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Speaker 1: our by the Closer, Chris, Chris, what's up? What's up?
Speaker 1: It's your boy the Closer um talking a little baseball today.
Speaker 1: I love baseball, Baseball so old school pasball. I love
Speaker 1: that when Venture does the lean back thing, he automatically
Speaker 1: puts his hands out too, like he's like he's sucking something.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, muscle memory by you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Rockies today post poem because of snow the
Speaker 1: snow in Colorado and the rock expected expected Yeah, which
Speaker 1: sucks because forrest Field was basically the turnaround that Ronald
Speaker 1: Lacuna needed breaking back to back days. Umm, who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe you would have made it a third if you
Speaker 1: got a chance to play today, but unfortunately that game
Speaker 1: is snowed out. Also unfortunate, a lot of aces got
Speaker 1: rocked last night, Yes, including your boy Luke CAZy well
Speaker 1: him too, or man Marquez or man Marquez. First, starting
Speaker 1: corps Field is what we talked about. This is what
Speaker 1: we talked about. Greg. First. She starts on the road. Great,
Speaker 1: great starts Tampa Bay, Miami, Fine, in Miami, Atlanta in
Speaker 1: coorse Field. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's gonna only start
Speaker 1: her Manez when he's on the road. I mean, right now,
Speaker 1: I guess you'd say, trying not to start in for
Speaker 1: one start in a weekly when he's at home against
Speaker 1: a pretty decent hitting team. Three, well, he's your SP three,
Speaker 1: he's most people's SP three, Like normally my SP three,
Speaker 1: my top three. Guys. I want to listen, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: four or five years ago, your SP one, two and three.
Speaker 1: You're there in there every game because there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of great pitches. There's not that many good pitches anymore.
Speaker 1: You have sp one sp two of the ones that
Speaker 1: stick in your line up, s P three. Not always
Speaker 1: semantics for this guy. Not if Marquez is your s
Speaker 1: be too. And he screwed up in the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then he screwed up in the draft. Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I would be careful with him on
Speaker 1: at home against teams like the Dodgers, things like that.
Speaker 1: He was against the Braves. It's a good lineup and
Speaker 1: we had six swinging strikes, so obviously didn't have it
Speaker 1: scared up a few balls. Dancey Swanson hit him for
Speaker 1: a three run bomb. How about Dancy Swanson? Man, We
Speaker 1: spoke about him on Monday with Modica. But he's up
Speaker 1: to four home runs. I believe he has has fifteen ribbies.
Speaker 1: He's post type, post her mom. Mark hensually had two
Speaker 1: strikeouts yesterday, which is which is annoying to me. At
Speaker 1: least straight guys out of here gonna get bombed. Max
Speaker 1: Free struck out more guys and allowed zero earned runs
Speaker 1: on the day. Six innings, five boy, my boy. We
Speaker 1: were talking about him for months now, and we spoke
Speaker 1: about this yesterday. I thought he was gonna end up
Speaker 1: getting rocked in Coors Field. But you know, this Rocky's
Speaker 1: lineup is not what it normally is. Obviously they're missing
Speaker 1: David dal They're missing Daniel Murphy. They had had a
Speaker 1: few guys in there last night, Like I know, they
Speaker 1: had to call up Zadaza as their right field You say, yeah,
Speaker 1: not then Daza was leading off of the Rocky, so
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't there was certainly wasn't there a lineup.
Speaker 1: And they also had Josh Flentas in the lineup, which
Speaker 1: is interesting because why didn't they just use Mark Reynolds
Speaker 1: against lefty and do But isn't it funny how like
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, how things could fall putzo fast.
Speaker 1: This offense looked like one of the best offenses and
Speaker 1: then you you get a couple of injuries and the
Speaker 1: whole thing falls apart and doesn't have a home run
Speaker 1: yet either, So people might be freaking out about that too,
Speaker 1: But no, man, Max Freed was awesome. Max Freed was awesome.
Speaker 1: Six innings, one run, it was unearned, five hits, one walk.
Speaker 1: So it gives you the one point zero zero whip
Speaker 1: flat against the Rockies lineup, Like, I don't really care
Speaker 1: who's in the Rockies lineup. When you're pitching in Coors Field,
Speaker 1: it's tough. You only had four strikeouts. That's kind of
Speaker 1: in the case. The pass two starts, the swinging strikes
Speaker 1: haven't necessarily been there. And he's predominantly a two pitch pitcher.
Speaker 1: You know what I say about two pitch pitchers. I
Speaker 1: don't normally buy in again last night with Freddy Peraltas.
Speaker 1: But here's what I'll say regarding Max Freed and why
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit different is because his
Speaker 1: two pitches are fastball curveball, and they might be able
Speaker 1: to work greg because his four steamer averages ninety four
Speaker 1: point two miles per hour, whereas his max fastball hit
Speaker 1: ninety seven. So this is the guy that could hit
Speaker 1: ninety seven. He could get up there. He lives in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties. His curveball is a big hook. It's
Speaker 1: seventy five. Here's a twenty mile per hour difference between
Speaker 1: his fastball and his curveball. Now, he still might struggle
Speaker 1: because he only throws two pitches, and if he hangs
Speaker 1: a curveball and someone's sitting on it, then they're gonna
Speaker 1: tag him. He only threw six change up yesterday. I
Speaker 1: would love to see, you know, more of the change
Speaker 1: up he had once swing strike on the changeup he's got.
Speaker 1: I would love to see him work that in more.
Speaker 1: But it might be it might be able to work
Speaker 1: a little bit more than let's say a guy like
Speaker 1: Freddy Parlton, because Freddie paltis his fast. Maybe he gets
Speaker 1: up too, but most of the time he's and you
Speaker 1: see him last night he gets rocked. Angels p balls
Speaker 1: like seventies seven, seventy eight miles per hour. So there's
Speaker 1: a difference there, but it's not a twenty difference. So
Speaker 1: to me, Max Freed could be a better version of
Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta. Preddy Peralta is tough to trust because as
Speaker 1: a stream this week because the Angels lineup is really
Speaker 1: not that good. It is, yeah, exactly outside of Trout.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really scare me. No, it's not the bottom
Speaker 1: of that lineup. It's not good and they haven't been
Speaker 1: hitting anyway. But they give up two home runs to
Speaker 1: Timmy Listello last night. This is who Freddy Peralta is.
Speaker 1: If you want to take the good with the bad,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some really good good, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: some really bad bad. And you know how much I
Speaker 1: paid for him. To remember, I showed you that the
Speaker 1: fab I spent fred Peralta. I also thought he had
Speaker 1: two starts this week. I think he got pushed back
Speaker 1: to Monday for his next He's gonna have two starts
Speaker 1: next week, right, I spent eighteen dollars out of Pitching
Speaker 1: is hard to come by, though. Pitching is very hard
Speaker 1: to come by, so people just spend a ton of
Speaker 1: money on and I don't care about sending my fab.
Speaker 1: I one of those people that will spend this fab
Speaker 1: very early in the season. I don't care. You can
Speaker 1: make zero dollar bids in my league, so it doesn't matter. Um,
Speaker 1: I want to have a team set and established within
Speaker 1: the first month of the season. I want the main
Speaker 1: parts of my team established. And I'm not gonna drop
Speaker 1: Freddy PEARLTA because I know what he could give me.
Speaker 1: You know, even if he does get rock withs in
Speaker 1: a while. I mean, Luke CAZy, that's the case, and
Speaker 1: you just gotta leave him in for the good and
Speaker 1: the bad. Well and when when in the head to
Speaker 1: head league he's gonna have weeks where he can help
Speaker 1: you win, the reason you win if he was amazing,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna get a few starts like yesterday,
Speaker 1: because look, this is what I'm talking about, Craig. Yesterday
Speaker 1: two pitches, seventy of them were the fastball, seventy and
Speaker 1: it's ninety one seven miles per hour on average. Like
Speaker 1: that's the difference. And next free at least he sprinkles
Speaker 1: in a few other pitches as well, like Freddy Parla
Speaker 1: through seven chains up yesterday, but seventy fastballs and only
Speaker 1: fifteen curveballs. At least, you know, Max Freed's fastball to
Speaker 1: curveball ratio is more like fifty fastballs and like thirty curves.
Speaker 1: This is seventy fastballs and fifteen curveballs. It's hard for
Speaker 1: you to be a picture in the MLB when you
Speaker 1: throw at seven mile fastball on average and throw it
Speaker 1: seventy pitches out of ninety two, Greg, where are you
Speaker 1: stand on Parla? You convinced me last week We had
Speaker 1: a pearl of the conversation, right we were talking about
Speaker 1: where he fell in and I was like, he's pretty good,
Speaker 1: and you were very, very hard on this. Two pitch things.
Speaker 1: He described it. Well, you've sold me as I tried
Speaker 1: to sell you and Jordan's Erman. You have sold me
Speaker 1: on Freddie PEARLTI on being out on Freddie Parli, saying
Speaker 1: he told me I actually sold you on selling Right,
Speaker 1: you showed me being out on Freddie Parl. Correct, I'm sorry, No, No,
Speaker 1: it's fine. Listen, I'm gonna hold him. I'm gonna play him.
Speaker 1: Match up. What bass you know it's weekly league. This
Speaker 1: was a good matchup though, right, this is I didn't
Speaker 1: work out him. This was supposed to be a good matchup,
Speaker 1: and it's it's frustrating. Sometimes you gotta take risks when
Speaker 1: you're back in the rotation. One more note here on
Speaker 1: the Braves Rockies are getting in Milwaukee in a second,
Speaker 1: and they're in CRT and Josh Donaldson. About one in
Speaker 1: two in this lineup, one's batting one seventy nine, the
Speaker 1: other ones batting four. You mentioned Dan's by Swanson and
Speaker 1: Azzi albs. They've had seven, six and se in this lineup. Well,
Speaker 1: Swanson moved ahead of him. Correct, I'll be has been
Speaker 1: ripping anyway. I don't know why. We see some maneuvering here. Frank,
Speaker 1: you think potentially that could happen. But look, I'm worried
Speaker 1: about Donaldson thing I would you were always I think
Speaker 1: I had him rent as in my seventeen eighteen third basement.
Speaker 1: It's early on in the season. I understand that right now,
Speaker 1: this guy looks like a shell of his former self,
Speaker 1: and he just he doesn't look good. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's horrible, but I think you're right, he's not the
Speaker 1: same guy he was. He was elite their basement, Azzie.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, what I want to look into with
Speaker 1: Albi's is normally he struggles against right handed pitching. That's
Speaker 1: why he bats low in the lineup against right He's
Speaker 1: even though he's a switch hitter. Right if you look
Speaker 1: back at his Mind League days, he Alway struggled against
Speaker 1: right into pitching was much better against lefties. So that's
Speaker 1: why he leads off for the Braves line up when
Speaker 1: they go up against lefties. And so far in the year, well, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at last year's numbers. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I would do that. En splits, he's hitting four or
Speaker 1: seventeen against lefties. Okay, bets, he's hitting against right so
Speaker 1: he's hitting well against both that I think it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me if n CRT it continues to struggle. Maybe
Speaker 1: Ozzi Albis moves up to lead off against both rights
Speaker 1: and lefties. Should be beautiful, certainly seems possible. But for
Speaker 1: ender in CRT, let me see the expected batting average
Speaker 1: one sixty latest on what one seventy nine back. We
Speaker 1: said during the day that David Dallas placed on the
Speaker 1: I L and that remember Rye gonna get the start
Speaker 1: every day in left field, that a second in dollars
Speaker 1: spot struck out three times. Dal said he thinks he
Speaker 1: probably only needed like a couple of days, but they
Speaker 1: didn't want to play shorthanded for the days that he
Speaker 1: would needed. He expects to come off the d L
Speaker 1: right when he's Eligi in ten days. Good, we all hope,
Speaker 1: so very very much. Sound. We hope you mentioned Freddy
Speaker 1: Peralta and what he did against the Angels last night.
Speaker 1: It wasn't very good at all. The seven runs in
Speaker 1: three and the third eight hits struck out five. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Matt Harvey also got destroyed four and
Speaker 1: the third seven hits to six runs. I don't get
Speaker 1: the people that are like back on the Harvey's train
Speaker 1: going in this year. I didn't get that at all
Speaker 1: him anywhere anywhere. Something I've noticed is that the swinging
Speaker 1: strikes are actually still there. And actually had a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine text me like, oh, well, you always tweet
Speaker 1: out the swinging strikes. Well, why does Matt Harvey swinging
Speaker 1: strikes matter if he's getting blown up all the time?
Speaker 1: And my response was it doesn't. Well, normally, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're getting this many swinging strikes, they're predictive of
Speaker 1: strikeouts in the future, which means less contact. So if
Speaker 1: hitters aren't making as much contact, then there's less opportunity
Speaker 1: for them to mash against you. But Harvey has just
Speaker 1: been so bad that even with an up taking swinging strikes,
Speaker 1: when they're making contact with him, it's still going a
Speaker 1: long way and looks say what you want, but I
Speaker 1: think the juice ball is back two years ago. Had
Speaker 1: to juice ball. There was forty eight home runs hit
Speaker 1: last night in baseball alone, Tommy Lastella two of those,
Speaker 1: and this was in Anaheim. This game was in Anaheim,
Speaker 1: where normally regarded as it trends more towards a picture
Speaker 1: to say a little bit of a ballpark. It's kind
Speaker 1: of neutral, but friends a little bit more towards being
Speaker 1: a pictures park. You get two homers from Tommy Lostella
Speaker 1: from last night, you get mood stock Is Dinger, you
Speaker 1: get grand Doll with two home runs. We expect home
Speaker 1: runs from those guys, but I mean Lostella two home runs,
Speaker 1: three home runs over the past two games. The juice
Speaker 1: ball is back? Or could it? Could it be the
Speaker 1: fact that everybody's buying into launch angle and maybe it
Speaker 1: went from league using that approach to maybe like now
Speaker 1: or now like like these guys who never really produced
Speaker 1: before and on the bench coming off the bench like
Speaker 1: Lostella implementing it because maybe he realizes it will help
Speaker 1: him become an everyday player. You know, that's a good question,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look it up right now. So league
Speaker 1: stats for this season bad and ball data for eyeball
Speaker 1: rate for the average of the league is thirty six
Speaker 1: point eight percent. Last season, fly ball rate for all
Speaker 1: of baseball was thirty five point four So something crazy.
Speaker 1: It's weird, and it's weird. It's cold. It's cold that
Speaker 1: you think the ball would stay in the right So
Speaker 1: like there's so many home runs being hit like last
Speaker 1: night in City Field. I understand the wind was blowing out,
Speaker 1: so that probably factored into it. But it was pretty
Speaker 1: cold last night in New York. It's been cold every
Speaker 1: like for the most part. Outside of Anaheim and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and UM and places like that and domes like
Speaker 1: in the north, it's still really cold. The ball is
Speaker 1: still forming out, so we could potentially see a lot
Speaker 1: of bad pitching performance this year and a huge uptick
Speaker 1: in home runs RBIs batting average. When we get back
Speaker 1: from breaking no we have a break coming up, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about some of these other aces that got rock
Speaker 1: Strasburg Nola hasn't been himself to start the year yourself,
Speaker 1: So yesterday was the day where you know, aces overall
Speaker 1: just got rocked once again. As you mentioned one quick
Speaker 1: other opinion I have it might be crazy and I
Speaker 1: don't know, but maybe people have found a new steroid
Speaker 1: for themselves that is undetectable. At one point there was
Speaker 1: a there was a steroid way. You could wipe it,
Speaker 1: you know, on your skin, and it was undetectable and
Speaker 1: like an h G H. It was like Gary Sheffield
Speaker 1: back in the day he used the cream. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: somebody a few guys used to cream, so maybe that
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes they're ahead of you know, us in
Speaker 1: determining what steroids are being used. Maybe there's a new steroid.
Speaker 1: You don't know. These guys could be taken steroids, especially
Speaker 1: the ones that aren't getting paid, like Tommy Lastella. Nobody
Speaker 1: knows for sure. That definitely could be the case. I
Speaker 1: think Rob Manford is basically, dude, we we gotta get
Speaker 1: people in seats. We want people watching. Won't people talking
Speaker 1: about baseball? How do you get people talking about baseball?
Speaker 1: You see these guard gangs win home runs, walk off
Speaker 1: home runs, home runs in big moments. Most people, I'll
Speaker 1: say most. You know, there's some that's still like pitchers duels,
Speaker 1: and that's fine. I like I like a good pitchers
Speaker 1: duel every now and then. Most people like to see action,
Speaker 1: you know, they want to see balls hit a mile,
Speaker 1: especially when it surprised me. If Rob Manford said before
Speaker 1: the season, go back to these juice balls two years ago,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise. Let's tighten those balls up a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, right, and you know in the middle, uh
Speaker 1: anything else. So the annuals game, I mentioned that Trout
Speaker 1: got hurt in it. I doesn't expects to play today,
Speaker 1: expects to play on a Friday. The next game, Andy
Speaker 1: Simmons went three for five, thankfully, Johnny Luke Roid went
Speaker 1: super three. You mentioned tim In Lostellas Myny ground out
Speaker 1: two bombs last night and going three for four, batting
Speaker 1: three sixty four on the year. Travis Shaw has Aguilar
Speaker 1: both go over four over five, still batting under two
Speaker 1: hundred bulls of them disgusting. And Mike Mustakas, here's a
Speaker 1: big note game the Bruise with their twelfth game yesterday,
Speaker 1: Mustakas have believe is now qualified at second base. Was
Speaker 1: the day Mustakis and Mankata both got respectively. Mustakis got
Speaker 1: second base, Mankada got so interesting to note the players
Speaker 1: like you, Chris and ESPN, they need to wait those
Speaker 1: ten games you got him last night. It's perfect. Travis
Speaker 1: Shaw looking into the numbers here on the season, Greg
Speaker 1: thirty three person strike out right like that worries me
Speaker 1: a little bit more recording him. Whereas Agar is making
Speaker 1: more contact this year, more than ever before, He's striking
Speaker 1: out less than ever before, and he's still hitting the
Speaker 1: ball hard. So I feel a little bit than do
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw, who right now has a thirty three percent
Speaker 1: hard hit rate. You don't really have anything to hang
Speaker 1: your hat on. He's still hitting the ball hard until
Speaker 1: hitting in the air. That's Travis Shaw. But striking off
Speaker 1: at a third of the time, it's it's very bad. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: I would definitely say, aguilar, I think this is a
Speaker 1: little flukey. He's gonna be, you know, streaky. But you
Speaker 1: don't think that was saw No. I was never a
Speaker 1: sure guy. I think that he was always a fluke. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then he lasted a longer than I thought as
Speaker 1: a productive player. But I think he reached his max
Speaker 1: potential these last few years. But I don't think though,
Speaker 1: to get thirty home runs the past two seasons, it's
Speaker 1: not bad six ribbies think when I was kind of
Speaker 1: off on this year because I worry about the splits.
Speaker 1: I'm a big splits guy, Greg. I want my guys
Speaker 1: to be in the lineup every day and to be
Speaker 1: able to perform. And Travis Shaw was just so brutal
Speaker 1: against lefties that that was something that I worried about.
Speaker 1: Now we got the strikeouts too, We'll take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. What's going to all these aces. We'll
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Like Radio Network. Frank
Speaker 1: Stamp for Chris vent Struck, Greg Sussman here with you,
Speaker 1: hanging out on the BFFs on a Wednesday. Frank, I
Speaker 1: was talking before about the lead and the Jordan's Simmerman stuff,
Speaker 1: but maybe the true lead which we are getting down
Speaker 1: our number two is Chris Sale. And we talked yesterday
Speaker 1: about what Alex core had to say. Right he was
Speaker 1: two days ago now, but what Alex Corp had to
Speaker 1: say about, Oh, Chrissell was sick? I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, no, what I mean if you would have
Speaker 1: told us right after the start, maybe even not like
Speaker 1: five days later? Was he uh sick? Yesterday? Again? Was
Speaker 1: did you have a cold? Did you have a fever?
Speaker 1: Was his stomach bothering him? Because yesterday against Toronto Blue
Speaker 1: Jays in the home opener of Boston, he went four
Speaker 1: innings on seven hits, five runs, three strikeouts. Would you
Speaker 1: see from Chris Sell? So what I saw was early
Speaker 1: on in the start he was hitting. He had a
Speaker 1: max pitch of ninety four point eight eight miles per
Speaker 1: hour yesterday, whereas his max pitch in his second start,
Speaker 1: where he was averaging a you know, just under ninety
Speaker 1: miles problem with that fastball, his max pitch point eight
Speaker 1: one miles per hour. So yesterday he amped it up
Speaker 1: a little bit early on in the start start, but
Speaker 1: then when I saw Greg and the third and fourth
Speaker 1: ending was it started to come back down again, and
Speaker 1: he was mostly nine. So I kind of wonder if
Speaker 1: he just came out hot I wanted to shut everyone
Speaker 1: up a little home opener. Maybe he wanted to shut
Speaker 1: people up, like, Okay, look, I could still reach back
Speaker 1: and hite if I need to, And he did that
Speaker 1: early on in the start, but then later on when
Speaker 1: he ran into trouble the third and the fourth ending,
Speaker 1: he was more so around ninety and ninety one per hour. Again,
Speaker 1: he only had nine swinging strikes. Only one of those
Speaker 1: or two of those came on the fastball. So overall, like,
Speaker 1: what do you take away from this Chris Sales start?
Speaker 1: I guess I feel a little bit better. I still
Speaker 1: want to see more swinging strikes. I want to see
Speaker 1: more strikeouts. I want the velocity to to consistently be up.
Speaker 1: But overall, he had a higher max pitch UH and
Speaker 1: His overall um fastball velo yesterday was nine six miles
Speaker 1: per hour on average. The second start it was eighty nine,
Speaker 1: so he was up two miles per hout. He's trending
Speaker 1: in the right direction, but a lot of that was
Speaker 1: early in the game, right It was a lot of
Speaker 1: that was early on the game, but overall it was
Speaker 1: right around ninety two on average. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. And he got killed
Speaker 1: by a few like just dinking dump hits here and
Speaker 1: a few people talking about like he's had unlucky babbits
Speaker 1: to start the season. So overall, I think I'm a
Speaker 1: Christian owner, which I am. In the main event, I
Speaker 1: think it's I think I feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1: What do you think venture I feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better based on what we saw yesterday. The velo was
Speaker 1: up a little bit, but I do want to see
Speaker 1: more swinging strikes and more strike outs. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't feel much better if I'm I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not a sale owner, um, but I don't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: feel too good. I mean, listen, he's gotten rocked all
Speaker 1: three stars. The velocity was up and then down again.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe his Vlo. There comes a point in
Speaker 1: every pitch's career, especially really good pictures, whether Vlo goes
Speaker 1: down at one point in their career, you know, it
Speaker 1: just happens and they gotta work around it. Verlander did
Speaker 1: it and reinvented himself. Maybe Sale could do the same.
Speaker 1: Christal is not that poenies when we had to reinvent himself.
Speaker 1: You know, it's starting harder than ever. That's not but
Speaker 1: Sale throws is normally supposed to. And it's especially scary
Speaker 1: because given the inflammation of the shoulder to close the season,
Speaker 1: kind of like the way he was used in the
Speaker 1: playoffs too, like they had a deep run, he was
Speaker 1: used a lot. Yeah, and let's not again, he's had
Speaker 1: a herky, jerky motion and people have been saying this
Speaker 1: for years that he's gonna get hurt one day because
Speaker 1: it was her Conder. It never happened. It never happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm mad at myself too because I've I've been
Speaker 1: in that camp your own Chris Sale before and then
Speaker 1: I ended up drafting him in the main event, which
Speaker 1: is obviously my biggest league by in like there's an
Speaker 1: overall prize involved, and I was debating Chris Sale versus
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, And then I wrote about this afterwards, was
Speaker 1: if you want to take Garrett Cole over Chris Sale
Speaker 1: because you're worried about Sale, I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with it, like you can make the argument because Garrett Cole,
Speaker 1: to me, feels safer. He's entering his prime. He throws
Speaker 1: nineties seven miles per hour. He was doing it last night.
Speaker 1: There was a ninety slider. He's nasty. He's the americanly
Speaker 1: version of Noah Synderguard. Basically, that's how I feel about
Speaker 1: Garrit Cole. And I'm just kind of mad at myself
Speaker 1: because I've never owned Chris Sale, and I drafted him
Speaker 1: over Garrett Cole, and I wanted Garrett Cole shares. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of kicking myself. You don't have Coal anywhere. I
Speaker 1: have him in one of my home leagues. I have
Speaker 1: one share out of I think I play in seven
Speaker 1: leagues this here have one Garrett Cole share. I wanted more.
Speaker 1: I was high on him. I had him as my
Speaker 1: fourth starting pitcher. I have one place to want. You
Speaker 1: wanted to first your portfolio, right, I I took Sale
Speaker 1: because if you're playing for an overall in the NFBC.
Speaker 1: My thought was he has more upside high upside, right
Speaker 1: if Chris Sale, Chris Sale at his best is better
Speaker 1: than Garrit Cole at his best. That was my thinking.
Speaker 1: But given all the information that we had, I probably
Speaker 1: should have taken circumstances into account more. In hindsight, it's
Speaker 1: only three starts. Hopefully he gets better. Honestly, if you
Speaker 1: own Chris Sale, you just kind of hope Greg, you
Speaker 1: know what, he has to get better well for fantasy
Speaker 1: owners and for the Red Sox to Red Sox off
Speaker 1: to a terrible start. If you own Chris Sale, and
Speaker 1: I've got questions regarding this, are you just kind of
Speaker 1: trading him today because people feel better? And you'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: look as Villa was up, let me try and sell him,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, if I'm trading someone for what,
Speaker 1: that's that's obviously the answer to that question. Top twenty
Speaker 1: starting picture. We did this last week, didn't we? What
Speaker 1: do we can do it again? Admittedly I listened to
Speaker 1: the sleeper in the bus coming into today they do
Speaker 1: the fireside chat with Nick Pollock, our Buddy Picture List
Speaker 1: and Sport, and they said Jack Flaherty is the lowest
Speaker 1: they would go. What do you think about that? The
Speaker 1: lowest they will go for? What do you mean? I
Speaker 1: would keep selling? Like trade Chris Sale one for one
Speaker 1: for Jack. That's the lowest they would go. Keep saying,
Speaker 1: if you want to get a I guess semi Ason
Speaker 1: return Jack Flaherty is the lowest they would go. I
Speaker 1: would people to Flaherty. You're saying, but you had to think,
Speaker 1: you have to think about a little bit. It wasn'
Speaker 1: immediate that. Would you trade Sale for Syndergard? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would take Syndergard? All right? Would you
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller? No, I'm not doing it because Walker Bueller
Speaker 1: has probably had some of concerns of his own. I'm
Speaker 1: probably eating Sale. Trevor Bauer, no hits, no more, greg
Speaker 1: A two run Homer to Nico, good room, Nico, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my boy. Right? Do you trade Sale for Trevor Bauer? Definitely?
Speaker 1: Would definitely would do. I don't know if i'd do it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Bower guy, though. Would you trade Sale?
Speaker 1: Are we overreacting? Yes? I would, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: know what you wouldn't. That's pretty close. Would you trade
Speaker 1: Sale for Strasburg. No, but you look, he's in that
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty range. He's right there. Yeah, I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you what they said. I personally wouldn't do those Like
Speaker 1: if I could still get a top twelve guy to me,
Speaker 1: like Syndergardens still like a top twelve guy. Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: is very easily a top twelve guy, like obviously, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would try and do something like that, but anything lower,
Speaker 1: like even Walker Bueller because we had some concerns regarding
Speaker 1: Bueller entering the season to like with that one, Like,
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't do that another hit three hits in
Speaker 1: a row now for the Tigers against Trevor Bauer. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do like Flaherty, uh, Strasburg. Guys in those
Speaker 1: range like tie, I wouldn't do anything like that. I
Speaker 1: still think like the risk of Chrysale getting injured is
Speaker 1: kind of outweighs, like how much more talented he can
Speaker 1: be than those guys my opinions, So I would I
Speaker 1: would keep Chrisale in that regard, but in hind tight
Speaker 1: what I know now three starts into the season, if
Speaker 1: I could do it over again, I would take over
Speaker 1: over Chris Sale. I would. It's like Garrit Cole has
Speaker 1: been lights out, but he's been he's been fine for
Speaker 1: the most part. You're getting a ton of strikeouts in
Speaker 1: the velocities there, so the results are gonna come for
Speaker 1: Gerrit Cole. Yeah, he looked good last night in terms
Speaker 1: of peripherals and everything like that. So, I mean I
Speaker 1: would have took Cole over Sale in every draft I did.
Speaker 1: I just didn't have always had that opportunity. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a safety to it because of health.
Speaker 1: You know, last year kinda put a damper on him
Speaker 1: for me, But the upside is crazy. And you could
Speaker 1: have looked at ten different NFBC drafts Gregg and saw
Speaker 1: like there was a draft work Chris Sale one of
Speaker 1: the main events. He went fifth overall. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: when he falls to me at you know pick I
Speaker 1: think nineteen or twenty at the time. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: couldn't pass. I can't blame you. I can't blame me
Speaker 1: for that. But I'm kind of kicking myself right now though,
Speaker 1: because you knew that I wanted Cole, and I told
Speaker 1: you that right after I did. I said, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to take Cold, but I just couldn't bring myself
Speaker 1: to do it. Mookie bats and Mitch more like each
Speaker 1: uh go yard here more than's fourth of the year.
Speaker 1: It's more than sneaky man pick up team leagues like,
Speaker 1: if he's out there, I would no issue with that
Speaker 1: for me. He he gets hot in the daily league,
Speaker 1: I'd pick him up because could start him against right
Speaker 1: into pitching. He's batting third in the Red Sox lineup,
Speaker 1: Jan they have a great spot to beat. This is
Speaker 1: the same thing. Who Who was it? Who was the
Speaker 1: when we did last year bitch Moreland versus who? I
Speaker 1: was that much Moreland so flash in the pan? Who
Speaker 1: it was? I don't but I don't remember going over this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like someone Matt Adams who couldn't be mad Adam.
Speaker 1: Was it Muncy? No, because I like that Max Munsey. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly who it was. It was someone
Speaker 1: like that. I remember having hopefully argument hopefully it wasn't Munsey.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was months. I really don't. I
Speaker 1: really don't speaking of Muns, though I saw um Modica
Speaker 1: talking about this today on Twitter as well. Is Dan
Speaker 1: Vogelbach this year's Max Munsey? I don't think so he's mashing.
Speaker 1: He won't have the position second day in a oh,
Speaker 1: that they find a way to get vogel Box in
Speaker 1: the lineup, all three of them to Bruce, Incarnacion and
Speaker 1: vogel Box second day in a row, that they go
Speaker 1: out of their way to make sure that they get
Speaker 1: him in the lineup and teaming for J. Bruce and J.
Speaker 1: Bruce obviously hits his seventh home run. J he's not
Speaker 1: though he hits home runs home nothing else. He's batting
Speaker 1: under two hundreds. Him being hot, home runs leading the league,
Speaker 1: but he has batting under two hundreds. It's home run strikeouts.
Speaker 1: It's just it's two. It's home run strike out. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts said, as I said that his third home
Speaker 1: run over Toronto. Their lawful hitting five Craig five homers,
Speaker 1: nine ribes and six walks seven. Strike your boy, Marco
Speaker 1: Gonzalas with six innings allowed three runs, only two who
Speaker 1: are earned a strike out five. Jake Judas not a
Speaker 1: good adding four and things it hits four runs, he's
Speaker 1: struck out six. But regarding Jake Junas, though had still
Speaker 1: had fifteen swinging strikes, he just ran into a bus.
Speaker 1: All like the Mariners are amazing right now, hen swinging
Speaker 1: strikes on his slider, and as I looked into this
Speaker 1: for the season, his swinging strike rate and his chase
Speaker 1: rate are both up. So I'm actually buying Jake Junas.
Speaker 1: The results haven't been there yet, but I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna come. He's that twenty strikeouts over his three games
Speaker 1: pretty good. That's very good because remember last year he
Speaker 1: was pitching more to context, he wasn't getting the strikeout.
Speaker 1: So now you're getting a few more strikeouts with Junus,
Speaker 1: Jake Junas and who gets to save my boy Anthony
Speaker 1: Swarzec now two for two and save opportunities for the Mariners.
Speaker 1: Junius has also been a little unlucky. He's fourth in
Speaker 1: Babbitt right now, four oh nine. They're bad. He's been
Speaker 1: a little bit unlucky. Okay, it's been a little unlucky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so stories that comes in in a three run game,
Speaker 1: that just that ninth does a lot it hit. But
Speaker 1: right now it certainly seems like Sworders Actually, guy in
Speaker 1: Seattle's good job by you, Greg. We mentioned yesterday Dan Vogelbach.
Speaker 1: You would pick him up in a daily league. You
Speaker 1: could play him whenever he's in the lineup. Do we
Speaker 1: just kind of scrap that and just say he's a
Speaker 1: must add based on how he's playing in twelve teams
Speaker 1: or of teams. In his Dan Vogel Bakama's head. Another
Speaker 1: three hits yesterday, and I think he's gotta be right now.
Speaker 1: He's betting fifth in this lineup. I think he has
Speaker 1: to be. I don't know. I tend to agree with
Speaker 1: him on the fence about it. He's finally putting putting
Speaker 1: it together. In a fifteen, i'd say, yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But de Gordon with sixt basically year. By the way,
Speaker 1: actually I believe that leads man. He's actually raking on
Speaker 1: actually runs the league league. They have the league leader
Speaker 1: a home run, the league leader in stolen basis playing well.
Speaker 1: I wonder how they pitched you just like Cherry the
Speaker 1: Poto Plan, do you guys kind of hospital bed making trades?
Speaker 1: Insane dude. Marco Gonzalez is a another one. I kind
Speaker 1: of regret because you know, I liked him, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, but zero shares. Really Marco Gonzalez and I
Speaker 1: sat right here and I told you guys why I
Speaker 1: like like his underlying numbers his peripherals last year were
Speaker 1: basically the same as Miles Mikolas and he was just unlucky. Now, look,
Speaker 1: he's another soft toss or eight eighty nine, but he
Speaker 1: actually throws like three four different pitches, so he mixes
Speaker 1: it up a little bit, keeps people off balance. I
Speaker 1: think he's quality. I started him in the pit League.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately I didn't end up with him. I do trust
Speaker 1: him as if he's my SP four five. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what he is for most people. I like that. I
Speaker 1: like it, Greg. So I want to know, we're talking
Speaker 1: a lot about Jordan Hicks yesterday that drew with you
Speaker 1: and St. Louis ay four nothing victory against the Dodgers yesterday,
Speaker 1: So it's not a safe situation. And they didn't use
Speaker 1: Jordan's Hicks Andrew Miller pitched in this one for a
Speaker 1: couple of batters. They did not use Jordan Hicks. And
Speaker 1: what was the afore nothing game basically the entire game here, Well,
Speaker 1: Miller got a hold, which means Jordan Hicks pitched and
Speaker 1: back to back days. Greg, Okay, you pitched Sunday pitches
Speaker 1: fourteen on Monday, so yeah, it's probably they just save
Speaker 1: him for you. Know, save opportunity. They didn't need him.
Speaker 1: That's trying to not were even anything anything. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: I think he's the guys. It's really what I was
Speaker 1: trying to make it out. Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Hicks is the guy would come in eighth. Okay,
Speaker 1: it came in in the eighth because he got a hold.
Speaker 1: But I guess there was somebody tying run was on,
Speaker 1: probably like that. Um Ross Stripling went for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He went five things about four. Russ Rewalks did strike
Speaker 1: out seven, five hits. The big blast against him was
Speaker 1: a gold Schmid homer and then a gets on the board.
Speaker 1: Both of his doubles came against Ross Stripling, two doubles,
Speaker 1: his Yati Molina three ribbies. Really needed that. I mean,
Speaker 1: even with the two hits, he's only betting two or five.
Speaker 1: So really really slow start here for Yaddi. But I
Speaker 1: think it's expected. He got a late start in spring
Speaker 1: training because he was coming off I believe, all season
Speaker 1: knee surgery. Greg, So he's a little bit later to
Speaker 1: start than everyone else. You mentioned he's gonna be around.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Max Munsey a little while ago, uh months
Speaker 1: he's been really really good. He has a hitting one
Speaker 1: too three four five consecutive games. He's been a two
Speaker 1: seven on the year, three homers, ten RVs that ob
Speaker 1: P says at three sixty four months, been very nice
Speaker 1: to start off the season. Marcello Zuna not good to
Speaker 1: catching the ball, Frank oh Man the gift that went
Speaker 1: viral last night in the video Marcello Zuna, Then what
Speaker 1: did you see this? No? I did not, all right,
Speaker 1: so just go on Twitter and Marcello Zuna. You'll find
Speaker 1: it very easily. I don't know. He climbs the fence.
Speaker 1: He climbs there and he's waiting for the ball. He's
Speaker 1: just as on the fence. He's like, wow, this is awesome, Marcello.
Speaker 1: It's like this. It's like this right, like this is
Speaker 1: the wall. Right he's sitting. He has climbed on the
Speaker 1: wall and you're just waiting for him to go over
Speaker 1: and him to be like this like Zuna was in place.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. And then he had to jump off
Speaker 1: the wall because the ball end it over there and
Speaker 1: see him just dive off of the fence and try
Speaker 1: and catch the ball completely misses it. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is why he gets hurt. How do you not see that?
Speaker 1: Literally he's sitting on the wall for a good five
Speaker 1: secondly the first time he's done this. Either he did
Speaker 1: this last year. He literally had to chop off the
Speaker 1: wall and dive forward. Watch this live reaction. Let's let's
Speaker 1: get the camera on venture he do? Wait? What was
Speaker 1: he thinking? Oh? You know what he did? I know
Speaker 1: exactly what he did. This is what I used to
Speaker 1: do as the center field. Know you you see the
Speaker 1: balls hit so far beyond, you just run. You just
Speaker 1: run to the sto right and then you turn around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I always used to do. And that used
Speaker 1: to happen to me sometimes too, where I used to
Speaker 1: overrun it and I turned around, be like, oh go
Speaker 1: back now right, that's fine. If he didn't jump and
Speaker 1: hang on the fence, he could have just stepped forward
Speaker 1: and catch the ball, jumped before he looked, stand on
Speaker 1: the warning track, turn and see where the ball is.
Speaker 1: If if it turns out, you need to jump on
Speaker 1: the wall, jump on the wall. Right. He actually jumped
Speaker 1: on the wall before looking to see where the bull was.
Speaker 1: What ann That's bad? Hey, guys? Which is worse to you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This or Jose can say, go getting getting the ball
Speaker 1: knocked off his head. I'd say this because because what
Speaker 1: mean yeah, wait what he hit off his head and
Speaker 1: ended up he home right? Right? Ye? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's worth Yeah, that's really bad
Speaker 1: that you're a major leaguer in hits off your head.
Speaker 1: It's home run. I mean, it's they can say, because
Speaker 1: it's just like well he he wasn't known for brains.
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Speaker 1: put like three thousand dollars on the Kentucky Wildcats not
Speaker 1: basketball against Tim Tebow and the Gators wasted it. This barbecue.
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Speaker 1: It's been amazing. Like I always turned my mind off
Speaker 1: when I'm talking about like this. Chris is still comment
Speaker 1: I do turn my Michael, you know at that time
Speaker 1: I didn't. So that's one time I didn't do it
Speaker 1: all the time. Having a riveting Matt Boyd conversation. Right,
Speaker 1: we're talking about into it. Do you want to discuss
Speaker 1: it on the end. Yeah, he has one of the
Speaker 1: highest baden baseballer was telling me for seventy six. So
Speaker 1: we were saying, oh, well, maybe he could be even
Speaker 1: better than he has been buying it Matt Boyd, I'm
Speaker 1: not boy I picked up I picked the bull for tomorrow,
Speaker 1: bull the bull. I picked him in a few places.
Speaker 1: I like it doing it, We'll do it together and
Speaker 1: doing it all right. Yesterday the Phillies's we six one
Speaker 1: lead on the Washington Nationals and then their lead collapse.
Speaker 1: As Frank Stample smiled, he texted me, good, I hate
Speaker 1: Gabe Kavler. That's text I got. I feel like it's warranted, right, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll go six and the third, seven hits, five runs,
Speaker 1: four earned, only struck out three. Strasburg on the other side,
Speaker 1: when four winning, six hits, six runs, six earned. Would
Speaker 1: you trade Sale for Nola? I wouldn't three strikeouts for Strasburg? Frank,
Speaker 1: why do you hate Gabe Kavler? Well, I hate Gabe
Speaker 1: Kapler because he basically is the second coming of Joe
Speaker 1: Madden and wants to be the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 1: And I kid have a sit closer because you know that,
Speaker 1: you know he's basically he's uh, he's he's the baseball
Speaker 1: manager version. He's a hipster. He's a hipster. That's what
Speaker 1: he is. He's a He's a managing hipster, a baseball
Speaker 1: managing hip He just wants to do things that are different.
Speaker 1: I want to be different. You don't want to keep
Speaker 1: everyone guessing you. I want to use I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: the matchup, So I'm gonna use this guy this day,
Speaker 1: this guy that day. I'll use Hector Nerris one day,
Speaker 1: one day, next day, I'll use whoever the scrub was
Speaker 1: last night? Who wasn't du bray Ramos. You know what
Speaker 1: that's when you get Gaid Kapler and Phillies idiots for
Speaker 1: using Edo bray Ramos in the ninth ending for the
Speaker 1: safe Victor Roe Place comes up and hits a home run,
Speaker 1: a game tying home run. Hector Nerris was in the
Speaker 1: eighth last night, Your boy Anthony Dominguez in the seventh
Speaker 1: ending once again, So you have doming Giz, you signed
Speaker 1: David Robertson, Hector Nerries is back from the dead, had
Speaker 1: me set gets to save and you try using dubray
Speaker 1: Ramos yesterday and it backfires. So I'm happy about that,
Speaker 1: and good for you Phillies stupid about Cablet being stupid? Yes,
Speaker 1: why I mean feel free, I'm I'm I'm going to.
Speaker 1: I'm going to. I just need to pull I needed
Speaker 1: to pull something up, so I had my defense. Now,
Speaker 1: the David Robertson pitch two days in a round, so
Speaker 1: he needed a day off. Makes sense, Okay, So sir,
Speaker 1: Anthony Dominguez was used in the seventh inning to get
Speaker 1: out of a jam, right right? Do you want your
Speaker 1: best guy out to fire? Mattch Bete the fireman, get
Speaker 1: out of the jam. Anthony did that right? Okay? So
Speaker 1: you had Hector Nearest in to face who frank? The
Speaker 1: heart of the order in Brian Doser, Anthony Rendon, Juan Soto,
Speaker 1: Ryan Zimmerman, and that is the heart of the National's order.
Speaker 1: Hector Nearest has been the best picture recently for the
Speaker 1: Philly So you bring in after you already use Sathanz.
Speaker 1: You do not have David Robertson. You bring in the
Speaker 1: next best guy right now. That's been Hector Nearest. They
Speaker 1: brought him in there. It's not just a one game thing, though,
Speaker 1: What do you like, what's the excuse for the night before?
Speaker 1: What's the excuse for Patney sick? Do you can just
Speaker 1: make excuses for Gabepple? How do you defend the last
Speaker 1: two pigs? An idiot? Last two guys fantasy? So when
Speaker 1: it comes to Etibrey Romos, I will defend it by
Speaker 1: this going into the game. The allotted hand run all
Speaker 1: seasons probably wasn't going to be the case for the
Speaker 1: entire base. Sure, but he's pitched well, it's not like
Speaker 1: Romos is a bad guy's bad picture. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you wanted them to do you know the guys
Speaker 1: not gonna be that Patni Shack. They're not going to
Speaker 1: David roberts And they order you, Sir Anthony, to being
Speaker 1: as they order use Hector Nearest. When it mattered more,
Speaker 1: what do you want them to do? I would do
Speaker 1: the opposite. You just need to understand they're not going
Speaker 1: to have a set closer you. I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: angry abot it. They're not gonna do it. They have
Speaker 1: no interest in doing it. Roberts is not gonna be
Speaker 1: the guy in the night every time. Clearly, Sarathing is
Speaker 1: never gonna be the guy in the night. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be Nearest. It's not gonna be Knicheck, they're not
Speaker 1: going to have a guy. But there's no there is
Speaker 1: Ryan the reason. I just explained it to you. But
Speaker 1: I don't like, how do you justify one day it's
Speaker 1: it's doing is in the seventh, one day it's deming
Speaker 1: Is in the eighth, one day, it's Robertson in the seventh,
Speaker 1: one day it's Robertson in the eighth, and then one
Speaker 1: day it's Nearest in the ninth and pet Niche in
Speaker 1: the ninth. They're both right handed pictures. There's nups. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's the answer the problem. Sorry you don't like him,
Speaker 1: but that's the answer. No. And you know what it's not.
Speaker 1: It's a bad it's a bad way to do it.
Speaker 1: He's trying to be the smartest guy, right, that's what
Speaker 1: he's trying to do because he's using stats. He's trying
Speaker 1: to outsmart the stats, as you said, the games that
Speaker 1: as you said, it's not he's not gonna be perfect
Speaker 1: all year. Guys are not gonna be perfect all year.
Speaker 1: He used to anything to make it as a fireman.
Speaker 1: Then he used the guy that's be the hottest gus,
Speaker 1: the heart of the order. What do you want him
Speaker 1: to do save his best picture for what he's facing
Speaker 1: worst players? That doesn't make sense. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you're gonna angry about that. We always say we want
Speaker 1: your best miss one game sample. That's what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say, Greg. It's happened all season already, and he's
Speaker 1: like five different guys would have saved on this Philly scene.
Speaker 1: But he's using But he's trying to use the guys
Speaker 1: when it matters. They're gonna have a fantasy for a second, listen.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying. Okay, have a fire man, right,
Speaker 1: but you can't keep putting different guys into the night
Speaker 1: unless he's still looking for your clothes. He's not looking
Speaker 1: for he doesn't want a closer. He's going too much
Speaker 1: by stats. There's human element to this, and certainly these
Speaker 1: certain certain these guys he doesn't know he doesn't want
Speaker 1: a closer. Some of these guys can't handle that ninth
Speaker 1: inning roll. I can't are great, you've put out the
Speaker 1: fire in the sixth and seventh, but what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do in the eighth and ninth when you're using
Speaker 1: your best guys in six and seven. You can't do
Speaker 1: that all the time for either body. Ronos, he loved
Speaker 1: the solo home run. That sucked. Obviously got three got
Speaker 1: the all the third three guys. That wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was a huge rally. I understand it was a game.
Speaker 1: It was a home run and it sucked right like
Speaker 1: I mean again, as Frek I mentioned, it happens to
Speaker 1: only run this guy's allot all year. It happens they
Speaker 1: had a six to one lead and they lost the game.
Speaker 1: Game Kapler came from more organization. The Dodgers, right, very
Speaker 1: forward thinking, analytical organization. They have one closer. They have
Speaker 1: one closer. It's Kenley Jansen. Also, you know the best
Speaker 1: and lead. He wasn't the best last year and they
Speaker 1: still used him. Dodgers are one of the most analytical,
Speaker 1: forward thinking organs. Just because it's the Dodge, he may
Speaker 1: feel different. Have one closer, and they've been successful. They
Speaker 1: made the World Series two years in a row. So
Speaker 1: why don't you wait a minute, why don't you kill Brewers?
Speaker 1: What are you killing the last year? The game said
Speaker 1: of the NLCS without a closer when they're using their
Speaker 1: clothes in the second. Well, the playoffs are different, though,
Speaker 1: the playoffs you use like they use the Red Sox
Speaker 1: use Chris Sale to close out of game. So the
Speaker 1: playoffs are different, unless, of course, whatever a buckshow Walter
Speaker 1: a couple years ago to use second. It also depends
Speaker 1: on how you like the playoffs are off limits. That's
Speaker 1: different and the only different things depends on how your
Speaker 1: bullpen set up. You have a guy like hater Andrew Miller,
Speaker 1: They're you're fonting man. That's a fireman type of what's
Speaker 1: Sir Anthony nik is is That's what David Robertsonday's he
Speaker 1: believes he has two of them. He has two firemen,
Speaker 1: so then you don't have a post. You why didn't
Speaker 1: use him in the eighth? Because then use Hector Nerris
Speaker 1: and because Nerris was But why if he thinks Nerros
Speaker 1: is a better matchup in the eighth, why don't you
Speaker 1: just use him the eighth? Because if he thinks ners
Speaker 1: is his best guy, why would he not use it?
Speaker 1: For the heart? Here's the problems all the time. But
Speaker 1: here's the problem with the Phillies though. If you have
Speaker 1: two great guys, yes, you can use the better guy,
Speaker 1: which was at one point in Cleveland Andrew Miller, and
Speaker 1: then you know Cody Allen would be the closer because
Speaker 1: he's also good. But the problem is they only have
Speaker 1: one or two good guys in this bullpen. It's not true,
Speaker 1: and it's really just it's not Robertson is on the
Speaker 1: fence at this point to the week, Sir Anthony, the
Speaker 1: ming was yes, and you got Hector Nerris. Let's say
Speaker 1: three the best right now? Obviously it's all changes the
Speaker 1: bullpen right right, and none of them are really proven
Speaker 1: or like besides Robertson, are really proving. So yes, you
Speaker 1: should use your best guy if you don't really know
Speaker 1: who your best guy is as the closest, because that's
Speaker 1: the most impart. No, you're wrong. I think you's your
Speaker 1: best guy against the best hitters and the other team
Speaker 1: Josh Hayter. What about Josh Hayters a different thing. Stanna
Speaker 1: could go three innings if he wants to twinnings and
Speaker 1: put out the fire. He's completely done. Used, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: your best guy against the best players. That's what he
Speaker 1: did last He still got to pitch the ninth in
Speaker 1: point definitely, But you're not Why would you save a
Speaker 1: guy for the ninth inning if it's not facing the
Speaker 1: best hitters instead of facing ners and you use your
Speaker 1: other better guys in the sixth and seven, you use
Speaker 1: your best guy. You use your best guy. He gets
Speaker 1: the best hitters. That's what Gaye Kapler is doing last night.
Speaker 1: You had um. I don't think Patty is one of
Speaker 1: his best guys. Greg might be. Patney is like forty
Speaker 1: five years old. They don't have a great and there's
Speaker 1: like three or four relievers better than him. I don't know.
Speaker 1: So he pitched the night. That's what I'm getting at Greg.
Speaker 1: It's not just a one night thing to me, every
Speaker 1: single night with Gabe Kapler, and it's super frustrating for fantasy.
Speaker 1: And I know you're trying to say that for MLB purposes.
Speaker 1: He's trying to win games. Yes, he blew it. Last.
Speaker 1: Look at what the Dodgers have done the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, and the Dodgers are the closer. He just
Speaker 1: because he comes to the Dodgers. Don't believe everything is
Speaker 1: this analytical. He's not. He's not the manager of Dodgers.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers chose Dave Roberts over him, you know that.
Speaker 1: But he is, Yes, but he comes from the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He is this analytical. You can't tell me that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers had no influence over how analytical he is. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's fight first and maybe correct, right, but I
Speaker 1: had to agree with venture that at some point I
Speaker 1: think he's trying to do too much may and maybe
Speaker 1: he needs trying to do. I'm explaining to you why
Speaker 1: he's doing it because you had Jamiguez laid out the
Speaker 1: get rid of the fire of the seventh inning, right,
Speaker 1: we know we all agree on that. All good with that?
Speaker 1: In the eighth inning, nearest face the guys I mentioned
Speaker 1: Soto Zimmerman in this line up, the best in the
Speaker 1: weaker part, and then the guys that he faced Wilmur Dafoe,
Speaker 1: Kurt Suzuki, and then he faced Robe lest Here's the
Speaker 1: ninth place center and this was in the eighth or ninth,
Speaker 1: the next and ninth ninth. That's the problem, though, You're
Speaker 1: bringing in a guy who has never pitched the ninth
Speaker 1: thing to close out a game that he might not
Speaker 1: be used to, and he might not be ready for
Speaker 1: all have the confidence for there is the closest mentality.
Speaker 1: I don't think red Zular honestly, I played baseball for
Speaker 1: eighteen years. I I mean more than eighteen years, twenty years,
Speaker 1: and had no close mentality. I know that some people
Speaker 1: can't do it. They can't come in the clutch. A
Speaker 1: clutch is real, so is closing in talent. Those things
Speaker 1: are real, I think so. I think the Phillies bullpen.
Speaker 1: I think one of the problems is it also happens
Speaker 1: to be pretty deep, right with Domingez. With Robertson's deep
Speaker 1: with solid talent. Ye, there's no stand out like last year,
Speaker 1: but he's still very young and signs towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season where he kind of fell off a
Speaker 1: little bit, but he's still the best one. Like there's
Speaker 1: it's deep in terms of they have five guys who
Speaker 1: might be like similar talent level, but they don't have
Speaker 1: like one standout guy. Fine, I understand that, but but
Speaker 1: but but you're right. You're absolutely right. At that point,
Speaker 1: there's five guys are all similar talent level. So to
Speaker 1: expect them never time, yes, but to expect them to
Speaker 1: speak the closure and be consistent and be able to
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. For a fantasy perspective, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. No, No, I don't care about fantasy. He's
Speaker 1: gonna I know at this point it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He's gonna ruin his bullpen. He's gonna ruin these guys
Speaker 1: if he keeps doing this though, you're putting them all
Speaker 1: over the place, them in different spots. That's why I'm happy.
Speaker 1: But it's amazing that as a Yankee fan, we killed
Speaker 1: Girardi when he would only go to Patasis in the
Speaker 1: eighth when the seventh, there's three. If there's three, right,
Speaker 1: he's coming up in the ninth. Does that mean, we
Speaker 1: don't use Chapman in the ninth inning. I didn't kill
Speaker 1: Girardi for not like that's what I'm talking about. But no,
Speaker 1: but the Phillies don't have or all this Chapman. They
Speaker 1: don't have Kenley Jansen, they don't have that. You just
Speaker 1: said it yourself. Well, they signed David robertson to money
Speaker 1: like you thought he was going to be the closer,
Speaker 1: but he's not on all the guys. You got two
Speaker 1: closers Britain Miller. But they could have been closers on
Speaker 1: other teams though, but Eno could have been a closer somewhere,
Speaker 1: not Zack Britain could have been a closed. Not that's
Speaker 1: because he pitches on a team with the role this cha,
Speaker 1: because that's where the money was, that's where that's who
Speaker 1: where they were. They all signed. They all chose to
Speaker 1: sign at that level for the set of men, all
Speaker 1: of them. And roberts is not even on that those
Speaker 1: guys level right now, like he right so, and he
Speaker 1: was likely unavailable last Night's probably unavailable last night. Adam
Speaker 1: Morgan has also been good for this team. He was
Speaker 1: probably unavailable putting back to back as well. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it's all started with Aaronova. By the way, Well,
Speaker 1: I still love though I looked ato Aarnoa before this.
Speaker 1: He only had five swinging strikes yesterday. Um, his swinging
Speaker 1: strike rate is way down this year. It's eight point
Speaker 1: one percent. He's allowed five home runs already. He allowed
Speaker 1: seventeen all of last season, So just to put that
Speaker 1: in perspective, and his first pitch strike percentage it's whereas
Speaker 1: he's normally around sixty five. So he's not struggling to
Speaker 1: start the year like he's falling on behind accounts. We
Speaker 1: saw that he had like a five walk game early on.
Speaker 1: He's not getting a lot of swings and misses. But
Speaker 1: I also believe that he's faced the Nationals twice already. Right,
Speaker 1: he just saw Zach Wheeler get mashed against the Nationals
Speaker 1: and Aaronola has now faced the Nationals twice. So you're
Speaker 1: not as worried as as you're not as worried, you know,
Speaker 1: if it were at the Marlins or something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, But there are a few warning signs here
Speaker 1: with Arno that I want to pay attention to the
Speaker 1: fact that he's not throwing strikes early in the count.
Speaker 1: He's not getting a lot of swings and misses, and
Speaker 1: he's giving up home runs. So I want to pay
Speaker 1: attention to those three things specifically moving forward, because the
Speaker 1: velocity in the pitch usage is right on par. But
Speaker 1: he's not getting a lot of strikeouts right now. Venture Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I understand. Listen. I mean I think it just early season,
Speaker 1: you know, struggles, and they could get out of it.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Look at all these ACE pictures that
Speaker 1: we drafted early, and most of them are getting bombed.
Speaker 1: A lot of these aces are getting bombed at least
Speaker 1: one or two starts. That's what is it. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: a little behind, or maybe combination of both, combination behind
Speaker 1: this early season velocity. Yeah, that's why I always say, like,
Speaker 1: I really don't like to pay for pitching. This is
Speaker 1: the reason why, because you never know, no supposed to
Speaker 1: be lights out. This is a cy young candidate post possibly.
Speaker 1: I don't give up on him yet though. Um there's
Speaker 1: no like, you know, severe issue like with um sale,
Speaker 1: with the city being down, I'd be more willing to
Speaker 1: buy low on Nola than I would be, right, I
Speaker 1: would buy low on Nola, right, that's actually a good point.
Speaker 1: I would so Nolah has faced the Braves and the
Speaker 1: Nationals twice. But this kind of comes with the territory
Speaker 1: those that's who's gonna face at least the division. And
Speaker 1: when you're the ace, when you're the ace, expect better.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly right. We draft these guys as are
Speaker 1: aces because they we expect them to perform even in
Speaker 1: tough matchup. But they know there was gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of tough matchups this year because the Braves and
Speaker 1: the Nationals and the Mets, and you know, they get
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cake walk here and there
Speaker 1: with the Marlins, but for the most part, National League's
Speaker 1: kind of tough. I mean, even even when you go
Speaker 1: and face the National League Central, you have the Cubs
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals and the Brewers and the Red yesterday,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have to face the Rockies at
Speaker 1: some point. Well you know you Dodgers now you don't want, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the Dodgers and you know what, you want
Speaker 1: to face the Giants, but the Padres are better. So no,
Speaker 1: this is kind of what you know, we want to
Speaker 1: know what to be our ace so that because he
Speaker 1: can perform, But it's the tough matchups just pitching us far,
Speaker 1: he hasn't performed in a tough matching. This is why
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay for pitching. I don't want
Speaker 1: to pay for it. I don't I rather buy the
Speaker 1: first second round. Yeah, I'd rather have a deep rotation
Speaker 1: of the middle of the road guys that have the
Speaker 1: potential to become an ACE or deuce, then pay for
Speaker 1: a bunch of aces, because two of them are gonna
Speaker 1: disappoint you. Two of them will disappoint you. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just so happen that you do those two that say,
Speaker 1: if you draft three aces, two of them will probably
Speaker 1: disappoint you. I don't know. That's not necessarily There was
Speaker 1: actually at the season by Ariel Cohen does the a
Speaker 1: TC projections on fan grafts, and it basically said, and
Speaker 1: it looks at years past, the top twelve starting pitchers
Speaker 1: by ADP drafted every year return the most value. And
Speaker 1: that's obvious because they're drafted as early as they are right,
Speaker 1: but they and it's actually the second tier. It's like
Speaker 1: pictures thirteen through thirty actually bust the most. So basically
Speaker 1: there was a get your ace when you draft top
Speaker 1: twelve starting pitchers. But it just happen, Like you're right,
Speaker 1: at least three or four of the top twelve are
Speaker 1: gonna bust. It must happen that it might happen that
Speaker 1: you end up with those two that bust, which is unfortunate.
Speaker 1: It happened year. But it's trying to identify before the season,
Speaker 1: which the which of those guys we're gonna bust. And
Speaker 1: I think we said we were worried about Cloober the most,
Speaker 1: and yeah, we also said we were worried about Snell
Speaker 1: the most, which is doing had a good start is better? Uh, dude,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Listen, you want, yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to grab one ace for safety reasons. You you want
Speaker 1: to try to grab your your anchor, right, But after that,
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to wait a little while and
Speaker 1: maybe go off the middle of guys because you're not
Speaker 1: paying for them, you know, and they could do they
Speaker 1: could become a deuce. And it's trying to identify those
Speaker 1: guys that go outside the top seven or eight rounds
Speaker 1: in the middle rounds, right, identify those guys were gonna
Speaker 1: break out. Please Castio even to knock a Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: guys like that exactly. That's how you win. That's how
Speaker 1: you win. I want to thank Sean, Chris and Alex
Speaker 1: downstairs for Chris Vetra Frank Stanfell. I am Greg Ausben.
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