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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. It is the Joe and Bubba Show
Speaker 1: here once again on Leading Off. Joel Rico taking the
Speaker 1: spot behind the mic here with Casey Bubba. You can
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. We could share squares. It's okay. We're
Speaker 2: all just one big, happy family around here. So doing great.
Speaker 2: It's Friday. We're trickling tours, you know, three weeks after this,
Speaker 2: so baseball's going but we're loving it as usual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're really getting down to the nitty gritty. You
Speaker 1: got a fun outline today with some playoff prep. I
Speaker 1: got a couple of two star pitchers for next week.
Speaker 1: We're going to discuss a couple of hot bats. We're
Speaker 1: also gonna talk about potentially picking up for the stretch run.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get started off with some headlines today
Speaker 1: and this one is right up Bubba's Ali being in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Being a Giants fan, Matt Chapman agreed
Speaker 1: to an extension.
Speaker 3: Kind of an odd timing.
Speaker 1: You don't usually see them come around this time of year,
Speaker 1: but six years, one hundred and fifty one million dollars
Speaker 1: for Matt Chapman. What is your thought process on this
Speaker 1: as a fantasy manager going forward and also as a
Speaker 1: Giants fan, do you like to move for the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a fantasy manager, still a pretty solid you know,
Speaker 2: probably a top twelve, top fifteen, third basement depending on
Speaker 2: how you feel about him. I think he's done very
Speaker 2: well this year. He's not flashy, but he's gonna have
Speaker 2: twenty plus homers again, been very serviceable. As a fan,
Speaker 2: absolutely love it. I am ecstatic for multiple reasons because
Speaker 2: every offseason it's the Giants are linked to this player
Speaker 2: linked linked LinkedIn. They don't sign anybody to get that
Speaker 2: out of the way right now, big fan, big fan
Speaker 2: of that whole situation. Secondly, twenty five million year for
Speaker 2: the next six years, in about three or four years.
Speaker 2: Twenty five meals is not gonna sound like anything that's
Speaker 2: gonna be cheap the way things are going, so pretty
Speaker 2: pumped on that as well. And he just gives great
Speaker 2: defense when we already have pitchers like Logan Web and
Speaker 2: company coming through there. He's a great leader. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of factors about Chapman that he's again not flashy
Speaker 2: for fantasy. He's serviceable, very serviceable for fantasy, but when
Speaker 2: it comes to on the field and just the player
Speaker 2: that he is. As a Giants fan, absolutely pumped about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the defense.
Speaker 1: Watching him the last couple of years in Toronto, he
Speaker 1: was obviously a great defender. I think he won maybe
Speaker 1: one Gold Glove in Toronto, but the metrics weren't quite
Speaker 1: what they had been earlier on in his career. They've
Speaker 1: really bounced back this season. Fifteen defensive run saved, seven
Speaker 1: outs above average. The defense is great, the offense has
Speaker 1: been there, and from a fantasy point of view, he's
Speaker 1: thirteen stolen bases for Matt Chapman, who came into the
Speaker 1: season with eleven career stolen bases, so that's obviously been
Speaker 1: a huge part of.
Speaker 3: It as well. I like the move as well. I
Speaker 3: think this is a really solid real life and fantasy move.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see the Giants continue to add pieces
Speaker 1: in the way that they tend to, you know, they
Speaker 1: open up the pocketbooks a little bit, so I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance they could add a couple more pieces
Speaker 1: here and make this offense even a little bit. That
Speaker 1: are heading into next year, but a great move for
Speaker 1: the Giants. Parker Meadows hit a grand slam last night,
Speaker 1: go ahead grand slam off of Robert Suarez. Since his
Speaker 1: return over the last month, since August third, when he
Speaker 1: came back, he's slashing three oh one three point thirty
Speaker 1: three five twenty four with three homers and five stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Leading off a lot of the time in Detroit. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Parker Meadows? Is he somebody that
Speaker 1: you're interested in down the stretch and also heading into
Speaker 1: next year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I absolutely love it that. It's good to see
Speaker 2: him getting it going, you know, high high expectations entering
Speaker 2: draft season and then it obviously didn't work out. Goes
Speaker 2: a triple A, works on a few things, comes back,
Speaker 2: looks good before the hammy injury. Now he's returning and
Speaker 2: doing it all over again leading off, giving him a
Speaker 2: little bit of power, tons of speed, hitting for average.
Speaker 2: I'm very intrigued to come next season. Like, in reality,
Speaker 2: this might be the ceiling for Parker metals, but why
Speaker 2: couldn't he be this year's the next year's Jared Duran.
Speaker 2: Why couldn't he be that guy? Like that's like maybe
Speaker 2: a high ceiling, but that's the ceiling you could like
Speaker 2: shoot for in a draft, and you're probably gonna get
Speaker 2: him ten fifteen rounds after Jared Randam. Unless he less
Speaker 2: Parker continues to finish like this, then Helium will take over.
Speaker 2: So to your initial question, very excited with what we're seeing,
Speaker 2: Very interested in him for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like the comp I really do.
Speaker 1: He's got the power, he's got the speed, the ability
Speaker 1: to hit for a high average. I think the power
Speaker 1: might even be a little bit better than what Duran
Speaker 1: brings to the table overall, So could definitely be something
Speaker 1: that comes to fruition. I really like the Tigers offense,
Speaker 1: you know, I was talking about it last night with Vlad.
Speaker 1: I just think that they have a chance to do
Speaker 1: what Kansas City kind of did this year and take
Speaker 1: that next step forward in kind of a weaker division,
Speaker 1: a lot of offensive pieces taking another step. Maybe Jackson
Speaker 1: Job comes up and looks like what we're hoping for.
Speaker 1: So I think Detroit could be a really sneaky team
Speaker 1: next year in Meadows. Could definitely be one of those
Speaker 1: pieces that contributes over there, really really good stuff. Since
Speaker 1: he's come back off the IL, a pitching duel went
Speaker 1: down in Atlanta last night. One of the sides of
Speaker 1: that pitching duel not too surprising. Rinaldo Lopez six innings,
Speaker 1: five hits, too, n runs, eleven strikeouts. He's been excellent
Speaker 1: throughout the entire season. Probably gonna get some cy Young votes.
Speaker 1: The other side of this equation blew me away. I
Speaker 1: think he was the highest scoring player of the day
Speaker 1: in points leagues. If you had a DFS lineup and
Speaker 1: you put Austin Gomber in it, you got some kahonas,
Speaker 1: but you got paid off eight innings of one run ball,
Speaker 1: six strikeouts, and he picked up a win. There's nothing
Speaker 1: to read into this, right, Like, there's no way you
Speaker 1: can trust him at all, because I can't. Right, there's
Speaker 1: a phrase named after him.
Speaker 3: You got gombered. You can't trust him.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah. I The easy answer is I stumbled trying
Speaker 2: to say this properly, is yes, you cannot trust him,
Speaker 2: but I will throw a caveat out there. Four of
Speaker 2: his last five starts, three in runs are less like
Speaker 2: He's not striking dudes out, but neither is Corbyn Burns
Speaker 2: everybody like. Actually, Gomber has more strikeouts than Corbyn Burns
Speaker 2: over his last five starts, but its three in runs
Speaker 2: are less than four out of five starts for Austin Gomber.
Speaker 2: So yes, I'm not saying run to pick up Austin Gomber.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm not saying it's an automatic. No,
Speaker 2: it's very challenging. I get it. It's stressful and this
Speaker 2: time of year we do a lot of dumb things.
Speaker 2: But if you look at Gomber, he gets at Detroit
Speaker 2: next week. I know, I agree with you. I like
Speaker 2: the Detroit team, but that could be interesting. He gets Arizona,
Speaker 2: stay far away from that, and then his last couple
Speaker 2: of starts he gets Saint Louis. So he's got three
Speaker 2: more starts. It looks like coming his way, Detroit might
Speaker 2: be the best of the three. So in the grand scheme,
Speaker 2: probably not worth anything. In fantasy. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: I wanted to give him a little hat tip. He's
Speaker 2: been better, I think than most of us expect, because,
Speaker 2: like we're all guilty of saying, yep, that's Austin Gomber,
Speaker 2: stay far away from that.
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, if I'm using him against Detroit, it's
Speaker 1: probably because I really need the volume. It's a deep
Speaker 1: league without many replacements. But he's been kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: Austin Gomber and Patrick Corbyn getting you fantasy championships.
Speaker 2: Down course really good. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Cork Finn's been fantastic. He's like a top twenty player
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. Somebody picked him up and
Speaker 1: and just got an absolute gold out of it. The
Speaker 1: other side, how did that start?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: Ronaldo Lopez, he has really surprised me this season. I
Speaker 1: was worried about the innings. You know, he hadn't thrown
Speaker 1: more than one hundred innings going back five years. But
Speaker 1: he's a two to four ERA, one fifteen whip, eighteen
Speaker 1: percent strike up minus walk rate, a very successful conversion
Speaker 1: back into a starter. Does this mean we can trust
Speaker 1: him going forward? Are you going to be interested in
Speaker 1: drafting Rayleo next year?
Speaker 2: This is one of the handful of guys. I was
Speaker 2: talking with Ryan bloomfild on Bubble on the Bloom I
Speaker 2: think it was Tuesday Show and going this offseason is
Speaker 2: going to be fun to look into these guys with
Speaker 2: massive increases in innings, Lopez, even Chris phil his teammate.
Speaker 2: There's a handful of we know who was like Todd Tanner, Hawck,
Speaker 2: all these guys and seeing how do we evaluate this,
Speaker 2: because that's always the age old question. It's one thing
Speaker 2: is how many extra innings do they get each year?
Speaker 2: What about the guys take the big jumps, like Hazus
Speaker 2: Cauzardo took a big jump and now look at him
Speaker 2: this year. Is that because of the big jump in
Speaker 2: innings or is that just because hazus Azzardo's injury prom
Speaker 2: million dollar question Now if you want to pretend nown
Speaker 2: to that exists and you just want to look at
Speaker 2: a bubble of how good Renaldo's been the year and
Speaker 2: do you trust him going forward? I do. And the
Speaker 2: one reason I do is he was drafted by the
Speaker 2: White Sox to be a top tier starting pitcher. He
Speaker 2: was a very good starting pitcher prospect. It didn't work
Speaker 2: out with Chicago shocker. Stop me if you've heard that before.
Speaker 2: Goes to a team, works out of the bullpen, becomes
Speaker 2: very good again, goes to a team that knows how
Speaker 2: to utilize starting pitching, and we're starting to see it again.
Speaker 2: So I like Raylow He's going to be with the
Speaker 2: Braves again. You might have to pay a bunch for him.
Speaker 2: Like the questions would you rather have like chilling Bach
Speaker 2: or did you either have Rinaldo? That's a fun one,
Speaker 2: But yeah, Raylo, I do trust I will be slightly
Speaker 2: concerned with the ending.
Speaker 3: So man swelling Bach, I feel like I'd probably go
Speaker 3: with him. But it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, ray Loo is you know, I say, he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get some cy Young votes. He's going to
Speaker 1: get some cy Young boats. Swelling Bach has just been
Speaker 1: so good as a lake. It's an interesting question. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it'll be something that we talk about in the
Speaker 1: off season, especially with Atlanta probably going to be a
Speaker 1: lot better next year than this year. They've just dealt
Speaker 1: with a worst case scenario of injuries. Acunia Strider, Harris
Speaker 1: Riley had it down year, Olsen had a down year.
Speaker 1: I feel like we can project a better season from them.
Speaker 1: Heading into next year, somebody who's had a great season,
Speaker 1: then we might even be able to project even a
Speaker 1: little bit better next year. I'll expand on that in
Speaker 1: a second. Is Brent Rooker a couple of home runs
Speaker 1: yesterday thirty fourth and thirty fifth of the season a
Speaker 1: one to seventy WRC plus puts them only behind Judge
Speaker 1: Soto and Bobby Witch Junior this season. I feel like
Speaker 1: the babbitb is a little bit unsustainable. But going forward,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be playing in the Coliseum, They're
Speaker 1: going to be playing in Sacramento, in a PCL park.
Speaker 1: There's a chance he hits fifty next year playing in
Speaker 1: that park. I think Brent Rooker the batting average might
Speaker 1: come down, but everything else is looking pretty good heading
Speaker 1: into Sacramento. I think in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent agree. And this is what I've talked
Speaker 2: about a lot because I grew up close by this stadium.
Speaker 2: I was in high school when the stadium was built
Speaker 2: and the Rivercats opened it. So I've been to mini
Speaker 2: games in this ballpark, and it flies in the summer
Speaker 2: because it's a consistently over one hundred degree temperatures, it's
Speaker 2: a dry heat and the ball will just fly out
Speaker 2: of that place. So unless they get like a crazy
Speaker 2: humitt Or situation going on there, that's that's possible. I
Speaker 2: agree he could be in for a big year. Do
Speaker 2: you trust it in drafts? That's tough. But it's back
Speaker 2: to back really really solid years, so at least we
Speaker 2: have to give him some critics. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people this year thought you can't draft for Rooker,
Speaker 2: You're coming off a career year, all these things. Well,
Speaker 2: he's done in two years in a row. Now, now
Speaker 2: we've got to respect it. Plus the increased environment, I
Speaker 2: agree Rooker could be in for quite the fun season
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. So good Bladet and Butler and
Speaker 2: the rest of the team's hitting extremely well. It's going
Speaker 2: to be fun seeing how that cookie crumbles and drafts.
Speaker 1: With Lawrence Butler, I've gone from a place of thinking
Speaker 1: he was gonna be a huge fade for me next year.
Speaker 1: But the strikeouts have kept coming down, the swinging strike
Speaker 1: has come down. He's stealing projecting out into that ballpark
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 3: He's turned from a fade.
Speaker 1: Into somebody that's probably gonna be a target as long
Speaker 1: as the price doesn't get out of hand, and there's
Speaker 1: a chance the price for Lawrence Butler gets very out
Speaker 1: of hand. But I think that he's somebody that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be pretty interested in heading into next season.
Speaker 1: Somebody where I don't really know what to make of
Speaker 1: them is TODJ. Bradley, who I was a huge, huge
Speaker 1: fan of. One of my bigger hits of the season
Speaker 1: was probably a by low call on him when he
Speaker 1: was really struggling. He looked like the say young winner
Speaker 1: for a month or so there and then over this
Speaker 1: last month he is a nine to twenty ERA with
Speaker 1: a one to seventy eight whip eight nine twenty ERA
Speaker 1: from Todge Bradley for the season. Now it's a four
Speaker 1: to forty ERA won twenty one whip yesterday kind of
Speaker 1: a mixed bag. He did strike out ten, but he
Speaker 1: allowed four and runs. I don't think I trust him
Speaker 1: against the Phillies next week. I think at this point
Speaker 1: I'm fairly comfortable dropping him, which I never thought i'd
Speaker 1: say about Todge Bradley.
Speaker 3: But it's been a pretty dark road for a while now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't disagree with you. You mentioned the last seven
Speaker 2: starts near nine era over those last seven starts. It's
Speaker 2: a four to three one Sierra, so it's half the era,
Speaker 2: but it's still not ideal obviously, so I'm with you.
Speaker 2: It's tough. The strikeouts are great to see because he
Speaker 2: hasn't even getten that he's been so blown up of late.
Speaker 2: You mentioned the Philly start, We don't want anything to
Speaker 2: do with that. And then after that it's at Cleveland,
Speaker 2: who's struggled of late but still good, Toronto's picking it up,
Speaker 2: and then Boston that's a rough finish. So yeah, you
Speaker 2: can probably move on from TODs Bradley and hope he
Speaker 2: fixes things for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, but we've probably we've probably knocked enough off
Speaker 1: the price, whether it's draft rounds or auction values, that
Speaker 1: he might be pretty appealing now. And he was gonna
Speaker 1: be appealing to me, probably one way or the other.
Speaker 1: I just like the skills. I really buy into him.
Speaker 1: There is gonna be a bit of a home run problem,
Speaker 1: which could get in the way of things, but I
Speaker 1: think the price is going to be cheap enough where
Speaker 1: I'll probably invest, especially if we see a couple more
Speaker 1: of these starts the era. I mean, he had a
Speaker 1: two and a half ERA just like a month ago.
Speaker 1: It really just unraveled. This season just came apart for him.
Speaker 1: Somebody who's had a very solid season hasn't had a
Speaker 1: large sample size, but Cody Bradford another really good outing yesterday,
Speaker 1: six innings of one run ball against the Angels. He's
Speaker 1: been back for seven starts, He's got at least six
Speaker 1: innings in five of them and has not allowed more
Speaker 1: than three yearn runs in any of them. So how
Speaker 1: interested are we in Cody Bradford down the stretch. I
Speaker 1: feel like he's going to be somebody that I'm pretty
Speaker 1: interested in for next season. Not the most robust supporting metrics,
Speaker 1: but the results have been very good, good command. What's
Speaker 1: your interest level in Cody Bradford, Bubba.
Speaker 2: I'm very interested. The dude has been great. You know,
Speaker 2: even with to Grom coming back, it looks like Bradford
Speaker 2: will stick in the rotation. Garabito should be gonzo. But
Speaker 2: then Schurzer comes back and we'll see if Bradford sticks
Speaker 2: there or how that that goes. Maybe they go six
Speaker 2: man rotation with two kind of old injured guys. But
Speaker 2: I am very interested in Bradford. He's been outstanding. I
Speaker 2: wasn't even supposed to be in the rotation type guy,
Speaker 2: but he's flourished. Does get Arizona, which is tricky. Toronto,
Speaker 2: like he's already said, is pretty good, and but then
Speaker 2: he finishes against Oakland, so there is there is some
Speaker 2: good expectations there.
Speaker 1: I do like Cody Bradford. To your initial question, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan. I think I'm going to be pretty interested
Speaker 1: down the stretch. I'll probably pick him up in a
Speaker 1: couple of leagues here. I think there's probably some deeper
Speaker 1: leagues where he's still available, and I'll try and get
Speaker 1: onto the end of this hot streak here and see
Speaker 1: if I can get another start or two out of him.
Speaker 3: Let's switch to a little bit of playoff prep here.
Speaker 1: I've highlighted four two star pitchers who are kind of
Speaker 1: a little bit on the fence in terms of whether
Speaker 1: or not you'd start them or not. Going to get
Speaker 1: Bubba's take, starting with Cutter Crawford, who really just plummeted
Speaker 1: for a while there. He looks awful, but he has
Speaker 1: turned things around over the last couple of weeks. The
Speaker 1: only thing is a couple of tricky outings for him
Speaker 1: versus Baltimore and at the Yankees. You're putting Cutter Crawford
Speaker 1: in the lineups next week, Bubba.
Speaker 2: I will be not putting Cutter Crawford in my lineups
Speaker 2: next week, too, risk adverse to that at this point
Speaker 2: in time. Trying to predict ratios before the blow ups
Speaker 2: happen and Baltimore New York is not the recipe for happiness.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I think I agree. If it's a
Speaker 1: deep league you need volume, then I'd probably do it.
Speaker 1: But in most cases it just hasn't been great. For
Speaker 1: Cutter Crawford. It started off so well, but he really
Speaker 1: fell apart in the middle of the season. And while
Speaker 1: he's gotten a little bit better recently, I just need
Speaker 1: to be starting guys that I'm fairly certain about this
Speaker 1: time of year.
Speaker 3: For the most part, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of these fringy guys, I'm not super interested in
Speaker 1: JP Sears at Houston at White Sox. The White Sox
Speaker 1: is obviously very peeling, but you got to also eat
Speaker 1: that Houston one.
Speaker 3: It's been kind of a mixed bag for seeriars.
Speaker 1: Some really good starts recently mixed in with some rather
Speaker 1: poor ones.
Speaker 3: You got any interest.
Speaker 2: Here I'm doing it. I've been using the series a lot.
Speaker 2: He should have dominated Seattle, he didn't. Prior to that
Speaker 2: some pretty good, so I'll take my chances. We just
Speaker 2: saw the Red shutdown Houston and Great America for a
Speaker 2: couple of days. Cross my fingers. Series could like at
Speaker 2: least at least just go like six and three. That's fine.
Speaker 2: Give me a quality start, give me the White Sox
Speaker 2: starts what I really want. So yes, I'm going JP series.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Valente Blosso at Pittsburgh at Washington.
Speaker 3: He's been a lot better.
Speaker 1: Than you might expect if you just look at the
Speaker 1: numbers for the season two really favorable matchups.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on Blazo there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in deeper formats, I'm cool with it. I still
Speaker 2: don't trust what we're seeing from Belazzo, but it has
Speaker 2: been good so great matchups. Can't can't hate on that.
Speaker 2: So if you want to go there, I totally understand it.
Speaker 1: It's tricky, right, Like you want to start the best possible, Guys.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people go through this time
Speaker 1: of year, like do you go for the talent or
Speaker 1: you go for the matchups?
Speaker 3: If you had to prioritize is just one.
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, are you starting the skilled player in the
Speaker 1: trickier matchups or the worst player in the better matchups
Speaker 1: in the vacuum matchups?
Speaker 2: Give me matchups alldly long this time of year because
Speaker 2: some of these teams have tossed in the towel, so
Speaker 2: you want every matchup possible.
Speaker 3: Let's do one more.
Speaker 1: Two star pitcher Mackenzie Gore, who another roller coaster of
Speaker 1: a season, but things have looked quite a.
Speaker 3: Bit better over the last little while.
Speaker 1: At are, excuse me, versus Atlanta and then versus Miami
Speaker 1: a trickier one and then a bit of an easier one.
Speaker 3: What say you on, McKenzie Gore?
Speaker 2: Bubba Gore has looked much better in the last three
Speaker 2: or four starts. Walks are down, strikeouts are still up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start them. I'm gonna start them. Though then
Speaker 2: the Braves offense is not as scary as people thought
Speaker 2: it would be, and that Miami one sets up pretty nicely,
Speaker 2: So I'll start mckinzior.
Speaker 3: I think I will as well.
Speaker 1: Atlanta makes me nervous, but not quite as nervous as
Speaker 1: they would have coming into the season.
Speaker 3: I think this is a situation where you probably go
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 1: You might want to plug your nose, but I think
Speaker 1: I am going for it, except for maybe shallow leagues
Speaker 1: where like a ten team, or maybe I wouldn't, But
Speaker 1: I think in most cases Mackenzie Gore is probably a
Speaker 1: go one extime. My condolens is Cody in the chat,
Speaker 1: who's a regular viewer, said his father passed away. He's
Speaker 1: been missing some shows recently, so I'm very sorry to
Speaker 1: hear that, Cody, thinking about you today. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: a couple more hot performers as we go on here.
Speaker 1: If you guys have any questions, feel free to throw
Speaker 1: a couple into the chat. We'll see if we can
Speaker 1: get to some on the show. But I want to
Speaker 1: talk about four bats who have been really, really really
Speaker 1: good as of late, starting with Lars Nupar hitting three
Speaker 1: twenty seven over the last couple of weeks, generally still
Speaker 1: available in a lot of leagues. Are you trusting him
Speaker 1: down the stretches, Lars Nupar, somebody'd be willing to pick
Speaker 1: up in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2: I would for sure. Newt was a guy that I
Speaker 2: was in on in draft season. Injuries derailed most of
Speaker 2: the season. It feels like he's getting healthy now getting
Speaker 2: regular at bats. I think Newt could be in for
Speaker 2: a fun two to three weeks to finish things.
Speaker 3: Up regular bats.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty four percent rostered in Yahoo leagues, and
Speaker 1: he's been like a top forty player over the last week.
Speaker 3: He's stealing some bases.
Speaker 1: I think you could do worse than Nupar, especially in
Speaker 1: five outfielder leagues, if you're still seeing him out there.
Speaker 1: A name I didn't really expect to talk about it,
Speaker 1: and I honestly don't know if I've uttered his name
Speaker 1: on a show this year. Mickey Moniac who would have
Speaker 1: thunk it? But over the last two weeks he's batting
Speaker 1: three twenty one. Even if you stretch it out, over
Speaker 1: the last month, he's batt in three hundred five home
Speaker 1: runs in his last twenty eight at bats, playing most days,
Speaker 1: middle of the lineup. I'll be at the Angels lineup.
Speaker 1: Any interest in Mickey Moniac baba.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I dropped this one on Bloomfield last
Speaker 2: night and he didn't. He was like, what I'm like, Yep,
Speaker 2: it's good, better than you think. Problem is he does
Speaker 2: sit vers lefties. He sits vers lefty. Still they platoon him.
Speaker 2: They faced a lot of rities lately. Next week I
Speaker 2: believe it's four righty's two lefties. So if you're in
Speaker 2: a weekly league, not ideal. If you're in a daily league,
Speaker 2: Moniac's awesome. So yeah, i'd be all about that.
Speaker 1: I think I agree there. What about Jesse Winker. Jesse
Speaker 1: Winker has just had a really great season in Washington
Speaker 1: and now even in New York. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people at the deadline were worried about what his
Speaker 1: value in playing time would look like as a met
Speaker 1: but if you look over the last thirty days, he's
Speaker 1: batt in three thirty with three home runs. He's playing
Speaker 1: most of the time batting fourth or fifth. Any interest
Speaker 1: in Winker? I feel like deeper player specifically should have
Speaker 1: some interest here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm all about that. They got five rities
Speaker 2: this week in six games, so Winkers should be playing
Speaker 2: quite a bit the powers there. He's not running like
Speaker 2: he was in Washington, but whoever thought that would happen?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm a big Jesse Winker guy this week
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: One last one, I'll ask you guys about ty France.
Speaker 1: He I mean, who thought anything would happen with Ty France.
Speaker 1: But going to Cincinnati, I guess that kind of ballpark
Speaker 1: can really do a.
Speaker 3: Lot for you.
Speaker 1: He's gotten four fifteen over the last two weeks, seventeen
Speaker 1: for his last forty one, with a homer and even
Speaker 1: a stolen base from Ty France. Of all people, any
Speaker 1: interest in picking up Ty France here he's playing looks
Speaker 1: like pretty much every single day there in Cincy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely interested. They just left Great American. He crushed
Speaker 2: it there. It was like the first week he was there.
Speaker 2: Is Great American, played great, went on the road. He's okay,
Speaker 2: Great American played great. They're going back on the road
Speaker 2: next week. So kind of tempered expectations. But there will
Speaker 2: be more Great Americans than I'm trying to say. So
Speaker 2: France is a good pick up. There's a handful of
Speaker 2: corner infield first base guys this week, so keep that
Speaker 2: in mind. But I do like Ty France.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've always been a big Ty France guy.
Speaker 1: Getting out of I mean, go from the worst ballpark
Speaker 1: in baseball to arguably the best or a top two
Speaker 1: ballpark always is going to give you a bit of
Speaker 1: a boost, especially now that he's playing every single.
Speaker 3: Day, keeping it going with just for fine.
Speaker 1: No fantasy relevance here, just something I thought was a
Speaker 1: kind of a fun tidbit. Elvis Andrews is going to
Speaker 1: retire as a Ranger after debuting with the team in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, spending twelve seasons there. He'll be
Speaker 1: joined by Michael Young, his old teammate, on the mound
Speaker 1: as they throw out the first pitch. Ron Washington is
Speaker 1: the opposing manager, and he did coach them for several seasons,
Speaker 1: so I wonder if he's going to crouch down behind
Speaker 1: the dish and catch that ball. Not one hundred percent
Speaker 1: sure there, but just kind of a nice thing. Elvis Andrews,
Speaker 1: who was one of my favorite players there growing up.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be retiring as a member of the Rangers.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's no fantasy move there, but he did give
Speaker 1: you some deep league value as a White Sox last season,
Speaker 1: a little bit of sneaky value at times from Elvis Andrews.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the three up and three down, three up.
Speaker 1: Xander Bogarts went three for four with a home run
Speaker 1: Cal Rowley, of all people, a home run and a
Speaker 1: stolen base, giving you that combo meal. And Hunter Brown
Speaker 1: continues his redemption tour after really stinking up the play
Speaker 1: for the first part of the season. Six shoutout innings
Speaker 1: with six strikeouts against Cincinnati. On the three down, Jake Irvin,
Speaker 1: who started off just really well this season, things have
Speaker 1: really imploded for him though, six earned runs over five
Speaker 1: innings in Pittsburgh. Brendan Rodgers, who's actually been pretty solid himself,
Speaker 1: gave us a golden sombrero, and then Robert Suarez. I
Speaker 1: know I mentioned Parker Meadows earlier with that Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: and Robert Suarez was the one who allowed it, also
Speaker 1: took the loss. Very good season for him, but today
Speaker 1: he is unfortunately in the down section.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the injuries.
Speaker 1: Yoshanobo Yamamoto is going to return on Thursday or no,
Speaker 1: I wrote Thursday, but I believe it's actually next Tuesday
Speaker 1: against the Cubs, and I believe he actually lines up
Speaker 1: for a two stepper next week. We rolling with Yoshinobo
Speaker 1: Yamamoto and his first start, Buba.
Speaker 2: I'm worried that it's like the Darvish Plan's gonna get
Speaker 2: three innings and keep ramping him up because they wanted
Speaker 2: for the postseason. So it's like, do you want the
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet treatment or do you want a guy Cause
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna be giving you six seven
Speaker 2: innings right out the gate, So I just temper your expectations.
Speaker 2: If you don't have other options, sure, but I'm not
Speaker 2: rushing to utilize them. The Dodgers. You don't care about
Speaker 2: our fantasy teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wish they did. I wish all
Speaker 1: these teams cared a little bit more about our fantasy teams.
Speaker 1: There'll be no closer committees, there'd be no platoons. Everything
Speaker 1: would be sunshine and rainbows. But we're not quite there.
Speaker 1: The only league I have, Yamamoto, is TGFBI, and my
Speaker 1: ratios are just just immaculate.
Speaker 3: I don't think I can do it.
Speaker 1: Like, if you're really really strong in the ratios, then
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. If you're just looking to catch
Speaker 1: up in strikeouts and wins and you're hoping for the best,
Speaker 1: I think you probably just roll with it. But doesn't
Speaker 1: give you that warm, fuzzy feeling for sure. First start
Speaker 1: off of a fairly long layoff.
Speaker 3: We mentioned this the other day.
Speaker 1: We didn't have a ton of clarity on the situation,
Speaker 1: but Justin Steele was in fact placed on the fifteen
Speaker 1: dail with elbow tendonitis. It looks pretty unlikely that he
Speaker 1: is going to come back, but the Cubs are still
Speaker 1: kind of sort of in the race. Any reason to
Speaker 1: hold on to Justin Steele specifically for rodo managers because
Speaker 1: head to head managers, in all likelihood he's done for
Speaker 1: the time your season is going to be going for
Speaker 1: in a row. Is there any chance he gets one
Speaker 1: or two starts at the end of the season that
Speaker 1: you'd want to hold on for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm dropping him. I just the cut, nothing to
Speaker 2: play for. Maybe they try to get one more start
Speaker 2: out of him, but I don't think they've shut Steel
Speaker 2: down in two years ago, Like they're not worried about
Speaker 2: finishing the season on the mound, which makes us question
Speaker 2: things in the offseason. But yeah, I'm I on dropping him.
Speaker 2: I think we've seen the last of Justin Steel unfortunately.
Speaker 3: I think you're probably right somebody else.
Speaker 1: I think we might have seen the last of Corey
Speaker 1: Seger hip soreness, placed on the IL, eligible to return
Speaker 1: on September sixteenth, A lot of leagues end on September
Speaker 1: the fifteenth, on that Sunday for head to head, So
Speaker 1: if your league ends on the fifteenth, you already know
Speaker 1: what to do there. Even if your league doesn't end
Speaker 1: on the fifteenth, I don't know if it really makes sense.
Speaker 1: From the Rangers standpoint seven and a half out of
Speaker 1: the Division, eight back in the wild card. Are they
Speaker 1: going to bring back Corey Seger to play six seven
Speaker 1: meaningless games at the end of the season. I think
Speaker 1: there's a chances he might have taken his last swing
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Completely agree with you. I'll keep that one simple. I'm
Speaker 2: on the same age. I've already told people to drop him.
Speaker 2: If he comes back, I'd be shocked, and I'm not
Speaker 2: expecting much out of him when he comes back.
Speaker 1: So I think he's done something that can happen to
Speaker 1: this time of year. If somebody sees a name like
Speaker 1: that hit the waiver wire, they might just reflexibly say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Corey Seger, I'm gonna throw a quick
Speaker 1: bit on him. They might just not realize the timing situation.
Speaker 1: They might waste some of their remaining fab use a
Speaker 1: higher priority, so you might be.
Speaker 3: Able to doope some of your league mates as well.
Speaker 1: With that, not that we're trying to deceive people out here,
Speaker 1: but you never know, could be a nice little thing
Speaker 1: that happens as well. From getting him off your roster,
Speaker 1: you get a pickup and maybe somebody else wastes a
Speaker 1: little bit of.
Speaker 3: Fab and some time on him.
Speaker 1: Louise Heel activated from the IL and we'll start today.
Speaker 1: Be comfortable rolling with Louise Heel, Bobba.
Speaker 3: It hasn't been the greatest second half from him.
Speaker 1: We're pushing up against an innings limit, worries for injury,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: How confident are you down the stretch here?
Speaker 2: I'm throwing him. It's a tough matchup verus the Cubs
Speaker 2: Redhaw offense. But the wind blowing in twenty miles an
Speaker 2: hour Wrigley, so I'll take my chances. And he was
Speaker 2: up to eighty pitches in his last outing as he
Speaker 2: rehabbed back, So I'll throw the Weis. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: has been a fall from grace.
Speaker 1: One could say, you know, I was talking to two
Speaker 1: separate people yesterday, including one of them our mutual friend,
Speaker 1: Chris Torres, who is a Yankee fan. Two of people
Speaker 1: suggested Luis Hill should just slot into that ninth inning
Speaker 1: with Clay Holmes and all the nonsense is going on there.
Speaker 1: Heel's got the injury risk, why not just give him
Speaker 1: the ninth inning for a couple of weeks if the
Speaker 1: command is not what you really want to see from
Speaker 1: a closer. But I think there's a chance, especially with
Speaker 1: Clark Smith coming back, they're going to be six men
Speaker 1: in the rotation anyway. Do you think there's any chance
Speaker 1: that he'll sees any work in the ninth inning or
Speaker 1: in relief Bubba, or do you think he's just a
Speaker 1: starter to rest the season.
Speaker 2: I think he's just a starter because I think they
Speaker 2: want to keep him stretched out for next year. But
Speaker 2: I would be one hundred percent on board with the
Speaker 2: move of the bullpit. I think it's a smart move.
Speaker 2: But we're trying to say, Aaron Boone make smart moves.
Speaker 2: So go figure that Jayson Dimingus is still in triple A.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: When you have the chance to start Alex Radugo and
Speaker 1: give him every day at bats, you simply have to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: There's no other question. You just you just got to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: This one is injury adjacent. I just kind of want
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on the whole You probably saw it.
Speaker 1: Witt Mayor Field a couple days ago got hit in
Speaker 1: the head by a pitch. He was not happy about it.
Speaker 1: He started saying things that I'm not really sure what
Speaker 1: my stance on is quite yet, but suggesting that maybe
Speaker 1: there should be fines and suspensions levied against guys who
Speaker 1: throw and hit guys in the head and they end
Speaker 1: up missing time.
Speaker 3: And what are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: Do you think that it's reasonable to suspend pitchers for
Speaker 1: hitting guys in the head for lack of command. I
Speaker 1: still don't really know how to feel about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I don't think so because I don't think any pitchers
Speaker 2: purposely trying to hit someone in the head. I've seen
Speaker 2: guys try to hit people in the back the show
Speaker 2: like whatever of it. I don't think they're have a
Speaker 2: purposely trying to hit some one in the head. I
Speaker 2: don't think they wish injury to anybody. I think the
Speaker 2: bigger matter and a lot of players have spoke on
Speaker 2: this because we've seen a lot of hit matters this year,
Speaker 2: a lot without any sticky stuff. There needs to be
Speaker 2: like a MLB regulated amount of sticky. They can create
Speaker 2: the proper sticky. Players have said it's easy to create
Speaker 2: a universal sticky. Like in the World Baseball Class, I
Speaker 2: think it was a different league. They made a ball
Speaker 2: that had built in sticky and that's what everyone used
Speaker 2: game on. Like, there's so things that can take place.
Speaker 2: But of course Rob Manford, we know how that goes.
Speaker 2: But I think doing some some sort of just enough
Speaker 2: sticky for command, not for just like insanely godly spin.
Speaker 2: There's a difference there, but just for command would be tremendous.
Speaker 2: I think everyone had benefit from that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's probably correct. They need to do something,
Speaker 3: But I don't know if suspending guys is.
Speaker 1: Really the way to go about it. Nobody's out there
Speaker 1: for the most part. Maybe the odd guy gets beamed
Speaker 1: on purpose in certain situations, but they're not trying to
Speaker 1: hit people in the head. I think that just the
Speaker 1: command is not prioritized like it was maybe a few
Speaker 1: years ago. On top of the lack of sticky stuff,
Speaker 1: velocity on averages up. Pitchers are coming up younger than
Speaker 1: they were before and they're throwing one hundred and two,
Speaker 1: so they definitely need to tink there with a few things.
Speaker 1: There's been too many injuries this season. We saw Corey
Speaker 1: Seger go down earlier in the year. It's not even
Speaker 1: just getting hit in the head like Bryce Harper got
Speaker 1: hit the other day again, and it's just a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries, a lot of.
Speaker 2: Broken hands, broken wrists, a lot of that this year.
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen's got a magnet on his hand. He has
Speaker 1: for the last couple of seasons. It feels like he
Speaker 1: always takes one or two off of his hand. But
Speaker 1: just an interesting talking point. I feel like that's something
Speaker 1: that we'll talk about more and more because I think
Speaker 1: Marrifield said something about he's gonna bring it up to
Speaker 1: the Players Association and maybe in the next CBA there
Speaker 1: is something that is mentioned anyway around that. But Bubba,
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Speaker 3: your bets?
Speaker 2: Prop bets? As usual, not as not as big a
Speaker 2: fan today as I was in previous weeks, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to go with Big Willie. William Contrero's over one
Speaker 2: and a half total bases at plus one thirty five.
Speaker 2: Really fun matchup for the brew Crew today. Francisco Lindor's
Speaker 2: has been nuclear hot. Anytime I can get plus money
Speaker 2: on this, He's over one and a half total bases.
Speaker 2: I'll take at plus one fifteen. So I think Lindor there,
Speaker 2: and I think the Red Sox go to town this evening.
Speaker 2: Give me Jaron Duran over two and a half hits
Speaker 2: runs in our guys a plus one ten, so William Concerero's,
Speaker 2: Frenchy Lindor, Jared Duran all at plus money. Let's have
Speaker 2: some fun.
Speaker 3: Let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: Indeed, I also think that the Red Sox are probably
Speaker 1: gonna do pretty well. I mean we're not exactly. No
Speaker 1: serdamis there, They're facing the White Sox. But I am
Speaker 1: shaking Nick Cavetta here over six and a half strikeouts
Speaker 1: at plus money. I mean Nick Covetta, for all his
Speaker 1: fault strikeouts, are not something that he really struggles with
Speaker 1: against a team like the White Sox. At plus money,
Speaker 1: I think seven strikeouts can very easily be attained. DJ Hurts.
Speaker 1: I'm also going with I've been a big fan of his.
Speaker 1: He gets the Pirates and the line is set at
Speaker 1: five and a half strikeouts at minus one fifteen, so
Speaker 1: I will go DJ Hurris also over strikeouts and then
Speaker 1: rounding out the strikeout trio here, I've gone with Bryce Miller,
Speaker 1: and it's mostly because the line is just set so
Speaker 1: low at four and a half. Saint Louis doesn't strike
Speaker 1: out a ton, but Bryce Miller does tend to work
Speaker 1: fairly deep into games, going six or seven innings, so
Speaker 1: I feel like, just on a volume standpoint, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get to five here. Sticking with the
Speaker 1: strikeouts across the board, Hurts, Paveda and Miller, Bobo going
Speaker 1: William Contreras over base, Francisco Lindor over bases, and Jaron
Speaker 1: Duran over two and a half hits, runs and RBI.
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Speaker 1: six five. Baba, let's get a home run call before
Speaker 1: we get us out of here for the weekend.
Speaker 2: One of the hottest hitters in baseball right now, Kyle Schwarber,
Speaker 2: I think greatest see them shore bombs Friday and the
Speaker 2: rest of the weekend. So I'll go with Kyle Shoorber
Speaker 2: to probably hit at least two over the weekend. Let's
Speaker 2: put it that way. Friday, it's only two home runs
Speaker 2: from Shorebard.
Speaker 1: I'm still seeing stars from what he did with the
Speaker 1: Blue Days earlier this week, Triple Dong, Folks, Triple Dong
Speaker 1: probably won some head to head matchups just there by himself.
Speaker 1: My home run call. Also, going back to picking on
Speaker 1: those white soxx, I'm going Tyler O'Neil going up against
Speaker 1: Davis Martin tonight, who hasn't actually been that bad. But
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neill, when he's healthy this season has been a
Speaker 1: pretty good bet to hit a home run.
Speaker 3: Not that he's gonna score anybody else.
Speaker 1: Twenty five homers and fifty RBI it's been pretty pretty
Speaker 1: crazy to think of, especially considering how good the offenses.
Speaker 1: But I will take Tyler O'Neil for today, and I
Speaker 1: will take him for the weekend, and Bubba, that will
Speaker 1: do it, my friend.
Speaker 3: This is the end of the first week of the
Speaker 3: Bubba and Joe experience. I really appreciate you joining me
Speaker 3: again today.
Speaker 2: Always Man. Looking forward to it every Wednesday and Friday,
Speaker 2: you and me taking down the show and having a
Speaker 2: good time. So I'm happy to chat with you anytime as.
Speaker 1: Usual, Always Man, Always Monday. I'm actually not sure if
Speaker 1: it'll be Bubba or I. I haven't taken a look
Speaker 1: at the schedule yet, but you'll get one of us,
Speaker 1: and you'll get our old friend Chris Welsh back hosting
Speaker 1: the show. A little bit of a return to normalcy there,
Speaker 1: so that'll be a lot of fun. We'll figure out
Speaker 1: who's hosted and one of us will be here for sure.
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
Speaker 3: great weekend.
Speaker 1: Wish you all the best of luck in your head
Speaker 1: to head leagues, and until Monday, take care, have fun.
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