Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into Fantasy pros. This is
Speaker 1: Leading Off Live, the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico. I am indeed back, had a nice little
Speaker 1: vacation time off the last few days, but I am
Speaker 1: joined here by my dear friend Casey Bubba. It is
Speaker 1: year three of the Joe and Bubba Show. To close
Speaker 1: you out here for the season on Leading Off now,
Speaker 1: there will still be some mixing and matching. You'll see
Speaker 1: some more wealth, do some more Bogman, and Bubba will
Speaker 1: be paired up randomly with a couple of those guys
Speaker 1: because I got some more vacation time coming later in August.
Speaker 1: But for now, it is the Joe and Bubba Show.
Speaker 1: It's great to see you, my friend. How you been doing.
Speaker 2: I am doing great. It's good to get back on
Speaker 2: the mic with you once again. And like you said,
Speaker 2: we got about well over two months of the Joe
Speaker 2: and Bubba Show, which is always a highlight to wrap
Speaker 2: up with the season slows down for some we keep
Speaker 2: pounding along.
Speaker 1: Absolutely season three. A lot of shows do he can
Speaker 1: find their stride and see you three, So we're hoping
Speaker 1: we got some good stuff coming up. Here for you.
Speaker 1: We're against talk a lot of baseball. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: some Red Sox who are on a crazy winning street.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole looks like he is back, but get some
Speaker 1: questions ready in the chat. We'll probably have a little
Speaker 1: bit of time today to help you guys out with
Speaker 1: anything fantasy related, anything baseball related, anything at all. Drop
Speaker 1: it in the chat. We'll be happy to help you
Speaker 1: guys out. Let's kick it off today with Garrett Cole.
Speaker 1: He is the cover boy. He is on the thumbnail
Speaker 1: for a reason. He has really turned things around over
Speaker 1: his last couple starts. He went seven innings yesterday allowing
Speaker 1: three runs on four hits against the Pirates, and he
Speaker 1: struck out eleven. His previous start was also very good.
Speaker 1: He went six innings, actually worked into the seventh with
Speaker 1: two run ball and eight strikeouts against the Dodgers. So
Speaker 1: buba is Garrett Cole quote unquote back. We did see
Speaker 1: a bit of a rough stretch from him there three
Speaker 1: four five ear and run games. The strikeouts weren't really
Speaker 1: as high as we're you, super Garrett Cole. But we
Speaker 1: look at the season stats right now, it's a three
Speaker 1: ninety two era it's a one to ten whip, twenty
Speaker 1: one percent strikeout to walk. Great. Do you think we
Speaker 1: see peek Garrett Cole? I'm back at any pointer. It's
Speaker 1: about as good as we can hope for. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of good starts in a row with some
Speaker 1: inconsistency's what are your expectations going forward for Garrett Cole?
Speaker 1: I guess is the best way I could put it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're seeing we're getting much closer to
Speaker 2: the a Scarett Cole that we've grown to love. It
Speaker 2: was a slow start coming off the il. He missed
Speaker 2: so much time obviously, and the command was a bit
Speaker 2: of an issue, but he's been locked and loaded in
Speaker 2: the month of July. Four starts in July, we've seen
Speaker 2: thirty two strikeouts to two walks over twenty four and
Speaker 2: a third innings pitched. That's an almost thirty two percent
Speaker 2: k to walk. Then is elked everybody, and to top
Speaker 2: it off, he's given up to ten runs over twenty
Speaker 2: four and a third innings, so it's three and runs
Speaker 2: or less than every start. So three straight quality starts,
Speaker 2: three seven o ERA and one of the metrics I
Speaker 2: always like to look at is he's got the the
Speaker 2: area of three seven oh but a two four to
Speaker 2: three si Era, so he technically in a weird way,
Speaker 2: kind of unlucky. Garrett Cole looks a lot better. When
Speaker 2: he first came back. I looked like he was just
Speaker 2: trying to locate. I mentioned the control things, the fastballs
Speaker 2: getting hit all over the yard. Now he's pitching like
Speaker 2: the dominant guy again, and the Pirates aren't aren't a joke,
Speaker 2: Like they're one of the best offenses in baseball right now.
Speaker 2: So we can't even say that's what it was. He
Speaker 2: looked awesome on Wednesday, and if you stashed him or
Speaker 2: you were lucky enough to grab him before he came back,
Speaker 2: he is going to pay up dividends I think down
Speaker 2: the stretch.
Speaker 1: So let's say Cole continues at this kind of pace
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, with you know, eight or
Speaker 1: nine really good starts to close things off. Do you
Speaker 1: expect that people are drafting him next year the way
Speaker 1: that they were drafting Pete Garrett Cole. Do you think
Speaker 1: he's an SP two? Like? Where do you think people
Speaker 1: will will end up drafting him next season? Should he
Speaker 1: continue out of this space?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to be back in SP one probably
Speaker 2: probably more SP two range, but only because of how
Speaker 2: just diabolically bad the pitching has been this year. And
Speaker 2: so if he were to give you two months on
Speaker 2: top of this July finished two more strong months and
Speaker 2: leave everybody with that great taste in their mouth like, Hey,
Speaker 2: this is he's back. This is Garrett Cole, a guy
Speaker 2: that used to be one of the top five pitchers
Speaker 2: in baseball. That goes a long ways because like when
Speaker 2: Ryan and I recapped the first half already pitchers the
Speaker 2: other night above in the Bloom, it was horrific outside
Speaker 2: of like the top five picks, and then that the
Speaker 2: pocket of youngsters. It was a war zone out there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you can get some Garrett Cole in
Speaker 2: your life, pitching the way he used to pitch, his
Speaker 2: value is going to go up astronomically at this draft season.
Speaker 1: I think there are certain things, certain players who are
Speaker 1: of a Hall of Fame caliber, and you can never
Speaker 1: really fully count them out, whether it's Mike Shroud, Garrett Pull,
Speaker 1: a lot of other players who I mean Jacob b
Speaker 1: Gram as well, we kind of assume that their careers
Speaker 1: were at the end over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: But when you have such a high peak, coming down
Speaker 1: from a high peak can still be an excellent starting
Speaker 1: pitcher or player in general. So even if Garrett Cole
Speaker 1: is not winning Cy Young's he could still be a
Speaker 1: very fible asset down the stretch. So who ever picked
Speaker 1: him up, whoever stashed him, it looks like he will
Speaker 1: be k at the evidends. I wanted to mention the
Speaker 1: Red Sox because they've won if in in consecutive games.
Speaker 1: This is one of the longest win streaks now of
Speaker 1: the modern era, of the expansion era, I guess since
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty there's the twenty seventeen Guardians who won twenty
Speaker 1: two games, the money Ball As had twenty, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one at seventeen, and then the nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven Kansas City Royals won sixteen games. Those are
Speaker 1: the only longer win streaks than what Boston has done.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're tied with the one Mariners, who I
Speaker 1: believe were the best record in Major League history, and
Speaker 1: the two thousand Atlanta Braves at fifteen games. It's kind
Speaker 1: of turned them around from looking like sellers. You know,
Speaker 1: Sunny Gray Chapman Jared Durant are going to get traded
Speaker 1: to now they're potentially a playoff team. What do you
Speaker 1: think of the streak that we've seen and how do
Speaker 1: you expect it to impact the Red Sox over the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Do you think there's still a
Speaker 1: chance we see them sell or has this completely changed
Speaker 1: the way that they are going to go about the
Speaker 1: last couple months of the season.
Speaker 2: Here Bubo, Well, I'll highlight one thing real quick. The
Speaker 2: streak snacked in Game two with a double hitter on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: so it finished at fifteen. Still an amazing streak. That's outstanding.
Speaker 2: And it's crazy like they're probably buying or at least
Speaker 2: staying pat right now because before the streak started, there's
Speaker 2: been rumors and stuf where he's going around. They're like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, a world as Chapman was almost as Cago
Speaker 2: White Sox, like there was trade talk there and they
Speaker 2: were shopping the masses out there, and right now it
Speaker 2: seems like this team is clicking on all cylinders. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe they do still trade to Jaron duran but to
Speaker 2: upgrade elsewhere type thing, but it feels like a Chapman
Speaker 2: he's not going anywhere, and they, if anything, I think
Speaker 2: they're buyers now and continuing in an al East that
Speaker 2: you know Yankees will stick around. The Rays are the Rays,
Speaker 2: but it's still a division the Red Sox can win.
Speaker 1: I think they can too. I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: any team in the American League Geese that is so
Speaker 1: far ahead here, Like the Rays have a two and
Speaker 1: a half game lead on the Yankees, who have a
Speaker 1: four and a half game lead on the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: There's still so much baseball up. We've seen much larger
Speaker 1: leads evaporate much later into the seed. So the American
Speaker 1: League Eese still feels like a huge, huge wildcard here.
Speaker 1: I think the Red Sox it'll all come down to
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. I think for a lot
Speaker 1: of these teams, even if Blue Jay has been terrible,
Speaker 1: and I still hear like, well it's the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks go Well, maybe they're buyers. And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of American League teams are in that boat
Speaker 1: because the American League's terrible. This isn't really awful. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the Red Sox are going to be more
Speaker 1: positioned as buyers or at least kind of neutral. Maybe
Speaker 1: sell a couple of pieces, maybe bring in a couple
Speaker 1: other ones over the next couple of weeks. I got
Speaker 1: to bring up my boy Kate Cavali year, who looked
Speaker 1: like a disaster to start the season. He looks absolutely
Speaker 1: terrible and he went into tour yesterday at six shatout
Speaker 1: innings WHI allowing just four hits. A striking out Kate,
Speaker 1: He's been really good for a while now, Kate Cavalie's
Speaker 1: looking back. Since the end of April, sixteen wins, he's
Speaker 1: won seven of them. It's a three forty five's a
Speaker 1: three twenty three Sierra. The whip is finally below one twenty.
Speaker 1: He's given up a lot of hits this year, but
Speaker 1: in that frame it's one nineteen and at twenty one
Speaker 1: percent strikeout to walk great. Seems like he's finally arrived
Speaker 1: by But what are your thoughts on Kate Cavali. Is
Speaker 1: he somebody that you're trusting I set it and forget
Speaker 1: it type of guy, or are you still looking matchup
Speaker 1: dependent here for these next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, he's definitely a set it and forget
Speaker 2: a guy for me. I absolutely love what we're seeing
Speaker 2: from from Cavali. It's a guy that we know. The
Speaker 2: skills have always been very good, even in the miners.
Speaker 2: He's one of the higher end prospects, that is what
Speaker 2: I would say, But injuries have derailed things. So he
Speaker 2: came back after a short and twenty twenty five. My
Speaker 2: biggest questions like, yeah, you're gonna sit and forget it
Speaker 2: for now. But we're seeing one hundred and ten innings
Speaker 2: pitched already this year. He's coming off of forty eight. Well,
Speaker 2: between the Bigs and the miners, it was one twenty.
Speaker 2: We'll say, how far do the Nats let him go?
Speaker 2: Is My question is do does he go one thirty?
Speaker 2: Does he go one forty? I still probably get some
Speaker 2: close to the finish line, which is fine, but we
Speaker 2: might see some tinkering here. But to your initial question,
Speaker 2: I love what we're seeing from him. Strikeouts are grit there,
Speaker 2: the control is great. To your point, all the things
Speaker 2: you highlighted, Cavali seems like a dude. And the one
Speaker 2: thing with the Nationals for most of this season. In
Speaker 2: recent seasons, they've had bats, they haven't had pitching. And
Speaker 2: Cavali seems like a guy that can get him there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm very excited. I have a lot of shape
Speaker 1: that looks horrendous to start the year, but things have
Speaker 1: started to turn around. Off my boy Kate Savalie, so
Speaker 1: I'm really you're happy about that. I wanted to shout
Speaker 1: out Van Rod here on the street, one of the
Speaker 1: most loyal viewers seventy five stream streak. That is phenomenal work.
Speaker 1: Thank you Van Rod for supporting the channel, always here,
Speaker 1: always throwing your questions and so we really really do
Speaker 1: appreciate that Chris sailed down three. Nothing already in the
Speaker 1: second not what we want to see. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of early games today. There's not a huge late like.
Speaker 1: It's five total games with two in the afternoon evening,
Speaker 1: so a lot of games are already underway. There's a
Speaker 1: question about and or Kate Cavalie, I should say in
Speaker 1: relation to Kate Anderson, so I pick up Kate Cavali
Speaker 1: over my Kate Anderson's fash I would say yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the Mariners are gonna do, but
Speaker 1: they have six pretty viable starting pitchers. I mean, Brian Wu,
Speaker 1: I know that pens of inconsistencies and Steo is not
Speaker 1: the guy he used to be. But between Miller Wu
Speaker 1: Gilbert Kirby to Steo Hancock, son't nope, there's really room
Speaker 1: for Kate Anderson.
Speaker 2: Bubba, Yeah, I'm not sure if there is room Frankers
Speaker 2: and they don't have enough room for their six as
Speaker 2: you mentioned the piggybacks they've been doing and everything else
Speaker 2: that's been crazy. Now, maybe they flip a guy to
Speaker 2: build somewhere else at the deadline. That could help with things.
Speaker 2: But it's a problem. That's why we're going to see
Speaker 2: Ky down there, I guess, not the Brax and Ashcraft
Speaker 2: problems that we're seeing. That's a whole nother weird dilemma
Speaker 2: in Miami. Kate Anderson just has there's no room at
Speaker 2: the end, and they have Sloan also, who's a really
Speaker 2: good minor league pitcher. So changes a lot to be
Speaker 2: made in the off season, probably before we get really
Speaker 2: excited about Kate Anderson.
Speaker 1: I think so too, Like this is probably a situation
Speaker 1: where the Mariners do look to move off of a
Speaker 1: Castillo or maybe Woo. I'm not sure what the calculus
Speaker 1: looks like, but this does not seem like the year
Speaker 1: for Kate Anderson. Barring an injury or barring the Mariners
Speaker 1: trading two starting pitchers at the deadline, which I'm not
Speaker 1: really expecting. Let's take another question here. I better call Bob. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I need your opinion on my pitching staff, Ms, Burns, Rasmussen, Riley, Bradley, Burke, Ray, Barlin, Durant,
Speaker 1: and go. That's a hell of a staff, good enough
Speaker 1: to compete for a ship. I would say it probably is.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of that does come down to what happens
Speaker 1: with Jacob Mizerowski and Chase Burns down the stretch. I
Speaker 1: would imagine they're limited to some extent. Miserowski only went
Speaker 1: four innings the other day, four good innings. But I
Speaker 1: think you might get crocheted from a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago with the White Sox, where Garrett Crochet three four
Speaker 1: inning outings. You're not trying to overwork him. Now. The difference, Bubba,
Speaker 1: with those situations is that the White Sox were historically
Speaker 1: bad at the time and the Brewers are the best
Speaker 1: team or maybe the second best team in baseball as
Speaker 1: of today. Do you think that makes a huge difference
Speaker 1: on how they will use Mizerowski. The fact that it's
Speaker 1: a good team as opposed to a bad team.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it just means they want to limit
Speaker 2: him even more because you need those bullets for October,
Speaker 2: right Crochet. They're just trying to keep him working and
Speaker 2: you know, build up some innings for the following year.
Speaker 2: Like Miz, they might skip a start, it might be
Speaker 2: literally like a one time through the rotation starts stuff
Speaker 2: like that, because you need him to be able to
Speaker 2: go six seven in October because he is that guy
Speaker 2: that can get you a win by himself, and that,
Speaker 2: as you know from last year, how valuable that is
Speaker 2: for the postseason. So I could see them really babying
Speaker 2: them is here, especially in September, as they closer to
Speaker 2: kind of figuring out their destiny as the best team
Speaker 2: in baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not something I'm really hoping for, but it
Speaker 1: does seem like the prudent thing keeping a guy healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be hard to keep him
Speaker 1: healthy forever, with hell hard he throws, but doing what
Speaker 1: you can to keep him healthy in a season where
Speaker 1: it looks like the Brewers do have a chance to
Speaker 1: compete like they do in most seasons, but better not
Speaker 1: to waste it and get him hurt. And then have
Speaker 1: to be scrambling and acquire a pitcher or whatever you
Speaker 1: got to do down the stretch. So I do agree
Speaker 1: that they'll probably keep him three, four, maybe five innings,
Speaker 1: Bed saying, I feel like Tindra hesitant to push guys
Speaker 1: with extra day's rest and would rather keep the rout
Speaker 1: teem with less innings. I think that probably is going
Speaker 1: to be the case here. Landin Roop is the next guy.
Speaker 1: I want to mention that we do have a question
Speaker 1: about him in the chat, which we'll get to in
Speaker 1: a second. But landon Roope has been really really good recently,
Speaker 1: made through six scoreless innings before allowing two runs. In
Speaker 1: the set against the Royals, he ended up allowing four
Speaker 1: total hits, truck out seven and over his last three starts,
Speaker 1: you know, going back before the break against the loser
Speaker 1: Blue Jays eight innings, one run ball, five strikeouts, coming
Speaker 1: out of the break at Seattle seven innings of shutout ball,
Speaker 1: and then yesterday against the Royal six innings, two run,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts. You're a Giants fan, but what do you
Speaker 1: think of land and Roup Because you look at some
Speaker 1: of the advanced metrics, you know, especially in terms of
Speaker 1: the quality of contact he allows, and he's one of
Speaker 1: the best in the game. Four percent barrel rate, thirty
Speaker 1: percent hard hit, he's got fifteen percent strikeout to walk rate.
Speaker 1: I know that Mason is not a huge fan, but
Speaker 1: what do you think as another another Giants fan in
Speaker 1: the space.
Speaker 2: I am a fan of Landing Root for a couple
Speaker 2: reasons here. Remember, he reminds me of like an early
Speaker 2: Logan Web. He pitches is the way I say like
Speaker 2: watching him throw. He's not just like trying to gas
Speaker 2: guys up. He works around the zone like he has
Speaker 2: his blow ups. A lot of four runs starts, but
Speaker 2: a lot of two to one run starts also, and
Speaker 2: he goes deep in the game. He doesn't want the
Speaker 2: ball to get taken out of his hand. You mentioned
Speaker 2: the swinging miss comes with a fifty percent ground ball,
Speaker 2: so that that's a plus. It'll keep him in a
Speaker 2: lot of games as well. And I just I like
Speaker 2: it's the stuff you don't see like on a stat
Speaker 2: sheet watching him pitch. It's it's his intensity, his his
Speaker 2: give a care is the way I'll say it for
Speaker 2: the PG crowd out there. He takes it very personally,
Speaker 2: which a lot of guys watching the Giants this season
Speaker 2: do not, and so that makes me appreciate him more.
Speaker 2: And he's gone out there, like after his last bad
Speaker 2: start four starts ago, you mentioned that he's real off
Speaker 2: three gyms, he's pitched great, and he's done that a
Speaker 2: lot this season where he puts two three four starts together,
Speaker 2: which show you that there's a there's a room for
Speaker 2: him to become a solid like SP two and a
Speaker 2: in a rotation, not in fantasy, maybe more like an
Speaker 2: SP three four, but a very solid piece to have
Speaker 2: like I in fifteen ten leagues. He's almost just locked
Speaker 2: in weekly for me, and if the blow up happens,
Speaker 2: it's fine. But he's I think he's very good and
Speaker 2: I think he can only get better. That's that's the
Speaker 2: good thing about him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the blow ups have been really bad, and I
Speaker 1: know you can't really do this, but like you take
Speaker 1: away the blow up, he's been a true, true ace
Speaker 1: And it really comes down to like three, three or
Speaker 1: maybe four bad starts out of twenty the one against
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks at the end of June, the.
Speaker 2: Dry because they had no bullpen that day. That was
Speaker 2: just garbage. That was bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even with a couple of those blow ups.
Speaker 1: The era is still under four. The fifth is a
Speaker 1: three thirty one. So a guy that I do really
Speaker 1: like in a very good park to pitching as well
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. So I'm a fan of Landing Roup.
Speaker 1: Jay Chow's got a question here. It looks like you
Speaker 1: got a peek at the show sheet before we started today.
Speaker 1: Ruper Cavali for two starts next week. Cavally has Toronto
Speaker 1: and Atlanta. Rupe has Milwaukee and San Diego. If you
Speaker 1: could just go with one there.
Speaker 2: But that's that's in San Francisco, I think right, I
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 1: So the first one is at home. The second one
Speaker 1: is at San Diego, which another good picture park.
Speaker 2: If I'd probably take land and Roupe. But Cavali has
Speaker 2: a bigger ceiling for strikeouts for you, I'll say that much.
Speaker 2: Because the Jay is no offense to the Rica. It's
Speaker 2: not a scary situation. Oh, it is a scary situation
Speaker 2: for you, for you, not for the opposing pitcher.
Speaker 1: Holy crap, from the disappointment of the World Series to
Speaker 1: you know, you bring in some new fans who watch
Speaker 1: the playoff run and then they're watching this year, like
Speaker 1: what the hell are we watching for. I've pretty much
Speaker 1: stopped watching the Blue Jays. I got to protect my
Speaker 1: mental health and they are not a good watch. But
Speaker 1: to your point, Kate Cavali probably is the way to go,
Speaker 1: just because he's facing the Blue Jays next week. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Logan Henderson, a guy where there seems like
Speaker 1: there's been some kind of injury concerns going back for
Speaker 1: at least a year, but whenever he's out there, he
Speaker 1: looks really good. Same thing yesterday against the Mets. Two
Speaker 1: runs on five hits over five innings while striking out nine.
Speaker 1: I you know, going back to last year, I can't
Speaker 1: believe they sent him down in the middle of the
Speaker 1: season when he was pitching well. And this doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like he's gotten that true, full fair shake. But maybe
Speaker 1: they've been careful with him Bubba because of the forearm,
Speaker 1: stuffed the potential for a worse injury. But in his
Speaker 1: eight starts as a three h five r it's a
Speaker 1: sub one whip, it's a thirty one percent strikeout right.
Speaker 1: It seems like an ace if he's ever able to
Speaker 1: just put together a consistent run of starts here. How
Speaker 1: concerned are you from an injury standpoint about Logan Henderson
Speaker 1: and trusting him going forward.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love everything about this guy. Like you mentioned,
Speaker 2: he is that good. It's just a matter of when
Speaker 2: are we going to see all of that? If that
Speaker 2: makes sense, they do baby like yesterday was another you know,
Speaker 2: eighty pitches and they're taking taking their time with him.
Speaker 2: And maybe it is a little bit to do with
Speaker 2: the with the the forearm cramps he had, but you
Speaker 2: look at all of his starts. It's we're seeing this
Speaker 2: with Jared Jones this year, We're seeing it with a
Speaker 2: lot of Griffin Jacks. It's essentially seventy five to eighty
Speaker 2: five pitches every start that Logan Henderson's made. I just
Speaker 2: pulled up his game walk. That's they're taking that approach
Speaker 2: with him, and maybe that's what the Miz starts to
Speaker 2: do as well. Keep this in mind, like maybe that's
Speaker 2: their way the limit things, And that's fine because it's
Speaker 2: annoying for us. Fancy because I'm with you. I think
Speaker 2: he is an ace, like he is a huge Like
Speaker 2: if they can somehow keep the Mizz and Logan Henderson together,
Speaker 2: that is one heck of a one two punch. They're
Speaker 2: going to have there in Milwaukee. But what we as
Speaker 2: fantasy players we forget so often is they're playing a game.
Speaker 2: And what I just said about one two punch for
Speaker 2: the future, they're seeing one two punch in October and
Speaker 2: that's all they care about. So if they can all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, let Henderson throw a hundred pitches in
Speaker 2: October and go six or seven, they'll take that over
Speaker 2: worrying about what we care about right now. But to
Speaker 2: your initial point, he is awesome. I'm starting without even
Speaker 2: looking pretty much every week and he's that good.
Speaker 1: He's fantastic. I just really, really hope that he can
Speaker 1: stay healthy heading into next year. Next year is going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting test with you know, you want
Speaker 1: to draft a guy who's had some forearm troubles, but
Speaker 1: when he's been out there, he's been great. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure yet. I'm not sure. It will depend on the
Speaker 1: price and everything. But I love the talent. I really
Speaker 1: do love the talent. Just hoping that he is able
Speaker 1: to avoid the knife and stay healthy for at least
Speaker 1: a good few years. I got Bubba on the show,
Speaker 1: so I do need to bring up at least one catcher,
Speaker 1: and that's Gabrielle Moreno fifteen run explosion which Engage jump
Speaker 1: took quite a bit of sixer in runs on eight
Speaker 1: hits over four and two thirds. I think Gage jump
Speaker 1: is probably a pretty safe drop At this point, I'll
Speaker 1: let you chime in into second, Bubba. But Gabriel Moreno,
Speaker 1: I mean for the season, he slashed in three to zero, two,
Speaker 1: three ninety one, four forty two. He's got seven homers,
Speaker 1: four stolen bases. He's also reached base safely in thirty
Speaker 1: seven consecutive starts. Catcher is so so deep this year
Speaker 1: that I get if you're in a one catch league,
Speaker 1: if it's hard to fit Moreno in. We played a
Speaker 1: lot of two catcher leagues, and Moreno, I mean I
Speaker 1: loved him going back to his time as a Jay's prospect.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's finally finally starting to break out
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Bubba. Yeah, I've always liked Gabriel Moreno. My concern because
Speaker 2: people think I don't like Gavirin Moreno, but you got
Speaker 2: to like read through the tea leaves of what I
Speaker 2: talk is he's hurt a lot, and he's been on
Speaker 2: the IL I think two different times this year. He's
Speaker 2: played seventy five games. But I've always said when he
Speaker 2: plays very good, noted like I always said he was
Speaker 2: like a port man's Alejandro Kirk, like he's gonna hit
Speaker 2: for average, will the power and speed come to play.
Speaker 2: Didn't know what it was, but the fact he missed games,
Speaker 2: I had him behind Kirk. Right now I have him
Speaker 2: a head of Kirk because he's actually hitting with power
Speaker 2: and running and that that's a beautiful thing. So the skills,
Speaker 2: I've never denied what Gabriel Moreno can do. It's just
Speaker 2: a matter of cansty on the field. And right now
Speaker 2: he's got seventy five games. If he gets you to
Speaker 2: like one ten by seasons in, that's a win. That's
Speaker 2: a win. As a catcher too, He's just it's hard
Speaker 2: to make him a catcher one because the playing time
Speaker 2: you need at least one hundred and thirty plus games
Speaker 2: for me to be a catcher one. So he's a
Speaker 2: very solid catcher two in those two catcher leagues you mentioned.
Speaker 2: But right now you talk about the streak. A lot
Speaker 2: of these listeners play Yahoo's ESPN's ten team leagues. Gabby's
Speaker 2: a very viable stream. While he's swinging at this well
Speaker 2: right now, So something to keep in mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean rest of season. Would you rather have
Speaker 1: him or cal Rawley? For me, I'd probably take Moreno,
Speaker 1: But would you drop Ca? Do you have the stones
Speaker 1: to drop cal Rawly? That is a whole other question.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying. I'm not saying I wouldn't. But are
Speaker 2: you rostering your two catchers as the initial because are
Speaker 2: you dropping.
Speaker 1: Raw If cal Rawley's name was like John Stevens and
Speaker 1: we were just looking at his stats and be like,
Speaker 1: get this guy the hell out of here, I'm it's
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. Like I am a long term believer
Speaker 1: in Raleigh. I don't know if this is the year.
Speaker 1: It seems like he's hurt. Everything is down across the board,
Speaker 1: the barrels, the heart hits, the exit velocities, everything looks bad.
Speaker 1: I'd probably take Moreno. I probably wouldn't drop Raleigh yet,
Speaker 1: but like maybe I would, honestly I might. Like in
Speaker 1: a one catcher league, I think you can. There's just
Speaker 1: so many good catchers this year. Is that again? A
Speaker 1: one catcher league is that it gets safe to move
Speaker 1: on and two catcher leagues I get holding on to Raleigh.
Speaker 1: But if it's just a single catcher, ten or twelve teamer,
Speaker 1: I'm finally it's justified to move on.
Speaker 2: I'm finally good. As I've gotten older and been through
Speaker 2: the trials and tribulations of this game, I'm not afraid
Speaker 2: to make moves. Like Welsh and I talked above Ladito yesterday.
Speaker 2: I said, I get a world with someone had a
Speaker 2: listener question and maybe it was in the Q and
Speaker 2: A we had like he had two solid corner infielders,
Speaker 2: two solid first patients and the lady. I'm like, Lattin's
Speaker 2: the drop. Like as bad as that sounds like, that's
Speaker 2: just the one and Welsh couldn't do it. I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. That's why I asked you the cal
Speaker 2: rowly part of this. It's just I'm at that part
Speaker 2: where I'll make the tough thing and if it backfires,
Speaker 2: are backfires. But I want what I could do right
Speaker 2: now for my team because we can't wait any longer.
Speaker 2: It's over.
Speaker 1: It's true. I mean, I'm just putting together like a
Speaker 1: little schedule for my guest Pie that comes out on Saturdays,
Speaker 1: and looking at the end of September, we're going to
Speaker 1: do like a disappointing stud seasons and what should we
Speaker 1: do with them next year? And cal Rawley will be
Speaker 1: the first name discussed on that showcase. The second round
Speaker 1: pick doing what he's done is catcher or otherwise, it's
Speaker 1: kind of unprecedented. A couple more headlines we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about in a second, but first I want to
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Speaker 1: on Strand, and I would bet that this name has
Speaker 1: not been mentioned at all on the show this year.
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he has. But Christian karnassion Strand
Speaker 1: is actually looking not too bad. He had a really
Speaker 1: good first game of the doubleheader yesterday, went three for four,
Speaker 1: hit a homer, hit, a homer a couple of days
Speaker 1: prior as well. There's a guy who kind of took
Speaker 1: the fantasy baseball seen by Storm in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: He debuted in Cincinnati, thirteen homers in sixty three games.
Speaker 1: He hit two seventy really nice power metrics, and then
Speaker 1: he had almost like a Jordan Walker type of falloff
Speaker 1: after a good rookie season, two years of injury, washouts,
Speaker 1: time in the minors, no productivity at all. Is there
Speaker 1: a chance that Christian karnassi and Strand is able to
Speaker 1: recapture what we saw as a rookie? I see people
Speaker 1: in the chat are already already talking about Christian Karnacian Strand.
Speaker 1: I don't really believe in him, but I just wanted
Speaker 1: to put the question out to you, Bubba. Any world
Speaker 1: where you're picking him up and hoping that he's able
Speaker 1: to get back to what we thought he could be.
Speaker 2: He's a streamer for me, just for the fact that
Speaker 2: he's playing versus left hand and pitching. They haven't proven
Speaker 2: they're playing him every day, so he's a short side
Speaker 2: plat two, and they faced a lot of lefties because
Speaker 2: if people aren't keeping track at home, if you face
Speaker 2: the Red Sox. You're facing nearly every left he they
Speaker 2: have because that's all they have, and they just played
Speaker 2: four against Boston, I believe, so I need to see
Speaker 2: more now. If he plays every day deeper leagues, he's
Speaker 2: enticing because third base is rough. I think the bigger
Speaker 2: fallout here, not just like ces ryding Wright's hot, like
Speaker 2: he's going to struggle nineteen homers. Driple A is good.
Speaker 2: The bigger concern is, like people thought when the third
Speaker 2: base opening came up with another recent entry in Baltimore,
Speaker 2: that Kobe Mayo would finally get his chance. That ship
Speaker 2: has definitely sailed on that potential prospect. So I just
Speaker 2: want to throw that out there as well, because some
Speaker 2: we're hoping he'd get some love, but it looks like
Speaker 2: ces is getting that for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they kind of hugged their prospects a little bit
Speaker 1: too much over the last couple of years. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Hessen Kirstad has really much value at this point.
Speaker 1: Got h it's crazy, yeah, cade Povich and a few
Speaker 1: others like you know, I think, especially when you have
Speaker 1: that many top prospects who are mostly infielders, you got
Speaker 1: to trade a couple of them. You got to do
Speaker 1: something now. The stours for Rogers trade looks all right,
Speaker 1: but I think that they kind of missed their window
Speaker 1: to make a couple more moves there. Move off a Keearstad,
Speaker 1: move off, move off of a couple of these guys anyway,
Speaker 1: just to try and recoup some value in other areas.
Speaker 1: But I think they held their hand a little bit
Speaker 1: too long. Let's wrap up the headlines with south Stewart.
Speaker 1: He had his twenty first homer of the season. There
Speaker 1: have been some ups and downs this year, for sure.
Speaker 1: He came out like a bat of the hell in April,
Speaker 1: pulled off a little bit, but the overall line is
Speaker 1: very good. He'shitting two forty nine with a three twenty
Speaker 1: seven on base rate, four seventy two slug eleven stolen bases,
Speaker 1: twenty one homers, and seventy four RBI, which is good
Speaker 1: for fourth in the majors. And you look at his
Speaker 1: multi position eligibility. I wonder if south Stewart's a top
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five pick next year, especially considering that ballpark. Bubba,
Speaker 1: what have you thought of his rookie season and how
Speaker 1: do you think you'll approach him next year In drafts.
Speaker 2: I liked him a lot this year. I was afraid
Speaker 2: to pay this is the Helium rose, and I'm mad
Speaker 2: at myself for that. He's got the first base third
Speaker 2: base eligibility that should carry over to next year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: is still a little short on second base in most formats,
Speaker 2: but you know, the average is what it is. I
Speaker 2: didn't expect him to be an elite average hitter with
Speaker 2: two fifty plays. It's more of the power to speed
Speaker 2: that he's gonna get thirty home runs and get at
Speaker 2: least fifteen steals by the season. Like that is outstanding
Speaker 2: for a corner infield that's outside of the and he's
Speaker 2: probably over one hundred RBI's outside of like the lower average.
Speaker 2: It's like a poor man's Jay Ram right there. Like
Speaker 2: that is great stuff. So he's gonna be worth every
Speaker 2: bit of a top thirty pick, probably, I just due
Speaker 2: to the position, Like you know how it is, Joe.
Speaker 2: So third base, you have Jay Ram, and there's always
Speaker 2: like Machado and a cup like Riley, Like Stewart goes
Speaker 2: over Riley Amachado to me, like because of the steels.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna sit there in that second, maybe third
Speaker 2: round in a fifteen team league, which miss fourth or
Speaker 2: fifth in a twelve or whatever. Like, I think it's
Speaker 2: been worth every penny. He's only twenty two. We might
Speaker 2: not have seen the best yet.
Speaker 1: Yes, you miss Cavion. It's great, but it's okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But like South Stewart for the whole season as a
Speaker 1: whole is a twenty second overall player, So I think
Speaker 1: it's reasonable to talk about him as a second round pick.
Speaker 1: I know he's first and third right now. If you're
Speaker 1: talking a twenty game threshold. If you are playing on Yahoo,
Speaker 1: which I feel like a lot of you guys probably are,
Speaker 1: he's already there for first, second and third eligibility. You
Speaker 1: could have him or Miguel Vargas next year. Which way
Speaker 1: would you go?
Speaker 2: Bob? I would go with South Stewart, But that is
Speaker 2: zero slight of Miguel Vargas. I love me and Miguel Vargas.
Speaker 2: I have no problems with Miguel Vargas. That is just
Speaker 2: I think the power, speed and the ballpark for South
Speaker 2: Stewart just leaned to much more love from me.
Speaker 1: I think I agree. Yancey. Good to see Yancey Eaton
Speaker 1: in the chat in a while. My friend, Uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna move out of the headlines and we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a little bit of a deep here. I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about Nick Gonzalez because Nick Gonzalez is having an
Speaker 1: incredible season, but there's nothing really below the surface that
Speaker 1: would suggest he should be having this type of incredible season.
Speaker 1: He's slashing three eleven, three sixty nine, four thirteen, six
Speaker 1: homers and four stolen bases. And what is the third
Speaker 1: ranked offense in the BIGS this year. I know it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to believe, but by WRC plus buyers
Speaker 1: are the third best offense. Gonzalez has taken a step
Speaker 1: back in terms of his exit velocity, launch angle, barrel rate,
Speaker 1: heart hit percentage, bat speed, pretty much every other metric
Speaker 1: that we have to look at. You guys can see
Speaker 1: it on screen here if you're watching on YouTube. A
Speaker 1: lot of blue on the stat cast page and yet
Speaker 1: a breakout season. It looks like for Nick Gonzalez, what
Speaker 1: have you thought of what he's done so far this season?
Speaker 1: Are you buying into it? Is this a player that
Speaker 1: you would be looking to buy if it's sa a
Speaker 1: dynasty context, only twenty seven years old? Still, what is
Speaker 1: your evaluation. Tell you, Bubba about Nick Gonzales.
Speaker 2: Very good contact hitter this year, very batting average, solid babip.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be nice. The power and speed don't
Speaker 2: do it for me. He's a much much better real
Speaker 2: life player than fantasy is the way I would say
Speaker 2: now deeper leagues, Nickens always has plenty of viability. He's
Speaker 2: what Luisa Ryes used to be before this season, where
Speaker 2: he's just kind of jumped off the page. He's one
Speaker 2: of those kind of profiles. But really he's gonna score
Speaker 2: a ton of runs, which will be good because he's
Speaker 2: getting on base so much, which which is also good.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, like he's a two to maybe
Speaker 2: three category guy stuck for deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: It's kind of where I'm at as well. Like as
Speaker 1: much as I like Nicknzalez, and I've been a fan
Speaker 1: of him over the last couple of years as like
Speaker 1: a plug and play type of guy, you pick him
Speaker 1: up when you need a couple of weeks of second
Speaker 1: base production. I worried that he might get overdrafted a
Speaker 1: little bit next year based on the surface level stats.
Speaker 1: I know, six homers, four steals is anything crazy, but
Speaker 1: people see a three hundred average close to an eight
Speaker 1: hundred oh ps and a good lineup with multi position eligibility,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if people might overrate him a little bit.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to throw a little bit of cold water.
Speaker 1: I do agree Nick Gonzalez for this year, for right now.
Speaker 1: I think he's a perfectly startable player, but not somebody
Speaker 1: that i'd really be married to in the long run.
Speaker 1: Let's move on and talk about a couple of fun facts.
Speaker 1: This one is pretty cool. Max Munsey moved into fifth
Speaker 1: place in Dodgers history with his two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: ninth homer hit, his twentieth of the season on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: In La Dodgers' history, this is the second highest home
Speaker 1: run total because there's obviously the history in Brooklyn before.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of surprising, Bubba, that Max Munsey, if
Speaker 1: you look at the storied history of the Dodgers, is
Speaker 1: top five at home runs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is. It's surprising when not a guess that
Speaker 2: I know he's been there his entire career. Like he's
Speaker 2: made a point that he's quote unquote taking discounts because
Speaker 2: he wants to stay in La forever. And a lot
Speaker 2: of these guys say and you know, obviously, when is
Speaker 2: he taking a discounts to question, because they just spend money.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's kind of surprising. I know he had
Speaker 2: some monster years, but twenty nine seems low for a
Speaker 2: franchise like the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: It's true, like you, it seems low from both points.
Speaker 1: Like Munsey has had I think four or five thirty
Speaker 1: home run seasons, I would have thought that he would
Speaker 1: be a closer to three hundred anyway, And I also
Speaker 1: would not have thought that they'd be anywhere close to
Speaker 1: top five in terms of history of the Dodgers, one
Speaker 1: of the most story teams, about the most story team
Speaker 1: in the history of the league. Max Munsey is top
Speaker 1: five in terms of home runs for the franchise. Yancey
Speaker 1: asking the important questions here are a Rico and Bubba
Speaker 1: wearing the same glasses. I'm not sure these are a
Speaker 1: pretty generic brand here, nothing too crazy. I went for
Speaker 1: the discounts last time I got them filled. You got
Speaker 1: any fancy brand name going on there, Bubba?
Speaker 2: It probably is a fancy to some, but I go
Speaker 2: to the Costco Costco Eye Doctors, so it's at a discount.
Speaker 2: The brand is guess, but I guarantee you they weren't
Speaker 2: as expensive as people think. I have to go to
Speaker 2: the they had like six options for big heads, and
Speaker 2: this was one of them. That's just the way it went.
Speaker 2: I don't get to I don't get to shot most
Speaker 2: of the wall on there. I get like this area.
Speaker 1: So yes, lastest shopping is an event. At first Pitch Arizona,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I might be able to film some content
Speaker 1: at the Kirkland Ice Store. We'll see what happens down
Speaker 1: in Arizona. One more fun fact here, Salvadra Perez now
Speaker 1: tied for the all time home run lead in Royle's
Speaker 1: history with George Brett. Another thing that's like, what how.
Speaker 2: That's more believable than Muncie though it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. My dad I grew up only hearing
Speaker 1: about George Brad, who was his favorite player. In my mind,
Speaker 1: I thought that George Brett had a lot more than
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventeen homers. By sal Perez already tied.
Speaker 1: So I guess it brings up the question that I've
Speaker 1: asked a couple of times over the years. Will sal
Speaker 1: Perez have a plaque in Cooperstown?
Speaker 2: I think you will, But yeah, I just pulled up
Speaker 2: George Brett's page. He had a lot more less than
Speaker 2: twenty homer in seasons than we thought. But that's just
Speaker 2: the era of base what we played in. But Salvi
Speaker 2: will have a plaque like he's he's he's always buying
Speaker 2: the dish. Did the amount of games he played over
Speaker 2: and over again just like an iron man in version
Speaker 2: of catchers is what he did. The power he showcased.
Speaker 2: There's so many good stories about Savy that play into
Speaker 2: how Baseball views their Hall of Fame. There's so many
Speaker 2: things like that that Salvi should if he doesn't. If
Speaker 2: Piazza has one, Salvi has to have one, is the
Speaker 2: way I look at it. So that should play one
Speaker 2: quick story and we can move on. So I don't
Speaker 2: know if you saw it, but others probably did Salvi
Speaker 2: hit When the straightaway center it went in the fountains.
Speaker 2: Somebody in the fountain area jumped over into the fountains,
Speaker 2: grabbed the ball and hopped back and he had a
Speaker 2: Salvi jersey on him. Dude got arrested for hopping into
Speaker 2: the fountain. Salvi went on social media to the case
Speaker 2: police department said please release him. He got me my
Speaker 2: ball back. He was just having a good time as
Speaker 2: all I would have jumped into and then he goes,
Speaker 2: thank you for doing your job, but please release him.
Speaker 1: Did they let him go?
Speaker 2: I'm assuming so at that point, but because the guy
Speaker 2: didn't even realize it, it was just like spontaneous. He hops
Speaker 2: in and then hops right back out, grabs his beerd
Speaker 2: he's watching the game. Didn't even think twice about it.
Speaker 2: It was no big deal than the cops came and
Speaker 2: got off.
Speaker 1: He went, hey, you probably you know, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: when in the game that was, but you're sure the
Speaker 1: jedial was like an it was late. Yes, So he's
Speaker 1: had a couple of alcoholic beverages. He's feeling no pain.
Speaker 1: He sees the ball coming, Salvey hits it probably didn't
Speaker 1: even realize it was a tying home run for George Brenton,
Speaker 1: just hopped over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always remember David Freeze's home run the center in
Speaker 1: the World Series in twenty eleven, and then like everybody
Speaker 1: ran under the middle field there at Bush Stadium to
Speaker 1: capture the ball back. I think in certain moments you
Speaker 1: kind of lose yourself and just you just go for
Speaker 1: the ball. Well, do a little three up and three down.
Speaker 1: C J. Abrams, who has been talked about a lot
Speaker 1: this year, and for good reason. Four for five with
Speaker 1: a double, a run scored, and a stolen base. Just
Speaker 1: an incredible year from him. Brooks Lee two for four
Speaker 1: with a homer and four RBI. And Brady Singer. I
Speaker 1: thought I would give him some love because he's especially Welsh.
Speaker 1: Is bashed on Brady Singer a lot this year, but
Speaker 1: six and two thirds, three run ball while striking out
Speaker 1: six a really solid day for him. The Downs are
Speaker 1: made up of all one team, three players that were
Speaker 1: just awful yesterday, and three players who have been really
Speaker 1: productive recently, Ryan O'Hearn, Bryan Reynolds, and Ezmerlin. Valdez twenty
Speaker 1: six played appearance for them in the doubleheader against the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Fourteen strikeouts, four walks, which were all Valdez, and zero
Speaker 1: hits amongst the three of them. Bubba, any thoughts here
Speaker 1: on any of the ups or any of the downs,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the open floor, Abrams, Lee, Singer, any
Speaker 1: of the pirates, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: I'll just quick hit all this real quick. Abrams. We
Speaker 2: talked about him a lot with well so the camera
Speaker 2: is the Q and A or not, but beast, absolute
Speaker 2: monster year. Can't wait to see where he lands in
Speaker 2: the shortstop hierarchy for next year's drafts. Brooks Lee underappreciated
Speaker 2: having a phenomenal season with multipositional edgibility, but I wanted
Speaker 2: to hit on Brady Singer. This dude has been awesome
Speaker 2: and again another pitcher that I say awesome, and it's
Speaker 2: maybe a loose term considering how bad pitching is. Singer
Speaker 2: has just been a steady machine. I wrote about him
Speaker 2: recently for a matchups call him. I do like three
Speaker 2: and runs or last and four straight starts in like
Speaker 2: nine of his last ten. He's getting you five plus
Speaker 2: k's every time out, Like he says, he's what you
Speaker 2: want from a pitcher like Brady's Singer. He's been very,
Speaker 2: very good and then real quick on the downs the Buckees.
Speaker 2: Let's remember how we started the show. Joe Game one,
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole Game two. Max Freed came off the IL
Speaker 2: and was awesome five innings with the ra with the
Speaker 2: rested bullpen. So I'll give him a grain of salt
Speaker 2: on that one. A little reprieve. You'd expect a little
Speaker 2: more from this offense because it's been so good. But
Speaker 2: I guess I'll take a plus out of it. Esmond
Speaker 2: Valdez walks four times in two games. That's not bad
Speaker 2: for a guy that strikes out thirty something percent of
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: We were in the outfield there in Arizona last year
Speaker 1: at the home runner, every stand up beside Welsh and
Speaker 1: Welsh was he knew this was common, like, just watch
Speaker 1: this guy and it was a home runner. But everybody's
Speaker 1: hitting the homers. But Esmond and Valdez was just spanking,
Speaker 1: just spanking the ball repeatedly into the opposite field. He
Speaker 1: went on top of a roof thing that nobody hits
Speaker 1: balls onto, like a special, a special power hitter. He
Speaker 1: probably will regress. The contact rates and the swinging strike
Speaker 1: rates are not great, but it's been a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot of fun right now while he's doing what
Speaker 1: he's doing. You mentioned Max Freed. We'll get to some
Speaker 1: of the injury updates. Returned from the IL looked great.
Speaker 1: Five innings of shutout ball, allowed just one hit, one walk,
Speaker 1: and struck out seven. Jose Ramirez activated from the aisle
Speaker 1: by the Guardians and hit second against the Twins. He
Speaker 1: went two for five with a run and two RBI.
Speaker 1: So two star players missed a good chunk of time,
Speaker 1: seemed to have come back and hit the ground running.
Speaker 1: Any lingering concerns for either Freed or Jayram over the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, Bubba.
Speaker 2: No, They babied Freed a lot to make sure he
Speaker 2: was ready to go. So I think here's your business
Speaker 2: as usual there, and Jayram didn't need a rehabit. He
Speaker 2: look like Jay Ram right out the gate on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So we're back, baby.
Speaker 1: We are back, and we're looking like Edwin Diaz is
Speaker 1: going to be back to He threw a nineteen pitch
Speaker 1: bullpen session on Wednesday, scheduled to throw up to two more.
Speaker 1: I believe there's a potential for one on Friday and
Speaker 1: then one potentially on Sunday, so it looks like an
Speaker 1: activation early next week. Tanner Scott has done some really
Speaker 1: good work for fantasy managers. But are you preemptively dropping
Speaker 1: him in fab on Sunday or would you maybe give
Speaker 1: it a week or two just to see if Daz
Speaker 1: might need a little bit more time.
Speaker 2: I had to wait a week or two because I
Speaker 2: think we have to say we have two months of
Speaker 2: the season when Diaz comes back. I'm just for reference.
Speaker 2: I think Tanner Scott still gets you five to eight saves.
Speaker 2: For the fact that Diaz I don't think goes back
Speaker 2: to back for a long time. I think they make
Speaker 2: sure he stays good to go. Could be totally wrong,
Speaker 2: could be pure speculations, Like I know I have him
Speaker 2: in a fifteen team league and I am not dropping him.
Speaker 2: I'm probably still starting him for a little while, just
Speaker 2: because saves are so hard to come by. Tanner Scott's
Speaker 2: been that good. So but like, if you're not gonna
Speaker 2: attend team here and he got two or three other closers, yeah,
Speaker 2: go for it. But I think he'll still be viable.
Speaker 1: It might be a little bit of a unique situation.
Speaker 1: But I had a guy message with the message me
Speaker 1: the other day and he's got Baker, Duran, Grant Taylor,
Speaker 1: and Diaz, and he's like, what should I do with
Speaker 1: fore closers? Like four clothes is probably a lot. Take
Speaker 1: Grant Taylor and offer him to the Tanner Scott owner.
Speaker 1: So if you are in a position where you might
Speaker 1: have won too many closers or you have a big
Speaker 1: cushion for saves, take a look at the Tanner Scott owner,
Speaker 1: because they're probably going to be at least a little
Speaker 1: bit desperate over the next couple weeks trying to find
Speaker 1: some saves. I know in my home league, that's the
Speaker 1: situation that I'm in. Devin Williams alone, we'll certainly not
Speaker 1: be cutting it. Hello, is cool? Just followed the channel
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Speaker 1: As football starts to come in over the next couple
Speaker 1: of months, Football usually is the king in the fantasy
Speaker 1: sports world, but baseball is our true love here, so
Speaker 1: make sure you guys are following along helping us out
Speaker 1: here down the stretch. One more news on the Injury
Speaker 1: Front Show, Heyo Tani threw a bullpen session, but his
Speaker 1: timeline to return to the Dodger's rotation is still unknown.
Speaker 1: So what this says for me is that Trek Scoble
Speaker 1: Bubba will be a Dodger in about two weeks time,
Speaker 1: which maybe it doesn't happen. It feels like it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. But do we see Shoheo Tani pitch again
Speaker 1: in the regular season, or do the Dodgers just say
Speaker 1: there's no need to force it.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised because originally it sounds like he wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: do anything, and now he's sitting there throwing a bullpen session.
Speaker 2: I we might see him on some like short outings
Speaker 2: in September, just to see if they could use him
Speaker 2: in the postseason. I don't think they push it right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they will. I don't think they
Speaker 1: should necessarily. I mean River Ryan, I know he had
Speaker 1: a couple of bad ones recently, but they like they
Speaker 1: have him, so now he's gonna be coming back like,
Speaker 1: there's no need to push it. And plus, we know
Speaker 1: what's probably gonna happen, whether it's Google or somebody else.
Speaker 1: They'll acquire a top tier pitcher. Maybe it's maybe it's
Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta and they fix him. Who knows, but they'll
Speaker 1: bring in somebody. Rest assured. Let's get to the home
Speaker 1: run board. Take a look at the home run calls
Speaker 1: for the day. Hi, Kobby in the lead at forty four,
Speaker 1: League Goldman at forty one, Whips at thirty eight, soflow
Speaker 1: thirty eight, solar flare at thirty eight, lots of competition
Speaker 1: at the top of the board. Hig Kby could start
Speaker 1: thrown away with it hasn't white happened yet, but you
Speaker 1: never know what will happen over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: First place finisher, of course, we'll get that signed one
Speaker 1: Soto jersey. About where are you headed today for your
Speaker 1: home run call?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a trend with some of our action
Speaker 2: here in a minute, But I'm going to Detroit to
Speaker 2: Riley Green. Ryley Green's having a monster season, gets to
Speaker 2: Randy Dobnach, who he's had as goods as bads, and
Speaker 2: we've seen the bads. So also not to mention very
Speaker 2: short slate today, not a lot of options to choose from,
Speaker 2: like like two of the five games, so they are
Speaker 2: already going. So I'm gonna go with Riley Green coming
Speaker 2: at you on a Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Riley Green is a good option. I'll also be talking
Speaker 1: about Randy Dobnack in a second, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: take Corbyn Carroll for my home run call. He hit
Speaker 1: one yesterday. It seems like he's coming out of his slump.
Speaker 1: I mentioned him a couple of weeks ago with Welsh about.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not a typical by low, but after
Speaker 1: hitting one hundred for a month, you probably could have
Speaker 1: thrown a little bit of a low ball offer on
Speaker 1: Corbyn Carroll. I think he'll be just fine. He's facing
Speaker 1: Michael McGreevey tonight, who is having one of those kind
Speaker 1: of inexplicable great seasons when the numbers blow the surface
Speaker 1: don't really indicate that he should be. But I am
Speaker 1: taking Corbyn Carroll to leave the yard tonight and that
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Speaker 2: I'm going right back to Riley Green and the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 2: Going to be Riley Green's runs, hits and RBIs over
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Speaker 2: We're already at a push and we're gonna go that route.
Speaker 2: I think he at worst he drives in some guys
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also going Melton versus Daubneck here Tiger's run line.
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Speaker 1: wrap it up for us. Lots of fun. You know,
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Speaker 2: My friend yep, always great. Looking forward to doing this
Speaker 2: quite a bit. Actually, we'll be back to tomorrow to
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Speaker 1: show daily. Bubba's gonna be on the show quite a bit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a bit of a rotating cast of characters
Speaker 1: here over the next couple months September, it's almost exclusively
Speaker 1: myself and Bubba. Over the next few weeks. You will
Speaker 1: see some Bogman, you will see some Welsh, you will
Speaker 1: see some of myself, you'll see some Bubba. It'll be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you'll never really know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: when you tune in on a given day in August September,
Speaker 1: it'll be mostly myself and Bubba, so make sure you
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Speaker 1: Casey Bubba. I am Joel Rico. We will talk to
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