Speaker 1: Well, hello friends, and welcome in to leading off. I'm
Speaker 1: your host Chris Welsh. Joining me today is Andrew Sifter
Speaker 1: on Twitter Andrew Underscore Sifter and today we're going to
Speaker 1: be breaking down all the stuff that went down yesterday
Speaker 1: and how to prepare you for today. It's j Andrew Seifter.
Speaker 1: What's going on? My friend? Final Push? Any articles coming
Speaker 1: up that everybody needs to know about.
Speaker 2: It's the Waiver wire Man every Saturday that's coming out
Speaker 2: at Fantasy Pro. So we got one more to go
Speaker 2: for that final week of the regular season. And I
Speaker 2: have to say, it's always a treat to get to
Speaker 2: join you on a Thursday because we do the Mondays
Speaker 2: a lot, but the Thursdays are always a special occasion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I figured also would be good because I
Speaker 1: knew you had the article coming up. I could remember
Speaker 1: it was Friday or Saturday. But you know, this is
Speaker 1: a good time to do it since we're a couple
Speaker 1: of days out. It's the final stretch. If there were
Speaker 1: any guys, and one of those guys that is probably
Speaker 1: going to show up in that article is a late
Speaker 1: call up. Every time I open my mouth, I continue
Speaker 1: to open my mouth the last month I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: so this is the last big prospect guy that's gonna
Speaker 1: come up. They're not gonna be anymore. Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do it. Then another one comes up.
Speaker 1: I say the same thing, then another one. So really,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm doing it at a lock. I'm doing it
Speaker 1: for everybody else to keep saying this. So I said it,
Speaker 1: and we got another one. And one of the top
Speaker 1: guys you might want to take a look at is
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Tovar from the Colorado Rockies. He's getting a call
Speaker 1: up to make his major league debut. Now, he may
Speaker 1: not be in the lineup today, as I believe he's
Speaker 1: like traveling to get there, so the debut may be
Speaker 1: happening on Friday. And Tovar is really fascinating because Tivar
Speaker 1: is twenty one years old. Twenty one to twenty two,
Speaker 1: let's see. Actually I think he might have just turned
Speaker 1: twenty two, No, twenty one, it doesn't matter. But Tovar
Speaker 1: is fascinating because of the rise that he has had
Speaker 1: so far in his minor league career. He was in
Speaker 1: the ears of a fall league last year from low
Speaker 1: A all the way up to making them he's missed
Speaker 1: significant time this year, which is why this move is
Speaker 1: really surprising. It's actually pretty shocking that I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be an Arizona Fall League lock this year.
Speaker 1: He's under three hundred minor league at bats this season,
Speaker 1: but fourteen homers, seventeen stolen bases, a three nineteen batting average,
Speaker 1: a source of stolen bases a little bit smaller, but
Speaker 1: he's really connected in with high power. Colorado is a
Speaker 1: great place to hit. He should theoretically get work this
Speaker 1: last week, which makes him a really fascinating waiver wire
Speaker 1: pick up for the final week. So any thoughts on
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Tovar, Who's gonna be making the debut and, like
Speaker 1: I said, should get I would imagine all the starts
Speaker 1: until this season ends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll not only be in that column I write,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing he'll probably be one of the headline names
Speaker 2: in that column because we're talking, like you said, a
Speaker 2: guy who's just been a real fast riser. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's now considered a top forty prospect in baseball, the
Speaker 2: number one prospect in the Rocky system, and we know
Speaker 2: how it plays in that thin air. You want that,
Speaker 2: especially when you're gonna get the stolen base potential as well.
Speaker 3: He's hit at every level.
Speaker 2: Like you said, it's limited played appearances, but I mean
Speaker 2: he put up a three hundred batting average in Single
Speaker 2: A last year, in Double A this year, and then
Speaker 2: he came up for a brief cup of coffee in
Speaker 2: Triple A and was actually doing even better. I mean
Speaker 2: he only struck out an eight point seven percent of
Speaker 2: his Triple A played appearances. So he just looked ready,
Speaker 2: and you know, a team like the Rockies like, why
Speaker 2: not get a little sneak peek at this guy and
Speaker 2: see if he's a guy that you maybe can feel
Speaker 2: comfortable going into next season with because we saw you know,
Speaker 2: with players like Michael Harris, they've come right in and
Speaker 2: been comfortable at the major league level. And if you
Speaker 2: see something like that, that's really actionable intelligence that you
Speaker 2: can get in this last week or two of a
Speaker 2: season where you're rebuilding. So I think it makes sense
Speaker 2: for the Rockies, and I think that it makes sense
Speaker 2: for fantasy managers to take a shot on the upside.
Speaker 1: I feel very confident that he'll play maybe his one
Speaker 1: game miss, but he should play the whole way through
Speaker 1: because of the amount of time he missed, there's no
Speaker 1: reason for them to not let him get a full run.
Speaker 1: He needs a bat. So I'm assuming he's not going
Speaker 1: to the ball league because he's probably gonna play in
Speaker 1: Dominican Winter League. And I also think that you're probably
Speaker 1: going to be seeing a situation where they're bringing him up.
Speaker 1: They're getting them all these at bats, and he might
Speaker 1: be a guy that breaks roster next season so they
Speaker 1: can vuy for that extra pickspot. Because this is a
Speaker 1: guy that hits for high contact. He's got sneaky power.
Speaker 1: Though I just I personally will be surprised if it's
Speaker 1: anything more. I was surprised if it's twenty, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, but I'll be surprised if it's over twenty.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna put in stolen bases, he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: for high contact, and he's a guy I think that
Speaker 1: this team was kind of lacked. All these prospects they've
Speaker 1: had in the middle infield, do nenever really worked. And
Speaker 1: this is a guy that they could break camp with
Speaker 1: next year and they could potentially get an extra pick
Speaker 1: out of it. So I think all of those things
Speaker 1: combined makes sense. Why Tovar is going to be a
Speaker 1: really good pick up for this final week or four days.
Speaker 1: Like Bizzarrizza said, whatever it is you've got left for
Speaker 1: Fantasy baseball, and I will point out he is a
Speaker 1: yard goat. Tovar is maybe one one of my probably
Speaker 1: top five favorite logos as far as like minor league.
Speaker 1: I want that hat something I don't do. My wife
Speaker 1: would kill me, especially if I bought them. Wink wink.
Speaker 1: Is that I want to get a collection of really
Speaker 1: good minor league hats, and probably the yard goats would
Speaker 1: be in the top five list of ones i'd like
Speaker 1: to where it's a good purple the goat, it's biting
Speaker 1: a bat. Who doesn't want a goat on their hat?
Speaker 2: Andrew, I'm pulling that up right now. Just take a
Speaker 2: little look at it. You're right, that is some nice
Speaker 2: stuff there. It's also just hilarious that the Rockies have
Speaker 2: a farm team in Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that's exactly. I would also say the
Speaker 1: Hillsboro Hops for obvious reasons for the Diamondbacks would be
Speaker 1: another very good logo of hats. But go and pick
Speaker 1: up Ezekiel Tovar if he's sitting out there because he'll
Speaker 1: get playing time. Blake Snell struck out a season. I
Speaker 1: had thirteen batters going seven innings, and you get some
Speaker 1: shut out ball on Wednesday as they beat the Cardinals
Speaker 1: one to nothing, stifling the pool Holes hopes at least
Speaker 1: for one more day. As we get closer, we're now
Speaker 1: into god, what are we like eight days? Nine days
Speaker 1: left for pool Holes to get two more homers. We're
Speaker 1: getting down to the stretch. I said, there's really bad feeling.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sit at six ninety nine, but we still
Speaker 1: got just enough days.
Speaker 2: Andrew, I think it's going to be a two homer
Speaker 2: day that puts him over the top. That's my prediction. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well I might mention him a little bit later today.
Speaker 1: James Kaprillion on point on Wednesday to to one win
Speaker 1: over the Mariners when seven innings, two hits, shut out ball.
Speaker 1: Kaprillion is so fast enough that any of you guys care.
Speaker 1: But like Kaprillion is the first guy I saw when
Speaker 1: I really made a concerted effort to going to the
Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League in twenty sixteen. Was when I made
Speaker 1: sure every year I'm there, And he was with the
Speaker 1: New York Yankees, and I remember he gave up he
Speaker 1: had one solid inning and he was coming back off
Speaker 1: of injury, and then he gave up a leadoff homer
Speaker 1: in the second inning to Mauricio Dubon who was at
Speaker 1: the Red Sox at that time. And now I believe
Speaker 1: with the Giant still and I always think about that,
Speaker 1: but Kaprillion has been one of those guys I thought
Speaker 1: was going to move into the bullpen just based off
Speaker 1: of injury issues away now, but he's been a very
Speaker 1: serviceable starter and one of those streaming guys probably going
Speaker 1: to have looks like, maybe one more start your trust
Speaker 1: on Kaprillion rest of the way, this last start, I guess.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you've got your personal connection to him,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going there with him.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: His strikeout to walk rate is really poor and the
Speaker 2: bar is high to be fantasy viable as a starter
Speaker 2: for Oakland anyway, if you're in a league that you
Speaker 2: need wins, so I think I'll take the pass. I
Speaker 2: could probably find better streamers I like.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Tristan McKenzie held the White Sox to two runs
Speaker 1: over eight innings, struck out thirteen to Guardians one eight
Speaker 1: to two on Wednesday. Tristan McKenzie continues the consistency of
Speaker 1: why we are going to probably be buying in heavier
Speaker 1: than I think we think next season on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like he's kind of like one of
Speaker 2: those underrated under the radar breakouts. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's because he's doing it in Cleveland. That whole team
Speaker 2: is sort of surprising that they're in such strong playoff
Speaker 2: positioning right now. I don't think many people saw that
Speaker 2: coming this year. But the thing that with mackenzie, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's such a tall, lanky guy, and for a while
Speaker 2: it looked like he had to sort out his mechanics
Speaker 2: a little bit. But the thing you really saw this
Speaker 2: year is the walk rate just cut in half. I
Speaker 2: mean last year four point three five walks per nine,
Speaker 2: this year two point one five. So even though his
Speaker 2: strikeout rights down a little bit, you'll gladly take that
Speaker 2: trade off for fantasy because it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: it goes without saying like first rule, don't harm yourself,
Speaker 2: and if you don't put those free passes on, it
Speaker 2: allows you a lot more room for error. With babeb
Speaker 2: and things like that. So I believe in what he's doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, his peripherals are still a little worse than
Speaker 2: his surface numbers, but he's he's a legitimate fantasy pitcher
Speaker 2: in the for.
Speaker 1: If you're looking at why did this go to last year?
Speaker 1: That's super odd, that's not good. This is so weird.
Speaker 1: Fangrafts like he pitched one hundred and fifty innings in
Speaker 1: the first half. There we go. Now it cleaned itself up.
Speaker 1: In the first half. Mackenzie over one hundred innings at
Speaker 1: a three to two ERA, which is very nice. And
Speaker 1: this is one hundred and one innings, striking out ninety six,
Speaker 1: holding batters to an under one ninety nine average. In
Speaker 1: the second half, he's sporting a two eight five ERA,
Speaker 1: eighty four strikeouts over seventy nine innings. The walks have
Speaker 1: cut down as well, only sixteen. And the last three
Speaker 1: months have been phenomenal for him. In let me pull
Speaker 1: this up. He's had a one I think it was
Speaker 1: a one to three four as this is reloading here
Speaker 1: in the Yeah, in the month of July he had
Speaker 1: a one to three four ERA over five starts. Last
Speaker 1: month in August at three point zero three ERA over
Speaker 1: five o ver six starts and this month so far
Speaker 1: got a two two nine ERA with eighteen. That's not
Speaker 1: correct on how much it's counted here, but he has
Speaker 1: had I'm trying to do the math real quick, twenty one.
Speaker 1: That would be thirty one strikeouts over the last four
Speaker 1: starts that he's had. He's just he's going to be
Speaker 1: one of those guys that I think he's probably going
Speaker 1: to be right outside the top one hundred as far
Speaker 1: as overall goes, and he's going to be a major target.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, you raised an interesting point because
Speaker 2: his striker right for the season is essentially a batter
Speaker 2: per inning, which is fine, but he's had these games.
Speaker 2: I mean, he struck out thirteen in his last start.
Speaker 2: He had a start in mid August where he struck
Speaker 2: out fourteen. Now both of those starts are against the
Speaker 2: White Sox, so maybe he just has the White Sox number.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I mean there's no doubt he's
Speaker 2: pitching terrifically. He really hasn't had a subpar start since
Speaker 2: the very beginning of August. So we're now talking to
Speaker 2: two months worth of just great starts in a row.
Speaker 3: So keep broad in that.
Speaker 1: Bizrus has said, guy, I'm facing in the finals had McKenzie.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful Snell matched him, so you have to match him.
Speaker 2: I dropped Snell in a league last week because I
Speaker 2: was in such strong positioning and I was running out
Speaker 2: of innings and he had I saw as the final
Speaker 2: two matchups were tough, so I just said, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll let someone else have him for the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: And then I missed out on that Cardinals start.
Speaker 1: M Madison Mungarner allowed one run over six innings on
Speaker 1: Wednesday in a six to one win over the Dodgers Diamondbacks,
Speaker 1: stealing a couple wins there. Jordan Lyles allowed one run
Speaker 1: on Wednesday in a complete game victory over the Tigers
Speaker 1: and over on the fun fact side, this is from
Speaker 1: It's My Boy Yancy. Shout out to Yancy Yancy. Eaton
Speaker 1: Jordan Lyles. This is his tweet. Has more wins than
Speaker 1: Corman Burns, Nestor Cortez, Christian Javier Joe Musgrove, Max Ers
Speaker 1: Or Clayton Kershaw and Aaron Nola. That's kind of a
Speaker 1: fun fact. Jordan Lyles one of those sneaky sneaky streamers
Speaker 1: that has been out there the whole time, and a
Speaker 1: complete game, complete gamer is gonna do some wonders for
Speaker 1: your little last bit of whether it's playoffs or Roto Andrew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's that's a fun stat. I think that
Speaker 2: stat right there kind of says a few things. One
Speaker 2: it says it reminds us how fickle wins are. Two
Speaker 2: finds us of how surprisingly solid the Orioles have been
Speaker 2: this season. Uh, And Three it's a reminder that a
Speaker 2: lot of those guys have missed a little bit of
Speaker 2: time this year with injuries, so that's a factor as well.
Speaker 3: But that was a fun stat to see, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Don't you don't you dare start the wins? The fickle wins.
Speaker 1: Conversation of quality starts, and we're going to go into
Speaker 1: kat The chat's going to go into chaos and eat
Speaker 1: each other alive.
Speaker 2: If I don't propose it, I don't propose a solution.
Speaker 2: I just think we all have to learn to live
Speaker 2: with it and accept it.
Speaker 1: I am so the same on that. I'm actually so
Speaker 1: utterly tired of the like down talking of wins throughout
Speaker 1: the whole preseason, of like draft preparation we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they need to end and it's win, and it's just like,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. That is fantasy. Like maybe
Speaker 1: someday the norm will change, you know, the norms change
Speaker 1: fantasy football, the norms change from standard non catching formats
Speaker 1: to PPR and being the standard. Super flex is an
Speaker 1: option that's coming up. Baseball has accepted a whole lot
Speaker 1: more of quality starts and OBP, but for it to
Speaker 1: be the standard, it just is what it is. I
Speaker 1: actually don't mind wins, like the thing I think you
Speaker 1: get and get. I pick on roto people a little bit,
Speaker 1: even though I play probably more rod than head to head.
Speaker 1: Now it's like the perfection. Everybody needs it perfected. It.
Speaker 1: I played to the very end, and my entire season
Speaker 1: as a whole is calculated. I don't mind variants in
Speaker 1: my fantasy sports. That's why I like playoffs. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm okay with wins where guy has a great start
Speaker 1: and doesn't get a win, because I don't need everything.
Speaker 1: I don't need this to equal this at all times.
Speaker 1: The fun for me is the chaos that real baseball has.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no, I totally agree.
Speaker 2: I mean, fantasy sports is a mix of skill and luck,
Speaker 2: like no matter how you do it, it is and
Speaker 2: some pieces of it are more skilled, some pieces of
Speaker 2: it are more luck. Fantasy baseball as a whole is
Speaker 2: more skill. It's more skill than fantasy football. It requires
Speaker 2: f for two all season long. So if you are,
Speaker 2: if you're the best in your league, like you might
Speaker 2: have bad win luck and you can still win your league,
Speaker 2: you know so. And I also feel like there's this
Speaker 2: aspect that people sometimes don't think about, which is the
Speaker 2: fun of fantasy sports, of watching the games, you know,
Speaker 2: because the thing about a win is that's always on
Speaker 2: a you know, that can go either way, right up
Speaker 2: till the ninth inning. So that's something where you can
Speaker 2: watch the game even after your pitcher's out of the game.
Speaker 2: If you really need that win, you're sweating it out
Speaker 2: to see if they can get it.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Sort of like you know, like people have about field
Speaker 2: goals in football, same kind of thing. It's like fun
Speaker 2: to watch, it's fun to root for when you're watching
Speaker 2: the game. So that's something too.
Speaker 1: And Wonky, I love the first line here. I love
Speaker 1: the randomness of wins me too. I actually don't Saves
Speaker 1: is another thing. I'm not someone that's proponent of being
Speaker 1: like we should have saves plus holds. I'm okay with
Speaker 1: absolute chaos and randomness in fantasy sports. And if somebody
Speaker 1: also wanted to be like, hey, I'm want to have
Speaker 1: a league that has quality starts because wins are fickle. Cool,
Speaker 1: that's great, but you know, winds are still wins. Wins
Speaker 1: are still out there, and it's something that we consider.
Speaker 1: Last couple of pizza pieces of news here Jared Kelnick
Speaker 1: on his way back as he was recalled from Triple
Speaker 1: A to Coma. My god, if you follow the news.
Speaker 1: About a month ago, Jared Keelnick went on his social
Speaker 1: media and deleted everything he had in reference to the Mariners,
Speaker 1: which doesn't seem too great. He does get the callback
Speaker 1: in Triple A so far this year eighteen homers, nine
Speaker 1: stolen bases, not too too shabby. Did hit two ninety
Speaker 1: five cut a strikeout rate from his major league rate
Speaker 1: of around twenty eight percent last season. This year was
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent. Cut it down to twenty That's still
Speaker 1: higher though than almost every other I don't want to
Speaker 1: say every single but with the Mariners, there's only one
Speaker 1: time he had a higher strikeout rate in the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: and that was at high ag. In twenty nineteen, when
Speaker 1: he moved three levels, he had a twenty five point
Speaker 1: eight percent strikeout rate. Twenty point eight is the second
Speaker 1: highest Mariner's k percentage he's had in the miners, which
Speaker 1: is still concerning. So I don't want to like you
Speaker 1: look and see the majors he had a thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent strikeout rate and he cuts it down to twenty
Speaker 1: in the miners. It doesn't make me still feel great
Speaker 1: because it's still one of the highest ones. But he
Speaker 1: did connect with a lot of long balls, he stole
Speaker 1: some bases, kept his average up around two ninety. We'll
Speaker 1: see if it translate. It feels very much Joe Adellish
Speaker 1: where it's like you hit between two seventy and two
Speaker 1: ninety and the miners you come back, you still can't
Speaker 1: hit a high fastball. You still are trying to sit
Speaker 1: on off speed stuff, which kills the fastball, and then
Speaker 1: you try to cheat on the high end and you
Speaker 1: get beat low. Let's see if Jared Kalnick does it.
Speaker 1: I have zero hopes for it, but if you can
Speaker 1: get a couple of days of some positive returns. Maybe
Speaker 1: we can take it into the offseason, but it'll be
Speaker 1: all but nothing. I'm going to guess for everybody moving
Speaker 1: into next year, including you, Andrew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean right now, I hate to say it,
Speaker 2: but he has all the markings of a quad A
Speaker 2: player at the moment. I mean, a guy that can
Speaker 2: succeed in Triple A but cannot succeed in the majors.
Speaker 2: Whether it's a confidence issue or what. We just we've
Speaker 2: seen enough struggles, you know. I feel like when air
Speaker 2: Across was willing to like give up the ghost on
Speaker 2: kal Nick, it was like giving all the rest of
Speaker 2: us permission to do that too, because it's just been
Speaker 2: so disappointing.
Speaker 1: And Eric went at it like that that was a
Speaker 1: tough thing that we all have those guys.
Speaker 2: We all have those oh totally, and he gets so
Speaker 2: much right. I don't mean it as criticism.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm great friends of Eric and we always
Speaker 1: talked about but I give him crap about it because
Speaker 1: you know, there was this huge debate of going on
Speaker 1: for years. I was Julio over Kelnick when it wasn't
Speaker 1: popular to do. I'm making this about me, but also
Speaker 1: there with the Kelnick versus Wander, which is really not
Speaker 1: a great winner right now, but it's still clearly Wander.
Speaker 1: But that's a tough one. But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's like you could have people myself others that have
Speaker 1: been anti Kelnic. But as soon as like Eric let
Speaker 1: that go. That was like the last passenger, that was
Speaker 1: the ship captain. The captain couldn't go down with the ship.
Speaker 1: At the very end, everybody was off the boat and
Speaker 1: he finally got off, and then it was permission to
Speaker 1: be like, oh yeah, Quada.
Speaker 2: And that's like, honestly, that's one of the most important
Speaker 2: things in fantasy sports is to not get locked in
Speaker 2: your takes. And when things change on the field. You see,
Speaker 2: you learn new and every day in this game, and
Speaker 2: you have to factor that in and eventually that tipping
Speaker 2: point is reached. And you know, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if at some point in the future we see Jared
Speaker 2: Kelnick have a great season out of nowhere when he's
Speaker 2: twenty seven, twenty eight years old and he's on his
Speaker 2: third franchise or.
Speaker 3: Something for the Mariners.
Speaker 2: Though you know, like that that seems like that that's
Speaker 2: going to happen at some point, but in the short term,
Speaker 2: it's just really hard to be optimistic that he's that
Speaker 2: this is the time where he's suddenly going to figure
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Busy, you are right. It is always about
Speaker 1: the well shuts, right, I will point out, I very
Speaker 1: very much believe Jared Kinnick will be traded this offseason.
Speaker 1: I think you'll have a new home. I think the
Speaker 1: Mariners are going to move on. Don't want distractions. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a place for him, and I think
Speaker 1: they will find a situation where they can just do
Speaker 1: an even swap, probably a pitcher, pitcher that needs a
Speaker 1: new home for a hitter that needs some destination. And
Speaker 1: unfortunately Jered Kelnick is trending more in the Clint Fraser
Speaker 1: territory than anybody else. Also a little piece, Stephen Vote
Speaker 1: is announcing that he's retiring at the conclusion of the year.
Speaker 1: Even Votes just fun player, plays the Diamondbacks great year.
Speaker 2: I believe in Steven Vote. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: ever heard that before. I get that going in the Crown. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's just a great dude too.
Speaker 1: Not much on the injury front, though Adam wayn Wright
Speaker 1: acknowledged on Tuesday that he's battling some arm fatigue. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to do anything and
Speaker 1: maybe push that last start off or if they If they,
Speaker 1: I mean even if they don't, I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: shy away. Hearing arm fatigue on the back end of
Speaker 1: the season doesn't really make me feel too good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm suffering from arm fatigue too, from all the typing,
Speaker 2: all the articles I've been writing.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I got the finger fatigue. I had the
Speaker 1: glove on earlier, getting like arthritis from all the clicking
Speaker 1: I've got on. The stat heroes from yesterday, Glabor Torres
Speaker 1: had a two homer day, five RBI, three for four
Speaker 1: with four runs. That's going to help you. Oswaldo Cabrera.
Speaker 1: Cabrera had a homer with five RBIs for the Yankees.
Speaker 1: He's been quite nice in his little run. Stephen Kwan,
Speaker 1: who is really quietly and secretly re established himself when
Speaker 1: he had that great first big start to the year
Speaker 1: and then he really tapered down. Where were the counting
Speaker 1: stats all the of a sudden, They've just come back
Speaker 1: in droves, And I think I was just looking him up.
Speaker 1: I want to confirm it before I say it, because
Speaker 1: yesterday he went out and he had a combo meal
Speaker 1: day homer with a stolen base. He was three for five,
Speaker 1: and we questioned, I question where the counting stats were
Speaker 1: not the seventeen stolen bases, hitting about three hundred, a
Speaker 1: higher walk percentage in K percentage, five homers is still
Speaker 1: not much. He's got eighty runs and seventeen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Here's what I tell you, The homers and RBI you
Speaker 1: really want. That's a big category, but it's the most
Speaker 1: easy replaceable one. He's actually gone from a one category
Speaker 1: player to a three category player stolen. If you get
Speaker 1: twenty stolen bases, if you get ninety runs and a
Speaker 1: three hundred batting average, that's a serviceable player that he
Speaker 1: wasn't and didn't seem like he was before, which I'm
Speaker 1: very impressed with him going into next year because I
Speaker 1: was out for I just don't care about a guy
Speaker 1: who's a high batting average. But now that you put
Speaker 1: three categories on the table, we can make do with
Speaker 1: the other two. He's not an albatross, and that's what
Speaker 1: I really like about Kwan. He's been a this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I totally agree that the stolen bases
Speaker 2: are so so key, and then also just the fact
Speaker 2: that that team has been scoring a lot of runs
Speaker 2: and he's been scoring a lot of runs in that lineup,
Speaker 2: So those two things have really made him more interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, I still feel like the margin for error
Speaker 2: is small when you don't hit for power. You need
Speaker 2: those steals, like it's critical that he gets them to
Speaker 2: have the fantasy value. But I would also point out
Speaker 2: that he gets a little bit of a boost in
Speaker 2: a points league where you know, he's got double digit
Speaker 2: walk rate year in and year out, so that helps
Speaker 2: as well with his value.
Speaker 1: Very true. Kyle Stowers for the Orioles hit a homer
Speaker 1: three RBI, Martin Maldonado had a home run. Nick Fortes,
Speaker 1: Joymnesis Matt vere both had homers. Matt Verling was five
Speaker 1: for five, and Willia Damas one of the quest quiteest
Speaker 1: thirty home run seasons that a guy who's put together
Speaker 1: had a homer yesterday, going one for two. Joymness also
Speaker 1: continuing his push for dynasty relevance and back end of
Speaker 1: league drafting next season. On the picture side, Blake's now
Speaker 1: we mentioned Struck out thirteen over seven Jordan Lyles the
Speaker 1: full game, Kaprillion had those six strikeouts, Mackenzie struck out thirteen,
Speaker 1: and he's just Lozardo six and two thirds with eleven k's.
Speaker 1: That Marlin's line up putting out. You know some decent
Speaker 1: pitchers that we can value into next year. On the
Speaker 1: zero's a couple of rookies, JJ Blede and Josh Young
Speaker 1: both oh for four with four strikeouts, some for three
Speaker 1: with three k's, Chris morel Manny Machado, Tommy fam and
Speaker 1: Paul de Young and oh for four with three k's,
Speaker 1: Andris Michael Massey and Victor Roblis. On the pitching side,
Speaker 1: Dustin May got lit a little bit, four earned five
Speaker 1: earned runs over four innings, gave up seven hits. Roinsi
Speaker 1: Contreras he struck out ten, but he gave up six
Speaker 1: earned runs. And Lance Lynn went six but gave up
Speaker 1: nine hits, only struck out three three earned runs. That's
Speaker 1: not really a stat zero. That's as quality start. He
Speaker 1: got a quality start, it just wasn't very lenish. If
Speaker 1: you will, any of those guys jump out to Rowenzi May,
Speaker 1: any of the strikeout guys, I kind of burned through those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just sort of watch it through
Speaker 2: my own leagues. At this point in the season, I
Speaker 2: have Lance Lynn, So he got off to a rough
Speaker 2: are in that game. It looked like it was going
Speaker 2: to be disastrous, but he kind of settled in and
Speaker 2: a lot of hits, but it certainly doesn't kill you
Speaker 2: the numbers he put up. And then you know Rosey
Speaker 2: Contreras and Dustin May I love those guys' longer term,
Speaker 2: but they're young pitchers and there's going to be ups
Speaker 2: and downs.
Speaker 1: So the home run call, which, by the way, reminder
Speaker 1: to let everybody know one of these guys or gals
Speaker 1: is going to be winning a signed for Nando Tatis
Speaker 1: Junior Jersey. Whoever gets the home run call correct. Well,
Speaker 1: I picked Mooki Bets yesterday and quite a few other
Speaker 1: people did, and that changed the scope of the board.
Speaker 1: By the way, not that I really want it, but
Speaker 1: can I get a heat check? I have no idea
Speaker 1: where my homers are probably in the thirties, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be on the board. I did get a
Speaker 1: double home run call yesterday for my Mookie Bets, but
Speaker 1: I have a feeling I'm at like thirty five or
Speaker 1: thirty six, which is not great because it's not on
Speaker 1: the board. But I'm just curious, Wonky, or if anybody
Speaker 1: knows what my home run total is. But Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: changed the board yesterday because now we are tied at
Speaker 1: the top. El Skill and Kat Fox are both sitting
Speaker 1: at fifty five. Ol Skill had Mookie Bets, which was
Speaker 1: a ding cat. Fox had Kyle Schwarber, which was a
Speaker 1: right up on their heels Helpless in Miami is at
Speaker 1: fifty four, So three people within one homer with like
Speaker 1: a little over a week to go. We also had
Speaker 1: Highcve at fifty two and de Blum at fifty, so
Speaker 1: five people at the fifty homer mark here is quite
Speaker 1: a little bit. So okay, So Wonky updated, I feel
Speaker 1: actually not too bad about that. Wonkey and I are
Speaker 1: both at thirty eight. You know, that's not too far
Speaker 1: from making the board. If I if we had a
Speaker 1: nice little run, there we go. Ah, Wonkey has thirty nine, boo,
Speaker 1: but I have thirty eight. Wonkey, you and I could
Speaker 1: make a nice little run and maybe make the board
Speaker 1: by the end of the year. That's not too too shabby.
Speaker 1: But there you go. That's the home run stuff. We'll
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 1: think is kind of sneaky at nine to three. Stacking
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Speaker 1: go today, But I kind of honed in on maybe
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Speaker 1: top end bats there, maybe you can stack that if
Speaker 1: that's what you want to do. Over on the home
Speaker 1: run contest today, there's no extra bonus, But Andrew Psyct,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go first. Who do you have
Speaker 1: on your home run call for today? I think you've
Speaker 1: done pretty good. I don't know what your percentage is
Speaker 1: on the air, but I feel like you've done pretty
Speaker 1: good at this.
Speaker 2: I've hit a couple out of the park. Yeah, not
Speaker 2: as many of bats as the rest of you.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, but your percentage. I think your
Speaker 1: home run the fly ball is looking pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm I allowed to have the same player
Speaker 2: as Wonky because that's what I was planning to do.
Speaker 2: And I see Wonky has Jordan Slash Jordan Alvarez as well,
Speaker 2: and that's who I want to go with against Kyle Bradish.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a good matchup.
Speaker 2: You know, Alvarez has only faced him three times, but
Speaker 2: I just I just think it's always a good bet
Speaker 2: to beat on Alvarez, especially when he's facing questionable pitching.
Speaker 1: I feel even though you know, I do want to
Speaker 1: point out I have thirty eight, I'm I'm not too
Speaker 1: upset about my number, even though I know I'm not
Speaker 1: at the top of the list. But thirty ain't too bad.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight ain't too bad because it's very close to
Speaker 1: the list, so I probably should really hone in if
Speaker 1: I want to get into the forties. But just gonna
Speaker 1: do it. I got a feeling I had a feeling
Speaker 1: on Judge on the sixty and I forgot to mention
Speaker 1: on this show, but I told you guys the next
Speaker 1: day that they had the bonus over on DraftKings, and
Speaker 1: I took it where you got the plus sixty percent
Speaker 1: bonus to make the bet he'd hit it. I did.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, even though the lineup, you know, I
Speaker 1: probably should look as I'm doing this, because I have
Speaker 1: a backup. I went to look before the show started.
Speaker 1: The lineups were not out. It's still not out, but
Speaker 1: I am going to go with Albert Poolholes and number
Speaker 1: six ninety nine happening today against Joe Musgrove. Who does
Speaker 1: I think I have a career homer on decent batting average.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with some big conversation piece and give
Speaker 1: me some Albert Pools. If he is not in the
Speaker 1: starting lineup. My pivot it's Julio Rodriguez. I'm going on
Speaker 1: complete opposite that ends of age. Pools could be his
Speaker 1: dad at this point. So I'm going with Julio if
Speaker 1: Poolhols is not in the lineup, So mark that down
Speaker 1: for everybody. And as you said, Wonky has got Alvarez
Speaker 1: Joe of course as Aaron judge, and I don't see
Speaker 1: anything from Mayor yet that he'll put his home run
Speaker 1: in the discord. If you guys are there we have
Speaker 1: a home run room. You literally can go in you
Speaker 1: hashtag a home run slash and your player and it
Speaker 1: is tracked. It's really cool. It's one of the many,
Speaker 1: many cool things that they've got over on the discord
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Speaker 1: the article coming up on Saturday. Anything else on the
Speaker 1: baseball front or just waiting waiting for the ship.
Speaker 2: Just waiting for the ship really at this point. And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm always happy to answer anyone's questions on Twitter,
Speaker 2: so at Andrew Underscore Siftter. If you have any last
Speaker 2: minute lineup questions or you know, waiver wire concerns, please
Speaker 2: do reach out.
Speaker 3: Happy to answer all those questions.
Speaker 1: Great stuff. Follow me on Twitter at is as well
Speaker 1: as you guys know the deal prospect one coming up
Speaker 1: this week talking about the Arizona Fall League. I have
Speaker 1: been trying to get out to instructional games, but it's
Speaker 1: been raining here. Might get out today to one of them.
Speaker 1: We'll see and I'll be sharing all that stuff over
Speaker 1: on my Twitter or We've got a Patreon for in
Speaker 1: this league where I've got a special group me room
Speaker 1: where I share some extra stuff that I don't put
Speaker 1: out there, like even goofy stuff. I actually saw a
Speaker 1: couple of baseball players at the grocery store the other day,
Speaker 1: a couple of big name prospects, and I shared that
Speaker 1: it's goofy. It's wellsh in the bushes searching for the prospects,
Speaker 1: that's what it. No, they were shopping, they were shot.
Speaker 1: It's a very very big name Texas Ranger prospect that
Speaker 1: I saw shopping. If you can put those together on
Speaker 1: who might be out here. But that is it, friends,
Speaker 1: that is for the show. We will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Chris Cleig is in the house, and I believe next week,
Speaker 1: Andrew is our last show. You and I together on
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