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Speaker 1: Studio thirty four. This is the BFFs Mike's working for
Speaker 1: now alongside Frankie Stamfill. I am Greg Sousman. It's been
Speaker 1: a wild morning for both Frank and myself. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a wild night as well, if we can survive it. Frank,
Speaker 1: at least you have off tomorrow. What's up man? Not much? Gregg?
Speaker 1: You Happy Thursday to you? Is this thing on Mike
Speaker 1: is working? So far? Greg? We're we're doing it right here.
Speaker 1: I thought the intro was about as elevant as ever
Speaker 1: little New York Knicks nineties intro. There, of course, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's a big day. It's a big draft night. But
Speaker 1: of course we got some fantasy baseball action as well. Grady, Happy,
Speaker 1: Zach Gallon day. How are you doing? But how did
Speaker 1: you sleep last night? I slept fantastically and then I
Speaker 1: woke up, and then you woke up. So then I
Speaker 1: woke up to a coup of emails and you know,
Speaker 1: you just get the bad email, just put you in
Speaker 1: a bad mood to start. Oh yeah, right, So I
Speaker 1: got that, and I wasn't happy leaving, and Junie's like,
Speaker 1: Listen's gonna go up from here, like good vibes, Frank,
Speaker 1: they went significantly downhill. I immediately went to Dwayne Read
Speaker 1: to pick up a prescription which I renewed on Monday.
Speaker 1: They didn't have it because my doctor says, you gotta
Speaker 1: come by and go. Well, you told me I don't
Speaker 1: have to visit you anymore. You just gonna keep renewing
Speaker 1: my prescription, So well you gotta come once. A year
Speaker 1: ago you told me told me don't do that, And
Speaker 1: he's like, well, it's only if your physician will just
Speaker 1: okay your prescription. They go, It's it's just gallant medication.
Speaker 1: This is what we're talking about. So that that happened,
Speaker 1: then we got some more emails, uh, some more calls
Speaker 1: and texts. It's one of those days, man, Is it
Speaker 1: also one of those days because you were a blake
Speaker 1: snow owner? I mean, on top of everything else, I
Speaker 1: just had to remind you, Greg, So the good news
Speaker 1: about that. It actually it really brought me back two
Speaker 1: two thousand man. I wrote this down but not out
Speaker 1: in front of me. I believe it was two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve and two thousand and eleven or two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve. I distinctly remember it. I was at an
Speaker 1: Appleby's with my friends and are all in my league, right,
Speaker 1: and I was always the bummy owner and Madison Bubba
Speaker 1: Gardner that night in on almost a year of the
Speaker 1: day that happened in June nineteenth. Blakes now one tenth
Speaker 1: of an inning, six runs, no strikeouts, a brutal, brutal night,
Speaker 1: almost eight years to the day, June one. I believe
Speaker 1: it was two thousand eleven, Madison Bubba Garner went one
Speaker 1: tenth of an inning for the San Francisco Giants and
Speaker 1: allowed nine runs on my fantasy team, and it reminded
Speaker 1: me of that exact moment how I felt like, I
Speaker 1: felt like the world is over that time. Now like
Speaker 1: I understand, I'm a better fantasy player. I understand it
Speaker 1: a bit more, and like, all right, you know what,
Speaker 1: next week, it doesn't matter because the weekly league and
Speaker 1: the stats go away. It's not like a rotal league.
Speaker 1: It would have been a disaster, but given that it's
Speaker 1: just a weekly daily transaction league. Have the day for
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve. It is June two thousand and eleven,
Speaker 1: one third of an ending nine hits, eight earned runs,
Speaker 1: one strike out. Pretty good, so I remembered it so vividly.
Speaker 1: So yesterday Blake Snow does this thing and I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, So I lost the r A this week,
Speaker 1: I lost whip this week, but like, there's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of other categories I can win. So thanks to
Speaker 1: my hitters Domingo Santana and Wilson Contreras each hitting two
Speaker 1: home runs. It's a we have fourteen categories in our
Speaker 1: league of down seven six, No big deal. I'll try
Speaker 1: to go over the county categories. Now gets strike cows,
Speaker 1: maybe yets, winds, and quality starts. You're trying to quantity
Speaker 1: greater sign quality in this case. So I got over
Speaker 1: that one really quickly. Greg. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: will actually make you feel better, but probably not. In
Speaker 1: that start, Madison Bone Gardens was to sixteen. His X
Speaker 1: fit was four point five six. So you played the
Speaker 1: next FI League. There you go. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you it's I think it's a huge topic of conversation
Speaker 1: today when it comes to Blakes Now. I put out
Speaker 1: the poll before the show as a Blake Snell owner,
Speaker 1: How do you feel about him right now? I said
Speaker 1: it yesterday before the show. I'd rather Jacob Deground than
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. Yeah, does not look good for me right now.
Speaker 1: I will own up to that. And this is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about, like calling ourselves and holding ourselves accountable.
Speaker 1: Not the best take yesterday you over Jacob not the
Speaker 1: not the best take. So I don't want to say
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm nervous about a bow Blakes now because
Speaker 1: I'm not nervous. He's not the guy that we saw
Speaker 1: last year. I think that's very evident. Um, all my
Speaker 1: pictures got bombed yesterday be honestly, like Lucas g Leo
Speaker 1: had as. We're starting two months right. I'll talk about
Speaker 1: him later on too, definitely, but Blake Snail's ear a
Speaker 1: jumps into the four's now. It was a really bad start.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that I am extremely concerned,
Speaker 1: because I'm not. But I don't feel like he's my
Speaker 1: bona fide e's Like, he's not top five picture as
Speaker 1: he said he was yesterday in baseball at this point
Speaker 1: in fantasy baseball. At this point, I don't think he
Speaker 1: is easy a top ten starting pitcher in fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: More so, let me to say top twelve because it's
Speaker 1: twelve league. He's still top ten, Okay, he's maybe. I
Speaker 1: was thinking off the top of my head top five
Speaker 1: pictures right now. Obviously suzer Verlander. I put Garrit Cole
Speaker 1: ahead of Ye, and then probably Jacob deGrom. Definitely Jacob
Speaker 1: deg that's five without question, five or they're five more
Speaker 1: I can pull. I could pull up some of the
Speaker 1: other ones. I'm sure we can think of some names here.
Speaker 1: But you know I told you this before the show.
Speaker 1: I thought it is a really really interesting stat right
Speaker 1: per stats, LLC Snell is the first reigning Cy Young
Speaker 1: Award winner in MLB history to about to start, during
Speaker 1: which he allowed six or more earned runs and recorded
Speaker 1: no more than one out. Greg And look, there was
Speaker 1: no way he's going to live up to a one
Speaker 1: point eight nine e r A again last season. And
Speaker 1: we kind of spoke about that similarly with Jacob Degram.
Speaker 1: Jacob Degraam had you know he was the National League
Speaker 1: version of Blake Snell. He had a historic season. Now,
Speaker 1: so I had a couple more pitchers I wanted to
Speaker 1: throw out a let me. I'd rather have Blakes Now,
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton, SNeW Zack Grinky, Snell, Louise Castia, Snell, Walker Bueller,
Speaker 1: who's been amazing recently. Yeah, that's a little bit closer.
Speaker 1: We used to hate. That was fun. That's really close.
Speaker 1: But I would I would give Snell the edge, Snell
Speaker 1: than Snells number six for you, Okay, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: Steven Strossberg. I mean he's struggled recently as well. I
Speaker 1: still do like Steven Strossberg. He's probably inside that top twelve,
Speaker 1: but he's not higher than Blakes Now. David Price, No, no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: Patrick Corbyn, No, he's a struggled recently. No, no, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean a bounced back performance, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that as well. But here are the reasons why, right
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna keep telling you why, I'm not
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you Blake Snell is really good and
Speaker 1: why you should trust him and potentially by him right
Speaker 1: now if you can without giving you reasons why. If
Speaker 1: you look at the skills, the underlying skills for Blake's
Speaker 1: now the three things that I look at and I
Speaker 1: tell you guys about a lot here on the show.
Speaker 1: Swinging strike rate, ability to generate strikeouts, ability to get
Speaker 1: opposing batters to chase pitches outside the strike zone that's
Speaker 1: oh swing percentage, and then first pitch strike percentage, getting
Speaker 1: ahead in the count when it comes to Blake's now
Speaker 1: he is up in all three of those categories this season,
Speaker 1: up from last year, which was his historic cy young season.
Speaker 1: His swinging strike rate this year is still number one
Speaker 1: among starting pitchers. It's eighteen percent. That's up to repersent
Speaker 1: this year. His first pitch strike percentage last year fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent that was below league average. This year it's
Speaker 1: up to sixty six point eight percent, almost ten percentage
Speaker 1: points and his chase rate thirty six point eight percent,
Speaker 1: so he's getting opposing batters to swing and miss at
Speaker 1: pitches outside the strike zone. Even more, he's been a
Speaker 1: little bit unlucky in terms of the strand rate. He's
Speaker 1: at a sixty strand rate. Normally I would say nice,
Speaker 1: but that's not nice because it's below league average. Last
Speaker 1: year that was at eight percent, and he kept it
Speaker 1: up for an entire season. That's why it's historic. He
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be able to do that again last season,
Speaker 1: a to forty one babit. A lot of people pointed
Speaker 1: to that heading into this season. There's no way he's
Speaker 1: going to be able to maintain a two forty one
Speaker 1: babbit again. That's why it was a historic season. But
Speaker 1: last year his hard hit rate was thirty five point
Speaker 1: seven percent. This year it's thirty one point seven percent.
Speaker 1: All things point to Blake Snell the underlying numbers actually
Speaker 1: being better this season than they were last season. Last season,
Speaker 1: the average eleven case per nine this year it's twelve
Speaker 1: case per nine. The walks are still there. He's giving
Speaker 1: up more home runs, he's giving up more hits. The
Speaker 1: strand rate is down. I can't defend what he's done.
Speaker 1: It's like three of his last four stars, he's been
Speaker 1: really bad. His earra is at four point four zero
Speaker 1: whip at one point to four intense starts. Since returning
Speaker 1: from his injury, he's got a five point five one earray.
Speaker 1: So he hasn't been good over his last ten stars.
Speaker 1: I mean, yesterday factors into that a lot, but during
Speaker 1: that span, a three point for eight exfit. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just there's a lot of numbers that support that
Speaker 1: he's actually a better pitcher this season than he was
Speaker 1: last year. Everything just broke right for Blake Snell last season.
Speaker 1: And if anybody's freaking out because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people are freaking out about Blake Snell right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: I would be trying to buy him, I think. But
Speaker 1: as an owner, you're holding correct, I'm not gonna sell
Speaker 1: him low. Like what's the offer, right like? If you
Speaker 1: want he? Like, how about all those names that you
Speaker 1: just throwing that I was gonna bring at you if
Speaker 1: you offered me right now, like Patrick Corban for Blake Snell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something I have I have to consider and I
Speaker 1: have to look into it deeply. Yeah, I wouldn't. I know,
Speaker 1: you don't like Corbyn. I know that if you offered
Speaker 1: me Stephen Strasburg for Snell, I would say no, given
Speaker 1: all the injury history with Strasburg, at least Corbyn's past
Speaker 1: that I believe in his career. You offered me Knjen
Speaker 1: Ryu and Charlie Morton not doing that either, So I
Speaker 1: guess my general answer is no. Save with David Price,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that either. Any of the guys are
Speaker 1: in that top. If someone offers you Walker Bueler, that's
Speaker 1: the little bit closer. That's the closest. That's the closest.
Speaker 1: That's the closest for sure. Remember the slow start that
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller got off to, and we spoke about this
Speaker 1: almost every day in conjunction with Chris Sale. It was
Speaker 1: so similar. These guys didn't have spring trainings. And now
Speaker 1: look at where they're at. Walker Bueller on the season, remember,
Speaker 1: I mean he was got awful earlier on in the year.
Speaker 1: Now on June twenty three, point zero six year a
Speaker 1: zero point nine to whip Walker Bueler has been amazing.
Speaker 1: He's got eighty four strikeouts in eighty two and a
Speaker 1: third and he's pitched so I like, I don't know
Speaker 1: that his upside is as high as a Blake Snell.
Speaker 1: Maybe in the whip department, like the whip could one
Speaker 1: be better than Blake Snell. But I think when everything
Speaker 1: is going right for Blake Snell, there's gonna be more
Speaker 1: strikeouts there. The ear a probably comparable, so it probably
Speaker 1: you know, if you're splitting hairs, it comes down to
Speaker 1: what you want more. But I think Blake Snell does
Speaker 1: have more strikeout upside than one Walker built. We mentioned
Speaker 1: Patrick Corman and you talked about his bounce back store.
Speaker 1: He was someone that I think is kind of in
Speaker 1: this mix. I think he's a top ten pitcher at
Speaker 1: this point in Fantasy Baseball. He had a nice top
Speaker 1: ten grade. I think he is. Yeah, Well, why do
Speaker 1: you feel that way? Think he's really good? I think
Speaker 1: you just irrationally don't like him. But I mean he
Speaker 1: he hasn't he's gone through like a five six star
Speaker 1: stretch now where he's been it was really it was
Speaker 1: really a three start stretch, And I'm sure isn't his
Speaker 1: isn't him who? His splits are like really bad. He's
Speaker 1: really good at home, bad on the road. So they're
Speaker 1: kind of like devalues your trust him hone ear a
Speaker 1: two point one seven A five point nine one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's probably he's more of like a top twenty picture
Speaker 1: for me, which is where he was being drafted. You
Speaker 1: don't like him, it's fine, but I think it's warranted
Speaker 1: based on what he's done recently. Fine last night against
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seven eight things, one run, ball, four hits, he
Speaker 1: struck out eight in the outing. He wound up walking three.
Speaker 1: Zach Eflin yesterday afternoon it was Evelyn versus Corbyn. Evelyn
Speaker 1: worked his way in and out of trouble. Ninety pitches.
Speaker 1: Uh did walk three out of five hits to earn
Speaker 1: runs three total, struck out seven though, solid outing from Efflyn,
Speaker 1: Who's we're all waiting to come back down to earth.
Speaker 1: We talking about Zach Efflyn a lot on Tuesday during
Speaker 1: our trade show, Frank, the ear A for Evelyn still
Speaker 1: sits at two point eight three. Yeah. First, I'll start
Speaker 1: off with Patrick Corbyn. Yesterday was a really nice bounce
Speaker 1: back for him. I think that's something that you needed
Speaker 1: to see that gets the r A down to three
Speaker 1: point nine zero. That's why just saying that, getting his
Speaker 1: ear A down to three point nine zero. That's why
Speaker 1: I don't put him in like that top ten, top
Speaker 1: twelve conversation. But seven ending's pitched one or run eight
Speaker 1: strikeouts against a really good Phillies lineup. He had eighteen
Speaker 1: swinging strikes yesterday. Yesterday was also the best at his
Speaker 1: slider has looked for a long time. And we spoke
Speaker 1: about that recently as well, Greg. Where if Patrick Corban
Speaker 1: doesn't have the slider working, I mean, that's his bread
Speaker 1: and butter. He's got everything plays off of his slider.
Speaker 1: He's got to have the slider working. He had eleven
Speaker 1: swinging strikes on his slider and basically throughout this last
Speaker 1: five start stretch, this was the best at his slider
Speaker 1: has looked. And that's something that he he needs, he
Speaker 1: needs in order to uh to pay off his value.
Speaker 1: But when I look at his numbers, you look at
Speaker 1: his past four seasons, right three point nine zero e
Speaker 1: r A three point nine five x FIT three point
Speaker 1: one five era A last year two point six one
Speaker 1: x FIT four point zero three r A back in
Speaker 1: three point eight nine x fit and in sixteen A
Speaker 1: five point one five e r A four point two
Speaker 1: three x fit. One of these things is not like
Speaker 1: the other that's is it possible that is just an
Speaker 1: outlier season for Patrick Corbin because the underlying numbers for
Speaker 1: him don't suggest that he's going to get that much
Speaker 1: better than the three point nine zero era that he
Speaker 1: has right now. I think that last year was the
Speaker 1: career year at the right time for Patrick Corban. It's
Speaker 1: funny how these contract years always are the creer years.
Speaker 1: So so so I think it is I think that
Speaker 1: three point one five he's probably not match double again.
Speaker 1: But going back, I think it is like also an outlier,
Speaker 1: like the five point one five ear a seems like
Speaker 1: way higher. That's probably true, but look at his career
Speaker 1: ear are career at three point nine one, exactly where
Speaker 1: he is, Like that might be the picture who he is.
Speaker 1: I think he's gotten a little bit better. Like I
Speaker 1: I think if you ask me right now, will he
Speaker 1: finished the season Bubba below the three point nine one
Speaker 1: that he's currently at or three point nine whenever I
Speaker 1: would take the under? I probably agree with you, but
Speaker 1: like slightly, like if we set the line at three
Speaker 1: point seven five, Greg, would you take the under for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season or over? So I think
Speaker 1: that's a good number. I think that's a better number
Speaker 1: than three point nine. I don't think I would take
Speaker 1: the slightly under. I'll take the over. Okay, are you
Speaker 1: being on that there right? All right? Reggy's under three
Speaker 1: point seven five from here on out or by end
Speaker 1: of season and the season? Okay? Well great ra at
Speaker 1: three point nine? Yeah, I mean yeah, so under the
Speaker 1: after the season, where will we be with Patrick Corbyn
Speaker 1: Frank on the other side, Zach Eflyn, would you think
Speaker 1: of his performance? Yeah? I mean, look, Eflyn another one
Speaker 1: putting it right in my eye because I spoke about
Speaker 1: it the other day as a Cell High candidate. Reminds
Speaker 1: me a little bit of Jake Junas from last year.
Speaker 1: He is though, because I'm sorry him. I did we
Speaker 1: we own him together? True? Yeah, we do own him
Speaker 1: on a team together. So the thing was, Zach Eflin,
Speaker 1: he had just five hits yesterday. You're like, all right,
Speaker 1: but all five hits went for extra bass, Like, all
Speaker 1: five hits were hit pretty hard. It wasn't like dnking
Speaker 1: and dunking against zach Eflyn. He walked three. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: he worked in and out of trouble yesterday all throughout
Speaker 1: the day against Washington and there does needs to be
Speaker 1: given credit when you are able to work out of jams.
Speaker 1: No doubt the strike it was working for Zach Evelyn.
Speaker 1: I think he's fine. I think is he a guy
Speaker 1: with a two point three r A that you can
Speaker 1: trust to be close to there the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, So you expect that, don't. But I think
Speaker 1: Zach Evelyn's, you know, a number four or five starters.
Speaker 1: Strikeouts have just been a lot better in the Let's
Speaker 1: really give him credit for that. The walks have also
Speaker 1: been up to so it's max him and take Walter break.
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Speaker 1: Just really excited to welcome into a new era of
Speaker 1: of of young players in the league. Superstars will talk about,
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Speaker 1: very excited, Greggy, be fun night. Let's go next. We're
Speaker 1: gonna mess this one up. Greg. You know this is
Speaker 1: our first draft. We are we're watching together. Ever, that
Speaker 1: is true, most most of the drafts actually fall on
Speaker 1: my fiance's birthday because her birthday is June twenty two.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not here tomorrow. Actually, hopefully I can
Speaker 1: get Florio here with you, so you're not alone, Luria.
Speaker 1: Floria did tell me he to be here, all right,
Speaker 1: So there you got Floria. Tomorrow. I will not be here.
Speaker 1: It's because I'm taking her out and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to the Yankee game. God willing, assuming the weathers are right.
Speaker 1: It's like rained every day this week. It's disgusting. It's
Speaker 1: so humid in New York. I hate it. Not that
Speaker 1: Judy knows this yet because I haven't asked her. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a chance I go to the Yankee an tomorrow, alright,
Speaker 1: hit me up, I will. I think it's Peacock against
Speaker 1: to Nacka. I thought it was Paxison's Paxiston, all right,
Speaker 1: I mean either way, I haven't seen Paxson yet in
Speaker 1: the Yankee uniforms. Could be wrong, I'd be I'd be
Speaker 1: cool with that. It packs we could potentially see Judge
Speaker 1: Stanton and you're don Avaree all in the same field together.
Speaker 1: Awesome si. Um So, there's a chance I haven't asked
Speaker 1: her about if she wants to go do it. We
Speaker 1: have a wedding next day, um so maybe we'll also
Speaker 1: July twelve, I'll throw this out there. It is Captain
Speaker 1: America Marianna rivera bobble head day to Mariano dressed up
Speaker 1: as Captain America. Tickets are already like the cheapest tickets,
Speaker 1: like forty bucks. People get so crazy about these babble
Speaker 1: My mom is gonna be inn so I will not
Speaker 1: be able to make that. Sorry, I really want to go,
Speaker 1: but prices kind of driving me off here, Greg tay
Speaker 1: us first Tomorrow aren't bad, They're just like fine nice.
Speaker 1: I actually bought him a couple of weeks ago because
Speaker 1: I felt like the impending return of Judge. Yeah, Skyro
Speaker 1: is the only last night, and it's Yankees astros too,
Speaker 1: so I thought they would have been higher. I think
Speaker 1: I paid like twenty eight pecty um, Okay, let me
Speaker 1: get to Lucas Giolito now, Frank, because we're always not
Speaker 1: waiting for the clock to straight midnight here because all
Speaker 1: the signs are very very real. But I thenk we
Speaker 1: were kind of waiting for a little blow of outing
Speaker 1: Lucas g Leater. That's what happened last night. He went
Speaker 1: have four in the third, alout seven, hit six runs,
Speaker 1: walk three, did strike out nine, But it was the
Speaker 1: home run that was the buggaboo for him last night,
Speaker 1: specifically from Wilson and Charis. Charis hit the a grand
Speaker 1: slam in the first inning, followed out with the solo
Speaker 1: shot in the third, and then David Body knocked him
Speaker 1: out with one and the fourth. That make you feel
Speaker 1: better than it was all home runs against Ladas Gilna
Speaker 1: not necessarily. I'm not really holding this against was flying
Speaker 1: out of really last night because there are a ton
Speaker 1: of runs by both teams. Like his last eleven starts,
Speaker 1: he was nine and oh with at one point six
Speaker 1: seven e r A. I mean this was the first
Speaker 1: lost for Lucas Elito since April six on the season,
Speaker 1: so I think he was kind of due for a clunker.
Speaker 1: I know we've been spoiled by him to this point,
Speaker 1: and again we're all I don't want to speak for
Speaker 1: everybody out there, but I'm excited for Lucas Clito, a
Speaker 1: guy who has been talked up as this top pitching
Speaker 1: prospect for so many years, and it seems like he
Speaker 1: was kind of being written off. And in this year,
Speaker 1: you know, changes up to mechanics a little bit. That fastball,
Speaker 1: changeup combination looks awesome for him. And I think it
Speaker 1: was just, you know, he was due for a clunker
Speaker 1: here and the Cubs are a really good lineup. With
Speaker 1: that being said, I mean, as bad as he pitched,
Speaker 1: he still had nine strikeouts and eighteen swinging strikes against
Speaker 1: a really, really good clubs lineup. Greg, did you watch
Speaker 1: the home runs that Wilson has hit off of him
Speaker 1: because he was really pimping his home runs. I thought
Speaker 1: for sure he was getting later on in the game,
Speaker 1: Like he's rolling around the basis, he's like pointing to everyone,
Speaker 1: He's like taking his time, he's strutting around there. I
Speaker 1: thought for sure he was gonna get plunk. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to Gelito, I think, especially given the way
Speaker 1: that the pitching landscape has gone this year and the
Speaker 1: way that the ball is flying out, and we know
Speaker 1: when it comes to Wrigley the nights where the wind
Speaker 1: is blowing out, you can be prone to giving up
Speaker 1: home runs. I kind of give him a pass for
Speaker 1: this one. Greg, Like I said, the home runs were
Speaker 1: flying out of Wrigley Field last night, with the team's
Speaker 1: combining four five home runs on the evening. They had
Speaker 1: counted actually for almost all of the runs scored in
Speaker 1: the game. The only run it didn't count come on
Speaker 1: our home runs of Kyle Shoreberg double in the bottom
Speaker 1: of the eighth inning. So I'll give it past as well.
Speaker 1: What about Horbor by the way, Man, he's been really
Speaker 1: really good recently. Oh Man, we went past the Nationals.
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention Wan Soto has been incredible recently.
Speaker 1: And years with dam of Victor Robeless. I wanted to
Speaker 1: give a chance to kind of opine on that, and
Speaker 1: we went past the Nationals. But I mean, we can
Speaker 1: work our way backwards. You want to start with Schreber
Speaker 1: and kind of let me, let me get to Shoreber.
Speaker 1: We had Lester also because Lester last night, We've been waiting.
Speaker 1: He's been really really struggling as of late. And last
Speaker 1: night five and two thirds, seven innings, three runs, a
Speaker 1: lot of two home runs, struck at six for those
Speaker 1: in qualities starts leagues. It was very annoying. Believe me,
Speaker 1: what are you doing with Lester? You own him. I
Speaker 1: don't want him anywhere obviously, I know what I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and he's got a four point one three
Speaker 1: e r ray, what am I supposed to do? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you can have for the right picture that
Speaker 1: comes around. Yeah, I would do that. I would make
Speaker 1: that move. I don't know. I think pigeon is so
Speaker 1: hard to come by though, Like Zach Gallant's an answer, right,
Speaker 1: but all the other guys that we mentioned, Yes, like
Speaker 1: we're talking about Zack Gallant and we love the talent.
Speaker 1: But again, like I want to preface this and remind everyone.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone knows the answer to this. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's going to be up like long term, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't know that for sure to be true when
Speaker 1: it comes to gown Like, I'm very excited for him.
Speaker 1: Fantasy owners are excited for him, and they should be.
Speaker 1: The guy has we We read you all the numbers
Speaker 1: yesterday while the mics were still on. I just don't
Speaker 1: know that he's going to stick around for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. So I I do want to like
Speaker 1: throw that out as a possibility without question. And I
Speaker 1: think the thing is like, Yeah, you have these younger guys,
Speaker 1: but enough of them. The lester, the backer by any
Speaker 1: means anyway drafted him. Would you drop him for Yamamoto? No,
Speaker 1: I can't do that right now. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of other guys. Moto has been pretty good, Greg,
Speaker 1: He's been dude. I was one yesterday was saying how
Speaker 1: much loved him and Jim Yakobon's got a start yesterday,
Speaker 1: Yaka bonus to shout out anys. Greg, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to do it. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, personally, anyway, So that's my John lesterday.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you want to say about
Speaker 1: cosh over Kyle Swarber is just I spoke about him.
Speaker 1: I believe it was. There was I think a Thursday
Speaker 1: and the Friday that you were gone. I think when
Speaker 1: you went to the bachelor party. I had a segment
Speaker 1: here alone when before Matt Moodika came on, and I
Speaker 1: was talking about Kyle Swarburn, how I picked him up
Speaker 1: in one of my home leagues, which is a points league,
Speaker 1: and he's been really good, you know, over the past
Speaker 1: two months. I mean since the start of May. I
Speaker 1: mean the batting average in May was very bad. It
Speaker 1: was one, but he had six home runs in May,
Speaker 1: and now he has six home runs in June and
Speaker 1: the batting averages up in June. Now I would never
Speaker 1: really expect to eight batting average from Swarber, which he
Speaker 1: has this month, but he has at least six home
Speaker 1: runs in each of the past two months. He's got
Speaker 1: a nine six ops in June. He's leading off for
Speaker 1: a really good lineup. He's playing against lefties, he's holding
Speaker 1: his own against left He's actually better against lefties this year,
Speaker 1: something that we've never seen from Swarber, So he actually
Speaker 1: is getting better as a player this year. To sixty
Speaker 1: one batting average against lefties, he's two thirty one against
Speaker 1: right eas He's got a higher OPS against lefties as well.
Speaker 1: Three of his sixteen home runs against left handed pitching.
Speaker 1: So he's actually getting better. And Joe Madden is showing
Speaker 1: faith and confidence in Kyles Swarber, and he's leading off
Speaker 1: for a really good lineup. So, I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: out there, I don't think he should be available anywhere,
Speaker 1: even in points leaves. He walks a lot to scores
Speaker 1: a lot of runs. I like him kind of. Shober
Speaker 1: has really turned it on, as you said, over the
Speaker 1: last month. He has become somebody that he has become
Speaker 1: somebody that is reliable at this point in fantasy baseball leagues,
Speaker 1: much like one. Soto has really turned it on the
Speaker 1: month of June as well. I don't have any shares
Speaker 1: of Juan Soto and I wasn't against taking him, It's
Speaker 1: just my draft slots never really allowed me to take him.
Speaker 1: He would have been a target of mine in the
Speaker 1: third round. I mean, I can um consistently talked about
Speaker 1: the position scarcity before the season, and how I wanted
Speaker 1: to target outfielders early on. And you know, look all
Speaker 1: season long for Juan Soto to batting average eleven home runs,
Speaker 1: forty two r bis, I think you want more power
Speaker 1: out of him. But in PS five stolen basis for
Speaker 1: a guy who is twenty years old. It's not even
Speaker 1: legal to drink in Washington yet, and he won't be
Speaker 1: legal until October. So I think this is just a
Speaker 1: sign of things to come for Juan Soto and then
Speaker 1: for Victor Roeblis. Right. Of course, as soon as I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out last night, the guy goes out and
Speaker 1: hits the home run, and a bunch of people are
Speaker 1: tweeting at me, Well, he just hit a home run,
Speaker 1: But it seems like that's how it always works out.
Speaker 1: I tweeted this out for Juan Soda yesterday, Greg, and
Speaker 1: I've never seen this before because obviously he's the only
Speaker 1: one who be in the zero if. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if that's a word zero with percentile in average
Speaker 1: exit velocity. Right when you hover over his exit average
Speaker 1: EGX velocity on baseball Savant on a stat cast page,
Speaker 1: it says zero if percentile last in baseball Now, I
Speaker 1: did get a fair response from dvr derk Van Riper
Speaker 1: of the Athletic and says, you have to account for
Speaker 1: as often as he bunts, So yes, you take that
Speaker 1: into consideration, but you still have concerns when it comes
Speaker 1: to plate discipline. For Victor Robost, he strikes out a lot.
Speaker 1: He doesn't walk all that much, even if you consider
Speaker 1: the bunts. Like the hard hit rate is down tremendously
Speaker 1: this year. Before that home run yesterday, he was betting
Speaker 1: two dred a five thirty five o p s in
Speaker 1: the month of June. I think there are real concerns.
Speaker 1: You know, people are asking me, you know, should I
Speaker 1: should I drop Victor Roboist? Someone asked me yesterday, can
Speaker 1: I dropped Roboist for Scott Kary? I said, if it's
Speaker 1: a redraft league, yes you can. Is that crazy, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so, because as soon as
Speaker 1: you said the names got Kingary, I'm interested. The roles
Speaker 1: has not been what you and I hope they'd be.
Speaker 1: And and look, he's still on pace for over accounting
Speaker 1: stats are fine, but he's doing it with one thirty
Speaker 1: batting average six. I mean, we were certainly expecting more
Speaker 1: than that very much, not that he was gonna be
Speaker 1: like a three sixty. You know, anyone from seventy would
Speaker 1: have been adequate to eight eight in just twenty games
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, that's not what I was expecting.
Speaker 1: And he's a better prospect than what he's shown in
Speaker 1: terms of batting average, because batting average in the minors
Speaker 1: was better than this. But yeah, I mean it's I
Speaker 1: think it's especially recently, I regularly two numbers. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's been very frustrating. I do want to look up
Speaker 1: what he's on pace four because I believe it's um,
Speaker 1: I believe it's over, which is fine. Again, but let's
Speaker 1: see on page four twenty two runs, twenty stolen basis.
Speaker 1: So yeah, right there, sixty five ribbies, eighty seven runs.
Speaker 1: He's at a two thirty six batting average right now.
Speaker 1: If he can get that up to to fifty and goes,
Speaker 1: I think that's fine. Like if he goes to twenty
Speaker 1: this year close to ninety runs scored, perfectly fine with
Speaker 1: that from Victor Robost, totally fine. But he's still a
Speaker 1: really young player. And we talk about like young players
Speaker 1: are gonna go through slumps. We see them with White
Speaker 1: Sox that elo him and as in Uanna Moncada, who
Speaker 1: have been very streaky players this year. So I guess
Speaker 1: all in all, what I'm saying is I would try
Speaker 1: my best to hold onto robots, especially in like keeper dynasty,
Speaker 1: of course, but you know, for a guy like Kingary,
Speaker 1: who's performing right now, you're playing a ten twelve team league.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a problem with that. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be better, though. Frank, yesterday you said I'm
Speaker 1: starting Daniel post dale On today. Yeah, I picked him
Speaker 1: up and stream him in the pit league, and it
Speaker 1: worked out because Daniel posts dally On went six shutout
Speaker 1: anything's against the Marlins yesterday stream against the Marlins Grade
Speaker 1: six strikeouts, two hits, one walk on the day face
Speaker 1: Trevor Richards you went five and two thirds. He also
Speaker 1: crushed in the Quality Start League and one and run,
Speaker 1: four hits, eight strikeouts and three walks. Adam Conley blew
Speaker 1: it in the eleventh for Miami. Yeah, and Paul Goldschman
Speaker 1: hit the walk off home run. Who another guy we
Speaker 1: could talk about has been struggling mightily so far this season.
Speaker 1: Daniel Ponds da Leone looked into his numbers before the show.
Speaker 1: Greg throws his fastball a lot. Reminds me a decent
Speaker 1: bit of Freddy Peralta. Doesn't throw his fastball like eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the time like Freddy Peralta does, but does
Speaker 1: throw it over seventy percent of the time. He mixes
Speaker 1: in a curve, he mixes in a cutter, you know it,
Speaker 1: throws that fastball per hour. I think he could stream
Speaker 1: him in the right spot. But I don't really have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith in Daniel Ponds da Leone, even
Speaker 1: though he's had like fairly good minor league numbers. I
Speaker 1: don't feel good about his long term prospects because he
Speaker 1: does rely on that fastball a lot. That reminds me
Speaker 1: of something that he might have been able to get
Speaker 1: a get away with at the minor league level, much
Speaker 1: like a Freddy Peralta, just you know, throwing gas past
Speaker 1: a bunch of like these double A, triple A hitters.
Speaker 1: When you get to the major leagues, I mean, you
Speaker 1: become a little bit more predictable. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's gonna work out long term for Daniel Pons
Speaker 1: d Leon unless he continues to develop these secondary off
Speaker 1: speed pitches. But It was a great start yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I think he's worth streaming in the right spots, but
Speaker 1: long term potential, I have questions about when it comes
Speaker 1: to pont st Leon. Greg, Absolutely, pus Leon somebody you
Speaker 1: can stream, I think right now, long term, wait, what
Speaker 1: are you doing with gold Schmidt? Right now? I knew
Speaker 1: that question was coming. I knew that you get the
Speaker 1: walk off home run yesterday, didn't get the star he
Speaker 1: was he was came in later in the game. Is
Speaker 1: a pinch hitter. He's at two fifty six seven seventy
Speaker 1: seven o ps, only eleven home runs, thirty rb I
Speaker 1: s in a year where everyone is smashing home runs,
Speaker 1: Greg ESPN is crazy. Then I read fourteen. I saw
Speaker 1: the eleven next to it because the eleventh ending. But
Speaker 1: he's at fourth, fourteen homers, thirty ribbies. I mean, we
Speaker 1: saw something similar to this last year with cold Schmidt.
Speaker 1: Are we just getting to that point where it's like
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to struggle every year in the
Speaker 1: first half and then he's just going to pick it up.
Speaker 1: Because again, like I'll bring up the numbers from last year,
Speaker 1: right and it's from June on last season he was
Speaker 1: a he was his triple slash three two. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just absolutely insane. Twenty six home runs, sixty four runs,
Speaker 1: sixty four babies, and a hundred and four games. Wait,
Speaker 1: we know what cape what Paul Goldschman is capable of
Speaker 1: in terms of going on a run and getting hot.
Speaker 1: It's like the weather is going to get Obviously in St. Louis,
Speaker 1: I think we're already there. But it's really baffling to
Speaker 1: me that this Cardinal's lineup and this Cardinal's team overall
Speaker 1: Gregg has struggled as much as they have this season.
Speaker 1: I read an interesting I think Mike as a River
Speaker 1: of Blues tweeted it out that it was about the
Speaker 1: Lukeavoid trade with the St. Louis Cardinals, and he said,
Speaker 1: it's rare for the Yankees to be on the side
Speaker 1: where you pick up a young player and then the
Speaker 1: other team trades away prospects to get a player that's
Speaker 1: worse than the player they traded away. I know that's
Speaker 1: very Uh, it's convoluted. Yeah, overall, Luke Void is performing
Speaker 1: better than It's crazy because Luke Void was like, well,
Speaker 1: thirteenth round player and fantasy, and Paul it was a
Speaker 1: second round pick Paul gold Schmidt, who signed his massive
Speaker 1: extension with St. Louis, is a ferret question if we're
Speaker 1: in his decline period. I know last year we had
Speaker 1: all these question marks. He was so horrific April and May,
Speaker 1: and they wound up with thirty home runs backing to
Speaker 1: ninety being Paul Goldschman again, like, is it possible he
Speaker 1: can turn it on in the second half. Yeah, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually closer to him turning it on like
Speaker 1: he did last year than he's in his decline phase,
Speaker 1: because if you look at the bat ball numbers for him,
Speaker 1: fifty two percent hard hit rate for Paul gold Schmidt
Speaker 1: this year, he's only got a three oh six babbit
Speaker 1: while his career mark is three fifty two. So I
Speaker 1: think he's been a little bit unlucky. He's got a
Speaker 1: seven sixty five OPS this year, and his career mark
Speaker 1: is so again last year, over those final one hundred
Speaker 1: and four games, he had an ops of one thousand
Speaker 1: and twenty two, and that's what Paul Goldschmidt is capable of.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm still a little bit closer to
Speaker 1: him being that player rather than he's just declining. This year.
Speaker 1: I will mention that his barrel percentage is down this
Speaker 1: year than where it's been at in in years past.
Speaker 1: His his longch angles a little bit down, but all
Speaker 1: of his his expected slugging is four eight six. Right
Speaker 1: now it's at four thirty two, So I think there's
Speaker 1: I think there's room for improvement. I would much like
Speaker 1: Blakes now, I would be trying to buy Paul Goldschmid
Speaker 1: if someone's selling right now. April and May of last year,
Speaker 1: Paul Goldman had at two nine seven and then one
Speaker 1: forty four in the month of May, turned it on
Speaker 1: in June. He hasn't yet at three sixty four in June,
Speaker 1: three seventeen, July, three fifty six in August, and then
Speaker 1: a rough September for him. June's were really really turned
Speaker 1: around hopefully, uh for us that started last night, right.
Speaker 1: I have more concerns over his teammate Matt Carpenter, like
Speaker 1: legitimate concern You look at his average eggit velocophy is
Speaker 1: down over two miles per hour on averages here that
Speaker 1: is a massive amount. That is legitimately a massive amount.
Speaker 1: He's still hitting a lot of flyballs, but is expected
Speaker 1: batting averages, so what that tells me with the eggs
Speaker 1: of velocity down this year and still hitting as many flyballs,
Speaker 1: a lot of lazy flyballs to the outfield for Matt
Speaker 1: Carpets and who's actually older than Paul Goldschmid, So I
Speaker 1: do have a lot more legitimate concerns when it comes
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Speaker 1: Back with you here, b f FS. Rolling through shows
Speaker 1: me the best part of my day so far. Frank's, well,
Speaker 1: you know that I'm happy. I'm happy to cheer you up. Grady.
Speaker 1: I did want to mention that, I mean, back from
Speaker 1: the last break, we had some some Justin Bieber, so
Speaker 1: he's a happy Bieber Day, Greggy, same Biebers on the
Speaker 1: man up against Texas. I think I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was done purposely, but we'll just act like it
Speaker 1: was done purposely up here. Yeah, just Brian, Yeah, Justin
Speaker 1: Bieb's for for Shane Beabs. Happy be day. It was
Speaker 1: very confident Beam's day. Happy Gallant Day, Happy NBA Draft Day.
Speaker 1: It's a great day. Greg makes sense, Hopefully like Judy said,
Speaker 1: it could only go up. Is that true? This might
Speaker 1: be the peak right now? Yeah, I'm sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Uh uch more we have to get you. So let's
Speaker 1: just get right into it. And that, of course is
Speaker 1: mr quality greater sign quantity. Oh you gotta give Florio
Speaker 1: crap for this tomorrow leave me, Frank I will. All
Speaker 1: he did was quote tweet a bunch of stuff of
Speaker 1: rich Hill getting hurt yesterday and and do like the
Speaker 1: cross fingers emoji's, which you should have to do when
Speaker 1: it comes to rich Hill. Rich Hill left the game
Speaker 1: in the second and he was a foe arm tightenes
Speaker 1: is that what it was? Four arm tighteness. Now, the
Speaker 1: good news was that is asked. All velocity stayed where
Speaker 1: it wasn't the throughout the first inning. It was pretty
Speaker 1: consistent where he has been. But he took some extra
Speaker 1: time almost after every curve ball he threw, and he
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling right. Rich Hill being injured? What why is
Speaker 1: this a surprise? It's it's not. It's not greg death
Speaker 1: taxes and rich Hill will get hurt throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season, but that comes with the territory. You
Speaker 1: know that he's gonna get hurt. At some point he
Speaker 1: was just an Admittedly, he's been awesome. You know, we
Speaker 1: joked up with Florio and even if he were here,
Speaker 1: and even if I was on the show tomorrow, I
Speaker 1: would tell him, yes, we're gonna give you crap for
Speaker 1: Richill getting hurt, but he has been really good. So
Speaker 1: I will acknowledge that two point five five r a
Speaker 1: M the season, one point one one whip ten case
Speaker 1: per nine. He's he's been awesome. He's been phenomenal for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes. But I mean, this was just this was
Speaker 1: a lock. So and I saw people tweeting last night, well,
Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time until engine Ru gets
Speaker 1: hurt now. But you know again, also saw a lot
Speaker 1: of people responding that, like Ronus and Modica, even if
Speaker 1: Riu doesn't throw an other pitches here, he's already like
Speaker 1: vastly outperformed anything you could have ever imagined. So it's
Speaker 1: perfectly fine. I mean, of course we don't want these
Speaker 1: guys to get hurt, but yes, rich Hill and Hinge
Speaker 1: and U have been otherworldly this season. The Dodgers, I
Speaker 1: believe it was today was supposed to go with a
Speaker 1: bullpen day, uh, starting Hulu Urias going to row stripling
Speaker 1: and combining that they have to use an opener. Last night,
Speaker 1: essentially rich Hill uh, I think he was. Dylan Flora
Speaker 1: came in, uh, followed by all these other relievers. We'll
Speaker 1: see what they do today. Now. The big question we're
Speaker 1: getting when it comes to rich Hill's injury is what
Speaker 1: do I do? Do I pick up raw stripling? Do
Speaker 1: I pick up Julio Urias? What's the plan? I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone knows for sure, Greg, unless there's a report
Speaker 1: that I've missed, I haven't seen any I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be up to one of those guys, but I
Speaker 1: think that they have, neither of whom are touched out
Speaker 1: at this point. Yes, it's true. So I mean they
Speaker 1: could just go with what they're doing today right like
Speaker 1: as a formula moving forward, and they do like Reu
Speaker 1: for three innings stripling for three innings. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: not re you Urias for three innings for their So
Speaker 1: their starters are my eight re Kershaw Bueller. Those are
Speaker 1: the four healthy guys. He's saying the fifth time, essentially
Speaker 1: piggyback Strippling and Urias. I guess they could do like
Speaker 1: why not, right, I think it makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense for them. I think they could do that. I
Speaker 1: don't know that there's just gonna be one winner here.
Speaker 1: I think that they really like Urias in the bullpen
Speaker 1: and maybe serving as an opener role, So maybe raw
Speaker 1: Stripling has more value in terms of anything that he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw. I still do think Urias has more upside
Speaker 1: long term, obviously, but I don't think anyone really knows.
Speaker 1: I think it could be what we just talked about,
Speaker 1: where they kind of like split the start together, like
Speaker 1: three innings for one guy, three innings for one guy,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's like two innings for Urias, like three
Speaker 1: or four for Stripling. I don't think anyone really knows,
Speaker 1: but I think long term, Urias still has more upside.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, I mean here, I guess
Speaker 1: is as good as mine, Grega, So we'll just take
Speaker 1: a weight and see approach. Chris Taylor had two bombs
Speaker 1: last night. He's six and seventh home runs of the season.
Speaker 1: This is interesting. I do not know. I don't know
Speaker 1: who this person is, but he's got the last name
Speaker 1: Garlic and need a home run. Oh Arlic, Yeah, Kyle
Speaker 1: Garlic Carl Jr. Shout out to the dragon ball Z
Speaker 1: fans out there. Imagine your last name is Garlic. I
Speaker 1: mean I like garlic, but I don't. I don't love
Speaker 1: it like I love garlic. But to be cool with you,
Speaker 1: Greg Garlic, that's a lot of that's like way too
Speaker 1: many d's in one name, way too much garlic. Now
Speaker 1: you got me looking up Greg Garlics minor league number?
Speaker 1: How are that? You can take a garlic pun? Here
Speaker 1: be um, I don't have anything. Perhaps you can think
Speaker 1: of something to ninety batting average, twelve homers ops over
Speaker 1: a thousand in Triple A this year. Good numbers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty seven years old, he's I don't he
Speaker 1: said he's been chopping it up. I guess it's about
Speaker 1: as uh about as good as we could go with,
Speaker 1: but only I guess. Pay attention to Kyle Garlic. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to. I don't want to mention too. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to mention Chris Taylor since since May, since
Speaker 1: May one on. He got off to a really really
Speaker 1: slow art this year. Obviously, he didn't win out the
Speaker 1: starting second baseman job like he had hoped. He was
Speaker 1: more so a utility guy. He's getting more playing time
Speaker 1: now with Corey Seeger going down, but to seventy batting
Speaker 1: average since May one on a five slug six home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty runs scored, twenty r b i s, three stolen
Speaker 1: bases in forty games. So I mean, if you take
Speaker 1: that as like a quarter of the season pace, be
Speaker 1: on pace for twenty four home runs, twelve stolen bases,
Speaker 1: eight runs a d r BIS. He's actually performing pretty
Speaker 1: well forty one percent hard hit rate during that span.
Speaker 1: He's only owned in twenty seven percent of CBS leagues
Speaker 1: and twenty one percent of Yahoo leaves Greg. So, you know,
Speaker 1: with Corey Seeger on the shelf, I think Chris Taylor
Speaker 1: is actually a pretty good at right now in a
Speaker 1: really really good Dodgers lineup. Yeah. So Chris Taylor is
Speaker 1: a guy that, as you know, I drafted him. I
Speaker 1: was super high on him. I thought he'd get this
Speaker 1: second base job back on keeping here Nandez never really happened,
Speaker 1: and we questioned, hey, do you want to pick this
Speaker 1: guy up? He's gonna play every day with Corey Seeker's injury.
Speaker 1: Really all he's done in the month of June, is
Speaker 1: is it for some power. Now the average still struggle right,
Speaker 1: like still batting to thirty in the month of June
Speaker 1: one ninety seven month of April, so the average hasn't
Speaker 1: exactly been there. But three horsy three homers in June
Speaker 1: back back uh months of ten r V I's Cally
Speaker 1: numbers are there. I think he's okay. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's excited as I was about him when I drafted him.
Speaker 1: He's okay, film alright, I mean it sounds like I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit more excited about him there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like we spoke about with King
Speaker 1: Ary a couple of weeks ago, and now he's been
Speaker 1: sticking around just cheap expulture into a really good line
Speaker 1: up with the Dodgers. And you know, Corey Seeger dealt
Speaker 1: with so many injuries before this season, all the surgeries
Speaker 1: he's had. He's obviously has the hamstring injury. Now, I
Speaker 1: like Chris Taylor. I feel like his ownership percentage should
Speaker 1: be probably closer to fifty percent, like definitely owned in
Speaker 1: like and only fifteen teamers. But I think if you
Speaker 1: need a short stop and might have outfield eligibility to
Speaker 1: in a twelve teamer, I would be interested. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: has second short stop in outfield on Yahoo, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I would want to Adham in twelve. Team leaks. You
Speaker 1: know you you know what. You haven't yell at me
Speaker 1: out recently? What's up? You know you had a lot
Speaker 1: of Ramon Loriano like you idiot? Well yeah right, so
Speaker 1: be great during the other time in the draft year,
Speaker 1: pissed Domingo Santanaga. Yeah, he went to the bathroom. And
Speaker 1: at least we got Austin Meadows. We did that team
Speaker 1: is very bad though. Check today we're in four out
Speaker 1: of fifteen. Really it's gone that they go, don't that bad.
Speaker 1: We had Brad Keller in the line up yesterday seven
Speaker 1: earned runs against the Mariners. We had someone else in
Speaker 1: the lineup that also got blown up, and it was
Speaker 1: really just like I was hoping, like, please, don't I
Speaker 1: hope we didn't put him in the lineup, And then
Speaker 1: I looked at it. He was in the lineup. Let's
Speaker 1: throw a bunch of name out there who have thrown
Speaker 1: blown up yesterday? Oh, Zack Davis go, we had Zach Davies.
Speaker 1: So this week in our lineup, Zach Wheeler blown up.
Speaker 1: Brad Keller blown up, Zach Davies blown up, Trember Bauer
Speaker 1: very good, Jack Flaherty pretty good, Wade Miley last time
Speaker 1: out blown up. I don't know, Craig, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We lost Clint Fraser, we lost Hunter Pence in a
Speaker 1: fifteen team league. I mean, that's that's really all you
Speaker 1: need to happen. You lose, you lose two of your
Speaker 1: starting outfielders, you have three four guys get blown up
Speaker 1: your e r A just I mean, that's that's really
Speaker 1: all you need. Greg. Anyway, I can't buy anything at
Speaker 1: least edwardo Escobar is good for this team. For this team, um,
Speaker 1: Domago Santana was with a guy we didn't get ultimately
Speaker 1: Anthony sat and tender in the lineup over eleven on
Speaker 1: the week. Fantastic. Oh my god, Greg, should we like
Speaker 1: look into a trade? Probably you Stanna to home runs
Speaker 1: now fourteen fifteen who runs on the season and Domago
Speaker 1: Santana struggled a little bit after the really really hot
Speaker 1: start that he had. But if you you want it
Speaker 1: for a Royal League, you're you're getting what you want.
Speaker 1: Eight and April with three whole runs in May about
Speaker 1: at two thirty seven, but gave you a four whole
Speaker 1: runs in June back over three d for now with
Speaker 1: five more home runs powers real, dude, Yeah, he's absolutely legit.
Speaker 1: And I looked at this before the season in rotor leagues.
Speaker 1: Right now he is the outfielder eleventh on the season,
Speaker 1: the eleventh best outfielder. He was drafted in NFBC before
Speaker 1: the season during the month of March as the fifty
Speaker 1: fourth outfielder off the board. He's been one of the
Speaker 1: best values in Fantasy baseball so far this season to
Speaker 1: seventy nine batting average, fifteen home runs, fifty four RB.
Speaker 1: I's five stolen bases as well. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be prone to being streaky because he does strike out
Speaker 1: around twenty nine percent of the time, so there's gonna
Speaker 1: be peaks and valleys when it comes to Domingo Santana,
Speaker 1: but hits the ball extremely hard hard hit rate this
Speaker 1: year that's by far a career high for him. He's
Speaker 1: hitting more flyballs than ever before. He's hitting a lot
Speaker 1: of line drives. He needed a change of scenery. He
Speaker 1: was just it was just so obvious plastic change of
Speaker 1: scenery scenario here with there was too many bats in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: I mean, and for good reason. They have Christ and Yells,
Speaker 1: you have the m v P. Lorenzo Kane hasn't been
Speaker 1: very good. We'll have to talk about that soon as well. Greg,
Speaker 1: But he just didn't fit into what Milwaukee wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Goes over to Seattle. A great job by Jerry to Poto.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty six years old. You have this guy
Speaker 1: in a keeper or dynasty, A bolt low on him
Speaker 1: or even if you haven't been redraft, he has just
Speaker 1: been one of the gems in fantasy baseball this year. Greg,
Speaker 1: it's Santana. I loved watching in the spring that draft
Speaker 1: stock just kind of skyrocket like Jake. Jake was on it.
Speaker 1: And then when the more we looked into it, like
Speaker 1: I really like this guy. I really like this guy
Speaker 1: every day, and then everybody jumped on board. And this
Speaker 1: is one of those where everybody was right. Just isn't
Speaker 1: a bad thing. Yeah, but it's cool to see Austin
Speaker 1: Meadows being another one that people are all jumping in
Speaker 1: on and got it right. It sounds like we could
Speaker 1: use him in g d D right now, Greg, we could, Frank, Yes,
Speaker 1: So I gotta give you crap. For that again. I
Speaker 1: went to the bathroom split second. But this what happens.
Speaker 1: I don't drink in auction. That's that's the moral of
Speaker 1: the story. Drink drink an auction. Well, admittedly I was
Speaker 1: drinking a little bit faster than you, and you didn't
Speaker 1: eat and I didn't eat, so it just went right
Speaker 1: through me. I had to go to the back, refused.
Speaker 1: Next thing, I come back, Greg goes bad news. Somebody
Speaker 1: was auctioned off, Domingo Santana, I said, Greg, Greg, of
Speaker 1: course we ended up with Wilmer Flora's instead. How's that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have? And I wanted Romo Loriano over Wilmer
Speaker 1: flora Is too. He sucks, Oh he sucks. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: only performing, like, uh, you know, one of the five
Speaker 1: best outfielders over the past month and a half. Greig. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'll have time to bash you for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, Greig. I just didn't wanna keep bidding. I
Speaker 1: didn't wanna, you know, because then you get mad at
Speaker 1: me that I overbid and so horrid to the balance.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's all right, Sorry, Greg. Last game we
Speaker 1: talked about before we sign off a YouTube. I just
Speaker 1: want to mention it quickly. It's Colorado. They defeated Arizona
Speaker 1: yesterday six to four. Um Zach Griggy eleven hits, five
Speaker 1: runs allowed into seven innings of work. Johnny Gray Um
Speaker 1: two runs aloud and six innings of work, just four
Speaker 1: strikeouts though um Daie Murphy has a sixth whole run
Speaker 1: of the season, riving man three before. He's been pretty
Speaker 1: hotessib late, but you are nervous abou the guy that
Speaker 1: left this game. That's Trevor story. Yeah, he was like
Speaker 1: flexing his thumb. He left the game. He's gonna do
Speaker 1: be due four. I believe in Mr. Right today, we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out more about that injury. It sounds like
Speaker 1: he might land on the injured list here and then Rogers,
Speaker 1: Garen Hampson, one of those guys get Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we could see more Brendan Rodgers here. You know. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Daniel Murphy and Ryan McMahon. Those guys have
Speaker 1: been playing a lot better recently. The power hasn't been
Speaker 1: there for Ryan McMahon, but the batting average certainly has.
Speaker 1: And like Kyle Soarber, he's actually performing really well against
Speaker 1: lefties this year, which we thought he was gonna be
Speaker 1: on the strong side of a platoon versuing right eas.
Speaker 1: He's actually been better against left eis this year. But
Speaker 1: I do have some concern over Trevor story. Obviously, whenever
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the thumb ability to grip the bat
Speaker 1: and hit for power, which is what we want out
Speaker 1: of Trevor story. So think we he might land on
Speaker 1: the iisle here. This is my speculation, but I would
Speaker 1: want them to be cautious with him and take their
Speaker 1: time and make sure he's completely healthy for the long haul.
Speaker 1: I think we might lose Servor story for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Greig, We'll see hopefully that ultimately is not
Speaker 1: what happens with that. We're gonna sign off at YouTube
Speaker 1: for today. At the window up next, Sean Guastamakia will
Speaker 1: have you covered NBA draft tonight. I know they've been
Speaker 1: looking at props all day long, so make sure you
Speaker 1: watch at the window next with Sean Guastamachia. I'll join
Speaker 1: him as well at Frankie's coming on the show as well.
Speaker 1: That's very very cool, frank We had a lot after this.
Speaker 1: Five minutes from now, it's all NBA the rest of
Speaker 1: the day. For us, it'll be very exciting. Um, alright, No,
Speaker 1: it's not like a huge fantasy sport. But dude, I
Speaker 1: just think the basketball is like my first passion. You know.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people You'll ask people like,
Speaker 1: what was the first sport that you really really got into?
Speaker 1: Basketball was like when you if you asked ten year
Speaker 1: old Frank, what do you want to do when you
Speaker 1: grow up? It was, you know, be an NBA player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like the dream obviously didn't work out. I
Speaker 1: mean physical limitations, you know, five ft nine, I don't
Speaker 1: how much I wait now under eight pounds. How about you, Greg,
Speaker 1: what was the first support for you? What was for
Speaker 1: the love of the game? Football? T ball? Not ball, football, football, football, soccer? Football?
Speaker 1: I played soccer, Yeah, but like loving sports is football?
Speaker 1: Really did you ever play it? That's interesting to me
Speaker 1: then because I never played I never played football either,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't get me wrong, I love football.
Speaker 1: I love fantasy football, but I would say, you know,
Speaker 1: because I played basketball, it was like the first support
Speaker 1: that it really really played that in baseball play a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball growing up. Um, those were like the
Speaker 1: two first loves. I didn't really watch a lot of
Speaker 1: football until I got to high school. Break to be honest,
Speaker 1: once I got to high school and then I mean
Speaker 1: everything with Rex Ryan and the Jets, Man, those were
Speaker 1: the glory days. Enough of that. What do you got, Greg?
Speaker 1: You gotta can we change it up? Man? I know
Speaker 1: this is what it's working. I think me going first,
Speaker 1: why I sucked, But it's been working for me. I'm
Speaker 1: owing three on the week you were three and one. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start keeping tracks. One. Let's do it best
Speaker 1: best forever, Frank, what you got tonight? I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if you can call what I give
Speaker 1: people here my best bets forever. They are what I
Speaker 1: perceived to be pretty good wagers. They haven't been the
Speaker 1: best of anything, even the best at losing. So if
Speaker 1: you want that, there are a few that caught my eye.
Speaker 1: Let's bounce around here. Obviously, Zack plus one, especially the
Speaker 1: way that the Cardinals have hit, or rather have not
Speaker 1: hit in the month of June like Adam Wayne Right
Speaker 1: really minus one. Favorite. I will say Garrett Cooper dealing
Speaker 1: with an injury if he's not in the lineup makes
Speaker 1: it a little a little bit harder for the Mordlins
Speaker 1: to score runs and win games. So I'll throw that
Speaker 1: out there. But I think Zack Gallant at plus there
Speaker 1: is some value there. Greg, the other one that I
Speaker 1: was looking at, and I'm pretty I'm like all over
Speaker 1: this game. I haven't spoke to you about it yet,
Speaker 1: so this might be the game that you really too.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun game to watch Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: against Frankie Monta. It's just gonna be awesome. I want
Speaker 1: to be all over this game, Greg, I just don't
Speaker 1: know how like I want action on this game. I think,
Speaker 1: I like, I really like the under at seven and
Speaker 1: a half, but they're kind of suckering you in, like
Speaker 1: it's such a low number and you look at how
Speaker 1: well both of these both of these pictures have pitches here,
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton and Frankie Montas Like, I want to take
Speaker 1: the under here. I think if I was leaning on
Speaker 1: a side, I would take Charlie Morton and the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Rays just overall there, they've been the better team
Speaker 1: on the season. Oakland swinging a hot bat recently. I
Speaker 1: think I like the under, Greg under seven and a
Speaker 1: half in the Rais and A's and Zach Gallen at
Speaker 1: plus Marlon's money line against the Cardinals. Where you at?
Speaker 1: So the two that sparked me was Tampa and Oakland.
Speaker 1: The under seven and a half I like that as well.
Speaker 1: The only other one I like Giants and Dodgers late
Speaker 1: tonight over seven and a half. I think that number
Speaker 1: is too small for another Bull Penn game for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: A tired bullpen coming out of last night, and Bubby
Speaker 1: hasn't been great and it was Dodger Stadiums a good
Speaker 1: pitchers park, like over seven and a half in that
Speaker 1: long that's all right with that. We're gonna say goodbye
Speaker 1: for now. Frankie's off tomorrow, so Mike Florio will join
Speaker 1: me here on the BFF checking our draft coverage the
Speaker 1: rest of the day. It would be fun for Franks,
Speaker 1: staff and Greg Susman. Thanks to everybody downstairs. We'll do
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