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Speaker 1: Listen Don Yeah now welcome app your hot fi gate
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Speaker 1: a ball, ladies and gentlemen, your BF and with that
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Speaker 1: is Frank Stamfell. I am Greg Susman. Fran guess A
Speaker 1: happy Monday to you, Greg, big weekend. You're Don Alvaret's time,
Speaker 1: Greggy Don Alvarez time. Anybody. My weekend was good and
Speaker 1: did eat well this weekend? You didn't eat well? Mhmm.
Speaker 1: We both normally don't eat well on the weekend. Not
Speaker 1: that I normally eat well. I don't ever eat well.
Speaker 1: I just don't think my stomach was reacting as well
Speaker 1: as it used to like I used to just bounce
Speaker 1: back really easily, Like it loved eating chi Contenders and
Speaker 1: it loves eating cheese. It didn't love it this weekend. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, Gregy, I joke about the age. But
Speaker 1: we're both getting up there a little bit. We are.
Speaker 1: We're getting to the point where we can't really respond
Speaker 1: and bounce back as well as we used to when
Speaker 1: we used to just eat terrible things all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I my stomming. I have found ever since
Speaker 1: I started to eat like slightly healthier, it likes not more.
Speaker 1: I'm not even joking, like I feel want like some
Speaker 1: TV twelve Tom Brady diet, but like I feel just
Speaker 1: like when I eat like really gross stuff, I just
Speaker 1: feel like pretty bladed. I want to eat like healthier stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't, dude. I went to a bacon and beer
Speaker 1: festival on Saturday, so you could just imagine what my
Speaker 1: day was, like, how was your stomach doing now? It's alright, alright,
Speaker 1: yeah it's not bad, But I mean Saturday was just
Speaker 1: a complete mess beer bacon obviously, went out to like
Speaker 1: a German bar afterwards, continue drinking, continue eating terribly. Went
Speaker 1: to a beach bar after that, Greg, it was just
Speaker 1: it was a lot of on. She was great, it
Speaker 1: was also a mess. I had a very adult thing
Speaker 1: to do, an engagement party on Saturday and Sunday. I
Speaker 1: feel like you always have engagement parties, no, or some
Speaker 1: kind of parties. I don't like parties. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like parties any great. Um yeah, these back to back
Speaker 1: days had some good tie on on Saturday night that
Speaker 1: was good Thai food. Yes, and I saw Rocket Man
Speaker 1: on Friday. As you know. How was that? Okay, Bob
Speaker 1: not greatly? Was it better than what was the better? Okay,
Speaker 1: Bohemian Rapsy was better? Personally? Yeah, I mean I don't
Speaker 1: have much interest in either. And I'll probably watched Bohemian
Speaker 1: Rapsy at some point just because it was like nominated
Speaker 1: for so many different things, But outside of that, don't
Speaker 1: really have a ton of interest in either. Well, speaking
Speaker 1: of someone that certainly knows movies because he used to
Speaker 1: make them, let's talk about Moodico. What's up? Madimo? Helly?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Happy Monday to all? I'm and I
Speaker 1: actually eat whatever the hell I want and my stomach
Speaker 1: take it whether it likes it or not. I love
Speaker 1: that approach at Live too, And if you follow matt
Speaker 1: On on Twitter at CTM Baseball, you'll see exactly what
Speaker 1: he's talking about, because we get some crazy pictures of chicken,
Speaker 1: parmer jan pizza, all these crazy kind of Italian foods.
Speaker 1: I honestly love it, Matt. I appreciate you. Thank you, Greg.
Speaker 1: I'm a little disappointed that you didn't like Rocket Man.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. I do want to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm a big Elton John than from the nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: to like early eighties and then after that, you know,
Speaker 1: so in all, honestly, it's weird because right didn't like
Speaker 1: about Heman Rhapsody was that they didn't like the nitty gritty,
Speaker 1: the drugs, the sacks, the rocket roll right like. It
Speaker 1: was all kind of like p G. I fied, if
Speaker 1: you will, not that bothered me. But for this they
Speaker 1: there was the drug use, right like. There was like
Speaker 1: the down in the dumbes depressed Elton John, but there
Speaker 1: wasn't enough like the rise. It was like, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it was Elton John, snap a finger. He's
Speaker 1: the number one artist in the world and making dollars.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, I didn't see any
Speaker 1: of that. I also hated that none of the music
Speaker 1: was like even they didn't try to do it chronologically, like, oh,
Speaker 1: here was his mood when he wrote this song, here
Speaker 1: was the movie when he did the Tiny Dancer, when
Speaker 1: he did Rocket had they kind of just played him
Speaker 1: randomly and I was like, that doesn't make sense, and
Speaker 1: they didn't to justify the scene, and I'm like, but
Speaker 1: I want to know what was really happening when he
Speaker 1: was trying to when he met with that song, like
Speaker 1: he's a really famous song, Like what is it about?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Did the Game of Thrones writers also
Speaker 1: make this movie? Greg, I think, to be totally honest
Speaker 1: with you, I think Benny Off was involved in this movie.
Speaker 1: I mean that that might explain why they just accelerated everything.
Speaker 1: I might have been seeing things, but I really felt
Speaker 1: and I was like, looking at the opening credits, I
Speaker 1: thought I saw Banion's name. To be totally totally honest,
Speaker 1: fact his IMDb here yea it us was fact. Elton
Speaker 1: John was my favorite guest on The Muppets when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Really yep, fun facts. Matt Modika here
Speaker 1: in on Monday R. I appreciate that. No, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like he's anywhere here, all right, So you maybe
Speaker 1: maybe there's but maybe there's another benny off. You know,
Speaker 1: we can we can marry the two together, Greg, there's
Speaker 1: other benny off. Maybe it wouldn't surprise me. Oh, you
Speaker 1: accelerate a bunch of stuff. You didn't explain anything. It
Speaker 1: sounds like that's exactly how I felt, all right. Speaking
Speaker 1: of accelerating, you're Don Alvarez accelerating lineups because he's accelerated
Speaker 1: into the big leagues. He was called up on Sunday
Speaker 1: Homeward in his first game. You want to talk about palooza, Frank,
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure we had it yesterday. We didn't, Greg,
Speaker 1: It'll be next week really, because he has to play
Speaker 1: a game. He play a game. He has to play
Speaker 1: a game before he starts for him to be in
Speaker 1: the player pool. So he's not in the NNBC player
Speaker 1: that's stupid. I assume he's added in a bunch of
Speaker 1: leagues where um, you don't need a minor league player
Speaker 1: to come up and play a game first. So he's
Speaker 1: already been stashed everywhere. And everyone's so excited about your
Speaker 1: Don Alvarez, and you're reminded everyone yesterday why we're all
Speaker 1: so excited about him. Just easy power. If you saw
Speaker 1: that home run his first major league hit, tweeted out yesterday.
Speaker 1: Of course, he hits a home run in his first
Speaker 1: major league game, and someone tweeted back, well, doesn't actually
Speaker 1: count if it came off Dylan Bundy, Which is a
Speaker 1: fair question. But you've seen the pay it's it's it's
Speaker 1: very easy power. Hits it all the way out to
Speaker 1: like straightaway center field, maybe off to the left a
Speaker 1: little bit, but really easy power. And you look at
Speaker 1: what he did in the minor leagues this year, three
Speaker 1: twenty three homers, seventy one Ribbies, seventy one Ribbies and
Speaker 1: only fifties six games o ps. So I know I
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of fab left. I know Matt
Speaker 1: Modiica doesn't have a lot of fab left. But if
Speaker 1: you were stashing you're Don Alvarez anywhere, you are obviously
Speaker 1: super super excited to get him into your lineups. Matt,
Speaker 1: how much do you think you're Don Alvarez is gonna
Speaker 1: go for next week? I gotta think around that level.
Speaker 1: You know, if you have money shaved up at this point,
Speaker 1: this is what you saved it for. I really can't
Speaker 1: see someone else that hasn't either been draft did or
Speaker 1: called up already, you know, with with the fanfare and
Speaker 1: the ability that this man has, and as you said,
Speaker 1: it was on display yesterday. The one guy I think
Speaker 1: that could you know if he gets called up, but
Speaker 1: I don't know when that's gonna happen, would be Kyle
Speaker 1: Tucker Chris. He has his power, speed and average that
Speaker 1: he could hit four. But I'm getting less and less
Speaker 1: optimistic on his. Uh. Call. But Alvarez, whatever you have,
Speaker 1: I would below the majority of it. I would save myself,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody to play around with over the next
Speaker 1: couple of months. Matt, there's someone in our main event
Speaker 1: league that has nine hundred nineteen dollars left. Do you
Speaker 1: think that's a great question, Greg, I'll look at it.
Speaker 1: I have to think that, you know, if I had
Speaker 1: nine dollars, I would see who the next highest was
Speaker 1: that I had been a dollar over that. Greg. This
Speaker 1: person is in fourteenth place. Uh. He probably doesn't look
Speaker 1: at his team. Maybe not. Well, it would be great
Speaker 1: if he got alvage because you know it wouldn't affect us. Frank,
Speaker 1: how many points are you up these days? I am
Speaker 1: at I'm at one thirteen and a half second places
Speaker 1: one of seven and a half. So not that you know,
Speaker 1: I got my I got my Frankie Mantas in over
Speaker 1: the weekend, too great, So uh continuing to crush it
Speaker 1: man and I picked up Nick Favetta in this league
Speaker 1: if you remember. So, uh, A lot is going right.
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot to complain about right now,
Speaker 1: and hopefully I get Aaron Judge and d Gordon back
Speaker 1: and continue to uh, continue to move up the leaderboards. Great,
Speaker 1: especially in the overall. That's That's what I'm focused on. Now.
Speaker 1: Where are you in the overall? Frankie? Last I checked,
Speaker 1: I was like fifty five out of like five seventy.
Speaker 1: I believe you have a top ten team right now,
Speaker 1: right I have? We were third for longest time were
Speaker 1: I think we're at fifth now with the with the
Speaker 1: CAO and my solo team is around. Yeah, so right
Speaker 1: now I'm I'm I'm fifty fifth out of five seventy.
Speaker 1: Matt does have a fifth place team with Facaro and yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see your other team here for now,
Speaker 1: but YEAHTM that would be twenty nine. So Matt's got
Speaker 1: to he's got one in the top five, he's got
Speaker 1: one in the top thirty, having having himself a season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it has been pretty good. The money is low now,
Speaker 1: so he got it the rest of the way. But
Speaker 1: in all honesty, usually when I get to July, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty much in this predicament every year. That's the way
Speaker 1: I played. It's not for everyone, but I always hear
Speaker 1: that you know, you gotta have your money in order
Speaker 1: to win. That's fallacy as well. It's fallacy mat MAT's
Speaker 1: always the one that's aggressive early on. He wants to
Speaker 1: have the guy is for as long as possible and
Speaker 1: he wants to get him going. So, Madame Modica, let's
Speaker 1: get into the eyes that were available in the player
Speaker 1: pool yesterday and in the main event and really everywhere.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I was most interested in was
Speaker 1: fran Er Valdez given his first star or his la
Speaker 1: most recent start, I should say for Houston. In the
Speaker 1: main event, he went for thirty five bucks. In our
Speaker 1: G S T League he went for a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars. Obviously the money is tight, But favor
Speaker 1: of Valden is what do you think about him going forward?
Speaker 1: Look out of the bullpen this year, he made some
Speaker 1: nice advancements, especially in first pitched strike. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, have problems with that, uh stat,
Speaker 1: And I'll say it's predictive. I think there's definitely a correlation.
Speaker 1: Though he improved that greatly. The swinging strike has gone
Speaker 1: up and the chase rate as well. Now, look it's
Speaker 1: out of the bullpen, so he does get buoyed by that.
Speaker 1: But if he if he keeps a rotation spot, then
Speaker 1: he's obviously an optimal player. You want, look what Wade
Speaker 1: Miley has done this year. Uh so right now he
Speaker 1: has the spot. I think it's a great boy by
Speaker 1: Frank the thirty five dollars and if you got him,
Speaker 1: you're excited. He actually wasn't purchased by me, Matt Modriga.
Speaker 1: He he did go for He did go for thirty
Speaker 1: five bucks. Um, I had a small bid in on him.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm pretty much not bidding more than like
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars per player because I have like a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars left to last me the entire season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think for that price. He went for
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars. In the main event, eighty eight dollars
Speaker 1: in the Great Fantasy Basic Invitational hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: out of a thousand in g S T. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I could have seen maybe somewhere in between that main
Speaker 1: event price of thirty five dollars and the Great Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball at eighty eight, But hundred and twenty seven to
Speaker 1: me is a little bit too steep. I understand that.
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like everything the Houston Astros touched
Speaker 1: has turns to gold. Wade Miley has been awesome so
Speaker 1: far this year as well. And if you look at
Speaker 1: Frank Rivaldez, his numbers really really known for a steep
Speaker 1: ground ball rate throughout every level in the minor league,
Speaker 1: So I don't know that he's gonna get a ton
Speaker 1: of strikeouts. He did have seven strikeouts over seven seven
Speaker 1: endings pitched in his first start, but really really enticed
Speaker 1: by that ground ball rate. So, you know, even if
Speaker 1: it's only short term, if we get you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of starts, if he performs well, maybe he sleep
Speaker 1: stays in the rotation for the Houston Astros. There's also
Speaker 1: a chance that this team is also in on like
Speaker 1: a Madison Bumgarner trade or a Marcus stroman trade, So
Speaker 1: pay attention to that. But even if it's only short term,
Speaker 1: I like, uh, I like a let's say, anywhere from
Speaker 1: a four to seven percent bid on fran Valdez something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it too. Yeah, he was not the picture
Speaker 1: I was most interested in last night though. Who was that? Ller?
Speaker 1: Niche Keller? Why that? Why you interested in the pirate? Oh?
Speaker 1: He's coming off the thirteen strikeout game in the minors.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that when he made his debut like
Speaker 1: a week or two ago. Uh, first five batters absolutely
Speaker 1: lit him up here. Think he r first six batters
Speaker 1: where he get like six runs in the first thing.
Speaker 1: After that, he struck out six of the next eleven batterers.
Speaker 1: He's faced. Look, he's on a he's on a team
Speaker 1: that has a good homeballpark. He's got swinging missed to
Speaker 1: his game, and if you have realistic expectations, if he
Speaker 1: pitched to like a three eighty with a strikeout for
Speaker 1: anywhere more the rest of the see, you know, especially
Speaker 1: in this climate, that's fantastic. Yeah, he is a candidate
Speaker 1: to make a start this week as well. I saw
Speaker 1: his name mentioned as a potential starter on Wednesday, that's
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller. And yeah, you mentioned what he did. You know,
Speaker 1: since he's gone down his last start out five innings pitched,
Speaker 1: one hit, three walks, thirteen strikeouts. The outing before that
Speaker 1: six innings, two earned on two walks, five strikeouts. I
Speaker 1: do personally have some concern when it comes to the walks.
Speaker 1: It seems like, you know, he struggled with whips so
Speaker 1: far in his minor league career. So that's why I
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna be a little bit patient. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Pirates are in a predicament
Speaker 1: to be patient right now, Greg because the injuries to
Speaker 1: Jamison Tyne and and Trevor Williams, everything that's going on
Speaker 1: in that rotation. I think that they just need bodies.
Speaker 1: So that's why we might see Mitch Keller this week.
Speaker 1: The strikeout upside is legit, but I do have some
Speaker 1: concerns when it comes to the wall. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it makes I think it makes sense. I think they
Speaker 1: gotta put him in the rotation and see what they
Speaker 1: have and and see if they can make a push
Speaker 1: for one of these wild card spots as we get
Speaker 1: towards the trade deadlon and ultimately see what the deal
Speaker 1: is with miss Keller and how good he can be.
Speaker 1: One more picture I want to tell about before we
Speaker 1: get to the break, and that's Adrian Samson, which like
Speaker 1: a pleat game over the weekend. Sampson playing for Texas.
Speaker 1: Not much notoriety there, but he's pitched well over his
Speaker 1: over the last month, he's been good. Thirty two dollars
Speaker 1: in the main event, just three bucks in our gs
Speaker 1: T league. Frank Um Matt, what do you think about
Speaker 1: Adrian Sampson. I look, he made me take notice his
Speaker 1: last five appearance. The last two were starts, but his
Speaker 1: last five appearance he's pitched five innings in all those games,
Speaker 1: uh thirty strikeouts to three walks and pitched. So look,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at everybody. Everybody's an option for me this year.
Speaker 1: You know, as I mentioned, like pitching is just the
Speaker 1: aceans have gone wrong. Nothing seems right anymore. So I
Speaker 1: would definitely be interested in him. Yeah, I think over
Speaker 1: the last five starts you do have to at least
Speaker 1: take notice to what he's done. I mean I had
Speaker 1: to look him up over the weekend because admittedly, you know,
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of faith in pitchers when they
Speaker 1: pitched in Texas, but over that span, I mean at
Speaker 1: one point a last five starts at three point eight
Speaker 1: four x fips, so not even that is terrible, right
Speaker 1: around eight and a half case per nine the walks
Speaker 1: per nine or below one thirty strikeouts to three walks
Speaker 1: over his last five starts, So that's that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good ratio here. When he does face Boston in Fenway
Speaker 1: this week, So I don't really love that start. You know,
Speaker 1: if Dad Martinez isn't in the lineup for Boston, I
Speaker 1: like it a little bit more, but overall, still don't
Speaker 1: love that start at Boston. So I would have, you know,
Speaker 1: added him a speculative ad here, Greg, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have thrown down too much. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: i'd have him in my starting line up this week either. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the choose our pictures from last
Speaker 1: week that we talked about that I like better was
Speaker 1: Animal Sanchez for this week, and I took a shot
Speaker 1: on him over Adrian Sampson. I like that call. I
Speaker 1: like that. Alright, take a break here, we'll come back
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Speaker 1: as Frank Stample, Greg Susman hanging out with you alongside
Speaker 1: Maddie mo mat Modica here on a Monday follow him
Speaker 1: at CCM Baseball on of course, read everything has to
Speaker 1: say on the athletic get to the two star pitchers
Speaker 1: that he liked the best cut a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the program, but before we continue, I wanna
Speaker 1: ask him about another picture, Cold Pictures. Actually here he
Speaker 1: was talking about Mitch Keller, Favor Valadez and Adrian Sampson.
Speaker 1: But one of the top names I keep seeing is
Speaker 1: Peter Lambert for the Rockies. Letty three bucks. He went
Speaker 1: four in the main event. I believe that was the
Speaker 1: second most other than the favor of Valdez. And I
Speaker 1: don't get it, man. I admittedly I have biased against
Speaker 1: the Rockies. I don't want to do it. It always
Speaker 1: ends terribly. Why are people so invested in this guy? Well,
Speaker 1: he came out and he had a great start at
Speaker 1: Wrigley last week. I recommended not to start him this
Speaker 1: week because he is home versus the same Cubs, and
Speaker 1: he does get San Diego, which is kind of nice
Speaker 1: because you can get the strike acts with them, but
Speaker 1: very much better team. I think it was that initial
Speaker 1: stock that really turned people's heads. But I think you
Speaker 1: gotta have the long term view here. I think Matt's
Speaker 1: exactly right. Look at that first start what he did
Speaker 1: against the Cubs seven and he's pitched one er and run,
Speaker 1: one walk, nine strikeouts. He looked really, really good. It's
Speaker 1: actually his secondary pitches that he's known for better than
Speaker 1: his fastball. But two starts this week, in course, he's
Speaker 1: gonna see the Cubs again, really really good line up,
Speaker 1: so it's the second time that they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to see him and then the padres and you look
Speaker 1: at what he's done his his two stops at Triple
Speaker 1: A so far this year. In Triple A. Understand it's
Speaker 1: the PCL. Everybody is mashing this year, but a five
Speaker 1: point zero seven e r A at one point three
Speaker 1: one whip last year in the PCL in Triple A
Speaker 1: a five point zero four e r A and eleven
Speaker 1: starts with a one point five seven whips, So there's
Speaker 1: not much of a track record here, Greg, I think
Speaker 1: people were sucked in a little bit by that first start.
Speaker 1: Uh and and they see the two starts on the schedule.
Speaker 1: But I worry man, especially against the Cubs and corps Field. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe a spec add in a deeper league.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that I would have him in
Speaker 1: my line up this week. Like I said, I wasn't
Speaker 1: investing in him. I'm not doing the Colorado thing. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's worth it. And there's plenty of other
Speaker 1: guys out there to take a shot on Adrian Sampson
Speaker 1: being one of them, whether I'm starting in this week
Speaker 1: or not. I I get too nervous. I said, why
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't have harmon Marquez. You know me, I
Speaker 1: drove Kyle Freeland. I didn't do it. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have any shares of those pictures either. And you know,
Speaker 1: Marquez still has been great at times on the road,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, you have to invest in Marquez
Speaker 1: as a what to start time, and he's a guy
Speaker 1: that you just really don't feel good about half of
Speaker 1: his starts when they come in course field. So I
Speaker 1: can't really have any uh, I can't really have any
Speaker 1: issue with with saying that great because look at where's
Speaker 1: Kyle Freeland right now too? He's in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1: John Gray is is being John Gray's. That's that's kind
Speaker 1: of the territory that that it comes with when it
Speaker 1: comes to a rocky starting pictures. Last picture, I really
Speaker 1: want to mention for you guys here this is for
Speaker 1: real this time. It's guy Frank Merrill Kelly, who I
Speaker 1: feel like he's one of these guys this year that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on everyone's team exactly. He's on everybody's
Speaker 1: team at different times. It's up and down, and up
Speaker 1: and down and up and down. He went this week
Speaker 1: in the main event, he was available, he went for
Speaker 1: Matt Do you have any confidence Merrill Kelly. Here's you
Speaker 1: think with Merrill Kelly. I started him on the road
Speaker 1: at Toronto this weekend and he rewarded me for that.
Speaker 1: I look, I always talk at Toronto. Uh, they pretty
Speaker 1: much the all season been in the bottom five and
Speaker 1: striking a percentage and slugging as a team, though the
Speaker 1: offense is getting better. The thing with Kelly is it's
Speaker 1: extreme the home away splits. Uh, you know, night and day.
Speaker 1: He's pitched really well at home and got awful for
Speaker 1: the most part on the road. That does that doesn't
Speaker 1: add up well this week either because he's at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: so just not a good spot to pitching obviously in
Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park, and you just heard the splits numbers.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Merrill Kelly, I think people were
Speaker 1: looking at his last two starts, Greg, and they were
Speaker 1: both great starts. He went at least seven ending's pitched
Speaker 1: in both of those games. You know, one one of
Speaker 1: them he had ten strikeout, zero walks. But it was
Speaker 1: against the Mets. The Mets lineup that's you know, has
Speaker 1: like Carlos Gomez in it, that had like Aaron Altar
Speaker 1: in their line up last week and then they sent
Speaker 1: him down and then Toronto where he pits well seven
Speaker 1: and he's one and run but only three strikeouts against
Speaker 1: the team that strikes out a lot and two walks.
Speaker 1: So I think Merrill Kelly is a guy that you
Speaker 1: could stream in the right spot. I remember it was
Speaker 1: like a month ago where you know, he's been really inconsistent.
Speaker 1: I streamed him in a start against the Giants and
Speaker 1: it actually worked out well. So I think you just
Speaker 1: really gotta be smart about where you pick and choose
Speaker 1: your spots when it comes to Merrill Kelly. This week
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia, I can't recommend starting him there. Fair enough
Speaker 1: in Philadelphias has like a disaster for Merrill Kelly. But
Speaker 1: in the right matchup, in the right location, that's when
Speaker 1: you go and put Kelly in your lineup. Let's get
Speaker 1: over there. Some of the top hitters that were picked
Speaker 1: up here this week, and I'll stick with the main
Speaker 1: event guys. And thirty three dollars was spent on who's
Speaker 1: a Parazza of the Cincinnati Reds. Why are people spending
Speaker 1: money on Braza mat Look at the hope that he
Speaker 1: gets a you know, spot, maybe an injury the stolen
Speaker 1: base upside here. Uh, Scooters should be coming back soon.
Speaker 1: You've got Detrick hitting all these home runs. I don't
Speaker 1: know where everything fits anymore. I fear for Waker, you know,
Speaker 1: unless he gets going. You know, he started off hot
Speaker 1: but has been cooled off quite considerably of late. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mounts defeat in Cincinnati. But I
Speaker 1: got it as a pure, you know, stolen based speculation.
Speaker 1: If an opportunity arose for him and maybe he can
Speaker 1: capture that again. I think part of the issue for
Speaker 1: Jose Peraza this year he's got a two fourteen batting average.
Speaker 1: This is an example where launch angle improvement is actually
Speaker 1: not recommended because Jose parraz is a guy who doesn't
Speaker 1: hit the ball hard. Is fly ball rate this year
Speaker 1: is up it's at last year was thirty percent. This
Speaker 1: year it's so he's hitting the ball in the air more,
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't work for him. He's a thirty
Speaker 1: percent hard hit rate a season for his career. This
Speaker 1: is the guy that should be trying to hit line drives,
Speaker 1: hit the ball on the ground. His bab IF this
Speaker 1: year is twenty nine, So you might look at it
Speaker 1: and say he's been unlucky. But part of that is
Speaker 1: by his own doing. He's trying to lift the ball
Speaker 1: more and he's not a guy that should be doing that.
Speaker 1: He's gotta hit line drives, he's gotta hit the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground. And I think what Matt said is
Speaker 1: exactly right. Scooter Jeannett's coming back. They have Derek Dietrich,
Speaker 1: they have Jesse Winker, they have and they're trying to
Speaker 1: find ways to get was a prosit in the lineup Greg,
Speaker 1: but it's just crowded up in the middle endfield, in
Speaker 1: the outfield. They also have Nick Senzels, so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of names here. I understand trying to like catch
Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle, maybe get some stolen basis here
Speaker 1: last year at twenty three, and that's something that we've
Speaker 1: kind of always hoped for when it comes to Prazza
Speaker 1: one or top prospect, But it just seems like it
Speaker 1: might be one of those lost seasons. There's still a
Speaker 1: lot left for him, but given the fact that it's
Speaker 1: as crowded as it is and he just hasn't performed well,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of faith in j Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're getting to that point where I'm not having the
Speaker 1: faith either that I'm not We're not playing a batt
Speaker 1: it leage where it's gonna turn down, And we would
Speaker 1: joke about that with John Gray all the time, and
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not investing. I was for us. I
Speaker 1: I drafted him in a pit league. I got rid
Speaker 1: of water Escobar. I worked out all right, very nice
Speaker 1: movie Warro Escort. Man, he's he's been one of the
Speaker 1: on some heroes your Fantasy baseball so far this here,
Speaker 1: we didn't really know what to make of EDWARDO Escobar
Speaker 1: coming into the year. It seems like he was this
Speaker 1: journeyman kind of broke out a little bit last year
Speaker 1: with the Twins, hits a lot of doubles. But man,
Speaker 1: he is putting it all together. He's been one of
Speaker 1: the most phenomenal values in fantasy baseball. The Sea absolutely boring,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. You're right, You're right, your boring player.
Speaker 1: But he puts up the stats and this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a third straight season. So yeah, if he if
Speaker 1: he ends it like to ninety with close to thirty
Speaker 1: home runs, Matt and really good counting stats for where
Speaker 1: you were getting him, that's a phenomenal season. You don't
Speaker 1: even have to do that, true. Do you look at
Speaker 1: the guy the other players that went here phrase anyone
Speaker 1: that he wanted to highlight before we move on the
Speaker 1: two star pitchers. Is none of these guys really exciting anyway? Uh, well,
Speaker 1: that's because you are a delneu De Shields hater for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Greg. But since he's been called back up,
Speaker 1: he's eleven, has a few stolen bases as well. It
Speaker 1: seems like Willie Calhoun is getting close. We don't really
Speaker 1: know exactly when Joey gallow is gonna be back, maybe
Speaker 1: closer to the All Star breaks. So I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people in deeper leagues, star five outfielders, everyone's
Speaker 1: trying to find stolen bases. I've always had faith in
Speaker 1: de Line of the Shields as a guy who at
Speaker 1: least someone who is known for his speed. He walks
Speaker 1: a lot, and he's always had pretty good plate discipline,
Speaker 1: not like the Billy Hamilton's of the world and and
Speaker 1: d Gordon's, where you know they're they're more so free
Speaker 1: swingers and you try and just put the ball in
Speaker 1: play and get on base. He actually walks a decent amount,
Speaker 1: so I understand wanted to take a shot there and
Speaker 1: and grab some stolen basses. Uh. Jacoby Jones too. It
Speaker 1: seems like there's always a stretch out of season where
Speaker 1: you pick up Jacoby Jones and he's playing well, and
Speaker 1: right now is one of those stretches. Matt, did you
Speaker 1: have any bids on Jacoby Jones, de line up to
Speaker 1: Shields or or any other hitters here? I know you
Speaker 1: ended up grabbing Column Moran in the main EVI I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the Shields was the guy that I would have taken.
Speaker 1: I'm not really super high, like you said, He's had
Speaker 1: a good week. He's been in consistent, you know, pretty
Speaker 1: much his whole career. But the Shields was the one
Speaker 1: guy out of this group where you can get steals.
Speaker 1: And I would say Gallo comes back maybe like post
Speaker 1: all star break. I mean maybe if it's sooner, great,
Speaker 1: But if you own him like I do, I'm expecting
Speaker 1: postal star break, you don't want to rush back from
Speaker 1: that anyway. It's usually a long term thing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the Shields Moran, he's facing I think a
Speaker 1: bunch of writings this week too. So I liked him
Speaker 1: and in thirteen bucks, why not? Yeah, Colum Moran. I
Speaker 1: think in deeper leaves if you needed a corner infielder
Speaker 1: or utility back. Greg seven games this week for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: All of them come against right handed pitching, so you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about him sitting out there. So
Speaker 1: I like Colum Moran as well. I was actually the
Speaker 1: backup bid to Matt Moodique. It was only thirteen bucks.
Speaker 1: I had the backup b what went over twelve? No,
Speaker 1: No that he won him at third team I had.
Speaker 1: I was back up big at three dollars. Greg. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the bottom of the barrel. This is bargain
Speaker 1: hunting now. And you know, I'll let you know that
Speaker 1: I ended up winning Derek Fisher for three bucks and
Speaker 1: Chessler Cuthbert as my corner. And you asked me that
Speaker 1: two dollars. I need a corner infielder and I'm not
Speaker 1: spending money. And you know, he's actually performed well some
Speaker 1: of the some of the stat CAD data that I
Speaker 1: looked at, so uh, you know, I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about trying to win it week week, one
Speaker 1: week at a time, right, So I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: trying to find a corner infielder here, I end up
Speaker 1: end up with Chessler Cuthbert. I picked up Ian Kennedyada
Speaker 1: for twelve bucks. I mean he's the closer for the Royals.
Speaker 1: They don't win a lot of games, but who knows
Speaker 1: if he'll be there come come to trade deadline. You
Speaker 1: know people, someone actually dropped Jose Laclerk and Diego Castile
Speaker 1: in our main event last night, So I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: interested in you know what those guys go for next week,
Speaker 1: because I had Steve Tchick as my third closure, so
Speaker 1: you're always kind of trying to find that maybe second
Speaker 1: or third closed or on your team. I also have
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks, I have Herbert as soon as so trying
Speaker 1: to find that third closure. I picked up Ian Kennedy.
Speaker 1: But uh, I'll be in on the bidding in the
Speaker 1: for for the clerk next week because it seems like
Speaker 1: should be hopefully sooner rather than later he gets the
Speaker 1: closer's job back. You know that. I think they let
Speaker 1: him pitch to ninth on Friday. He gives up a
Speaker 1: two run homer, of course, because why he didn't blow
Speaker 1: us a but pitch to ninth and and did not
Speaker 1: perform well. So Uh, those are those are a few
Speaker 1: relievers that I'm looking at. Brandon Workman was picked up
Speaker 1: in my great fantasy based momentational ten dollars. Uh. If
Speaker 1: you can figure out who the Red Sox closure is
Speaker 1: right now, Greg, I'll give you a prize. No imagine
Speaker 1: is gonna come back to bite them at some point,
Speaker 1: right Red Sox. I mean it already has plenty of
Speaker 1: times so far this year. I mean Ryan Brazier start
Speaker 1: off the year, we thought he was the closer. He
Speaker 1: blew a bunch of games. He's not being used in
Speaker 1: high leveage situations anymore. It's been a combination of Workman, Walden. Uh.
Speaker 1: Matt Barnes has been worked in there as well. And
Speaker 1: we just saw Craig Kimberell's sign with the with the
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. So there are a few names out there
Speaker 1: that maybe they get in on in the trademark it.
Speaker 1: I've heard like Ken Giles name thrown thrown out there,
Speaker 1: Alex colum A. But it seems like, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are are just not being aggressive. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just because they won the World
Speaker 1: Series last year and they were trying to get into
Speaker 1: the luxury tax and just kind of like taking a
Speaker 1: back seat. I would imagine at some point the Red
Speaker 1: Sox have to be the Red Sox and make a move,
Speaker 1: but as of right now they seem kind of content
Speaker 1: going with this committee approach. Yeah, there does not seem
Speaker 1: to be then insight you trying to figure out who
Speaker 1: that Red Sox closer is. It's a feel I guess
Speaker 1: from Alex Cora. Why don't you curse out Alexe core
Speaker 1: like you do gave Kapitler Because I don't have any
Speaker 1: shares of the Red Sox guys, so I think that's
Speaker 1: probably why I have. I have a few Hector Nerras shares,
Speaker 1: and Hector. The thing is, Hector Nerras has performed so well,
Speaker 1: so I'm really happy to see that. Gabe Kapitler was
Speaker 1: listening to me earlier on in the season when I
Speaker 1: started ranting, yelling at him. But look at that, Greg,
Speaker 1: he goes to Hector Nerras as his closer. He's performing well.
Speaker 1: So another point for Frank. We had a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of teams with seven games this week, including the d Backs,
Speaker 1: the Braves, the Red Sox, the of these, the Rockies.
Speaker 1: The player at the Cardinals, Rays, and the Rangers. Only
Speaker 1: five teams that have five games, that's the Giants, Brewers, Astro's, Indians,
Speaker 1: and Reds. I'll throw Kyle Swarber out there as a
Speaker 1: twelve team added added him in one of my home
Speaker 1: league's twelve team points leade. They played seven games. He's
Speaker 1: been actually performing well as the leadoff man for the Cubs,
Speaker 1: and three of those games in Coors Field. If you
Speaker 1: want cheap exposure, David Bowte might be available in your
Speaker 1: deep booty as well. So if you want some exposure
Speaker 1: to seven games and some corpse field, uh, I do
Speaker 1: like some of the Cubs players, Matt. Was there anyone,
Speaker 1: uh that you that you were trying to add in
Speaker 1: twelve team leagues? How about any Coss Warber ads? I
Speaker 1: did not get Schwarber. I'm totally with you. Uh in
Speaker 1: a weekly league, even though there's lefties later on in
Speaker 1: the week, verst the Dodgers and it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's got real uh kerk Shaw and Hill. I would
Speaker 1: roll them out just for those coorse games. Uh. Like
Speaker 1: you said, he's hitting much better right now, and him
Speaker 1: and course field teams like the perfect combination. Alright, So
Speaker 1: so so there you go. There. Um, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: these teams that have five games, guys, is there anybody
Speaker 1: that's worth Benjamingza probably is a guy, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, honestually throw out the flavor of the week
Speaker 1: last week? Who I actually picked up Miles Straw that
Speaker 1: seems like the playing time might be hard to come
Speaker 1: by and he plays five games this week. Sir, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: he's a he's on my bench in the main event. Yeah, Christian,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna bench him. You have five games against
Speaker 1: You can't. It can't start down. What are we doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? What are we doing? What
Speaker 1: are we doing? You know? I I just picked up
Speaker 1: Derek Fisher in a deeper league, but it seems like
Speaker 1: for the time being, his playing time is pretty safe
Speaker 1: and he's been leading off, so I need some runs
Speaker 1: scored in the main event. That's what I was looking at.
Speaker 1: So it's five games. I think in a twelve team
Speaker 1: or you might be able to get away from Derek Fisher,
Speaker 1: But in deeper leagues still is leading off for the Astros,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a that's a profitable position to
Speaker 1: be in. Definitely, Mike Chef's the guy with the Giants
Speaker 1: five games this week, probably when your bench probably TV
Speaker 1: yas man, how is his week this week? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't have any shares that was his week, Matt.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, right, none of us. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1: His grandfather was very good player. He's grand of father. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very good player. All right, Yeah, great. I think there's
Speaker 1: a good time to to just give a shout out
Speaker 1: to uh David Ortiz and Big Poppy. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't think that he's listening, obviously, I don't think his
Speaker 1: family is listening. But obviously what happened last night was crazy.
Speaker 1: It's tragic, you know, it just goes beyond any like
Speaker 1: rivalry anything. We're all Yankees fans here, but I love
Speaker 1: Big Poppy, love David Ortizo. Wishing him and his family
Speaker 1: all the best. Yeah, I was really sad, man, it
Speaker 1: was crazy just to hear, like, what's going on? If
Speaker 1: you haven't heard, he was in the Dominican Republic and
Speaker 1: he was he was shot in the back and apparently
Speaker 1: left through his abdomen. But he seems to be in
Speaker 1: uh okay condition as of right now. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Big Poppy. Hope everything's all right, Michael Schevski not
Speaker 1: doing much, not doing much, just singles a lot of singles.
Speaker 1: I mean great, He's a twenty eight year old journeyman
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, so a lot of outside of
Speaker 1: his name being Yestremski. I don't know that there's much
Speaker 1: like there's Mike. That's cool. You know, while we're talking
Speaker 1: about a quasi Red Sox, I guess a little bit here, Greg, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's this transition? J D. Martinez? If he's on your team,
Speaker 1: are you starting him this rate? That's actually really because
Speaker 1: he's dealing with the back injury. You know, he hasn't
Speaker 1: been placed on the I L. He's quote day to day,
Speaker 1: but he didn't play at all over the weekend. The
Speaker 1: Red Sox got swept by the by the Rays, Right
Speaker 1: he did. I don't know. I don't know who to
Speaker 1: root for in that scenario, Right, we should be rooted
Speaker 1: for the rais Right, Okay, I agree with you. Let's
Speaker 1: go raise. What do you do with J D. Martinez? Greg?
Speaker 1: I think I leave him on the bench. I leave
Speaker 1: him on the bench. He may go on the I L,
Speaker 1: he might not go on the I R I R L.
Speaker 1: I'm confused. It's he may go on l he may not.
Speaker 1: To me, it sounds like a disaster. I'm not starring
Speaker 1: David Tarrantees, I'm not starring J. D. Martinez this week, Matt,
Speaker 1: What do you think I will not be starting him neither?
Speaker 1: I think yeah. I think it's looking more and more
Speaker 1: apparent that he does spend time on the I L
Speaker 1: I think it's a smart move for the Red Sox
Speaker 1: to make so in weekly leagues. Now he's on my
Speaker 1: you know, he's on my bench. Yeah, I agree with that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you play in the NFBC format, you could set
Speaker 1: your lineup for hitters on both Monday and Friday. So
Speaker 1: I think for this early part of the week. It
Speaker 1: sucks too, because the Red Sox have seven games this
Speaker 1: week and they're about to face Texas Rangers pitching. So
Speaker 1: I would have liked to get J. D. Mart martinezn't there,
Speaker 1: But especially if you play in the NFBC or somewhere
Speaker 1: where you can set your lineups two times per week. Greig,
Speaker 1: for the hitters, I think, at least for the early
Speaker 1: part of the week, you gotta have J. D. Martinez
Speaker 1: out of the lineup. We'll take the break here will
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Speaker 1: to start pitchers this week. I mentioned earlier Animal Sanchez
Speaker 1: facing Arizona and tonight facing the White Sox. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: When I looked at the White Sox, I wanted to
Speaker 1: know because Julie has been so good or now the
Speaker 1: Lopez pitch, well, yesterday I guess it was, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: the way it sounds good. Wanted to know whether their
Speaker 1: record was, I know, like the middle of the pack
Speaker 1: in the central, Like what was the record? I found
Speaker 1: out actually about better record than the Indians, right, two
Speaker 1: games under No, they don't. They're close to it. There
Speaker 1: are two games under five hundred. The Indians are one
Speaker 1: game over five hundreds, so they're they're close for sure.
Speaker 1: But I checked on Thursday or Friday they were actually tied.
Speaker 1: Oh so the White Sox one tune a ROUNDU Julia
Speaker 1: Ronaldo Lopez one of the teams that Animal Sante's faces.
Speaker 1: In fact, that game East tonight. I'll start there, Matt,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the White Sox going forward,
Speaker 1: and what do you think about Animal Sanchez this week? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean the White Sox going forward, their draft picks.
Speaker 1: Seems like he's gonna be ready pretty soon and could
Speaker 1: you know, be a very good impact bat for them
Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughan. But for this season, it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see where they go. I gotta think they sell
Speaker 1: off some pieces that aren't uh you know, you know,
Speaker 1: essential to their growth. Or does the White Sox, you know,
Speaker 1: after getting burned by Manny make a move to try
Speaker 1: and be a player and you know, be in this
Speaker 1: race at some point. I doubt that. But as you said,
Speaker 1: they played much better than expected. They've got a nice
Speaker 1: core here. Geelito's ascension has been fantastic to watch. I
Speaker 1: remember throwing his name in late on one of the
Speaker 1: episodes here as a guy to to get and look,
Speaker 1: He's seven stars have been phenomenal. Yeah, absolutely, really really
Speaker 1: excited for Lucas Gelto. If only evern all the Lopez
Speaker 1: can you know, take a little bit of a page
Speaker 1: out of his book. He's just been so inconsistent, Like
Speaker 1: Ronaldo has games where you watch him and and it
Speaker 1: seems like, all right, he's got some he's got some
Speaker 1: legit stuff, and you can get excited about him, and
Speaker 1: then there's just other starts where it's like two and
Speaker 1: two thirds eight or and runs just completely gets bombed.
Speaker 1: So he's gotta like find some middle ground, he's gotta
Speaker 1: develop some kind of consistency. But really really excited about
Speaker 1: what Lucas Gilto is doing this hee. I agree with
Speaker 1: Matt anyone that's not really essential to this team moving
Speaker 1: forward up, Like I wouldn't put Jose break you in
Speaker 1: that make because I think they still need one veteran
Speaker 1: around to kind of, uh to be like a role
Speaker 1: model for these young players, especially for like Eloy Jimenez.
Speaker 1: I think that makes a lot of sense. And for
Speaker 1: anyone who was freaking out about Eloy Amenez, he's starting
Speaker 1: to come around as well as seventy ft home run,
Speaker 1: there's an absolute moon rocket. So excited about the White
Speaker 1: Sox moving forward. I don't know that it's gonna be
Speaker 1: h It's not gonna be this year, Greg, but they
Speaker 1: still have Dylan ceasing the minor leagues and he's coming soon,
Speaker 1: and uh excited about him. Excited about their pitching staff
Speaker 1: for the future. As for Annibal Sanchez, before we do that,
Speaker 1: the good news is for the White Sox that they
Speaker 1: have some money. Remember, they wanted to spend. They were
Speaker 1: in the mix, so he thought on the name Machado
Speaker 1: on um Bryce Harper maybe, so they were in the
Speaker 1: mixing little bit there. You have money to spend, and
Speaker 1: White Sox are not that dissimilar from the Padres either. No,
Speaker 1: I have a really young team to have a good
Speaker 1: farm system like I think Machado would have been in
Speaker 1: there as well. But I can't really blame someone for
Speaker 1: wanting to be in San Diego. The only reason I
Speaker 1: think they could get rid of a brave use that
Speaker 1: contract that he's by far, I think making the most
Speaker 1: money on that team. Nobody else really makes anything. I
Speaker 1: don't believe, so the real in the ground note, I
Speaker 1: think they can make a couple of free agent editions
Speaker 1: and we'll see the White Sox certainly hand in the
Speaker 1: right direction. Yes they are. But you wanted to know
Speaker 1: about about animals going up against the White Sox and
Speaker 1: the Diamond Bags two pretty good matchups on paper here,
Speaker 1: the White Sox our team that strikes out a decent
Speaker 1: amount and the Diamondbacks you know, their offense has been
Speaker 1: They've been actually better than I thought they were gonna
Speaker 1: be this year, but they're actually slowing down a little
Speaker 1: bit recently. So Animal Santis has actually performed well his
Speaker 1: past two starts and is coming off the I l
Speaker 1: six endings, pitched, one hit, one walks, seven k's against
Speaker 1: the Braves and his last time out was against the
Speaker 1: White Sox five and the third four hits, one and run,
Speaker 1: one walks, seven strikeouts. So, uh, I wasn't really on
Speaker 1: him during draft season. He was someone who like randomly
Speaker 1: broke out last year, but I picked him up in
Speaker 1: a few locations and I actually like the matchups a lot.
Speaker 1: What do you think that? Yeah, no, I think for
Speaker 1: this week he stands out as one of the outside
Speaker 1: of the obvious, you know, to start guys that are automatics.
Speaker 1: He is a guy that stands out, a guy can
Speaker 1: share two weeks ago, picked up another one last week. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there really was an opportunity this week that
Speaker 1: ship i'd sailed, So if you got him, you know,
Speaker 1: the last two starts have been good. I expected starts
Speaker 1: here and uh, you know he's a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: this is I'm the same as Frank. He was intentionally
Speaker 1: kind of avoided him, but it's coming back. He's been good,
Speaker 1: and you know, you gotta put these matchups. Speaking of
Speaker 1: these matchups, Matt, there there was a duo, a tandem
Speaker 1: of teammates that I wanted to ask you about personally
Speaker 1: because I have a few shares of them. That's Jose
Speaker 1: Guantana and you Darvish. Morose Gantana has been really consistent
Speaker 1: this year. He's someone that I was targeting a lot um.
Speaker 1: It seems like he was priced for profit throughout draft season.
Speaker 1: And then you Darvish has actually showing some signs as
Speaker 1: past you know, six seven starts, uh the cutter usages
Speaker 1: up and it seems like that's actually helped him a
Speaker 1: decent amount. But two starts for both of these guys,
Speaker 1: they're both on the road at Colorado and at the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: As of right now, in my fifteen team leagues, I
Speaker 1: have Jose Kantana in the lineup. In my twelve team leagues,
Speaker 1: I've been able to go in a different direction. And
Speaker 1: speaking of those twelve team leagues, actually have Animal Sanchis
Speaker 1: starting over you Darvish right now in one of those leagues, Matt,
Speaker 1: If you own these guys, what are you doing with them?
Speaker 1: I agree with everything you just said there. Uh, Sanchez
Speaker 1: would be the preferable start. Cantana's pitched really well, he
Speaker 1: really has, uh you, Darvish is a must bench for
Speaker 1: me this week. There's no way he has pitched better.
Speaker 1: No way, I'm touching him with cores. And he's pitched
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers before. He's had his problems there as well.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta totally avoid him in twelve teams.
Speaker 1: You know, you probably have a better option than Kntana
Speaker 1: where you can go a different route fifteen, it's kind
Speaker 1: of tough. I take my chances on him, if you know,
Speaker 1: if I had to and one league, I believe I am.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's how I would. I would roll with
Speaker 1: those three. No, we actually have a decision to make
Speaker 1: Craig because we have Jose Kantana in the lineup right now.
Speaker 1: It's a team league. You know, we actually thought our
Speaker 1: pitching was a weakness heading into the season for this league,
Speaker 1: but it's actually turned out to be pretty pretty damn good. Yes,
Speaker 1: we got some guys on the bench here, so mad
Speaker 1: I'll just throw this your way, other people might have
Speaker 1: the same issue. We have Jose Kantana in the lineup,
Speaker 1: But would you rather start Pablo Lopez at home against
Speaker 1: the Pirates, Zach Eflyn at home against the Diamondbacks, or
Speaker 1: Nick Pavetta coming off that complete game at the Braves.
Speaker 1: Would you start either of those three pitchers over a
Speaker 1: guy like Katana because he has the tough matchups. I
Speaker 1: I would go that route this week unless I really
Speaker 1: just needed to, you know, build some stats. But if
Speaker 1: it one inning can go really wrong at Corps and
Speaker 1: just you know, destroy hope of even that second start,
Speaker 1: which is against the Dodgers, and he's just LeftyA til
Speaker 1: I helped him. But I would go with those other
Speaker 1: three names. I like the matchups they have their Pavetta's
Speaker 1: pitched really well coming there, Lopez seems have figured it out,
Speaker 1: and he's home, which is a much better picture at
Speaker 1: home as well. Yeah, so I think we'll end up
Speaker 1: benching him Grady after the show. We'll have to figure
Speaker 1: out who we're getting in there. But those are an
Speaker 1: example of three names that if you play in the
Speaker 1: twelve team league and you have one of those single
Speaker 1: starters on your bench, might want to put those guys
Speaker 1: in your lineup over a guy like Katana or Darvish, Matt,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to leave. But is there anybody else
Speaker 1: that any of these two star pitchers that you really
Speaker 1: really like or really really don't before we let you go.
Speaker 1: They're real quick. This one guy to pop down doing
Speaker 1: this this week. It's a guy I wasn't armed coming
Speaker 1: into the season, hasn't really picked that great. Mike Fulton
Speaker 1: evits last fourth starts strike outs to one walk. You guys,
Speaker 1: a lot of seven homers. That's been the bugaboo for him.
Speaker 1: But I think you're rolling at this week. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go. Mike Folton pirates and the Phillies both
Speaker 1: starts at home. Mike Fulton evits the guy that you
Speaker 1: gotta put in there to Maddie Mo Matt. We appreciate
Speaker 1: the time. Read him at the Athletic, follow him at
Speaker 1: CCM Baseball. That'll do again next week. You got guys, awesome,
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Okay, with that, we're gonna start off
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Speaker 1: Guastamkia Frank. That means the time for our best bets forever.
Speaker 1: Here feeling man, Um, I'm feeling all right. I'm feeling
Speaker 1: it right. I believe you. You got it right on
Speaker 1: Friday again? Right? Is that great? Do you have? What
Speaker 1: do you have on Friday? We have to go back
Speaker 1: to the tape. I don't even remember. But um, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people might be looking at the
Speaker 1: Yankees met tonight Subway series. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: that game is gonna get in because we're supposed to
Speaker 1: get rained too, so um, we'll have to pay attention
Speaker 1: to see what's going on. That was one. I'm actually
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the well exactly what I did
Speaker 1: last week. Joe Musgrove on six. I understand, he's on
Speaker 1: the road. It's at Atlanta. Kevin Gausman sucks, he sucks,
Speaker 1: He's not good. I'm pretty sure it was the same
Speaker 1: exact matchup last week, and Joe Musgrove performed very well
Speaker 1: and they ended up winning a game. I'm going back
Speaker 1: to the well. I'm going back to the well with
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates money line plus one six against Kevin Galman. Actually,
Speaker 1: I wrote down on picks last week so I can
Speaker 1: go back see if I could do this. By the way,
Speaker 1: I think for me, the must grow things is a
Speaker 1: no brainer most things, No Brander, that was the one
Speaker 1: that stood out to me as well. That's my favorite pick.
Speaker 1: On Friday. I had over in the Twins and Indians
Speaker 1: and that six three, it was nine. What was the
Speaker 1: over under? It was all right, wait, Twins and planned Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Twins Tigers that Twins Tigers? Or who the
Speaker 1: Indians were? The Yankees the Indians, and I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was probably did not do Indians Yankees? Who the Yankees? Something?
Speaker 1: Herman did not? You didn't take that game to the
Speaker 1: other one, Tigers. I potentially brought up the Indians and
Speaker 1: Yankees game. You're like that, and they didn't. Boy, I
Speaker 1: didn't do that either, I think I did. I think
Speaker 1: it was the Yankees. Man, Alright, I got that one wrong.
Speaker 1: I believe I had the Rockies in the it's over
Speaker 1: seven and a half, and of course the game end
Speaker 1: five to one. I have the Padres as well over
Speaker 1: the Gnats. I got that one right. I got that
Speaker 1: one right adres over the Nats. There, you've been pretty hot, right,
Speaker 1: you can keep We're both on Joe must Grove tonight,
Speaker 1: which means he's bound to get rocked, all right, Rod
Speaker 1: on Joe must Grove, that's the pick for tonight. I also,
Speaker 1: if it gets in. I had the Mets tonight. I
Speaker 1: like the Mets tonight. You like the Mets tonight plus
Speaker 1: one that sixty six with Jason Vargus. Personally, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to do it because my fandom. But if
Speaker 1: you have no ties to the Yankees or Mets, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's crazy. Yeah, I like the Mets tonight.
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. Have been terrible against lefties, too
Speaker 1: awful against left actually pitching relatively well, you know, time
Speaker 1: traveling from the eighteenth century or whatever it was. But
Speaker 1: he's pitching well, and the Yankees have not performed well
Speaker 1: against left handed pitchings. Yeah, it's if the game gets
Speaker 1: in tonight, which is crazy because they're all right handed.
Speaker 1: Even though he's back. We're texting yesterday speaking of d D.
Speaker 1: That error was awful. That was brutal. Mean, I think
Speaker 1: it was just one of those like shake off the rust,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the team, but it just seems like
Speaker 1: he took his eye off of it and he just
Speaker 1: whipped you just there. So it was so interesting. I
Speaker 1: think it was the inning before there was a hard
Speaker 1: hit ball to short and Glabor was still playing short
Speaker 1: and he got down on the knee and like really
Speaker 1: made sure he had it. And for the second it
Speaker 1: was I was wow it was played by the Glabor
Speaker 1: because it was a really hard, hard hit. Next hitting
Speaker 1: same thing and he totally boots it. What do you
Speaker 1: feel about the relief pitch? You're getting a blown save
Speaker 1: but being eligible for a win, because I saw people
Speaker 1: chatting about it on Twitter yesterday how it's the most
Speaker 1: egregious thing in baseball. It was egregious new baseball. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that seems ridiculous. I guess like
Speaker 1: it's it's a statistical forest though, Like you shouldn't get
Speaker 1: a win for blowing a save. Obviously, No, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: a picture of record, right, like you're the last picture
Speaker 1: in there. They gotta win. On what I was, you
Speaker 1: did enough, you blew the save, but you needn't lose
Speaker 1: the game, especially even for Nanda. Rodney has a lot
Speaker 1: of those wins in his career, especially in the case
Speaker 1: of over all the Chapman who like he got out
Speaker 1: of him man, like he got what he needed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one like typically if you give up a home
Speaker 1: run or something like, you don't deserve it. Like Chapman
Speaker 1: actually didn't deserve the blown saved yesterday. It wasn't his
Speaker 1: fault obviously because of an error. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: mention a few of these other two starters. Martine Perez
Speaker 1: has not pitched well recently when he's home versus Seattle
Speaker 1: and versus Kansas City. There well, Seattle has emotion home
Speaker 1: runs a month the gym, they're uh, dude everyday. Garnasia
Speaker 1: just continues to get it done home runs are ready,
Speaker 1: continues to get it done. Kill the parrot baby, are
Speaker 1: you are you? Are you right? Starting? Martine president cool
Speaker 1: with them. Just let you know the marriage is the
Speaker 1: most home runs. Yeah. The Royals have not been good
Speaker 1: against this year. There twenty eight and woble against left
Speaker 1: handed pitching, while the Mariners are so a little bit
Speaker 1: better against left handed pitching. Here, I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: think where I own mar team for residm still getting
Speaker 1: him in the line. I just watched before Um Rude
Speaker 1: and Odor still home yesterday. Do you feel like there's
Speaker 1: more steels of a home this year than we've seen
Speaker 1: it a long time? Has there been? It just feels
Speaker 1: like it has. I feel like the time three or four,
Speaker 1: there's like a lot Jolean June. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like regressive approach. I love it. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: were watching it, it's there's a lefty on the mountain.
Speaker 1: As soon as he turns to look at first base
Speaker 1: route net Odor just takes off and he's a guy
Speaker 1: who like really needs it. I mean he needs anything
Speaker 1: he could possibly get right now, from a from a
Speaker 1: baseball perspective, from a statistical perspective, because it's been a
Speaker 1: really really rough year for Rudinet Odor. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought it was an awesome play. Yeah, we really find
Speaker 1: out how many we've had this year. I was Andres
Speaker 1: did it? Odor? Did it? Um Laura score Hell did it?
Speaker 1: There's three that go in to my immediately. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there was. Yeah, so I can't I can't really
Speaker 1: find him. I love it, don I'd rather see it more.
Speaker 1: I understand it's like super hard to pull off, and
Speaker 1: you can really only do it against the left handed picture.
Speaker 1: I guess right, but like with Odor, the left news
Speaker 1: all the manages staring at first Nace for an hour.
Speaker 1: But it was it was interesting though, because like he's
Speaker 1: looking at the signs from the catcher, and you saw
Speaker 1: as soon as he looked away from the catcher looked
Speaker 1: at the first basement, Odor just took off like that
Speaker 1: was a sign in his head. He's like he looks
Speaker 1: the first I'm gone, I'm breaking working one day. Met
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