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Speaker 2: Last week.
Speaker 1: We got a few that are going to be coming
Speaker 1: up here in just a tiny bit Casey Bubba. Casey
Speaker 1: sounds weird calling I call you Bubb. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's actually very similar to when someone they someone was
Speaker 1: doing this the other day and they were saying Chris,
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA What are
Speaker 1: we talking about? Don't say Chris. That sounds weird and
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm my mother, is you know, getting
Speaker 1: mad at me saying the full name or whatever? But
Speaker 1: were you a part of yesterday's big barrage of it
Speaker 1: was kind of an awakening for some reason where everyone
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, Jackson Cheerio is really good? And I
Speaker 1: was chatting with somebody via text about the irony and
Speaker 1: how hilarious it is, but how it's all rooted in
Speaker 1: this hatred that had happened for rookies. Because everybody was
Speaker 1: very excited because people like me and stuff. Hey, you
Speaker 1: know Jackson Churio, Jackson Holiday. The failure set so many
Speaker 1: people up to do the thing that they always do. Oh,
Speaker 1: these guys are garbage, they'll never work out, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, everybody is presented with
Speaker 1: this greatness greatness and air quotes or whatever. But Jackson
Speaker 1: Holliday has been absolutely dominant, Jackson Merrill has been one
Speaker 1: of the most valuable players this year, and Jackson Cheerio
Speaker 1: has been an absolute freak. He went three for five yesterday,
Speaker 1: two home hitting three fifteen in June, three seventeen in July.
Speaker 1: Are you on the bandwagon? That Jackson Churio is a beast.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I've been talking about it on my
Speaker 2: shows for a couple of weeks now at different shows.
Speaker 2: I do just because the dudes was hitting two a
Speaker 2: seven to start July. He's hitting two seventy seven on Friday.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. He's sitting over four hundred over the last
Speaker 2: two weeks. It's amazing what you know, a little time
Speaker 2: and you know going through struggles a young player can do.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Jackson holiday. We talked about him on Monday.
Speaker 2: Jackson Merril Turio' is awesome. One of the big conversation
Speaker 2: points I've been having with my co host Ryan Bloomfield
Speaker 2: is where does he go in draft next year? Is
Speaker 2: this a top hundred pick? I think it is. This
Speaker 2: is a legit, you know, twenty five twenty five guy.
Speaker 2: I think he's got five homers and five steals the
Speaker 2: last two weeks. He's a beast like I like him
Speaker 2: a lot, so I am on board with you. It
Speaker 2: is fun. Like you said, to see the quote unquote
Speaker 2: Twitter verse just all of a sudden start to acknowledg
Speaker 2: him and everyone tweets about him at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean and something like sure we can, we
Speaker 1: can figure this out next year. Do we need to
Speaker 1: speak more about the ups and downs? I feel like
Speaker 1: we try to. We try to have these up explain like, hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, these guys can you know, kind of
Speaker 1: go through the motions and you need to maybe prepare better.
Speaker 1: The nice thing about this year was, regardless of the rookie,
Speaker 1: the cost didn't really like go nuts, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like Holiday Cheerio, I mean like holiday didn't work.
Speaker 1: That clearly didn't work. He was sent down. He was
Speaker 1: a disaster. But Cheerio was the one where it was
Speaker 1: like all year long, people are like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I might you know, cut him? What
Speaker 1: about this guy? What about this guy? Now you're at
Speaker 1: a point. I asked Bogaman this one yesterday. Wh would
Speaker 1: you rather have rest of season Jackson Cheerio or Randy
Speaker 1: Rose Arena.
Speaker 2: It's a great question. Someone in the chat even threw
Speaker 2: that out there a little bit ago a wild you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: if I missed it now, but for the rest of
Speaker 2: the season, I'd have Cheerio. Like and I'm a huge
Speaker 2: Randy Roseraina fan. He's on Pace for twenty five, but
Speaker 2: he's hitting like two thirty, which is crushing you. I'm
Speaker 2: Cheerio through and through, and that's why I'm really really
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing how he finishes the year and
Speaker 2: where we go from here, because the talent is undeniable
Speaker 2: for twenty years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, you know, technically on
Speaker 1: a run of three straight months of hitting over three hundred.
Speaker 1: He's had every month if we're not hunting March, but
Speaker 1: every month of June it's been multi stolen bases, and
Speaker 1: he's had every month but may be multi homer months,
Speaker 1: and it's just taken a little bit of time to
Speaker 1: start connecting and get going. But underlying stats, they're in
Speaker 1: a decent spot. You know, hard hit rate, great, K
Speaker 1: percentage low. His expected batting average is actually at just
Speaker 1: a notch better than his current The only thing he's
Speaker 1: got to do, like a lot of young guys, is
Speaker 1: that he's got to start turning. Not Lawrence Butler, but
Speaker 1: you got to start turning and beryling. And he's not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent bareling, but that's going to be the consistency.
Speaker 1: There was something about Randy Rose arena in that he's
Speaker 1: already almost twenty twenty, and he's hitting like two twenty
Speaker 1: that it's like, oh, if the regret, the positive regression
Speaker 1: starts to come into play, you could see where the
Speaker 1: big counting stats are. But Schurio is creating himself as
Speaker 1: a baseline player. The strikeouts are lowering, the averages staying up.
Speaker 1: He is getting those big counting stats. He might easily
Speaker 1: just be a twenty five to twenty five guy into
Speaker 1: the near future and just walk right into it. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe the floor is old school Starling Marte and the
Speaker 1: ceiling is going to be God knows, you know, God
Speaker 1: knows where it's going to go. But Jackson Curio, everyone's awakened.
Speaker 1: The awakening has happened to Jackson Curio August ninth for
Speaker 1: some reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty wild. He feels like what we want
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker to be. But Kyle Tucker's been hurt. This
Speaker 2: is your guy now.
Speaker 1: It feels like, yeah, we're going to talk about Kyle
Speaker 1: Tucker here in a little bit. Laddie Junior missed out
Speaker 1: on the cycle by a single. I actually didn't think
Speaker 1: I would ever really say that, Yeah, that it was
Speaker 1: going to be on that front so far twenty three
Speaker 1: homers seventy six RBIs in one hundred and fourteen games
Speaker 1: so far this year. Vladimir Guerrero Junior. We think the
Speaker 1: value looks like on him next year. He was a
Speaker 1: big bye and a lot of the videos that I
Speaker 1: was doing early on in the year second half player
Speaker 1: I really bought into also, like everything was screaming at
Speaker 1: you outside of him getting the ball in the air
Speaker 1: and he started to do. So, what do you think
Speaker 1: the value is going to look like?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is he done enough where he's gonna keep doing this
Speaker 1: thing where it's like, hey, top fifteen again, I'm right
Speaker 1: at like fifteen to twenty. He's gonna do that mid
Speaker 1: second round thing he always does and then struggles in
Speaker 1: the first two months and builds it back up.
Speaker 2: Yes, I believe. So he's gonna jump over metals and
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be in the peat Alonzo conversation.
Speaker 2: It's going to feel like twenty twenty three all over
Speaker 2: again with flag Guerrero. Who would you rather have?
Speaker 1: Pe Alonzo? Verre flat did that now that you just.
Speaker 2: Thought, I'll take vlad Because I'm a big Pede Alonzo
Speaker 2: fan and I always thought his bad and average wuld
Speaker 2: be better. It's just not improving. The skills are still undeniable.
Speaker 2: But Vlad at worse is going to hit for average
Speaker 2: more often than not because of how hard it's the ball,
Speaker 2: even on the ground, And like you said, everything pointed
Speaker 2: to positive aggression. Just get it elevated. He still has
Speaker 2: over a fifty percent ground ball rate and he's doing
Speaker 2: what he's doing. Just imagine if he just fix another
Speaker 2: minor like five percent tweak like, he could be a
Speaker 2: forty plus guy easily in the home run department. The
Speaker 2: sky's the limit for Vladi. So I'm becoming more and
Speaker 2: I've been an anti Vlad guy for a long time,
Speaker 2: so I'm just my my brain is starting to work
Speaker 2: into a let's appreciate who he is and the talent
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: Remember that debate, we'd always see where it was Vlad
Speaker 1: or Jordon Alvarez, like do you think that how close
Speaker 1: do you think that is?
Speaker 2: It's Vlad all the way from me because I was
Speaker 2: nervous with jord On because the dude just can't stay healthy.
Speaker 2: It's great. I compared him in preseason. He is the
Speaker 2: Greg Odin of the MLB.
Speaker 1: Craig, I mean, that's a little bit dramatic, like, but's
Speaker 1: done stuff, but you have.
Speaker 2: To take in the first round, so you got to
Speaker 2: be dramatic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I suppose you're right. You're not wrong
Speaker 1: about that one. Kevin Gossman has been the topic of
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff here so far this year, just
Speaker 1: really and also I would say, just my disbelief in
Speaker 1: him being able to like really turn it around. He
Speaker 1: could be decent, but not the Kevin Gosman of old.
Speaker 1: He limited the Orioles to two runs, three hits, eight innings,
Speaker 1: getting his tenth wins so far this year, but just
Speaker 1: two strikeouts. Very strange season, lots of inconsistencies. Do you
Speaker 1: trust Kevin Gossman rest of this year going into the playoffs?
Speaker 1: And when I say trust, I mean you're not gonna
Speaker 1: worry about matchups, You're not gonna worry about maybe benching
Speaker 1: him or something like that, Like you're just gonna blindly
Speaker 1: throw him out.
Speaker 2: Now. A couple of weeks ago, I took the l
Speaker 2: on this one. I was loving the discount on Gospen
Speaker 2: because he was heard entering the season, but they said
Speaker 2: he'd be fine all these these things. And it's been
Speaker 2: so inconsistent a couple of months, a couple two, three
Speaker 2: weeks ago, I fled out said he's a spot starter
Speaker 2: based on matchups. I had him benched last night in
Speaker 2: my weekly leagues. He was benched and like the aightiens
Speaker 2: is great. The two strikeouts doesn't help me at all.
Speaker 2: It doesn't do it. So he's strictly a matchup dependence.
Speaker 2: So to your question, do you just lock and load? No,
Speaker 2: you do not with Kevin Gospen the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so either. I mean the overall
Speaker 1: stats still they just you know, they're in the stinky range.
Speaker 1: I'd have to look over his last couple of games
Speaker 1: if we've seen a little bit more implementation. His slider's
Speaker 1: up to like seven percent usage, but it's been mainly fastball.
Speaker 1: It's been mainly ineffective. That's been his big thing. Strikeouts
Speaker 1: are way way down, his expected era is still over five.
Speaker 1: And I hate these type of guys. And you know
Speaker 1: what hand up for the preseason because I was a
Speaker 1: big like, oh, I can get a discount on Gossman
Speaker 1: and I did it. I did it in a couple spots,
Speaker 1: so that's l for me. But I've turned and I
Speaker 1: turned a while ago that I don't even think like
Speaker 1: in smaller leagues where you were able to make a
Speaker 1: move off of him, I would have made that move
Speaker 1: off of him already. And I hate these type of guys.
Speaker 1: It's brutal, like where it's like, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I can get to go Oh nope, you
Speaker 1: know they're crap. All right, put them on the bench
Speaker 1: and then they go out have eight. Now you're gonna
Speaker 1: feel compelled to put him out in the next start,
Speaker 1: and then that struggle comes back. One of those guys,
Speaker 1: you always make the wrong move. It sucks when you
Speaker 1: always make the wrong move on a guy. Some other
Speaker 1: news and notes. Walker Bueller allowed one run over five
Speaker 1: and one thirds of an inning on Thursday in a
Speaker 1: minor league rehab assignment in Triple A. That means we
Speaker 1: are super close, Walker Wheeler. You start him off of
Speaker 1: his first start back. This is always like my big
Speaker 1: thing with any of these guys first start back. Are
Speaker 1: you putting him out there?
Speaker 2: No? I'm not, because I still think he's broken. He
Speaker 2: was a shell of himself before he left. He pitched great.
Speaker 2: He's going to face Milwaukee, one of the hottest offenses
Speaker 2: in baseball. I'll sit back and watch and sadly we'll
Speaker 2: see River Ryan go back to Triple A.
Speaker 1: I know, River Ryan's been so good. I'm gonna agree
Speaker 1: with you speaking of you brought him up a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier. On Kyle Tucker, the athletics Chandler Rome reports
Speaker 1: that Kyle Tucker was progressing to more explosive movements such
Speaker 1: as sprinting, and that was it. That's all he said.
Speaker 1: Such a sprinting, which they're hoping is going to move
Speaker 1: along the process. It doesn't feel like you're going to
Speaker 1: get Kyle Tucker back at all this year, and if
Speaker 1: you do, it's probably going to be more relevant or
Speaker 1: the most impactful two head to head leagues where you're
Speaker 1: playing in the playoffs at Roto at this point, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you get him back to the final two weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where that puts you over, but in
Speaker 1: a head to head, if you got him back before
Speaker 1: the playoffs, that can be a complete game changer. But
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem right. They're literally calling his explosive movements sprinting.
Speaker 1: We haven't got into games. We're not getting into like
Speaker 1: live sessions, BP, swinging bats, anything like that. It's August ninth.
Speaker 1: I feel relatively adamant you're not getting him back. It's
Speaker 1: not that you should go cut him or anything like that.
Speaker 1: If you have il spots, you should put him out there.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if people would need to make
Speaker 1: that hard decision. I do not think we are going
Speaker 1: to see Kyle Tucker. I really don't even know. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to see him at the rest
Speaker 1: of the regular season. I'll hold it at that.
Speaker 2: I think if we see him at all, it's the
Speaker 2: final two weeks, kind of like Christian Yelich last year
Speaker 2: at the back injury. Get him loosened up, get him
Speaker 2: ready for the postseason. That's all the Astros care about
Speaker 2: right now at this point. So for fantasy purposes, I'm
Speaker 2: with you. I've said he's a hold as long as
Speaker 2: you can hold. But if you have no one else
Speaker 2: to cut and you don't have any al spots, then
Speaker 2: you move on from Kyle Tucker unfortunately, but you hold
Speaker 2: as long as you can and just don't expect much.
Speaker 1: Oh what do you think that's gonna do for you?
Speaker 1: For his value next season? Like you're not looking at it.
Speaker 1: I haven't started my ranks to next year because I'm
Speaker 1: not that psychotic, but like you know, he's always he's
Speaker 1: been first round for a couple of years. Let's break
Speaker 1: it down like this. Let's start here, Kyle Tucker first
Speaker 1: round next year.
Speaker 2: I'm still leaning yes, but.
Speaker 1: Really I thought we were going to keep going.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I still think I'm hoping a full off
Speaker 2: season fixes things, but it has been a weird injury obviously.
Speaker 2: I actually start my first draft on August twenty first,
Speaker 2: the one we start every year, that fifteen of us
Speaker 2: start our early draft Champions Draft, so we'll find out
Speaker 2: real quick through in fifteen rounds that night, out of
Speaker 2: the fifty, so we'll know for sure.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be mid second, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocked if there's some thirds in there. You do
Speaker 1: have to remember not trying to be dismissive of him.
Speaker 1: You do have to remember, like he was awesome, he
Speaker 1: was an MVP candidate before you go yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So like you know, that doesn't take away from the
Speaker 1: overall production. And August will be interesting because I don't
Speaker 1: think that'll be out of people's brains. But come November
Speaker 1: that'll kind of washed away and people will be able
Speaker 1: to do it. But you know, I think there's some
Speaker 1: other guys that have jumped up obviously, like Ellie now
Speaker 1: owns a first round pick. I think some of the
Speaker 1: younger guys, like a Jackson Merrill, Like I haven't even decided,
Speaker 1: Like where's Jackson Merrill gonna go next year in fantasy,
Speaker 1: because like he's gonna pull up on a Kyle Tucker
Speaker 1: type season, healthy and playing in the outfield.
Speaker 2: Do you go, Jackson Merril, Jackson Cherio. That's a fun conversation.
Speaker 1: It is a fun conversation. I mean, and like, are
Speaker 1: both of them that far off from Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 2: Because aren't they better than Michael Harris who was a
Speaker 2: second round pick last year? Like these are the things
Speaker 2: that make then there's your Kyle Tucker comunit. Like maybe
Speaker 2: they do jump him and he moves back into the
Speaker 2: second or third. There's only so many spots. There's only
Speaker 2: fifteen spots, twelve spots, depends on your league. So that
Speaker 2: doesn't make a good yet it does.
Speaker 1: Uh, Hey for knows, I was watching the chat here
Speaker 1: and I was starring, as we call them, on the
Speaker 1: back end of our stream yard. Here is a starring
Speaker 1: some questions. So we love to answer the Peanuts and
Speaker 1: the cracker Jacks, So we're gonna answer some of your
Speaker 1: guys's questions. We're also gonna be looking at some two
Speaker 1: start streamers here in just a minute. So I saved
Speaker 1: a couple questions. Bub, I'm gonna fire them at you.
Speaker 1: Matt Flood dropped a Conforto or Kelnick for this weekend.
Speaker 1: I say Conforto because Kelnick has been.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Kellen Nick's been rough, Conforido coming off
Speaker 2: a good road series there, and they get the Detroit
Speaker 2: Tigers this week, and so give me Conforto.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I picked up Conforto in a league as well,
Speaker 1: like kell Nick has been just not even justifiably startable.
Speaker 1: Shane says Netto or Tovar rest of season.
Speaker 2: I've been I actually rostered both those guys in a
Speaker 2: lot of leagues. I'm gonna go Neto. I've been a
Speaker 2: big Neto guy preseason. I thought he was a twenty
Speaker 2: twenty guy, and we're seeing it now. Tovar is good,
Speaker 2: he has cooled down a bit. But give me Zach Netto.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I was about to say say his name
Speaker 1: again you're going to Netto Nickto. I said it, you
Speaker 1: said it straight, you strung it, then you went Netto.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like I feel like Bogman
Speaker 2: late nights uh in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does that mean? Particularly I would go, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. We did this debate yesterday on IL and
Speaker 1: it was Tovar and Tyler Fitzgerald, which is a wild
Speaker 1: one because you know, obviously like Fitzgerald has been absolutely
Speaker 1: going ballistic and by the way, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: him a little bit, all the stolen bases yesterday and
Speaker 1: this makes this might kill me. I picked Tyler Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: the rest of season. I did it yesterday too, before
Speaker 1: the game over. Tovar and Tovar has been good. He
Speaker 1: has been like I feel like we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of negative stuff around Tovar because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: underlying expected stuff. If we're being frank, he has one
Speaker 1: of the worst looking baseball savant underlying pages. But he's
Speaker 1: defying that, you know, so good for him. Good for
Speaker 1: him on that. There are always players that are going
Speaker 1: to defy it. But he has like literally the worst
Speaker 1: face rate in baseball. It's like forty it's the bottom
Speaker 1: one percentile of the league. It's like bottom ten percentile,
Speaker 1: Like you know, expected slug da da da da all that.
Speaker 1: Yet he still is hitting like a good average. He's
Speaker 1: got like eighteen or nineteen homers. He's at a decent,
Speaker 1: decent season that he's defying that. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you're waiting for the shoot to drop? Tyler Fitzgerald not
Speaker 1: only is on a hot streak and not only has
Speaker 1: a great compliment of power and speed, but a lot
Speaker 1: of the underlying things are telling a really good story.
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't hit the ball really really hard, but
Speaker 1: his barrel numbers are up, he's getting the ball in
Speaker 1: the air, and he's making really good decisions. And then
Speaker 1: he rattles off three stolen bases yesterday. So I think
Speaker 1: I might. I think I would go Netto in that
Speaker 1: as well, But I think I would take Tyler Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: over both. Right now, I'm I'm drinking the Tyler Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: kol aid.
Speaker 2: It's good kool aid, welcome to the party. And I've
Speaker 2: been saying his speed's better than his power. I've been
Speaker 2: waiting for him to run. So, like you said, we'll
Speaker 2: get to it, big Thursday for Tyler Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Michael says Hudeck and Michael, by the way, was
Speaker 1: shaming me earlier, saying I'm not punctual. Hey, Michael, there's
Speaker 1: stuff in the background. We Bobba had to get the audio.
Speaker 1: I got to set the things.
Speaker 2: So we were doing the stuff and things.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go and count how many times we started
Speaker 1: at nine thirty or twelve thirty one Eastern with Joe
Speaker 1: on the show, Michael, who to cut when Julio returns? Cowser, Burlson,
Speaker 1: Doyle or Pasquantino.
Speaker 2: What a group?
Speaker 1: This must be a ten league.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, that's a league I'd like
Speaker 2: to be a part of, because that is a tough
Speaker 2: first world problems there. I think it's Oh, it's probably Burlson.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately it's between Burlson and Doyle. But that's tough. That's real.
Speaker 2: I go Burlson, but it's real tough.
Speaker 1: It's not Kowser, no.
Speaker 2: Fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Doyle probably for ballpark and stolen bases. So I
Speaker 1: would say Burlson too, but I do not feel good
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: I love Barlson, So that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Barry says, should we be worried about Taj Bradley.
Speaker 1: Taj had been rattling off great starts across the board
Speaker 1: strikeout numbers and then walloped walloped the other day. Didn't
Speaker 1: look good at all, just the overall stuff, Like there's
Speaker 1: these guys. Dylan Ceese is like this. I know there's
Speaker 1: been comps to Todz Bradley where sometimes you watch a start,
Speaker 1: it always weirds me out and you're just like, holy crap,
Speaker 1: this stuff is unhittable, like the way that they're sequencing
Speaker 1: and the end the command and it's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: guy will not get hit at all. And then they
Speaker 1: just have the most hittable stuff ever. Dylan ces does
Speaker 1: it and you could tell it in the first inning
Speaker 1: where you're watching this game you're like, Oh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be garbage, Like they're not going to strike out guys.
Speaker 1: This is going Todz Bradley has that same thing where like,
Speaker 1: especially as a better when I will bet like on strikeouts,
Speaker 1: I can usually tell in the first inning like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is how this game is going to go early on,
Speaker 1: like I don't feel like he settles in like Dylan
Speaker 1: Cees is that there are some guys, you know, they
Speaker 1: get rattled in the first inning and then it's four innings.
Speaker 1: Zach Allen can be like that where there's four innings
Speaker 1: of you know, no hit and blah blah blah, but
Speaker 1: the first innings stunk. Ta's Bradley and Dylan Cees. Those
Speaker 1: aren't guys that really. It's like, this is what you're
Speaker 1: in for for the whole start. So are you worried
Speaker 1: at all about TODs Bradley?
Speaker 2: Now this is who he is. He'll get better. He
Speaker 2: reminds me a lot of like Hunter Green in the
Speaker 2: last few years, not this year, where he did the
Speaker 2: same stuff. He knew it right out the gate. If
Speaker 2: the command was off, it was over. Bradley's been very
Speaker 2: good and I'm not overly concerned at all.
Speaker 1: Matt said. Is Shane Bosworth keeping rest of season?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Unless you're in a fifteen team league.
Speaker 2: He's not going deep into games. I'm just I'm not there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll look at this, Mike. By the way, he says,
Speaker 1: at least well shows in August. Yeah, damn all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was looking at all the other questions, so I
Speaker 1: didn't see all the other stuff in here. But yes,
Speaker 1: you are right. I am here in August. I'll only
Speaker 1: be here a little bit in September. A little bitsy bit,
Speaker 1: little baby bit. Don't worry about that. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that at a later time. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: some two start pitchers for next week. Presumed two start pitchers,
Speaker 1: so caveat always put a little asterisk on this. These
Speaker 1: can change at any moment. These and there's lots of
Speaker 1: different places. We have it at Fantasy Pros. The CBS
Speaker 1: one is another good one that you can check out
Speaker 1: for presumed two start pitchers for next week. Now, I've
Speaker 1: got five and I want to get a yay or nay.
Speaker 1: Any breakdown you want to throw to it, please do.
Speaker 1: But I got five guys that I think are most
Speaker 1: likely going to be available in leagues. Now I will
Speaker 1: give you the one caveat. The first player. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you seventy eight percent ownership on CBS, so that
Speaker 1: might not be available in some of your leagues. None
Speaker 1: of these guys might necessarily, but we're gonna go down
Speaker 1: in ownership. So first up, and by the way, there's
Speaker 1: phenomenal like Trek Scouble, I think Chris Sale, George Kirby.
Speaker 1: They're all scheduled for two starts. We're not talking about
Speaker 1: the no brainers friends. We're talking about the guys that
Speaker 1: might be available. And we're gonna start with Ben Lively,
Speaker 1: who is lined up for two starts next week. Seventy
Speaker 1: eight percent ownership on CBS Bubba. He would be going
Speaker 1: up against Chicago at home and then at Millwaky for
Speaker 1: Frankie Montass. The start percentage is a little bit lower.
Speaker 1: Yeay or nay? Are you starting Ben Lively? Do you
Speaker 1: want Ben Lively for the two starts?
Speaker 2: This is a guy I keep waiting for the other
Speaker 2: shoot to drop on. It just never does. So I
Speaker 2: think if you've rolled him this long, you roll them again,
Speaker 2: just buckle up for the Milwaukee start.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe, Yeah, I get what you're saying. Just from
Speaker 1: the offensive standpoint, I think I'm cool. I'm good with
Speaker 1: this one. This one is a go for me number two.
Speaker 1: This might be the best of the available ones. Because
Speaker 1: I didn't put Brandon Fought on here. I think that's
Speaker 1: another good one. I would roll out Brandon Fought next
Speaker 1: week because you know I'm me. But this one actually
Speaker 1: might be available in some of your leagues forty percent
Speaker 1: ownership in CBS, which if you translate that means like
Speaker 1: twenty five percent on Yahoo, four percent on ESPN or
Speaker 1: something like that. Paul Blackburn, with the New York Mets
Speaker 1: next week, has got the Oakland A's and Miami both
Speaker 1: at home Ross strippling Max. These are all the perceived
Speaker 1: matchups that are going on, but if he gets the two,
Speaker 1: it would be the A's and the Marlins. For the
Speaker 1: most part, you couldn't ask for a better matchup. Throw
Speaker 1: the White Sox in there then to replace maybe the A's.
Speaker 1: You couldn't ask for a better set up. Paul Blackburn
Speaker 1: must on the two start. Yeah your name, Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's one of my favorite targets this week in the
Speaker 2: fab Worlds. He's thrown two starts for the Mets, six innings,
Speaker 2: one run, six k's. I believe in each start he's
Speaker 2: been outstanding. He's worth keeping longer to stream throughout the season.
Speaker 2: JP Sears was this guy last week. He two starts,
Speaker 2: two starts. Blackburn's awesome. He's the tough one to add
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: Yes, sneers is Stears is sneaky. I can't say that
Speaker 1: even once. Tyler Phillips next week forty two on CBS
Speaker 1: is going up against the Marlins and Washington. We don't
Speaker 1: know what the starter in the Washington side is, and
Speaker 1: I believe both of those are home games for Philly.
Speaker 1: So if he is starting Tyler Phillips, yay or nay.
Speaker 2: Two things. I'll say nay because we've seen that production
Speaker 2: kind of come down. Strikeouts have been an issues, more
Speaker 2: of a pitch to contact guy. The other part is
Speaker 2: Taiwan Walker' is supposed to be back next week, so
Speaker 2: that might mean the end of Connor Phillips in this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, And I'm not sure about that one either way.
Speaker 1: So like I'm I just sign off on Lively, I'd
Speaker 1: sign off on Blackburn. Funny enough, the next guy has
Speaker 1: half of the percentage owned as Tyler Phillips, and I
Speaker 1: think I would take the risk on it. Number four
Speaker 1: is Trevor Rodgers, and I know Trevor Rodgers has not
Speaker 1: you know, blown the doors off or anything, only twenty
Speaker 1: four percent ownership. He's got Washington and Boston both home
Speaker 1: games again next week, so yes, offense is a little
Speaker 1: bit tougher, but obviously his offense supporting Trevor Rodgers, would
Speaker 1: you make that move for the two start next week.
Speaker 2: Not a chance, not for me at least. I'm not
Speaker 2: a Trevor Rodgers guy at all. And Boston is the
Speaker 2: best offense in baseball SINCETI life first, so I'm staying
Speaker 2: far away from that one, all right.
Speaker 1: And then the final one here with a little bit
Speaker 1: higher ownership over Trevor Rodgers, Tyler Molly has got Boston
Speaker 1: and Minnesota. As fun as the idea of Tyler Molly is,
Speaker 1: absolutely not.
Speaker 2: That's a chance. His first start back he showed he
Speaker 2: still has a lot of rust on that arm and
Speaker 2: those offenses not happening.
Speaker 1: That's a note for me, dog, No, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: Three up and three down, Pete Alonzo yesterday three for five,
Speaker 1: two homers, three RBI stacking up homers. We mentioned our
Speaker 1: boy Tyler Fitzgerald two for five with three stolen bases, Baba.
Speaker 1: We were joking when you were on What the hell
Speaker 1: were you on Monday when we did the bets. You
Speaker 1: took the two and a half over hit run RBI first,
Speaker 1: he let off, he got done it, and you just
Speaker 1: text me and I was like, good lord, we already
Speaker 1: locked that up.
Speaker 2: Said you're worried about it just takes one swing, well
Speaker 2: just sticks one swing.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, And the only worry ever is like the
Speaker 1: two point five. But to your point, but to your point,
Speaker 1: why the hit run RBI is such a fun one,
Speaker 1: is that like they could get it all on the
Speaker 1: RBIs you know, like he could have one hit and
Speaker 1: you know he can lock this up, or he get
Speaker 1: have three sack flies and still get it. For the
Speaker 1: hit run RBI, it's just usually the juice isn't good
Speaker 1: unless you get a two and a half. So that
Speaker 1: was really really sneaky. And do you think do you
Speaker 1: think Tyler Fitzgerald, even like ninety percent of him is
Speaker 1: going to carry over to next year as far as value,
Speaker 1: Like the way he's pacing out, dude's gonna be a
Speaker 1: top one hundred player next year. I don't know for
Speaker 1: a lot of the people that have started to check out,
Speaker 1: Like will Joe piez Apia be on Tyler Fitzgerald as much?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, well people understand the
Speaker 1: legend of Tyler Fitzgerald. If he finishes out strong, Like
Speaker 1: where do you think that'll line up to like next
Speaker 1: year's value?
Speaker 2: He'll go too high next year? Because he's like, he's
Speaker 2: a two seventy two seventy five guy with good power,
Speaker 2: good speed. He's a good ballplayer, a very good ballplayer.
Speaker 2: I think he'll go. He should be going on Willia
Speaker 2: Domus just where I maybe a little higher than Williadomis's right,
Speaker 2: heave them, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: In the same range. Also in the three of Tyler Anderson,
Speaker 1: six innings, seven strikeouts, I was calling for the decimation
Speaker 1: and it just hasn't happened. On the three down, speaking
Speaker 1: of getting absolutely shull ACKed, Charlie Morton two and two thirds,
Speaker 1: eight earned runs, gave up four homers. He has been rough.
Speaker 1: Charlie Muten Charlie nest Cortez four and two thirds. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do any more of the bit nine
Speaker 1: hits and six earned runs. And how about this one,
Speaker 1: I just want to throw this at you, Joey Luperfito
Speaker 1: Ohver four with three strikeouts. He now has seven straight
Speaker 1: games of two or more strikeouts. That trade has not
Speaker 1: done him any favors. He is the biggest nothing of
Speaker 1: nothing's on the injury front, got quite a bit here.
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone told reporters that X rays came back negative
Speaker 1: on Anthony Volpi's left foot, So I guess that's good news.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the extent of this is going
Speaker 1: to be, maybe like a couple days off or something
Speaker 1: like that. Cody Bellinger is currently dealing with that left
Speaker 1: hamstring soreness. Pretty big disaster so far this year. Julio
Speaker 1: Rodriguez ran the bases on Thursday for the second consecutive day.
Speaker 1: They call that explosive movement, Bubba explosive Julio Rodriguez movement.
Speaker 1: This is what I do want to ask you about.
Speaker 1: Alex Cobb is going to make a season debut today
Speaker 1: against the Twins. I don't know if it's the early game.
Speaker 1: It might like be.
Speaker 2: Happy game two.
Speaker 1: Oh it's game two, okay, so it's a little bit later. Really,
Speaker 1: the big question is are you comfortable starting him out
Speaker 1: the gates? He had four and two thirds last Saturday
Speaker 1: in a minor league rehabit assignment. He went, he ended
Speaker 1: up striking out five. You know, it's been pretty solid.
Speaker 1: He was a big trade move for them. Are you
Speaker 1: comfortable and are you buying in on Alex Cobb at
Speaker 1: least to start him right out the gates?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am, because I've Actually he's actually pitched really
Speaker 2: well out of rehab. He would have been back sooner.
Speaker 2: Already popped the blister on his finger to push this back.
Speaker 2: So I am believing in Alex Cobb. I'm on board
Speaker 2: with this one.
Speaker 1: Having those blisters pot that's a pretty brutal feeling too,
Speaker 1: especially if you know you had to, like you know, crow.
Speaker 2: Baseballs right, especially with sticky stuff and everything would be
Speaker 2: a little a little awkward.
Speaker 1: Can we get just can we get all the chief
Speaker 1: stuff back?
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Steroids, steroids, HD, sticky stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, dude, give it all to me. Jared Jones,
Speaker 1: speaking of pictures, allowed two runs over two and two
Speaker 1: thirds of an inning on Thursday in a minor league
Speaker 1: rehab assignment. So he is getting closer, I would I
Speaker 1: would expect this pacing is probably two more starts. So
Speaker 1: it's like right near the beginning of September. Josh Lowe
Speaker 1: was removed from Thursday's game with a right knee contusion,
Speaker 1: and as many people have been pointing out in the chat,
Speaker 1: I am going to talk about it. Diamondbacks manager Tory
Speaker 1: Leavello told reporters that Merle Meryl Kelly is potentially going
Speaker 1: to return on Sunday against the Phillies. Now, if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: that would line up to maybe being a two start
Speaker 1: next week, if they were to do some type of push,
Speaker 1: that would be fun. But MARYL. Kelly returning to the
Speaker 1: Phillies is the biggest no thanks of all time. Even
Speaker 1: though Meryll like, I like Merrill more than I like
Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery. Jordan Montgomery just oh, it's so humid, and
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? He's just so bad. I'm
Speaker 1: so over it. Merril's fine, I'm cool, but no Dodgers,
Speaker 1: no Padres, and no Phillies for me. I'm starting him again.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna start Merrill on his first start back,
Speaker 1: but then I'm good to go after that.
Speaker 2: What about you? Yeah, I'm not either. Just like e Rod,
Speaker 2: he's not really doing any rehab starts, and that always
Speaker 2: concerns me, Like I want to see him throw a
Speaker 2: little bit before. That's why Cobb lots of rehab. Meryl
Speaker 2: not so much.
Speaker 1: So I'll sit and wait, yeah, I will sit and wait.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I mentioned it a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily an injury, but boy, if we had
Speaker 1: it's not an injury. By the way, but boy, if
Speaker 1: we had a ton of games rained out and delayed,
Speaker 1: and like I said, I don't think I mentioned it,
Speaker 1: but today's game between the Rangers and Yankees was postponed
Speaker 1: and it's going to be part of a double header
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Maybe it feels like this, there's this constant rain,
Speaker 1: constant games being delayed and pushed, and we're getting double headers.
Speaker 1: We've got double header going on today, so just the
Speaker 1: chaos continues. All right, friends, you know what time it is?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. Should add to the injuries. Friday morning,
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan to the il with a Grade two latch
Speaker 2: strain or triceps strain. They said he's gonna be out weeks,
Speaker 2: if not months, So he's probably a cut folks. Just
Speaker 2: throwing that out there real quick.
Speaker 1: I think. No, I'm very glad you brought that up
Speaker 1: because he was a killer. We were backing him earlier
Speaker 1: in the week and then he got pulled from that game.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm going to lean that this
Speaker 1: is good now. Obviously, if like if they can manage it,
Speaker 1: they would want him back. They need him back. But
Speaker 1: if it's months, I don't expect him back for the
Speaker 1: regular season. So yeah, I do think.
Speaker 2: It's great too, So it's at least a month, if
Speaker 2: not more. It's like a month month and a half
Speaker 2: probably that we're talking with seven weeks left.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, probably can move on, my friends. All right,
Speaker 1: we're moving over to some bets because it is time
Speaker 1: for the best bets of the day on Friday with
Speaker 1: not Joey p I. I asked for some art by
Speaker 1: the way, that is going to get a change here,
Speaker 1: but everybody could be reminded of Joe, but it is
Speaker 1: not Joe. It is Welsh and the Bubba for the
Speaker 1: best bets here on Friday. So Bubba, once't you kick
Speaker 1: it off for us? What do you got for your
Speaker 1: best bets of the day?
Speaker 2: All right? You know me, I like my prop bets
Speaker 2: at plus money, so let's have some fun here. You
Speaker 2: mentioned Vladito to start the show on fire. Give me
Speaker 2: over a half an RBI at plus one thirty five.
Speaker 2: That's all he does is drive and run, so I'll
Speaker 2: take my chances in a really good matchup against Mitch Spence.
Speaker 2: Give me Austin Riley and Cooors over half an rbitt
Speaker 2: plus one twenty five. His bat's been heating up and
Speaker 2: he gets a scrub starting in Colorado, and then a
Speaker 2: fun one here Garrett Crochet under five and a half
Speaker 2: K's at plus one thirty. Crochet has not thrown more
Speaker 2: than four innings since the start of July, so he
Speaker 2: has to be extremely, extremely effective to get over five
Speaker 2: and a half against the Cubs, which he could on Friday.
Speaker 2: But I'll take the under at plus money.
Speaker 1: That's a really, really sneaky one. I think I like
Speaker 1: that one as well. I have some action in that
Speaker 1: game as well. All right, my best bets. The one
Speaker 1: of the best total base props on the betting Pros
Speaker 1: cheat sheet popped up and I am into it. It
Speaker 1: is could tell Marte total bases over one and a half.
Speaker 1: Believe the number was ten of fifteen. He has hit
Speaker 1: this now it is Zach Wheeler on the mound, but
Speaker 1: Wheeler's had his moments. Katel hitting at the top of
Speaker 1: the lineup. He has been hitting this Marker. I really
Speaker 1: like this Katel Marte plus one thirty five for over
Speaker 1: one and a half total basis. I will also tell
Speaker 1: you personally it's gonna feel risky, but I'm in on
Speaker 1: Ryan Nelson's strikeouts for today. Ryan Nelson. Three of his
Speaker 1: last four games he has struck out seven or more,
Speaker 1: and he had a couple of nine strikeout performances in there.
Speaker 1: Phillies are tough and the Phillies get to him early.
Speaker 1: This is this is ain't going to go. But if
Speaker 1: he is on, this is a five strikeout for plus money.
Speaker 1: It's actually even money.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I almost hit that plus. I almost went on
Speaker 2: that one too.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Okay, cool, Yeah, So that's one I
Speaker 1: just personally did. I'm just letting you know. It's not
Speaker 1: a part of my official three bets, but I did
Speaker 1: bet it. I am also going speaking of the Garrett
Speaker 1: Crochet Chicago full on nurfy, So give me the tie
Speaker 1: on versus Crochet, no runs through the first inning at
Speaker 1: minus one thirty five Chicago and the White Sox no
Speaker 1: run first inning, and then I'm just doing a little
Speaker 1: moneyline parlay. Give me Baltimore and the Dodgers combine those together.
Speaker 1: I'm taking their money lines that pays around one and
Speaker 1: a half. It's like plus one fifty eight or something
Speaker 1: like that. Zach Eflin and Jack Flaherty pitching for both
Speaker 1: of these guys, So I've got Kittel total bases over
Speaker 1: the Chicago's Nurphy and Baltimore Dodgers on the money line,
Speaker 1: Bubba's got the Vlad Guerrero RBI at good plus money,
Speaker 1: Austin Riley over on the RBI, and Garrett Crochet under
Speaker 1: strikeouts at five and a half getting vede Vetty Sneaky
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Speaker 1: The home round contest, Bubba, uh oh, you know what
Speaker 1: I think I have. I want to get your home
Speaker 1: run call. I did get a board. I completely forgot
Speaker 1: to download it here because the anticipation for everybody is
Speaker 1: Joe gone. Has Joe been kicked? Is even kicked from
Speaker 1: the island, And the official word is he has not
Speaker 1: been kicked. Unfortunately he is there. Sorry for all that break,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get that going here. I did get
Speaker 1: two homers from Anthony Santander the other day. I want
Speaker 1: to point out I believe that puts me Forre a dinger.
Speaker 1: If you're there, it's a twenty seven twenty eight maybe
Speaker 1: because I also did have a Royce Lewis Homer built
Speaker 1: somewhere in there, So I think I've got a twenty
Speaker 1: seven or twenty eight. If I'm at twenty eight, I'm
Speaker 1: there next week. I'm gonna get in there. But Joey
Speaker 1: P's at the bottom of the list with thirty Wonky
Speaker 1: is up at fourteenth on the list at thirty three.
Speaker 1: Your leaders though, el Scale and South African g both
Speaker 1: at thirty nine, Silent Dragon and Whips at thirty eight,
Speaker 1: and then be Trot and Larry at thirty seven. That's
Speaker 1: what your top six is on the home run board.
Speaker 1: So I was able to I was able to hold
Speaker 1: it down just enough to get the board before we
Speaker 1: got your home. We're on call. Where are you going today, Bubbs?
Speaker 2: There's a double header between the Twins and the Guardians.
Speaker 2: I know I can't take both games. That would be
Speaker 2: Joey piece of po level of trolling here, but I'll
Speaker 2: go game one as the Twins face Cantillo, who is
Speaker 2: not good. Give me Royce Lewis in that one. I
Speaker 2: think he's going downtown on Friday morning. Friday afternoon, I.
Speaker 1: Guess downtown Royce Lewis. I like it all right. I
Speaker 1: am going to go into over to Atlanta, and we're
Speaker 1: going to be picking on the Colorado pitcher Tanner Gordon
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Give me the lefty, gimme madd Olson, give
Speaker 1: me Maddilson here. We're going to try to go for
Speaker 1: a couple. I will tell you, every time I think
Speaker 1: of Homer's for Atlanta, i am my brain immediately goes
Speaker 1: to Austin Riley. I want to bet Austin Riley all
Speaker 1: the time, and it has paid off for me quite
Speaker 1: a few times. Matt Olson has been a little bit inconsistent,
Speaker 1: and I'm actually not sure if I've hit a single
Speaker 1: maddalson Homers so far this year. Today we'll break that
Speaker 1: and maybe that can even get me on the board
Speaker 1: for next week. There you go, friends, I hope you
Speaker 1: guys have a fantastic week. We got you guys all set.
Speaker 1: Make sure you are subscribed to the utube because we
Speaker 1: still got lots of great content and subscribe. On the
Speaker 1: podcast side, you can find Bubba at b d Intrich.
Speaker 1: You can follow me at izitthe Welsh and we're back
Speaker 1: again next week. We got Joe Rico on Monday. Bubba's
Speaker 1: back on Wednesday. We will be doing answering your questions.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing some streamers. We're also going to look
Speaker 1: at some of the big pickups on the shows, and
Speaker 1: we'll see where the home run contest gets us. Bubba,
Speaker 1: you have a fantastic week. All of you guys have
Speaker 1: a fantastic week, and thanks for hanging out with us
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