Speaker 1: Leading Off starts right now. Friends, I am Chris Welsh.
Speaker 1: That is Andrew Seifer, and welcome in and thank you
Speaker 1: for hanging out with us. Leading Off brought to you
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Speaker 1: almost in September. We are in the final stretch, and
Speaker 1: Andrew and I are here to help you out. Andrew,
Speaker 1: how was your weekend? My friend?
Speaker 2: So good man, I just you know, I was telling
Speaker 2: you right before show. I took my daughter to a
Speaker 2: little butterfly garden, got out in some fresh air because
Speaker 2: you know, with all the sports watching going on, sometimes
Speaker 2: it's hard.
Speaker 3: To get out of your your living room there.
Speaker 2: But you know, especially with football coming too, I know Sunday,
Speaker 2: you know, Sundays and Saturdays are going to start getting
Speaker 2: booked for me for a lot of TV watching. So I
Speaker 2: got to take those nature opportunities when I can, you know.
Speaker 1: Speaking of bet MGM, I found myself even on another
Speaker 1: realm of wanting to bet this week, and because there
Speaker 1: was even preseason NFL, and it got my baseball juices
Speaker 1: going a little bit more. I did think I cursed
Speaker 1: it though. I had one bet yesterday and I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I had two baseball bets, and they both surrounded around
Speaker 1: Shoho Tani and the Angels and couldn't have done a
Speaker 1: better job about that, cursing Otani having one of his
Speaker 1: worst starts of his career, eighty five pitches through four,
Speaker 1: couldn't strike anybody out, couldn't command anything, couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Angels had an opportunity. I also had a total team
Speaker 1: total runs in the first five they had all the
Speaker 1: base I think the bases were loaded with hern Gifo.
Speaker 3: It was a.
Speaker 1: Disaster, but we're gonna change it this week. Whether it's
Speaker 1: football and or baseball betting, We've got the whole gambit
Speaker 1: of stuff to talk about, so let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: Cardinals sweep my Diamondbacks over the weekend to extend a
Speaker 1: seven game winning streak, and I picked up a couple
Speaker 1: homers from Goldie. So again, I don't I think I'm
Speaker 1: at like thirty maybe maybe thirty homers go Cards probably knows.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know where I'm at. Look at the
Speaker 1: home run board, because we do have a new leader
Speaker 1: here in just a little bit. It would be a
Speaker 1: miracle for me to get in there. But I think
Speaker 1: I am crossing the thirty home run mark, which I'm
Speaker 1: very happy about. The Cardinals sweep the Diamondbacks over the
Speaker 1: weekend and now seven game winning streak be as they rock.
Speaker 1: In twelve games with the Dodgers, Andrew Joey Gallow has
Speaker 1: slashed two sixty seven, three seventy one, six sixty seven.
Speaker 1: The Yankees, he had a one fifty nine, two eighty two,
Speaker 1: three thirty nine slash line. Joey Gallow was not done.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Wonky for it. How much does your
Speaker 1: how much in your belief does Joey Gallow exist like
Speaker 1: rest of season into next year? Was this really a
Speaker 1: change of scenery that was needed because we're seeing that
Speaker 1: remember that theoretical time where we look at Joey Gallow's
Speaker 1: numbers when he was with the Rangers, were like, if
Speaker 1: he could just hit two thirty, he would be this.
Speaker 1: He is doing that in a platoonish type of role
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think Joey Gallow
Speaker 2: is what joe Gallop has always been. And people, you know,
Speaker 2: it is funny what you said is totally true. With batting,
Speaker 2: average people always can kind of just dream because you
Speaker 2: know there is more fluctuation with that stat from year
Speaker 2: to year, So there will be some years where he
Speaker 2: hits for a higher average. There are also be years
Speaker 2: where his average, like this year is like one seventy,
Speaker 2: you know. And I think going to the Dodgers sometimes
Speaker 2: you get excited, you know, you get a short term boost,
Speaker 2: but I don't really see that as something that's going
Speaker 2: to be changed his outlook longer term, even for the
Speaker 2: rest of the season. Like you said, he's he's a
Speaker 2: platoon player. I mean, he's only he's only playing against righty,
Speaker 2: so you know, it's it's you know, I'd almost rather
Speaker 2: have Albert Pooholes, honestly, you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's fine. I remember back in the day, we
Speaker 1: would you took a look, you take a look at
Speaker 1: like kind of stacking players in fantasy, and we would
Speaker 1: go if you had I'm trying to remember who the
Speaker 1: runner was. Maybe it was all who is the astros guy?
Speaker 1: It's not Willie Tavirus if you remember, like and maybe
Speaker 1: I'm mixing it, but it was like if you took
Speaker 1: a WILLI to various type of guy, and then you
Speaker 1: took Joey Gallo, if you combine them together, you would
Speaker 1: have like a first overall fantasy player. But it's the
Speaker 1: dream on and there's a lot of those guys that
Speaker 1: acusly would be a fun article of like who are
Speaker 1: players we'd dream on? You know, we dream on Joey
Speaker 1: Gallo doing this. We dream on Byron Buckston, you know,
Speaker 1: being out there. We dream on Mike Trout continuously being healthy.
Speaker 1: But this is actually something good for Joey Gallo's career.
Speaker 1: I actually think that this would continue. You know, Dodgers
Speaker 1: only put him in in a place to succeed, even
Speaker 1: if his bats at bats were lower. I would rather
Speaker 1: four hundred at bats versus writings with Joey Gallo than
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty doing the whole thing and struggling
Speaker 1: and losing time. This would I wish teams would take
Speaker 1: some of these players because we're seeing like an uptick
Speaker 1: in these like to ten to fifteen to twenty type
Speaker 1: of hitters more and more. Let's just put them in
Speaker 1: the best situations to succeed. You know, Brandon Jury kind
Speaker 1: of bucked that a little bit, but why not? Why not? Andrew?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's like it's so format dependent, honestly,
Speaker 2: with a player like Joey Gallo, though I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's if you're in a points league, like
Speaker 2: he's better, you know, because he draws walks and the
Speaker 2: batting average doesn't kill you as much. If you're in
Speaker 2: a daily lineups league and you don't mind a little
Speaker 2: maintenance on your team, then yeah, you play him when
Speaker 2: when he's playing, You sit him when he's sitting against
Speaker 2: the lefties, and.
Speaker 3: You get the best out of him. So you can
Speaker 3: make it work.
Speaker 2: You can also draft, you know, go into the season
Speaker 2: and draft some high batting average guys to like offset gallop.
Speaker 2: So there are ways to make it work. He's a
Speaker 2: high maintenance player in my opinion and for fantasy. So
Speaker 2: if you're the kind of manager that just wants to
Speaker 2: set it and forget it, or you know, if you
Speaker 2: have weekly lineups, you're getting like a top one hundred,
Speaker 2: top one fifty at best overall player for the full
Speaker 2: season when you factor in the warts. But if you
Speaker 2: have some flexibility in your format, can he can be
Speaker 2: valuable for you.
Speaker 1: Do an article called Once upon a Dream, and I'll
Speaker 1: just take these players where it's like, if they could
Speaker 1: just do this one thing, everything could be okay in
Speaker 1: the world. They can only do one Alec Boom two
Speaker 1: homers in the Mets loss. Boom now a three to
Speaker 1: nineteen average in the second half compared to a two
Speaker 1: seventy six. And I just wanted to bring this up
Speaker 1: to you, Andrew, because I was just doing a little
Speaker 1: deep dive on Alec Bohm and across the board it's
Speaker 1: all better in the second half. I show up hard
Speaker 1: hit was around twenty eight percent in the first half.
Speaker 1: It's up to thirty eight percent in the second half.
Speaker 1: I mean, you pick the number. Strikeout percentage has gone
Speaker 1: down or k percentage has gone down by two. The
Speaker 1: entire thing has fixed itself to a degree, of course.
Speaker 1: And over the last thirty days, at least on Yahoo's algorithm,
Speaker 1: he is a top thirty five overall player with four homers,
Speaker 1: twenty one RBI, seventeen runs and that three nineteen batting
Speaker 1: average essentially equating to the second half is the last
Speaker 1: thirty days. And do you think the death of Alec
Speaker 1: Bohm in fantasy was premature as he's really found seemed
Speaker 1: to find a stride even though none of it's elite.
Speaker 1: You know, four homers, blah bla blah, it's not going
Speaker 1: to work. But he does have three homers in each
Speaker 1: of the last two months as it's picking up Alec
Speaker 1: Boum sixty percent owned and Yahoo Alec Boem Trust rest
Speaker 1: of this season and into the future.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he's going to kill you.
Speaker 2: I think he's got a really good hit tool. I
Speaker 2: think he can hit for a pretty high average. To me,
Speaker 2: the question is really about the power because he doesn't
Speaker 2: offer steals. So if he's not offering steals and he's
Speaker 2: not offering home runs, he's not going to be that
Speaker 2: interesting in a Rodo categories kind of league. You don't
Speaker 2: want him to be Luis Arayaz, right, So you know,
Speaker 2: it is nice to see the upteck and power. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you looked when you looked at his splits,
Speaker 2: if you happen to look at his launch angle, because
Speaker 2: that's the thing I'm really wanting to see. His launch
Speaker 2: angle's ten point eight percent for the season right now,
Speaker 2: so that's up from last year, but it's still pretty mediocre.
Speaker 2: It's not the kind of launch angle that is going
Speaker 2: to get you twenty five thirty home runs over a season,
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: He does make hard contact, but he hits a lot
Speaker 2: of line drives, hits a lot of ground balls. So
Speaker 2: you know, I still am not really there in believing
Speaker 2: that the power is come based on this short hot streak,
Speaker 2: So I need to see it more before I believe that.
Speaker 2: But you know, he's only twenty six years old, so
Speaker 2: he's got a long career ahead of him. I could
Speaker 2: certainly see him making the adjustments to become more of
Speaker 2: a power hitter. I just don't know if that's happened yet.
Speaker 1: I think there might be something in Dynasty for a
Speaker 1: buy rest of season. I think you just you're comfortable
Speaker 1: with what you know you have with him, and it's
Speaker 1: probably shorter league where he's available first to second half.
Speaker 1: August has been a little bit of a drudge outlie
Speaker 1: of the side of this last week, and it was
Speaker 1: really July that he boosted. But homer und the fly
Speaker 1: ball ratio eight percent in the first half jumped up
Speaker 1: to almost fourteen percent this half. His ground ball rate
Speaker 1: has also dropped by around three percent this half. His
Speaker 1: slugging is up over one hundred points, So this is
Speaker 1: really about what he's doing in the second half. Is
Speaker 1: there sustainability? Have we found growth in him? And if
Speaker 1: we take these numbers of what he's doing in this
Speaker 1: short stin of the second half, can this be something
Speaker 1: elongated over a season for next year? And I think
Speaker 1: it might be. What it would do for him though,
Speaker 1: is this would probably be something where you know, he's
Speaker 1: like a poor, poor poor man's Alec Bregman, you know,
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman, where it's like, you're gonna maybe get to
Speaker 1: twenty five homers, you could have a high adding average.
Speaker 1: Bregman's gonna get a more steels than Bom is going
Speaker 1: to be just something to look out for as he
Speaker 1: kind of picks that up. On the prospect side, the
Speaker 1: Royals are calling up Drew Waters from Triple A. He
Speaker 1: was he was acquired like last month in that brave
Speaker 1: competitive balance pick trade that they did where the Braves
Speaker 1: were just picking up the thirty fifth overall pick and
Speaker 1: they got and the Royals got Drew Waters and he
Speaker 1: was see blah blah blah two three ninety nine five
Speaker 1: forty one slash is seven homers and the thirteen stolen
Speaker 1: bases in one hundred and forty three played appearances over
Speaker 1: thirty one games of the Royals so far. Drew Waters
Speaker 1: was a very highly, highly tited prospect. There's a huge,
Speaker 1: huge bat speed in his game, There's a lot of
Speaker 1: swing and miss. He's kind of stalled. There were big
Speaker 1: stolen base numbers. This is the like the theoretical five
Speaker 1: tool type of outfielder whose hit tool really really regressed.
Speaker 1: And now he's gonna come up with the Royals and
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to have any interest in speculating on
Speaker 1: a guy like Drew Waters who has some you know,
Speaker 1: power speed potential if he plays through the second half
Speaker 1: of this year and really you know, also just him
Speaker 1: having the potential to play when he's found his groove
Speaker 1: with the Royals is a big move because the Braves
Speaker 1: typically move up their outfielders. He was the outlier that
Speaker 1: did not get it. So any interest in Drew Waters.
Speaker 2: I certainly would be interested in a speculative ad in
Speaker 2: a Rodeo categories league just because of the sole and
Speaker 2: based potential that he brings. You know, I feel like
Speaker 2: he's very much the opposite kind of player as Alex Boem.
Speaker 3: He's very toolsy player.
Speaker 2: But you know, you look at the minor league numbers
Speaker 2: and you mentioned he was hitting two ninety five in
Speaker 2: the Royals Triple A system, but he had a twenty
Speaker 2: eight point seven percent strikeout rate, So oh, you know,
Speaker 2: if you have that highest strike out rate in Triple A, like,
Speaker 2: you're probably going to be striking out well north of
Speaker 2: thirty percent in the big leagues, which means you're going
Speaker 2: to be a major batting average liability. So like, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me to see him kind of go the
Speaker 2: root of like Josh Low, where it just doesn't work out.
Speaker 3: But it's fine to take a chance.
Speaker 2: I have no problem with that as long as the
Speaker 2: Royals actually do give him regular playing time. We always assume, oh,
Speaker 2: this is a team that's out of it, like they
Speaker 2: they why wouldn't they play their young guys the last
Speaker 2: five six weeks of the season. But we've seen the
Speaker 2: Royals frustrate us with some of this stuff before. I mean,
Speaker 2: they kept Carlos Santana around way longer than we wish
Speaker 2: they would, and we had to wait on Vinie pas Quentino,
Speaker 2: we had to wait on MJ. Melendez to get regular
Speaker 2: playing time. Edward Oliveris is a guy people have always
Speaker 2: gotten really excited about, and then he doesn't. He never plays,
Speaker 2: you know, so I mean, they still have Kyle I
Speaker 2: isbel there, They've got Michael Taylor. There's some guys who
Speaker 2: could be standing in his way for regular playing time.
Speaker 2: So I want to just kind of see how it
Speaker 2: pans out.
Speaker 1: Something to be interesting to watch with him, Like a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, there's kind of a I've seen some
Speaker 1: chatter about this online over the weekend about how teams
Speaker 1: are starting to adjust to Michael Harris and the big
Speaker 1: I mean, it is like I really want to actually
Speaker 1: talk to the AFL coming in like a month and
Speaker 1: a half. I really want to talk to some prospects
Speaker 1: about this and what changed and when this became the thing.
Speaker 1: But like one of the biggest issues in developmental changes,
Speaker 1: especially if you have really good hitters, is high fastballs.
Speaker 1: And like I got to report kind of really good prospect,
Speaker 1: one of the top prospects, and how the only hole
Speaker 1: in their game currently is high velocity and in the
Speaker 1: upper region of the zone. And that's something that kind
Speaker 1: of like a lot of these guys are always dealing
Speaker 1: with and always struggling through, where like Michael Harris has
Speaker 1: been hitting nothing but fastballs. Guy's grooving in high v low.
Speaker 1: A lot of relievers and stuff and not throwing them
Speaker 1: off speed pitches. And I'd be curious to see if
Speaker 1: that's what Drew Water sees early on, because I actually
Speaker 1: think he could have some early success if he gets
Speaker 1: a bunch of fastballs. But then what's going to happen
Speaker 1: is when teams start, you know, throwing in any breaking
Speaker 1: pitches and then complimenting that with high zone fastballs. Is
Speaker 1: he a higher upper zone fastball hitter. And I don't
Speaker 1: think he is big strikeout guy. He's kind of a
Speaker 1: chase guy. So just monitor him, just kind of throwing
Speaker 1: it out there and letting everybody know that Drew Waters
Speaker 1: is coming up. On the injury front, Braxton Garrett fifteen
Speaker 1: day IL, Tyler Molly fifteen IL with shoulder inflammation. Actually
Speaker 1: thought we were gonna not get him there, Sir Anthony
Speaker 1: Dominguez on the fifteen day. George Springer was hit on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but otherwise he missed the weekend with right knee soreness.
Speaker 1: That's kind of just been a continuous thing with him. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Eric Costmer miss Sunday's game after leaving Saturday with lower
Speaker 1: back stiffness. Granky was pulled from his start on Sunday
Speaker 1: with right forum cramping. Look at all these injuries, King
Speaker 1: Thompson on the fifteen goes Many grand Doll on the
Speaker 1: ten day with the hyper extended knee, and Kyle Hendricks
Speaker 1: out for the rest of the year. With twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: we are in that like out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season thing here with this month ago, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have teams just giving up pushing out. I expect to
Speaker 1: probably see a big uptick in injuries, Andrew, don't.
Speaker 3: You like Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping with Tyler Molly that it will be a
Speaker 2: short stay on the IL and clearly they need him.
Speaker 2: They went out and got him, so, you know, and
Speaker 2: he had really turned his season around as well. So
Speaker 2: I'm still like hopeful that we get a month more
Speaker 2: of good Tyler Mole in September to you know, help
Speaker 2: us with that stretch run. And Braxton Garrett is a
Speaker 2: real disappointing one for me because I really he just
Speaker 2: seemed on the verge of a huge breakout to me,
Speaker 2: and then he had this string of just awful matchups.
Speaker 2: I wrote about him in my waiver wire piece at
Speaker 2: Fantasy pros on I wrote it on Friday.
Speaker 3: It came up Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: But you know, he was still a players recommending to
Speaker 2: pick up just because of the potential. But I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, you're not gonna want to start him, probably
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers, And now we have this, so it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of a bummer. Maybe his maybe his full
Speaker 2: breakout gets pushed back to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: But I still really like him for the long term.
Speaker 1: So I got a random it's a new segment. It's
Speaker 1: a brand new segment on the show. You know, we
Speaker 1: love to interact. We've got the peanuts and cracker jacks.
Speaker 1: We have one of the best chats. There's rocking through.
Speaker 1: Look at all these guys. If you guys aren't hanging out,
Speaker 1: get in here. You get the whole crew. And hear
Speaker 1: Wonky is rocking with everybody. So man of the people,
Speaker 1: and I like to see what the chatter is. So
Speaker 1: we are going to do a new segment. It's called
Speaker 1: Twitter Chatter. What's going on? I'm pick a totally random
Speaker 1: baseball tweet, has nothing to do with anything, completely random,
Speaker 1: and it close my eyes. Pick okay, here it is.
Speaker 1: This is from John Anderson from Rotoballer, totally random tweet
Speaker 1: ONEO Cruz has been one of the worst hitters in
Speaker 1: the league this year, So that's nine for Pirates fans.
Speaker 1: He's hitting one ninety six with a two forty four
Speaker 1: OBP at three eighty six slugging. He's got a huge
Speaker 1: strikeout problem thirty eight percent, and his sixty one percent
Speaker 1: contact rate is horrific, and he's hitting way too many
Speaker 1: ground balls fifty three percent when he does make contact.
Speaker 1: It's totally random. Tweet Andrew completely innocuous ONEO Cruz Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year, not so much heading under two hundred.
Speaker 1: You got it? Is Oneokruz trustworthy on your roster rest
Speaker 1: of season in redraft.
Speaker 2: I mean I wouldn't say he's trustworthy, but I would
Speaker 2: point out he's got nine homers and six deals in
Speaker 2: fifty games. So like, that's that's a pretty good pace.
Speaker 2: That's that's a what twenty thirty home run fifteen plus
Speaker 2: steel pace more thirty steel pace, So yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that'll play, you know, in a category rodor league at least,
Speaker 2: and at points leek it probably doesn't play at all.
Speaker 2: And I agree, I mean with that swing and miss
Speaker 2: in his game, like the batting average is not really
Speaker 2: a fluke. I mean, this guy clearly has some adjustments
Speaker 2: to make to be a long term major League baseball player.
Speaker 2: But it's one of those things where in fantasy you
Speaker 2: can kind of deal with it a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I obviously I disagree
Speaker 1: a little bit when you say, like it totally plays like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the homers in the stolen bases, they play to a degree,
Speaker 1: but you know you're going to sink your batting average
Speaker 1: and you're going to have you might have a week
Speaker 1: of sunken stats. But again, oh no, Cruise, super crazy talent,
Speaker 1: just you know, one of the biggest strikeout rates hitting
Speaker 1: under two hundred and maybe one of the most overrated,
Speaker 1: overrated guys as far as public perception for this year.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's so young, now, I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: he's yeah.
Speaker 1: It's my I have a big if you don't get
Speaker 1: the bit here, I've been critical of him this year
Speaker 1: and how he was anointed. He literally came up and
Speaker 1: the first day he came up, he had Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year top odds. He was gonna win the award
Speaker 1: this year. I think he's completely overrated. Long term, he's
Speaker 1: a buye. He's his talent is stupid. The home run
Speaker 1: when he gets it figured out. If he gets it
Speaker 1: figured out, it's going to be well.
Speaker 2: It's like it's the same thing you were talking about
Speaker 2: with Joey Gallo. Honestly, it's like people dream like, oh,
Speaker 2: what if he can only hit two fifty then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, all this power and speed, He's going
Speaker 2: to be a stud, you know.
Speaker 1: But in my article, if I was writing that article,
Speaker 1: Joey Gallo would be in there. He would one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, because he's that guy that you know, even
Speaker 1: in bad batting averages, you can probably still project high runs, RBI,
Speaker 1: homer and stolen bases. Maybe not iby and run are
Speaker 1: gonna be a little dicey, maybe in the median range,
Speaker 1: but you can project if you're gonna get twenty eight
Speaker 1: homers and twelve stolen bases, that's awesome. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: feel great when it's attached to a one batting average Drew.
Speaker 2: But I'd rather dream on a twenty three year old,
Speaker 2: you know, who's just getting his first taste of the
Speaker 2: major leagues than dreaming on Joey Gallo, who we know
Speaker 2: what he is one way or.
Speaker 1: Another context of what you're saying in redraft or dynasty.
Speaker 2: Uh well, I mean, honestly, I don't think i'd want
Speaker 2: either of them in my starting lineup in a ten
Speaker 2: or twelve team league in redraft right now.
Speaker 1: This is not a question like O'Neill Cruz is like
Speaker 1: worlds and universes beyond the guy.
Speaker 2: But even if you say redraft for next season, for example,
Speaker 2: like I think there's a better chance that O'Neil Cruz
Speaker 2: takes a big step forward, Joey gal gets lucky and
Speaker 2: hits two sixty, you know.
Speaker 1: Totally agree, totally agree with that. Check Out this tweet
Speaker 1: from CBS Sports Home Runs since August tenth, Mike Marrickle
Speaker 1: sent this to me. Albert Poolhole six, the team Phillies,
Speaker 1: the whole team five, the whole team of the Rangers five,
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox three. That's actually more amazing than
Speaker 1: pool I was having more homers than them. Is the
Speaker 1: Red Sogs having three homers on that. I like that
Speaker 1: tweet as pool Holes. We all want Poolholes to get
Speaker 1: to seven hundred. I really do. I wanted to play
Speaker 1: all the games double aheaders. Just get him playing whatever
Speaker 1: position he's got to play like, I just want to
Speaker 1: see it. And if he stops at six ninety nine,
Speaker 1: I think he's.
Speaker 2: Got a better chance than he does did the last
Speaker 2: time we talked about it. So he keeps hitting two
Speaker 2: home runs whenever he plays, he could get there even
Speaker 2: with spot starts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go to some stat heroes for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Mark Canna three for five, he had two homers five
Speaker 1: RBIs had that big injured at the I think it
Speaker 1: was on Saturday. Alec Bohm three for five, two homer,
Speaker 1: six RBI. Jake Frayley two for two with a homer,
Speaker 1: three RBI and a stolen basil combo meal. Evan Longoria
Speaker 1: just coming back. Emory is one of my favorite players
Speaker 1: when he was a Ray. When he was coming up,
Speaker 1: I loved Longoria Man three for four, homer, four RBI.
Speaker 1: Kesten Hira from the Dead Zombie Keston here two for four,
Speaker 1: two homers, three RB. I would love for that to
Speaker 1: kick back. Riley Green had a homer and an incredible catch.
Speaker 1: Because I was dialed into that Angels game when I
Speaker 1: wasn't complaining about MLB's blackout rules, he had this diving
Speaker 1: catch in center field to absolutely take away a run
Speaker 1: in my team total first five looking really really good,
Speaker 1: that whole defense. They also robbed one at the wall
Speaker 1: as well. It was just you know, trying to kill me,
Speaker 1: Sayasa Zuki three for three with a bomb, Andrew beinin
Speaker 1: Tendi had a homer, Matt Olsen with a homer in
Speaker 1: Shane Leangaliers three for four with a RBI in a run.
Speaker 1: Anybody took out your fancy in this group, I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of potential. And the Shanelangaliers kind of
Speaker 1: jumps out to me as he continues to hit with
Speaker 1: this team, and this is really this is one of
Speaker 1: those working out young guys. Why, regardless of what's going on,
Speaker 1: find a way to pick them up. See if it works,
Speaker 1: and guys like von Grissom and Shaleangliers it is working.
Speaker 2: Andrew Yeah. And I mean the fact the fact that
Speaker 2: he's a catcher too. I mean, like this is a
Speaker 2: guy who was hitting two eighty three with nineteen homers
Speaker 2: and five steals in ninety two games in Triple A.
Speaker 2: So uh, you know it's more than just this hot
Speaker 2: star right now. I mean he is striking out an
Speaker 2: awful lot so far, but it's only twenty plays appearances,
Speaker 2: so we shouldn't overreact to that. I mean, I did
Speaker 2: the bar Is solo with Catcher, like I feel like
Speaker 2: he's the kind of guy that like instantly it is interesting,
Speaker 2: like it doesn't take much at all to become like
Speaker 2: a worthy player of picking up.
Speaker 3: In a ten or twelve team league at Catcher.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting about that too, is I think
Speaker 1: there's the potential you can make arguments that there might
Speaker 1: be a three she canna say there's more than that,
Speaker 1: maybe four. Probably on four, let's go with four four
Speaker 1: catchers that could be inside the top twelve for next
Speaker 1: year that have less than a year of experience in there.
Speaker 1: And we're talking Adlee, you're talking MJ. Melendez, who I
Speaker 1: think could be in that conversation. Shane Lingleiers is probably
Speaker 1: a little bit dicey, But you know what, if he
Speaker 1: finishes out this whole way through, it's going to be
Speaker 1: hard to take that bat off. And maybe Francisco Aalverretz
Speaker 1: going into next year, if he gets a little bit
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee and you look at that, and
Speaker 1: you know Adley was Adley was being drafted. I was
Speaker 1: very critical of this, but it all works out in
Speaker 1: the end where Adley was being drafted as like the
Speaker 1: fifth catcher in a lot of leads this year, yet
Speaker 1: he didn't come up for the first half of the season.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of stupid unless you are comfortable with
Speaker 1: it being able to just kind of like roster him
Speaker 1: at the bottom. But then it's worked out. Adley's going
Speaker 1: to be drafted as a number one catcher next year,
Speaker 1: and there's actually a little doubt in my mind that
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Maybe Ramutto gets in there. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think Ali would be the number one.
Speaker 1: But you now, look is you could have four of
Speaker 1: the young young catchers make up the top twelve of
Speaker 1: overall catchers drafted next year. Who do you think would
Speaker 1: be out of that list? It's obviously going to probably well,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be Adle, so it's going to
Speaker 1: be one of the others. Who do you think is
Speaker 1: on the fringe of that top twelve?
Speaker 3: Uh, remind me who the other three you said were?
Speaker 1: Alvarez who hasn't come up yet. You know, shee Lengeliers,
Speaker 1: who's rocking in a bad lineup, who should hit in
Speaker 1: the middle in perpetuity, and then you have him j Melendez.
Speaker 2: I think it has to be Alvarez just because we
Speaker 2: haven't we haven't seen it yet and we don't know
Speaker 2: exactly when he's going to get the opportunity. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've been on Melendez all along. I just like what
Speaker 2: this guy did in the minor. I mean he he
Speaker 2: had forty home runs in the miners last season, you know,
Speaker 2: and it was amazing because they had sal Perez do
Speaker 2: it in the majors and Melendez doing the miners, so
Speaker 2: it was really nice to see.
Speaker 3: That was one situation where you had to wait a
Speaker 3: little while.
Speaker 2: But then they really have stuck with Melendez through the
Speaker 2: ups and downs, which are to be expected. So I
Speaker 2: like him a lot. You know, there's other young catchers too.
Speaker 2: I think Kibar Ruiz has had kind of a tough year,
Speaker 2: but I still think he could be a top twelve
Speaker 2: catcher next season. Alejandro Kirk, of course, has been a
Speaker 2: revelation this season. So yeah, so it's a good time
Speaker 2: for young catchers.
Speaker 3: Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Kirk could be anywhere from three to four
Speaker 1: overall and catcher at the catcher spot. The questionable thing
Speaker 1: to me is after Adley, it's this little clump of
Speaker 1: like is it going to be Ramuto, Is it going
Speaker 1: to be a sal Is it going to be Wilson,
Speaker 1: Catreras or Dalton Varshow? You know, like that type of
Speaker 1: grouping of guys somewhere in there that's not a bad spot.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, if you don't get
Speaker 1: those guys, then you can take the Melendez is the room,
Speaker 1: you know, the ruiz is you can just kind of
Speaker 1: take some of those shots in the dark on And
Speaker 1: I mean Cole Rally can't hit for average, but he
Speaker 1: leads catchers and homers this year. So this is why
Speaker 1: I don't spin too too heavy. It's a pretty good group.
Speaker 2: I mean, real Muto, I've got him. I mean, and
Speaker 2: if you play in any type of a categories league
Speaker 2: like he has really just been a huge boost with
Speaker 2: the stolen basis. I mean, this season kind of got
Speaker 2: off to a rough start, but yeah, I mean now
Speaker 2: he's just he's really cooking. And then of course Will
Speaker 2: Smith is also always well.
Speaker 1: Yeah in that group too. That you know, fun debate
Speaker 1: would be Adley or Rumuto for next year. On what
Speaker 1: side people are going to go with. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: something we'll bring up later.
Speaker 2: Ady gets to make his audition for the next Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, and he's been doing it. I
Speaker 1: think one of the god if I remember, he might
Speaker 1: be the highest. I could be completely wrong about this.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was like the highest war
Speaker 1: of all catchers already in his short I mean, now
Speaker 1: I have to look. So this is ruining my So
Speaker 1: let's take a look here, let's take off qualified and
Speaker 1: let's see war for catchers just because I said it,
Speaker 1: and we can't not do it. No, but he is
Speaker 1: the okay, so this is a wild one. He is
Speaker 1: the fifth highest in war for catchers. He's within one
Speaker 1: full point of the top guy, which is Ramuto. But
Speaker 1: he's done it in only seventy three games. The next
Speaker 1: lowest is Jose Travino in eighty eight. The other three
Speaker 1: Will Smith, Sean Murphy, and Ramuto all over one hundred games.
Speaker 1: Adley has a three and a half war in seventy
Speaker 1: three games. That's a wild number, folks. That's a wild
Speaker 1: number for a rookie and a catcher let alone.
Speaker 3: I'll still take Rio, Muto and Redraft next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he would probably take it. But if
Speaker 1: there's a discount, if there's a big gap, that would
Speaker 1: change my mind. I will never ever, You'll never see
Speaker 1: me pay up for catchers. So if you know, unless
Speaker 1: you're in a two catcher league, of course, but if
Speaker 1: you're in like a single catcher league and you're paying
Speaker 1: fifth round, that'll never be me. I'll just take the
Speaker 1: back end of what's still out there, and if there's
Speaker 1: a big gap between Adley and him, that's where I
Speaker 1: would pick some big perform from this weekend. Justin Steele
Speaker 1: has been just such a good second half, just maybe
Speaker 1: most of the season. Guy six struck out nine, gave
Speaker 1: up only two hits or six with three strikeout. Sean
Speaker 1: and Iya went seven, striking out four, giving up five hits,
Speaker 1: no walks. Nester Cortez struck out five and six, and
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa six, striking out eight, hitting one judge and
Speaker 1: starting one fight with Garrett Cole telling him to do
Speaker 1: you see He's like, cross that what a weird like
Speaker 1: come get me bro line where he's like if he
Speaker 1: wants to come and walk past the AUDI sign, like
Speaker 1: what did you see? Did you see that?
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: He hit Aaron Judge and they were kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole just kind of jumped up and freaked out.
Speaker 1: And then in a post conference thing, Alec Manoa is like, well,
Speaker 1: if he wants to do something, he can cross that
Speaker 1: Audie sign. And what he was talking about was like
Speaker 1: the painted Audi logo on the field, and it was
Speaker 1: just like.
Speaker 3: Do you think Audi is happy about this? Reference?
Speaker 1: That had to be worth at least like half a
Speaker 1: million dollars in.
Speaker 3: Their new ad campaign across the Audio sign.
Speaker 1: Right now, if baseball was like hockey and they had
Speaker 1: like a you know, like a fight and then a
Speaker 1: two minutes in the booth that could be sponsored by
Speaker 1: Audi and everyone would love it one hundred percent. Since
Speaker 1: stat zero, Kyle Stowers who got called up over four
Speaker 1: to four strikeouts, some Ophers with three strikeouts, Aristide is
Speaker 1: a Kenyo, Jeremy Peigne, Johannio Suarez, Brett Batio for five
Speaker 1: and Michael Harris so for fours. We got to watch
Speaker 1: the Michael Harris stuff. This is a huge key to
Speaker 1: the next year value on Michael Harris is how he
Speaker 1: adjusts now that the league is adjusting to him. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot more breaking pitches which he hits
Speaker 1: at a much lower rate, and let's see where the
Speaker 1: struggle or where the return comes from. I think that
Speaker 1: will tell you how elite we walk into next season
Speaker 1: with him on the picture side. Struggles Sandi al Contra
Speaker 1: a rare wear struggle six earned runs, ten hits, five
Speaker 1: K's Jose Quintana only went two and two thirds give
Speaker 1: up two earned runs with seven hits. Mike Minor gave
Speaker 1: up five. Kyle Gibson didn't go five and show Heyotani,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, gave up three and runs in four.
Speaker 1: But one of his eighty five pitches in four innings
Speaker 1: is one of the lower outputs across the board. The
Speaker 1: Sandy one, do you think? I think you and I
Speaker 1: have talked about this just real quick. We've talked about
Speaker 1: the the cy Young stuff, and I want to say
Speaker 1: that you were in on some of the others beside Sandy.
Speaker 1: This is one of those things that I think lowers
Speaker 1: the market a little bit for Sandy and closes the gap.
Speaker 1: I think it was Burns that was number two. And
Speaker 1: I know there's some people that hit me up about,
Speaker 1: like Edwin Diaz maybe being in that mix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was saying Sures are as a
Speaker 2: long shot, but yeah, yeah, I mean that's the thing
Speaker 2: with al Contra. It's just the margin for air, the
Speaker 2: fact that he's not on a winning team and isn't
Speaker 2: piling up a huge win total. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: isn't a huge strikeout guy. There's just certain things that
Speaker 2: make it. He doesn't have that huge margin for air.
Speaker 2: So a couple more starts like this, I agree, I
Speaker 2: think that that would really open the door. But I
Speaker 2: just I never saw him as like a runaway for it.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go and check out the home run leaderboard,
Speaker 1: which we don't have a graphic. I need to get
Speaker 1: on them to get us a new graphic because we
Speaker 1: have a brand new leader on the board. High Covey
Speaker 1: is back in the lead. High Covey twenty sixteen with
Speaker 1: forty six homers doesn't look like anybody hit a Sunday homer.
Speaker 1: In the top of the leaderboard. Blum is at forty five,
Speaker 1: Go Cards forty three. That is your top three, with
Speaker 1: Terry m Mike Mayer coming up on the forty. Still
Speaker 1: only six people on the forty home run marker, so
Speaker 1: we will be on the lookout for that. Friends, try
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Speaker 1: ones are the top algorithm strikeouts. Let's take this off
Speaker 1: strikeouts and total bases, and then the plus money strikeouts
Speaker 1: in total bases. So the number one total base prop
Speaker 1: for the day is not crazy juiced up over in
Speaker 1: sugar House. It's Mookie bets at one and a half
Speaker 1: total basis, it's minus one thirteen. That's actually not bad
Speaker 1: versus Milwaukee. The number one on the plus money total
Speaker 1: basis is Wilson Conraris, you're getting plus one twenty five
Speaker 1: with one and a half total bases against Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: So both of those they are actually not badly juiced.
Speaker 1: The number one strikeout prop of the day is Julio Urius,
Speaker 1: who's projected at almost six, and it's an underplay because
Speaker 1: the number is at seven and a half versus Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: It is minus one sixty and your plus this I
Speaker 1: took an even money play. Jeffrey Springs even money on
Speaker 1: five and a half strikeouts. Fantasy proses projecting our betting
Speaker 1: pros is projecting six and a half versus the Angels,
Speaker 1: so andrew any of those bets. Urius Springs strikeouts, Contraras
Speaker 1: bets total bases. Which one do you like if you're
Speaker 1: taking one or multiple?
Speaker 2: I mean that Mookie bets one looks pretty good to me.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a real low number and it's almost
Speaker 2: even money. So yeah, I mean I think he should.
Speaker 2: I mean you never know him any one day, but
Speaker 2: he should crush that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of I don't play under though I don't,
Speaker 1: but I kind of like that Julio Arias under seven
Speaker 1: and a half to you know, I mean, Milwaukee would
Speaker 1: be a place you would get eight strikeouts, but I
Speaker 1: don't particularly like the strikeout pop from Arias. But the
Speaker 1: mookie bets one I am on as well. Just quickly
Speaker 1: on the DFS some pricing over on FanDuel, you can
Speaker 1: get Copek at eight seven, which I kind of dig.
Speaker 1: This week, Jeffrey Springs is eight sunny grade nine and
Speaker 1: a half and Sure's are eleven and a half. You're
Speaker 1: looking for some lineup builders. You've got four teams with
Speaker 1: five or more projected earned runs. You've got the Philly, Atlanta, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers. If you want to pick and choose
Speaker 1: from those, maybe top of the lineup players if you're
Speaker 1: putting those all together. And lastly, home run call, Andrew,
Speaker 1: I throw it to you. We're gonna start the week
Speaker 1: off hot. Who do you got well.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised Go Cards is doing well on the
Speaker 2: home run count because the Cards are on fire, and
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not going to stray from that. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Paul gold Schmidt. I mean, he's got a
Speaker 2: couple home runs this in the last few days. He's
Speaker 2: hitting for the season four thirty five with nine homers
Speaker 2: in ninety two at bats against left handed pitching. He's
Speaker 2: facing Drew Smiley. Feel good story that Drew Smiley's been
Speaker 2: doing decently lately, but I think it's going to come
Speaker 2: crashing down for him against that on fire in Fuego
Speaker 2: Cardinals team.
Speaker 3: So I look for Goldie to go yard.
Speaker 1: We have got Mayor picking Reeese Hoskins, who I almost pick.
Speaker 1: Wonkey has got Jake Frayley, and I'm going to do
Speaker 1: something I haven't done in a long time. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Buckston Monday. Yes, we're going to go
Speaker 1: Byron Buckston for the day. Hasn't been doing much of anything,
Speaker 1: does hit two forty five against leftizo. Got Cole Reagan's
Speaker 1: in the house, So I am going to be jumping
Speaker 1: on with Byron Bucks. I'm kind of excited if we
Speaker 1: can get a homer and we can rev start some
Speaker 1: Bucks and action. Doctor Glenn, you got my line for
Speaker 1: the day, Glenn says, I went seven to two thirds,
Speaker 1: gave up one earned seven strikeouts currently as my start
Speaker 1: for today in the host seat, and I'm carrying a
Speaker 1: two five seven ERA on this season. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: doctor Glenn. I'm gonna have to have a bad blow
Speaker 1: up here to jump up that era and shout out
Speaker 1: happy birthday to go Cards. I saw in the chat
Speaker 1: it is his birthday, so let's all wish Go Cards
Speaker 1: a happy birthday. You can do that in the discord
Speaker 1: if you would like, or do it right now. ANDREI
Speaker 1: adnything going on that we need to know before we're
Speaker 1: talking again. Next.
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