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Speaker 2: We got you covered, mister Joe Rico, What up, buddy,
Speaker 2: Not much, my friend, just kicking the week off the
Speaker 2: best way we know how. I'm leading off, So it's
Speaker 2: always always great when I get to be on on
Speaker 2: a Monday. It just gets the week off on the
Speaker 2: right foot.
Speaker 1: Everybody was ready to go to the comments section was
Speaker 1: Blair and I looked. I was like, Okay, geez, get
Speaker 1: everybody going here. But as mentioned, we've got a lot
Speaker 1: of kind of like playoff push happening. Some people. I've
Speaker 1: got a there's a playoff starting in the Scott White
Speaker 1: Dynasty League. Some of you are a week or two away.
Speaker 1: But either way, a lot of what we're going to
Speaker 1: do is to kind of get you prepped in here,
Speaker 1: so let's jump right into it. This is actually not
Speaker 1: going to be necessarily a performance based thing from this weekend.
Speaker 1: But this report is something we've kind of been talking about.
Speaker 1: But I guess we've got a pseudo answer. The athletics
Speaker 1: kin Rosenthal reports that the Pirates have openly said about restricting.
Speaker 1: Everybody's kind of talked about Paul Skins. His last two starts,
Speaker 1: they've not been good. They've been pretty black, and they've
Speaker 1: been talking about, oh, do we need to shut them
Speaker 1: down here there. The report is that the only restriction
Speaker 1: that the Pirates are considering for Paul skiing is potentially
Speaker 1: shortening his outings. And in an article I think this
Speaker 1: was over on ESPN and an article they kind of
Speaker 1: describe it as the same thing that Garrett Crochet is
Speaker 1: dealing with in that you might see four outing a
Speaker 1: four inning outings, very anti baseball with what they want
Speaker 1: to do with the upcoming future. But I ask you, Joe,
Speaker 1: what changes for you as far as anything for fantasy
Speaker 1: relevance if Paul Skeins is going to have like a
Speaker 1: much shorter leash moving forward. Now they did say nothing
Speaker 1: about like cutting him down, which is great, but if
Speaker 1: you got shorter outings, are you concerned at all?
Speaker 2: I am? I am a little bit. We've seen with
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet what that can mean from a fantasy point
Speaker 2: of view. It kills a lot of the value, especially
Speaker 2: if you're really trying to catch up in either wins
Speaker 2: or quality starts. Right now, you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 2: do that at all. And Garret Crochet where we are,
Speaker 2: he's kind of a drop at this point. Like I know,
Speaker 2: he had a great start the other night, but it's
Speaker 2: really tricky to carry him on a lot of shallow rosters.
Speaker 2: And I think it might get to that point with Skeens.
Speaker 2: If he's only getting three or four innings, he's gonna
Speaker 2: have to be perfect in those outings. And as he
Speaker 2: keeps going along this year, he has not looked quite
Speaker 2: as sharp as he did out of the gate. So
Speaker 2: this could come to a situation where you're getting down
Speaker 2: to your finals and you don't really trust Paul Skeins.
Speaker 2: If he's getting two three innings going into that last week,
Speaker 2: it might be tricky to use a spot on him
Speaker 2: on your roster. I think I saw your.
Speaker 1: Tweet the like, was that preemptive to the start? Because
Speaker 1: you did the Garrett Crochet thing. We were like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we gotta cut him. And then I saw you tweet
Speaker 1: that and I looked at the line. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good line. It's a pretty good line
Speaker 1: for Crochet. It's just not going super deep. What was
Speaker 1: that tweet after or was it pre line?
Speaker 2: No, that was after. That was after the game, or
Speaker 2: maybe the game was still going on. But I was
Speaker 2: doing my usual searches on baseball savant, getting my recaps ready,
Speaker 2: and he had thrown fifty five pitches. He threw eighty
Speaker 2: percent strikes. He was absolutely dominant, dominant, there was no
Speaker 2: reason to pull him, and yet still he only went
Speaker 2: four innings. So I see that, and I think, okay,
Speaker 2: So even when Crochet is going to be perfect against
Speaker 2: a tough line of in Houston, they're still not going
Speaker 2: to let him go. So if that's what we're seeing
Speaker 2: on his best nights, what's the point. I can still
Speaker 2: see if you really need the strikeouts and you're hoping
Speaker 2: that he's good for your ratios, I can kind of
Speaker 2: get it. But in those like ten team leagues twelve
Speaker 2: team leagues, I don't know if those three or four
Speaker 2: inning starts are really going to be worth it. So
Speaker 2: with here Crochet, I think he's a cut unless you're
Speaker 2: really confident in those ratios and you really desperately need strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I just don't think he's going to do a lot
Speaker 2: for you, especially if you need wins and quality starts
Speaker 2: like you're screwed there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think everybody needs strikeouts. To your point,
Speaker 1: the quality start thing is kind of an issue. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I think maybe that discussion with
Speaker 1: Crochet is like a tiny bit more ten man league
Speaker 1: than anything else. I'm really not sure I'm looking to
Speaker 1: cut him in any other spot, and the same thing
Speaker 1: kind of goes for this is that application thing, Lok,
Speaker 1: we talk about Paul Skins. What's the application for you?
Speaker 1: Probably nothing. Some of you guys still have trade deadlines
Speaker 1: out there. Probably more of a reason, like you know,
Speaker 1: over this next little run to not run him out.
Speaker 1: But you know what, the chat's got an interest sting point,
Speaker 1: and this is where I was gonna go. Barry whips.
Speaker 1: Barry had said springs striking out eight over five. That's
Speaker 1: kind of the similar run you're gonna probably see with Skeins,
Speaker 1: Like I don't I think Skins could still go six, don't.
Speaker 1: I think seven's are off the board. I think five
Speaker 1: is the sweet spot. But I also think we can
Speaker 1: maybe tiny bit acknowledge like he might be paring down
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think this is part of it.
Speaker 1: Like I think he's getting a little bit worn league
Speaker 1: maybe catching up. I want to say one of the
Speaker 1: starts to Velo, might it not down down, but might
Speaker 1: have just been like slightly down. I think five. I
Speaker 1: think five is going to be the key. So there
Speaker 1: might be something still in there if you were able
Speaker 1: to move off. But it's not a cut situation. But
Speaker 1: at least you now have some clarity that they are
Speaker 1: not in a full shutdown mode. Now they say that,
Speaker 1: say that with Proche, they say that with Skeins. Mid
Speaker 1: September could happen two weeks in and they could just say,
Speaker 1: you know, Championship week, they could be shut down, but
Speaker 1: just know the process is starting. But I felt like
Speaker 1: they held it up a little bit by saying that
Speaker 1: this is the only element they're doing. And they're also
Speaker 1: they're vying. They're like, he's vying for a Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year not And I don't think that's just like
Speaker 1: thrown to the side like he is the current odds
Speaker 1: on favorite. Just buy a smidge, Just buy a smidge
Speaker 1: over Jackson Merrill. So I don't think they want to
Speaker 1: like completely take that away from him or anything like that.
Speaker 1: This weekend we had another gimmicky game. What's your thoughts
Speaker 1: on gimmicky games? By the way, the what was it
Speaker 1: the Field of Dreams game? This weekend we had the
Speaker 1: Little League game Are you a gimmick game guy?
Speaker 2: I kind of am. Yeah. I liked when they mix
Speaker 2: things up. I like the London games. I like the
Speaker 2: Field of Dreams games. I don't like the first week
Speaker 2: of the season when they do that whole thing in
Speaker 2: March when they go to Korea or wherever, and it
Speaker 2: just kind of complicates everything for fantasy. But in season,
Speaker 2: I like these little things. I think it adds a
Speaker 2: little bit of spice to the season. When it gets
Speaker 2: a little bit, you know, it slags on a little
Speaker 2: bit in the middle of the summer. You get a
Speaker 2: nice little event like that that just kind of gets
Speaker 2: the fans more invested in it. So I like it.
Speaker 2: I think it's a fun event.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm all, what's man, Everyone's gonna kill me
Speaker 1: for this. What's the baseball movie that everybody loves with
Speaker 1: the little kids.
Speaker 2: I'm fraiding the name with the kids.
Speaker 1: So you're not good for this.
Speaker 2: You're not talking about the rookie, are you.
Speaker 1: No? No, the one that everybody cares about, the ball
Speaker 1: with the dog and Sandlot. Thank you, Donnie, Thank you Donnie.
Speaker 1: Donnie doesn't even know baseball, and he knew that Arico.
Speaker 1: I need someone else that can instantly pick me up
Speaker 1: in those instances. You can't be like me. You can't
Speaker 1: also not know it. I would I would like them
Speaker 1: to run a sandlot MLB game where they all just
Speaker 1: wear T shirts and there's a dog. There's a big fence,
Speaker 1: big wooden fence at the end, and there's like a
Speaker 1: dog that's gonna bite the baseball. That's the type of
Speaker 1: gimmick I want, or you know, just normal baseball that
Speaker 1: I can watch without it being blacked out or having
Speaker 1: to have Apple TV. But you know what, to each
Speaker 1: his own. In that game, Trick Scooble had a no decision,
Speaker 1: just one run, three hits over six innings. Clay Holmes
Speaker 1: ended up blowing the save where Parker Meadows ended up
Speaker 1: having I believe the RBI win in the tenth inning
Speaker 1: in that Little League Classic. Any other takeaways from that,
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman is really good. I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: anything gimme. I mean it's cool, like they got to
Speaker 1: hang out with the kids, and I enjoyed that type
Speaker 1: of stuff. We did have a reiteration of how good turik'
Speaker 1: Schooble is. And I'd also point out this weekend you
Speaker 1: had Corbyn Burns get obliterated and Treike's scouble good. That
Speaker 1: actually might have been the last call for Trike's scuble
Speaker 1: to be the league's best Pitcher. You know that maybe
Speaker 1: isn't Chris Sale, but any takeaways from the Little League Classic.
Speaker 2: Well, it was the Clay Holmes and the Clay Holmes
Speaker 2: takes online. Yankees fans are ready to earn this guy
Speaker 2: at the steak. He has a two eighty eight ERA
Speaker 2: this year, like they look at the blown saves and
Speaker 2: he has been kind of frustrating. But you know, I
Speaker 2: heard everybody talking about Clay Holmes, Clay Homes, he socks,
Speaker 2: he's awfully's terrible. So I went and looked, because I
Speaker 2: don't have any Clay Homes on my teams this year,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, what has he actually been up to?
Speaker 2: To eighty eight ERA? Twenty six saves, one thirty whip
Speaker 2: isn't great. But the takeaway for me was just how
Speaker 2: much Yankees fans hate their team when things don't go correctly.
Speaker 1: When you just learned that you knew here, you knew here?
Speaker 1: Kidding me. Patrick has the best idea ever. Patrick, you win.
Speaker 1: He said in that My Sandlot game they should just
Speaker 1: have one ball, just one baseball that they play with
Speaker 1: the entire game. I love it. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I also like the idea, let's do an angels in
Speaker 1: the outfield one. Let's see if we can figure out
Speaker 1: how they're gonna play that one, Like maybe they get
Speaker 1: Hollywood involved and they just have guys on wire. I'm
Speaker 1: all for these are the games that I want, But
Speaker 1: I love Patrick's idea sandlot baseball. It's at a crappy backfield.
Speaker 1: They get one baseball to play with. I'm in, I'm
Speaker 1: totaling in. Let's do that. Let's let these gimmick games
Speaker 1: be way way better than they are, way way better
Speaker 1: than they were early on in the year. Blake Snell
Speaker 1: is insane. Blake Snell this weekend, seven innings, ten strike,
Speaker 1: mister Jo Rico, here are some stats for you. Over
Speaker 1: his last seven starts he has gone, Blake Snell has
Speaker 1: gone at least six innings over his last seven starts.
Speaker 1: He has struck out ten or more four times in
Speaker 1: those seven starts, and over those seven starts, he has
Speaker 1: given up a total of six earned runs. Blake Snell
Speaker 1: is pitching like a top five sp in baseball. So
Speaker 1: the question is next year, is Blake Snell a top
Speaker 1: ten starting pitcher now that we've seen all the early
Speaker 1: chaos get out or with that early part of the season,
Speaker 1: hold on to you, because I'm saying top five. There
Speaker 1: hasn't been many of any that has been better over
Speaker 1: that seven game stretch than Blake Snell.
Speaker 2: So the rest of the season, Like my next update
Speaker 2: for rankings, which will come out in like a week
Speaker 2: or so, Blake Snell is going to be a top
Speaker 2: five or seven starting pitcher because what he does down
Speaker 2: the stretch second half every year is just stupid. But
Speaker 2: when I go to make rankings at the beginning of
Speaker 2: next we also have to factor in what he does
Speaker 2: in the first half every season and how he's literally
Speaker 2: like unplayable for a lot of those first early months.
Speaker 2: So I think he'll probably be like a top twenty
Speaker 2: five starting pitcher. For me, I think this year coming
Speaker 2: into the season, I had him like twenty three, But dude,
Speaker 2: you got to go through so much crap through the
Speaker 2: first half of the season this year last year, it
Speaker 2: does even out to being pretty good. But there is
Speaker 2: a lot of risk associated with Snow. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of injury risk, there's a lot of walk risk. The
Speaker 2: command is if he at best a lot of the
Speaker 2: time he does put it together for stretches during the year,
Speaker 2: but you also have to factor in that half of
Speaker 2: the season where he's awful.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Man, top twenty five is wild to me,
Speaker 1: like he didn't have a spring training at all. The
Speaker 1: injury stuff you have to consider into it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think the not properly training, you know,
Speaker 1: into February into March with spring training, had had an
Speaker 1: extra effect on the injuries. I think he kind of
Speaker 1: knows it. There's still, you know, the contractual stuff has
Speaker 1: something to think about. Yeah, he starts off a little
Speaker 1: bit slow and he picks it up, But I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can look at Blake Snell
Speaker 1: as not a top fifteen guy at this point because
Speaker 1: there were so many things that were stacking on before
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, you know, he doesn't go six
Speaker 1: and he's only got these pitches, and yes he does walk,
Speaker 1: and now we see there's like a calculated chaos to
Speaker 1: his walks. And now he's gone six in seven straight games.
Speaker 1: He's striking out like crazy. He's found his rhythm. He's
Speaker 1: found his rhythm as a pitcher. Overall, one a freakin
Speaker 1: ci young And the thing we're holding against is the
Speaker 1: guy didn't do any of the training in the first
Speaker 1: two months, and guess what first two months is kind
Speaker 1: of his spring training. So I don't know, give me
Speaker 1: a discount on Blake Snell. Next year, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: all in one of the best pitchers in baseball, and
Speaker 1: he's going he is going to carry some people into
Speaker 1: this playoff run because he was got at a you know,
Speaker 1: a cheap ish cost last year, and there might be
Speaker 1: a lot of people that just absolutely could have been dumped,
Speaker 1: could have been dumped in some spots. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Top twenty five is wild to me. If you wanted
Speaker 1: to say, like fifteen to twenty maybe, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna go through the list of all the pictures,
Speaker 1: but like the twenty pitchers that you trust consistently more
Speaker 1: than Blake Snell right now. I get the first half thing,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you think you could rattle it off.
Speaker 2: Well, he also at the factor and we're getting some
Speaker 2: pictures back into the pool next year. McClanahan, I think
Speaker 2: is gonna be back. I'm not sure if he'll be
Speaker 2: right from the beginning of the year. Yeah, Rob will
Speaker 2: be healthy, Strider will be healthy. All contra I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think He's the type of guy that I'd rather
Speaker 2: not really pay for on draft day, and then I'll
Speaker 2: just trade for him when he is struggling earlier in
Speaker 2: the season. I think that's more the play with Snell,
Speaker 2: because this year, I guess is a little bit different
Speaker 2: with the whole signing thing. But pretty consistently he does
Speaker 2: struggle out of the gate, and then he figures himself out.
Speaker 2: I almost swore there really quickly. Almost he does figure
Speaker 2: himself out pretty quickly, but you do have to eat
Speaker 2: a lot of bad outings. I don't have a problem
Speaker 2: if people want to put him like top fifteen, top twenty.
Speaker 2: I might end up having him there myself, but I
Speaker 2: just worry about that first half and then yeah, Otani's
Speaker 2: also be back next year. It's I think I think
Speaker 2: he'll be in the twenty to twenty five range. For me,
Speaker 2: we'll have to see when I actually sit down and
Speaker 2: put everything together. Maybe before I'm on next time, I'll
Speaker 2: do a brief twenty twenty five rankings and we'll talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Joe almost got pulled. That was the most last start.
Speaker 1: I've done that multiple times where I'm like, remember where
Speaker 1: I am. A couple other notes here do at least Garcia.
Speaker 1: That's been one that I mean, I turned heavy on.
Speaker 1: But he has been good as of recent two run
Speaker 1: Homer Doubled scored the winning run in the tenth as
Speaker 1: the Rangers beat the Twins this weekend, and believe in
Speaker 1: August he's hitting over three hundred. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to make of him. It doesn't really matter right now.
Speaker 1: If he's out there, you've gotten to roll with him.
Speaker 1: Hand up. I was wrong in the I was done,
Speaker 1: but you know why I was done. Three straight months
Speaker 1: of hitting under two hundred, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it just clicked in this last month. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna do the most annoying thing ever. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: really good the last two months, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: look at an entire season of trash before that. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's a Blake Snell of hitters. I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: that out there. I do want to get your take
Speaker 1: on this, though. Boden Francis held the Cubs to three
Speaker 1: hits over seven innings in a one to zero victory,
Speaker 1: and he is looking more than streamy. So talk to
Speaker 1: me about mister Boden Francis.
Speaker 2: As the Blue Jays guy. I thought that he was
Speaker 2: very mediocre for most of the season. What we saw was,
Speaker 2: you know, a hybrid relievers starter role where he'd go
Speaker 2: three or four innings. He was okay, But the last
Speaker 2: three outings five inning, seven innings, seven innings, two runs,
Speaker 2: one run, zero runs. But the big thing is the
Speaker 2: strikeouts seven, eight and seven. When I think leading up
Speaker 2: to that is high for the year was like five.
Speaker 2: So he has really found a groove in terms of strikeouts.
Speaker 2: He's been really reliable, and I didn't think we'd get
Speaker 2: there at all with him. I'd also want to mention
Speaker 2: that the opponent the last couple of starts the Angels
Speaker 2: in the cub so it's not like crazy crazy difficulty,
Speaker 2: but the one before that, which was also solid, was
Speaker 2: the Orioles. So I think at this point, if you're
Speaker 2: seeing him out there, he's worth picking up and starting
Speaker 2: in those right matchups. I don't know if I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: like Muss roster player, pick him up everyone, but in
Speaker 2: the right matchup, I think he can provide some decent
Speaker 2: value down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking, I mean, doesn't really have a dominant with
Speaker 1: pitch under twenty three percent on his really any pitch
Speaker 1: he uses over ten percent of the time gives up
Speaker 1: a really bad barrel rate. Ten percent barrel rate for
Speaker 1: a pitcher is massively worrisome, and I think he's just
Speaker 1: getting away with some stuff right now. Does have a
Speaker 1: little bit of a lower expected ERA, but good streaming
Speaker 1: pitcher right now. Streaming streaming is what you got to
Speaker 1: be looking at. Pistol oh Man, I got to be
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. I'm hadrated, baby, I'm ho draded. I got
Speaker 1: something for you guys. This's what I was gonna do
Speaker 1: on Mondays, I think the rest of the way through.
Speaker 1: So this is what I teased at the beginning. Let's
Speaker 1: do some playoff prep. We're gonna go through just a
Speaker 1: couple of closers, some starting pitchers on Tuesday, I didn't
Speaker 1: find any that I love today for streaming and some
Speaker 1: hitting pickups. If you guys want to get the week right,
Speaker 1: whether again you are actually in your playoffs and your
Speaker 1: prep ring or you're just about there on the closer front.
Speaker 1: Four closers with an under twenty five percent combined Yahoo
Speaker 1: ESPN usage hand up. You know what that means to
Speaker 1: other leagues, and they may have been picked up. But
Speaker 1: here are four closers who have been doing some business
Speaker 1: that are widely available. Michael Kopek, who has been getting
Speaker 1: saves for the Dodgers over the last two weeks. He's
Speaker 1: got two saves. Victor Vodnik, who sounds like a variant
Speaker 1: of Doctor Doom. Four saves over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: It's incredible for a Rockies team. Satadi Domingez he's got three.
Speaker 1: Lucik Ers, Lucas Erseg has two for Kansas City. All
Speaker 1: of these guys wildly under owned a way that you
Speaker 1: can get in on saves. Joe Rico, please order said
Speaker 1: closers for me in order of pickup.
Speaker 2: I think it's Copek at the top right now is
Speaker 2: insane as that feels. He's just found another level as
Speaker 2: a Dodger. That team is able to do some weird
Speaker 2: things with pitchers. Sometimes sometimes they touries as well, but
Speaker 2: usually they are able to revitalize these careers of these
Speaker 2: guys like Copek. I worry about the command, like the
Speaker 2: command is always a thing with him, but you know
Speaker 2: the way they're back end of that, Penn has struggled.
Speaker 2: I think Copek is going to be in line for
Speaker 2: some good opportunities down the stretch. I think he's at
Speaker 2: the top for me, probably ear Seg. I don't know
Speaker 2: if there's a lot of clarity outside of him in
Speaker 2: Kansas City, with the way Hunter Harvey got hurt and
Speaker 2: MacArthur's been pretty bad. I think he's two. Probably Sir
Speaker 2: Anthony Dimingez at three with Kimberl's struggles, and then Victor Vodnick,
Speaker 2: who I don't think is all that reliable being in Colorado,
Speaker 2: but he's actually been a lot better than I expected
Speaker 2: this year. And I want to give a shout out
Speaker 2: to our friend Jesse Severe, who was the first person
Speaker 2: I ever heard mentioned Victor Vodnick earlier this year. He
Speaker 2: was like, you got to keep an eye out for
Speaker 2: this guy. I was like, really, I don't know Colorado,
Speaker 2: he's down the depth chart, but Jesse saw something there,
Speaker 2: So shout out to our mutual friend. But I think
Speaker 2: he's at the bottom of the list here.
Speaker 1: I would probably I think Copek and Sir Anthony Dimingez
Speaker 1: are their own tier. I'd go er Seg is like
Speaker 1: one B, and then Vodnick is down there. Opportunities for
Speaker 1: the Rockies, fuel and far between. I do think Ersik
Speaker 1: has that gig so that one can be exciting. My
Speaker 1: only problem I would have Sir Anthony tom megas number one.
Speaker 1: But it's like I feel that they're going to probably
Speaker 1: do the same thing the Diamondbacks would do with like
Speaker 1: a seawalld like it's only a matter of time. But
Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable with those And by the way, I
Speaker 1: will go out on a limb and tell you I
Speaker 1: think the next save opportunity for the Diamondbacks is going
Speaker 1: to go to Paul Seawald. Justin Martinez once again. Now
Speaker 1: he was twice put into situations that were not closer spots.
Speaker 1: They were tied games and blew two games this past week.
Speaker 1: But Ryan Thompson out Justin Martinez has been shaky and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised they have not given up on
Speaker 1: Paul sea Wald. So if he is sitting out there,
Speaker 1: maybe take a look at him. Two streaming pitchers for
Speaker 1: Tuesday to take a look at maybe last week, you
Speaker 1: know the two start thing, there weren't really a lot
Speaker 1: of great two starts. I didn't see a lot that
Speaker 1: I love. Today, here are two that you might want
Speaker 1: to get in on, and you tell me what you
Speaker 1: think about it? Number one, DJ Hers going up against Colorado. Why.
Speaker 1: I love that. We've seen DJ Hurs put up double
Speaker 1: digit strikeout performances and the Rockies are the worst. They're
Speaker 1: the worst. They swing at everything, starting with Tovar and
Speaker 1: Cody Bradford for the Rangers going up against Pittsburgh four
Speaker 1: and our records so far this year, those two with
Speaker 1: some low ownership across the board here, Either one of
Speaker 1: those you like for an early week streamer and knowing
Speaker 1: your playoff might be on the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I like both of them a lot.
Speaker 2: DJ Hurts I've been a big fan of his. When
Speaker 2: he got sent down earlier in the year, I was
Speaker 2: kind of surprised he had struggled. But below the surface,
Speaker 2: the numbers are really good, so four to twenty five ERA,
Speaker 2: but he is a three forty six expected ERA. His
Speaker 2: ex FIP is three seventy four, his Sierra's three fifty four.
Speaker 2: He's been unlucky in terms of the results. He also
Speaker 2: was a twenty percent strike up minus walk rate. You
Speaker 2: don't see that very often. That's a pretty elite number.
Speaker 2: I know we're talking about twelve starts, but that is
Speaker 2: an excellent number, twenty eight percent strikeout rate, solid command.
Speaker 2: I think it Hurts is a really excellent streamer and
Speaker 2: even maybe even like a touch above streaming territory. I
Speaker 2: might just be a little bit biased towards him because
Speaker 2: I really like him, but i'd be rostering him in
Speaker 2: twelve team leagues unless there's a really tricky matchup. And
Speaker 2: Cody Bradford, he started the year off looking so well
Speaker 2: he got hurt. I don't trust him quite as much.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's as much strikeout upside, but the
Speaker 2: command is really good. I think they're both really great options.
Speaker 2: I'd probably prioritize Hurts, especially if you're looking for strikeouts
Speaker 2: though same.
Speaker 1: Seas that's where I would go with that. And then
Speaker 1: finally on some hitters if you're looking for a little
Speaker 1: bit of a boost. Over the last two weeks, Andrew
Speaker 1: bin and Tendee keeps hitting hitting three zero six has
Speaker 1: five homers in that time. David Hamilton is back up
Speaker 1: three point thirty three, two homers, five stolen bases, and
Speaker 1: Parker Meadows is hitting three p forty two best average
Speaker 1: of them all homer and another five stolen bases. So
Speaker 1: some stolen base guys in there. Some homers really really
Speaker 1: low ownership. There's other guys. Jock Peterson might be a
Speaker 1: player that you can take a look at. But those
Speaker 1: are a few of the hottest hitters over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks that have got really low ownership. Is there
Speaker 1: one you would prioritize over the other?
Speaker 2: I think Parker Meadows. I really was a big fan
Speaker 2: of his coming into the season. He's looked really good
Speaker 2: since he's come back. I would say Hamilton if his
Speaker 2: playing time wasn't so erratic and you wouldn't seehim at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the order. Earlier in the year, he
Speaker 2: looked like the pickup of the season. He was batting
Speaker 2: at the top of the order. He has thirty stolen bases.
Speaker 2: I thought this was going to be a huge year
Speaker 2: for him. If you're really desperate for speed, he might
Speaker 2: be the way I would go. But if you're just
Speaker 2: looking for a well rounded asset off the wire, you're
Speaker 2: just looking for some offensive help all around, I think
Speaker 2: the Parker Meadows would be the way I would go.
Speaker 1: So murky, LOOKI just a couple of little pieces here.
Speaker 1: According to the Miami Harold Marlins are promoting Connor Norby
Speaker 1: from tripa a here on Monday. He's going to get
Speaker 1: his opportunity. I think he's probably a half decent pickup
Speaker 1: compared to I think the actually the Diamondbacks out to
Speaker 1: shoot here, but compared to like those hitters that we
Speaker 1: just talked about, I would put him probably. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm that interested in benin Tendi, even though
Speaker 1: he's been hot. I might take a shot on Norby,
Speaker 1: but like he's in the same territory as those guys.
Speaker 1: If they're all available, Norby will probably get to be
Speaker 1: pushed up a little bit in the lineup. He can
Speaker 1: he hit a little bit. He wasn't dominating in Triple
Speaker 1: A since he's been over with the Marlins, but opportunity
Speaker 1: is good, so I would take a look at him.
Speaker 1: And then also just wanted to mention this. We don't
Speaker 1: do a ton of this in the back half of
Speaker 1: the year. Obviously we haven't been doing like the prospect
Speaker 1: looks and stuff. But the Red Sox promoted second basemen
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell to Triple A. And just why it's important
Speaker 1: is the Red Sox, you guys don't want to pay
Speaker 1: attention to anything. Have what essentially we're calling the Big
Speaker 1: four in Triple A right now, four absolutely dominant prospects
Speaker 1: were all there, and Christian Campbell to me might be
Speaker 1: the most exciting. Roman Anthony is there who my recent
Speaker 1: I have my prospect ADPs that I do, which is
Speaker 1: creating a prospect ADP. Obviously the P and ADP drafts.
Speaker 1: Roman Anthony was a top ten prospect in those. Overall,
Speaker 1: you've got Kyle Teal, Marcela Mayer, and now Christian Campbell.
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell has had one of the most ridiculous seasons
Speaker 1: so far. Three point thirty twelve homer or sixteen homers,
Speaker 1: twenty steals between hy A and Double A. He's now
Speaker 1: up there. These are all great Dynasty options. They're not
Speaker 1: options to come up this year, but the beginning of
Speaker 1: next year I would be looking at all of those
Speaker 1: guys and I would rank it. I think I currently
Speaker 1: have it. Roman Anthony, Christian Campbell, Mayor and teel A.
Speaker 1: They're like all together, and some people are talking about
Speaker 1: Roman Anthony being the number one overall, but probably the
Speaker 1: best team. They'll remember the Orioles at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, where it's like you got the Jackson Holiday
Speaker 1: and you've got kershtat and you've got Mayo. That's what
Speaker 1: this is with the Red Sox. This is that version
Speaker 1: of it. And if they don't break camp, this Red
Speaker 1: Sox team will be that next season. The beginning of
Speaker 1: next season. Three up and three down on the up,
Speaker 1: mister Corbyn Carol two for five, three runs, one homer
Speaker 1: and two RBI. I didn't lead off the show or
Speaker 1: anything with it, Joe, but Corbin Carroll's power output has
Speaker 1: absolutely been immense. Batting average really hasn't gotten there, but
Speaker 1: he has been. He's been dude like again.
Speaker 2: Just in time to get that price all back and
Speaker 2: expensive again for twenty twenty five. Man, I think we
Speaker 2: mentioned it. Maybe it was. I think it was you
Speaker 2: and I were talking. Will he maybe get back into
Speaker 2: the first round now? You don't think so? If he
Speaker 2: stays hot like this, Nope. Where do you think the
Speaker 2: second round?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it's late second, early third, somewhere in there,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that territory of it. I mean, the power
Speaker 1: outputs really good. Everything else has still been kind of
Speaker 1: black guys like fifty RBI so far in the year. CJ. Abrams,
Speaker 1: a first round pick two for four, had three stolen
Speaker 1: bases this weekend and Franber Valdez six inning, seven strikeout,
Speaker 1: zero earned runs on the down people were bringing up
Speaker 1: in the chat Merle Merril Kelly got lit up them.
Speaker 1: Things were lit five inning, six earned runs, eight hits.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks just looked absolutely atrocious in there. He was throwing
Speaker 1: everything down the middle. Nope, Tyler O'Neill oh for four
Speaker 1: with four ks some railroad time, and Jorge al Kala
Speaker 1: only made it through two thirds of an inning, gave
Speaker 1: up five earned runs and two homers. Absolute garbage. On
Speaker 1: the injury front, another Diamondback piece gets to start off
Speaker 1: each segment. Katel Marte was removed from Sunday's game against
Speaker 1: the Rays after reaggravating his ankle injury. And the worst
Speaker 1: part about this is, I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a stint. They're gonna have an MRI. But this
Speaker 1: exact same thing happened. They held off for a couple days,
Speaker 1: brought him back in, he reaggravated. I don't see how
Speaker 1: we avoid an il stint. He's been the number one
Speaker 1: second basement in fantasy. The reaggravation tells me everything we
Speaker 1: need to know. Diamondbacks need to keep winning games, so
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I guess there's a possibility they
Speaker 1: could just like let him sit for eight days or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But I think they're gonna be extra
Speaker 1: cautious assuming that the MRI comes back clean. But we
Speaker 1: haven't even seen that yet, Joe, any major massive concerns
Speaker 1: for Marte.
Speaker 2: They might as well. If they're thinking he's going to
Speaker 2: be out for a week or eight days, they might
Speaker 2: as well put him on the IL and get some
Speaker 2: replacements up there. In terms of fantasy, what is it
Speaker 2: going to mean when he comes back, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's obviously at this time of year, you just there's
Speaker 2: so little certainty about anything. If he misses an extra week,
Speaker 2: then you're expecting then there's a chance that he becomes
Speaker 2: a drop. If we hear he's going to be out
Speaker 2: for like three weeks or so, what would be that
Speaker 2: line for you with Marte? If we hear he's out
Speaker 2: for a month from today, he's expected back like last
Speaker 2: week is September or two weeks. I don't know if
Speaker 2: they've even been specific about that, but is there a
Speaker 2: line where you'd be willing to drop him right now?
Speaker 1: Well, they're not specific because they don't know. They have
Speaker 1: to do the MRI. They don't know anything yet. Like
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, I don't know. I probably don't
Speaker 1: drop him in any scenario unless they say he's out
Speaker 1: for the year, because I would I l him. He
Speaker 1: he prioritizes anybody else you have on the IL. There's
Speaker 1: nobody who else on the IL that is currently hurt Tatis,
Speaker 1: you know, like Tatis might be a drop. What the
Speaker 1: hell's going on with him? I thought it sounded like
Speaker 1: they made it sound like Fernando was going to come
Speaker 1: back after the trade deadline, like we were close to
Speaker 1: coming back after like the All Star Game, right, and
Speaker 1: he is still not going. Other than other than that,
Speaker 1: who else like probably not? So do you have one?
Speaker 2: Well maybe Tucker, but that's another situation for who the
Speaker 2: hell knows was going on.
Speaker 1: I don't even knows where he is. He's missing. It's
Speaker 1: a milk carton. I don't know I read him on
Speaker 1: the IL in any scenario, But I think I don't
Speaker 1: think it's even so much about like what the value
Speaker 1: is at this point. It's just like if they put
Speaker 1: him on the IL, you're going to have to go
Speaker 1: and make a move, hopefully not because that's going to
Speaker 1: be pretty devastating, but it looks like that's going to
Speaker 1: be the destination that we're going on the Braves front.
Speaker 1: Brian Snickert told reporters that Austin Riley's going to undergo
Speaker 1: further evaluation after initial X rays were inconclusive. Don't love that,
Speaker 1: Don't love where they it's inconclusive and it doesn't tell
Speaker 1: you a story. I like negative, snicker all So said,
Speaker 1: and confirmed that Raynaldo Lopez will return from the injured
Speaker 1: list to start Tuesday against the Phillies, So he will
Speaker 1: be out there. The Austin Riley stuff though scary. So
Speaker 1: I mean mid August, we might be without Marte, we
Speaker 1: might be without Riley. We also might be without has
Speaker 1: Sung Kim as Mike Schuldt told reporters on Sunday that
Speaker 1: he's going to undergo an MRI exam on his injured
Speaker 1: right shoulder today. So we have got like massive medical
Speaker 1: report to wait on between Kateel Marte, Austin Riley and
Speaker 1: has Sun Kim right now. Absolutely brutal. Also a couple
Speaker 1: others on the Ray's front. Yandy Diaz, he did have
Speaker 1: X rays on his injured forearm. Which came back negative
Speaker 1: for any fractures, which is good news. And then this
Speaker 1: one had been brought up a little bit earlier. Ben
Speaker 1: Charrington told reporters Sunday that Jared Jones is going to
Speaker 1: make at least one more rehab start before joining the
Speaker 1: Pirates rotation. So the question is, are you full full
Speaker 1: go when Jared Jones is off? Are you going to
Speaker 1: start him right out the sho shoot?
Speaker 2: I think probably, do we know we have a rough
Speaker 2: idea of the opponents, because that would probably be the
Speaker 2: deciding factor for me. So they have coming up Rangers,
Speaker 2: Reds and Cubs or the next three series. I think
Speaker 2: I'm starting him.
Speaker 1: It's a Red extent well, because if he's doing one
Speaker 1: more start and then he's going to come back to that,
Speaker 1: it's either who is the last series? You said?
Speaker 2: So Thursday through Sunday they're playing the Reds and then
Speaker 2: they start next week against the Cubs.
Speaker 1: There might be the Cubs. Then it might be like
Speaker 1: the beginning of the series with the Cubs. I'd be
Speaker 1: comfortable with it.
Speaker 2: I think got started either way. Yeah, you're away from
Speaker 2: Great American Ballpark there, so there's no real worry for
Speaker 2: me for either of those teams.
Speaker 1: I would be comfortable with that. All right, friends, you
Speaker 1: know what time it is, let's get to some betting.
Speaker 1: It's time full or Monday's best Bets of the Day.
Speaker 1: You come such a stupid segment that we do bets
Speaker 1: o the day. We need to have like a video
Speaker 1: thing next year or something like that. All right, our
Speaker 1: best bets brought to you by bet three six y
Speaker 1: five over on the Betting Pros three of our favorite bets, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you guys can go and download the
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Speaker 1: and follow some of your favorite betting analysts. You can
Speaker 1: track your own bets. Hell, I have even said it before.
Speaker 1: Something you can do, you know, you have to sync
Speaker 1: up books. If you are getting new into the betting world,
Speaker 1: even this late in the season, you can practice, you
Speaker 1: can put in what bets you would want to do,
Speaker 1: and you can track your own stuff. So it's a
Speaker 1: good way before you even dip your toe into the market,
Speaker 1: as you could just individually track your own bets. But Joe,
Speaker 1: what do you got for your three favorite bets of
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: I've been going with a lot of plus money stuff recently,
Speaker 2: so today we're going with some more favorites, starting with
Speaker 2: Debbie Matthews under one and a half walks. It is
Speaker 2: juiced to minus one eighty, so it's probably best to
Speaker 2: pair this with something else, but it really does feel
Speaker 2: free considering the command this guy has. He walks seven
Speaker 2: batters over I believe ninety six or ninety seven innings
Speaker 2: in the minors. He just doesn't know how to walk people.
Speaker 2: This first start of the year in the majors is
Speaker 2: his debut five innings with no walks as well, so
Speaker 2: I think it'd be almost impossible to envision him walking
Speaker 2: two batters tonight. So if you want to make that
Speaker 2: one a bit of a better line, to compare it
Speaker 2: with something, maybe you go Twins money line if you're
Speaker 2: feeling a little adventurous there. But this one, this one
Speaker 2: is a pretty safe bet. I think we're going back
Speaker 2: to the well, you know, filling in for Bubba today.
Speaker 2: We had a little bit of switch around, and I'm
Speaker 2: very grateful because that means I get to bet Todje
Speaker 2: Bradley again. Todge Bradley over six and a half strikeouts,
Speaker 2: minus one zero five. He is facing Oakland and Oakland
Speaker 2: even though They're maybe a little bit better offensively than
Speaker 2: we thought. They still strike out quite a bit, one
Speaker 2: of the five or six worst strikeout rates in all
Speaker 2: of baseball. I'm on the record with Todge Bradley. He
Speaker 2: strikes out close to thirty percent of batters, one of
Speaker 2: the better strikeout pitchers in baseball, and he's struggled a
Speaker 2: little bit over these last couple starts. I think he'll
Speaker 2: bounce back today against Oakland, getting us to that seven number.
Speaker 2: We need to hit the over and then the final one.
Speaker 2: It's a total Baltimore and the Mets total of eight
Speaker 2: and a half. I'm taking the over on this one,
Speaker 2: and it comes down to the starting pitching matchup. Trevor
Speaker 2: Rodgers and David Peterson. Just don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: confidence in either one of them. Peterson on the surface
Speaker 2: three h four era looks really good, but he's not
Speaker 2: striking guys out. The command is always an issue there.
Speaker 2: And Trevor Rodgers, I just don't think is very good
Speaker 2: at all. So I think this one will over that
Speaker 2: eight and a half number. It's at minus one twenty five,
Speaker 2: and those are all of course at bet three six five.
Speaker 1: All Right, my best bets I'm gonna join you in
Speaker 1: something here. I'm gonna go with the Arizona Diamondbacks run
Speaker 1: line minus one and a half. Boy, they shot themselves
Speaker 1: in the foot with that Tampa Bay series, just losing stupid.
Speaker 1: I mean they had to come back every time and
Speaker 1: just couldn't hold it. I think they are going to
Speaker 1: bounce back even without Catel Marte. They're gonna get back
Speaker 1: into action and they are gonna put up some runs today.
Speaker 1: So minus one and a half, right around minus one eighteen,
Speaker 1: you might get it. Minus one fifteen Arizona run line.
Speaker 1: I'm also gonna go with Kansas City on the run
Speaker 1: line minus one and a half, almost exact same odds
Speaker 1: we got Seth Lugo on the mound. Both of these
Speaker 1: are really good matchups. And guess what gonna join you,
Speaker 1: Taj Bradley almost even money. Six and a half strikeouts, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: because it is Oakland. If this was like a you know,
Speaker 1: with San Diego a Toronto, one of those teams that
Speaker 1: just don't put up big strikeout numbers, I'd say no.
Speaker 1: If you gave me a middling team, I'd be very interested.
Speaker 1: If you give me one of the higher strikeout teams
Speaker 1: I'm very interested in, and that is exactly what you're getting.
Speaker 1: So Taj Bradley six and a half strikeouts on the over,
Speaker 1: and I may even get cheeky and find one other
Speaker 1: guy like to pare him to to come down one
Speaker 1: notch as I like to do. But that's what I'll
Speaker 1: go with. Arizona run line, Kansas City run line, Taj
Speaker 1: Bradley's strikeouts, and we got Joe with the ZEBBI Matthews
Speaker 1: under walks, tadje Bradley over strikeouts, and the Baltimore Mets
Speaker 1: total over. There you go, friends, for today's best bets
Speaker 1: of the day. That's right, you're trying to do it
Speaker 1: with me, joe A right, what do you got on
Speaker 1: the home run marker? Oh, we should probably go and
Speaker 1: take a look at the board here. Of course, I'm
Speaker 1: not back on this board. I have no idea where
Speaker 1: I'm at. I don't even know if I got any
Speaker 1: homers this weekend. But Joey p and Wonkee they are
Speaker 1: fighting it out Battle of the Pros with thirty six
Speaker 1: homers tied for fourteenth and fifteenth place over on the
Speaker 1: top of the leaderboard. South African g is starting to
Speaker 1: run away forty six, has a two home run lead
Speaker 1: over be Trot. So right now, South African g can
Speaker 1: see that wonderful Vladimir Guerrero Junior bat just coming straight
Speaker 1: home to him or her. Be Trot forty four. Larry
Speaker 1: c has got forty two, El skel At forty two
Speaker 1: and two others with forty, so we got six people
Speaker 1: in the forty range. I am in the thirty something range,
Speaker 1: so not quite there. Someday, some way, maybe I'll get
Speaker 1: on the board before the end of the year. Joe,
Speaker 1: what do you think who a you going with on
Speaker 1: your home run call today?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine how insufferable Joe is going to be
Speaker 2: if he comes back and somehow ends up winning the thing?
Speaker 1: If I mean it's not gonna happen, but yes it would.
Speaker 1: Any anything will be unsufferable with Joe.
Speaker 2: So I'm taking Pete Alonso. I'm also leaning into that
Speaker 2: Trevor Rodgers again. Alonso has been a lot better as
Speaker 2: of late. I think the general feeling about his season
Speaker 2: is that he has been pretty disappointing for where you
Speaker 2: drafted him. But he's up to twenty seven homers. He
Speaker 2: said four of them in the last two weeks and
Speaker 2: against Trevor Rodgers. I think that's a really nice matchup
Speaker 2: for him to take one out. So I'm going with
Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo tonight, little Chalky, Well.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Batman himself. Give me Vladimir
Speaker 1: Guerrero Junior playing my home run per nine against so
Speaker 1: give me Vladdie Junior to get me on that board
Speaker 1: and get me some homers. Frindos. That's it. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much for hanging out. Hey, I want to
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