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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. It is the Joe and Bubba Show

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Speaker 1: here once again on Leading Off. Joel Rico taking the

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Speaker 1: spot behind the mic here with Casey Bubba. You can

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Speaker 1: I have the graphic switched around and I was in

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Speaker 1: to a roaring start here. How you doing today, my friend?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. We could share squares. It's okay. We're

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Speaker 2: all just one big, happy family around here. So doing great.

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Speaker 2: It's Friday. We're trickling tours, you know, three weeks after this,

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Speaker 2: so baseball's going but we're loving it as usual.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're really getting down to the nitty gritty. You

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Speaker 1: got a fun outline today with some playoff prep. I

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Speaker 1: got a couple of two star pitchers for next week.

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Speaker 1: We're going to discuss a couple of hot bats. We're

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Speaker 1: also gonna talk about potentially picking up for the stretch run.

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna get started off with some headlines today

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Speaker 1: and this one is right up Bubba's Ali being in

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Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Being a Giants fan, Matt Chapman agreed

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Speaker 1: to an extension.

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Speaker 3: Kind of an odd timing.

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Speaker 1: You don't usually see them come around this time of year,

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Speaker 1: but six years, one hundred and fifty one million dollars

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Speaker 1: for Matt Chapman. What is your thought process on this

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Speaker 1: as a fantasy manager going forward and also as a

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Speaker 1: Giants fan, do you like to move for the team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as a fantasy manager, still a pretty solid you know,

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Speaker 2: probably a top twelve, top fifteen, third basement depending on

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Speaker 2: how you feel about him. I think he's done very

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Speaker 2: well this year. He's not flashy, but he's gonna have

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Speaker 2: twenty plus homers again, been very serviceable. As a fan,

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Speaker 2: absolutely love it. I am ecstatic for multiple reasons because

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Speaker 2: every offseason it's the Giants are linked to this player

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Speaker 2: linked linked LinkedIn. They don't sign anybody to get that

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Speaker 2: out of the way right now, big fan, big fan

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Speaker 2: of that whole situation. Secondly, twenty five million year for

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Speaker 2: the next six years, in about three or four years.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five meals is not gonna sound like anything that's

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Speaker 2: pumped on that as well. And he just gives great

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Speaker 2: defense when we already have pitchers like Logan Web and

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Speaker 2: company coming through there. He's a great leader. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of factors about Chapman that he's again not flashy

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Speaker 2: for fantasy. He's serviceable, very serviceable for fantasy, but when

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Speaker 2: it comes to on the field and just the player

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Speaker 2: that he is. As a Giants fan, absolutely pumped about this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the defense.

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Speaker 1: Watching him the last couple of years in Toronto, he

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Speaker 1: was obviously a great defender. I think he won maybe

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Speaker 1: one Gold Glove in Toronto, but the metrics weren't quite

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Speaker 1: what they had been earlier on in his career. They've

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Speaker 1: really bounced back this season. Fifteen defensive run saved, seven

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Speaker 1: outs above average. The defense is great, the offense has

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Speaker 1: been there, and from a fantasy point of view, he's

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Speaker 1: thirteen stolen bases for Matt Chapman, who came into the

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Speaker 3: It as well. I like the move as well. I

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Speaker 3: think this is a really solid real life and fantasy move.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see the Giants continue to add pieces

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Speaker 1: the Giants. Parker Meadows hit a grand slam last night,

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Speaker 1: Leading off a lot of the time in Detroit. What

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Parker Meadows? Is he somebody that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I absolutely love it that. It's good to see

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Speaker 2: couldn't he be this year's the next year's Jared Duran.

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Speaker 2: Why couldn't he be that guy? Like that's like maybe

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Speaker 2: So to your initial question, very excited with what we're seeing,

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Speaker 1: He's got the power, he's got the speed, the ability

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Speaker 1: So I think Detroit could be a really sneaky team

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Speaker 1: he's come back off the IL, a pitching duel went

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Speaker 1: that pitching duel not too surprising. Rinaldo Lopez six innings,

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Speaker 1: throughout the entire season. Probably gonna get some cy Young votes.

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Speaker 1: The other side of this equation blew me away. I

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Speaker 1: in points leagues. If you had a DFS lineup and

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Speaker 1: you put Austin Gomber in it, you got some kahonas,

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Speaker 1: but you got paid off eight innings of one run ball,

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Speaker 1: to read into this, right, Like, there's no way you

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Speaker 3: You got gombered. You can't trust him.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah. I The easy answer is I stumbled trying

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Speaker 2: to say this properly, is yes, you cannot trust him,

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Speaker 2: He's not striking dudes out, but neither is Corbyn Burns

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Speaker 2: So yes, I'm not saying run to pick up Austin Gomber.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm not saying it's an automatic. No,

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Speaker 2: it's very challenging. I get it. It's stressful and this

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Speaker 2: But if you look at Gomber, he gets at Detroit

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Speaker 2: the Detroit team, but that could be interesting. He gets Arizona,

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Speaker 2: more starts. It looks like coming his way, Detroit might

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Speaker 2: be the best of the three. So in the grand scheme,

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Speaker 2: probably not worth anything. In fantasy. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to give him a little hat tip. He's

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Speaker 1: I mean, hell, if I'm using him against Detroit, it's

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Speaker 1: probably because I really need the volume. It's a deep

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Speaker 1: Austin Gomber and Patrick Corbyn getting you fantasy championships.

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Speaker 2: Down course really good. It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Cork Finn's been fantastic. He's like a top twenty player

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Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. Somebody picked him up and

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Speaker 1: Ronaldo Lopez, he has really surprised me this season. I

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Speaker 1: was worried about the innings. You know, he hadn't thrown

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Speaker 1: back into a starter. Does this mean we can trust

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Speaker 1: drafting Rayleo next year?

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Speaker 2: This is one of the handful of guys. I was

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Speaker 2: talking with Ryan bloomfild on Bubble on the Bloom I

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Speaker 2: going to be fun to look into these guys with

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Speaker 2: do you trust him going forward? I do. And the

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Speaker 2: one reason I do is he was drafted by the

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Speaker 2: was a very good starting pitcher prospect. It didn't work

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Speaker 2: out with Chicago shocker. Stop me if you've heard that before.

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Speaker 2: Goes to a team, works out of the bullpen, becomes

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Speaker 2: to utilize starting pitching, and we're starting to see it again.

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Speaker 2: So I like Raylow He's going to be with the

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Speaker 2: Braves again. You might have to pay a bunch for him.

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Speaker 2: Like the questions would you rather have like chilling Bach

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Speaker 2: or did you either have Rinaldo? That's a fun one,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Raylo, I do trust I will be slightly

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Speaker 3: So man swelling Bach, I feel like I'd probably go

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Speaker 1: I mean, ray Loo is you know, I say, he's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna get some cy Young votes. He's going to

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Speaker 1: get some cy Young boats. Swelling Bach has just been

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Speaker 1: so good as a lake. It's an interesting question. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it'll be something that we talk about in the

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Speaker 1: off season, especially with Atlanta probably going to be a

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Speaker 1: lot better next year than this year. They've just dealt

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Speaker 1: with a worst case scenario of injuries. Acunia Strider, Harris

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Speaker 1: Riley had it down year, Olsen had a down year.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we can project a better season from them.

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Speaker 2: next week, too, risk adverse to that at this point

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Speaker 2: Here I'm doing it. I've been using the series a lot.

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Speaker 2: He should have dominated Seattle, he didn't. Prior to that

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Speaker 2: least at least just go like six and three. That's fine.

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Speaker 2: Give me a quality start, give me the White Sox

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Valente Blosso at Pittsburgh at Washington.

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Speaker 3: He's been a lot better.

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Speaker 1: It's tricky, right, Like you want to start the best possible, Guys.

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Speaker 1: Two star pitcher Mackenzie Gore, who another roller coaster of

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Speaker 2: Bubba Gore has looked much better in the last three

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Speaker 3: I think this is a situation where you probably go

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Speaker 1: You might want to plug your nose, but I think

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Speaker 1: hear that, Cody, thinking about you today. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: He's only twenty four percent rostered in Yahoo leagues, and

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Speaker 1: five outfielder leagues, if you're still seeing him out there.

433
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Speaker 1: A name I didn't really expect to talk about it,

434
00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:03,800
Speaker 1: and I honestly don't know if I've uttered his name

435
00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,840
Speaker 1: on a show this year. Mickey Moniac who would have

436
00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,920
Speaker 1: thunk it? But over the last two weeks he's batting

437
00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,520
Speaker 1: three twenty one. Even if you stretch it out, over

438
00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,600
Speaker 1: the last month, he's batt in three hundred five home

439
00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,879
Speaker 1: runs in his last twenty eight at bats, playing most days,

440
00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,159
Speaker 1: middle of the lineup. I'll be at the Angels lineup.

441
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Speaker 1: Any interest in Mickey Moniac baba.

442
00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,560
Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I dropped this one on Bloomfield last

443
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,520
Speaker 2: night and he didn't. He was like, what I'm like, Yep,

444
00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,399
Speaker 2: it's good, better than you think. Problem is he does

445
00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,160
Speaker 2: sit vers lefties. He sits vers lefty. Still they platoon him.

446
00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,960
Speaker 2: They faced a lot of rities lately. Next week I

447
00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,280
Speaker 2: believe it's four righty's two lefties. So if you're in

448
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,240
Speaker 2: a weekly league, not ideal. If you're in a daily league,

449
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,879
Speaker 2: Moniac's awesome. So yeah, i'd be all about that.

450
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Speaker 1: I think I agree there. What about Jesse Winker. Jesse

451
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Speaker 1: Winker has just had a really great season in Washington

452
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Speaker 1: and now even in New York. I think a lot

453
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Speaker 1: of people at the deadline were worried about what his

454
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Speaker 1: value in playing time would look like as a met

455
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Speaker 1: but if you look over the last thirty days, he's

456
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Speaker 1: batt in three thirty with three home runs. He's playing

457
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Speaker 1: most of the time batting fourth or fifth. Any interest

458
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Speaker 1: in Winker? I feel like deeper player specifically should have

459
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Speaker 1: some interest here.

460
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm all about that. They got five rities

461
00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,680
Speaker 2: this week in six games, so Winkers should be playing

462
00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,040
Speaker 2: quite a bit the powers there. He's not running like

463
00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,560
Speaker 2: he was in Washington, but whoever thought that would happen?

464
00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm a big Jesse Winker guy this week

465
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Speaker 2: for sure.

466
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Speaker 1: One last one, I'll ask you guys about ty France.

467
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,200
Speaker 1: He I mean, who thought anything would happen with Ty France.

468
00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,240
Speaker 1: But going to Cincinnati, I guess that kind of ballpark

469
00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:23,920
Speaker 1: can really do a.

470
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Speaker 3: Lot for you.

471
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Speaker 1: He's gotten four fifteen over the last two weeks, seventeen

472
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Speaker 1: for his last forty one, with a homer and even

473
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Speaker 1: a stolen base from Ty France. Of all people, any

474
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,359
Speaker 1: interest in picking up Ty France here he's playing looks

475
00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,240
Speaker 1: like pretty much every single day there in Cincy.

476
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely interested. They just left Great American. He crushed

477
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,720
Speaker 2: it there. It was like the first week he was there.

478
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,719
Speaker 2: Is Great American, played great, went on the road. He's okay,

479
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,360
Speaker 2: Great American played great. They're going back on the road

480
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,720
Speaker 2: next week. So kind of tempered expectations. But there will

481
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Speaker 2: be more Great Americans than I'm trying to say. So

482
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Speaker 2: France is a good pick up. There's a handful of

483
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 2: corner infield first base guys this week, so keep that

484
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Speaker 2: in mind. But I do like Ty France.

485
00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've always been a big Ty France guy.

486
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,560
Speaker 1: Getting out of I mean, go from the worst ballpark

487
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 1: in baseball to arguably the best or a top two

488
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 1: ballpark always is going to give you a bit of

489
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 1: a boost, especially now that he's playing every single.

490
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Speaker 3: Day, keeping it going with just for fine.

491
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Speaker 1: No fantasy relevance here, just something I thought was a

492
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,560
Speaker 1: kind of a fun tidbit. Elvis Andrews is going to

493
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Speaker 1: retire as a Ranger after debuting with the team in

494
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, spending twelve seasons there. He'll be

495
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Speaker 1: joined by Michael Young, his old teammate, on the mound

496
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Speaker 1: as they throw out the first pitch. Ron Washington is

497
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,920
Speaker 1: the opposing manager, and he did coach them for several seasons,

498
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 1: so I wonder if he's going to crouch down behind

499
00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 1: the dish and catch that ball. Not one hundred percent

500
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 1: sure there, but just kind of a nice thing. Elvis Andrews,

501
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 1: who was one of my favorite players there growing up.

502
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to be retiring as a member of the Rangers.

503
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 1: Obviously there's no fantasy move there, but he did give

504
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,199
Speaker 1: you some deep league value as a White Sox last season,

505
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of sneaky value at times from Elvis Andrews.

506
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,360
Speaker 1: Let's go to the three up and three down, three up.

507
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: Xander Bogarts went three for four with a home run

508
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 1: Cal Rowley, of all people, a home run and a

509
00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: stolen base, giving you that combo meal. And Hunter Brown

510
00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 1: continues his redemption tour after really stinking up the play

511
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 1: for the first part of the season. Six shoutout innings

512
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 1: with six strikeouts against Cincinnati. On the three down, Jake Irvin,

513
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: who started off just really well this season, things have

514
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 1: really imploded for him though, six earned runs over five

515
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 1: innings in Pittsburgh. Brendan Rodgers, who's actually been pretty solid himself,

516
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: gave us a golden sombrero, and then Robert Suarez. I

517
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 1: know I mentioned Parker Meadows earlier with that Grand Slam,

518
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 1: and Robert Suarez was the one who allowed it, also

519
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 1: took the loss. Very good season for him, but today

520
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: he is unfortunately in the down section.

521
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,080
Speaker 3: Let's go to the injuries.

522
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Speaker 1: Yoshanobo Yamamoto is going to return on Thursday or no,

523
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 1: I wrote Thursday, but I believe it's actually next Tuesday

524
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,399
Speaker 1: against the Cubs, and I believe he actually lines up

525
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,160
Speaker 1: for a two stepper next week. We rolling with Yoshinobo

526
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Speaker 1: Yamamoto and his first start, Buba.

527
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,880
Speaker 2: I'm worried that it's like the Darvish Plan's gonna get

528
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 2: three innings and keep ramping him up because they wanted

529
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Speaker 2: for the postseason. So it's like, do you want the

530
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,360
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet treatment or do you want a guy Cause

531
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna be giving you six seven

532
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 2: innings right out the gate, So I just temper your expectations.

533
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Speaker 2: If you don't have other options, sure, but I'm not

534
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 2: rushing to utilize them. The Dodgers. You don't care about

535
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: our fantasy teams.

536
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wish they did. I wish all

537
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 1: these teams cared a little bit more about our fantasy teams.

538
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: There'll be no closer committees, there'd be no platoons. Everything

539
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: would be sunshine and rainbows. But we're not quite there.

540
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: The only league I have, Yamamoto, is TGFBI, and my

541
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 1: ratios are just just immaculate.

542
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Speaker 3: I don't think I can do it.

543
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: Like, if you're really really strong in the ratios, then

544
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. If you're just looking to catch

545
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: up in strikeouts and wins and you're hoping for the best,

546
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: I think you probably just roll with it. But doesn't

547
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 1: give you that warm, fuzzy feeling for sure. First start

548
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: off of a fairly long layoff.

549
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 3: We mentioned this the other day.

550
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 1: We didn't have a ton of clarity on the situation,

551
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 1: but Justin Steele was in fact placed on the fifteen

552
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 1: dail with elbow tendonitis. It looks pretty unlikely that he

553
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 1: is going to come back, but the Cubs are still

554
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: kind of sort of in the race. Any reason to

555
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: hold on to Justin Steele specifically for rodo managers because

556
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: head to head managers, in all likelihood he's done for

557
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 1: the time your season is going to be going for

558
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: in a row. Is there any chance he gets one

559
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: or two starts at the end of the season that

560
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: you'd want to hold on for.

561
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm dropping him. I just the cut, nothing to

562
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 2: play for. Maybe they try to get one more start

563
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 2: out of him, but I don't think they've shut Steel

564
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 2: down in two years ago, Like they're not worried about

565
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 2: finishing the season on the mound, which makes us question

566
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: things in the offseason. But yeah, I'm I on dropping him.

567
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 2: I think we've seen the last of Justin Steel unfortunately.

568
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 3: I think you're probably right somebody else.

569
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: I think we might have seen the last of Corey

570
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: Seger hip soreness, placed on the IL, eligible to return

571
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: on September sixteenth, A lot of leagues end on September

572
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: the fifteenth, on that Sunday for head to head, So

573
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: if your league ends on the fifteenth, you already know

574
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 1: what to do there. Even if your league doesn't end

575
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: on the fifteenth, I don't know if it really makes sense.

576
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: From the Rangers standpoint seven and a half out of

577
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: the Division, eight back in the wild card. Are they

578
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: going to bring back Corey Seger to play six seven

579
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: meaningless games at the end of the season. I think

580
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: there's a chances he might have taken his last swing

581
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four.

582
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Speaker 2: Completely agree with you. I'll keep that one simple. I'm

583
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 2: on the same age. I've already told people to drop him.

584
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 2: If he comes back, I'd be shocked, and I'm not

585
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 2: expecting much out of him when he comes back.

586
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 1: So I think he's done something that can happen to

587
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: this time of year. If somebody sees a name like

588
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: that hit the waiver wire, they might just reflexibly say,

589
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 1: oh my god, Corey Seger, I'm gonna throw a quick

590
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: bit on him. They might just not realize the timing situation.

591
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: They might waste some of their remaining fab use a

592
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: higher priority, so you might be.

593
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 3: Able to doope some of your league mates as well.

594
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: With that, not that we're trying to deceive people out here,

595
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 1: but you never know, could be a nice little thing

596
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: that happens as well. From getting him off your roster,

597
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: you get a pickup and maybe somebody else wastes a

598
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 1: little bit of.

599
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 3: Fab and some time on him.

600
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Speaker 1: Louise Heel activated from the IL and we'll start today.

601
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: Be comfortable rolling with Louise Heel, Bobba.

602
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 3: It hasn't been the greatest second half from him.

603
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: We're pushing up against an innings limit, worries for injury,

604
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera.

605
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 3: How confident are you down the stretch here?

606
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 2: I'm throwing him. It's a tough matchup verus the Cubs

607
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 2: Redhaw offense. But the wind blowing in twenty miles an

608
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 2: hour Wrigley, so I'll take my chances. And he was

609
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 2: up to eighty pitches in his last outing as he

610
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 2: rehabbed back, So I'll throw the Weis. But yeah, it

611
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 2: has been a fall from grace.

612
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: One could say, you know, I was talking to two

613
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: separate people yesterday, including one of them our mutual friend,

614
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: Chris Torres, who is a Yankee fan. Two of people

615
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: suggested Luis Hill should just slot into that ninth inning

616
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: with Clay Holmes and all the nonsense is going on there.

617
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: Heel's got the injury risk, why not just give him

618
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: the ninth inning for a couple of weeks if the

619
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Speaker 1: command is not what you really want to see from

620
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 1: a closer. But I think there's a chance, especially with

621
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Speaker 1: Clark Smith coming back, they're going to be six men

622
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: in the rotation anyway. Do you think there's any chance

623
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Speaker 1: that he'll sees any work in the ninth inning or

624
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: in relief Bubba, or do you think he's just a

625
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: starter to rest the season.

626
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Speaker 2: I think he's just a starter because I think they

627
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: want to keep him stretched out for next year. But

628
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 2: I would be one hundred percent on board with the

629
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 2: move of the bullpit. I think it's a smart move.

630
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 2: But we're trying to say, Aaron Boone make smart moves.

631
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 2: So go figure that Jayson Dimingus is still in triple A.

632
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 2: That's all I'm gonna say.

633
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: When you have the chance to start Alex Radugo and

634
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: give him every day at bats, you simply have to

635
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: do it.

636
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 3: There's no other question. You just you just got to

637
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Speaker 3: do it.

638
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: This one is injury adjacent. I just kind of want

639
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on the whole You probably saw it.

640
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: Witt Mayor Field a couple days ago got hit in

641
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: the head by a pitch. He was not happy about it.

642
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: He started saying things that I'm not really sure what

643
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: my stance on is quite yet, but suggesting that maybe

644
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: there should be fines and suspensions levied against guys who

645
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: throw and hit guys in the head and they end

646
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: up missing time.

647
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Speaker 3: And what are your thoughts on that.

648
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: Do you think that it's reasonable to suspend pitchers for

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Speaker 1: hitting guys in the head for lack of command. I

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Speaker 1: still don't really know how to feel about the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so because I don't think any pitchers

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Speaker 2: purposely trying to hit someone in the head. I've seen

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Speaker 2: guys try to hit people in the back the show

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Speaker 2: like whatever of it. I don't think they're have a

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Speaker 2: purposely trying to hit some one in the head. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they wish injury to anybody. I think the

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Speaker 2: bigger matter and a lot of players have spoke on

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Speaker 2: this because we've seen a lot of hit matters this year,

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Speaker 2: a lot without any sticky stuff. There needs to be

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Speaker 2: like a MLB regulated amount of sticky. They can create

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Speaker 2: the proper sticky. Players have said it's easy to create

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Speaker 2: a universal sticky. Like in the World Baseball Class, I

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Speaker 2: think it was a different league. They made a ball

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Speaker 2: that had built in sticky and that's what everyone used

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Speaker 2: game on. Like, there's so things that can take place.

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Speaker 2: But of course Rob Manford, we know how that goes.

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Speaker 2: But I think doing some some sort of just enough

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Speaker 2: sticky for command, not for just like insanely godly spin.

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Speaker 2: There's a difference there, but just for command would be tremendous.

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Speaker 2: I think everyone had benefit from that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's probably correct. They need to do something,

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Speaker 3: But I don't know if suspending guys is.

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Speaker 1: Really the way to go about it. Nobody's out there

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Speaker 1: for the most part. Maybe the odd guy gets beamed

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Speaker 1: on purpose in certain situations, but they're not trying to

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Speaker 1: hit people in the head. I think that just the

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Speaker 1: command is not prioritized like it was maybe a few

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Speaker 1: years ago. On top of the lack of sticky stuff,

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Speaker 1: velocity on averages up. Pitchers are coming up younger than

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Speaker 1: they were before and they're throwing one hundred and two,

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Speaker 1: so they definitely need to tink there with a few things.

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Speaker 1: There's been too many injuries this season. We saw Corey

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Speaker 1: Seger go down earlier in the year. It's not even

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Speaker 1: just getting hit in the head like Bryce Harper got

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Speaker 1: hit the other day again, and it's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of injuries, a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Broken hands, broken wrists, a lot of that this year.

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Speaker 1: Danny Jansen's got a magnet on his hand. He has

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Speaker 1: for the last couple of seasons. It feels like he

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Speaker 1: always takes one or two off of his hand. But

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Speaker 1: just an interesting talking point. I feel like that's something

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Speaker 1: that we'll talk about more and more because I think

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Speaker 1: Marrifield said something about he's gonna bring it up to

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Speaker 1: the Players Association and maybe in the next CBA there

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Speaker 1: is something that is mentioned anyway around that. But Bubba,

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Speaker 2: Prop bets? As usual, not as not as big a

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Speaker 2: fan today as I was in previous weeks, but I'm

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Speaker 2: going to go with Big Willie. William Contrero's over one

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Speaker 2: and a half total bases at plus one thirty five.

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Speaker 2: Really fun matchup for the brew Crew today. Francisco Lindor's

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Speaker 2: has been nuclear hot. Anytime I can get plus money

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Speaker 2: I'll take at plus one fifteen. So I think Lindor there,

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Speaker 2: and I think the Red Sox go to town this evening.

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Speaker 2: Give me Jaron Duran over two and a half hits

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Speaker 2: runs in our guys a plus one ten, so William Concerero's,

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Speaker 1: Indeed, I also think that the Red Sox are probably

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Speaker 1: shaking Nick Cavetta here over six and a half strikeouts

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Speaker 1: at plus money. I mean Nick Covetta, for all his

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Speaker 1: fault strikeouts, are not something that he really struggles with

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Speaker 1: against a team like the White Sox. At plus money,

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Speaker 1: I think seven strikeouts can very easily be attained. DJ Hurts.

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Speaker 1: I'm also going with I've been a big fan of his.

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Speaker 1: He gets the Pirates and the line is set at

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Speaker 1: five and a half strikeouts at minus one fifteen, so

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Speaker 1: I will go DJ Hurris also over strikeouts and then

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Speaker 1: rounding out the strikeout trio here, I've gone with Bryce Miller,

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Speaker 1: and it's mostly because the line is just set so

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Speaker 1: out a ton, but Bryce Miller does tend to work

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Speaker 1: I feel like, just on a volume standpoint, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to get to five here. Sticking with the

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Speaker 1: strikeouts across the board, Hurts, Paveda and Miller, Bobo going

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Speaker 1: William Contreras over base, Francisco Lindor over bases, and Jaron

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Speaker 1: Duran over two and a half hits, runs and RBI.

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Speaker 1: We went five for six on Wednesday, folks, so we're

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Speaker 2: One of the hottest hitters in baseball right now, Kyle Schwarber,

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Speaker 2: I think greatest see them shore bombs Friday and the

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Speaker 2: rest of the weekend. So I'll go with Kyle Shoorber

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Speaker 2: to probably hit at least two over the weekend. Let's

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Speaker 2: put it that way. Friday, it's only two home runs

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Speaker 2: from Shorebard.

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Speaker 1: I'm still seeing stars from what he did with the

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Speaker 1: Blue Days earlier this week, Triple Dong, Folks, Triple Dong

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Speaker 1: probably won some head to head matchups just there by himself.

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Speaker 1: My home run call. Also, going back to picking on

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Speaker 1: those white soxx, I'm going Tyler O'Neil going up against

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Speaker 1: Davis Martin tonight, who hasn't actually been that bad. But

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Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neill, when he's healthy this season has been a

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Speaker 1: pretty good bet to hit a home run.

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Speaker 3: Not that he's gonna score anybody else.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five homers and fifty RBI it's been pretty pretty

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Speaker 1: crazy to think of, especially considering how good the offenses.

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Speaker 1: But I will take Tyler O'Neil for today, and I

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Speaker 1: will take him for the weekend, and Bubba, that will

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Speaker 3: This is the end of the first week of the

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Speaker 2: Always Man. Looking forward to it every Wednesday and Friday,

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Speaker 2: you and me taking down the show and having a

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Speaker 1: Usual, Always Man, Always Monday. I'm actually not sure if

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Speaker 1: and you'll get our old friend Chris Welsh back hosting

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Speaker 1: so that'll be a lot of fun. We'll figure out

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Speaker 1: But in any event, guys, really appreciate all you hanging

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Speaker 3: But that will do it. Guys, Hope you have a

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Speaker 3: great weekend.

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Speaker 1: Wish you all the best of luck in your head

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