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Speaker 2: do some shows together. So we got what two more
Speaker 2: left this season together? Maybe one more if Bubba's on
Speaker 2: next Monday. So this might be our send off the
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Speaker 1: I was about to say this. You didn't even think
Speaker 1: of that. Actually, yeah, this might be the last one
Speaker 1: you and I are doing. Yeah, the plan. It is crazy.
Speaker 1: I know everybody is dealing with, especially all the peanuts
Speaker 1: and cracker jacks that are still hanging live. It's good
Speaker 1: to see everybody, but like, it is crazy to think
Speaker 1: that the season is just about completely done. We've got
Speaker 1: this week. Some crazies out there. People play into next week.
Speaker 1: You people are insane, but you know you want to.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit less insane, I suppose we can
Speaker 1: be honest. It was crazy years ago because of the
Speaker 1: forty man roster designation that would happen in September, where
Speaker 1: the entire forty man roster would become available and then
Speaker 1: teams would just do like wacky stuff. It's not quite
Speaker 1: that now. Starting pitchers are a little bit eh, a
Speaker 1: little bit eh, you know, fore innings and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Some bullpen open and whatever. But it's not as crazy.
Speaker 1: But it's still it's insane going through to the very end.
Speaker 1: But yes, we've got the rest of this week. The
Speaker 1: next week most likely will be Bubba and I on Monday,
Speaker 1: and then the final show as long as everything goes
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Speaker 1: will do a great return for the final in season
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Speaker 1: of cool off season stuff will be here for you.
Speaker 1: I know Joe and I haven't I especially have I
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Speaker 1: we'll be here talking you through to the end of
Speaker 1: the season, getting you set into the off season and
Speaker 1: some more Arico and Bubba. Let's get into it, Joe,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk some baseball. It's been a lot
Speaker 1: of football lately, and let's talk about James Wood. Two
Speaker 1: for three yesterday, two solo homers, he had a walk
Speaker 1: as the Nationals beat the Marlins. Now with a two
Speaker 1: seventy three slash and almost one hundred higher OBP, seven homers,
Speaker 1: twelve steals, sixty six games. If you want to play extrapolation,
Speaker 1: you're probably in the vicinity of like eighteen thirty, eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty eight. We could almost with progression. Call this a
Speaker 1: twenty thirty outlook. As he's improved his strikeout rate, he's
Speaker 1: making better contact holding. The batting average I think is
Speaker 1: so so key, you know, a big thing with like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how people are going to walk out
Speaker 1: of this year with O'Neal Cruz. I think it's a
Speaker 1: smashing success. I think what O'Neal Cruz has done, even
Speaker 1: though he just got hurt, he's moved to centerfield to
Speaker 1: hit the batting average that he's had pull out a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. Thought he'd have more Homer's hand up
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That's a big win. The same
Speaker 1: thing with James Wood, and we're getting into territory of
Speaker 1: talking about twenty twenty five a whole lot, and he
Speaker 1: hasn't quite got the love of the Churios and the
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill. Probably maybe it's because it's not as deserved,
Speaker 1: but the improvement of the batting average, the power speed combo,
Speaker 1: it's really been awesome.
Speaker 3: He's been amazing.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially in a year where most rookies have
Speaker 2: fallen on their face and disappointed us, James Wood has
Speaker 2: been one of the few where you used a mid
Speaker 2: season pickup or you stashed him and it's actually paid off.
Speaker 3: It's a couple of little concerning things like the twenty
Speaker 3: nine percent strikeout rate. I don't love.
Speaker 2: In terms of the steals, he has twelve of them,
Speaker 2: but he's been caught seven times, so I'd like to
Speaker 2: see him be a little bit more efficient.
Speaker 3: But he's been amazing. And I think if.
Speaker 2: We're looking at early twenty twenty five stuff Paba did
Speaker 2: that early draft, I think he went at the end
Speaker 2: of the third round in a fifteen team or so,
Speaker 2: like the forty to forty five pick range.
Speaker 3: I think that's probably.
Speaker 2: Gonna be what we're gonna have to stomach if we
Speaker 2: want James Wood on our teams next year.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting Bachman and I have been doing
Speaker 1: this thing on the in This League Baseball podcast where
Speaker 1: we've been essentially assigning this talent. So two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we did these are the first round players, not like,
Speaker 1: here are fifteen guys. No, it's these are the players
Speaker 1: that justify the first round talent. We came up with
Speaker 1: only thirteen of them. We then did the second round talent,
Speaker 1: and I think we ended up with like eighteen players.
Speaker 1: That kind of quantified second round talent, and then we
Speaker 1: had this fringy area. James Wood was kind of like
Speaker 1: not quite talked about in the fringe. He maybe but
Speaker 1: maybe he should be. And there were a few players
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about one of them, like in
Speaker 1: Cheerio Cheerio and Merrill. We did kind of just decide
Speaker 1: to graduate into that second round talent. Wood will probably
Speaker 1: end up being like a I don't know I had
Speaker 1: a third or fourth round talent. People are gonna extrapolate.
Speaker 1: You're probably the strikeout rate might cool him on projections,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be some pretty big numbers. And twenty thirty. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty thirty. You can't can't be hating on that. Also,
Speaker 1: Jack Or did Jeb Moore and James Wood.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like the power, he might even
Speaker 2: be leaving a little bit on the table, Like he
Speaker 2: has seven homers in sixty six games, but fifty two
Speaker 2: percent hard hit, ten percent barrel rate, that could even
Speaker 2: be twenty five thirty home runs.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't really surprise me.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, he's leaving it on the table, as is
Speaker 1: O'Neal Cruse. I'll come back to that too, like O'Neil
Speaker 1: Cruz has sacrificed. I think some launch angle an attack
Speaker 1: for really good batting average, and then I think the
Speaker 1: next step is going to be to get the ball
Speaker 1: back in the ear more. When you hit the ball
Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty miles an hour and you
Speaker 1: have like, you know, huge average evs and max evs
Speaker 1: like that, you're leaving power on the table. Cruise is
Speaker 1: leaving and I think James Wood is doing it in
Speaker 1: the same way. We just see like a common thing
Speaker 1: with rookie young players is like getting the ball in
Speaker 1: the air is a problem. You'll see launch angle be
Speaker 1: the thing that is struggling when they have like you know,
Speaker 1: really good barrel rates and really good hard hit rates
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. One guy has not had to
Speaker 1: struggle with it is Jackson Surio three for five, three
Speaker 1: run homer, two run triple against my d Backs yesterday.
Speaker 1: Homer was his twenty first and this is a shoutout
Speaker 1: to Rotal World for putting this together, placing him twenty
Speaker 1: first all time on a list of players that are
Speaker 1: twenty or younger. With I think it's that they didn't
Speaker 1: finish their sentence of twenty twenty the twenty five if
Speaker 1: he were to hit twenty five homers would put him
Speaker 1: in the tie him with Eddie Matthews and Orlando Subpita.
Speaker 1: He's also now fourteenth on the RBA I list for
Speaker 1: twenty year olds, which puts him in like ridiculous territory. Everybody,
Speaker 1: this is the time of year where we're like, you know,
Speaker 1: putting like this guy's in this list and this and
Speaker 1: the jection ture has been absolutely incredible, and we put
Speaker 1: him as a second round talent for next year. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how you feel about that, Like back end
Speaker 1: of the second round twenty five to thirty is probably
Speaker 1: going to be like an easy so like a third
Speaker 1: rounder and head to head twelve team, fifteen team roto
Speaker 1: probably the back end of the second round.
Speaker 2: He has such an amazing profile. Everything is, everything is amazing.
Speaker 2: He hits the ball hard, he steals you know, the
Speaker 2: in game power is good. He doesn't strike out a lot,
Speaker 2: the walk rate's pretty solid, not a lot of Babbitt pluck.
Speaker 2: Like there's nothing you can point to really to say like,
Speaker 2: oh I don't really buy this, especially.
Speaker 3: Being twenty years old.
Speaker 2: Like if we're talking about him as the number one
Speaker 2: overall player in fantasy like two or three years from now.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't at all be surprised by it. I think
Speaker 2: he's definitely going to be a second rounder. If you
Speaker 2: get him in the third next I'd be prett happy
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: George Kirby allowed one hit over seven innings. He combined
Speaker 1: with Matt Thornton and Edward Bizardo Edward Bizardo for a
Speaker 1: seven zero shutout over the Rangers. This stat also in
Speaker 1: rotal World. Kirby now six to zero with a point
Speaker 1: nine two ERA and eight career starts against the Rangers.
Speaker 1: So I mean, like there's a place just built in
Speaker 1: he's had rent free space in the Rangers head as
Speaker 1: Kirby keeps going kind of disappointing, Like the up and
Speaker 1: down of Kirby this year. I really thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna be a cy young contender, but he has still been,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty phenomenal in points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I thought he was going to take
Speaker 2: that step forward. I thought there was a chance that
Speaker 2: he could break into like that top three overall pitchers
Speaker 2: in baseball. But he's kind of if you look at
Speaker 2: the preseason projections, just pulling up what they had in
Speaker 2: the Fangrass projections preseason, He's kind of done like exactly
Speaker 2: what they were thinking pretty much. Three five, three six,
Speaker 2: type era, twenty three percent strikeout rate, solid whip. I've
Speaker 2: heard a lot of Mariners fans recently. I think it's
Speaker 2: because of the bad stretch that you had talked about
Speaker 2: how it was a disappointing season, but you know where
Speaker 2: I drafted Kirby. I find it hard to be actually
Speaker 2: disappointed in the production I've gotten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a lot of it had to do
Speaker 1: with it was just like sky high expectations. Like I
Speaker 1: remember the moment for it wasn't everybody, it was for me,
Speaker 1: But it was like about ten months ago a little
Speaker 1: bit more maybe here at first pitch out here in
Speaker 1: Arizona and I'm on Rates and Barrels live show. It
Speaker 1: was me Eno and DVR, and someone asked the question
Speaker 1: because in the studio audience on the live show of
Speaker 1: like you know who if it's not I think they said,
Speaker 1: you know somebody, not Garrett Cole or whatever, who is
Speaker 1: the number one pitcher? And I had brought up George Kirby,
Speaker 1: And it was because of the command numbers and like
Speaker 1: Jason Collett was with me and we kind of had
Speaker 1: this long conversation around it where you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of us were picking on, like, because there's different elements
Speaker 1: sometimes we're gonnaocus on. Sometimes it's going to be you know,
Speaker 1: obviously strikeout rate and pitchability. But it was like George
Speaker 1: Kirby's command master, and it was like, if he could
Speaker 1: just improve here, those command numbers could equate to him
Speaker 1: maybe being like an elite strikeout player number one in baseball,
Speaker 1: but he just still is inconsistent. You know, he just
Speaker 1: has those blow up games where you know he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to walk somebody and he starts pitching to too
Speaker 1: much contact and then it just gets blown up or whatever.
Speaker 1: Kirby's an interesting one. A couple of good guys that
Speaker 1: have definitely helped up fantasy teams as of recent David
Speaker 1: Peterson allowed four hits, one run with six strikeouts across
Speaker 1: seven and two thirds and a no decision against Philly.
Speaker 1: He had eighteen swing and misses, which was almost a
Speaker 1: season high. Also fourteen hard hit balls. I've seen that
Speaker 1: quite a bit lately. I was doing some CBS h
Speaker 1: Q hits talking about some pitchers with some really really
Speaker 1: big hard hit numbers. And then the other one with
Speaker 1: the Reds. Ret Louder allowed three runs on six hits,
Speaker 1: five and one third struck out five. They lost, but
Speaker 1: has a one point seven to four ERA over his
Speaker 1: you know, last four MLB starts has been great. He's
Speaker 1: kind of a if he threw ninety seven, he'd be
Speaker 1: a Kirby clone because he's a guy that likes to
Speaker 1: hit the zone. He struggled a little bit with that,
Speaker 1: got that wipeout sweeper slider. He's been throwing thoughts on
Speaker 1: David Peterson Rehet Louder right now.
Speaker 2: David Peterson is one of the hardest pitchers to evaluate
Speaker 2: in all of baseball. Like he's having the best stretch
Speaker 2: of his career to eighty five ERA, but it's come
Speaker 2: with a nineteen percent strikeout rate, a one point three
Speaker 2: to one whip, almost a double digit walk rate. I
Speaker 2: don't really trust him, I really don't. I know he's
Speaker 2: been mowing down solid teams here, but if I'm looking
Speaker 2: at lineups for the last couple of weeks and having
Speaker 2: to trust what he's done, I just don't know that
Speaker 2: it's really that sustainable. Everything below the surface is a
Speaker 2: little bit concerning for David Peterson unless he gets the
Speaker 2: strikeout rate back up to where it was because he
Speaker 2: was an elite not maybe not elite, but twenty six
Speaker 2: twenty seven percent strikeout rate down to nineteen, I just
Speaker 2: don't feel a lot of safety throwing him out there.
Speaker 2: For Louder, he's also been good, but you know, he's
Speaker 2: really and he's a younger guy, so it's a little
Speaker 2: bit different, but he's way out performing his expected metrics,
Speaker 2: not a lot of strikeouts. So both of them kind
Speaker 2: of make me nervous down the stretch here deploying them
Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: To be honest, we're also in a point like in
Speaker 1: the chat was talking about you, just like I also
Speaker 1: people asking question here, question there, and it's like, it's
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. You just got to have a
Speaker 1: quick trigger finger. The thing that's really been working with
Speaker 1: the Mets. They are one of the hottest teams in baseball.
Speaker 1: That was the thing I did. I think it was Saturday.
Speaker 1: I did a hit on HQ doing a couple we
Speaker 1: were talking about maybe it was Friday, you know, I
Speaker 1: think you know it was Friday, talking about like Jacob
Speaker 1: de Grom's first start and a couple other things, and
Speaker 1: the Mets had just pulled off a win over the
Speaker 1: Phillies and they're like nine in one in their last
Speaker 1: ten and they're you know, their bullpen era had been solid,
Speaker 1: their overall era over the last thirty days had been money.
Speaker 1: There's just momentum, and sometimes momentum carries. So like, I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm always paying attention to underlying stats and
Speaker 1: overperforming and stuff like that, But when there's like, you know,
Speaker 1: two more starts to go and you have momentum on
Speaker 1: the side, I think Peterson's pretty fascinating. I think Louder
Speaker 1: is also pretty fascinating. And we'll continue, by the way,
Speaker 1: rest of the show talking about other ins and outs
Speaker 1: of players that might be helping you guys, you know,
Speaker 1: over this next week, because, like I said, just you go, oh,
Speaker 1: guys not performing yet, Bye bye bye. Injuries at this point, obviously,
Speaker 1: an il stint is a season ender, but any type
Speaker 1: of injury is warranted. So like I'm just gonna throw
Speaker 1: this out. Who put this question in here?
Speaker 3: R M.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing Garcia said, should I drop Kowser for win?
Speaker 1: Robless or Pete Crow Armstrong head to head points semi final,
Speaker 1: not Robless. Robless is on our injury report, so I
Speaker 1: would be scared about him. I might for Pete Crow
Speaker 1: Armstrong because he's been one of the hottest players in baseball.
Speaker 1: I got him on the list by the way to
Speaker 1: run homer victory over the Rockies on Sunday. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking at it this say. I think he's pacing out
Speaker 1: to like thirty stolen bases, just quietly having what a
Speaker 1: Nico Horner year. He is Nico Horner in the outfield,
Speaker 1: except he had a really bad stretch run. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why people don't perceive people perceive I think
Speaker 1: him in a worse light. Nico Horner always didn't have
Speaker 1: power projection, and he overplayed his stolen bases a bit,
Speaker 1: and I hated him this year as far as fantasy goes.
Speaker 1: But Pete Armstrong was free, has been free, has had
Speaker 1: absurdly low percentage ownership percentages up until two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: A week ago, so he has been a massive pickup.
Speaker 1: He's been hot. Pick up the hot hand right now.
Speaker 1: Still in base guys don't really help in points, but
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of power is showing off
Speaker 1: scoring runs. I'm into Pete ro Armstrong right now.
Speaker 3: Oh, I am too.
Speaker 2: I think the reason people were more down on him
Speaker 2: is because it was just so bad initially offensively, like
Speaker 2: what he did last year, what he did the first
Speaker 2: half of this season. He had like a thirty six
Speaker 2: WRC plus for the first half of the season.
Speaker 3: He was not doing anything.
Speaker 2: I know, over the last month, he's a top ten
Speaker 2: fantasy player while playing some of the best defense in
Speaker 2: the league. I think that people are kind of just
Speaker 2: slow on the turnaround because of how low he was before.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's only fifty six percent rostered on Yahoo.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's even lower on ESPN and a little
Speaker 2: bit higher probably on CBS. But he's available. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have any problem making that swap for Kowser.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would make that swap if you want to
Speaker 1: do that. That's a play to definitely go with two
Speaker 1: on the interesting column. And I'm pointing this one out
Speaker 1: because I literally this was the back to that TV
Speaker 1: hit that I did. I was literally talking about this
Speaker 1: and then I just kind of like laughed when I
Speaker 1: saw it after coming into a tied game. Rice el Iglesias,
Speaker 1: whom I just want to point out had not allowed
Speaker 1: a run since June sixteenth. He had had I believe,
Speaker 1: thirty four straight innings of not giving up an earned run.
Speaker 1: Gave up five runs in two thirds of an inning
Speaker 1: as the Braves loss to the Dodgers, which is crazy
Speaker 1: the not earned run. This is a note that Rotal
Speaker 1: World had, which was when he took his own is
Speaker 1: only lost in fifty nine appearances. This season's era still
Speaker 1: under two, but it jumped almost a full run. I
Speaker 1: just I like laugh to myself because we were talking
Speaker 1: about this, and I'm like, yeah, Risler Glacier has been absurd.
Speaker 1: Thirty four straight innings, he's been so locked down, and
Speaker 1: then probably most critical time, big playoff piece for people
Speaker 1: going into Championship week, he gets blown up for five
Speaker 1: and runs. I guess it wasn't a blown save situation,
Speaker 1: but takes a loss. I just thought that was fascinating
Speaker 1: with Iglesias. And do you think Iglesias is going to
Speaker 1: be like a top five closer next year? He's not
Speaker 1: going to be in the pricey price range, but I
Speaker 1: don't know, like he was around six or seven this year,
Speaker 1: so it's not going to be that much worse or
Speaker 1: that much better.
Speaker 2: I suppose even he should be close to a thirty
Speaker 2: one saves buck eighty seventy right point seven to two.
Speaker 3: Whip is just insane.
Speaker 2: So I feel like Edwin Diaz is probably going to
Speaker 2: go ahead of him because of the name value and
Speaker 2: a lot of leagues Class A will go ahead of him.
Speaker 2: Maybe hater he's top five, though he should be top five.
Speaker 2: It's funny the guy in the chance on the chat
Speaker 2: Glaciers lost me my championship yesterday. So I was away
Speaker 2: over the weekend with a friend and we were doing
Speaker 2: all these pickups for the head to head semifinals and
Speaker 2: like all right.
Speaker 3: Stream jpcars, stream, you know whoever else.
Speaker 2: Were talking, David fest and all this stuff, and it
Speaker 2: he was up seven to three with like a couple
Speaker 2: of games left, and I was like, all right, look,
Speaker 2: you look like you're pretty good. Riise Ellah Glacy has
Speaker 2: cost him his whole season yesterday is no whole season.
Speaker 2: Lost Whip by point one, lost e ra a. It's crazy, man.
Speaker 2: Head to head is all that it takes is just
Speaker 2: one bad ye outing and your whole season is done.
Speaker 3: It's awful.
Speaker 1: It definitely will turn you into cry baby Rodo, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: like we have those stories. Our friend group has those
Speaker 1: stories that our famous fam our little world was our
Speaker 1: bogman and I's friend will. He was up in the
Speaker 1: Championships Sunday night baseball Hunter Pence comes up, hits two
Speaker 1: homers in the game, we tie eight to eight, and
Speaker 1: I won because of tiebreakers in the regular season. So
Speaker 1: he would change his team to like eight dash eight
Speaker 1: would be his team name, like never for these are
Speaker 1: the things that these are your villain arcs, this type
Speaker 1: of the season. Bt Fouts Iglesias is his villain arc
Speaker 1: right there. Can you imagine? It's just such a brutal blow.
Speaker 1: The other fun piece, I still can't believe this is real.
Speaker 1: Helio Ramos hit a game tying homer in the ninth
Speaker 1: inning yesterday on Sunday. Giants ended up losing, but that
Speaker 1: wasn't the story. Ramos became the first ever right handed
Speaker 1: hitter in the history of Oracle Park to hit it
Speaker 1: into the right field bay, to hit it over into
Speaker 1: the water, the first right handed hitter ever. I can't
Speaker 1: I isn't like twenty five years this day?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that? With a stadium that's a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy stat to me. And it was Helio Ramos. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad it was like a giant that did it
Speaker 1: in their ballpark. But I don't know, that's one of
Speaker 1: those that you've heard on just like I don't know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem real to me. Someone has to have
Speaker 1: done it. Nope, it was Helio Ramos yesterday.
Speaker 2: You were you're a San Francisco guy, right, Was that
Speaker 2: the same park that was there when you were a kid?
Speaker 3: Or is it different park? No?
Speaker 1: It was Ah, what was I'm forgetting what it was? No, this,
Speaker 1: I don't think this was the same one that was there.
Speaker 1: I was made to say Candlestick, but that's the.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just surprised, like Stanton ever did it
Speaker 2: once or just even like I don't know Pools in
Speaker 2: his prime, Miguel Cabrera.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Like, how did no other right
Speaker 1: handed hitter like accidentally do this? At some point you're saying,
Speaker 1: I don't know many games Aaron Judge has played there.
Speaker 1: But that's but that's also like what's so uniquely special
Speaker 1: And it's a uniquely special baseball thing where it's like
Speaker 1: you can have this ballpark that's been standing there for
Speaker 1: X many years and something has never happened, and all
Speaker 1: this of a sudden boom boom.
Speaker 3: There you go. It is pretty wild, like Bonds did it.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess a lot of their famous guys are left
Speaker 2: handed hitters over the recently. I mean, I guess it's
Speaker 2: just most yeah, I mean obvious, but it's still it's
Speaker 2: still bizarre, like it's I mean, it's hard. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a far distance, opposite field, but for it to
Speaker 2: have never I was very surprised. I think I saw
Speaker 2: you know, tweet about it, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, it's just so crazy.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And twenty plus homer season for Helio Ramo so
Speaker 1: point another sneaky rookie in here. I feel so bad
Speaker 1: for pet Fouts, says, I can't think about it too
Speaker 1: much or I get a little salty about Ryce. E
Speaker 1: Iglesias also shout out to Travis first year following the
Speaker 1: Pod my first ever league win last night. That's awesome,
Speaker 1: and the official Mark yelling at us Peterson, you guys
Speaker 1: are wrong. I mean I brought up I actually defended,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you were even listening because
Speaker 1: I just said, David Peterson is someone that has been
Speaker 1: good and you should follow the rest of the season
Speaker 1: because of momentum. So listen with the ears. All right.
Speaker 3: That was directed to me.
Speaker 1: I think, well, but he said you guys, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to take it personal. If you say you guys,
Speaker 1: that's not saying, hey, Joe, you're wrong. We would have
Speaker 1: moved on and I would have agreed with you, by
Speaker 1: the way. I would have agreed, yes, Joe is very
Speaker 1: wrong and he should be punished. But you said you guys.
Speaker 1: So there you go, three up and three down. On
Speaker 1: the up. Three players on Sunday hit some double dongs.
Speaker 1: We had James Wood who we talked about, Michael Bush
Speaker 1: and Riley Green. Michael Bush sneaky, sneaky this whole year.
Speaker 1: Did you have a stat line up here? I don't
Speaker 1: want everything to break apart in my computer if I
Speaker 1: do this, but I feel what is it twenty something?
Speaker 1: Homer just absolutely. He was a big preseason guy for me,
Speaker 1: and then he just kind of got boring and fed down.
Speaker 1: Give me those numbers.
Speaker 2: So over the last week, by the way, number one
Speaker 2: overall fantasy player over the last seven days, but for
Speaker 2: the season, as a whole, seventy one runs, twenty homers,
Speaker 2: sixty three ribbies, two steals in a two fifty seven
Speaker 2: batting average.
Speaker 1: That's pretty solid, pretty solid, very solid for free. That's
Speaker 1: the other thing for free. Also Kid Povich yesterday five innings,
Speaker 1: struck out eight. Love a little bit up and down,
Speaker 1: a little bit moving through here, but Kid Povich is
Speaker 1: making it work. Christopher Sanchez went seven, struck out seven,
Speaker 1: continues to do it on the three down Cad and
Speaker 1: Dana three and one thirds, gave up five earned runs.
Speaker 1: Bel Cal Quantrill went two and one third, gave up
Speaker 1: only two earned runs and walked six. Blue Mark Vientos
Speaker 1: over four with four strikeouts. I believe the golden sombrero.
Speaker 1: Do we ever figure out? Is it platinum sombrero? The
Speaker 1: over five with five strike down?
Speaker 3: I think it's platinum. Yeah. I wonder if anyboy's ever
Speaker 3: had that over six with six strikeouts. I don't even
Speaker 3: know what we'd call that. Probably never happened before, or
Speaker 3: maybe that, Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Cant think of it, but I don't think we can
Speaker 1: say it on the show. What we would call that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's okay. The official Mark he says,
Speaker 1: my bad Joe is very wrong. That's what we were David,
Speaker 1: David and Peterson. He is in for it next week.
Speaker 1: We just want to point that out. On the injury front,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of them, and I'm not advocating
Speaker 1: to any of these things. I'm about to say that
Speaker 1: you cut these players, but if there's any like ambiguity
Speaker 1: about the timeline, you have to make tough decisions, but
Speaker 1: just follow it. Francisco Lindoors undergoing an MRI and his
Speaker 1: back on Monday. That is critical. He is absolutely critical
Speaker 1: to this team. Onneil Cruz, this is kind of where
Speaker 1: I'm leading to. He left Sunday's game against the Royals
Speaker 1: with left ankle discomfort. Monitor that because you don't want
Speaker 1: to do it, but like, if he's gonna miss the week,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what you need to do. Victor Roeblis,
Speaker 1: this is another one. He came up earlier. He left
Speaker 1: Wednesday's game against the Rangers on Sunday with an apparent injury.
Speaker 1: We'll probably find out news about that, so I might
Speaker 1: have to do that. Diamondbacks, they activated Gabby Mourno from
Speaker 1: the ten day and then place Paul Seawald on the
Speaker 1: fifteen day if he had not already been cut Bye
Speaker 1: bye bye bye. Don't need Paul Seawald anywhere. And the
Speaker 1: Phillies activated Alec Boom. Alec Boom back critical for that team.
Speaker 1: That Mets Philly thing has just been just a ton
Speaker 1: of fun just to watch it. I like seeing these
Speaker 1: teams like bounce back up. I feel like the NLS
Speaker 1: has just been h you know, like the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: been kind of weird as of recent The Diamondbacks over
Speaker 1: the last thirty days have the worst bullpen era and
Speaker 1: all of Baseball Padres have not. I thought what the
Speaker 1: Padres did in the trade deadline was like, Oh, They're
Speaker 1: leading up to have this incredible, massive run with this bullpen,
Speaker 1: and it just hasn't. Robert Swarez blew a save last
Speaker 1: night and then Adrian Morion, Adrian Morion had to get
Speaker 1: the save. They traded for Tanner Scott Jason Adam. They've
Speaker 1: got Robert Swarez and Adrian mo Morion is getting saved.
Speaker 1: That's not how that's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Robert Suarez, I mean, for the season as a whole,
Speaker 2: he's been very good, but over the last like I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe month or so things have not gone
Speaker 2: as well for him. A few blown says yeah, with
Speaker 2: the last month six to seventy five ERA one fifty
Speaker 2: nine whips, So you know, the Rodo people won't mind.
Speaker 2: But like you mentioned earlier, the head to Heead people
Speaker 2: might have some beef with Robert Suarez.
Speaker 1: I like this Fenway six k's is the vibranium some brera.
Speaker 1: That one makes me laugh because I'm a nerd. And
Speaker 1: then Michael said the dfade sombrero that also these definitely
Speaker 1: makes sense. Has there ever been a player that has
Speaker 1: struck out more than six times in a game? What's
Speaker 1: the most strikeouts a single player has had in one game,
Speaker 1: not like a double header on the day, but like
Speaker 1: a singular game which obviously went to multiple innings. What
Speaker 1: do you think it is?
Speaker 3: I would say probably five or six, but I want to.
Speaker 1: Say someone has struck out seven times. We should look
Speaker 1: that up for like the next show. I just want
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 2: So, most strikeouts in a game as a batter, Carl
Speaker 2: Carl Wheelman fifteen in in game though in nineteen thirteen
Speaker 2: he strugg Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's okay, extra innings is okay?
Speaker 3: How many six times? So it looks like six is
Speaker 3: the most in a single game.
Speaker 1: Wow, there's never been seven.
Speaker 2: Done most recently by Jeff Jenkins of the Milwaukee Brewers
Speaker 2: on June eighth, two thousand and four. So it's been
Speaker 2: twenty years. Is assuming I'm looking at the right data here,
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's six.
Speaker 1: So we should call that the perfect sombrero. I think
Speaker 1: I have the name. It's like the perfect game, the
Speaker 1: perfect sombrero. It happens like once every like twenty years,
Speaker 1: and then seven would just be, you know, the all
Speaker 1: time worst goat. I mean, we say Brandon Mott, Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, look at this. Benway says Brandon Moss seven
Speaker 1: times in a game in twenty thirteen. Sam Horns seven
Speaker 1: times in a fifteen game in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2: According to chet woh chat GBT. So probably hopefully right,
Speaker 2: but you never know, you never know.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm calling the set one of those is the
Speaker 1: perfect sombrero, and it might not need to be seven.
Speaker 1: That's I don't know. That's Those are the things that
Speaker 1: keep me up at night, by the way, like I
Speaker 1: just wonder about those awesome things, like what could have been,
Speaker 1: Like who did something so horribly bad that we can't
Speaker 1: get out of it. Hopefully we can do something so
Speaker 1: amazingly good friends, let's talk about some bets. Let's get
Speaker 1: in on it for the best Bets of the day
Speaker 1: with Yeah, how funny is this when you two are
Speaker 1: there and it's like literally neither one of these two
Speaker 1: are on that you guys have been having fun with that?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: It is the best bets of the day, our three
Speaker 1: favorite bets, and mister Joe Rico, let's start with you.
Speaker 1: I'd also point out if people haven't like picked this
Speaker 1: up when we talk about the best bets, it's something
Speaker 1: that there's a fantasy implication in it as well. Obviously
Speaker 1: if we're taking certain prop players just want to throw
Speaker 1: that out. But what do you got on your best
Speaker 1: bets of the day?
Speaker 2: So I'm starting off and I think we might be
Speaker 2: on the same page here with Paul Skeins over six
Speaker 2: and a half strikeouts, it just feels like a very
Speaker 2: low number. He's pretty consistently going over and at worst
Speaker 2: he's been getting like six strikeouts in the game. It
Speaker 2: feels like a pretty safe bet at minus one zero
Speaker 2: five for Skins over, and I'm going with Redebtmers to
Speaker 2: record the win. These are always a little bit trickier,
Speaker 2: but he's looked great against two awesome opponents in this
Speaker 2: first couple starts out, he gets the White Sox as
Speaker 2: long as he's able to go five six innings.
Speaker 3: That Penn behind him is.
Speaker 2: A little bit of a concern, but the White Sox
Speaker 2: are just a joke. I feel like Red Detmer' is
Speaker 2: a plus money to get the win is a pretty
Speaker 2: pretty safe bet. And then Antonio sends a Tella who's
Speaker 2: making his season debut tonight at Cors against the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: who I mean, they've been like the best offensive team
Speaker 2: in baseball this year, arguably at Coors, a guy faving
Speaker 2: in his debut. Sends a Tella who's never been a
Speaker 2: great pitcher really over two and a half earned runs
Speaker 2: at minus one thirty five. All those are bet three
Speaker 2: six five, And I'll add just quickly, if you're seeing
Speaker 2: Reed Debtmer's out there in like a daily pickup league
Speaker 2: for that start tonight, that's a pretty pretty nice stream
Speaker 2: you can get there.
Speaker 3: Only forty two percent roster right.
Speaker 1: Now, and Diamondback hitters would be a great shot. The
Speaker 1: only thing that's going to keep Sinstela off. This is
Speaker 1: if he's only doing like an opener, I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's two and a half. If they are gonna
Speaker 1: let him go a full run, I'm gonna play against
Speaker 1: that here as well. I like I like those bets,
Speaker 1: and I like you getting tricky with it too, Like
Speaker 1: the debtmers to record a win. I think that's a
Speaker 1: fun tricky one. So, as you mentioned, I'm we I'm
Speaker 1: tailing the Paul Skins one. He's facing the Cardinals twice
Speaker 1: this year. He struck out eight in both outings. We're
Speaker 1: on the back end of Like I'm not saying it is,
Speaker 1: but it's like, yeah, maximum three more starts. What if
Speaker 1: this was the last start and or you know, there's
Speaker 1: one more out of it, Like I think you go
Speaker 1: balls to the wall, is what I'm saying. So six
Speaker 1: and a half it is very reasonable. He's had some
Speaker 1: six strikeout outings, but he has gotten to the Cardinals
Speaker 1: quite a bit. It's minus one oh five. I like
Speaker 1: that number number two. Give me the Dodgers first five
Speaker 1: money line. You guys know, if you follow it all
Speaker 1: season long, you know me. I love my first fives.
Speaker 1: That's where I get most of my action going. I
Speaker 1: will say that the Dodgers' money line today is not
Speaker 1: a bad number. It's minus one fifteen or minus one
Speaker 1: fifteen one eighteen Yashanoba Yama Moto versus Max Freed. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers over the last thirty days have a over two
Speaker 1: sixty average against lefty, so they have been hitting it.
Speaker 1: It is also the Dodgers who have been lacking some consistency.
Speaker 1: But Yamamoto has been really good. I believe he's given
Speaker 1: up one earned run over his last four outings since
Speaker 1: being back. So I am or maybe it's three. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go and back Yama Moto on the first five.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit more juiced. So I just need
Speaker 1: them to be winning. If they're tied, I get my
Speaker 1: money back minus one thirty. I'm also in on that
Speaker 1: full game, and then I really love this one. Spencer Arraghetty.
Speaker 1: Strikeouts are low for him because you're going against Padres.
Speaker 1: Padres can be a tough team to strike out, though
Speaker 1: we have seen some big outings. Raghetty is at four
Speaker 1: and a half over, so five strikeouts I need. He
Speaker 1: has hit this number in eight of his last nine outings.
Speaker 1: He has really found a rhythm into the second half
Speaker 1: outside of like one or two difficult situations. But five
Speaker 1: strikeouts over this full one, I love that against the Padres.
Speaker 1: Those are my best bets. We both got schemes. I
Speaker 1: got Dodger's first five money line and Arrighedtty over strikeouts.
Speaker 1: You've got schemes with Redebtners to record a dub and
Speaker 1: Antonio Cinctela to give up over two and a half
Speaker 1: earn runs. Yes, friends, those are the best bets of
Speaker 1: the day with Welsh and mister Joe Arico. Before we
Speaker 1: get to the home run call here, just very very quickly,
Speaker 1: I saw a couple comments in here. Let's see where
Speaker 1: did it go? Dylan said, dilemma Nolan at red hot
Speaker 1: Milwaukee too rough outings or Tyler McGill who's lined up
Speaker 1: for a two step with the Washington and Philly at
Speaker 1: City Field.
Speaker 3: It's Nola for me, I'm not even thinking about it.
Speaker 3: It's Nola.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Nola too. I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a hot situation. But like McGill's also
Speaker 1: going up against Philly like there, so there's like you
Speaker 1: get the advantage of Washington with McGill for a sub
Speaker 1: sub middle ish pitcher and then Philly. Or you just
Speaker 1: go with like a toa Ben pitcher who's got a
Speaker 1: couple you know, rough upcoming matchups, but a great offensive support.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna definitely definitely do that. Another one, uh Cada
Speaker 1: versus Weaver or go brand Herder who just had the
Speaker 1: combined or almost combined no hitter who runs it back
Speaker 1: in Baltimore? Do you feel there?
Speaker 3: Probably go with Weaver.
Speaker 2: I think, like the way the cash is bullpen usage is,
Speaker 2: it's a little bit hard to predict.
Speaker 3: It's probably you said up most of the time.
Speaker 2: But Weaver, I think he's a pretty safe bet to
Speaker 2: give you an essay or a win, giving you good
Speaker 2: ratios with strikeouts, better team.
Speaker 3: I think we ever would be the way I go.
Speaker 1: The home run board. We've had the home run contest
Speaker 1: all season long. Remind you, guys fantasypros dot Com, slash Chat,
Speaker 1: come and join the Discord, become a premium member. You
Speaker 1: can have access to playing this. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know why we're being honest. Play it the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. There's only two more weeks, but you can
Speaker 1: play it next season. Plus I kind of want to
Speaker 1: add another contest. And right now South African G has
Speaker 1: a four home run lead with two weeks to go.
Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero is giving him the eye. Look at that eye.
Speaker 1: He is saying South African G. I'm coming for you,
Speaker 1: and I'm bringing an autographed bat because that's what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do. We got a four home run lead over
Speaker 1: Razor Ramon Razor, oh Man b Trot at fifty one.
Speaker 1: Only three are over fifty Wonkee Penglin coming in hot
Speaker 1: in top ten with forty six. Joey p is held
Speaker 1: with his imperpetuity at forty one. I could not tell
Speaker 1: you where I'm at. The great Fred Dinger is at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the board. Fred Dinger is if was here,
Speaker 1: Oh Fred Digger is here. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've had any I've had. I think I
Speaker 1: have had Raphael Dever's imperpetuity here for a little bit,
Speaker 1: so you can let me know. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: close to that board, which I know. Our boy Donnie
Speaker 1: is dying for me to get on the board because
Speaker 1: he's got a box of oh crap, what is it?
Speaker 1: The what's the thing that I'm still at thirty three?
Speaker 1: He hasn't had a home or this entire time. What
Speaker 1: are the things that everybody the Italian I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: to get murdered for this Cano. Yeah, I apologize. I
Speaker 1: just I didn't. I had never had a Connoli before
Speaker 1: the season, and then Donnie brought him. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: looking good for me, Donnie. But South African g is
Speaker 1: locked in here. So Joey, what do you think? Where
Speaker 1: are you going for your home run call? Today?
Speaker 3: Oh? Angelo? Where is it?
Speaker 2: Angelo kind of nailed it right here all d Backs
Speaker 2: against Senzatela. I'm going with Jock Peterson. I just think
Speaker 2: this is going to be a disaster in Colorado tonight
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: I put up ten runs again. I think Jock.
Speaker 2: Peterson he's been a little bit cold recently, but the
Speaker 2: matchup is too good to pass up here.
Speaker 1: I'm joining you and I'm going with Christian Walker. Christian
Speaker 1: Walker actually has a pretty solid BVP versus big home
Speaker 1: run threat. I'm gonna go with it, so we are
Speaker 1: both doing it. By the way, Dinger said a Rico
Speaker 1: up to thirteen today, I have that up there, So
Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive. So next season we get you going
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