 3: But here you go.
Speaker 1: Kider Montero going up against Tampa Bay, did get hit
Speaker 1: in his last start, but had zero earned runs in
Speaker 1: his previous two at home Tigers rolling versus Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Yay or nay on Montero.
Speaker 2: Yay on Montero. The the Tampa Bay Ray's offense is dreadful,
Speaker 2: striking out a ton. I'll take my chances in that
Speaker 2: stream for the final week.
Speaker 1: I'm agreeing with you on this. Number two at Washington
Speaker 1: NOC j Abrams. Alec Marsh for Kansas City, I believe
Speaker 1: has a similar I think.
Speaker 3: His last start was bad and the.
Speaker 1: Previous set were pretty good. He's got an eight to
Speaker 1: nine record so far on this year. Yeay or nay
Speaker 1: on Alec Marsh.
Speaker 2: Deep leagues only, I'm still very skeptical. This national team
Speaker 2: doesn't strike out a lot, so they put a lot
Speaker 2: of balls in play, makes it sketchy, and there's still
Speaker 2: like a twenty percent chance that's Michael Lorenzen start. So
Speaker 2: keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Well, and it could just be pushed because yeah this
Speaker 1: is Wednesday. You could be pushed into Thursday.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of moving parts with that one.
Speaker 1: And that's the craziness about this week, by the way,
Speaker 1: for everybody, like everything can change on a dime. Number
Speaker 1: three at Minnesota Edward Cabrera. Now I bring him up
Speaker 1: because he is the highest ownership, but got obliterated in
Speaker 1: the last start. But he had been good. So we
Speaker 1: are going to Minnesota Edward Cabrera.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I love the skill set of
Speaker 2: Edward Cabrera, but the inconsistencies. He could nuke your final week, all.
Speaker 1: Right, and then finally this ownership, this makes it kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit difficult if he's out there. But
Speaker 1: I just want to throw it just in case. Is
Speaker 1: Cody Bradford going up against Oakland. God, I should have
Speaker 1: wrote down all the stats. I was looking at all
Speaker 1: the stuff. I want to say, Bradford might have, like
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, had another one of those
Speaker 1: like last bad start and had been carrying some decent
Speaker 1: ones prior to this. He's got Oakland smaller leagues, he
Speaker 1: may be available.
Speaker 3: What do you say on Bradford?
Speaker 2: I would roll with Bradford if he can. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was a bad start last time out. Overall been really
Speaker 2: really good. He at least has the ceiling with probably
Speaker 2: higher than anybody we talked about today.
Speaker 1: Okay, so then rank these Montero, Marsh Cabrera, Bradford, Montero, Bradford,
Speaker 1: Marsh Cabira. Okay, so Montero leads the pack and he's
Speaker 1: like under match owned across both. Okay, So you guys
Speaker 1: are looking to stream Tuesday Wednesday to get something in there,
Speaker 1: go to Montaro.
Speaker 3: Someone asked a question too.
Speaker 1: I just want to point out Anthony is like, hey,
Speaker 1: any two start waiver wire pitchers. We're not doing that
Speaker 1: because everybody is going to move and change as teams
Speaker 1: get into playoffs. Not saying there aren't, but I would
Speaker 1: really hate to try to sell them.
Speaker 2: I'll throw I'll throw one. I'll throw one for fun.
Speaker 2: That should not change Land and Knack of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He's pitching Monday and Sunday. There's no reason NAC should
Speaker 2: get moved in that rotation.
Speaker 3: But Nac a lot of the time. We'll play the
Speaker 3: opener role.
Speaker 2: No, no, not since he's come back, he's throwing five plus.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, then I completely missed that.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, you know what I forgot the last
Speaker 1: one I saw it was an opener because he gave
Speaker 1: up five earned runs in like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first two. That's why it was an opener.
Speaker 2: He got shown. But other than that, it's and good.
Speaker 1: Yes, I still don't know if I trust that. I'd
Speaker 1: rather Montero on there. So I think the better recommendation
Speaker 1: to focus on. I know some of you have like
Speaker 1: two or three only pickups in the week, is just
Speaker 1: being hyper hyper focused.
Speaker 2: On there's a lot of good streams on the.
Speaker 1: Great streaming picture, then it is trying to get two
Speaker 1: starts out of it. So that's why like focusing on Montero.
Speaker 1: Montero would be at the tippy top over the next
Speaker 1: couple of days. And then let's also see how the
Speaker 1: rotations work out. Teams will bring up pictures to push
Speaker 1: rotations to set up playoff matchups. Even Tory Lavello said,
Speaker 1: if they have a chance to beat San Diego and
Speaker 1: move past San Diego for some home field advantage, they're
Speaker 1: going to do it.
Speaker 3: If they don't.
Speaker 1: And they have a playoff spot locked, they're gonna rest
Speaker 1: starters to set up their pictures. So that's why things
Speaker 1: are going to change over the next three or four days.
Speaker 1: And you also can have teams that are completely out
Speaker 1: of it. Just push this guy, let this guy get rest.
Speaker 3: It just weird stuff happened.
Speaker 1: Yes, Kyder Montero is the picture that we were talking
Speaker 1: about there in the playoff prep. Anybody else I didn't
Speaker 1: want to like move past as you suggested. Now, is
Speaker 1: there anybody else.
Speaker 2: You really like, No, just for the early week, that's fine,
Speaker 2: Like we'll talk about so there are some I like
Speaker 2: Thursday and Friday for sure, Like there's a lot of
Speaker 2: good one starters this week for Thursday.
Speaker 1: Well, then make sure you tune in on Wednesday Bubba
Speaker 1: and a Rico. They will break down those Thursday and
Speaker 1: Friday starters that you guys might be able to stream
Speaker 1: on the three up and three down carry. Carpenter and
Speaker 1: Zach Netto both dropped two homer double dong days. Netto,
Speaker 1: by the way, had six RBI in that performance. Top
Speaker 1: fifty player next year Trey Turner, Jake McCarthy, Bryson Stott,
Speaker 1: and Miles straw All double stolen bases. We don't have
Speaker 1: a double dong for stolen bases, double bags, double steals.
Speaker 2: I'll think of something that's peach and I'll get back
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well double dong's not really peg, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: can do that. And then one of the best pitchers
Speaker 1: in baseball in the second half, maybe the best pitcher,
Speaker 1: and someone that is going to be wildly difficult for
Speaker 1: everybody to manage next year. Blake Snell six innings and
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts, gave up just two hits, and what the
Speaker 1: hell is anybody going to want to do with him?
Speaker 1: He's pitched like he should be a top five pitcher
Speaker 1: in baseball. He will not be ranked as a top
Speaker 1: ten pitcher, most likely in fantasy because of those swings,
Speaker 1: and he kind of continuously if you do it right,
Speaker 1: probably going to be a value next season.
Speaker 2: If you are aggressive in starting pitching, which some people are,
Speaker 2: he is going to be an amazing two based on
Speaker 2: his ADP. Because people like you said, going to be concerned.
Speaker 2: I think he signs earlier this year. I don't think
Speaker 2: we're any of that bs he was. He was angry
Speaker 2: about what took place with Boris. A lot of those
Speaker 2: guys are, so I think I think Sneil signs sooner
Speaker 2: than expected, and we're going to see that ADP get
Speaker 2: up a little bit, but still a really solid value.
Speaker 3: And on the down.
Speaker 1: Frankie Montas boom boom with the boom like.
Speaker 3: The double chunk.
Speaker 1: He got double chalked all over two and two third,
Speaker 1: seven earned runs, three homers given up.
Speaker 3: He was given the boom.
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez four innings, seven earned runs, gave up nine hits,
Speaker 1: probably the most disastrous pitcher you could have for your
Speaker 1: playoff in roto Run Hunter, Renfro, Michael Tolia, both of
Speaker 1: the old zero for four and four strikeouts.
Speaker 3: That's I guess they say that's the doom those guys.
Speaker 2: I just see him every I don't.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, my friends. We've been doing it all season long.
Speaker 1: It is time that we look at our bet three, six,
Speaker 1: five bets of the day.
Speaker 3: With Bubba and the Welsh.
Speaker 1: We've really got to get that artwork change for next year.
Speaker 1: These are our best bets of the day. Bubba, what
Speaker 1: what are you looking at doing? And the very small
Speaker 1: slate by the way, only four Monday.
Speaker 2: Four games to pick from, folks, final.
Speaker 3: Week of baseball. Let's put four on Monday to start
Speaker 3: the week. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Bright side, that means everybody else pretty much plays the
Speaker 2: rest of the week, so that's that's a plus. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's a small slate. So to keep things simple here,
Speaker 2: I'll take three total bases all at plus money as usual,
Speaker 2: give me Trey Turner over one and a half total
Speaker 2: bases with a bullpen game from the Cub starting with Pearson.
Speaker 2: Turner's been red hot of late, so they get plus one,
Speaker 2: and that actually surprised me. Corbyn Carrol, I think the
Speaker 2: d back stay red hot versus bird Song and company,
Speaker 2: if not birds on the bullpen of the Giants. So
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carrol over one and a half total bases at
Speaker 2: plus one twenty five and ao heineo, I don't care
Speaker 2: how old and bad I've been before, Sworez over one
Speaker 2: and a half total bases at plus one thirty five.
Speaker 2: I'm a Giants fan, folks, and I think they get
Speaker 2: chomacked by the d Backs tonight. So like I liked,
Speaker 2: I liked the d Becks, I'm rooting for the d Becks,
Speaker 2: so I hope they get to the postseason, and tonight
Speaker 2: it's a big step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to be tailing with you. First up,
Speaker 1: I've got no run first inning Seattle and Houston hunta Brown,
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller loved that matchup, A little bit banged up
Speaker 1: on that Houston side, So I like that no run
Speaker 1: first inning, minus one thirty. But now that two bets
Speaker 1: are on Arizona, I'm going to take as you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: You said you think they're going to get shellacked. The
Speaker 1: Giants are bird Song like a four to six era
Speaker 1: expected numbers right around the exact same. So I like
Speaker 1: Arizona's run line minus one point five, so to win
Speaker 1: by two runs plus money, it's like plus one ten.
Speaker 3: So I love that.
Speaker 1: And then I was with you. I was about to
Speaker 1: actually take the KORbin kr. I hadn't looked at your numbers,
Speaker 1: so it's going to take Corby Carroll's total bases. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been good as of recent but two sixty at
Speaker 1: home while hitting like two o two on the road,
Speaker 1: which is a benefit. But Ktel Marte is plus one
Speaker 1: twenty five total base one point five over and he
Speaker 1: has a two.
Speaker 3: Sixty road split.
Speaker 1: It took three point thirty three at home. He has
Speaker 1: three straight games with a home run. He has been
Speaker 1: on fire. Top of the lineup. Could not love ka
Speaker 1: tell Marte total bases anymore and we're both stacking up
Speaker 1: those times.
Speaker 2: Guy should parlay parlay Carol and Marte's total basis. See
Speaker 2: what happens just for funzies?
Speaker 3: What the hell not? Yeah, corbyan Carroll even hit is
Speaker 3: just minus two to twenty five. You want to do that?
Speaker 3: So fun play those bad boys.
Speaker 1: You can check all of our stuff out at on
Speaker 1: the betting pros app if you have not done so before.
Speaker 3: But those are the best bets of the day. Let's
Speaker 3: kick this bad boy out.
Speaker 1: With the home run board. I got an updated home
Speaker 1: run board in ladies and gentlemen. Unless we get an
Speaker 1: O Tawny like week from Razor Ramone.
Speaker 3: South African G has crossed.
Speaker 1: The sixty home run marker. South African G is looking
Speaker 1: to break the home run record all alone here has
Speaker 1: a four home run lead in the final week to
Speaker 1: take home this autograph Vladimir Guerrero bat but Razor Ramone
Speaker 1: gotta have a big one gonna have to also probablyably
Speaker 1: playoff of and not go with the chalk at fifty six.
Speaker 1: So South African G at sixty, Razormone at fifty six,
Speaker 1: be trot down.
Speaker 3: At fifty three. Those are your leaders.
Speaker 1: Shout out Tolwonkee Penguin who crossed over fifty in seventh
Speaker 1: Joey P. I don't even remember whose perpetuity is. I
Speaker 1: think soda or whatever is at forty two. I've not
Speaker 1: done a good job about doing perpetuity. It's whoever I've
Speaker 1: had last. So I Am not going to get on
Speaker 1: that board. Most likely I think I'm probably still at
Speaker 1: thirty three, but South African g looks like they are
Speaker 1: going to take this down and that'll be a fun
Speaker 1: update on Friday, Bubba, who you going with your home
Speaker 1: run call today?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick with Corbyn Carrol. I think he has
Speaker 2: a big game at home. I love your home run
Speaker 2: call as well, but give me Corbyn Carroll on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sticking with what I just mentioned. I'm going
Speaker 1: with Katel Marte. I mean, four straight days would be
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous, but I love him hitting at home. He
Speaker 1: loves to hit at home. These are massively important games
Speaker 1: and I potentially get an extra bat or two.
Speaker 3: Yep, love it. Kateell Marte for my home run call,
Speaker 3: and ladies and gentlemen, that is it.
Speaker 1: So Wednesday, it's Bubba and Arico for their finality of them.
Speaker 1: By the way, a Rico shout out was in the
Speaker 1: chat being a peanut and cracker Jet for some of
Speaker 1: the show hanging out with everybody, so shout out to him.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be doing their final episode together on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: so make sure you come out and droves to support them.
Speaker 1: Then on Friday, Joey P. Is back with me and
Speaker 1: we are gonna end out the show on Friday recapping
Speaker 1: some of the season, talking maybe previewing some of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing all of that on Friday. JOEYP and
Speaker 1: Welsh back. So there you go. Make sure you guys
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