Speaker 1: What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy pros MLB. This
Speaker 1: is leading off. I'm Chris Welsh. That is Joe Alrico.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the call from the manager last night,
Speaker 2: needed me to step up for a little bit of
Speaker 2: a bullpen game today. So happy to do it, Happy
Speaker 2: to step in for Joe. I hope he's doing all right,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure he's not having fun right now.
Speaker 1: No, probably not fun, drinking whatever you have to drink
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Speaker 1: really great there's a really great sponsorship opportunity that was
Speaker 1: missed in this entire thing, whether whatever it could have been,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we could have followed along with Joe.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the stuff and the things
Speaker 1: and some big dogs we're eating. Joe went with Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: mister piece of Pjo and Judge. Yesterday I went with
Speaker 1: Shoe Heyo Tani, both in the home run contest and
Speaker 1: they both homered. They're both back into it. Judge ended
Speaker 1: up going two for four hitting his that ended up
Speaker 1: getting the win on the Mets, and show Heyo Tani
Speaker 1: had a leadoff homer two for four against A's his
Speaker 1: thirteenth of the year, so probably nobody had gotten the
Speaker 1: extra room on the table here in the home run
Speaker 1: contest as the big Dogs were going. I do have
Speaker 1: a question in the Yankee game. I want to hit
Speaker 1: to you, al Riko. This is not going to be
Speaker 1: related to the big guys. Just want to remind everybody
Speaker 1: that the big Dogs did eat Luke Weaver. Luke Weaver
Speaker 1: struck out the side in the ninth got a save
Speaker 1: against the Mariners, and I believe it was maybe his
Speaker 1: not yet, I'm trying to remember what it was. It
Speaker 1: wasn't his ninth save, but he's had a multitude of saves.
Speaker 1: Devin Williams still kind of a mess. My question to
Speaker 1: you is with Luke Weaver, is he going to give
Speaker 1: up the closer role because he has been good and
Speaker 1: he's locking it down. Do you think Devin Williams is
Speaker 1: going to gain this now with what you're seeing out
Speaker 1: of Luke Weaver.
Speaker 2: I think it would be a disaster for the Yankees
Speaker 2: if Williams doesn't end up back in the closer role
Speaker 2: at some point.
Speaker 3: We're still ting.
Speaker 2: The thing with relievers is that we're always dealing with
Speaker 2: relatively small sample sizes. Yeah, Devin Williams has not been
Speaker 2: good to this point of the season, but it's fourteen innings.
Speaker 2: I feel like they I'm not sure when it'll happen exactly,
Speaker 2: but at some point Devin Williams is going to have
Speaker 2: this job back. I think I'm not sure when or
Speaker 2: how exactly it'll happen. But if you see Williams sitting
Speaker 2: on any waiver wires, wh anybody's dropped him, I would
Speaker 2: personally pick him up everywhere.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I kind of said I thought
Speaker 1: that Luke Weaver might end up being the guy that
Speaker 1: holds us longer than people think, and it would be
Speaker 1: like a month or two. But I would pick up
Speaker 1: Devin Williams. But I would like to point out Luke
Speaker 1: Weaver has a point four to five ERA. I believe
Speaker 1: it was like after he got the gig he had
Speaker 1: been like scathed the tiny bit. But he has four
Speaker 1: saves now a point. He has a higher whip than ERA,
Speaker 1: which is crazy point six whip. He has just been
Speaker 1: relatively unhittable. He's given up one earned run all season long,
Speaker 1: and that was I think right around when he ended
Speaker 1: up taking the gig over. It was like a little
Speaker 1: over like it was about ten days ago, it looks like.
Speaker 1: But he has picked up two saves since the beginning
Speaker 1: of May. So I guess it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been locking down a million. It's just right here,
Speaker 1: Van Rod his dog. He's dog, And I do think
Speaker 1: they're going to want to give Devin Williams the opportunity back.
Speaker 1: But it's just like how much or maybe are you
Speaker 1: willing to be aggressive on a guy like Luke Weaver
Speaker 1: or even by because I would think owners would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's going to lose that job pretty soon, trade him off.
Speaker 1: But if he were to keep that role the rest
Speaker 1: of the year, look out, Luke Weaver would be absolutely
Speaker 1: rolling in the big sp market. Terry Scuba recorded eleven
Speaker 1: strikeouts season high, five runs over six and one third
Speaker 1: of inning on Wednesday, and no decision in a big
Speaker 1: strikeout game, but giving up some runs in that same game.
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman three for four hit is eleventh home run
Speaker 1: of the season. If Aaron Judge was not in the
Speaker 1: AL would we be talking much more loudly about Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman for MVP? And do you think he is one
Speaker 1: of the best returns on top one hundred draft capital?
Speaker 1: And in some cases he was going outside the top
Speaker 1: one hundred, Like do you think it's one of the
Speaker 1: best returns? And do you buy it the rest of
Speaker 1: the season? So I asked you three hundred different questions.
Speaker 3: I buy it to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: The MVP thing is interesting, like if you look just
Speaker 2: from a fantasy point of view, Judge has been the
Speaker 2: most valuable American League player and Bregman is number two,
Speaker 2: a thirty dollars player in twelve team leagues. For those
Speaker 2: auction folks out there, will he keep it up to
Speaker 2: this extent? Probably not, but I could see him finishing
Speaker 2: within the twenty five to thirty homer range runs in
Speaker 2: RBIs both pushing one hundred. I saw an article yesterday
Speaker 2: that talked about how he has his own heading coach
Speaker 2: that found something that he was doing with the Astros
Speaker 2: the last couple of seasons. It was something small that
Speaker 2: you wouldn't even really notice if you're watching just to
Speaker 2: the layman's eye, that they kind of tweaked with him,
Speaker 2: and it seems to have worked so far this season.
Speaker 2: So I think that he's not gonna be a first
Speaker 2: round player because right now he's the number seven player
Speaker 2: for the season. But can he be a top fifty player,
Speaker 2: top forty player? I think absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's a part of me I talked
Speaker 1: about this a while ago that I think like a
Speaker 1: dark horse betting might have been Breakman an MVP, but
Speaker 1: he's also one of those guys I wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: get my shares of Looking at his swing, the only
Speaker 1: thing I'm noticing is he's opened his stands up more
Speaker 1: than he has really in his quite a few years.
Speaker 1: There's really nothing else in there. And then as far
Speaker 1: as like some of the analytics is bat tracking, you know,
Speaker 1: he's squaring the ball up better, but he's he's not
Speaker 1: getting to it faster, he's not swinging it faster, not
Speaker 1: swing length. It's the ballpark. The ballpark has helped as well.
Speaker 1: Funny the metric Baseball Savant has where you can have
Speaker 1: like if a guy played all his games in a
Speaker 1: certain ballpark. Sometimes that'll show you like, oh, what's the
Speaker 1: benefit here? It's actually Boston is actually a little bit
Speaker 1: of a negative, Like he would have thirteen per rejected
Speaker 1: homers in Baltimore if he played all his games there
Speaker 1: while only having nine in Boston. Yet he has been
Speaker 1: absolutely striking the ball, barreling it better than he's ever
Speaker 1: done in his career eleven point five percent, best hard
Speaker 1: hit percentage of his career, under twenty percent. Case he's walking,
Speaker 1: he has a nineteen degree launch angle, which is like
Speaker 1: right at the tippy top of where he's ever been
Speaker 1: in his career. The ballpark is helping. He seems to
Speaker 1: be locked in. I actually think if there's someone out
Speaker 1: there that doesn't believe that he's performing as one of
Speaker 1: the top third basemen and wants to sell out high,
Speaker 1: I think there's maybe a buying opportunity because I think
Speaker 1: this can stick. I don't know he's going to hit
Speaker 1: three fourteen, but I think he could still hit two ninety,
Speaker 1: maybe be one hundred hundred guy close to thirty homers.
Speaker 1: Like I think it's a it's a revival here. So
Speaker 1: I guess I'm a little bit more buy in of
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman than you. Why do you hate Alex Bregman?
Speaker 3: I know I like him a lot.
Speaker 2: I just if somebody's valuing him as a first rounder,
Speaker 2: if somebody is willing to trade you another first round
Speaker 2: caliber player for him, then you should probably listen to it.
Speaker 1: But I got one for you.
Speaker 2: But I still think he's a great, great asset, probably
Speaker 2: the best outside of PCA, probably the best return on
Speaker 2: investment at this point of the season.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. Uh yeah, probably he's probably yeah, in
Speaker 1: the top three or four for sure. Who would you
Speaker 1: rather have rest of season? Alex Bregman or Julio Rodriguez?
Speaker 3: Oh, Man, Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Is hitting I think around two twenty right now and
Speaker 1: expect a batting average around two fifty. He does steal
Speaker 1: more bases, But who would you rather have?
Speaker 2: I think I would probably go with Bregman, but that
Speaker 2: one's pretty close because Julio the batting average hasn't been great,
Speaker 2: but still seven homers, five steals. He hasn't been bad
Speaker 2: at all, but I think it'll be Bregman by a
Speaker 2: hair m.
Speaker 1: I would like to know, what do you guys think?
Speaker 1: Who would you rather have rest of season? Alex Bregman,
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez. That's kind of a fun one. What in
Speaker 1: the hell is going on with Patrick Corbyn? Patrick Corbyn
Speaker 1: struck out nine in six innings. He did allow three
Speaker 1: yearned runs. This is, you know, a Rockies I guess
Speaker 1: the narrative that you can put out there, But what
Speaker 1: is going on with Patrick Corbin? I've loosely said kind
Speaker 1: of made in like a hobby or Bayas type of
Speaker 1: way where it's like listen this version. No, I don't
Speaker 1: buy or anything like that, but there do seem to
Speaker 1: be concerted changes. The team context is working and like
Speaker 1: he's at least streamable and you need to pay attention
Speaker 1: to him streaming in bad matchups. There you go, he
Speaker 1: got I mean that's I think that's a quality And
Speaker 1: what did I just say? I got to look back
Speaker 1: at the stats. Did he goes six? Yeah, you win six?
Speaker 1: That's a quality start he had with nine strikeouts against Colorado.
Speaker 1: The profile looks okay, but my question is is are
Speaker 1: you going to buy into Patrick Corbyn rest of season.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I personally can't do it. Like
Speaker 2: he's he's been good, no question. If you've had him
Speaker 2: for the last several games, he's done very well. But
Speaker 2: it's Patrick Corbyn at the end of the day. I
Speaker 2: feel like this is a situation where right when people
Speaker 2: are going to start to believe and start opening up
Speaker 2: the fab wallets and the waiver priorities, that's when he's
Speaker 2: gonna let you down. And there's still some things that
Speaker 2: I don't love here, Like he has a three thirty
Speaker 2: five er. He's outperforming that though. I mean, if you
Speaker 2: look at the Sierra four fifty two, the phips are
Speaker 2: all in the mid foors. He's not striking guys out.
Speaker 2: He hasn't been a big strikeout guy in a while,
Speaker 2: but eighteen percent he's a one thirty whip. I think
Speaker 2: this is a situation where right when you start to
Speaker 2: trust him, which is probably right about now, people are
Speaker 2: going to get burned by him.
Speaker 3: So I think you just stay away. It's Patrick Corbyn
Speaker 3: at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me freeze it a little bit differently then,
Speaker 1: because I guess if I came across as like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you know Patrick Corbyn?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: It's him? Is Patrick Corbin as a serviceable streamer? Is
Speaker 1: bring me more of the question? That's I think more
Speaker 1: of what I meant by this, Like, are you willing
Speaker 1: to find some matchups here? Maybe you target teams that
Speaker 1: are struggling against lefties a little bit. You're looking for
Speaker 1: quality starts, you're looking for wins. Is Patrick Corbin someone
Speaker 1: that you're going to give a consideration.
Speaker 3: To for a situation like yesterday?
Speaker 2: Absolutely no problem like playing the playing the Rockies for
Speaker 2: that kind of matchup, I don't mind it. But I
Speaker 2: mean if we're trusting him outside of a bottom five
Speaker 2: or seven team, I think that's where you start to
Speaker 2: get hurt. Like we were talking about Ryan Weathers yesterday against
Speaker 2: the Cubs. If and that's an extreme example because the
Speaker 2: Cubs have been a really good offense, but just trying
Speaker 2: to see who he is slated to face in his
Speaker 2: next start, it looks like it'll be the Yankees early
Speaker 2: next week, So.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, I don't think I can do it.
Speaker 1: What would be do you do? You happen to see
Speaker 1: what would be the one after that, even like a
Speaker 1: rough guestimate of like who they'd be playing Yankees. Well,
Speaker 1: while you look speak of speaking of Ryan Weathers, by
Speaker 1: the way, he had two hits, one run, one walk,
Speaker 1: five strikeouts over five innings against the Cubs, so had tip.
Speaker 1: We were like, don't want to start him on this one.
Speaker 1: Maybe the next one. He was actually pretty pretty efficient.
Speaker 2: Ryan Weathers was, so yeah, it looks like so that
Speaker 2: Yankees won early next week is a stay away, but
Speaker 2: it looks like he would get the White Sox next weekend,
Speaker 2: So maybe you hold him, sit him for that first one. Now,
Speaker 2: if it's a weekly league, you'd have to eat both
Speaker 2: of them. Would you be willing to do that? Because
Speaker 2: if you're setting a weekly lineup, would you eat the
Speaker 2: Yankee start to get the White Sox one?
Speaker 1: It'd be dependent, like Patrick Corbyn over like who other
Speaker 1: ones start? I would there's probably well it's about to
Speaker 1: say this forty or fifty other you know, probably one
Speaker 1: starts I'd rather have, except if you just focus on
Speaker 1: that White Sox one, like that's that's pretty you would
Speaker 1: really like that. But yeah, the Yankees, again, it's just
Speaker 1: about serviceability. I don't Someone said I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into the Corbyn verse. I don't really either, but
Speaker 1: he just continues to just kind of be good. Who
Speaker 1: would you rather have Ryan Weathers or Patrick Corbyn?
Speaker 3: Ryan Weathers, no question for me.
Speaker 1: Ryan Weathers is back. We don't know when and what
Speaker 1: version you're gonna get of Spencer Strider when he's back,
Speaker 1: because apparently he experienced some diminished velocity in a simulated game.
Speaker 1: He threw thirty sixty five pitches. He had started off
Speaker 1: around ninety six, but then he dipped into the ninety
Speaker 1: three to ninety four range. That's a problem. Last month
Speaker 1: he was averaging around ninety five. Reports on like rotal
Speaker 1: World is saying the club is expected to decide later
Speaker 1: this week whether he's going to require another minor league
Speaker 1: rehab start or be activated to start next week against
Speaker 1: the Nationals. I think based on the velocity dip. Unless
Speaker 1: this is something that they were completely comfortable with a
Speaker 1: knew about, I think he's going to another rehab start
Speaker 1: because that type of VLO dip is a concern. Again,
Speaker 1: unless they had it planned for him to not go
Speaker 1: full out. But why would you have a sixty five
Speaker 1: pitch simulated game for that that is worrisome VLO dip
Speaker 1: for him, because I mean because not only by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, if he averaged last month ninety five, he
Speaker 1: starts ninety six. He's a high VLO guy in general,
Speaker 1: So like ninety three ninety four sitting, especially when you're
Speaker 1: more of a primary two pitch pitcher, that's a bit
Speaker 1: of concern. What is your level of concern with Spencer's
Speaker 1: Strider moving through the rest of the season. Because he's
Speaker 1: going to be back, everyone's going to get excited, but
Speaker 1: knowing that you've now had two injuries throughout the year,
Speaker 1: some diminished velos sitting out there, what's your level of
Speaker 1: concern of like, do you want to get out from
Speaker 1: under him once he's activated? Do you want to buy?
Speaker 1: Where are you at?
Speaker 2: I think i'd be more in the cell camp. Once
Speaker 2: you see the report of Spencer Strider is starting on
Speaker 2: Thursday or whatever day it'll be, that'll be potentially when
Speaker 2: he has the most value rest of season.
Speaker 3: I worry about that velocity.
Speaker 2: We were doing the Discord Show when he made that
Speaker 2: debut and we were kind of following along, and he
Speaker 2: wasn't able to maintain his velocity throughout that start.
Speaker 3: If you look year by year, every.
Speaker 2: Season he's lost a tick twenty twenty two, ninety eight,
Speaker 2: down in ninety seven, ninety six, ninety five. If he's
Speaker 2: sitting in ninety three ninety four, that's a serious red flag.
Speaker 2: If you're able to trade Strider based on that name
Speaker 2: value for a top twenty five, top thirty starting pitcher
Speaker 2: or top maybe top one hundred player overall, something like that,
Speaker 2: I think it would be wise to consider it. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what we're going to see out of him
Speaker 2: this year, and if if we do get him back,
Speaker 2: even if it's to be soon, I'm not sure what
Speaker 2: the results are going to be like, So I'm worried.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely worried.
Speaker 1: I'm too, I'm pretty concerned about that. Like I do
Speaker 1: think he's the type of guy that can bounce back
Speaker 1: from this, but he's having like already these leg issues
Speaker 1: and the VELO unless they give us any information about it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if he were to bounce back to be the version
Speaker 1: that we know, this is a great buying opportunity because
Speaker 1: of the fear, But to already have like some of
Speaker 1: the down VELO, I don't know what that's going to
Speaker 1: look like. For Strider, especially again because he is a
Speaker 1: primary like fastball slider guy, Like that's what he does.
Speaker 1: It's not like we can go to some other offerings.
Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, even if you have other offerings,
Speaker 1: like Zach Gallen's a disaster when his fastball velo has
Speaker 1: gone down and down and then when he loses command
Speaker 1: on it, he can't even go to the other stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's been you know, I mean, he's obviously had
Speaker 1: some good starts, but like it's not the same version
Speaker 1: what Strider going to do, because then you're going to
Speaker 1: have Strider trying to lean more on the slider, and
Speaker 1: then all you're going to have is guys waiting on
Speaker 1: the fastball and if you're cranking it at ninety one, bam,
Speaker 1: they're gonna put that bad boy out. A couple of
Speaker 1: rookie lookies and then when I get to some of
Speaker 1: the listeners, some of the Peanuts and cracker Jacks out here,
Speaker 1: of course rookie lookie Simeon Woods Richardson was optioned. So
Speaker 1: this means we are on David Festa or Zebbie Matthews.
Speaker 1: Watch there. I haven't seen if there was a corresponding move,
Speaker 1: it could have happened just now when we started the show,
Speaker 1: it might happen here shortly. I will say David Festa
Speaker 1: has had a couple of really great starts fourteen strikeouts
Speaker 1: over his last two he has had no walks, and
Speaker 1: he's gone relatively deep. I think it was five and
Speaker 1: two thirds and six innings and he's been unhittable. So
Speaker 1: is Zebbi. But Festa was the guy before. I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a David Festa move,
Speaker 1: and I would go and pick up David Festa right
Speaker 1: now because I think he floats in that line of
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna call it, must pick up, but like
Speaker 1: I would probably dump like a Patrick Corbyn like we're
Speaker 1: talking about, I mean, because he's a streamer and hold
Speaker 1: on to Festa. But don't you they ask me, David Fester,
Speaker 1: Bubba Chandler. I'm not accepting that. But Arico, are you
Speaker 1: running to the wire to speculatively pick up a David
Speaker 1: Festa right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm coming into the season. I was a huge
Speaker 3: fan of Festa.
Speaker 2: I've been kind of disappointed with the way that the
Speaker 2: Twins have used their entire rotation to start the season,
Speaker 2: like of course, Chris Paddock has actually been looking pretty
Speaker 2: decent recently. Like I thought Paddock and Sebody Richardson would
Speaker 2: be gone pretty early for Matthews and for Festa. Now
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to go with Festa.
Speaker 2: I think they probably will. But when they had him
Speaker 2: up before, he was only going four innings, four and
Speaker 2: two thirds every time out. Now his pitches were starting
Speaker 2: to I was following as closely. He was going in
Speaker 2: the sixties for pitches and then up to the seventies,
Speaker 2: up to the eighties, and then they sent him down.
Speaker 2: I think it's Festa, but be on the lookout for
Speaker 2: Zebby as well, because I think Zebby has earned his chance.
Speaker 3: He has a deeper arsenal than Festa.
Speaker 2: I think that long term Matthews is probably the better target,
Speaker 2: but for right now probably will be Festa. But I'm
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent sure which way they're gonna go here.
Speaker 1: So what does someone put this in here as a no?
Speaker 1: And I think this is important to see Cody Funderberg
Speaker 1: is being kept on the roster, but this is it's
Speaker 1: a pretty clerical move in that, like you have three
Speaker 1: or four days to wait for a rotation piece, so
Speaker 1: I think I think you will see them bring up
Speaker 1: David festa In like you know, three day, two or
Speaker 1: three days whatever. It lines up on the rotation side
Speaker 1: for Simon Woods, So I think that's where we're going
Speaker 1: to go for us, so Festivus for the rest of us,
Speaker 1: that is who I'm speculating on. You'd love to see Zebbi,
Speaker 1: but there's only so much room for these guys to
Speaker 1: do that. And Dalton Rushing was called up. This happened,
Speaker 1: I believe after the show yesterday, really really interesting move
Speaker 1: as a catcher outfielder. I assume with Austin Barnes going out,
Speaker 1: he's going to be playing part of that catcher role.
Speaker 1: He can maybe be a Henry Davis for this team
Speaker 1: and a good team that where he can go out
Speaker 1: into the go into the outfield, his bats live. But
Speaker 1: they also let him not play the first game. So
Speaker 1: I'm treating Dalton Rush like I would be treating Jordan Lawler.
Speaker 1: If you've got expendable stuff to pick him up, I
Speaker 1: think that's cool, But you're probably looking a guy that's
Speaker 1: going to go four to five days. They're not going
Speaker 1: to sit him too much. He's going to get some games.
Speaker 1: He's going to be at the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 1: He's bat definitely is live. It's really great for pull handed,
Speaker 1: pull sided right handed hitters in LA. So like offensively,
Speaker 1: I love Dalton Rushing, but I think both of those
Speaker 1: guys you got to have a stronger stomach for and
Speaker 1: I would treat him just like Lawler. I'd probably have
Speaker 1: I would want Lawler a little bit more. Any other
Speaker 1: take on Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a quote last night from Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: He said that Rushing will start tedday. He said tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but he's talking about today. So Rushing will be in
Speaker 2: the lineup today, but he will be the backup catcher
Speaker 2: and a left handed hitter off the bench, and he
Speaker 2: will not play the outfield, according to Dave Roberts. So
Speaker 2: I think that kills his value a little bit, even
Speaker 2: in two catcher leagues. Kills if he's only going to
Speaker 2: play two or three days a week. I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be tough unless there's an injury there that
Speaker 2: opens something up for right now, I think it would
Speaker 2: have to be a really deep too catcher league would
Speaker 2: definitely take Lawlor.
Speaker 1: I didn't even see that, but I kind of don't
Speaker 1: believe that that's going to if you're going to keep
Speaker 1: them on the roster for long term, I don't believe
Speaker 1: that's the case. Good question for me, Mois's, Ballisterio's, Dalton Russian.
Speaker 1: Which one do you want?
Speaker 2: Yesterday I had Rushing ahead of Ballisteros, but after seeing
Speaker 2: that quote, I think I would probably lean more to Ballasteros.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you, because they're working out Michael
Speaker 1: Bush at third base and that would create more of
Speaker 1: an opportunity long term for Ballisterios. If you're not going
Speaker 1: to play rushing in the outfield at all, then I
Speaker 1: think that that hurts a little bit of the value.
Speaker 1: Before we get with all of our friends and hang
Speaker 1: out and get some questions answered and everything. You guys
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Speaker 1: I was really trying to get through that. Let's see,
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Speaker 1: I picked up Lawla. This is from Pancake. I picked
Speaker 1: up Lawler last week, dropping Kurts, and now it seems
Speaker 1: like Lawler is platooning as Lawler expected to have a
Speaker 1: bigger roll. Or should I drop to bring Kurtz back.
Speaker 1: I would drop to bring Kurtz back. And guess what,
Speaker 1: I would not have made that move because everybody on
Speaker 1: this show keeps talking about how we don't like Nick Kurtz.
Speaker 1: But he finally hit that homer. He's hitting two eighty
Speaker 1: profile looks good. Lawler is a little bit capped here though.
Speaker 1: The injuries are something maybe floating out there, but I'm
Speaker 1: a that might, you know, have some future more value
Speaker 1: for Lawler. But I'm a Kurtz guy over Lawler. What'
Speaker 1: say you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I did it. Was there something about Marte? Did
Speaker 3: Marte get hurt.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, that's what I was alluding to. What we're
Speaker 1: talking about in the injury Well, I mean, I'll just
Speaker 1: mention it now that Marte was lifted from the game.
Speaker 1: He requested to be lifted from the game because he
Speaker 1: was feeling some body soreness. They said he's going to
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup on Friday. I tell you,
Speaker 1: as a Diamondback fan of watching, you can tell that
Speaker 1: there's something slightly off with Marte. Not as bad, not
Speaker 1: as bad at all. By the way he is flying.
Speaker 1: I mean, two homers yesterday and he's going, but he's
Speaker 1: had to be lifted. There's some injury problems and then
Speaker 1: Lawler came in. That could be something that creates some
Speaker 1: future value. Now, if Marte were to miss more time,
Speaker 1: Lawler would be even more exciting. But I'm Kurts over
Speaker 1: him right now.
Speaker 3: I still am Kurtz.
Speaker 2: I just thought i'd heard something, and I figured you'd
Speaker 2: know better as the Diamondback Sky.
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Speaker 1: you drop Michael Bush for him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially to points league? I would, I would do
Speaker 3: I would too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like a no doubter for me. The big
Speaker 1: Dan is Nola or al Contra rest of season. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about Nola here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But Nola got sal lackeyed yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably Nola, but I'm pretty down on
Speaker 2: both of them.
Speaker 1: It's Nola right now, But well, said Logan Henderson or
Speaker 1: Pepio or Peppatillo, Pepito Pepito rest of the season, probably
Speaker 1: Papio still.
Speaker 3: But I really like Logan Henderson.
Speaker 2: I've just I've been a big Pepio guy going back
Speaker 2: to for a couple of years now, but Henderson's looked great.
Speaker 2: I think they both are well worth being on all rosters,
Speaker 2: but I would Lee and Pepio.
Speaker 1: What about Henderson versus Woodroff.
Speaker 3: I'd take Henderson. I don't have much of an expectation
Speaker 3: for Woodroff this year.
Speaker 1: Oh really, you're like, you're kind of out.
Speaker 2: I think just when you're looking at a couple of
Speaker 2: years of layoffs and that they've pushed him back, He's
Speaker 2: had a couple of problems during the rehab. I just
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to see much from him.
Speaker 1: I would probably I'd probably say Woodroff on that one,
Speaker 1: But if Logan Henderson does stay in the rotation for
Speaker 1: a while, then that's I'm just not completely convinced they're
Speaker 1: like a disastrous mess. Like we know that there's clearly
Speaker 1: a spot open, but like Henderson at this moment would
Speaker 1: probably be the likely player to go away with Woodroff
Speaker 1: coming back.
Speaker 3: So that's why I would.
Speaker 1: I would probably pick him. Let's see what else do
Speaker 1: we have here? What do you guys think about trading
Speaker 1: away Pete Fairbanks for Jung Hu Lee?
Speaker 3: Yes, especially given all the closers you have.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, that's an easy, easy one. Who else
Speaker 1: has got in here? Let's look, I got multiple questions
Speaker 1: in here written by Zach. What's the best I can
Speaker 1: get for Tanner Biby twelfteen points league? I was offered
Speaker 1: Roki for Bibbe a few days ago. Oh, going to
Speaker 1: talk about Roki as well? I don't want really want Roki.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'd rather hold on to Bibby than pick
Speaker 1: up Roki right now? If that says enough, what can
Speaker 1: you get? I'm not really one hundred percent sure, Like
Speaker 1: probably if you're trying to go SP for SP, I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be weird. You are going to
Speaker 1: have to buy a massive underperformer like a Sandi al Contra,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna have to buy into a pitcher that
Speaker 1: is overperforming that you think can hold it. Like I
Speaker 1: don't think you can get even Casey Miyes, but maybe
Speaker 1: like a Casey Mice. Excuse me? What say you?
Speaker 3: Joe?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just looking at his game log, it's really just
Speaker 2: two really bad starts that are destroying his whole line.
Speaker 2: Sixer in runs against Baltimore, seven against the Angels. But
Speaker 2: other than that, he hasn't allowed more than to ear
Speaker 2: and runs in any start. The command has been a
Speaker 2: bit iffy, you know, some three and four walk performances,
Speaker 2: but it seems like he has really figured things out
Speaker 2: over the last three starts, seven innings and two of them.
Speaker 2: I think that Bibby is somebody that you should just
Speaker 2: be holding, probably unless you are getting back something close
Speaker 2: to what you paid on draft day. I think that
Speaker 2: people are going to look at the overall numbers and
Speaker 2: not be as impressed as well. They're not that impressive
Speaker 2: right now, but I do think that over time he's
Speaker 2: going to pick it up. And if you're trading him,
Speaker 2: I think you're you're probably making a mistake right now.
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Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm gonna need a pitching and I would
Speaker 1: need to drop two guys soon with Jordan, Trout and
Speaker 1: Acuna coming off the IL just makes me so happy
Speaker 1: to hear the Kunya stuff. I'm willing to trade Perdomo,
Speaker 1: Trout and Dylan Moore for pitching. Who would be a
Speaker 1: who would be good to go after? And those are
Speaker 1: with the cheers, So I don't think Trout makes any
Speaker 1: that's weird if you're just saying like you want to
Speaker 1: trade those guys, what could you get?
Speaker 2: I mean, packaging altogether. You could probably do pretty well
Speaker 2: if you package them all together.
Speaker 1: But Casey Mizen again came to mind. Maybe you get
Speaker 1: like Casey Mize. I don't know if you can get
Speaker 1: two pictures for that. If someone would want to trade
Speaker 1: two pictures for three hitters like that, you might be
Speaker 1: better set. Okay, so the world of let's just use
Speaker 1: the world of Casey Mice as an example. But here's
Speaker 1: a guy I would really try to target if I could.
Speaker 1: It's like McKenzie Gore, but you need Trout to be healthier.
Speaker 1: If Perdomo and Trout to get like Gore and something tiny,
Speaker 1: I think could work. But you might have to take
Speaker 1: off one of those hitters, add some low pitcher and
Speaker 1: then maybe you can get you know, two pitchers back.
Speaker 1: McKenzie Gore would be a target of what I would
Speaker 1: probably be trying to push for.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Well, yeah, what about like
Speaker 2: Chris Bubag, like Perdomo for boobache or something like that,
Speaker 2: Like if you're in need of pitching one a couple
Speaker 2: of guys who both been off to really good starts,
Speaker 2: maybe people value boobage a little bit higher. But like Perdomo,
Speaker 2: you said, Perdomo for boobach Perdomo and maybe even Dylan
Speaker 2: Moore throw him in there.
Speaker 3: Because I don't really buy anything. I like that for
Speaker 3: long term thing like that, I like that a lot.
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Speaker 1: what do you think if Kershawn is good in this start?
Speaker 1: Are you going to dump off of Kate Horton? I
Speaker 1: feel like I probably would. Horton's first appearance was in relief.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, it was like a bulk relief role.
Speaker 1: It's close, but I think I would go with the
Speaker 1: experience with kershaw Okay, I think I doesn't give up
Speaker 1: a bunch of hard hit contact. I'm kind of interested
Speaker 1: in him keeping around, especially with the team context. I
Speaker 1: am worried it's not going to go so well, so
Speaker 1: that would be more of my problem. We got more questions,
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Speaker 1: do this in just a tiny bit. Let's move through
Speaker 1: the sheet a little bit more. Here on the three
Speaker 1: where we got three up and three down. Cedric mullins
Speaker 1: fourth career Grand Slam in the second game of Wednesday's
Speaker 1: doubleheader against the Twins. He has been not hitting for
Speaker 1: average but man, he makes it count. Reece Freakin' Hoskins.
Speaker 1: We talked about this in the stream yesterday. Rico was
Speaker 1: with me YouTube on Wednesday's four pm Eastern. We're there,
Speaker 1: Reece Hoskins four for four with a homer, a double
Speaker 1: five RBI, and he has been powering up his offense.
Speaker 1: I know we did it yesterday, but maybe just as
Speaker 1: another quick shout, are you buying back in? Is Reece
Speaker 1: Hoskins going to press the top ten first baseman? Who
Speaker 1: would you rather have Minni pas Quentino or Reese Hoskins
Speaker 1: the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: That's a really good question.
Speaker 2: I would probably go with Hoskins, but I could see
Speaker 2: going either way. I think I think it's fairly close.
Speaker 2: Hoskins is more if you're just looking for straight power,
Speaker 2: where I think Vinnip hasn't to this point. But I
Speaker 2: think it is more likely to help you in the
Speaker 2: batting average department. Hoskins is kind of just doing what
Speaker 2: he always does. Last season, the batting average falling kind
Speaker 2: of put people out on him. In draft season, he
Speaker 2: was very cheap, but for his whole career he's been
Speaker 2: a twenty five to thirty five homer guy. With a
Speaker 2: one twenty ish WRC plus and we're seeing that again.
Speaker 2: The barrel rates are intact, the hard hit rates there,
Speaker 2: the launch angles good. Everything is solid for Reese Hoskins. Now,
Speaker 2: the lineup around him isn't amazing. He's scored twelve runs
Speaker 2: in forty one games, but I still think that he
Speaker 2: is a.
Speaker 3: Really good asset.
Speaker 2: Can he be a top ten first baseman to this
Speaker 2: point of the season, he's fifteenth. I could see him
Speaker 2: getting there because some guys in the top ten, you know,
Speaker 2: Wilmer Flores, I don't know if he's gonna stick around.
Speaker 2: Soderstrom may or may not stick in that top ten.
Speaker 2: I could see it with Hoskins. I could definitely see
Speaker 2: a top twelve for sure. Like a worthy of rostering
Speaker 2: in all twelve team leagues.
Speaker 1: I think I think so too. It looks like vintage
Speaker 1: Reees Hoskins, which is a really important thing on a
Speaker 1: really good offensive side. So I'm with that, and I
Speaker 1: think I would take Hoskins over Vinnie right now as well.
Speaker 1: Also a guy that you know, we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of questions for and is it real, It's a version
Speaker 1: of real Kyle Stowers two homers yesterday two for four,
Speaker 1: just continues to hit at the top of the lineup
Speaker 1: and be really good. There's probably some great questions out here.
Speaker 1: You guys could ask, I'm out there this one, do
Speaker 1: you just real quick? And then we got to keep
Speaker 1: burning Kyle Stowers or Jason Dominguez rest of season.
Speaker 2: I probably still have to go with Domingez. I think
Speaker 2: my gut would have to go that way.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Statistically, Stowers has been really good. Domingoz hasn't been terrible, though,
Speaker 2: Like Jason di Minguez to this point of the season
Speaker 2: has a one sixteen WRC plus two forty batting average,
Speaker 2: five homers, three seals, like, it hasn't been that terrible.
Speaker 2: I know that three homer games certainly helped the overall line,
Speaker 2: but I think I just trust him more in that
Speaker 2: ballpark with that lineup around him than I do Stours.
Speaker 1: That's how it works.
Speaker 2: But all all right, one last thing I was going
Speaker 2: to say, like, how bad does that trade look? How
Speaker 2: bad does that Stowers and Norby trade look?
Speaker 3: Right now? For Trevor Rodgers, Oh my god, awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trevor Rodgers is the literal nothing. I got me answer.
Speaker 1: I was a dimingaz guy. I actually might go with
Speaker 1: Stours because of that profile, and I love Jason Dimingez,
Speaker 1: but Stowers just continues to hit and is going to
Speaker 1: be in a prominent part of the lineup. On the downs,
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola absolutely obliterated nine runs twelve hits in three
Speaker 1: and three thirds or three and one thirds against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And on the other side, Center Grade wasn't much better.
Speaker 1: He gave up seven runs in three and two thirds,
Speaker 1: both of them Ba luch and I mentioned Simon Woods Richardson.
Speaker 1: He was hit up for six runs by the Orioles
Speaker 1: and then sent down. He gone on some injuries real quick.
Speaker 1: Roki Sizaki told reporters Wednesday that he pitched through shoulder
Speaker 1: discomfort during his last few starts. Something similar is to
Speaker 1: Japan the biggest and baddest piece of the news. There's
Speaker 1: no real timeline right now of what this is going
Speaker 1: to look like, how long this is going to take.
Speaker 1: There's also rumors of as this gets better, they might
Speaker 1: kind of rework his his like releae. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's like his release point or his delivery. This
Speaker 1: could be months. I'm not saying it is because we
Speaker 1: just don't know. Because no one's giving us information, but
Speaker 1: I'm also telling you it might be a month and
Speaker 1: we might not see him until June. Between the injury
Speaker 1: and some of the reworking. Is Roki Sazaki a drop
Speaker 1: in fantasy for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? He is.
Speaker 2: And it's brutal because I know I was pretty aggressive
Speaker 2: on him in the preseason. You guys are right, you,
Speaker 2: Kelly Welsh, mayor who everybody was right.
Speaker 3: I was wrong.
Speaker 2: I ranked him too high, and I'm taking that L
Speaker 2: big time, taking that L. I think if you have
Speaker 2: unlimited il space, sure hold them. But most people are
Speaker 2: dealing with three or four spots. I think we're pro
Speaker 2: probably all filled up for most of our leagues at
Speaker 2: this point. We're probably filled up in the first week
Speaker 2: of April. I don't think you can afford to hold
Speaker 2: them in most cases.
Speaker 1: Stay it one more time.
Speaker 3: Christopher Welsh was right and Joe Rico was wrong.
Speaker 1: Man, it feels good. It'd been much better if that
Speaker 1: was coming from piece of PF. But oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel pretty good. Other injuries could tell. Marte, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: was removed from the game. He had some hip tightness.
Speaker 1: He says he plans to play Friday just to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on it. Blake Snell resumed throwing on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: so there's a good piece of Dodger news. I suppose
Speaker 1: Josh Lowe went two for four with a solo homer
Speaker 1: on Wednesday and a minor league rehab assignment in TRIPA A.
Speaker 1: He should be coming back very very soon, so make
Speaker 1: sure that you get that right. Red Sox placed ten
Speaker 1: Or Hawk on the fifteen day il with being a
Speaker 1: horrible pitcher. I don't even know what the injury is,
Speaker 1: just right flex Or giving up homers and all the
Speaker 1: runs he sucks. Red Sox manager Alex cor also had
Speaker 1: mentioned that Walker Bueler is likely to return Tuesday, so
Speaker 1: that'll be the guy to take that spot. Parker Medow
Speaker 1: said Wednesday is getting close to a minor league rehab assignment.
Speaker 1: If you guys want to, you know, start picking up,
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Speaker 1: of the listener questions here, but first let's talk about
Speaker 1: our best bets of the day. There you go, We
Speaker 1: got some bets for the day. Here, let's jump into them, Joe,
Speaker 1: I will let you kick it off. What are your
Speaker 1: bets on a weird slate today? Because there's like early
Speaker 1: games that are literally going to start in two minutes.
Speaker 1: There's a couple afternoon ones. I tried to keep rolling
Speaker 1: with the afternoon but did the best I can. What
Speaker 1: do you got?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to be as good as I
Speaker 2: could to the listeners, especially those who will listen on
Speaker 2: the podcast side, because a lot of the games are
Speaker 2: starting like literally right now, so there's only three games
Speaker 2: this evening. Tried to target those ones. First off, Jacob
Speaker 2: de Gram over six and a half strikeouts. He just
Speaker 2: put up ten in five innings in his last outing.
Speaker 2: Really seems to be figuring things out. And you're getting
Speaker 2: him at plus money for over six and a half strikeers.
Speaker 2: I feel like this maybe the last time we're seeing
Speaker 2: a strikeout total for deGrom this low, especially if he
Speaker 2: keeps up what we saw in his last outing. Also
Speaker 2: in that game, Texas and Houston under seven total runs.
Speaker 2: Its de Gram and Hunter Brown. It is one of
Speaker 2: the best pitching matchups we've seen so far this year,
Speaker 2: and I do think they are going to keep it
Speaker 2: a low scoring game. Two to one, three to two,
Speaker 2: something like that, also at plus money. And then Kevin
Speaker 2: Gosman over five and a half strikeouts.
Speaker 3: He's had a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of an up and down season, but overall it's
Speaker 2: been pretty solid against Tampa. I know this one's a
Speaker 2: little bit juiced the other two or plus money. This
Speaker 2: one is the more favorite bet, but over five and
Speaker 2: a half strikeouts feels very doable for mister Kevin Gosman
Speaker 2: against Tampa.
Speaker 1: I like those k props. I'm going to go with
Speaker 1: Sigano Sagano over I think this is an early one
Speaker 1: over three and a half strikeouts. He has hit this
Speaker 1: in both of his last two starts. I think three
Speaker 1: of his last four he has at least had four
Speaker 1: strikeouts going up against the Twins. They are middle of
Speaker 1: the pack as far as strikeouts go. It's a very
Speaker 1: obtainable number. We did this with Jose Soriano the other day.
Speaker 1: Anytime a guy sits in that five K market and
Speaker 1: they are, you know, right around four, I'm going to
Speaker 1: probably jump on it. First five money line, my friends,
Speaker 1: I'm taking that at plus one ten. You did mention
Speaker 1: Jacob de Grom, but Hunter Brown is on the other side.
Speaker 1: It's heavy, heavy plus money for Hunter Brown, who has
Speaker 1: been one of the best pitchers in baseball. Also, the
Speaker 1: Rangers offense has just been kind of muted. You've got
Speaker 1: no Corey Seeger. You just got things that are jacked up.
Speaker 1: So I really like the idea, especially give it getting
Speaker 1: plus money odds that the Houston Astros can put a
Speaker 1: run up. And if we don't and this game is
Speaker 1: just ridiculous and it's tied up, we're pushing here. So
Speaker 1: Houston first five money line is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: this week. And then Tyler Sodostrom over one and a
Speaker 1: half total bases that is a plus money play. They're
Speaker 1: going up against Matt Yeah sour former Royal and think
Speaker 1: Yankee as well. I love Soda Strom, you know extra
Speaker 1: base hits last night. It's a great ballpark as far
Speaker 1: as right and headed hitters go. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: go with Soda Strum on the total basis over those
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Speaker 1: Let's hit the home run board and then we will
Speaker 1: just a couple extra questions. Whenever I host the show
Speaker 1: we go later I apologize. I know you guys don't
Speaker 1: really care the home run board. Wonkey Penguin is on
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Speaker 1: at five overall with sixteen homers, so not too shabby.
Speaker 1: Marty at the top with nineteen, George with nineteen, far
Speaker 1: Out with eighteen, Razor at seventeen, and then Wonky's got
Speaker 1: that five spot. I'm still on the left side of
Speaker 1: the board at eight with fifteen. No Joe Piezapia yet,
Speaker 1: but it's got Aaron Judge yesterday and today, so he
Speaker 1: might be coming. So make sure those guys at the
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Speaker 1: your home run call today, mister jo Rico.
Speaker 2: I really need some help because I was at a
Speaker 2: commission for a while and I didn't make my pick,
Speaker 2: so I need to catch up. I'm going with Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: who's actually been really good this season. I know that
Speaker 2: there was a lot of talk before the year about
Speaker 2: how he's lost one hundred and fifty pounds and he's
Speaker 2: going all this stuff going on. He's been really good,
Speaker 2: and I think against Beato tonight he can take one out.
Speaker 3: So I'm going Mookie Bets.
Speaker 2: I think it was plus five to fifty plus five
Speaker 2: hundred plus five fifty.
Speaker 1: Really, that's very great fricking number. Actually, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Tyler Soderstrom. I'm gonna I'm gonna jump in with
Speaker 1: that is actually plus four forty right now. Again right
Speaker 1: handed hitters in that ballpark. It's I was pntented on
Speaker 1: Brent Rooker, but Tyler Soderstrom is on a thing right now.
Speaker 1: He's getting it back, extra base hits, homers, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna go with the total bases and the homers. Here
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Speaker 1: check that out today. A couple last quick questions because
Speaker 1: we had a multitude of people that were using bits. Again,
Speaker 1: it's it is simmy like a feature of super chats
Speaker 1: on YouTube where you guys can I don't know why
Speaker 1: they call them bits, but you know, there's lots of
Speaker 1: different stuff you can do. I am going to just
Speaker 1: say them or producer Cali if you're able to bring
Speaker 1: them up, great because they're not highlighted on our platform
Speaker 1: we used to stream, but I can see it on Twitch.
Speaker 1: So a couple of the people that used some of
Speaker 1: these bits, I want to make sure to get to
Speaker 1: their question. One was game game Ova Tani and Buckston
Speaker 1: for Julio, Riley, Naylor and Scooble ten team roto Wow.
Speaker 1: So they get Scooble, Julioreilly Naylor, you trade away essentially Otani.
Speaker 1: Who even cares about Buxton? You doing that move?
Speaker 3: Sorry, I need to hear that one more time.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of okay Otani and Bucks and
Speaker 2: for Julio, Austin, Riley Naylor and Scooball that is a
Speaker 2: haul team.
Speaker 1: You want the best players, but holy crap, you have
Speaker 1: to imagine Julio'reilly Naylor and scoobol are all taking over
Speaker 1: one hundred percent like lower assets.
Speaker 2: I think I think I would do it, as much
Speaker 2: as I would hate to trade O'TAWNI, I think I
Speaker 2: would do that.
Speaker 3: That's enough for me.
Speaker 1: Thank I might too. AVM said, hey, well, speaking of
Speaker 1: barrel rate, Adolas Garcia's barrel rate is fifteen point seven,
Speaker 1: but batting two twenty nine. Is he a hold in
Speaker 1: the hopes of a good season or is this the
Speaker 1: version of Adulas we will see rest of season? I
Speaker 1: think is barrel is not one hundred percent correlative of
Speaker 1: course to like batting average, you're looking for the pieces
Speaker 1: to come together. You're looking for barrel rate. To go
Speaker 1: with hard hit, you're looking for lower strikeouts. His strikeouts
Speaker 1: are a problem. I think Adoles is a two forty hitter.
Speaker 1: I've always kind of thought that, so I think there's
Speaker 1: a tiny I think he's going to I think a
Speaker 1: lot of these Rangers are still going to bounce back.
Speaker 1: But I can only say that for so long. I
Speaker 1: think he might be someone too potentially go pick up.
Speaker 1: Right now, Lucias, I sent an offer of Domingas and
Speaker 1: Schwellenbach for Langford. Do you think that's a good deal
Speaker 1: on my end, if.
Speaker 2: Accepted Domingez and Schwellenbach for Langford, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Would do that.
Speaker 2: I think Schwellenbach is gonna be okay. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: he's had a little bit of a rough go, but
Speaker 2: the numbers are still solid. He's just not striking guys out,
Speaker 2: which is kind of weird. But I think that is
Speaker 2: a worthy trade for Langford.
Speaker 1: I think so too. I think that would potentially work.
Speaker 1: And by the way, someone let us know that josh
Speaker 1: Lo was just activated, so bam activated.
Speaker 3: He's there.
Speaker 1: Extra long show because I'm hosting, because that's how it
Speaker 1: always goes. We got lots to say and we want
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