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Our number two, the 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.640 Fantasy best Friends Forever, is live with you here on 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.320 the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. That is Frank Stample. I 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.560 am Grex. When we were joined for hours to as 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:06.800 we are each and every day by The Closer. Chris Up, guys, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.759 what's up everybody, it's your boy, the Closer. Yeah. Our 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:16.679 two funk about a little Joey Luke CAZy, maybe little 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.760 Aaron Nola. Not much to talk about when it comes 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.000 to Luke Casey. No, no, listen, did you watch that game? No? 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.480 I did not, Okay, I did. Um. I was watching 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.759 kershaw Man. It was the game of the night. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.120 I mean I watched plots of that too, but I 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:30.880 was the Brooklyn Nets were also on. There's a lot 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.400 going on, so I was just sliping back a lot 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.680 of things they weren't really on. Once the fourth quarter start, yeah, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.280 that was over. Um. They did keep it close for 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.000 a while though, for a while, not the third quarter, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.080 but they started three or something like that. I knew 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.920 that was coming because they beat him, you know, they 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.280 beat him handling in the first game, so I figured 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.640 Philadelphia was pissed losing at home. Ben Simmons just took 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.360 it to a new level, I feel like in that game, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.200 and that's what he has to do. Yeah, he has to. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.120 The seventy sixers are going to compete at all. I mean, 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.040 he's got to be that aggressive. I was watching the 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.560 game on Saturday, Greg and something I kept noticing was, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:05.640 and you saw it a few times, like Ben Simmons 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.080 in the paint like uh like just posting up another 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.560 point guard. Why wouldn't he do that every single play? 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.360 He's a six eight point guard right Like That's I 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.560 was watching the game in saying to myself, why is 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.160 Ben Simmons either driving to the rack, not driving to 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.880 the rack, or or posting up an opposing guard every 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.600 single play. I don't care that you can't shoot. If 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.600 you can't shoot within ten ft of the basket, then 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.079 you shouldn't be in the NBA. But like, he's way 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.640 bigger than everyone. He's just just living the paint, dude, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.440 right and even still, like you should be driving because 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.320 you're awesome at that. You're stronger than these guys. You 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.239 have great moves, you're athletic, like he's you know, he's 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.760 not your honest, but he has the mold of a 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.400 honest or or lebron Like he could do everything but shoot. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.040 And then even if he is getting double team down 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.800 in the paint, you dish it out. Shoot out to 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.679 somebody while you're driving in Yeah to Tobias Harris, he 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.000 could shoot. Or J. J. Reddick, Yeah somebody you got 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.400 talent around there. But um so, anyway, uh yeah, Luke CAZy. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.240 He first of all, there was an anying way he 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.120 walked the guy give up a hit right first, and 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.200 second there's a Ian Desmond hits a single, a looping liner, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.040 a very weak single to right field that should have 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.440 actually been caught by Frand Mill. Yes, my sister would 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.880 have caught the ball. That's how slow Frand mill Rays is. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.240 He had to go five ft to make that catch 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:32.400 and he had to dive and he's still dropped Noble. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.840 He's horrible that that cost them two runs right there. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.160 Anybody else in the league would have caught that. So 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.480 that was one run. He was a looping liner. That 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.160 was two runs, and the other three two of them 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.119 are Homer's. One was uh, Rollie Blackman hitting a week 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.880 round at the first with a guy on third one out, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.040 so you know, the run scored. He didn't really give 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.560 up too many hot hits to give the two home runs, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.040 so it really wasn't as bad of outing as you 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.840 might think. And you know, when I saw that he 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.280 went seven innings last I was surprised because you know, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.160 the potters usually pull their pictures early. So he was 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.560 still pretty efficient. So I understand what you're saying. He 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.040 was able to go seven ennings. He uh you know, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.600 and the whip wasn't terrible. Seven hits and two walks 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.240 in in seven ennings. Pitch that's not terrible, but there's 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.719 not a lot of swinging strikes. Only had four strikeouts. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.960 This is where I kind of worry about Lukezy where 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.360 within the division, right, So teams that have seen him 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:30.080 before as interesting of a pitch is that he uses 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.000 that like change up curveball thing that he uses. He's 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.520 still just a two pitch pitcher, so obviously the more 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.159 you see him, the easier it is gonna be for 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.240 you to pick up on things on him because he 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.920 only throws two pitches, so he's got a develop It's 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.080 kind of what I worry about. It's pitching within the division. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.680 It's like these guys see you multiple times and they 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.840 figured you out because you only throw two pitches. Well, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.520 he is trying to develop that third pitch. Um that 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.800 more of a looping, huge curveball thing that he throws, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.159 which got shelled by Nolan Arronado, Like he just hung it. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.440 Don't throw it to Nolan. Yeah, don't throw it to 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.120 Nolan at Ronado and hang it in the middle of 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.080 his own. It was like a huge looping curve that 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.160 he threw. And I don't know. I mean, I just 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.359 think that he only give two runs up until the 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.560 sixth inning, so I think he just needs to bear down, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.840 develop that pitch better and he you'll see him progress 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.200 as the season goes on. I think you know, I 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.039 think he'll get better. Well, I want to point out 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.640 it's from the other side. It's only a sense of 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.840 tell and I understand it was in San Diego. He's 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.279 talking about these Rockies pitchers all the time. Six and 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:27.960 two thirds is the first start of the year. Six 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.760 it's only run aloud, was a solo shot, struck out four, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.640 walked one. That's a really good start, and says it. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.800 Tell him, we've seen this before from him last year, right. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.720 I don't know why we say it's a great start. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.040 It was. I'm not going to dispute that. But he's like, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.320 we have enough data regarding him at this point, like 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.720 two thirty endings passed in the major leagues. To me, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.240 he's a jag greggy. I feel like we have enough 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.840 unless he starts doing something differently than, you know, than 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.800 he's done before, because then I could buy in. But 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.479 using his four seam fastball seventy two percent of the 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.440 time yesterday, Greg, and it's basically on par with his career. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.640 He's you know, right around six nice on his fastball 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.120 usage in his career. But you know, it just relies 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.520 on it so much, and you know he pitches in Colorado. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.200 So maybe he's like a streamer in deeper leagues, like 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.040 on the road, but outside of that, to me, he's 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.760 just a jag. Sorry, Bud, Yeah, I'm not really in 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.040 on him. I know you you find these like weird 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.159 players that you just fall in love with, like Jimmy 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:31.080 Yaka Bona. I don't fall in love for no reason 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.599 at all. I don't. I don't fall in love with 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.680 love with the Rockies players. Le let's end it. Tell 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.040 that a nice sunding last night. I thought you just 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.400 dismissed him. That is a fact, greg Factually, he did 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.200 have a very nice start yesterday. But Jimmy Yaka Bonus, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.280 huh big Jimmy john yesterday in Boston? Is he gonna 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.359 be the next closer of the Orioles? Do they have 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.480 a closer? They don't want to rant about it again, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.680 I don't. All right, Jimmy Yaka Bonus here he comes, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.200 all right? Can we what can we talk about? Aoud? 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.479 We talk about something useful? Gregg. Not only did Hosie 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.880 Ramiras get on the board, but but no Nonado has 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.280 not got on the board two days in a row 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.440 as Eronado Homer another solo shot yesterday for these Rockies 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.520 Tea and E Desmond homer as well off of Joey 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:17.520 lou CAZy off to see Eronado finally getting a little hot. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.800 Will Myers had his fourth homer of the season yesterday. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.120 Meyer is another guy we haven't talked about all that much. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.200 One for four, the run scored bet five on the year, 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.720 batting clean up last night. I don't own any Will Myers, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.120 so I don't really have preference on him, But how 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.880 has he been guys other than numbers that just read. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.600 So I'm looking at the bat ball data here and 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.720 his barrel percentage greg has been great. I mean it's 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.679 fourteen point six percent, so he's he's making an optimal 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.680 contact more than ever before. His average eggs velocity is 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.320 up the season as well. He's hitting two is expected 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.640 batting averages to seventies. So you know, it's not like 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.000 he's he's not like severely outperforming what's expected out of him. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.640 I still worry about the strikeouts. He's always kind of 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.640 been around a you know, twenty when he's seven strikeout 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.720 and branch guy. This year he's at thirty one percent, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.360 but hitting the ball very hard to raising the launch 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.360 hang a little bit this season compared to last year, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.800 and the average eggs of velocity is up. I think 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.800 we know that Will Myers is a talented player. It 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.320 just it all comes down to health for him. And 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.400 you know that's a very standard thing to say, but 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.040 he's already got four home runs and two stolen bases 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.280 on the year. But as long as he can stay healthy, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.960 you know what you're gonna get. You're probably gonna get 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.720 close to home runs and you know, fifteen and twenty 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.120 stolen bases and that's fine. And he has multi position 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.360 eligibility with third and outfield because he played some third 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.559 base last season. So as long as you can stay healthy, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.840 he's he's he's gonna be valuable. It's just how long 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.760 can you stay healthy. And he's had pretty good counting 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.840 stats with this lineup now that it's better for sure. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.760 I mean, look batting batting clean up for the Potter's 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.520 line up. That's a that's a great spot to be 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.640 in right now. You know, right behind Machado and now 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.160 friend Malreys is batting second for this team. They're trying 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.360 to find ways to get him going. He's been hot. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.160 He to know what I think, more than every for 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.280 Greg that I think can help Will Myers, especially because 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.679 he plays in the outfield and he was much more 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.280 valuable a couple of years ago when he played first 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.679 base because he didn't have to run around in the 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.720 outfield as much and not prone to getting injured. Is 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.199 that they have a little bit more depth, so they 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.400 you know, while we want our players in fantasy to 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.560 play every single day, with a player like Will Myers, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.680 they have to be smart about the way that they 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.720 use him. They got to give him off an extra 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.240 day or two per week because he's a guy that's 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.480 been injury prone. But if it's something that's gonna keep 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.160 him healthy, I'm okay with it as a fantasy owner, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.560 you know, like regarding guys that have been hurt in 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.360 the past. If this is what you need to do 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.360 to keep him healthy and give us that shot at 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.800 getting twenty five home runs and fifteen twenty stolen bases, whereat. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.880 You know, you give him off a day here there, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.120 and maybe he only plays forty games, but if he 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.360 keeps him healthy and he plays well, I'm fine with 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.920 it because he'll give you quality production and they have 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.320 that luxury season because they have depth have friend Murrays, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.160 and they have Hunter rent From and they have Manuel Margo. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.880 So and he's actually works out well Fred Meyers, and 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.719 he's still playing more often than not. I mean, he's 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.040 you know, he's pretty much every time they played six games, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.920 he's gonna play at least five of them. So I'm out, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.520 I listen. I have him in a lot of having 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.160 like two or three places, I think so, And I've 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:13.520 been fine with him. You know, it's a guy that 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.400 I just it's a guy I always liked to have 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.320 him in my line up. People kind of sleep on 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.160 him sometimes and you get him a little later than 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.760 the really good guys. So I like to grab him 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.040 as like a third out fielder or something like that. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.199 And he does the job unless he gets hurt. He 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.000 does the job. Man. He produces. Last night in Miami, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.560 the Cubs defeat of the Marlins seven to two, it 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.560 was you, Darvish going five and two thirds four hits, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.760 two runs, four walks. He struck out eight, just missed 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.880 out on the quality star at pitch tack of a 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.559 lot better than Trevor Richards did, who went four and 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.920 two thirds four hits, five runs, he walked For what 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.320 we have a Mike in Los Angeles on the line. Uh, Mike, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.480 let's go to you. Mike and La, what's going on? 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:00.280 We know what what do you say? We are hearing 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.000 from Mike in Los Angeles right now. Got guys that 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.199 the changeup was still really good. Um, you know, he 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.040 just he got hit. What would like to hear this? 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.720 He got he got hit with a little dinking dumps yesterday. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.840 And you know the command wasn't great early on, but 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.280 he really turned it around. You know, he was unlucky 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.280 from a few fielding situations. But I still have a 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.320 lot of faith in interpret Richards. I think he's gonna 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.920 be a top twenty picture this year. Guys, all seriousness though, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.520 you went you specifically, Frank's gonna kill me. You guys 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.720 went off about these Marlin's pictures that how amazing they 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.880 are like a week ago, and now he just made 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.560 fun of Trevor Richards. He started was like, because it 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.840 feels like he just makes excuses like if anything ever 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.079 goes wrong for Trevor Richards. But great for the most part, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.080 and I'm just joking around. For the most part, Trevor 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.200 Richards has been great. You know, the three starts before this, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.800 while you know the walks have been issues, He's given 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.839 you a quality start three starts in a road to 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.560 start the season. And then he runs into a Chicago 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.439 Cubs line up yesterday that's very good. They just come 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.680 outside of Javier Bayaz, who's good, but in a different 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.679 way than everyone else. Everyone else in this lineup is 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.920 very disciplined. Greg. They're gonna take their pitches. You know, 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.120 he's gonna swing it whatever. Everything he'll just throw is 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:11.720 bad at it, and somehow he'll get a hit out 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.559 of it. But everyone else in this lineup, Greg is 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.760 very disciplined, and they're gonna take their walks. And you 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.640 saw that yesterday. Another four walks for Trevor Richards and 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.600 he hit a batter. And I was watching the start 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.480 because watching it very closely because I have one share 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.400 of you, Darvish in the home league, and I wanted 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.360 to see if he can turn it around. So obviously 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.880 I was watching Trevor Richards on the other side as well, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.000 and he ran into trouble in that final ending. This 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.320 is something that he does normally. Trevor Richards gets off 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.000 to a slow start early on, UH struggles with commands 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.440 exactly what he did in the first he had like 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.080 bases loaded and he walked in a run, and then 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.760 he gave up a single, and before you know it, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.520 he gives up three runs in the first standing and 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.000 he hit a batter two. But he settled down for 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.200 the next three or four and he's after that, and 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.400 then when he was in the fifth he ran into 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.160 this trouble. But for the most part, he was giving 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.000 up a lot of hard contact that I saw yesterday, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.439 a lot of balls just dying on the warning track. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.560 Its he like he was a little bit fortunate to 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.360 be pitching in Marlins Park yesterday. But guess what, He's 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.600 gonna be pitching in Marlins Park all season this year, Greg, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:12.040 So he's he's got to get the command right. He 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.440 can't walk and make any batters as he does, because 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.960 when he faces a good lineup like the Cubs, they're 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.800 gonna take advantage. That's the biggest issue for Trevor Richards. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.920 But the fact that he pitches in Marlins Park and 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.559 what I saw from him yesterday is that's gonna help him. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.199 That's gonna help him because you know, normally in other 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.360 places where these would be home runs, they weren't yesterday 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.200 in Marlins Park. Yeah, no, I agree. Listen, I think 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.960 he's obviously better than this. Um. I think he's a 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.320 guy you could stream all year. I started him for 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.600 two this week, confident in him. Obviously got shelter here, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.160 but I'm sure I'll make it up in the next start. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.960 But like, it's not a guy you want to really 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:51.080 drop unless you see something really good. Yeouldn't right into 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.800 the Cubs up. Look at his first three starts, he 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.360 was great. Yeah, I'm not dropping him for that. He's 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.040 got to get the command right though. He can't walk 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.920 this many batters because again, when he faces the Phillies 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.400 who are in the division, when he faces the Nationals, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.400 the Mets, if you walk this many guys, given the 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.880 bats that they have, when they make contact with with 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.920 men on basics, are gonna happen, you know, So that 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.560 can't be a recipe for you. He's predominantly a fastball 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.920 change up picture. Everything works off of that change up. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.880 We know that. But if he's not spotting the fastball 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.320 and the changeup, well, and I was listening to the 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.600 Marlins radio broadcast on the way home that those are 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.960 gonna be the games where he's gonna run into big, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.000 big problems. And you know what, I think, this what 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.920 you should expect because you drifted him as an sp 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.960 you know he's gonna get blown up once in a 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.880 while and you're expecting that. But if he could give 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.200 you two really good games before every blow up, I'll 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.160 take it. Or in this case, he gave you three 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.960 quality starts to start off season before a blow up here, Greg, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.920 So I still do have faith in Tevor Richards and 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.400 the swinging strikes have been awesome this year. But and 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.680 I'm sure Mike would tell you this too, he's got 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.440 to be better with his command, especially early on. It 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.120 starts there the guy on Piss that I didn't get 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.040 anywhere this year, Wilson Contres was absolutely hit and bombstras 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.720 to one second you because let's skipped over, but you're 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.440 talking about Trevor Richard to you know, I was doing 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.120 one pitch R at a time. He jumps right over 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.520 to you, Darvish. You just missed down the quality starts. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.200 I know he's been really bad to start off the year. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.320 This is his best start yet. He still walked four guys, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.120 but the strikeouts eight was was nice to see. It's 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.280 against the Marlins. What, Frank, can we take away from this? Yeah, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.080 I'll give you the pros and cons real quick here 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.760 for for Darvish, because there was there was a lot 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.880 that I liked. Obviously in this start, um he goes 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.680 deeper than he has um than usual. Regarding you, Darvish, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.120 this was the first time, at credit to the Cubs broadcast, 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.480 first time that he's gone at least five innings in 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.400 back to back starts as a member of the Cubs. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.720 How crazy. That's crazy of a stat. And this isn't 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.480 the furthest he's gone because last year he did go 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.240 six innings a few times, but it was never in 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.640 consecutive starts. So first time in back to back starts 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.560 that he's gone at least five innings for the So 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.960 I guess that's a pro. That's that's that's a positive 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.600 takeaway here for you Darvish. And the fact that Greg 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.440 he his fastball was maxing out at nine point seven 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.560 miles per hour and in the final ending in the 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.160 sixth and he was hitting quite regularly and he was 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.760 a little piste off at the home plate umpire because 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.200 he wasn't getting a few calls. So I wonder if 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.920 he was just kind of like amped up, and you know, 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.120 he was just yearing back and throwing a little bit 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.360 hardy yesterday. But this is what we said about him. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.520 He's slowly working himself back into game shape and he's 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.360 starting to throw harder now. And you know, there was 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.280 a lot of great break and there was a lot 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.560 of great movement on his pitches yesterday, but still again 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.960 struggled with the walks. If you're gonna walk four or 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.520 five batters, you can get away with it against the Marlins. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.960 But when you're pitching in the National League Central, when 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.360 you're going up against the Brewers and the Reds and 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.640 the Cardinals and you're walking four or five guys, it's 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.280 not gonna work. It's not gonna work, you Darvish. So 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.240 I like what I saw yesterday, Greggy at thirteen swinging strikes, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.360 he goes deeper into the start, he's throwing harder. He 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.680 had the eight strikeouts. That's fine, it's to get right. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.160 Performance against the Miami Marlins. There was a lot of 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.080 good that I took away from this, but four walks 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.240 hit a batter as well. 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