Speaker 1: What's going on everybody. Thank you so much for wrapping
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Speaker 1: right here on Fantasy Pros. I'm your host, Joe Rico,
Speaker 1: going by my dear friend Casey Bubba, and we are
Speaker 1: going to get to all of your baseball related questions,
Speaker 1: talk about some headlines, go through the injury news and notes.
Speaker 1: But this will be a show directed by the Peanuts
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Speaker 1: five games yesterday, there was a couple of interesting things
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about, but please fill up your
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Speaker 1: rest of the season. Questions, trades, waiver wires, anything you
Speaker 1: guys got, please fill it up in the chat. Bubba,
Speaker 1: my friend. It is great to wrap up our weeks
Speaker 1: together again. It's like every year I really look forward
Speaker 1: to our time doing shows together. And it's good to
Speaker 1: be in the good days right now. You don't know
Speaker 1: you're in the good days until you've left them, but
Speaker 1: right now we are in the good days.
Speaker 2: Gosh, you're getting older with days, you're starting to sound
Speaker 2: like it now do Rica.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. You're still young at HARP.
Speaker 3: You're young in your activities, but you're getting old at heart.
Speaker 3: Is what we'll go with on that one.
Speaker 2: But yes, it's great to wrap it up on our
Speaker 2: Friday Bummer five games. But like you said, that means
Speaker 2: the voice of the people get to lead the show today,
Speaker 2: which is always a good win in the week.
Speaker 1: We love our audience here, the Penis and Cracker Jacks,
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Speaker 1: got some great questions already wrapping up in the chat here,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna get to some headlines and we will
Speaker 1: get to the questions in a little bit. But I
Speaker 1: think we need to start off with Gavin Williams. I remember, Bubba,
Speaker 1: there was a show we did, one of the final
Speaker 1: shows we did last year. Gavin Williams had a great
Speaker 1: start and we talked about him because last season was
Speaker 1: it was a pretty good year for him, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't to this extent. I know he had a lower
Speaker 1: era last year, but Gavin Williams seems to be on
Speaker 1: a different level this season and he showed it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Seven innings, two hits, no walks nowhere and runs eleven
Speaker 1: strikeouts against the Twins. A really tough way to get
Speaker 1: a no decision, but I think his fantasy managers will
Speaker 1: still take it. We're looking at a three seventy eight era,
Speaker 1: a one to ten whip, but really the strikeouts are
Speaker 1: the thing for me. This year, he's always been kind
Speaker 1: of mediocre, a little bit above average twenty three to
Speaker 1: twenty four percent. He's up aout thirty percent this year.
Speaker 1: He shaved four points off the walk right down to
Speaker 1: seven percent. Is Gavin Williams a fantasy ace because it
Speaker 1: feels like we're pretty close to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've always been a tremendous Gavin Williams fan. Like you
Speaker 2: mentioned last year, we were kind of like, Okay, he's close,
Speaker 2: He's close, and it always came down to me. It's
Speaker 2: like the strikeout of stuff was there, but it's more
Speaker 2: the control of the walks. Losing that four percent in
Speaker 2: walks has allowed him to be more aggressive in the zone.
Speaker 2: I feel like he had that immaculate inning yesterday and
Speaker 2: I saw that the pitch grid. Half of the strikes
Speaker 2: in that immaculated anywhere out of the zone because he
Speaker 2: got people to Chase because he was locating early in
Speaker 2: the counts, which is a testament to his development. His
Speaker 2: swinging strike rate has gone up to almost fourteen percent.
Speaker 2: That's about a two and a half percent jump from
Speaker 2: last year. So to the continued point, he's just dominating
Speaker 2: the zone. He's forcing the swing and miss. And more importantly,
Speaker 2: like I said, no walks leads to this development because
Speaker 2: he's actually giving up more home runs this year, so
Speaker 2: he's he's not afraid to be in the zone. It's
Speaker 2: like the old adage when Scherzer and Verlander were great.
Speaker 2: They didn't care about a solo home run, but they
Speaker 2: were gonna blow it by you ten. Gavin Williams, maybe
Speaker 2: we'll still talk. It's three straight games of at least
Speaker 2: I think eleven strikeouts. Like the dude is flago right now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, big fan of his. I think guy's the
Speaker 2: limit if he can keep that control in place.
Speaker 1: Actually didn't realize, but yeah, three in a row with
Speaker 1: eleven strikeouts. It is his fifth eleven strikeout game of
Speaker 1: the year. And he also has another game with ten,
Speaker 1: so he's really racking up the case. And if you
Speaker 1: look at the individual pitches this year, he's getting whiffs
Speaker 1: on all of them, twenty one percent swinging strike rate
Speaker 1: on his sweeper, sixteen percent on the four seamer, thirteen
Speaker 1: on the curve ball, eleven percent on the cutter sinker.
Speaker 1: Not quite as high as seven percent, but when you
Speaker 1: have four offerings that you can get whiffs with, I
Speaker 1: think that's a really, really key part of the success.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously a sucker for strikeouts like we all are,
Speaker 1: and seeing a thirty percent strikeout rate after years of
Speaker 1: twenty three twenty four to go along with a four
Speaker 1: percent drop in the walk rate, it's strikeout to walk rate,
Speaker 1: I think is still my favorite stat to look at,
Speaker 1: even with all the fancy ones we have, and he
Speaker 1: went from twelve point eight percent in the strikeout to
Speaker 1: walk rate department to twenty three point four. That is
Speaker 1: one of the biggest jumps of the year. So really
Speaker 1: good stuff from Gavin Williams. On the other side, TODJ.
Speaker 1: Bradley also looked really good. Not to the same level,
Speaker 1: but seven innings, two hits, three walks, one earned run
Speaker 1: and five strikeouts.
Speaker 3: TODJ.
Speaker 1: Bradley, It's been a little bit of an up and
Speaker 1: down season. There was a period in the middle months
Speaker 1: I want to say it was like May June where
Speaker 1: he had a couple of clunkers. But I think this
Speaker 1: is probably the best version of TODG. Bradley that we've
Speaker 1: seen at A three sixty nine era A one twenty
Speaker 1: two whip Again. I talked about the strikeout to walk rate.
Speaker 1: He was an eleven percent last year with a dip
Speaker 1: in the k's that we saw. He's backed up to
Speaker 1: seventeen percent this year. I don't think that Todge Bradley
Speaker 1: is necessarily an ace, but I'll always believe in the
Speaker 1: back of my head that there is still even a
Speaker 1: farther level that he can unlock. Bubba, what have you
Speaker 1: thought about him this season? Has he been a set
Speaker 1: it and forget it guy for you? And do you
Speaker 1: think that there is another level he can take moving forward?
Speaker 2: I definitely set it and forget it guy. Another level
Speaker 2: could be tricky because with TODs Bradley, if it comes
Speaker 2: down to home runs and walk similar to Gavin with
Speaker 2: most pitchers in baseball, but it was a really bad
Speaker 2: trend in recent years with Ods Bradley, and he's honed
Speaker 2: that in because, like you said, we saw signs of
Speaker 2: that in Tampa Bay from time to time, and we're
Speaker 2: really getting it now in Minnesota, Like he got a
Speaker 2: whole new lease on life on pitching. Little hiccup mid
Speaker 2: season as you mentioned, but like over the last month
Speaker 2: we're talk going to two eight four e a one
Speaker 2: toh three whip which is great, a twenty percent k
Speaker 2: to walk, which we love to see because it's due
Speaker 2: to a thirty percent strikeout rate and then over a
Speaker 2: thirteen percent swinging strike so he's taken advantage of things,
Speaker 2: thirty five percent ball rate, so he's not living outside
Speaker 2: the zone very often. All the things you want to
Speaker 2: see from him, and he's can continue to improve as
Speaker 2: the season has gone along, even with that hiccup in
Speaker 2: the middle. So I think he's a set it and
Speaker 2: forget it for now. He's you know, dare I say,
Speaker 2: don't want to take take your boy, but he's kind
Speaker 2: of in that Cavali tier for me, like we see
Speaker 2: what we're doing and you can kind of roll with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there is the upside for the seven inning,
Speaker 1: eleven strikeout game, and the downside is still two innings,
Speaker 1: eight urn runs like it is for pretty much every pitcher.
Speaker 3: But you can go fuol Joe Ryan on us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he definitely has the potential to blow up on you.
Speaker 1: But I am a taj Bradley fan. I think that
Speaker 1: this season is probably the best we've ever seen from him.
Speaker 1: He's stranding more batters than usual he expected. Era is
Speaker 1: the best we've seen, so cautiously optimistic he can continue
Speaker 1: to build on this and eventually give us maybe a
Speaker 1: fantasy a season in the future at some point. But
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Chris Sale because we
Speaker 1: were talking on stream yesterday and there was a couple
Speaker 1: of comments to say, Sales already getting blown up and
Speaker 1: it's looking ugly already, and I was thinking we were
Speaker 1: headed for a rare clunker from Chris Sale. But he
Speaker 1: left it at just three runs. He ended up going
Speaker 1: six innings and struck out eleven batters. So nothing to
Speaker 1: really be that worried about. But the interesting thing with
Speaker 1: Chris Sale this year that I noticed and somebody pointed
Speaker 1: out on Twitter. I wish I knew who it was
Speaker 1: so I could give them credit for it. But Chris
Speaker 1: Sale is throwing harder this season than he's ever thrown before,
Speaker 1: which is a little bit odd in your age thirty
Speaker 1: seven year But if you look at his fastball velocity
Speaker 1: going back to when he was a rookie night ninety four,
Speaker 1: ninety three, seven ninety three, ninety four, ninety five, ninety three,
Speaker 1: ninety three, this series fastball is over ninety six miles
Speaker 1: an hour for the first time. And it's not just
Speaker 1: the fastball, the four seam rtch to say, the sinker
Speaker 1: is also up in terms of velocity. The slider is up,
Speaker 1: and the changeup is up. And the theory that I
Speaker 1: have in my head potential here is that is Chris
Speaker 1: Sale just leaving it all out on the line this year.
Speaker 1: He knows in his head this is the last season
Speaker 1: he's going to play. He's planning on retirement, so he's
Speaker 1: just throwing a little bit extra bullets in the tank
Speaker 1: this year. Bubba, does that sound like something that could
Speaker 1: be working.
Speaker 2: It could be thirty seven years old and throwing ninety
Speaker 2: seven basically is insane to.
Speaker 3: Think about this.
Speaker 2: This is a Nolan Ryan Addville commercial for you old
Speaker 2: folks out there. It's nuts. And the fact that you
Speaker 2: mentioned he boosted it's kind of like how Verlander picked
Speaker 2: up speed towards the end. And obviously it's hit a
Speaker 2: wall now at his age like forty two season or whatever.
Speaker 2: But has Siale officially said he's done after this year?
Speaker 2: Because I haven't heard that, but I know he's close.
Speaker 2: I get your point, but yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's actually said it. But just like
Speaker 1: reading the tea leaves thirty seven years old, you'd figure, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been a de Gram guy for a
Speaker 1: long time. But the thing that de Gram has done
Speaker 1: the last couple of years is he's intentionally not throwing
Speaker 1: as hard as he's capable of to try and keep
Speaker 1: himself healthy. And it feels like maybe the reverse here
Speaker 1: with Sale in his head, if he's like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is it for me, this is my last season. There's
Speaker 1: no need to try and maintain long term health. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna fire bullets every fifth start. And maybe that's wrong.
Speaker 1: That's just a total theory. Could definitely be wrong. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting that after all these years, Chris Sale has
Speaker 1: his highest fastball velocity is at age that.
Speaker 2: That is I never noticed that. That is quite an interesting.
Speaker 2: This is where you know, I know beat writers have
Speaker 2: a tough job, but this as the fantasy person, I
Speaker 2: love a beat writer to ass like what's behind this, Like,
Speaker 2: what's what happened? But I don't know if we're gonna
Speaker 2: get that until maybe after the season.
Speaker 1: He does have an extension, I think looking at a
Speaker 1: club twenty twenty seven. So we'll see what happens. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. But just something interesting that popped up
Speaker 1: that I thought we'd mentioned. And I also wanted to
Speaker 1: mention Shane Bieber, because Shane Bieber, I mean, it looked
Speaker 1: like he was toast. He took the offer like the
Speaker 1: second he could in the off season, look like, you know,
Speaker 1: Blue Jays fans were really excited, but the tea leaves
Speaker 1: were why is he not exploring his options at least
Speaker 1: a little bit here. Looked like he wasn't healthy and
Speaker 1: he wasn't missed a good chunk of the season. His
Speaker 1: first few starts back were awful, just dreadful stuff from
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber. The last two really the last three, but
Speaker 1: in particular the starts against the White Sox and yesterday
Speaker 1: against Tampa have been really good. Yesterday he went seven innings,
Speaker 1: three hits, one run, ball with no walks and three strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Only three strikeouts is a little bit weird to see
Speaker 1: from Shane Bieber. But my question here to you, Bubba,
Speaker 1: is I think the Blue Jays are going to be
Speaker 1: positioned as sellers. The way that they're going, Shane Bieber
Speaker 1: looks like he will be a trade ship. If you
Speaker 1: were a team, whether it's a real life or fantasy,
Speaker 1: and you're looking at what Shane Bieber's done over the
Speaker 1: last couple of starts, would you be trying to acquire
Speaker 1: him or do you think that this is simply just
Speaker 1: a couple of good, lucky starts and he's still maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit washed at this point.
Speaker 2: I'm still leaning the washed of things, but I've really
Speaker 2: never been a Bieber guy.
Speaker 3: SAT's on me.
Speaker 2: But what he's benefited from in these last two starts
Speaker 2: where he's been very good and it's totally fine. It's
Speaker 2: it's the low walk rate, which we've mentioned multiple times
Speaker 2: on this show, but it's also a sixty two percent
Speaker 2: ground ball rate over those two starts when he's been
Speaker 2: in the forty fives most of the season in his career.
Speaker 2: So he's really taking advantage. He's letting them put it
Speaker 2: in play at limiting the damage. How long can that last?
Speaker 2: Is my question with Shane Bieber because he's Yes, he's
Speaker 2: been very effective over two starts, not going to knock
Speaker 2: that Tampa Bay White Sox two tough offenses, but it's
Speaker 2: like he's not striking guys out. So it's a lot
Speaker 2: of balls in play to rely on a ground ball
Speaker 2: and to take advantage of a babbitb situation that I
Speaker 2: don't think I'm ready, Like it's a one to forty
Speaker 2: three babbub yesterday, a two to fourteen babbub in the
Speaker 2: previous start, when he's well over three hundred prior to that.
Speaker 2: So what does he regress to is the question, And
Speaker 2: that's something I'd be terrified to figure out. Real life.
Speaker 2: Someone's going to trade for him, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: He will be a good fourth or fifth Like if
Speaker 2: if I have to watch Adrianauser and Malley pitch every
Speaker 2: fourth and fifth day, Shane Bieber will be on somebody's team.
Speaker 2: But for fantasy, I'm still not there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm with you. I think the Jay
Speaker 1: should cash in here. I mean, Shane Bieber last year
Speaker 1: was traded for Cal Stephen, who was of top Blue
Speaker 1: Jays pitching pro not the top, I don't think, but
Speaker 1: one of the top Blue Jay's pitching prospects. And you know,
Speaker 1: we see it every year the deadline. People overpay for pitching.
Speaker 1: So I think the Blue Jays should probably move on
Speaker 1: after these couple starts. Don't play any games, don't wait
Speaker 1: for another start. Trade him now. Well, it looks like
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Speaker 1: couple more headlines we are going to get through. Ian
Speaker 1: Seymour was pitching in bulk relief yesterday, and I think
Speaker 1: a couple people that I'd seen were a little bit
Speaker 1: worried after his previous few appearances did not look very good,
Speaker 1: but yesterday got back on track. That's what the Blue
Speaker 1: Jays will do to you. Six innings tour and runs,
Speaker 1: one walk and seven strikeouts For the season as a whole,
Speaker 1: it's a bit a little bit shaky pitching as a
Speaker 1: reliever and as a starter. It's a four to sixty
Speaker 1: four era, but he does have a one to fifteen
Speaker 1: whip and a twenty percent strikeout to walk. Great, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I was really hoping that he was going to be
Speaker 1: a starter this year all season long for the Rays,
Speaker 1: and then Steven Mattz and Nick Martinez signings and things
Speaker 1: got complicated. Do you think Ian Seymour, at some point,
Speaker 1: whether it's next year in the future, will eventually be
Speaker 1: like I set it and forget it, Fantasy top thirty,
Speaker 1: top forty starting pitcher, because I think that the upside
Speaker 1: is there for that. But I'm curious what you think
Speaker 1: about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, full agree.
Speaker 2: It's the Rays doing race things that make it from
Speaker 2: straight in for his fantasy folks. But basically since he's
Speaker 2: joined the rotation or been like the follower multiple basically
Speaker 2: a five inning guy where I'm going with this, it's
Speaker 2: been three year runs or less and all but one
Speaker 2: of those like seven outings, which is very very solid,
Speaker 2: forty five k's to eight walks over thirty five innings
Speaker 2: pitch and all this stuff you mentioned. The skills are great.
Speaker 2: What he reminds me of. If the Rays do the
Speaker 2: Rays thing, it's like a Drew Rasmussen thing. They're gonna
Speaker 2: baby him and then all of a sudden they're gonna
Speaker 2: let the leash go or like you know, we look
Speaker 2: at Seymour this way, Griffin Jackson's doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: They got him limited to like eighty pitches to start,
Speaker 2: and he's been great through five.
Speaker 3: So it's just what the Rays do.
Speaker 2: I think he can be a top thirty or forty
Speaker 2: pitcher if they let him go the Rasmussen route, where
Speaker 2: now Rasmus can go six or seven innings, if they
Speaker 2: do that next year or seem more than Yes, I
Speaker 2: fully agree with you I.
Speaker 1: Think the potential's there, and the samurai is laughing in
Speaker 1: the chat, but I mean the strikeout to walk rates,
Speaker 1: the expected stats are really good. It's a good ballpark
Speaker 1: to pitch, although it hasn't been as good of a
Speaker 1: ballpark to pitch in this year as years past suggest.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's been some changes to the trop
Speaker 1: or if it's just small sample size stuff with the
Speaker 1: park factors. But I'm a believer in Ian Seymour. I
Speaker 1: really am. He gets chases, he doesn't allow a lot
Speaker 1: of contact, he has a good swinging strike rate. The
Speaker 1: stuff grades out really well, deep deep arsenal like, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to really like with Ian Seymour. If people
Speaker 1: don't want to invest in him next year more for me,
Speaker 1: no problem at all. I want to talk about George Springer,
Speaker 1: and you know I will talk about Blue Jay's probably
Speaker 1: more regularly than the average person. But assuming I'm a
Speaker 1: blue Jay fan and George Springer has been really good recently,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm a blue Jay fan, not so much
Speaker 1: this year anymore. I've kind of given up. But George Springer,
Speaker 1: just looking over the last couple of months, has been
Speaker 1: really good. And I think most people have kind of
Speaker 1: written off George Springer. But since June fifth, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty played appearances, he's hitting two fifty two with
Speaker 1: a seven to seventy one ops a one to seventeen
Speaker 1: WRC plus. He has five homers, four stolen bases, with
Speaker 1: an eleven percent walk rate and a nineteen percent strikeout rate.
Speaker 1: So the season long numbers are still not good for
Speaker 1: George Springer, but he's got the WRC plus back up
Speaker 1: to a round average, and it looks like there might
Speaker 1: still be something left in the tank here, baba, Any
Speaker 1: chance for you, whether it's maybe a super shallow league
Speaker 1: where somebody has already moved on, or if it's even
Speaker 1: a deeper format, would you be looking to trade for
Speaker 1: George Springer off of this recent good stretch he's had,
Speaker 1: or do you think this is just a bit of
Speaker 1: a dead cat bounce that we've seen from him over
Speaker 1: the last couple of months.
Speaker 3: It's very tough.
Speaker 2: I've kind of written Springer off, like the last week's
Speaker 2: been great, hitting three sixty four homer and his steal
Speaker 2: things you love to see. But then you dig deeper
Speaker 2: and it's like last month, it's been two thirty four
Speaker 2: or two homers and that one steal steal. So basically
Speaker 2: outside of this one week, he's got one home run
Speaker 2: and one more RBI, he's got a solo shot in
Speaker 2: the previous three weeks. And that's what I'm looking at here.
Speaker 2: He's getting old, obviously, and I can say that as
Speaker 2: the old on this show, but it's a deep league
Speaker 2: goal only for me. When I look at George Springer,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking he's still hurt because when he came back
Speaker 2: from that foot injury or toe injury, and then he
Speaker 2: fouled the ball off of it right away, and he's
Speaker 2: pretty much primarily the DH and he can't play the
Speaker 2: outfield very often, so I think he's still hurt and
Speaker 2: he hitting the ball on the ground a ton deeply
Speaker 2: go only for me, I'm I'm going to give you
Speaker 2: the non Jays fan answer to that.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right. I needed some cold water.
Speaker 1: I needed, you know, bring me back.
Speaker 2: We all like Springer, don't get me wrong, and he
Speaker 2: did so much for you guys last year. It'd be
Speaker 2: hard for you to give up on him.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: But yes, well, what I think they should probably do
Speaker 1: is at at least look into trading him and maybe
Speaker 1: put some of the stats out there that I just mentioned. YO,
Speaker 1: look over the last month and a half, it's been
Speaker 1: a positive offensive force. He played the field the other
Speaker 1: day for the first time in the while. And he's
Speaker 1: a free agent, so I don't know I would try
Speaker 1: and trade everything that's not nailed down, but we'll see
Speaker 1: what ends up happening. Let's get out of Toronto and
Speaker 1: let's look at Alec Burlison, or as we call him
Speaker 1: in this house, Alec Berrel season. This guy has been
Speaker 1: unbelievable this season. I don't think he really got enough
Speaker 1: do I Mean, we mentioned him a couple times in
Speaker 1: draft season, but he was like a one eighty two
Speaker 1: hundred type of ADP guy from what I remember. I
Speaker 1: had three hits on Thursday. He's truly been one of
Speaker 1: the steals some draft season. A two to eighty four
Speaker 1: batting average, fifty four runs, fifteen homers, three steals, and
Speaker 1: sixty nine RBI. Just a phenomenal season from Alec Burlison.
Speaker 1: And it's really supported below the surface if you look
Speaker 1: at over the last couple of seasons what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do. Barrel rate has gone up in each
Speaker 1: of the last four years, average exit velocity the best
Speaker 1: of his career, heart hit rate best of his career.
Speaker 1: I could go on and on, but essentially every stat
Speaker 1: that we look at, for the most part, it's been
Speaker 1: a career season for Alec Burlson. So is this something
Speaker 1: that we look at as a legitimate type of breakout bubba?
Speaker 1: After a one twenty four WRC plus last year, he's
Speaker 1: repeating it again this season. Is this a guy that
Speaker 1: you think could maybe sneak into the top one hundred
Speaker 1: in draft rooms, maybe closer to one fifty. What's your
Speaker 1: thought on him heading into next season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an age twenty seven player doing it
Speaker 2: in back to back seasons and it's really not fluky.
Speaker 2: The the skills are supporting the production is what we
Speaker 2: like to see in this in this game we play
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe it's two or three more years
Speaker 2: until you it's his thirties and we see a decline
Speaker 2: like we see with some guys, But for now, you
Speaker 2: roll with it. And he's got that first base I
Speaker 2: don't know if he'll have out for that to go
Speaker 2: check that for next year, but in a first base
Speaker 2: position that's kind of walkey. He's definitely a top one fifty.
Speaker 2: Does he creep in the top one hundred, that's tricky,
Speaker 2: but I think everything we're seeing with him is valid,
Speaker 2: and it's a guy that deserves the recognition and the
Speaker 2: draft pick he will be given next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a huge fan. I know Seth our producer
Speaker 1: is definitely a huge fan, being the Cardinals fan that
Speaker 1: he is, and it's He's been a really fun player
Speaker 1: to watch for the last couple of seasons, and even
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, when the WORC plus wasn't quite
Speaker 1: as high, he still hit two seventy with twenty one
Speaker 1: homers in nine steals. So it's really three straight years
Speaker 1: of good production from him as a guy that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be undervalued again next year, but he just doesn't
Speaker 1: the sexiest fantasy player, but a guy that's really punched
Speaker 1: some tickets over the last three fantasy seasons. One more
Speaker 1: hitter in the headlines I wanted to talk about, and
Speaker 1: that's Manny Machado. He went two for four with a
Speaker 1: run scored in the lost with Atlanta yesterday. It's been
Speaker 1: a pretty bad season as a whole, but he does
Speaker 1: have twenty two homers and he does seem to have
Speaker 1: turned the a little bit recently. I argued with Spore
Speaker 1: pretty recently about this Bubba that I just I think
Speaker 1: that he is on the decline phase of his career.
Speaker 1: Not that he can't still be productive to some extent,
Speaker 1: but average exit velocities, hard hit rate, barrel rate, all
Speaker 1: those are trending in the wrong direction at this point
Speaker 1: of his career. Contact rates are not amazing and at
Speaker 1: his age, I wondered, thirty four years old, Bubba, what
Speaker 1: do you expect from Manny Machado going forward rest of season,
Speaker 1: heading into next year. I'm of the opinion that we're
Speaker 1: approaching the cliff, if we haven't already gone over at
Speaker 1: it's to some degree.
Speaker 3: What do you think? Yeah, No, he's on the decline.
Speaker 2: For those that listen to Bubba and the Blue and
Speaker 2: my co host Ryan his team Olds, that's his thing
Speaker 2: and Manny Mitchatdo is one of his favorite Olds as
Speaker 2: many's thirty four years old, and it was a big
Speaker 2: discussion point in the preseason Joe, I know you guys
Speaker 2: did it too. Is people are still drafting him as
Speaker 2: like the fourth or fifth third baseman at the position,
Speaker 2: and I guess that's maybe a testament how bad third
Speaker 2: base can be. But you look at Machado and yeah,
Speaker 2: the struggles are real. We'll also say we've seen an
Speaker 2: improvement and maybe it's more than many will get. Like
Speaker 2: the last month to sixty seven, eight home run seventeen
Speaker 2: RBIs that's that's outstanding.
Speaker 3: You'll take that right now.
Speaker 2: It was such a bad start, and he's always playing
Speaker 2: through injury because he doesn't sit. That was one thing
Speaker 2: we loved about Manny. It's you're getting one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty plus one hundred and sixty games every year. You
Speaker 2: can almost pencil in his stat line. This year you
Speaker 2: haven't been able to an extent. But the skills are
Speaker 2: still very good, is what I'll say. Like if you
Speaker 2: look at his power, metrics of his expected.
Speaker 3: Power all very good.
Speaker 2: It's it is declining though, And I think the decline
Speaker 2: might come more in the batting average because maybe the
Speaker 2: bat speed I haven't looked at that. That declines with
Speaker 2: age and that will affect other things. So I'm with you.
Speaker 2: He's thirty four. That's just the nature of life. But
Speaker 2: I think he's still very serviceable. It's just his ADP
Speaker 2: has to follow that decline.
Speaker 1: I mean I bought incoming into the year, and I
Speaker 1: was one of the people saying, look, he's one of
Speaker 1: the most consistent players in the game. He gives you
Speaker 1: five category production and an ostensibly good lineup, and it's
Speaker 1: it hasn't looked great, but the fact that he still
Speaker 1: has twenty two homers, fifty nine RBI fifty one runs
Speaker 1: like he's still been a valuable fantasy asset. But I
Speaker 1: think I agree. We're not paying third round prices or
Speaker 1: fourth round prices for him next year, at least I
Speaker 1: won't be, and we'll have to see where the market
Speaker 1: ends up landing on him for next year. Guys, want
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Speaker 1: questions here I've you know, there's there's not a lot
Speaker 1: else to get to on the sheet today because we
Speaker 1: only had the five games yesterday. So let's get into
Speaker 1: your questions. If there's anything you guys have, please feel
Speaker 1: free to throw it in there. BD need to choose
Speaker 1: two and head to had points points for quality starts
Speaker 1: as well. Jared Jones versus the Cubs score versus Seattle.
Speaker 1: In Eavaldi versus Seattle, I'm probably sitting Mackenzie Gore there.
Speaker 1: I was a face coming into the year, but it's
Speaker 1: just been more inconsistency from him this season. Jared Jones
Speaker 1: definitely a start. He looks great, and I just trust
Speaker 1: the Evaldi more than Gore, bubb, But what do you.
Speaker 2: Think Evaldi's the automatic for me? Jones is the best
Speaker 2: pitcher on this but if you need a quality start,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get one most likely. That's the
Speaker 2: only downside because of the innings. But I would still
Speaker 2: go Ivaldi and Jones. But if you're really jonesing for
Speaker 2: equality start, you'll have to take Gore over mister Jones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gore, I really thought that the change of scenery
Speaker 1: was going to do it for him this year, and
Speaker 1: it did for a while. It did for a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think he'd preferred maybe to be in
Speaker 1: Washington with that offense behind him, But then I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they'd prefer to have him back still.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just based on the way that they're pitching has gone
Speaker 1: this year, I think they're thirtieth and pitching war rough
Speaker 1: here for Gore. But one of these years he will
Speaker 1: figure it out eventually. Who that very apropos question with
Speaker 1: Bubba on the show one catcher category league, Gabriel Moreno
Speaker 1: or Yvonne Herrera Moreno three more hits yesterday after we
Speaker 1: talked about him yesterday, Bubba or von Herrera? What are
Speaker 1: you thinking here?
Speaker 2: I've been teamy von Herrera for most of the season,
Speaker 2: but I actually blasted him on a fab preview last
Speaker 2: night with Ryan. Yvon Herrera has been ice cold over
Speaker 2: the last month, like literally hitting a buck sixty eight
Speaker 2: over the last month with one home run in six RBIs.
Speaker 2: If it's a one catcher league and it's a points league,
Speaker 2: our category, whatever, go roll Gabby for now, like we
Speaker 2: talked about yesterday, as long as he's healthy, he's a
Speaker 2: very solid option.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a fan of both, but Gabby is Gabby's
Speaker 1: doing great things right now. And Bubba said, I didn't
Speaker 1: really realize how cold Herrera had been, but he has
Speaker 1: not been somebody that's been giving you a lot as
Speaker 1: of late. Big dance Starting Boyd today at Pittsburgh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think in most cases I probably am. I don't
Speaker 1: really feel strongly about it going either way. It's been
Speaker 1: a really good offense if you wanted to sit him,
Speaker 1: But if I had him, I'd probably start him. Bubba,
Speaker 1: what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm starting him.
Speaker 2: I'm always nervous facing Pittsburgh now, but yeah, you're art
Speaker 2: Matthew Boyd. And if he gets blown up then we
Speaker 2: started having a conversation of is Boyd startable going forward?
Speaker 2: Because it's not been great since coming off the hout.
Speaker 2: It's been not been bad, it's.
Speaker 3: Not been great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked really good at least below the surface
Speaker 1: earlier in the year before he got hurt. They missed
Speaker 1: a bunch of time and hasn't looked as good since
Speaker 1: he's come back. Should I activate a kunya before the
Speaker 1: one ten Pacific Games starts now? I was searching this
Speaker 1: morning and last night putting the sheet together, he could
Speaker 1: be activated today, but it's not a guarantee. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's been anything that's come up on the
Speaker 1: show while we've been recording, but I haven't seen an
Speaker 1: activation note or a blurb or a tweet or anything
Speaker 1: that says he actually has been activated. But according to
Speaker 1: Mark Bowman, it does look like it will be this weekend,
Speaker 1: if not today. If you have a Friday through Sunday lineup, Bubba,
Speaker 1: like just a weekend bi weekly lineup like NFBC has,
Speaker 1: are you putting Acuoni in there for the maybe one,
Speaker 1: maybe two games that you're getting from him this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'll take the two home runs he'll hit
Speaker 2: if he plays on Sunday, but I'm not doing it
Speaker 2: just because like he's been still limping around the wordage
Speaker 2: about how win and they'll activate him, of how he
Speaker 2: feels is. It's just been a weird scenario and like
Speaker 2: they said, he's going to be activatd like last weekend,
Speaker 2: it's been going on every day, so it should be
Speaker 2: this weekend. I'm still waiting until I see it happen.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: B D in the chat said that the Land of
Speaker 2: Paper says he's in Triple A today most likely, so
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 1: Okay, good to know, Bedie, thank you for that. So
Speaker 1: it looks like you're getting two games at absolute best
Speaker 1: out of him. So I guess in fifteen team leagues,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have a better option. Ten and twelve
Speaker 1: team leagues you likely do game OVA save hold league
Speaker 1: George Soriano or Alex Vesia. I feel like I probably
Speaker 1: would prefer to trust Vesia there, just given the team context,
Speaker 1: the higher strikeout upside.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Bubba, Yeah, I'm leaning Vessia. The
Speaker 2: team context alone goes along way. Sixteen holds and two
Speaker 2: saves for Soriano's pretty sweet, So I'm not knocking that. Actually,
Speaker 2: the more I look at it, maybe sorry Onald because
Speaker 2: Vessi his usage is so weird, and if Edwin Diaz returns,
Speaker 2: it just clogs up the back end even more. Vessi
Speaker 2: has got three saves and sixteen holes and go Vessia
Speaker 2: just got better team context.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think That's where I'm at as well here,
Speaker 1: And we also the next question hurts me a little bit.
Speaker 1: Are we officially worried about Braxton Ashcraft? One of my favorites.
Speaker 1: It's been a little bit of a rough go for
Speaker 1: him as of late, but it feels a little bit
Speaker 1: unlucky these blow ups that he's had four of them
Speaker 1: in the last eight starts. He's still getting the strikeouts,
Speaker 1: he's not walking a lot of batters. Still expected FIP
Speaker 1: over his last eight games is three twenty eight with
Speaker 1: the six era. It's funny that this happens right after
Speaker 1: I planned the flag a few weeks ago about Braxton
Speaker 1: Ashcraft on the show with Welsh. But I'm personally not
Speaker 1: that worried. I think he will end up being fine.
Speaker 2: But but what do you think, huge asscraft guy here,
Speaker 2: have him a lot big start versus the Cubs on Sunday.
Speaker 2: What I would say is they're going to limit innings.
Speaker 2: They're going to do it's a workload thing. He's running
Speaker 2: out of gas. Skills are still very good, swinging strike
Speaker 2: is still very good. The way they utilize them down
Speaker 2: the stretches the part it's going to be quite annoying
Speaker 2: for fantasy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will see about the limitations. I think we're
Speaker 1: all we all use the term crochede at this point,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe it happens three four innings starts
Speaker 1: to keep him healthy for I think they're still hoping
Speaker 1: to get into the postseason. What are they fifty three
Speaker 1: and fifty. We'll see if they make it. The National
Speaker 1: League is a little bit harder than the American League
Speaker 1: this year, but we'll see what they do down the
Speaker 1: stretch to try and keep Bracks and Ashcraft healthy. But
Speaker 1: I'm not worried from a talent perspective at all utility
Speaker 1: spot Royce Lewis, Many Machado or Mickey Moniac. I'm not
Speaker 1: a Royce Lewis guy anymore. I've given up Moniac. I
Speaker 1: like a lot from a talent perspective, but you can
Speaker 1: really only start him at home against righty's for the
Speaker 1: majority of the time. And Machado, as we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: he's really been heating up. So I'm going, Manny Machado here,
Speaker 1: Bubba with a bullet, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Machado for me, as I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's a daily league or not. But Moniac's got two
Speaker 2: lefties over the weekend, so that already crosses himount no
Speaker 2: matter if he's homeward road. So yeah, give me, give
Speaker 2: me Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and who that Yeah, we did answer that one
Speaker 1: before the Moreno and Herrero one. He says he cut
Speaker 1: out for him, but Moreno we are we are going
Speaker 1: with Gappy Moreno. There Lee asking about who do you
Speaker 1: like a shortstop this week and rest of the season, Jeremy
Speaker 1: Pagnia or Boba Schett in a points league. I guess
Speaker 1: probably Paanya. It's probably Paenya.
Speaker 3: It's Penia.
Speaker 2: Just pray his hamstrings, say's healthy, because when he's been
Speaker 2: on the field, he's still been a top five but
Speaker 2: pretty close stop five short stop. He just can't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: I wish, I really really wish for both of them
Speaker 1: that they could just stay healthy, stay on the field.
Speaker 1: And I don't I wonder if Pashett at all set
Speaker 1: himself back coming back on the World Series last year
Speaker 1: and playing hurt and limping around the bags like he did.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get talked about that much this season with
Speaker 1: his struggles. But is that something you guys have considered
Speaker 1: it all, Bubbo, that going back early to play in
Speaker 1: the World Series might have hurt Pashette in the long
Speaker 1: run a little bit.
Speaker 3: I haven't discussed it.
Speaker 2: It makes sense to what you're saying definitely, and he's
Speaker 2: because he's he's Bashett has been better over the last
Speaker 2: let's say, three to four weeks. But there could be
Speaker 2: something to your point for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a couple of times in the
Speaker 1: World Series where he did not look right. I know
Speaker 1: he had a big home run off a show, hey,
Speaker 1: but walking around the bases, he just did not look
Speaker 1: right in the World Series. Speaking of the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: World Series team and Py France, does he keep this
Speaker 1: up rest the season? The guy's been unbelievable. One thirty
Speaker 1: nine WRC plus sixteen homers in seventy seven games, a
Speaker 1: twelve percent barrel raid. The stats are unbelievable. For ty Franz,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lean towards he's probably not going to keep
Speaker 1: this up because he's never been this good really, at
Speaker 1: any point in his career. And why is he doing
Speaker 1: it in a pitcher's park at age thirty two for
Speaker 1: a bad team. But what do you think, Bob, I'm
Speaker 1: not a believer here.
Speaker 2: I'm not a believer, but like I still think he's
Speaker 2: gonna be very good. A lot of the underlying stuff
Speaker 2: supports the contact rates and the power and everything, but Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like, what next week we're gonna get Ezberlin, Valdez
Speaker 2: or Ty France rest of the season?
Speaker 3: Who you got?
Speaker 2: I can already see it coming. Oh, because they're both
Speaker 2: on an absolute monster teary. I think we both think
Speaker 2: they're going to regress. But who regresses less as the
Speaker 2: bigger question, and yeah, that's that's coming.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do there. Actually, I
Speaker 1: maybe France's profile feels more sustainable. Paldez has a lot
Speaker 1: of the contact issues, but he also has a much
Speaker 1: higher upside. I don't know if you if you had
Speaker 1: to pick one, who would you go with?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 2: I go Valdez, nothing against France. I think France is
Speaker 2: a great play as well, But give gives you as brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too. A couple more questions here
Speaker 1: we'll get to. Do you guys think Kyle Harrison will
Speaker 1: be limited when he comes back? Or should I scoop
Speaker 1: him up ten team roto? I think in the ten
Speaker 1: team it's a little bit trickier a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: but he has one hundred and twenty four inning season
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. He's at three innings right now,
Speaker 1: and if you look, rest of season, is he gonna
Speaker 1: go much farther than forty or so innings, fifty innings
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, rest of the season projections
Speaker 1: are between forty four and fifty four innings, which would
Speaker 1: put him about where he was in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So I don't expect huge, crazy limitations. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they'll let him go one hundred plus pitches every
Speaker 1: time out, but in the eighty to one hundred range
Speaker 1: feels pretty achievable. Bubba, what do you think they're Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: That's about fair. If you can stash them on your il,
Speaker 2: I'm all for that. He's gonna throw a bullpen this
Speaker 2: weekend and then a rehab start next Friday, the thirty first,
Speaker 2: is the plan. If all goes well, then he comes
Speaker 2: back the following week with the Brewers. So we have
Speaker 2: about two more weeks before we know what takes place here.
Speaker 2: But it's like we talked about yesterday with like miz
Speaker 2: and Henderson, is they need these guys for October. So
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of maneuvering in that Brewer's rotation,
Speaker 2: I feel like for sure.
Speaker 1: And zach netto the last question, Well, I believe it's
Speaker 1: the last question, although we'll get this some more later
Speaker 1: on Zach Netto. Will he fix the strikeout problem if
Speaker 1: traded to the Yankees or Red Sox. He'd better not
Speaker 1: be traded to the Yankees. That would really piss me off.
Speaker 3: That was the latest rumor, so yes.
Speaker 1: Was it really man? Well, they do need a shortstop,
Speaker 1: whether it's lindor Netto or whoever the hell they end
Speaker 1: up trading for. I don't think Vuolpi is the guy
Speaker 1: in the future, but a lot of strikeouts this year.
Speaker 1: It is a good point. Neto has a thirty one
Speaker 1: percent strikeo right in the first half, thirty two percent
Speaker 1: since coming back in the second half of play in
Speaker 1: just a six fifty three ops. Any concerned about him?
Speaker 1: Bye bye? I think that by and large he's probably
Speaker 1: been a bit of a disappointment this season based on
Speaker 1: what he did last year. Has been a bad year.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's quite lived up to his
Speaker 1: price tag.
Speaker 2: The strikeouts are very concerning, but yeah, the price tag
Speaker 2: nineteen homers thirteen steals that two thirty eight averages crushing you.
Speaker 2: He hasn't lived up to the price tag now, he's
Speaker 2: been just fine, Like, you're going to live with this
Speaker 2: because he's going to get you probably another twenty five
Speaker 2: potentially twenty season, which is what you're looking forward Zach Netto.
Speaker 2: You're just hoping a hot stretch comes in and he
Speaker 2: gets it, gets you back to two fifty and then
Speaker 2: it's almost the same stat is every other year for Netto,
Speaker 2: and he's not that far off as my point, he's
Speaker 2: just striking out of ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean the raw homers and steals are still
Speaker 1: gonna end up at like, you know, mid twenties and
Speaker 1: around twenty respectively, probably, so it'll still be a valuable
Speaker 1: fansy asset. But I think those strikeouts have hurt us
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think we would have hoped for
Speaker 1: a higher output of steels thirteen of them in one
Speaker 1: hundred games after he had twenty six of them last year.
Speaker 1: But it's still been a good season. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody who drafted Zack Natto is losing their lead because
Speaker 1: of him necessarily. One more question. We'll take one more
Speaker 1: question for now, Ian Seymour or Christian Scott. Rest of
Speaker 1: the season might be Christian Scott. I think both deserve
Speaker 1: to be rostered. If I could just pick one. It
Speaker 1: might be Christian Scott though, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think Christian Scott as well, big big fan of Christian Scott.
Speaker 2: It's another one of those age old stories for hitters
Speaker 2: and pitchers, young young hitters and pitchers. Just because they
Speaker 2: struggle once or twice early does not mean you should
Speaker 2: give up on the skill set that they bring to
Speaker 2: the table.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, guys, let's go ahead to the injury updates. We're
Speaker 1: gonna skip three up and three down today because honestly,
Speaker 1: all the noteworthies we talked about the headlines already, there
Speaker 1: just wasn't enough to fill up a three up and
Speaker 1: three down today. But we will get back to it
Speaker 1: on Monday for sure. Injuries we mentioned Ronald Acunya earlier
Speaker 1: could be activated this weekend. We're not sure exactly when
Speaker 1: it'll be. Doesn't sound like it will be today. Corey
Speaker 1: Seger expected to take live VP this weekend on either
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday. Feels like we spent the last six
Speaker 1: or seven years waiting for Corey Seger to get back
Speaker 1: to a rehabit Simon, It's just it sucks like if
Speaker 1: he's a guy who could play one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: games every year. This is a guy who probably would
Speaker 1: have had some Cooperstown lore, I mean two World Series MVPs,
Speaker 1: and it's been a great player whenever he's been healthy,
Speaker 1: but just can'ts down the damn field. Jack Haglion has
Speaker 1: now missed two consecutive games after hitting his shoulder on
Speaker 1: a diving catch attempt on Tuesday. That one no fun
Speaker 1: to watch in your lineup every day. Just not sure
Speaker 1: what he's going to come back, but expected back today.
Speaker 1: He is he expected to be today.
Speaker 3: He was able to pinch it yesterday.
Speaker 1: If needing, okay, let's hope he's able to get into
Speaker 1: the starting lineup today. So if you're studying weekend lineups,
Speaker 1: probably safe to get him in there. JT. Ginn is
Speaker 1: currently shut down with a blister, but he does hope
Speaker 1: to return in the first week of August. And Addison Barger,
Speaker 1: what a year he's had transferred to the sixty day
Speaker 1: IL still without a time table to return just really sucks.
Speaker 1: After how he kind of burst onto the scene last year.
Speaker 1: He was great in the playoffs. It's like a thousand
Speaker 1: ops in the playoffs and he hasn't even really got
Speaker 1: on the field this year. Really unfortunate, but probably a
Speaker 1: good byeload next season. If he comes into the year healthy,
Speaker 1: that brings us to the home run board. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think High Koby is pulled away with it yet.
Speaker 1: But every day that I see High Covey with a
Speaker 1: three lead over lead and then additional three lead over whips,
Speaker 1: I wonder what we're gonna get over the weekend and
Speaker 1: over the next couple weeks. Is he gonna start to
Speaker 1: pull away with it. We'll have to see. I need
Speaker 1: to do the home run contest from the start of
Speaker 1: the year next year, and I will do.
Speaker 3: You and me both.
Speaker 2: I say that every year I come on to the
Speaker 2: show in the second half of the season.
Speaker 3: Every year.
Speaker 1: We are gonna do it from day one next year.
Speaker 1: And I gotta take it seriously. And I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: seriously today by taking Jordan Alvarez. I always get too
Speaker 1: cute with it. I always always get too cute with it. Oh,
Speaker 1: Miles Straw's facing the left handed pitch or whatever whatever
Speaker 1: I do. It's like, no Jordan Alvarez quite him on
Speaker 1: the books for my home run call today? Where are
Speaker 1: you going today?
Speaker 3: Bums?
Speaker 2: It's funny because I went in this morning and I
Speaker 2: went to go put my plays, and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 2: Joe took my dude. It's a great matchup for Davis
Speaker 2: Martin with jord On. So I went the other side
Speaker 2: of that game. I took Munna Taka Maricami. He loves
Speaker 2: hitting home runs at home at night. Eric Getty e
Speaker 2: ari over nine this past month. Not very good at pitching,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I'll take him. Gonna talka I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of runs in that game between the two.
Speaker 1: I did too. CCD asking him the chat, I've been
Speaker 1: saying the same. I Seed showed me how to enter.
Speaker 1: It's a fancy pros discord and wonky of the chat.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be able to help you, or somebody
Speaker 1: behind the scenes will be able to help you, for
Speaker 1: sure if you have questions. But the fanacy Pros Discord,
Speaker 1: there is a home run channel. You make your calls
Speaker 1: in there every day, and then the Want Sodo jersey
Speaker 1: at the end of the year will be a different
Speaker 1: jersey next year because we'll have given away the Want
Speaker 1: Sodo jersey. But when yourself some free merch, guys, we
Speaker 1: should take it more seriously. I'm not sure if they
Speaker 1: would give it to me as an employee if I won.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know what, We're gonna make calls next
Speaker 1: year from day one and see if we are able
Speaker 1: to get that jersey, whichever jersey it ends up being.
Speaker 1: Which does bring us to the hard rock best bets
Speaker 1: of the day. Some people are calling this the slow
Speaker 1: time of year, and you know, Lebron James is signing
Speaker 1: with wherever and Brandon Ayuk is crazy.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: We don't care about any of that. We care about
Speaker 1: baseball here. We have full slate of games today and
Speaker 1: nearly every day for you guys to bet on from
Speaker 1: the first pitch to the final out. And looking at
Speaker 1: the board today, I'm going Cincinnati and Saint Louis over
Speaker 1: eight and a half runs. Look around, see if you
Speaker 1: can find it a plus money. But RT Louder and
Speaker 1: Dustin May I've both been awful as of late. Eight
Speaker 1: and a half feels like a pretty low number. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if we need to get to the
Speaker 1: bullpens to figure this one out, Seth. I do apologize
Speaker 1: insulting your doppel gang or Dustin May, but I do
Speaker 1: think we are going to see quite a few runs
Speaker 1: put up on the board today. Apologies for that one,
Speaker 1: but Bubba, where you going today? It looks like Corbyn
Speaker 1: Carrol on your sheet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going riding this train because this boy is
Speaker 2: he's rak. It's either home runs or triples and scores
Speaker 2: are run. He's doing it all. He goes into Washington
Speaker 2: Great Ballpark to hit it and let alone. When palm Quist
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Speaker 2: one twenty as you guys are picking up hopefully, I
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Speaker 1: for today and for the week. It wasn't much of
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Speaker 1: What do the people need to be on the lookout
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just the Bubba and the Bloom shows. We record
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Speaker 2: if not multiple times. I had the Bubb and the
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Speaker 2: have tons of stuff and the more important Ryan puts
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Speaker 2: with you, Joe, so they get me twice next week
Speaker 2: instead of three times, So we're gonna be doing that again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just take a look at the schedule. It'll be
Speaker 1: myself and the Welsh on Monday, and then, as Webba said,
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Speaker 3: Up to the speak Fridays.
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Speaker 1: on the channel. Recorded a great show last night with
Speaker 1: our dear friend Eric Cross, looking over six different stat
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Speaker 1: barrel rate, average, batspeed expected, well, a lot of different stats.
Speaker 1: Going into the nitty gritty of our process a little bit.
Speaker 1: We went over an hour and actually, yeah, thank you, Kelly,
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Speaker 1: I am Joe Rico. We'll talk to you Monday right
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