Speaker 1: Leading off starts right now.
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Speaker 1: But we are here because that's what we do.
Speaker 2: Fantasy playoffs getting going, most likely in a lot of
Speaker 2: your leagues.
Speaker 1: I am Chris Wels, that is Andrew Seifer.
Speaker 2: And we are here to help you through all the
Speaker 2: happenings around baseball and your playoffs.
Speaker 1: Andrew, what's up, buddy?
Speaker 3: Not much, man, I was just telling you before we
Speaker 3: hopped on. I dropped my daughter at a first day
Speaker 3: of first grade today and learned that you out in
Speaker 3: Arizona start school way too early in the summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, my kids are a month into school already.
Speaker 2: That's something I learned as well. Like everyone on the
Speaker 2: East Coast is like that. I have friends with They're
Speaker 2: posting pictures of kids going to school and stuff, so
Speaker 2: I know everybody is probably ramping themselves up. Been there,
Speaker 2: done that. I've already been there, done that. I'm a
Speaker 2: veteran now in the school time. I already got sick.
Speaker 2: I got sick last week because the kid, you know,
Speaker 2: the kids are back in school as soon as you
Speaker 2: get sick. But I am feeling a bit better. I'm
Speaker 2: feeling I think I'm looking a little bit better. I'm
Speaker 2: feeling better, and I'm ready to talk with everybody because
Speaker 2: I have incredible news, the best news that I could
Speaker 2: think well, I could think of actually like a couple
Speaker 2: other things, but the best piece of baseball news I
Speaker 2: have for all of you. Corbin Carrol is being recalled today,
Speaker 2: and we are getting Corbyn Carroll making his major league
Speaker 2: debut with the Diamondbacks tonight. And Andrew, I am dealing
Speaker 2: with an existential crisis. I am here in Arizona. I
Speaker 2: live here in Arizona. The game is in Arizona. I
Speaker 2: had zero point zero percent plans to go, and I
Speaker 2: know I should, but I don't know if I can
Speaker 2: or will. Corby Carroll making his debut is a big deal.
Speaker 2: Is the number one prospect in baseball? Andrew, I'll you know,
Speaker 2: let me get your first initial take and I'm going
Speaker 2: to set up some stats for everybody on Corbyn Carroll.
Speaker 2: But you see him hit the wire, you see him
Speaker 2: out there maybe some type of availability, which might not be.
Speaker 1: The case for a lot of leagues. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Is there any excitement for you to run to the wire?
Speaker 1: To pick up. You know, I guess arguably the number
Speaker 1: one prospect in baseball.
Speaker 3: I mean, there has to be right and you have
Speaker 3: to have a pretty good excuse if you're not going
Speaker 3: to go to that game, by the way, But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a true five category potential stud
Speaker 3: you know, widely regarded as the number one fantasy prospect still.
Speaker 4: In the minor leagues.
Speaker 3: He's you know, he doesn't have a ton of minor
Speaker 3: league experience because you know, Covid wiped out the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty minor league season and then he had shoulder surgery
Speaker 3: that basically wiped out most of his twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 4: But he sure has looked the part this year.
Speaker 3: He's twenty two years old, so he's a little more
Speaker 3: mature than some of these guys that rocket through the
Speaker 3: minors like that. And you just look at the production
Speaker 3: and across the board, it's it's really phenomenal. So you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's the usual caveats with these rookies. They've been
Speaker 3: very hit and miss in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: It could be he flames out, but the upside is
Speaker 3: incredibly high, and those are exactly the kind of players
Speaker 3: that you want in fantasy Corbyn Carroll.
Speaker 2: So far this season in the minor leagues, which it's
Speaker 2: been a triple A, he was down here rehaving for
Speaker 2: a tiny bit twenty four homers, thirty one stolen bases,
Speaker 2: hitting three h seven with a four to twenty five OBP,
Speaker 2: and over one thousand ops. The guy eighty nine runs
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven hits.
Speaker 1: He's a little bit.
Speaker 2: Smaller in stature, which gets people kind of worked up,
Speaker 2: but he's put up twenty four homers. He's an incredible, incredible,
Speaker 2: just overall talent. I remember being at his debut out
Speaker 2: here in Arizona. He has the next gage of speed,
Speaker 2: which is something people are going to have to come
Speaker 2: to terms with and hopefully the Diamondbacks really give him
Speaker 2: the green light. But he also makes such great contact
Speaker 2: as a very smart hit exactly worked with. I've said
Speaker 2: this a lot of multiple different times on podcasts. He's
Speaker 2: worked with multiple players inside the organization, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to say like helping like change swings and stuff,
Speaker 2: but like he wants to help and coach and teach
Speaker 2: with these guys, and he works with guys and he
Speaker 2: has helped some players I don't need to get into
Speaker 2: the names of them, but he has worked on helping
Speaker 2: improve their swings and people can't talk enough about what
Speaker 2: an incredible talent he is.
Speaker 1: And you can see it.
Speaker 2: I mean even in his Triple A numbers, they wavered
Speaker 2: down just a tiny bit, and you know, he left
Speaker 2: Double A hitting three thirteen. He was over three hundred
Speaker 2: for the majority of the Triple A stent in thirty
Speaker 2: three games. Though he ended up hitting two eighty seven,
Speaker 2: he had seven homers and eleven stolen bases. He's not
Speaker 2: going to play center field, probably not going to start
Speaker 2: high in the lineup immediately off, but he is going
Speaker 2: to be an impact player. I think no reason to
Speaker 2: not play him, even though Jake McCarthy has been really incredible.
Speaker 2: By the way, early on in season, I did a
Speaker 2: guest appearance on the wire on Pitcher List, and I
Speaker 2: talked about him this weekend, like, that's one of those guys.
Speaker 2: The Diamondbacks are going to be faced with the situation
Speaker 2: of like what do we do, how do we get
Speaker 2: guys out of lineup?
Speaker 1: I think that situation is fed through the d H.
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, you can maybe.
Speaker 2: Maybe take var show out of the outfield a tiny bit,
Speaker 2: even though he's been good catch you can make some adjustments.
Speaker 2: Maybe Mcarthy even does that, or Carol. You know, they
Speaker 2: could just get Carroll's bat in there. But you know
Speaker 2: there was there was a couple questions in here and
Speaker 2: let me see what you have to say. Andrew DJ
Speaker 2: said drop with Maryfield or oil to activate Corbyn Carroll,
Speaker 2: cause right before that we out of nowhere. I thought
Speaker 2: we had Oh no, no, it was a response where
Speaker 2: Bob was just like Maryfield has been garbage. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of Merrifield hate right now. Would you drop either
Speaker 2: of those two to activate Corbyn Carroll?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably would drop either of them to do it.
Speaker 3: You know, I guess probably Merrifield first, just because he's
Speaker 3: older and he's just hasn't offered much all season. We've
Speaker 3: talked about O'Neil Cruz enough on this pod. I think
Speaker 3: you know we're it's always like you're hoping to cat's
Speaker 3: light in a bottle with him and you're just not
Speaker 3: catching it right now, so you might as well try.
Speaker 3: You have a better bet to cast lightning in a bottle,
Speaker 3: I think with Corbyn Carroll so you know, I do
Speaker 3: think with Carol though the strikeout rate was in the
Speaker 3: mid twenty percents in the miners, you know, twenty two
Speaker 3: to twenty five percent range, so he may not hit
Speaker 3: for a huge average right off the get go either,
Speaker 3: but I think it will be significantly better than Onneo Cruz.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, very very true.
Speaker 2: Talked a little bit about him here or there in
Speaker 2: the day. You know that, So Corman Carroll, I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about it.
Speaker 4: I'll let you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I want to be there.
Speaker 2: It's such a track to get down to Phoenix. I
Speaker 2: really think it would be amazing. My cohort Bogman, was like,
Speaker 2: you should take my kid out there.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 3: And I totally agree with you about Jake McCarthy, by
Speaker 3: the way, he's been a really pleasant surprise, especially in
Speaker 3: leagues that value stolen bases, so they're going to have
Speaker 3: a little lineup shuffling to do there. We might see
Speaker 3: a situation, I know it's sacrilege, but you might see
Speaker 3: Carroll getting a day off once a week or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think there would be any craziness that
Speaker 2: they don't play him every single day. I think plays
Speaker 2: the majority why he's here, and I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: just have to mess around with the DH spot.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe McCarthy, maybe it's.
Speaker 2: Carol and all of them just splitting between days off.
Speaker 2: Bar show obviously can do some catcher. They can give
Speaker 2: Kelly a little bit more time off if they want,
Speaker 2: and they've got some flexibility in there, and the reason
Speaker 2: you bring him up is to give them a bats.
Speaker 2: But you would point out the minor league seasons coming
Speaker 2: to a close and that you know, he wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been getting at bats for the final half, so even
Speaker 2: to like, it's not like they're bringing him up and
Speaker 2: then he doesn't play a whole bunch and hey, they
Speaker 2: should have kept him down. Now the minor league season's ending,
Speaker 2: so it really you're gonna lose those at bats. Anyways,
Speaker 2: does put into question if he makes Arizona Fall League
Speaker 2: at this point, but we will find out.
Speaker 1: And making his major league debut today.
Speaker 2: I'm very, very excited to see it. We talked about
Speaker 2: this in the last episode. Another little piece here, but
Speaker 2: Tyler Our Trevor Rodgers is going to be activated on
Speaker 2: Wednesday and he's going to start against the Rays. He
Speaker 2: had a huge performance. But I did this really scary,
Speaker 2: spooky transitional thing, Andrew, if you didn't see it, I
Speaker 2: turned off my lights and flashlight.
Speaker 1: And would do you ever? Would do you?
Speaker 2: Dare start Trevor Rodgers after all of the terrifying this
Speaker 2: he had in Fantasy So I'll just straight up ask
Speaker 2: you without the frills here, are you gonna start him?
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with Trevor Rodgers? After you know, finding
Speaker 2: some confidence? He said, he feels better, more confidence going
Speaker 2: down in triple A, finding some success, twelve strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Are you going to jump in or are you not
Speaker 1: having any of this?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: He was the leadoff name in my Waiver Wire column
Speaker 3: on Saturday, So I guess that would probably answer the
Speaker 3: question for you.
Speaker 4: Who's he lined up to face?
Speaker 1: Ooh good, good question the Rays?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I would, Yeah, I would do it.
Speaker 3: I would do it because here's the thing about Trevor Rodgers,
Speaker 3: and I wrote about this over at Fantasy Pro, so
Speaker 3: you can check it out. As of June fifteenth of
Speaker 3: last year, he had a one to eighty seven, a
Speaker 3: one oh two whip, and a ten point five k
Speaker 3: per nine and looks like one of the best young
Speaker 3: pitchers in the game, and then you know, things just
Speaker 3: have really unraveled for him since then. Really two main culprits.
Speaker 3: One has been regular back issues that he's been having,
Speaker 3: and then he had some off the field family private
Speaker 3: issues that we don't know that much about. But those
Speaker 3: two things could also be related, by the way, because
Speaker 3: a lot of the times with back issues, if you're
Speaker 3: having emotional stress and personal issues, it can aggravate that
Speaker 3: or make it worse. So he sounds healthy now. He
Speaker 3: says his back feels the best that it ever has,
Speaker 3: and he completely dominated in that last start, in that
Speaker 3: last rehab start, So I know the stuff is still there.
Speaker 4: I know the ability is still there.
Speaker 3: If he's truly healthy and he's truly feeling emotionally healthy
Speaker 3: as well, I think he's still got a huge amount
Speaker 3: of upside. He just seems like the kind of picture
Speaker 3: that could just pick it right back up and be dominant.
Speaker 3: And you know, worst case scenario, you get torched once
Speaker 3: and then you say, okay, on its hands off now.
Speaker 3: But I'm feeling pretty optimistic at this particular moment in time.
Speaker 2: That's why my back always hurts. You just uncovered when
Speaker 2: my back always hurts and now now anybody else actually
Speaker 2: speaking of as far as wa wire A very very
Speaker 2: important time, and I want to make sure we're giving
Speaker 2: some consideration on Mondays a little bit more to pickups.
Speaker 1: You've got that article.
Speaker 2: Who else should we be looking at as far as
Speaker 2: waiver wire pickups on this Monday morning, assuming everyone still
Speaker 2: has the opportunity to make some changes.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, So I'm looking at in the column generally
Speaker 3: players who are under fifty percent rostered and focusing, particularly
Speaker 3: guys under forty percent in Yahoo leagues. And right after
Speaker 3: Trevor Rodgers, I mentioned Justin Steele. Now, he did leave
Speaker 3: his last start with lower back tightness, so that's just
Speaker 3: something we need to get an update on, but it
Speaker 3: didn't sound serious. And I think this guy deserves his due.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a three eighteen ERA on the
Speaker 3: season that's backed up by his XCRA and x FIP.
Speaker 3: Eight of his last ten starts, he's given up either
Speaker 3: zero or one earned run, so that's just a really
Speaker 3: impressive run. I think he's a guy you can plug
Speaker 3: right into your lineup. It's a good time in general
Speaker 3: for starting pitchers. You know, Drew Smiley has been on
Speaker 3: a nice run. Rosey Contreras is a pitcher I've always
Speaker 3: been a big fan of and he's pitching great right now.
Speaker 3: So he's a guy I would certainly look at. And
Speaker 3: then even Matt Manning. I mean, this guy, it's kind
Speaker 3: of been a delayed progression to get where people were
Speaker 3: hoping he would be.
Speaker 4: But he is there right now. I mean over his
Speaker 4: uh let me pull it up here.
Speaker 3: Over his last four starts, he's got a one eighty
Speaker 3: or a one oh eight whip and a nine point
Speaker 3: four k per nine. So, uh, he's going strong and
Speaker 3: got that prospect pedigree as well.
Speaker 2: Another guy that you know we I don't mean to
Speaker 2: like rehash it, but you know, if you're looking for
Speaker 2: stolen bases and some overall production, McCarthy might be one
Speaker 2: of those guys.
Speaker 1: I was having that discussion, like I said.
Speaker 2: This weekend, where when you're there's overall players and I
Speaker 2: think you covered some overall type of players, and then
Speaker 2: there are categorical players and sometimes you're just trying to
Speaker 2: chase a specific category. Mcarthy's one of those guys you
Speaker 2: could probably chase for stolen bases. There's a couple guys
Speaker 2: out there for Homers. I love the overall of steel
Speaker 2: if healthy, I think that's a great call and that
Speaker 2: is very good. So speaking of injuries, by the way,
Speaker 2: on injury front, Justin Verlander was removed from Sunday's start
Speaker 2: against the Orioles due to right calf discomfort and he's
Speaker 2: undergoing an MRI. He is an exam this morning on
Speaker 2: Monday on that injured right calf.
Speaker 1: So a lot of our fantasy teams.
Speaker 2: Are in the UH are in thenother right now, we're
Speaker 2: a little bit terrible.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit terrified.
Speaker 2: You and I were both like, You're like, well, I
Speaker 2: hope this is going to work out because this is
Speaker 2: going to be important for my fantasy team. Exactly, I'm
Speaker 2: one hundred percent with you. And if it doesn't, Andrew,
Speaker 2: we're going to be praying. Justin Steele is probably out
Speaker 2: on the wire right now.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean you can't really understate how valuable Justin Verlander
Speaker 3: has been. You know Baseball Monster does there they give
Speaker 3: numerical values to standard five by five value.
Speaker 4: His value comes in at.
Speaker 3: One point five to five, which is the third highest
Speaker 3: number behind only Aaron Judge and Paul gold Schmidt. So far,
Speaker 3: and away been the most valuable pitcher in all of
Speaker 3: fantasy baseball this season, and that's not a loss that
Speaker 3: you can really stomach as you head right into the
Speaker 3: stretch run of your fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd also say if we were putting together like
Speaker 2: a week league winners, and I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: uh wonky.
Speaker 1: You got to remind me does anybody do that on
Speaker 1: fantasy pros? Because at the end of the year, I.
Speaker 2: Think it'd be fun to look at what did the
Speaker 2: best league winning roster look like? And by that what
Speaker 2: I mean is the values that you got later that
Speaker 2: ended up being so big that you know, boom, there
Speaker 2: you go, like justin Verlander getting him around ninety or
Speaker 2: one hundred where you did in drafts.
Speaker 1: That's league winning titles.
Speaker 2: Why it keeps saying week that's league winning type of
Speaker 2: stuff that you can put together and losing him now
Speaker 2: would be absolutely killer and brutal, mister Buster just throwing in.
Speaker 1: I guess as the show we can literally just.
Speaker 2: Answer shows, or we can answer questions about Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 2: the entire show. Is it worth dropping either Amed Rosario
Speaker 2: or horm mat Teo for Corbyn Carroll?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna side on the no.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could drop either one of those
Speaker 2: guys for Carol right now, could you?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: I would have said yes on Horam Matayo probably a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago, but he's just continued to be surprisingly valuable,
Speaker 3: so it's harder to say yes on him. Rosario has
Speaker 3: actually slowed down a little bit recently, but he still
Speaker 3: had a really solid season. So yeah, in a redraft league,
Speaker 3: I'm just not sure I'm there on those particular players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some other injuries.
Speaker 2: Jordan Alvarez missed Sunday's game after receiving treatment on his
Speaker 2: left hand. Horie Polonko has moved from Saturday's game with
Speaker 2: some niche soreness. He's expected to sit out a few
Speaker 2: more as they're managing the injury. Brandon Law sat out
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday after being hit on the elbow by
Speaker 2: a pitch, so keep an eye on that one. Evan
Speaker 2: Longoria is considered day to day. Luis Robert was at
Speaker 2: a lineup over the weekend with.
Speaker 1: A sore wrist.
Speaker 2: Boy, I don't know how we can expect more than
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty games from Luise Robert really ever.
Speaker 1: In a season.
Speaker 2: He's not quite like Alberta Mondesy level where it's like
Speaker 2: if we got one hundred, we would probably like jump
Speaker 2: up and down.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if we can go more than
Speaker 1: one twenty or one thirty on Robert anymore. And JP
Speaker 1: Crawford underwent an MRI that did not reveal any significant damage.
Speaker 2: In his pectoral area. So a lot of injuries that
Speaker 2: you don't want to see right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm particularly concerned about that Jordon Alvarez hand
Speaker 3: injury because the thing is his production has really fallen
Speaker 3: off a cliff for about a month now, and that
Speaker 3: kind of hand injuries really do sap player's power a
Speaker 3: lot of the time. And he's got one home run
Speaker 3: and three doubles total since July thirtieth, So that's really
Speaker 3: concerning whether he goes on the il or not. It's
Speaker 3: hard to expect that we're going to see like vintage
Speaker 3: production from Jordon Alvarez over the final month of the season.
Speaker 1: Very good point.
Speaker 2: Fun fact, I'm really glad that Wonki put this on
Speaker 2: here because I was going to have not a nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty two Tops Mickey Mantle card sold for twelve point
Speaker 2: six million dollars on Saturday.
Speaker 1: This marked the most.
Speaker 2: Anyone has ever paid for any sports item, card or memorabilia,
Speaker 2: topping the seven point two five million dollars sale of
Speaker 2: the T two O six Honus Wagner card that had
Speaker 2: sold earlier in the month. I Honess Wagner one has
Speaker 2: always kind of been seen as the Holy Grail of cards.
Speaker 2: But to think about this, it's not just the most
Speaker 2: expensive baseball it's the most expensive sports item card or
Speaker 2: piece of memorabilia anything home run balls, touchdowns, game winning baskets,
Speaker 2: Michael Joy, it doesn't matter any of it. It is
Speaker 2: a nineteen fifty two Mickey Mantle card, not autographed or
Speaker 2: anything like that. It has ever just explode your brain
Speaker 2: when you think about Andrew. I collect cards. I collect
Speaker 2: a lot of that stuff. I can't even imagine.
Speaker 3: Well, I have to say, I actually know someone who
Speaker 3: has that card. It's the rookie card Mickey mant a
Speaker 3: rookie top rookie card. I know someone who has that.
Speaker 3: I've held that card in my hand before.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Granted I have not held a mint condition version of
Speaker 3: that card in my hand, but I have held that
Speaker 3: card in my hand.
Speaker 4: Twelve point six million dollars. That's insane.
Speaker 3: I feel like saying that topped the pre one is
Speaker 3: a little bit of an understatement. When it topped it
Speaker 3: by five million dollars, that's just totally insane to me.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's really good friends on cardboard, right.
Speaker 2: He should go make really good friends with that person
Speaker 2: whoever has that card, like really good friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, right, yeah, I got a business idea for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, the business idea is handed over to me, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: This day in baseball nineteen seventy one, Hank Aaron of
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves drove in his one hundred run of
Speaker 2: the season, giving him the National League record of eleven
Speaker 2: seasons with one hundred or more rbi. Hammer and Hank
Speaker 2: always a good one. Now, this is this is an
Speaker 2: interesting trivia question because when we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: getting back to ERLANDI you're talking about Cy Young stuff,
Speaker 2: and Adam Waynwright has had a pretty phenomenal season. We
Speaker 2: would probably agree with that, you know, he defies odds
Speaker 2: of age. But the question is, Adam Waynwright has finished
Speaker 2: second in the Cy Young voting twice. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's quite second in this round. I think he
Speaker 2: might be like third. I think it's Corbyn Burns and
Speaker 2: al Contra in the NL. But he has finished in
Speaker 2: second place in the NL Siung twice, which pitchers finished
Speaker 2: ahead of him. So he finished second, which pitchers finished
Speaker 2: ahead of him, winning the award, and I've got it
Speaker 2: now here. And interestingly enough, the last time he finished
Speaker 2: second in voting was in twenty thirteen. So that's how
Speaker 2: far back we go and how long he has spanned
Speaker 2: in baseball. Any guesses on the two pictures that won
Speaker 2: the SYNG ahead of him Andrew.
Speaker 3: Well, I was trying to think of the one that's
Speaker 3: even longer ago, and it's probably in the mid to
Speaker 3: late two thousands. So some names that were just coming
Speaker 3: in my mind, like tim Linseicom, did he ever win
Speaker 3: the Sayang, It's like it's got to be somebody that
Speaker 3: has completely left my brain.
Speaker 1: Yes, No, it is not him. That's good.
Speaker 2: I will I'm gonna give everybody the No, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna give the years quite yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give the years.
Speaker 2: Quite yet, though, I will tell you Wonky does have
Speaker 2: one of them. Clayton Kershot is one of them from
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, So that's the more recent one. Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: won it in twenty thirteen, Adam Waynwright finishing second. There's
Speaker 2: still one name that's out there. Oh, Brandon Webbs, a
Speaker 2: great guest, but it is not it. Well, come back
Speaker 2: then we'll see what you guys got on these.
Speaker 1: On the stat heroes.
Speaker 2: Manny Machado four for five, two homers, four RBI, three runs,
Speaker 2: Isak Parades two for two with two bombs, three RBI,
Speaker 2: three runs. That's one of those mid season I don't know,
Speaker 2: those midseason guys.
Speaker 1: I felt really good about.
Speaker 2: I ranked him really aggressively, by the way, and he's
Speaker 2: just been quietly. I mean, his batting average is kind
Speaker 2: of stunk, but he just quietly gets you some numbers
Speaker 2: when you need him. Corey Seeger had two homers, two
Speaker 2: for four, Shohyo Tani three for four with a homer,
Speaker 2: two RBIs, Jake cave At a bomb, one hundred dos
Speaker 2: 're four for six with a couple stolen bases. Colton
Speaker 2: Wong three for five with the homer over the weekend.
Speaker 2: David Peralta get him in that two hole, three for four,
Speaker 2: two RBIs, two runs, Michael Taylor homer four RBIs and
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts had a homer with two.
Speaker 1: RBIs also just had a phenomenon.
Speaker 2: I want to say it was a Friday game or
Speaker 2: Thursday game, I don't remember what it was where he
Speaker 2: was just homer after production, after production, left and right.
Speaker 1: He was really good.
Speaker 2: On the picture side, Herman Marquez went seven, struck out five,
Speaker 2: Robbie Ray seven struck out seven, Dylan Cease eight with
Speaker 2: eight strikeouts, Max Scherzer seven with eleven, and Julio Uria
Speaker 2: six with seven strikeouts.
Speaker 1: All pictures one not like.
Speaker 2: The other, her Man Marquez and the rest big strikeout pictures.
Speaker 2: Marquez getting you just weirdly silent value anything on Marquees
Speaker 2: for your rest of season.
Speaker 3: I mean, He's like one of these pictures that I'm
Speaker 3: just always avoiding and always not understanding why other people
Speaker 3: keep buying into him. I just the Cores effect is
Speaker 3: just too big a hill to climb in my opinion.
Speaker 3: So I've always I've been out on him for five
Speaker 3: years running. I feel like, and I'm not about to
Speaker 3: change now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you just hope, like John Gray, as
Speaker 2: soon as John Gray goes to the Rangers, We're like, hey,
Speaker 2: let's go let's exactly back in and if we could
Speaker 2: get that from him. So a lot of good guesses
Speaker 2: in here, Pev who was one of my favorite pictures
Speaker 2: growing up, Chris Sale, Brandon Webb Gan, Ye, this is
Speaker 2: too old, Dwykeen's too old, and they're bin sheets.
Speaker 1: That's actually really good guess. None of them are correct.
Speaker 2: The correct answer to go with Clayton Hurshaw in no, yeah,
Speaker 2: in beating Adam Wayne Wright was Roy Halliday in twenty ten,
Speaker 2: Roy Halliday in twenty ten and Clayton Kershaw beat Adam
Speaker 2: Wayne Wright both times. He finished second in the cy
Speaker 2: Young Award race. And I know he is kind of
Speaker 2: in that spot. Like I said, I don't believe he's
Speaker 2: quite second, but the trivia they pop that up because
Speaker 2: you know he's looming. He's right around that area on
Speaker 2: the stat zeros for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Hey, you just talked about him.
Speaker 2: Ahmed Rosario zero for four with four strikeouts makes it
Speaker 2: even more of a pertinent question.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: One of the big things really to think about Andrew,
Speaker 2: and to continuously point out to everybody is you do
Speaker 2: have to have a really really quick memory, like you
Speaker 2: gotta just let things go. You got to forget about
Speaker 2: the draft capitol. Dropping Wit Mayfield for corbing Carrol feels gross.
Speaker 2: It feels really gross and hard to manage. But this
Speaker 2: is what you've got to do this time of season.
Speaker 2: You got to forget about what you spent on players.
Speaker 2: You got to forget about that really great march that
Speaker 2: the guy had but hasn't really been good all season
Speaker 2: and what if. You got to forget about what ifs
Speaker 2: because you don't have time for it in the playoffs anymore.
Speaker 2: And that's why we say, hey, you can drop a
Speaker 2: Wit for corbing Carroll.
Speaker 1: I know it feels gross. I'm at Rosario.
Speaker 2: You know, I obviously had a nice preseason value on him,
Speaker 2: and he has kind of cooled a little bit, even
Speaker 2: just getting reminded of a oh for four four strikeout weekend.
Speaker 1: It's probably not the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 2: If you want to make that Carol move after a
Speaker 2: really bad weekend, you kind of can and don't really
Speaker 2: need to look back.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing I think we both maybe missed.
Speaker 2: I know I missed in saying that when that question
Speaker 2: was asked, it was I'm at Rosario, and who the
Speaker 2: hell was the other person? It's like, are you really
Speaker 2: gonna have you have buyer's remorse, you have huge buyer's remorse.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: You're you know, Carol's gonna be out there. He's a
Speaker 2: stolen based option. There's probably not that much buyer's remorse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I actually would amend my answer to I
Speaker 3: would drop Amed Rosario for Corbyn Carroll just because, I mean,
Speaker 3: Hora Matteo's actually been really good lately. He's hot right now,
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't drop him. But but Amed Rosario has
Speaker 3: been slumping for the last month and he doesn't really
Speaker 3: have that much upside anyway. I mean, he's just one
Speaker 3: of those like kind of steady Eddie performers. So yeah,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna have buyer's remorse letting them on Rosario go.
Speaker 3: I would make that move.
Speaker 1: So amended. We've amended that. Drop Rosario, go get up Carol.
Speaker 1: Some other zero's J D.
Speaker 2: Davis Oh for four to three strikeouts, Aaron Judge Rare
Speaker 2: Oh for four to three k's, Shille Angeliers, Ryan McMahon,
Speaker 2: both though for four with three strikeouts. Dylan Carlson and
Speaker 2: Luke Williams on the three k's on the pitcher side,
Speaker 2: coy Oihara three and one third six earned runs, eight
Speaker 2: hit Shamanaya gave up six earned runs.
Speaker 1: Boy, that's not been great, yak, you know.
Speaker 2: And this is Jacob young Jonas four and one third
Speaker 2: six earned runs, only two k's Nick Pavetta five earn runs.
Speaker 2: I saw Mike Mayer absolutely just losing it online about
Speaker 2: the Red Sox and Pavetta, and it just it's a
Speaker 2: continuous laugh. I actually, I think I've grown to really
Speaker 2: love Mayor's blow ups about the Red Sox. Even though
Speaker 2: I don't care about the Red Sox whatsoever, I really
Speaker 2: do love it.
Speaker 1: I really do love it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: I've got some bets for you, and I want to
Speaker 2: get to see what Andrew has to say about them.
Speaker 2: Of course, strikeouts and total bases. I've got the number
Speaker 2: one algorithm and the number one plus money. So over
Speaker 2: on the strikeouts we start with. We've got Javier Asad,
Speaker 2: who is going up against Toronto for the Cubs, is
Speaker 2: only at two and a half. Is the number projected
Speaker 2: at a little over four. It's minus one one sixty
Speaker 2: five and this is over on DraftKings, so it's a
Speaker 2: very very low number. Let's take that off, very very
Speaker 2: low number for Javier Asad. The plus money strikeout play
Speaker 2: is Dylan Bundy who's going up against the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 2: He only needs four strikeouts. They are putting up three
Speaker 2: and a half at plus one point twenty three. He
Speaker 2: is projected at four, so the projections are not crazy high,
Speaker 2: but it's some good plus money against Boston who can
Speaker 2: get a little strikeout e and that is over at
Speaker 2: Sugarhouse probably gonna be similar on some other sites.
Speaker 1: The total base props we've got for.
Speaker 2: You, then, Number one of the day is Nolan Gorman.
Speaker 2: It is minus one seventy though, so juiced, but you
Speaker 2: only need one total base against Cincinnati and that's over
Speaker 2: on DraftKings. To pair with the top plus money play
Speaker 2: of Anthony Rizzo against the Angels, you do need two
Speaker 2: total bases, but it's plus one twenty five and he
Speaker 2: is projected at two. So, Andrew, you've got Rizzo and
Speaker 2: Bundy at plus money, you've got Gorman and Asad at
Speaker 2: minus money.
Speaker 1: What do you like out of these bad boys?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna roll out Dylan Bundy pretty quickly. I
Speaker 3: think he's got three strikeouts in his last three starts combined,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna pass on that one. I also just
Speaker 3: generally like to pass on Dylan Bundy whenever given the opportunity,
Speaker 3: Gonna also pass on Nolan Gorman. That strikeout rate of
Speaker 3: his is so high that ophers are very common with him,
Speaker 3: so I can't, even in a pretty favorable matchup, I
Speaker 3: don't think I can buy that one.
Speaker 4: So it's really down to a sod or Rizzo for me.
Speaker 4: With a SOD.
Speaker 3: The question is really the h is he on some
Speaker 3: sort of pitch count. I mean, pitched four innings in
Speaker 3: his first appearance, so he had a decent k per
Speaker 3: nine strikeout right in the minors, So he seems like
Speaker 3: he could crush that number if he can get enough innings.
Speaker 3: That's that's really the question. With Rizzo, he's facing a lefty,
Speaker 3: but he does have nine homers and one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirteen at bats against lefties this year. So but that's
Speaker 3: a high number one and a half for him. So
Speaker 3: I'll I'm gonna have faith that Asad will at least
Speaker 3: throw five innings, and I think if he does, he'll
Speaker 3: he'll hit that mark.
Speaker 1: I like it call.
Speaker 2: If I were going out of these, I'd probably go
Speaker 2: with the Rizzo one good plus money, you know, two
Speaker 2: total bases. That's probably my play. I wouldn't play even
Speaker 2: the Nolan Gorman one. That's not the type of hitter.
Speaker 2: I want a Juice one total bass call from, even
Speaker 2: though I like.
Speaker 1: The matchup the Bundy one. I actually don't mind.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe I'd even play the two plus money
Speaker 2: plays more than the big old Juice plays. Those are
Speaker 2: not the players I'm really caring about over on the
Speaker 2: DFS side, DraftKings, Miles Michaelis eight four, Tony Gonsolin ninety six,
Speaker 2: Jsey Brios seven to six, and Corbyn Burns ten to
Speaker 2: four are some of the numbers for you. I if
Speaker 2: you wanted to play big money, you could go maybe
Speaker 2: Burns and Brios just a pair. I kind of like
Speaker 2: the Gonsolin and Michaelis play if you're looking to save
Speaker 2: some money over and FanDuel michaels Is at and even ten,
Speaker 2: Gonsolin ten to five, Brios eight five, and Corbin Burns
Speaker 2: eleven to one. And as far as stacks go, you've
Speaker 2: got Saint Louis, Toronto and Philly the only teams today
Speaker 2: projected over five total team runs. If you're wanting to
Speaker 2: stack some of those players up together. Now, let's make
Speaker 2: some home run calls. Andrew, you are on the clock,
Speaker 2: who is your home run call for today?
Speaker 1: Getting on the board.
Speaker 3: Well, first off, all those people with forty plus homers,
Speaker 3: it feels like we're back in the stereoid air or something.
Speaker 3: But I will point out I called Paul golds Fremant
Speaker 3: last Thursday and he hit two bombs not one two,
Speaker 3: So gonna do a little victory lap there, and you
Speaker 3: know I am going to actually just stick with the
Speaker 3: car Cardinals. I'll go with Nelan Aernado facing Chase Anderson.
Speaker 3: Really favorable matchup, and he's got four homers in thirty
Speaker 3: played appearances in his career against Chase Anderson. So Nolan
Speaker 3: Arenado is going to go yard.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll try to do this for Wax in his
Speaker 2: very English sounding sentence of it, maybe he even gets
Speaker 2: the call in a week, I think, referring to me
Speaker 2: not getting a home run call. I like that you
Speaker 2: spelled even with an a if that is what you
Speaker 2: were saying. So let's point that out, Wax when you
Speaker 2: want to call me out on that. Let's hope I
Speaker 2: get a home run call. But I'm going to go
Speaker 2: way out in the wings that I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: Christian Walker. I'm gonna go with Christian Walker in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Big home run hater, give me Christian Walker almost went
Speaker 2: Nolan Aernado. We've got mayor with Shoheo, Tani Tyler, O'Neil
Speaker 2: going to wonkey. So let's see if we can get
Speaker 2: some run home run calls and maybe maybe we can
Speaker 2: even with an ev a in get a home run
Speaker 2: call today and we can all cheer for Joy andrew Snicher.
Speaker 1: What's going on with you? Going on down this week?
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have some new rest of season Fantasy
Speaker 3: Baseball rankings up at ROS rankings dot com that those
Speaker 3: should go live tonight. We'll be doing a podcast as
Speaker 3: well with my co host part Wheeler, the Rest of
Speaker 3: Season Rankings Podcast, talking about what we call the movers
Speaker 3: and shakers, the players moving up and down the most
Speaker 3: in our rest of season rankings. And of course I'm
Speaker 3: continuing to churn out those waiver wire articles that we
Speaker 3: were talking about earlier over at Fantasy Pros every Saturday,
Speaker 3: so give those a read.
Speaker 2: I really like that everyone should go check out that
Speaker 2: waiverwire article. Getting in front of it sometimes the most
Speaker 2: important battle. You guys, know your league's the best though,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, are you the guy that's able
Speaker 2: to get ahead of everybody? Do you need to be
Speaker 2: hyper competitive with a couple guys you need to stay
Speaker 2: up till midnight to get those waiver claims?
Speaker 1: Those are the days. Those are the days if you
Speaker 1: need to wait up till midnight and do it.
Speaker 2: Andrew's got you covered. You can follow me on Twitter
Speaker 2: at is it the Welsh. I don't know, we might
Speaker 2: be there, there's no guarantees. A lot going on, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to attempt to see if i can get
Speaker 2: down to see Corbyn. Carroll's major league debut tonight against the.
Speaker 1: Phillies with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: That would be I mean, I love the guy, that's
Speaker 2: like my guy, number one prospect in baseball.
Speaker 1: But friends, that is all that we have for you.
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