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Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:01:05.120 Listen Don Yeah now welcome app your hot fi gate 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:17.320 from that spun fine god bro say Francis pr stand 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:25.040 a ball, ladies and gentlemen, your BF and with that 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.560 we welcome you inside studio. This is the BFFs. That 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:34.040 is Frank Stamfell. I am Greg Susman. Fran guess A 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:39.480 happy Monday to you, Greg, big weekend. You're Don Alvaret's time, 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:46.120 Greggy Don Alvarez time. Anybody. My weekend was good and 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.160 did eat well this weekend? You didn't eat well? Mhmm. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.720 We both normally don't eat well on the weekend. Not 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.760 that I normally eat well. I don't ever eat well. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.280 I just don't think my stomach was reacting as well 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.080 as it used to like I used to just bounce 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.680 back really easily, Like it loved eating chi Contenders and 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:05.320 it loves eating cheese. It didn't love it this weekend. Well, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.040 you know what, Gregy, I joke about the age. But 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.000 we're both getting up there a little bit. We are. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.280 We're getting to the point where we can't really respond 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.640 and bounce back as well as we used to when 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.600 we used to just eat terrible things all the time. Yeah, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.359 you know, I my stomming. I have found ever since 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.360 I started to eat like slightly healthier, it likes not more. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.400 I'm not even joking, like I feel want like some 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.000 TV twelve Tom Brady diet, but like I feel just 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.720 like when I eat like really gross stuff, I just 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.480 feel like pretty bladed. I want to eat like healthier stuff. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.160 I don't, dude. I went to a bacon and beer 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.240 festival on Saturday, so you could just imagine what my 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.600 day was, like, how was your stomach doing now? It's alright, alright, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.960 yeah it's not bad, But I mean Saturday was just 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.240 a complete mess beer bacon obviously, went out to like 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.200 a German bar afterwards, continue drinking, continue eating terribly. Went 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.040 to a beach bar after that, Greg, it was just 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:00.880 it was a lot of on. She was great, it 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.520 was also a mess. I had a very adult thing 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.359 to do, an engagement party on Saturday and Sunday. I 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.920 feel like you always have engagement parties, no, or some 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.440 kind of parties. I don't like parties. Yeah, I don't 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.399 like parties any great. Um yeah, these back to back 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.040 days had some good tie on on Saturday night that 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.600 was good Thai food. Yes, and I saw Rocket Man 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.240 on Friday. As you know. How was that? Okay, Bob 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:30.680 not greatly? Was it better than what was the better? Okay, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.280 Bohemian Rapsy was better? Personally? Yeah, I mean I don't 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.400 have much interest in either. And I'll probably watched Bohemian 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.000 Rapsy at some point just because it was like nominated 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.360 for so many different things, But outside of that, don't 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.400 really have a ton of interest in either. Well, speaking 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.680 of someone that certainly knows movies because he used to 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.960 make them, let's talk about Moodico. What's up? Madimo? Helly? 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:57.000 What's going on? Happy Monday to all? I'm and I 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.760 actually eat whatever the hell I want and my stomach 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.760 take it whether it likes it or not. I love 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.760 that approach at Live too, And if you follow matt 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.000 On on Twitter at CTM Baseball, you'll see exactly what 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.080 he's talking about, because we get some crazy pictures of chicken, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.040 parmer jan pizza, all these crazy kind of Italian foods. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.320 I honestly love it, Matt. I appreciate you. Thank you, Greg. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.600 I'm a little disappointed that you didn't like Rocket Man. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.200 I haven't seen it yet. I do want to see it. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.000 I'm a big Elton John than from the nineteen seventies 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.840 to like early eighties and then after that, you know, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.159 so in all, honestly, it's weird because right didn't like 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.920 about Heman Rhapsody was that they didn't like the nitty gritty, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.080 the drugs, the sacks, the rocket roll right like. It 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.720 was all kind of like p G. I fied, if 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:46.080 you will, not that bothered me. But for this they 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.240 there was the drug use, right like. There was like 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.960 the down in the dumbes depressed Elton John, but there 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.200 wasn't enough like the rise. It was like, all of 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.760 a sudden, it was Elton John, snap a finger. He's 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.040 the number one artist in the world and making dollars. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.960 I was like, wait a minute, I didn't see any 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.799 of that. I also hated that none of the music 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.719 was like even they didn't try to do it chronologically, like, oh, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.600 here was his mood when he wrote this song, here 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.120 was the movie when he did the Tiny Dancer, when 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.920 he did Rocket had they kind of just played him 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.200 randomly and I was like, that doesn't make sense, and 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.880 they didn't to justify the scene, and I'm like, but 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.599 I want to know what was really happening when he 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.040 was trying to when he met with that song, like 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.360 he's a really famous song, Like what is it about? 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.960 I don't know. Did the Game of Thrones writers also 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.479 make this movie? Greg, I think, to be totally honest 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.520 with you, I think Benny Off was involved in this movie. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:36.400 I mean that that might explain why they just accelerated everything. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.360 I might have been seeing things, but I really felt 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.159 and I was like, looking at the opening credits, I 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.359 thought I saw Banion's name. To be totally totally honest, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.799 fact his IMDb here yea it us was fact. Elton 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.120 John was my favorite guest on The Muppets when I 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:59.160 was a kid. Really yep, fun facts. Matt Modika here 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.440 in on Monday R. I appreciate that. No, it doesn't 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.599 seem like he's anywhere here, all right, So you maybe 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.840 maybe there's but maybe there's another benny off. You know, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.200 we can we can marry the two together, Greg, there's 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.040 other benny off. Maybe it wouldn't surprise me. Oh, you 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.359 accelerate a bunch of stuff. You didn't explain anything. It 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.440 sounds like that's exactly how I felt, all right. Speaking 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.000 of accelerating, you're Don Alvarez accelerating lineups because he's accelerated 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.160 into the big leagues. He was called up on Sunday 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.880 Homeward in his first game. You want to talk about palooza, Frank, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.520 I'm quite sure we had it yesterday. We didn't, Greg, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.679 It'll be next week really, because he has to play 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.599 a game. He play a game. He has to play 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.560 a game before he starts for him to be in 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.800 the player pool. So he's not in the NNBC player 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.039 that's stupid. I assume he's added in a bunch of 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.280 leagues where um, you don't need a minor league player 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:54.640 to come up and play a game first. So he's 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.640 already been stashed everywhere. And everyone's so excited about your 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.640 Don Alvarez, and you're reminded everyone yesterday why we're all 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.120 so excited about him. Just easy power. If you saw 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.560 that home run his first major league hit, tweeted out yesterday. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.360 Of course, he hits a home run in his first 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.120 major league game, and someone tweeted back, well, doesn't actually 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.360 count if it came off Dylan Bundy, Which is a 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.560 fair question. But you've seen the pay it's it's it's 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.120 very easy power. Hits it all the way out to 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.880 like straightaway center field, maybe off to the left a 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.960 little bit, but really easy power. And you look at 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.360 what he did in the minor leagues this year, three 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.200 twenty three homers, seventy one Ribbies, seventy one Ribbies and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.680 only fifties six games o ps. So I know I 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.280 don't have a lot of fab left. I know Matt 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.760 Modiica doesn't have a lot of fab left. But if 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.800 you were stashing you're Don Alvarez anywhere, you are obviously 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.120 super super excited to get him into your lineups. Matt, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.520 how much do you think you're Don Alvarez is gonna 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.640 go for next week? I gotta think around that level. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.680 You know, if you have money shaved up at this point, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.000 this is what you saved it for. I really can't 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.600 see someone else that hasn't either been draft did or 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.440 called up already, you know, with with the fanfare and 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.480 the ability that this man has, and as you said, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.360 it was on display yesterday. The one guy I think 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.320 that could you know if he gets called up, but 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.040 I don't know when that's gonna happen, would be Kyle 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.040 Tucker Chris. He has his power, speed and average that 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.760 he could hit four. But I'm getting less and less 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:25.520 optimistic on his. Uh. Call. But Alvarez, whatever you have, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.640 I would below the majority of it. I would save myself, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.040 you know, somebody to play around with over the next 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.080 couple of months. Matt, there's someone in our main event 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.080 league that has nine hundred nineteen dollars left. Do you 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:43.000 think that's a great question, Greg, I'll look at it. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.800 I have to think that, you know, if I had 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.720 nine dollars, I would see who the next highest was 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.880 that I had been a dollar over that. Greg. This 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.440 person is in fourteenth place. Uh. He probably doesn't look 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.560 at his team. Maybe not. Well, it would be great 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.160 if he got alvage because you know it wouldn't affect us. Frank, 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.000 how many points are you up these days? I am 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.199 at I'm at one thirteen and a half second places 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.079 one of seven and a half. So not that you know, 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.199 I got my I got my Frankie Mantas in over 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.000 the weekend, too great, So uh continuing to crush it 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.640 man and I picked up Nick Favetta in this league 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.480 if you remember. So, uh, A lot is going right. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.679 I don't have a lot to complain about right now, 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.080 and hopefully I get Aaron Judge and d Gordon back 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.920 and continue to uh, continue to move up the leaderboards. Great, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.040 especially in the overall. That's That's what I'm focused on. Now. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.760 Where are you in the overall? Frankie? Last I checked, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.280 I was like fifty five out of like five seventy. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.480 I believe you have a top ten team right now, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.880 right I have? We were third for longest time were 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.880 I think we're at fifth now with the with the 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.960 CAO and my solo team is around. Yeah, so right 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.360 now I'm I'm I'm fifty fifth out of five seventy. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:05.800 Matt does have a fifth place team with Facaro and yeah, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.959 I don't. I don't see your other team here for now, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:17.000 but YEAHTM that would be twenty nine. So Matt's got 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.719 to he's got one in the top five, he's got 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.960 one in the top thirty, having having himself a season. Yeah, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.200 and it has been pretty good. The money is low now, 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.480 so he got it the rest of the way. But 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.840 in all honesty, usually when I get to July, I'm 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.920 pretty much in this predicament every year. That's the way 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.240 I played. It's not for everyone, but I always hear 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.880 that you know, you gotta have your money in order 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.840 to win. That's fallacy as well. It's fallacy mat MAT's 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.000 always the one that's aggressive early on. He wants to 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.719 have the guy is for as long as possible and 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.520 he wants to get him going. So, Madame Modica, let's 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.840 get into the eyes that were available in the player 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.360 pool yesterday and in the main event and really everywhere. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.320 The one thing that I was most interested in was 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.400 fran Er Valdez given his first star or his la 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.920 most recent start, I should say for Houston. In the 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.240 main event, he went for thirty five bucks. In our 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.080 G S T League he went for a hundred and 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.240 twenty seven dollars. Obviously the money is tight, But favor 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:14.920 of Valden is what do you think about him going forward? 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.959 Look out of the bullpen this year, he made some 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.320 nice advancements, especially in first pitched strike. I know a 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.360 lot of people, you know, have problems with that, uh stat, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.200 And I'll say it's predictive. I think there's definitely a correlation. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.320 Though he improved that greatly. The swinging strike has gone 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.719 up and the chase rate as well. Now, look it's 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.400 out of the bullpen, so he does get buoyed by that. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.720 But if he if he keeps a rotation spot, then 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:47.280 he's obviously an optimal player. You want, look what Wade 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.600 Miley has done this year. Uh so right now he 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.720 has the spot. I think it's a great boy by 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.640 Frank the thirty five dollars and if you got him, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.559 you're excited. He actually wasn't purchased by me, Matt Modriga. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.360 He he did go for He did go for thirty 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.079 five bucks. Um, I had a small bid in on him. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.000 You know, I'm pretty much not bidding more than like 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.160 fifteen dollars per player because I have like a hundred 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.800 and twenty dollars left to last me the entire season. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.680 But yeah, I think for that price. He went for 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.640 thirty five dollars. In the main event, eighty eight dollars 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.480 in the Great Fantasy Basic Invitational hundred and twenty seven 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.880 out of a thousand in g S T. So, you know, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.160 I could have seen maybe somewhere in between that main 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.280 event price of thirty five dollars and the Great Fantasy 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.959 Baseball at eighty eight, But hundred and twenty seven to 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.000 me is a little bit too steep. I understand that. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.280 You know, it seems like everything the Houston Astros touched 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.560 has turns to gold. Wade Miley has been awesome so 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.440 far this year as well. And if you look at 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.160 Frank Rivaldez, his numbers really really known for a steep 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.839 ground ball rate throughout every level in the minor league, 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.400 So I don't know that he's gonna get a ton 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.040 of strikeouts. He did have seven strikeouts over seven seven 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.839 endings pitched in his first start, but really really enticed 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.960 by that ground ball rate. So, you know, even if 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.640 it's only short term, if we get you know, a 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.360 couple of starts, if he performs well, maybe he sleep 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.200 stays in the rotation for the Houston Astros. There's also 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.920 a chance that this team is also in on like 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.640 a Madison Bumgarner trade or a Marcus stroman trade, So 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.600 pay attention to that. But even if it's only short term, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.360 I like, uh, I like a let's say, anywhere from 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.920 a four to seven percent bid on fran Valdez something. Yeah, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.600 I like it too. Yeah, he was not the picture 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.000 I was most interested in last night though. Who was that? Ller? 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:29.199 Niche Keller? Why that? Why you interested in the pirate? Oh? 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.880 He's coming off the thirteen strikeout game in the minors. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.320 He's a guy that when he made his debut like 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.040 a week or two ago. Uh, first five batters absolutely 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.200 lit him up here. Think he r first six batters 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.400 where he get like six runs in the first thing. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.680 After that, he struck out six of the next eleven batterers. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.400 He's faced. Look, he's on a he's on a team 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.160 that has a good homeballpark. He's got swinging missed to 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.199 his game, and if you have realistic expectations, if he 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.920 pitched to like a three eighty with a strikeout for 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.160 anywhere more the rest of the see, you know, especially 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.000 in this climate, that's fantastic. Yeah, he is a candidate 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.640 to make a start this week as well. I saw 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.920 his name mentioned as a potential starter on Wednesday, that's 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.480 Mitch Keller. And yeah, you mentioned what he did. You know, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.160 since he's gone down his last start out five innings pitched, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.320 one hit, three walks, thirteen strikeouts. The outing before that 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.440 six innings, two earned on two walks, five strikeouts. I 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.000 do personally have some concern when it comes to the walks. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.080 It seems like, you know, he struggled with whips so 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.760 far in his minor league career. So that's why I 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.880 thought they were gonna be a little bit patient. But 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.920 I don't think that the Pirates are in a predicament 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.040 to be patient right now, Greg because the injuries to 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.400 Jamison Tyne and and Trevor Williams, everything that's going on 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.600 in that rotation. I think that they just need bodies. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.920 So that's why we might see Mitch Keller this week. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.960 The strikeout upside is legit, but I do have some 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.520 concerns when it comes to the wall. Yeah, I think 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:47.680 it makes I think it makes sense. I think they 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.280 gotta put him in the rotation and see what they 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.240 have and and see if they can make a push 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.160 for one of these wild card spots as we get 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.600 towards the trade deadlon and ultimately see what the deal 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.800 is with miss Keller and how good he can be. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:00.800 One more picture I want to tell about before we 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.120 get to the break, and that's Adrian Samson, which like 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.360 a pleat game over the weekend. Sampson playing for Texas. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.040 Not much notoriety there, but he's pitched well over his 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.600 over the last month, he's been good. Thirty two dollars 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.400 in the main event, just three bucks in our gs 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.560 T league. Frank Um Matt, what do you think about 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.960 Adrian Sampson. I look, he made me take notice his 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.600 last five appearance. The last two were starts, but his 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.960 last five appearance he's pitched five innings in all those games, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:30.480 uh thirty strikeouts to three walks and pitched. So look, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.360 I'm looking at everybody. Everybody's an option for me this year. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.760 You know, as I mentioned, like pitching is just the 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.960 aceans have gone wrong. Nothing seems right anymore. So I 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.840 would definitely be interested in him. Yeah, I think over 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.800 the last five starts you do have to at least 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.320 take notice to what he's done. I mean I had 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.760 to look him up over the weekend because admittedly, you know, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.080 don't have a lot of faith in pitchers when they 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.680 pitched in Texas, but over that span, I mean at 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.400 one point a last five starts at three point eight 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.280 four x fips, so not even that is terrible, right 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.240 around eight and a half case per nine the walks 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.240 per nine or below one thirty strikeouts to three walks 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.400 over his last five starts, So that's that's a pretty 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.440 good ratio here. When he does face Boston in Fenway 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.680 this week, So I don't really love that start. You know, 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.920 if Dad Martinez isn't in the lineup for Boston, I 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.680 like it a little bit more, but overall, still don't 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.640 love that start at Boston. So I would have, you know, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.400 added him a speculative ad here, Greg, but I wouldn't 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:26.680 have thrown down too much. And I don't know that 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.840 i'd have him in my starting line up this week either. Yeah. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.160 You know, one of the choose our pictures from last 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.960 week that we talked about that I like better was 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.200 Animal Sanchez for this week, and I took a shot 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.640 on him over Adrian Sampson. I like that call. I 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.680 like that. Alright, take a break here, we'll come back 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:58.400 with more and that Modica hold up next. 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Continuing on your BF 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.320 as Frank Stample, Greg Susman hanging out with you alongside 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.679 Maddie mo mat Modica here on a Monday follow him 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.480 at CCM Baseball on of course, read everything has to 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.679 say on the athletic get to the two star pitchers 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.680 that he liked the best cut a little bit later 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.560 on in the program, but before we continue, I wanna 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.520 ask him about another picture, Cold Pictures. Actually here he 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.640 was talking about Mitch Keller, Favor Valadez and Adrian Sampson. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.280 But one of the top names I keep seeing is 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.920 Peter Lambert for the Rockies. Letty three bucks. He went 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:36.480 four in the main event. I believe that was the 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:40.119 second most other than the favor of Valdez. And I 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:44.399 don't get it, man. I admittedly I have biased against 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.320 the Rockies. I don't want to do it. It always 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.040 ends terribly. Why are people so invested in this guy? Well, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.800 he came out and he had a great start at 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.760 Wrigley last week. I recommended not to start him this 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:01.320 week because he is home versus the same Cubs, and 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.800 he does get San Diego, which is kind of nice 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.960 because you can get the strike acts with them, but 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.240 very much better team. I think it was that initial 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.840 stock that really turned people's heads. But I think you 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.840 gotta have the long term view here. I think Matt's 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:16.560 exactly right. Look at that first start what he did 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.600 against the Cubs seven and he's pitched one er and run, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.760 one walk, nine strikeouts. He looked really, really good. It's 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.160 actually his secondary pitches that he's known for better than 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.320 his fastball. But two starts this week, in course, he's 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.280 gonna see the Cubs again, really really good line up, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.320 so it's the second time that they're gonna be able 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.680 to see him and then the padres and you look 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.760 at what he's done his his two stops at Triple 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.680 A so far this year. In Triple A. Understand it's 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.639 the PCL. Everybody is mashing this year, but a five 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.000 point zero seven e r A at one point three 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.960 one whip last year in the PCL in Triple A 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.199 a five point zero four e r A and eleven 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.240 starts with a one point five seven whips, So there's 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.000 not much of a track record here, Greg, I think 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.119 people were sucked in a little bit by that first start. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.320 Uh and and they see the two starts on the schedule. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.040 But I worry man, especially against the Cubs and corps Field. Uh. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.359 You know, maybe a spec add in a deeper league. 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:05.720 But I don't think that I would have him in 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.000 my line up this week. Like I said, I wasn't 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.200 investing in him. I'm not doing the Colorado thing. I 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:13.840