WEBVTT - Leading Off August 19th, 2024 (Ep. 888) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.240 Welcome in Frindos to Leading Off right here on Fantasy Pros. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.840 I am the Welsh, that is the Arico. It's not 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.760 easy to say, and we're glad to be with you 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.480 here on this late August playoff time for some some 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.959 it's not. It's playoff prep either way. That is what 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:23.639 we're gonna be doing a little bit today, talking to 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.000 you about whether you're in your playoffs for the prep 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:30.080 or the upcoming playoff prep. Glad to have you guys here. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.639 As always a busy, busy day here on Monday. We'll 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:35.280 be telling you about some of the other stuff. A 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.360 lot of stuff going over on Fantasy Pros. 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It just gets the week off on the 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:09.800 right foot. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.640 Everybody was ready to go to the comments section was 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.560 Blair and I looked. I was like, Okay, geez, get 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.240 everybody going here. But as mentioned, we've got a lot 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.959 of kind of like playoff push happening. Some people. I've 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.399 got a there's a playoff starting in the Scott White 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.160 Dynasty League. Some of you are a week or two away. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:27.760 But either way, a lot of what we're going to 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.440 do is to kind of get you prepped in here, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.560 so let's jump right into it. This is actually not 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.720 going to be necessarily a performance based thing from this weekend. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.560 But this report is something we've kind of been talking about. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.440 But I guess we've got a pseudo answer. The athletics 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.840 kin Rosenthal reports that the Pirates have openly said about restricting. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.520 Everybody's kind of talked about Paul Skins. His last two starts, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.760 they've not been good. They've been pretty black, and they've 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.400 been talking about, oh, do we need to shut them 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.520 down here there. The report is that the only restriction 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.640 that the Pirates are considering for Paul skiing is potentially 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.080 shortening his outings. And in an article I think this 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:07.960 was over on ESPN and an article they kind of 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.160 describe it as the same thing that Garrett Crochet is 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.919 dealing with in that you might see four outing a 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.960 four inning outings, very anti baseball with what they want 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.800 to do with the upcoming future. But I ask you, Joe, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.960 what changes for you as far as anything for fantasy 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.440 relevance if Paul Skeins is going to have like a 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.600 much shorter leash moving forward. Now they did say nothing 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.440 about like cutting him down, which is great, but if 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.200 you got shorter outings, are you concerned at all? 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.360 I am? I am a little bit. We've seen with 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.280 Garrett Crochet what that can mean from a fantasy point 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.440 of view. It kills a lot of the value, especially 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.400 if you're really trying to catch up in either wins 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.920 or quality starts. Right now, you're not gonna be able to 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.800 do that at all. And Garret Crochet where we are, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.560 he's kind of a drop at this point. Like I know, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.639 he had a great start the other night, but it's 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.960 really tricky to carry him on a lot of shallow rosters. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.919 And I think it might get to that point with Skeens. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.920 If he's only getting three or four innings, he's gonna 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.600 have to be perfect in those outings. And as he 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.160 keeps going along this year, he has not looked quite 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:09.880 as sharp as he did out of the gate. So 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.280 this could come to a situation where you're getting down 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.480 to your finals and you don't really trust Paul Skeins. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.000 If he's getting two three innings going into that last week, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.800 it might be tricky to use a spot on him 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.720 on your roster. I think I saw your. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.400 Tweet the like, was that preemptive to the start? Because 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.680 you did the Garrett Crochet thing. We were like, hey, listen, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.880 we gotta cut him. And then I saw you tweet 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.160 that and I looked at the line. I was like, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.000 it's a pretty good line. It's a pretty good line 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.600 for Crochet. It's just not going super deep. What was 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.720 that tweet after or was it pre line? 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.520 No, that was after. That was after the game, or 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.040 maybe the game was still going on. But I was 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.640 doing my usual searches on baseball savant, getting my recaps ready, 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.240 and he had thrown fifty five pitches. He threw eighty 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.880 percent strikes. He was absolutely dominant, dominant, there was no 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.440 reason to pull him, and yet still he only went 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.000 four innings. So I see that, and I think, okay, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.200 So even when Crochet is going to be perfect against 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.560 a tough line of in Houston, they're still not going 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.520 to let him go. So if that's what we're seeing 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.839 on his best nights, what's the point. I can still 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.840 see if you really need the strikeouts and you're hoping 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.880 that he's good for your ratios, I can kind of 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.160 get it. But in those like ten team leagues twelve 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.400 team leagues, I don't know if those three or four 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:17.839 inning starts are really going to be worth it. So 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.200 with here Crochet, I think he's a cut unless you're 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.800 really confident in those ratios and you really desperately need strikeouts. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:25.760 I just don't think he's going to do a lot 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.920 for you, especially if you need wins and quality starts 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:28.760 like you're screwed there. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.640 I mean, I think everybody needs strikeouts. To your point, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.000 the quality start thing is kind of an issue. I 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.240 don't know. I mean, I think maybe that discussion with 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.839 Crochet is like a tiny bit more ten man league 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.960 than anything else. I'm really not sure I'm looking to 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.720 cut him in any other spot, and the same thing 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.560 kind of goes for this is that application thing, Lok, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.640 we talk about Paul Skins. What's the application for you? 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.120 Probably nothing. Some of you guys still have trade deadlines 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.440 out there. Probably more of a reason, like you know, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.720 over this next little run to not run him out. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.480 But you know what, the chat's got an interest sting point, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.520 and this is where I was gonna go. Barry whips. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.159 Barry had said springs striking out eight over five. That's 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.880 kind of the similar run you're gonna probably see with Skeins, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.920 Like I don't I think Skins could still go six, don't. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.559 I think seven's are off the board. I think five 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.040 is the sweet spot. But I also think we can 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:23.039 maybe tiny bit acknowledge like he might be paring down 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.560 a little bit. I think this is part of it. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.239 Like I think he's getting a little bit worn league 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.800 maybe catching up. I want to say one of the 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.120 starts to Velo, might it not down down, but might 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.479 have just been like slightly down. I think five. I 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.200 think five is going to be the key. So there 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.120 might be something still in there if you were able 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.400 to move off. But it's not a cut situation. But 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.640 at least you now have some clarity that they are 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.800 not in a full shutdown mode. Now they say that, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.039 say that with Proche, they say that with Skeins. Mid 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.720 September could happen two weeks in and they could just say, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.760 you know, Championship week, they could be shut down, but 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.560 just know the process is starting. But I felt like 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.160 they held it up a little bit by saying that 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.720 this is the only element they're doing. And they're also 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.800 they're vying. They're like, he's vying for a Rookie of 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.400 the Year not And I don't think that's just like 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.640 thrown to the side like he is the current odds 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.880 on favorite. Just buy a smidge, Just buy a smidge 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.599 over Jackson Merrill. So I don't think they want to 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.840 like completely take that away from him or anything like that. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.400 This weekend we had another gimmicky game. What's your thoughts 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.280 on gimmicky games? By the way, the what was it 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.560 the Field of Dreams game? This weekend we had the 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.440 Little League game Are you a gimmick game guy? 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.720 I kind of am. Yeah. I liked when they mix 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.680 things up. I like the London games. I like the 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.839 Field of Dreams games. I don't like the first week 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.640 of the season when they do that whole thing in 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.800 March when they go to Korea or wherever, and it 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.360 just kind of complicates everything for fantasy. But in season, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:51.880 I like these little things. I think it adds a 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.360 little bit of spice to the season. When it gets 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.240 a little bit, you know, it slags on a little 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.280 bit in the middle of the summer. You get a 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.479 nice little event like that that just kind of gets 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.280 the fans more invested in it. So I like it. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.159 I think it's a fun event. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.360 I'm okay, I'm all, what's man, Everyone's gonna kill me 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.240 for this. What's the baseball movie that everybody loves with 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:09.000 the little kids. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.480 I'm fraiding the name with the kids. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:13.760 So you're not good for this. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.160 You're not talking about the rookie, are you. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.679 No? No, the one that everybody cares about, the ball 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.880 with the dog and Sandlot. Thank you, Donnie, Thank you Donnie. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.240 Donnie doesn't even know baseball, and he knew that Arico. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.680 I need someone else that can instantly pick me up 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.840 in those instances. You can't be like me. You can't 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.600 also not know it. I would I would like them 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.560 to run a sandlot MLB game where they all just 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.720 wear T shirts and there's a dog. There's a big fence, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.320 big wooden fence at the end, and there's like a 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.160 dog that's gonna bite the baseball. That's the type of 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.240 gimmick I want, or you know, just normal baseball that 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.800 I can watch without it being blacked out or having 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.680 to have Apple TV. But you know what, to each 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.080 his own. In that game, Trick Scooble had a no decision, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.840 just one run, three hits over six innings. Clay Holmes 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.040 ended up blowing the save where Parker Meadows ended up 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.120 having I believe the RBI win in the tenth inning 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.960 in that Little League Classic. Any other takeaways from that, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.320 Marcus Stroman is really good. I don't know if there's 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.240 anything gimme. I mean it's cool, like they got to 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.960 hang out with the kids, and I enjoyed that type 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.920 of stuff. We did have a reiteration of how good turik' 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.520 Schooble is. And I'd also point out this weekend you 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.840 had Corbyn Burns get obliterated and Treike's scouble good. That 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.400 actually might have been the last call for Trike's scuble 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.200 to be the league's best Pitcher. You know that maybe 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.000 isn't Chris Sale, but any takeaways from the Little League Classic. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.160 Well, it was the Clay Holmes and the Clay Holmes 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.360 takes online. Yankees fans are ready to earn this guy 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.280 at the steak. He has a two eighty eight ERA 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.040 this year, like they look at the blown saves and 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.240 he has been kind of frustrating. But you know, I 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.560 heard everybody talking about Clay Holmes, Clay Homes, he socks, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.439 he's awfully's terrible. So I went and looked, because I 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.120 don't have any Clay Homes on my teams this year, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:57.640 so I'm like, what has he actually been up to? 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.640 To eighty eight ERA? Twenty six saves, one thirty whip 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.240 isn't great. But the takeaway for me was just how 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.040 much Yankees fans hate their team when things don't go correctly. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.480 When you just learned that you knew here, you knew here? 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.520 Kidding me. Patrick has the best idea ever. Patrick, you win. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.640 He said in that My Sandlot game they should just 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.360 have one ball, just one baseball that they play with 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.960 the entire game. I love it. I absolutely love it. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.360 I also like the idea, let's do an angels in 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.520 the outfield one. Let's see if we can figure out 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.480 how they're gonna play that one, Like maybe they get 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.480 Hollywood involved and they just have guys on wire. I'm 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.480 all for these are the games that I want, But 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:42.040 I love Patrick's idea sandlot baseball. It's at a crappy backfield. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.360 They get one baseball to play with. I'm in, I'm 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.200 totaling in. Let's do that. Let's let these gimmick games 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.679 be way way better than they are, way way better 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.360 than they were early on in the year. Blake Snell 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.840 is insane. Blake Snell this weekend, seven innings, ten strike, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.760 mister Jo Rico, here are some stats for you. Over 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.640 his last seven starts he has gone, Blake Snell has 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.960 gone at least six innings over his last seven starts. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.560 He has struck out ten or more four times in 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.520 those seven starts, and over those seven starts, he has 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:23.280 given up a total of six earned runs. Blake Snell 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.040 is pitching like a top five sp in baseball. So 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.920 the question is next year, is Blake Snell a top 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.760 ten starting pitcher now that we've seen all the early 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.960 chaos get out or with that early part of the season, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.800 hold on to you, because I'm saying top five. There 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.920 hasn't been many of any that has been better over 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.040 that seven game stretch than Blake Snell. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.360 So the rest of the season, Like my next update 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.920 for rankings, which will come out in like a week 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.240 or so, Blake Snell is going to be a top 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.520 five or seven starting pitcher because what he does down 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.880 the stretch second half every year is just stupid. But 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.679 when I go to make rankings at the beginning of 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.640 next we also have to factor in what he does 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.240 in the first half every season and how he's literally 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.240 like unplayable for a lot of those first early months. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.480 So I think he'll probably be like a top twenty 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.520 five starting pitcher. For me, I think this year coming 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.920 into the season, I had him like twenty three, But dude, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.040 you got to go through so much crap through the 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.640 first half of the season this year last year, it 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.040 does even out to being pretty good. But there is 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.760 a lot of risk associated with Snow. There's a lot 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.680 of injury risk, there's a lot of walk risk. The 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.760 command is if he at best a lot of the 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.760 time he does put it together for stretches during the year, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.440 but you also have to factor in that half of 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.720 the season where he's awful. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.800 I don't know, Man, top twenty five is wild to me, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.679 like he didn't have a spring training at all. The 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.280 injury stuff you have to consider into it. I don't know. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.079 I think I think the not properly training, you know, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.640 into February into March with spring training, had had an 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.000 extra effect on the injuries. I think he kind of 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.280 knows it. There's still, you know, the contractual stuff has 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.200 something to think about. Yeah, he starts off a little 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.280 bit slow and he picks it up, But I don't think. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.280 I don't know if you can look at Blake Snell 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.319 as not a top fifteen guy at this point because 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.600 there were so many things that were stacking on before 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.960 it was like, oh, you know, he doesn't go six 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.560 and he's only got these pitches, and yes he does walk, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.480 and now we see there's like a calculated chaos to 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.280 his walks. And now he's gone six in seven straight games. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.480 He's striking out like crazy. He's found his rhythm. He's 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.560 found his rhythm as a pitcher. Overall, one a freakin 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.960 ci young And the thing we're holding against is the 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.840 guy didn't do any of the training in the first 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.400 two months, and guess what first two months is kind 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.760 of his spring training. So I don't know, give me 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.240 a discount on Blake Snell. Next year, I'm gonna be 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.360 all in one of the best pitchers in baseball, and 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.560 he's going he is going to carry some people into 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.480 this playoff run because he was got at a you know, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.240 a cheap ish cost last year, and there might be 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.800 a lot of people that just absolutely could have been dumped, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.680 could have been dumped in some spots. I don't know. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.280 Top twenty five is wild to me. If you wanted 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.360 to say, like fifteen to twenty maybe, I mean, we're 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.079 not gonna go through the list of all the pictures, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.040 but like the twenty pitchers that you trust consistently more 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.760 than Blake Snell right now. I get the first half thing, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.199 but I mean, you think you could rattle it off. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:16.800 Well, he also at the factor and we're getting some 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.040 pictures back into the pool next year. McClanahan, I think 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.319 is gonna be back. I'm not sure if he'll be 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.960 right from the beginning of the year. Yeah, Rob will 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:27.040 be healthy, Strider will be healthy. All contra I don't know. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.880 I think He's the type of guy that I'd rather 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.520 not really pay for on draft day, and then I'll 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.760 just trade for him when he is struggling earlier in 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.800 the season. I think that's more the play with Snell, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.160 because this year, I guess is a little bit different 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.120 with the whole signing thing. But pretty consistently he does 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.079 struggle out of the gate, and then he figures himself out. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.319 I almost swore there really quickly. Almost he does figure 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.520 himself out pretty quickly, but you do have to eat 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.280 a lot of bad outings. I don't have a problem 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.400 if people want to put him like top fifteen, top twenty. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.080 I might end up having him there myself, but I 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.679 just worry about that first half and then yeah, Otani's 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.800 also be back next year. It's I think I think 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.560 he'll be in the twenty to twenty five range. For me, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:05.959 we'll have to see when I actually sit down and 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.200 put everything together. Maybe before I'm on next time, I'll 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.560 do a brief twenty twenty five rankings and we'll talk 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:11.000 about it. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.040 Joe almost got pulled. That was the most last start. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.960 I've done that multiple times where I'm like, remember where 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.920 I am. A couple other notes here do at least Garcia. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.240 That's been one that I mean, I turned heavy on. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.680 But he has been good as of recent two run 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.840 Homer Doubled scored the winning run in the tenth as 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.840 the Rangers beat the Twins this weekend, and believe in 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.440 August he's hitting over three hundred. I don't know what 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.480 to make of him. It doesn't really matter right now. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.480 If he's out there, you've gotten to roll with him. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.120 Hand up. I was wrong in the I was done, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.080 but you know why I was done. Three straight months 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.040 of hitting under two hundred, and then all of a 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.160 sudden it just clicked in this last month. So he's 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.400 gonna do the most annoying thing ever. He's gonna be 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.880 really good the last two months, and then we're gonna 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:59.160 look at an entire season of trash before that. Maybe 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.240 he's a Blake Snell of hitters. I don't know, there's 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:02.760 that out there. I do want to get your take 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.720 on this, though. Boden Francis held the Cubs to three 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.240 hits over seven innings in a one to zero victory, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.560 and he is looking more than streamy. So talk to 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.120 me about mister Boden Francis. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.560 As the Blue Jays guy. I thought that he was 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.360 very mediocre for most of the season. What we saw was, 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.760 you know, a hybrid relievers starter role where he'd go 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.120 three or four innings. He was okay, But the last 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.360 three outings five inning, seven innings, seven innings, two runs, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.280 one run, zero runs. But the big thing is the 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.240 strikeouts seven, eight and seven. When I think leading up 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:35.960 to that is high for the year was like five. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.960 So he has really found a groove in terms of strikeouts. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.240 He's been really reliable, and I didn't think we'd get 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.560 there at all with him. I'd also want to mention 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.720 that the opponent the last couple of starts the Angels 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.320 in the cub so it's not like crazy crazy difficulty, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.200 but the one before that, which was also solid, was 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.160 the Orioles. So I think at this point, if you're 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.440 seeing him out there, he's worth picking up and starting 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.320 in those right matchups. I don't know if I'm just saying, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.760 like Muss roster player, pick him up everyone, but in 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.520 the right matchup, I think he can provide some decent 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:03.480 value down the stretch. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.960 Yeah, looking, I mean, doesn't really have a dominant with 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:11.560 pitch under twenty three percent on his really any pitch 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.200 he uses over ten percent of the time gives up 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.880 a really bad barrel rate. Ten percent barrel rate for 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.320 a pitcher is massively worrisome, and I think he's just 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.000 getting away with some stuff right now. Does have a 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.720 little bit of a lower expected ERA, but good streaming 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.400 pitcher right now. Streaming streaming is what you got to 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.160 be looking at. Pistol oh Man, I got to be 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:37.920 Blake Snell. I'm hadrated, baby, I'm ho draded. I got 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.120 something for you guys. This's what I was gonna do 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:41.680 on Mondays, I think the rest of the way through. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.320 So this is what I teased at the beginning. Let's 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.960 do some playoff prep. We're gonna go through just a 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.880 couple of closers, some starting pitchers on Tuesday, I didn't 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.840 find any that I love today for streaming and some 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.200 hitting pickups. If you guys want to get the week right, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.720 whether again you are actually in your playoffs and your 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.000 prep ring or you're just about there on the closer front. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:09.160 Four closers with an under twenty five percent combined Yahoo 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.119 ESPN usage hand up. You know what that means to 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.320 other leagues, and they may have been picked up. But 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.920 here are four closers who have been doing some business 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.639 that are widely available. Michael Kopek, who has been getting 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.880 saves for the Dodgers over the last two weeks. He's 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.480 got two saves. Victor Vodnik, who sounds like a variant 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.840 of Doctor Doom. Four saves over the last two weeks. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.679 It's incredible for a Rockies team. Satadi Domingez he's got three. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.440 Lucik Ers, Lucas Erseg has two for Kansas City. All 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.479 of these guys wildly under owned a way that you 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.000 can get in on saves. Joe Rico, please order said 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.320 closers for me in order of pickup. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.399 I think it's Copek at the top right now is 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.480 insane as that feels. He's just found another level as 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.280 a Dodger. That team is able to do some weird 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.639 things with pitchers. Sometimes sometimes they touries as well, but 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.080 usually they are able to revitalize these careers of these 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.240 guys like Copek. I worry about the command, like the 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.840 command is always a thing with him, but you know 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.880 the way they're back end of that, Penn has struggled. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.959 I think Copek is going to be in line for 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.120 some good opportunities down the stretch. I think he's at 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.480 the top for me, probably ear Seg. I don't know 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.240 if there's a lot of clarity outside of him in 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.639 Kansas City, with the way Hunter Harvey got hurt and 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.520 MacArthur's been pretty bad. I think he's two. Probably Sir 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.840