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Speaker 1: what top guys? How you doing? It's your boy The
Speaker 1: Closer back Wednesday? Ready to get kicking? Let's do it?
Speaker 1: Ready to rock here a too? Man? Do we just
Speaker 1: all have a case of the midweeks here Wednesday? Like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I think it's the well for me?
Speaker 1: Like my mom has been the hospital. Okay, she's good, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's actively here. She got through the surgery yesterday and
Speaker 1: now she's she's out today, so I was gonna go
Speaker 1: pick her up, but she they let her go at
Speaker 1: like twelve o'clock. So good, she's doing it right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're good. Who needs a gold bladder anyway? You don't,
Speaker 1: you know, it's true waste. It's just just the waste
Speaker 1: yourmal your mouth will be good and we're all good. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you want to hit on before we have
Speaker 1: some fun? That's okay? Yeah, well there's there's two games
Speaker 1: I want to hit on, Like you don't have as
Speaker 1: many games as you want. I don't want to. You
Speaker 1: mentioned during the pager stroke who didn't get the save
Speaker 1: last night instead of Steve sche came in almost blew it,
Speaker 1: but he winds up getting to save your boy. Cohamles
Speaker 1: goes five and a third six hits, four runs, only two,
Speaker 1: earned three walks seven strikeouts. On the other side for
Speaker 1: the Mariners, King Felix with six and names strike out eight.
Speaker 1: It's pretty nice by King Felix. Mr Groundball rb I
Speaker 1: himself Anthony Rizzo had he stolen base and a home
Speaker 1: running this one his sixth of the year, while Kyl
Speaker 1: Schover hit his fourth of the year. Rizzo off to
Speaker 1: his typically slow start, batting to twenty eight thus far
Speaker 1: this season, while Kyle Schover off to his normal just
Speaker 1: bad player one on the season. Oh, Greg, regarding Anthony Rizzo,
Speaker 1: you know what he was saying in his mind while
Speaker 1: he gets a home run and stolen base? Greg, what
Speaker 1: was he saying? Saying? It's gonna be once once the
Speaker 1: calendar turns to May and Rizzle is good to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be May, Greg. You know, so
Speaker 1: he's looking forward to the future. He's getting pumped up,
Speaker 1: he's getting ready. By who sucks in his career in
Speaker 1: March and April, Aleander turns to me, he's ready. What
Speaker 1: do you What do you think about? It's gonna be
Speaker 1: may venture? Do you not like that joke? Are you just?
Speaker 1: It's just I get it? And he played like twice
Speaker 1: so you know we got it. But listen, Rizzo by
Speaker 1: obviously you know what I mean. He's still he's still producing,
Speaker 1: batting to like he's still been producing. He's got six homes,
Speaker 1: he's got six doubles, he's got eighteen eyes and twenty
Speaker 1: one squad It's not like he's not producing. He's just
Speaker 1: he's gonna just get better. So if there's anybody selling,
Speaker 1: I'd be one of the first to jump on it.
Speaker 1: And by easily. You know, Rizzle, you know what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do, and you're right when as the season goes along,
Speaker 1: he gets better and better. I'm assuming that Pedro stroke
Speaker 1: didn't pitch last night, because he threw twenty six pitches
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Still very frustrating. I'm sorry, Frank, Yeah, had
Speaker 1: him in the lineup. I saw Coss Warbets go ahead homer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cubs in line for save. We'll just keep Steve c
Speaker 1: check in there for the save instead of beauty using.
Speaker 1: And when Edwin Cornascion hit his eighth homer of the season,
Speaker 1: does this guy ever stop? Is he's just timeless? Shame guys,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, same guy. Bad batting average, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Just give me eight home runs, give me twenty rabbies.
Speaker 1: To start the year. First month of the season, the
Speaker 1: Mariners were the hottest hitting team in baseball for most
Speaker 1: of the month of April. They've cooled off a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it went in. Cornascion, I mean, one year older,
Speaker 1: but the production doesn't stop. It's another home run. Eight
Speaker 1: home runs there? How about this? Greig? I tweeted this
Speaker 1: out last night. Drink Dee Gordon has seventeen RBIs. Would
Speaker 1: you like to hear the list that he has? List
Speaker 1: of players that he has more RBIs than sure? That
Speaker 1: would include J. D. Martinez, Xander Bogart's, Nelson Cruz, Ya clueg,
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman, and Chris Bryant. Good times, good times, seventeen RBIs,
Speaker 1: first month of the season, and he's betting lest you
Speaker 1: didn't see that? And why didn't he lead off for
Speaker 1: this team yesterday? Greg? When they when they sent down
Speaker 1: Malex Smith? Did we talking about that? Talking about that?
Speaker 1: We're talking about that Alex Smith? We were on and
Speaker 1: off and then I'd say, remained off. I don't have
Speaker 1: any no shares Alex Smith. Disastrous April so much so
Speaker 1: he's in the sent down. I mean, he was doing
Speaker 1: so well earlier on. I mean, everyone all the matter
Speaker 1: is doing well earlier on until they stopped doing well.
Speaker 1: He had eight stolen basis. I mean, he was really
Speaker 1: was doing what you wanted him to do. He was
Speaker 1: on for his forty plus stolen bassis like you wanted
Speaker 1: also strikeout right from a I also think this is
Speaker 1: kind of a response to get Dan Vogelbach in the
Speaker 1: lineup every single day with Mitch Hattiger playing center in
Speaker 1: Bruce and Santana in the corners with vog back at first.
Speaker 1: That's real bad defense, you know, I thought the Yankees
Speaker 1: had a bad defense. That's a bad defense. But in
Speaker 1: the lineup wise, you don't miss batting average b PA
Speaker 1: with Malex Smith in there, and instead you could back
Speaker 1: the Gordon first, and that's just a much better version
Speaker 1: of that, you know what I mean. Maybe not as
Speaker 1: many stolen bases at this point with Dee Gordon, but
Speaker 1: much better batting average, you know, just a much better hitter.
Speaker 1: There was going to be regression at some point because
Speaker 1: he's got a two thirty four Babbitt. Regarding Malex Smith
Speaker 1: still hitting the ball on the ground a ton would
Speaker 1: he supposed to do? Right, when you're a speedster percent
Speaker 1: ground ball, right, that's fine, But a two thirty four babbit,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not like Malex Smith. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a three thirty nine career Babbitt. Guys, So some batting
Speaker 1: average we're gonna come. I think the main reason they
Speaker 1: sent him down was because of a thirty percent strikeout, right,
Speaker 1: you can't be a leadoff hitter and be a speedster
Speaker 1: and strike out thirty percent, and you can't be a
Speaker 1: lead of hitter. That's o b pot. But he has
Speaker 1: a ten percent. If doesn't, he doesn't Gordon is performing well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is Gordon batting average? Three? Why do you put
Speaker 1: him leading off? That's what I want to see as
Speaker 1: a D Gordon owner. He should be him in a
Speaker 1: few leaks. What do you meet off? That's fine. I
Speaker 1: do think that Alex Smith is going to be back
Speaker 1: at some point. Gregg when five years old. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're just throwing in a towel on Malex Smith.
Speaker 1: Let him correct himself. So if somebody drops Malex Smith
Speaker 1: in a roto or head to head categories league, I
Speaker 1: would pounce on that. Greg I think he's gonna be back.
Speaker 1: Pounce on that would deep because twelve teams, two teams
Speaker 1: to get out of here. He stolen basis. He was
Speaker 1: on page for forty. You can't just find forty stolen
Speaker 1: bases off the waiver wire. He's in the miners. How
Speaker 1: many your point, Nick Paveno, who you're making us hold
Speaker 1: on too. Who's gonna be transition to a reliever? You
Speaker 1: know what is he now? Oh yeah, I told you that.
Speaker 1: The week after that, I said I would drop him.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? At the time, he said,
Speaker 1: hold on to him Alex Smith. Greg, you can't just
Speaker 1: find someone on the Waiverbard. It's gonna give be forty
Speaker 1: stolen basis. You don't work that. Maxmith has to be
Speaker 1: the majors to give you a forty stolen basis. And
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be back sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: But twelve team leagues, I think a twelve team rot
Speaker 1: league where you start five outfielders and it's hard to
Speaker 1: come buy stolen bases. I am picking up Malex Smith
Speaker 1: if somebody drops him, and if I own Alex Smith
Speaker 1: in a twelve team rotal league, I am dropping Malex
Speaker 1: Smith because he cannot help me and he is in
Speaker 1: the minors, and that is a huge mistake. I do
Speaker 1: not play. I do not play where league where minor
Speaker 1: league players help my major league stats. Let's remember this
Speaker 1: conversation a couple of months from now, and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Sure, you know, because you know it could
Speaker 1: go either way. But from now is different. I think
Speaker 1: that right, because he'll be out there. I can find
Speaker 1: someone else on my team to drop, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna find someone on my team that that can give
Speaker 1: me forty stolen bases. But that's the thinking. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you can't find someone else to drop. Maybe you're just
Speaker 1: you're stuck and you have you have all you always said,
Speaker 1: well all the injuries, like we're kind of screwed. You
Speaker 1: almost have to drop him if you're in twelve league
Speaker 1: sometimes because like he might be a guy that's in
Speaker 1: your lineup, and then you're like, wait, I can't get
Speaker 1: a zero my life. I just gotta drop and pick
Speaker 1: somebody else up. I just have to do it, and
Speaker 1: to head points league. I have no problem dropping him
Speaker 1: at all. I'm just saying when it comes to speed,
Speaker 1: everyone is always trying to find stolen bases and run.
Speaker 1: As bad as he was, they continued to eat him
Speaker 1: off every single day in the lineup that was scoring
Speaker 1: a lot of runs, So he's gonna give you runs. Typically,
Speaker 1: he's a better batting average than what he showed. The
Speaker 1: thirty percent strikeout rate is not like Malex Smith. The
Speaker 1: babbo is extremely low. There's a guy that stole forty
Speaker 1: bases last year, and he had eight stolen bases just
Speaker 1: from being garbage the first month of the season, so
Speaker 1: he was on pace for over forty stolen bases. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be back and he's gonna steal basis. I would
Speaker 1: not drop. Who would you rather own? Malex Smith of
Speaker 1: Delono the Shields, Alex Smith what he had? Male Smith
Speaker 1: at eight stolen bases, Delano the Shields has seven. Delight
Speaker 1: of the Shields plays in the major leagues. Still, the
Speaker 1: line of the Shields is not as good of a
Speaker 1: hitter as Malex Smith. Once in the miners, once in
Speaker 1: the majors, one can help you, one cannot. The line
Speaker 1: was also hidden both. I mean when when I was
Speaker 1: talking about on the Shields before the season, I mean,
Speaker 1: this was a guy with like a three fifty plus
Speaker 1: a DP. It's not like I'm not tied into the line.
Speaker 1: I know you're not. But Malex Smith is a better
Speaker 1: player than him. The Linol Shields is not a guy
Speaker 1: they can provide batting average. He's not a good batting
Speaker 1: He's in the miners here hoping he's going to be
Speaker 1: back soon. Are you telling you why? What makes you
Speaker 1: think he's young enough. They clearly liked him. They went
Speaker 1: out and traded for him, Greg. They like him. They're
Speaker 1: giving to get right. They're giving him a few weeks
Speaker 1: to get right in the minor leagues. He's better than
Speaker 1: what he's shown. He's never been a guy that strikes
Speaker 1: up thirty percent of the time. He's gonna go down,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get right. He's got fixed build this college six.
Speaker 1: By the way, you don't know how so young Malex
Speaker 1: Smith just twenty six, and he does another thing. Malex
Speaker 1: Smith is a better player than the line up the Shields.
Speaker 1: There's just maybe I mean, listen, do three thirties seven
Speaker 1: ot For most people, they don't have to line up
Speaker 1: the Shields in their lineup. That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: I play in a fifteen team league where I need speed.
Speaker 1: I have him in my lineup as my fifth outfiller,
Speaker 1: and I don't love it. By the way, you I
Speaker 1: need the speed and he's given me seven stars. I
Speaker 1: just don't understand the most teams away how you could
Speaker 1: like Malex Smith over Delonot Shields. He's a better player.
Speaker 1: What don't you understand he's a better player, But he
Speaker 1: hasn't been this year at all. He hasn't been this year.
Speaker 1: Are do we judge every player of all time one month?
Speaker 1: But I'm judging if I'm going to hold the role
Speaker 1: correct And the Mariners made a decision in April or
Speaker 1: May whatever to send the player to the miners. I
Speaker 1: could find a compared player to the minors, doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there forever. I can find a comparable
Speaker 1: player that's in the majors right now, Comparable because they
Speaker 1: have a similar average, similar steals, similar everything, right now.
Speaker 1: Give me that guy that I can put in my
Speaker 1: line up right now, and then dropped the guy who's
Speaker 1: not playing right now. I'm not saying I can't pick
Speaker 1: Malex Smith back up later. Yeah, it teems to be
Speaker 1: a lot harder and it's gonna cost you fed to
Speaker 1: pick him up. It's twelve team lea, No it is not.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's disagree wholeheartedly. I mean, look at
Speaker 1: the past couple of like the Linos Shields. You say
Speaker 1: comparable player de Lionodo Shields hit to sixteen last year
Speaker 1: with twenty stolen bases. Alex Smith who six with full
Speaker 1: He's stolen basis, how do you he attempted fifty two deals?
Speaker 1: How do you know Max, he's a better player. But
Speaker 1: how do you know that one season isn't an anomaly?
Speaker 1: How do you know before he hit to seventy he's
Speaker 1: a two sixty six the line of the shield is
Speaker 1: a two forty two career hitter at the major league level.
Speaker 1: That's twenty plus points difference in batting average. I know.
Speaker 1: But no, no no matter how much a team likes a guy,
Speaker 1: if he's hitting one sixty five, I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: have deserves to be in the miners right now. I
Speaker 1: agree with that he doesn't deserve to be in the majors.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go down, He's gonna get right. He's striking
Speaker 1: out thirty percent at a time in his career he's
Speaker 1: he's twenty percent strike out right, So that's up a
Speaker 1: massive amount. It's not gonna get it done. I agree
Speaker 1: with that he shouldn't be in the line up right now.
Speaker 1: He deserves to be sent to the miners. But he's
Speaker 1: a better player than Dene at all. He's in the
Speaker 1: lineup and and and he has higher upside. He has
Speaker 1: higher upside too. That's why I'm dropping Malex Sismith for
Speaker 1: de Line on the Shields. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: back within the next week or two. He will not, Okay,
Speaker 1: a week or we're going on that. Well it's May one, right,
Speaker 1: if he's not backed by May fifteenth? Do you what
Speaker 1: do you want to do? Lunch lunch bet demonics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's who's gonna be better? Who the shields? Her mouth?
Speaker 1: I don't want to bet that, so that that's that's
Speaker 1: an easy way. You didn't take my Vladimir Guerrero bet either,
Speaker 1: So that's an easy win for me because he has
Speaker 1: to spend ten days in the minor because eleven, so
Speaker 1: he doesn't come back immediately. I win. He will be
Speaker 1: I'm not scared of Up or whoever they called up.
Speaker 1: There's a reason not getting a shot. Okay, he's twenty
Speaker 1: five years old to right, and he's not known for
Speaker 1: being an offensive player. Who knows all right? Well he
Speaker 1: didn't last night he went over. You believe in Malex
Speaker 1: a lot? I mean, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the truth. Would an eight stolen bases in
Speaker 1: one month seven amazing? And we having a two five
Speaker 1: O b P and he five batting average, So he's
Speaker 1: he's still basis he still he's doing super fast. We
Speaker 1: know how fast he is. He's in like the top
Speaker 1: one or two percent of the league. The problem is,
Speaker 1: is he right? Is he just? He might just be
Speaker 1: Joe gaft I always loves Joe gath I mentions I
Speaker 1: couldn't hit like he's better than that, though I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I don't know. I don't think you hit two
Speaker 1: nineties six over four four played appearances in a hundred
Speaker 1: forty games last year if you're a fluke. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that that's a fluke over the course of
Speaker 1: an entire season. So that's not even my argument. My
Speaker 1: argument is that right now, and it's a five team league,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to hold on to him. It's no
Speaker 1: one's gonna pick him five outfielders, and and everyone is
Speaker 1: always trying to find speed. Greg he should not be dropped.
Speaker 1: But I just found you speed and Delano just shields.
Speaker 1: I just found it for you. He's not and they're
Speaker 1: not the same saying yesterday he didn't play yesterday, but
Speaker 1: now Smith didn't play for like three days on the
Speaker 1: other day. Like you keep talking about speed. We always
Speaker 1: looking for speed. I found you're being too short sighted
Speaker 1: with this. But if the twelve team league there are
Speaker 1: players out there, I'm done. I'm just I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, if you dropped Malex Smith in a Rhodo
Speaker 1: league with five outfielders, you are going to regret it.
Speaker 1: I think you can. I think you get to pick
Speaker 1: him back up. This was great. I'll let you know that.
Speaker 1: I'll you know, the big Billy agrees that you should
Speaker 1: stash him like he's enjoying the commentary. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: last night Houston shut out Minnesota leven zip Garrett Cole
Speaker 1: seven strong innings, love and strike, hats, walk three, allowed
Speaker 1: just one hit. Michael Panada not nearly as good. Five innings,
Speaker 1: nine hits, five runs. You him, You can definitely drop
Speaker 1: him for Grivin Canning, who totally agree with that. I
Speaker 1: already picked up can a lot of home run who'd
Speaker 1: you drop for him? I dropped Anthony Swarzak. I'm done
Speaker 1: with him and I had to head points. I'm alright
Speaker 1: with that. Cool, I'm cool with that. The home runs
Speaker 1: hit by Houston yesterday Jake MRIs Nick's second home run,
Speaker 1: George Springer's ninth home run of the season. Georgie's got
Speaker 1: nine on runs? Would Geo comeback to seventy four? The
Speaker 1: o BP at three sixty three, Alex Bregman his fifth
Speaker 1: home run. This he's like believe Springers nine home runs,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. Yeah, he's got power. It feels like
Speaker 1: it's been such a slow star for Alex Bregman. I
Speaker 1: don't own him anywhere. He's only got five home runs
Speaker 1: compared to George Springers nine of a slow star. You know,
Speaker 1: I say that he's hitting two seventy one with ps,
Speaker 1: so he hasn't been bad. But I think for where
Speaker 1: he was drafted a bit of a slow start here
Speaker 1: for you, I mean, George Springer, it's been great. You
Speaker 1: know what, Greig, I just slammed you. I'll give you
Speaker 1: some credit, you too, George Springer over ya C L
Speaker 1: Peak had r c L Peak ranked higher than Springer.
Speaker 1: That so far right about this, although they I also
Speaker 1: remember I talk him over Tommy Fan as well, which
Speaker 1: Tommy fans have a great year. Tommy frights well. And
Speaker 1: I think over Roll and Road he's probably been better
Speaker 1: because he has more steals, definitely definite and famine and
Speaker 1: points Lea's also is doing great. Sob fan has been awesome.
Speaker 1: Just walk rate is tremendous to just that. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Bray's lineup has been awesome too. All right, George Spring
Speaker 1: has been right. We will take a break and one
Speaker 1: more game we want to chat about, and that's the
Speaker 1: Dodgers from last night. And uh we'll get into some
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Speaker 1: Game time Decisions. Okay, I'm I'm usually sort of I'm
Speaker 1: caught it on top of pop culture and stuff, but
Speaker 1: Game of Throws is stuff that I missed out on,
Speaker 1: and I'm not taking a pot shot at about like cool.
Speaker 1: People watch Game of Throws, people like it, they like
Speaker 1: what they like. I was so luke. I was on
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I was actually listening to this
Speaker 1: song earlier today. It's Bryan Adam somewhere six to nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somewhere six and nine. Good song, are you thinking of it? Frank,
Speaker 1: very very vanilla break Suspen type song. It doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: It is very of its time, like classic. I was
Speaker 1: listening to a lot of eighties classic rock tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever reason is in that kind of mood, you're just standard,
Speaker 1: Like do you think of classic eighties rock? Some of
Speaker 1: it's good. You can never take exception of being called
Speaker 1: like a forty year old guy. You just can't. Just
Speaker 1: when you love songs like that, you just can't. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the medal I got to accept it. It It
Speaker 1: was just in the mood for it. The metal in
Speaker 1: the eighties was hair metal, which was some of it
Speaker 1: was metallico was. It was was not the norm. That
Speaker 1: was different was just your like your pop ones, right,
Speaker 1: like White Snake that White Snakes consider some of the
Speaker 1: Here I Go, yeah, Here I go, Yeah, that one counts.
Speaker 1: That's all right. A little you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: harder than you know, Summer Roofs, Tom Petty, Steve Miller Band,
Speaker 1: you know, like, I like Petty, pet like, Petty's not bad.
Speaker 1: A kid in college got me into that one. He's great.
Speaker 1: They always always never Petty because he was. He and
Speaker 1: the Heartbreakers were the musical guests. Musical act right, the
Speaker 1: free falling Right? Yeah, like that song. They were musical.
Speaker 1: The first Giant Patriots Super Bowl, did they absolutely? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's Walker Wheeler last night against the Giants,
Speaker 1: five and the third, six hits, three runs, one walk strike.
Speaker 1: As Frank, what did you think of Walker Wheler's bast
Speaker 1: back performance. I'll use bounce back very loosely because against
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants overall, I was just expecting a
Speaker 1: better performance. I mean, the gives up six hits and
Speaker 1: five and the third three year and runs against this
Speaker 1: is isn't a good line of blue he's facing yesterday,
Speaker 1: Joe Panic, it's Alrte Buster Posey, Brandon belt Mongoria. This
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a bounce back performance. Someone tweeted
Speaker 1: at me today asking what the pitch usage was like
Speaker 1: for Walker Bueller yesterday. I looked into it, throwing a
Speaker 1: lot of fastballs this year. It's overall, I mean there
Speaker 1: was fastball sixty three times yesterday out of ninety pitches.
Speaker 1: So I looked overall to his pitch usage this season.
Speaker 1: Last year he used his four seam fastball round forty
Speaker 1: two percent of the time. This year it's up to fifties.
Speaker 1: He was using his fastball per cent more this year,
Speaker 1: using his cutter less, using his curveball less. The slidder
Speaker 1: usages up a little bit, but overall he's just using
Speaker 1: the fastball lot. I wonder is he not using his
Speaker 1: breaking pitches as much, because like there's still something going
Speaker 1: on with his arm. I'll just keep going back to
Speaker 1: what we heard before the season started. He was he
Speaker 1: was dealing with a dead arm. He got it. He
Speaker 1: had a late start, later start than anyone else in
Speaker 1: the Dodgers rotation outside of Kershaw, who was hurt at
Speaker 1: the time. But I just I'll go back to that, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, is he pitching through something right now?
Speaker 1: He doesn't look right, and the fact that he's using
Speaker 1: his fastball more than any other pitches a really weird
Speaker 1: start of the year for Walker. Bueler venture. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think something's up, But I think it's also
Speaker 1: maybe he's still a young player, you know, lest she
Speaker 1: was his first year in the majors and he you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he's still harnessing his his repertoire, you know, and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what works best for him. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good sign that he at least, you know,
Speaker 1: the six k's the one walk, obviously, that's good. The
Speaker 1: thing you don't like his five and a third innings.
Speaker 1: It's not enough innings against a bad Giants lineup, so
Speaker 1: you want more. But I think this is a great
Speaker 1: by candidate for the second half. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a big second half once he figures it out
Speaker 1: what he wants to do, how he wants to go
Speaker 1: about pitching. Uh, every every game that he starts, what
Speaker 1: his repertoire is gonna repertoire is gonna be. So I think, listen,
Speaker 1: this is a good bye Candon right because honestly a
Speaker 1: lot of people will worry, and you should be. But
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: an injury here. I think it's more about him trying
Speaker 1: to figure out figure himself out. The underlying numbers for
Speaker 1: build just not good. Ent swinging strike rate last year
Speaker 1: eleven first pitch strike percentage. So you know, starting off
Speaker 1: a lot of his counts, at least compared to last year,
Speaker 1: a lot of his accounts down one oh, because he's
Speaker 1: got a fifty two and a half percent first pitch
Speaker 1: strike percentage last year that was sixty three point six,
Speaker 1: so down over eleven percent this year. And they're not
Speaker 1: chasing pitches outside the strike zone either. His O swing
Speaker 1: is down. I don't know. I think something's wrong with
Speaker 1: bout Walker Buller right now. It would not surprise me
Speaker 1: if we get some kind of and we won't know
Speaker 1: whether it's a real I Elston or a phantom I
Speaker 1: Elston because the Dodgers do this with all their starting pictures. Great,
Speaker 1: you're trying to buy Walker Buller right now, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise you can be laying from the IL. Yeah, we said,
Speaker 1: we actually said this after his last start, that he
Speaker 1: could wind up on the IL. And I said, it's
Speaker 1: like phantom injury, and you said, maybe it's not such
Speaker 1: a phantom injury. Maybe there's something really is. He's a
Speaker 1: better picture than he's showing us right now. He absolutely
Speaker 1: looks better like his second half, and I think what
Speaker 1: doesn't go in his favor though, is that they can
Speaker 1: stash him on the ile and they have other guys
Speaker 1: can step in in stripling in Urias were on the ile.
Speaker 1: I think long term, Chris, I agree with you. I
Speaker 1: think long term, I want to buy Walker Bueller because
Speaker 1: he is talented, he is a really good picture, and
Speaker 1: that maybe if he does go on the I l
Speaker 1: like you know that that's good, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: We'll figure out whatever he's got going on and stash
Speaker 1: him and then and then unleash you in the second half.
Speaker 1: I still think a bottomer yes, because you could get
Speaker 1: him for a nice prices right now, I think hopefully.
Speaker 1: Do you think? So what would it take, Chris? Would
Speaker 1: you if you had Walker Wheeler, would you take Tyler
Speaker 1: Glass enough for him? See now I want Glass now now.
Speaker 1: I would not give it away Glass now like I
Speaker 1: want to buy high on tyler Glass now. And I said, really,
Speaker 1: that's not how fantasy works, right. You shouldn't buy a
Speaker 1: picture at his highest value unless you think he could
Speaker 1: potentially get better than this. Yeah, than sure. If you're
Speaker 1: if you're watching Tyler Glass now, let's see the performances,
Speaker 1: and you think he's gonna keep it up, or you
Speaker 1: think he could potentially be better than what he's doing
Speaker 1: right now, and by all it means go on and
Speaker 1: get go out and get Tyler Glass. Now, can he
Speaker 1: really be better than what he's done so far? Maybe
Speaker 1: he does have a lot offside. He is young, um,
Speaker 1: and he's he's in the right place to get better.
Speaker 1: So I want to look up some Yahoo trades, and
Speaker 1: I'm holding if I if I'm a glass, Now, what
Speaker 1: does it take to get Walker Bueller right? You could
Speaker 1: get him for let's see here, Walker Bueller for John
Speaker 1: Gray and Renato Nunyez. I would give up those two guys.
Speaker 1: See at Walker Buller. I would do that. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a terrible trade either. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't really, I wouldn't probably have. But Walker Bueller
Speaker 1: and Jose Alvarado for David Price and Holland. So let's
Speaker 1: say Alorado versus Holland is a wash. Would you give
Speaker 1: up David Price to get Walker Bueller right now? David
Speaker 1: Price has been pretty good? I would you would still
Speaker 1: do that? What about you? Greg? Would you give up
Speaker 1: David Price to get Walker Bubueller? Dad Price has been
Speaker 1: really good? But I would still but David Price is
Speaker 1: guy I was looking to buy. Would you rather have
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller Aaron Nola Nola Dealer. I think I would
Speaker 1: take Nolah too, because I don't have concerns about an
Speaker 1: injury with no one at least I still have that
Speaker 1: what I heard in the spring lingering in the back
Speaker 1: of my mind when it comes to Walker Bueller. No,
Speaker 1: it's starting to correct himself. He'll get better as the
Speaker 1: season goes on. Yeah, I hear what you guys are
Speaker 1: saying and trying to buy Walker Bueller. It's just it's
Speaker 1: hard to stash the starting picture that's pitching poorly right now.
Speaker 1: It's just like the pitching landscape. You're trying to find
Speaker 1: pictures who can help you. A lot of the aces
Speaker 1: I mean haven't performed well. I told you this during
Speaker 1: a Breakna Ti on today pitching in Texas. I think
Speaker 1: it's the Rangers lineup. I'm terrified. I'm terrified for today.
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance he gets blown up. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: In Texas against the Rangers. I think he'll be all right.
Speaker 1: That's just a tough place to pitch, man, it is,
Speaker 1: especially for a right handed picture. It's just tough I'm
Speaker 1: not great, so it could have some power. But take
Speaker 1: the chance. The top three in baseball and runs scored
Speaker 1: so far. I'll take the chance, and Stashing Bueler will Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I want you, Um, somebody brought up in the chat um,
Speaker 1: can we talk about Griffin Canning spoke about him. They
Speaker 1: can rewind, they can rewind and we'll they'll hear it.
Speaker 1: Unless there's anything you want to say about hid venture.
Speaker 1: I mean I did pick him up, so what do
Speaker 1: you and I did a lot of you know, I
Speaker 1: looked into him. Uh, listen, I think this obviously could
Speaker 1: be a great pitch. Of the problem is you gotta
Speaker 1: worry about innings, cap and all that. He is a
Speaker 1: you know, fresh rookie coming right out of the miners.
Speaker 1: But everything he's done uh in the miners has been great.
Speaker 1: I mean he's got a great k rate, walk rate's
Speaker 1: pretty good. You know, I only gave up nine yard
Speaker 1: hits in a hundred and thirteen ings last year in
Speaker 1: the miners. Obviously, this guy has a ton of talent.
Speaker 1: So if you need a quick, you know, a right
Speaker 1: now stream type of guy. And Griffin Kenning, I know
Speaker 1: he only went uh was it four innings in his
Speaker 1: start yesterday he did have six ks in a third
Speaker 1: for one of thirty had six k's. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll start ramping him up a little bit more. But
Speaker 1: he could give you high k rate, low walk rate.
Speaker 1: He'd give you that logo whip in roto leagues and
Speaker 1: points leagues. He could, he could get it done, but
Speaker 1: he needs to get the innings up. I think it's
Speaker 1: not a bad guy to pick up and says, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he could get it done. Uh, if there are
Speaker 1: a couple more starts of him getting used to the majors,
Speaker 1: get you five six inning starts? You want to own
Speaker 1: Griffin Canning right now as well? Yeah, let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of the other pictures you may want to own.
Speaker 1: See to be in front of me, gentlemen, you can
Speaker 1: close your computers. Oh, we're gonna talk to the chat room. Craig,
Speaker 1: you pay attention to the show. I'm here in front
Speaker 1: of me. I have a list of the top ten
Speaker 1: players with the lowest x FIP the month of April.
Speaker 1: How many do you do you can name, Chris? I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe a couple be a number. Uh four
Speaker 1: out of ten? You said, yes, do you think you
Speaker 1: can beat that? Um, yeah, you look at that many.
Speaker 1: How many do you think you can name? Do you
Speaker 1: think you can beat that? Probably? Not? All right, Frank,
Speaker 1: you're a first. You gotta name five players that they're
Speaker 1: in the top ten in x fift through the month
Speaker 1: of April. Max's number one in the league's extract was
Speaker 1: two point three seven. I don't this guy qualifying fake
Speaker 1: kershaw seem list. He's not on the list three pretty
Speaker 1: down one like family foods in a way. Alright, So
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass, Tyler Glass now is ninth on the list.
Speaker 1: Is x fit is three point one? Four? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Pretty pretty good, pretty good? So all right,
Speaker 1: I got two so far? The name three knew in
Speaker 1: the challenge an a'll have the Remember it's a little
Speaker 1: different family feud. We only has the name three, name
Speaker 1: three more the five he said, name five, it's five
Speaker 1: beats two? Last night? Was that? What nine? No? What
Speaker 1: was his three point one four? Mm hmm mm hmm
Speaker 1: was Barrios barriers is not on a list. There's your
Speaker 1: second strike. Gosh, I would have knew that. I have
Speaker 1: him everywhere. Alrighty x fit is a little bit interesting.
Speaker 1: If you told me right, he's number one. Little spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: I asked both of these guys before he came upstairs,
Speaker 1: do you prefer FIT or X FIT? They did? You
Speaker 1: want to cheat? Want to absolutely not. I'm just making
Speaker 1: it very transparent, frank said, XPIT. I said, I don't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to me. So I am giving x
Speaker 1: FIT because I'm probably thinking about probably think it's too
Speaker 1: hard about players who have given up home runs when
Speaker 1: I should probably just be thinking about like the best
Speaker 1: pictures in baseball. And with that, I will go with no,
Speaker 1: not him. Um let's go with Garrett cole Gerrit cole
Speaker 1: is correct, third in the on the league an x
Speaker 1: FIT with a two point six six x FIT excellent.
Speaker 1: You got three two more to get good, two more
Speaker 1: to go, And now that I think about it, I
Speaker 1: probably could have got like six or seven of these.
Speaker 1: We'll find out in a second. Um, well, I mean
Speaker 1: if he wins ot Oba, he doesn't, he doesn't, ALRIGHTY
Speaker 1: do do scrolling through my mind knowledge here? Greg and
Speaker 1: thralling Frankling, will you know what? I go with? Old
Speaker 1: reliable guy who's always better in X fifth leagues and
Speaker 1: the leagues. Actually, no, I'm not gonna go then go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with her Man Marquez,
Speaker 1: all right, didn't matter if he said John Gray or Harms,
Speaker 1: they're both wrong. I was gonna, I was thinking. So
Speaker 1: he got three, so we got three. Chris, she said
Speaker 1: he game six or seven, so here are seven more.
Speaker 1: Give you seven more. Luis. Luis Castio is not on
Speaker 1: the list. Okay, right, he's probably close though I thought
Speaker 1: about him, but he's he's probably like a mid threes
Speaker 1: x FIP guy. Hey, look that up. Hang on a second,
Speaker 1: Louise Castio's x FIP. Here's three point three one her
Speaker 1: mom Marquez, by the way, three seven, so not bad.
Speaker 1: We were far off. Matthew Boyd Maddy Boyd, also not
Speaker 1: on the list, was twelve three points, so we're not
Speaker 1: far off. Not top fifteen guys, so the other guys
Speaker 1: on the list, you don't have to keep going. Blakes
Speaker 1: now at two point four or five, he's good. I
Speaker 1: didn't think he qualified because he's hurt. He only missed
Speaker 1: one staring Stephen Strassburg, guy you don't like. At two
Speaker 1: point eight five. I want to talk about Strasberg, which
Speaker 1: is why I brand up and open my computer. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's a computer. So Stotsberg on the year two and
Speaker 1: one is EO raised three point eight two. The x
Speaker 1: fit is an entire run less at two point eight five.
Speaker 1: His caper nine eleven and a half walks for nights
Speaker 1: ato point three. Not great left percentage around se homer
Speaker 1: ball ratio is actually hi Stephen Stosberg, gentlemen, you're buying
Speaker 1: it right now. Oh. Absolutely, he's been ridiculous. I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1: Strike swinging strike rate right now is by far the
Speaker 1: best in his career. I mean even in his best
Speaker 1: seasons that he's had specific lee Let's look at when
Speaker 1: he had a two point five to e r A
Speaker 1: over the course of a hundred and seventy five innings.
Speaker 1: He was just superb that year. Even that season at
Speaker 1: a twelve point nine being strike rade this year getting
Speaker 1: more chases outside the strike zone than ever before. He's
Speaker 1: doing stuff right man. I mean a hard hit rate
Speaker 1: is down tremendously, And that's why you see the x
Speaker 1: fit much lower than the e r A because his
Speaker 1: home run the fly ball ratio right now, it's so
Speaker 1: that's astronomical. His home runs per nine or are one
Speaker 1: point four three for his career. He's a zero point
Speaker 1: eight nine home runs per nine, So he gave him
Speaker 1: three to San Francisco Regressions. It's coming here for Steven Strossberg.
Speaker 1: I'll throw this your way. Would you trade Peter Alonso
Speaker 1: to get him Greg? This is interesting because this is
Speaker 1: a truth story, true story. I have this trade on
Speaker 1: the table. Has this trade on the table? Imagine I
Speaker 1: would trade Peters for Steven Stosberg. Yes, you had a
Speaker 1: fair trade. No, I don't say that significantly, rather have Stephen. Yes,
Speaker 1: pitching is hard to come by and it's significantly, Rather
Speaker 1: have Steve. I could find made it trade the other day.
Speaker 1: By the way, in this league, you know Ali? Yeah,
Speaker 1: would you do another one? I traded away everyone can
Speaker 1: for Corey Seeger, Like, why don't you trade for Malex
Speaker 1: Smith right now? You like trading for people who end
Speaker 1: up in the minor leagues. That'sa will be back? What
Speaker 1: do you think about my tea? Yeah, I'm buying absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I would not whoever has Strouss I know who
Speaker 1: it is. But I would never give away Strausburg for
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo. I'm just not doing that. Let's change the conversation.
Speaker 1: Do you know who's next, who's sleepth in the league?
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna see this tweet last night
Speaker 1: by Mike Floria Sunny Gray x FIP at two point
Speaker 1: eight five. If you look at what Sonny Gray has
Speaker 1: done on the season for Cincinnati, the record obviously not
Speaker 1: very good. It's owing four, but caper nine close to
Speaker 1: eleven x fip once again a full run lower than
Speaker 1: he's e r A. He's walking two point four home
Speaker 1: is only five percent hich kind of scares me because
Speaker 1: that's going up. Left on base percentage UM is only six,
Speaker 1: so that's another also that could go up a little bit.
Speaker 1: So are you buying Sonny Gray and either of you?
Speaker 1: I'm not trading for Sonny Greg. I like Sonny Gray,
Speaker 1: I don't love Sonny Gray. He's kind of a mixed
Speaker 1: bag right now. Um, the three point I think the
Speaker 1: three point six four e r A is more of
Speaker 1: an indication of where he'll remain rather than the underlying numbers,
Speaker 1: because he's got a near eleven k per nine right now.
Speaker 1: But his swinging strike ray is actually lower than where
Speaker 1: it's been in years past, So the strikeout seemed like
Speaker 1: a bit of a fluke his first pitch strike percentage
Speaker 1: is is actually down this year as well. Looking at
Speaker 1: his pitch uses, Greg, you know, he complained that the
Speaker 1: Yankees made him throw too many sliders, complained about it.
Speaker 1: He actually cried about this. You know, his his his
Speaker 1: slider usage us your fifteen point nine slider use this
Speaker 1: year eighteen using a lot. Yeah, it's the Yankees must
Speaker 1: still be having an influence on you. There, and his
Speaker 1: whip is under one that is not remaining. This is
Speaker 1: some warning suns. I like, I like Sonny Gray, but
Speaker 1: I think his ear a is more indicative of where
Speaker 1: he's going to remain. I don't think that he's going
Speaker 1: to get closer to these underlying numbers. There still been
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Speaker 1: mark chat readfully so well? The hell's X fIF they ask,
Speaker 1: And it's X field fielding independent pitching. And the difference
Speaker 1: between X five and five is and when what does
Speaker 1: this do? What is different? Ear? So it's an underlying metric.
Speaker 1: It's kind of used as an ear a estimator or
Speaker 1: kind of like a view of things to be coming decator.
Speaker 1: It doesn't always work out this way, but we use
Speaker 1: expected batting average when it comes to guys who are
Speaker 1: performing lower than expected in their current batting average. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of similar to that. X fit is
Speaker 1: basically what your what your ear A would be if
Speaker 1: your home run a flyball ratio was normalized to lead average,
Speaker 1: so around ten per cent, but it also takes it
Speaker 1: basically builds off FIP and fielding. Independent pitching is what
Speaker 1: your ear A would be if you had basically competent
Speaker 1: defense behind you. So there are anything different factors that
Speaker 1: go into play, like there are. There are guys that
Speaker 1: you know in in years past. Kyle Hendricks comes to mind,
Speaker 1: who pitched to a super low ear A and he
Speaker 1: had a great, great defense behind him with that Chicago
Speaker 1: Clubs defense and his underlying numbers, his FIP his x
Speaker 1: FIT were much higher, but he had a much better
Speaker 1: defense behind him than the rest of the lead, so
Speaker 1: that's why his ear A was actually much better than
Speaker 1: his underlying numbers. So PHIP is basically all the contact
Speaker 1: that's made that's not a strikeout or a home run
Speaker 1: that's FIP. Exfit accounts for the home runs with home
Speaker 1: run of fill live all rations, so it basically just
Speaker 1: builds off of FIP. That's why guys like Modica like
Speaker 1: exfit more because it's like it's brings home runs into
Speaker 1: the equation as well. Well. A couple of other names
Speaker 1: on this top ten lists, I want to go on
Speaker 1: a different list in a second. James Paxton at two
Speaker 1: point nine, good exit, which I think we could figure
Speaker 1: out how he's pitched recently? Right he Lib Smith at
Speaker 1: three point zero two, and you've been hid on Caleb
Speaker 1: Smith recently. Frank Jose Quintana at three point four one
Speaker 1: of the guys you really like coming into the year.
Speaker 1: And then David Price we just talked about at three
Speaker 1: point one, that interesting list of names. M what do
Speaker 1: you want to go to next? Gentlemen, close your laptops? Place?
Speaker 1: What are what are our options? You want to go
Speaker 1: hit her a picture? First? We did pictures, so let's
Speaker 1: go hit hits. You want to do hitters? Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do hitters. Can you name the ten players with the
Speaker 1: lowest hard hit percentage? No? Simply so, maybe I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I want to look at somewhere you want to buy
Speaker 1: right like if y'all I want you to be able
Speaker 1: to do it this way? Can you name the players
Speaker 1: the lowest babbitt then the guy the ones that have
Speaker 1: gotten the least lucky because you I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to name all of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll give you two or three? Three venture can
Speaker 1: you beat the Christian three the lowest babit in the majors.
Speaker 1: Players are gotten unlucky. All right, yeah, four, I guess
Speaker 1: you do four? All right, Frank, all right, we'll do
Speaker 1: We'll do do four. Christian, name four players that are
Speaker 1: the lowest babbitt in baseball. All these numbers are under
Speaker 1: two hundred. The bat is under two hundred. Bat is
Speaker 1: batting average of balls in play. Okay, Um, Matt Carpenter.
Speaker 1: Matt Carpenter is not this list. Okay, Uh, Let's go
Speaker 1: with Byron Buxton. Byron Buckston is not on this list.
Speaker 1: This is hard. I don't know. It's tough, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I know who like guys who have high babbs.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know the guys. We could do that,
Speaker 1: We could do that next. I have that as well.
Speaker 1: I passed, but I wanted to look people to buy
Speaker 1: rather than sell that. You've got a guy, Frank, anybody
Speaker 1: I have a few names in mind. The metanable makes
Speaker 1: sense that it was um what about Ian Desmond in
Speaker 1: Desmond's novelist Massara, Probably you got it. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of lazy flyballs. That sounds accurate. How about Praza Peraza
Speaker 1: is not on the list. But he wasn't the lowest
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage list. When you said hit percentage, he
Speaker 1: was one of the names that came to UM anyway.
Speaker 1: So the lowest matter in the majors belongs to Jay Bruce,
Speaker 1: who's is one sixty. Well, what's his batting average? Terrible?
Speaker 1: All he does it well. He doesn't strike out or
Speaker 1: hit fly balls. Basically, you let me know as I
Speaker 1: run through, and I'll go through a quickly. As we
Speaker 1: get some more lists, you let me know anybody you're
Speaker 1: interested in buying out of these guys. Ready, Yonder Alonzo,
Speaker 1: Yes you are. That is one seventy two, Riyando Alonso.
Speaker 1: How are you buying him? His expected batting average, he's
Speaker 1: he's on the He's in the top ten of the
Speaker 1: biggest difference between expected batting average and current batting average.
Speaker 1: Expected batting averages to seventy. He hits the ball in
Speaker 1: the air. Um, he hits a decently hard He's walking
Speaker 1: a ton this year as well, so much better in points,
Speaker 1: leaves and O B p UM And I think once
Speaker 1: the weather starts to heat up a little bit in Chicago,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see some of those flyballs for Yonder Alonso
Speaker 1: starts to fly out of the park, So I would
Speaker 1: be buying yonder Alonzo, maybe only in deeper lease, but
Speaker 1: I do like him, only you just splait the list
Speaker 1: only in uh I teen team is maybe I'm not
Speaker 1: really buying him in twelve or a twelve team or
Speaker 1: with a corner infield. Maybe I can see that too.
Speaker 1: One seventy four is the third player list's jersey, jerks
Speaker 1: and profile. I'm buying why. I mean this, This even
Speaker 1: proves it even more. He's obviously and he's not like,
Speaker 1: what's this what's his career strikeout percentage? Can pull for you?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that bad that he should be
Speaker 1: batting that His babbit's one seventy four seventeen percent and
Speaker 1: this year's four. So obviously he's getting a little unlucky.
Speaker 1: That's the point, yeah, right, so and and and he
Speaker 1: doesn't trick out ton, So this is a guy that
Speaker 1: should hit a lot better. She is well below his
Speaker 1: career mark and bad. And even last year when he
Speaker 1: had a career year, you have twenty home runs, two
Speaker 1: batting average, he had a two sixty nine babbit. This
Speaker 1: year he's got a one seventy four Babbitt, so I
Speaker 1: would send to a and you know, as bad as
Speaker 1: he is, still has two homers, still has three stolen bases,
Speaker 1: ten runs, and thirteen ribbies. Those got the yips. You
Speaker 1: can't throw the first base. Oh he's got something, But
Speaker 1: this is the first time that he's playing second base
Speaker 1: full time too. He's normally a guy that would bounce
Speaker 1: around the diamond, play a little bit of shore, play
Speaker 1: a little bit of first base. Overall, I do agree
Speaker 1: with venture. This is the one where I feel more
Speaker 1: so I would be buying him in deeper leagues, like
Speaker 1: in a twelve team league. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: would be buying right now more yeah, but in a
Speaker 1: fifteen team or especially with his versatility could play. I
Speaker 1: think he has outfield eligibility as middle enfield eligibility. I
Speaker 1: get behind that. I like buying him in a deeper league,
Speaker 1: and I would think, like, right now, you could pick
Speaker 1: up a Javis for third, you know whatever. You could
Speaker 1: pick up guys that are doing better right now, Michael Javis,
Speaker 1: who I did pick up recently um to replace Tim Beckham.
Speaker 1: But like I think later on, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: I would definitely buy him if I don't need him.
Speaker 1: I don't need him, But like I'm saying, I can
Speaker 1: guarante almost guarantee that he's going to have a much
Speaker 1: better production as we go on through the season because
Speaker 1: of that bad but once something was way too low
Speaker 1: for him. He doesn't strike out enough four Mitch Morley
Speaker 1: one seventy seven, Josh Harrison one. Eddie Rosario despite the
Speaker 1: ten old runs one four. Well, that's because all of
Speaker 1: the balls that he's hitting are not going to play.
Speaker 1: They're just over the wall. So that's why his bad
Speaker 1: is low. But it is still really low. So I
Speaker 1: would buy I'm buying any Rosario. He's very good at baseball.
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't this is what we were just
Speaker 1: talking about. Tyler Glasnock. You're buying him high, Greg, Well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a two thirty eight age. He's still producing.
Speaker 1: He's producing. That's why he's bad is as low as
Speaker 1: it is because it's basically he's hitting the ball out
Speaker 1: or probably not gonna be able to get him get ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to get him. Ryan O
Speaker 1: hearns at Nope, you gotta ask Florida about him. On Friday,
Speaker 1: Jock Peterson's at one another Florio guy and Kevin Pillar
Speaker 1: is at you. Guys. Both said an interesting group of players. Guys, well,
Speaker 1: a lot of them make senense to be this lower
Speaker 1: bad bits like Jock Peterson. I would expect, Kevin uh,
Speaker 1: Kevin pull out forget about him, Ryan o. Hern, I
Speaker 1: guess I would expect, but only three homers you define
Speaker 1: you don't want to buy that. Guys both said, you
Speaker 1: can name the hitters of the highest Babbitt Frank, how
Speaker 1: many can your name? Five? I'll see yeah, probably five?
Speaker 1: All right, so with Frank, go ahead. Christian Walker. Christian
Speaker 1: Walker is a ten on the list. He also has
Speaker 1: the hardest hit percentage in the majors right now at Yeah.
Speaker 1: I knew he had one that was up there. I
Speaker 1: wonder if this guy qualified after last night he missed time.
Speaker 1: We just spoke about how high is Babbitt was. I'll
Speaker 1: say him anyway, David dal I don't know if he qualified.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that he go off as
Speaker 1: either he's not on the list. He's not on the list,
Speaker 1: but he does have a massively high Babbitt. Um, let's
Speaker 1: go with do do do? I guess when I when
Speaker 1: I said I knew them. It was basically just Christian Walker. Okay,
Speaker 1: um no, oh, Cody Bergers were nine on the list.
Speaker 1: It's a massive but he's mashing right now. How about
Speaker 1: Christian yelch Christian is nonal list that's your second strike? Um,
Speaker 1: I will say, marm yeah, come on, Frank, all right, Chris, yes,
Speaker 1: he said you can get your five the right ahead.
Speaker 1: Timmy Anderson number one in the majors with this babit.
Speaker 1: He's bad currently is four thirty five? Would your Selti
Speaker 1: Manderson right now? No? Okay, so okay, regression is coming
Speaker 1: like he's not going to continue to hit over four hundred.
Speaker 1: But okay, Chris, who else? Um hunted Dozer Doser's nonalist? Okay?
Speaker 1: I guess I would say, my boy, what's his name?
Speaker 1: I don't know her? Boy is you have a lot
Speaker 1: of boys? No, I just had a guy in my head. Oh,
Speaker 1: um pulled the young is not on the list, not
Speaker 1: about I guess he's the rest of the rest of
Speaker 1: the list. Two of my guys. Elvis Andrews at four babbitt,
Speaker 1: I'm selling, would selldres right now. A problem with that
Speaker 1: Boom boom Man at four thirteen. I think about these guys, Greg,
Speaker 1: is what are you gonna get for them? What do
Speaker 1: you can get something? What do you get to get
Speaker 1: for Elvis Andrews if you trade Treeman SENI? Like, what
Speaker 1: is what is another Fantasy owner gonna give you for
Speaker 1: Treeman Seni? Right now? He's awesome? Though, No, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. That's why I think the point of this
Speaker 1: exercise is say like, well, is it for real? Can
Speaker 1: this guy keep it up? I don't you know? These
Speaker 1: guys are not gonna keep up this massive amount of
Speaker 1: babbitt for the entire season, but they are doing things differently,
Speaker 1: like Boom Boom has actually raised his launch angle this
Speaker 1: year and he's performing quite well. I still just don't
Speaker 1: think that anyone is going to give you anything for
Speaker 1: him Mancini though maybe. I mean, you know, he's producing
Speaker 1: and listen, I'm not a guy. I'm not a Mancini guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not big on him, so I would sell him
Speaker 1: and I think you'd get little him. Elvis Andrews has
Speaker 1: a forty seven percent hard hit rate right now, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean you want to talk about a resurgence. This
Speaker 1: guy is thirty years old. UM dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries last year. I know two years ago he
Speaker 1: was awesome. He had that career year twenty home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty five stone bases. But what he's doing right now
Speaker 1: doesn't look dissimilar from what he was doing that year. Yes,
Speaker 1: five homer's nineteen runs, twenty RBIs, and six stolen bases,
Speaker 1: and he's hitting third in the one of the top
Speaker 1: five best offenses in baseball. Right now, he's got a
Speaker 1: forty seven percent hard hit rate. So who are you
Speaker 1: talking about Elvis Andrews. I don't know that I'd be
Speaker 1: so quick to sell him. I just I think most
Speaker 1: I think most people would say sell him, and that's
Speaker 1: why you're not going to get fair value for him.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna get for for Elvis Andrews. There's
Speaker 1: two guys on this list that I would say I
Speaker 1: wouldn't sell because I feel like this is where they're
Speaker 1: Babbs would be maybe obviously a little lower, but close
Speaker 1: to this is Jeff McNeil, because the guy just hits
Speaker 1: and he doesn't hit a lot of home runs. Jem Right,
Speaker 1: and he puts the ball in play and he don't
Speaker 1: hit a lot of homers. So I expect his bad
Speaker 1: to be high because he gets a lot of hits.
Speaker 1: He gets a lot of multi hit games. And then
Speaker 1: the other one is David Perulta because he's another one
Speaker 1: hits a lot of line drives, doesn't hit a lot
Speaker 1: of like unless she at thirty homes. But he's not
Speaker 1: that type of guy selling those Those those guys, I'm
Speaker 1: not big on them, Like I'm not gonna own them,
Speaker 1: but if you do own them, I wouldn't sell them
Speaker 1: because I feel like this is around like the hot babies.
Speaker 1: They always have hot, hot bad. That's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: The other guys like well too, always well usually Chi
Speaker 1: shoot four oh three, Brian Goubin four oh four, and
Speaker 1: Dexter Fowler at four US. I would sell Fouler with
Speaker 1: a doubt, and you know one owns him coming back
Speaker 1: down to earth a little. Is he gonna keep this up?
Speaker 1: I trust trade Man Seni a little bit more than
Speaker 1: I trust Sin Chu. You look at trade Man Seni
Speaker 1: the age bat a ball profile right now and what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He's got a twenty six line drive right
Speaker 1: when you're you're bad a ball contact when you're putting
Speaker 1: the ball in play. A quarter of the time you're
Speaker 1: hitting a line drive, that's gonna help your babbitt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me continue with babbitt. But from the pictures side,
Speaker 1: the pictures that have gotten a little bit lucky here
Speaker 1: when it comes to babbitt in the top ten pictures,
Speaker 1: close your laptop the top ten pictures with the lowest
Speaker 1: babbitt in the majors. Chris, how do you think you
Speaker 1: can name lowest bab in the major? Um? I say three? Okay,
Speaker 1: I've I've learned my lesson lowest bab in the majors.
Speaker 1: I would say Luis Castile not on the list? I
Speaker 1: guess so, um, let's go which, No, not him? Not
Speaker 1: my sneeze. Now, I was gonna say Strausburg, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you know he wouldn't be on the list.
Speaker 1: I would say Spencer Turnbull. The Bull is not on
Speaker 1: the list. Bull one more? Please more? Guests tell you
Speaker 1: you really think the Bull is overperforming? Huh dates my
Speaker 1: face a little bit, a lot of it. Uh, talk
Speaker 1: bad about the ball. Let's go. You mentioned somebody before
Speaker 1: that I think is interesting. How about Trevor Richards. Trevor
Speaker 1: Richards is not on the list. Trevor Richards, though it
Speaker 1: wasn't one of my list. Trevor Richards has the highest
Speaker 1: x FIT in all of baseball at five point seven
Speaker 1: five little unlucky for Trevor Richards, highest expert in the league. Okay,
Speaker 1: can you need any players that a little bit? But
Speaker 1: you wanna just tell you Zach Davies. Zach Davis is
Speaker 1: not on the list. Number. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: D number one in Babbitt, lowest Babbitt and all baseball.
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock one six. Saw that to less. I saw
Speaker 1: someone tweeting about one sixty a little bit nervous? Are
Speaker 1: you a little bit nervous about the regression alert bat?
Speaker 1: I mean it's this regression comment. How dramatic is it
Speaker 1: gonna be? I don't think that dramatic. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be massively dramatic. And I do
Speaker 1: agree with you that I'm one sixty bad. He's not there,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to maintain that. Um he's
Speaker 1: got one ear a. He's got a two six nine
Speaker 1: fIF and at three eight x fit, and that's because
Speaker 1: he's only given up two home runs despite being more
Speaker 1: of an more of a flyball Pitcher. He allows fort
Speaker 1: fly balls, so there is gonna be some regression, but
Speaker 1: I would expect him to settle in around a mid
Speaker 1: three z A. Yeah, he's at one one right now.
Speaker 1: There's obvious regression, you know, coming with that. But the
Speaker 1: thing I'm more worried about what Paddock is is an
Speaker 1: inning's limit. At some point it's fatten him, and I
Speaker 1: think it's fair. You only chernos at one eight two
Speaker 1: oh sorry two, Domingo her mom one mhm, Justin Verlander
Speaker 1: at two oh two, Mike Minor at two o four.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, chess. How about these two back
Speaker 1: to back, Trevor Bauer at talking about him before, Shane
Speaker 1: Bieber at two twenty two? Interesting last two or Caleb
Speaker 1: Smith once again and then your boy and Nick Vicious. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a fine line here, and this is what I'll
Speaker 1: say about these pictures who have low babbits. If you're
Speaker 1: a really good picture, you're going to have a low babbit,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a low batting average against. If you're
Speaker 1: one of the elite, then you deserve to be here.
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer, Justin Verlander. Those guys deserve to be here,
Speaker 1: are they going to maintain a babbit this low the
Speaker 1: entire season. No, And there's gonna be some regression obviously,
Speaker 1: Like you know, they're not gonna A lot of these
Speaker 1: guys have very low e arras right now, and they'll
Speaker 1: settle in as a even the best pictures high twos
Speaker 1: e r a low three's ear a. But what I
Speaker 1: will say is a lot of the best pictures and
Speaker 1: maintain low babbage because they're the best. And then the
Speaker 1: picture self contact I think Bower Verlander and the most
Speaker 1: interest trying to find the pictures in there that aren't
Speaker 1: the best picture, the most interesting names the man, he's
Speaker 1: a really good pitch. Is he this good? Probably not,
Speaker 1: but he's good. He's really he's good for Chris VNTRA,
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