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Speaker 1: what's up everybody, it's your boy, the Closer. Yeah. Our
Speaker 1: two funk about a little Joey Luke CAZy, maybe little
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola. Not much to talk about when it comes
Speaker 1: to Luke Casey. No, no, listen, did you watch that game? No?
Speaker 1: I did not, Okay, I did. Um. I was watching
Speaker 1: kershaw Man. It was the game of the night. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I watched plots of that too, but I
Speaker 1: was the Brooklyn Nets were also on. There's a lot
Speaker 1: going on, so I was just sliping back a lot
Speaker 1: of things they weren't really on. Once the fourth quarter start, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was over. Um. They did keep it close for
Speaker 1: a while though, for a while, not the third quarter,
Speaker 1: but they started three or something like that. I knew
Speaker 1: that was coming because they beat him, you know, they
Speaker 1: beat him handling in the first game, so I figured
Speaker 1: Philadelphia was pissed losing at home. Ben Simmons just took
Speaker 1: it to a new level, I feel like in that game,
Speaker 1: and that's what he has to do. Yeah, he has to.
Speaker 1: The seventy sixers are going to compete at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got to be that aggressive. I was watching the
Speaker 1: game on Saturday, Greg and something I kept noticing was,
Speaker 1: and you saw it a few times, like Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: in the paint like uh like just posting up another
Speaker 1: point guard. Why wouldn't he do that every single play?
Speaker 1: He's a six eight point guard right Like That's I
Speaker 1: was watching the game in saying to myself, why is
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons either driving to the rack, not driving to
Speaker 1: the rack, or or posting up an opposing guard every
Speaker 1: single play. I don't care that you can't shoot. If
Speaker 1: you can't shoot within ten ft of the basket, then
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be in the NBA. But like, he's way
Speaker 1: bigger than everyone. He's just just living the paint, dude,
Speaker 1: right and even still, like you should be driving because
Speaker 1: you're awesome at that. You're stronger than these guys. You
Speaker 1: have great moves, you're athletic, like he's you know, he's
Speaker 1: not your honest, but he has the mold of a
Speaker 1: honest or or lebron Like he could do everything but shoot.
Speaker 1: And then even if he is getting double team down
Speaker 1: in the paint, you dish it out. Shoot out to
Speaker 1: somebody while you're driving in Yeah to Tobias Harris, he
Speaker 1: could shoot. Or J. J. Reddick, Yeah somebody you got
Speaker 1: talent around there. But um so, anyway, uh yeah, Luke CAZy.
Speaker 1: He first of all, there was an anying way he
Speaker 1: walked the guy give up a hit right first, and
Speaker 1: second there's a Ian Desmond hits a single, a looping liner,
Speaker 1: a very weak single to right field that should have
Speaker 1: actually been caught by Frand Mill. Yes, my sister would
Speaker 1: have caught the ball. That's how slow Frand mill Rays is.
Speaker 1: He had to go five ft to make that catch
Speaker 1: and he had to dive and he's still dropped Noble.
Speaker 1: He's horrible that that cost them two runs right there.
Speaker 1: Anybody else in the league would have caught that. So
Speaker 1: that was one run. He was a looping liner. That
Speaker 1: was two runs, and the other three two of them
Speaker 1: are Homer's. One was uh, Rollie Blackman hitting a week
Speaker 1: round at the first with a guy on third one out,
Speaker 1: so you know, the run scored. He didn't really give
Speaker 1: up too many hot hits to give the two home runs,
Speaker 1: so it really wasn't as bad of outing as you
Speaker 1: might think. And you know, when I saw that he
Speaker 1: went seven innings last I was surprised because you know,
Speaker 1: the potters usually pull their pictures early. So he was
Speaker 1: still pretty efficient. So I understand what you're saying. He
Speaker 1: was able to go seven ennings. He uh you know,
Speaker 1: and the whip wasn't terrible. Seven hits and two walks
Speaker 1: in in seven ennings. Pitch that's not terrible, but there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of swinging strikes. Only had four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: This is where I kind of worry about Lukezy where
Speaker 1: within the division, right, So teams that have seen him
Speaker 1: before as interesting of a pitch is that he uses
Speaker 1: that like change up curveball thing that he uses. He's
Speaker 1: still just a two pitch pitcher, so obviously the more
Speaker 1: you see him, the easier it is gonna be for
Speaker 1: you to pick up on things on him because he
Speaker 1: only throws two pitches, so he's got a develop It's
Speaker 1: kind of what I worry about. It's pitching within the division.
Speaker 1: It's like these guys see you multiple times and they
Speaker 1: figured you out because you only throw two pitches. Well,
Speaker 1: he is trying to develop that third pitch. Um that
Speaker 1: more of a looping, huge curveball thing that he throws,
Speaker 1: which got shelled by Nolan Arronado, Like he just hung it.
Speaker 1: Don't throw it to Nolan. Yeah, don't throw it to
Speaker 1: Nolan at Ronado and hang it in the middle of
Speaker 1: his own. It was like a huge looping curve that
Speaker 1: he threw. And I don't know. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: think that he only give two runs up until the
Speaker 1: sixth inning, so I think he just needs to bear down,
Speaker 1: develop that pitch better and he you'll see him progress
Speaker 1: as the season goes on. I think you know, I
Speaker 1: think he'll get better. Well, I want to point out
Speaker 1: it's from the other side. It's only a sense of
Speaker 1: tell and I understand it was in San Diego. He's
Speaker 1: talking about these Rockies pitchers all the time. Six and
Speaker 1: two thirds is the first start of the year. Six
Speaker 1: it's only run aloud, was a solo shot, struck out four,
Speaker 1: walked one. That's a really good start, and says it.
Speaker 1: Tell him, we've seen this before from him last year, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we say it's a great start.
Speaker 1: It was. I'm not going to dispute that. But he's like,
Speaker 1: we have enough data regarding him at this point, like
Speaker 1: two thirty endings passed in the major leagues. To me,
Speaker 1: he's a jag greggy. I feel like we have enough
Speaker 1: unless he starts doing something differently than, you know, than
Speaker 1: he's done before, because then I could buy in. But
Speaker 1: using his four seam fastball seventy two percent of the
Speaker 1: time yesterday, Greg, and it's basically on par with his career.
Speaker 1: He's you know, right around six nice on his fastball
Speaker 1: usage in his career. But you know, it just relies
Speaker 1: on it so much, and you know he pitches in Colorado.
Speaker 1: So maybe he's like a streamer in deeper leagues, like
Speaker 1: on the road, but outside of that, to me, he's
Speaker 1: just a jag. Sorry, Bud, Yeah, I'm not really in
Speaker 1: on him. I know you you find these like weird
Speaker 1: players that you just fall in love with, like Jimmy
Speaker 1: Yaka Bona. I don't fall in love for no reason
Speaker 1: at all. I don't. I don't fall in love with
Speaker 1: love with the Rockies players. Le let's end it. Tell
Speaker 1: that a nice sunding last night. I thought you just
Speaker 1: dismissed him. That is a fact, greg Factually, he did
Speaker 1: have a very nice start yesterday. But Jimmy Yaka Bonus,
Speaker 1: huh big Jimmy john yesterday in Boston? Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be the next closer of the Orioles? Do they have
Speaker 1: a closer? They don't want to rant about it again,
Speaker 1: I don't. All right, Jimmy Yaka Bonus here he comes,
Speaker 1: all right? Can we what can we talk about? Aoud?
Speaker 1: We talk about something useful? Gregg. Not only did Hosie
Speaker 1: Ramiras get on the board, but but no Nonado has
Speaker 1: not got on the board two days in a row
Speaker 1: as Eronado Homer another solo shot yesterday for these Rockies
Speaker 1: Tea and E Desmond homer as well off of Joey
Speaker 1: lou CAZy off to see Eronado finally getting a little hot.
Speaker 1: Will Myers had his fourth homer of the season yesterday.
Speaker 1: Meyer is another guy we haven't talked about all that much.
Speaker 1: One for four, the run scored bet five on the year,
Speaker 1: batting clean up last night. I don't own any Will Myers,
Speaker 1: so I don't really have preference on him, But how
Speaker 1: has he been guys other than numbers that just read.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the bat ball data here and
Speaker 1: his barrel percentage greg has been great. I mean it's
Speaker 1: fourteen point six percent, so he's he's making an optimal
Speaker 1: contact more than ever before. His average eggs velocity is
Speaker 1: up the season as well. He's hitting two is expected
Speaker 1: batting averages to seventies. So you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: he's he's not like severely outperforming what's expected out of him.
Speaker 1: I still worry about the strikeouts. He's always kind of
Speaker 1: been around a you know, twenty when he's seven strikeout
Speaker 1: and branch guy. This year he's at thirty one percent,
Speaker 1: but hitting the ball very hard to raising the launch
Speaker 1: hang a little bit this season compared to last year,
Speaker 1: and the average eggs of velocity is up. I think
Speaker 1: we know that Will Myers is a talented player. It
Speaker 1: just it all comes down to health for him. And
Speaker 1: you know that's a very standard thing to say, but
Speaker 1: he's already got four home runs and two stolen bases
Speaker 1: on the year. But as long as he can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get. You're probably gonna get
Speaker 1: close to home runs and you know, fifteen and twenty
Speaker 1: stolen bases and that's fine. And he has multi position
Speaker 1: eligibility with third and outfield because he played some third
Speaker 1: base last season. So as long as you can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's gonna be valuable. It's just how long
Speaker 1: can you stay healthy. And he's had pretty good counting
Speaker 1: stats with this lineup now that it's better for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, look batting batting clean up for the Potter's
Speaker 1: line up. That's a that's a great spot to be
Speaker 1: in right now. You know, right behind Machado and now
Speaker 1: friend Malreys is batting second for this team. They're trying
Speaker 1: to find ways to get him going. He's been hot.
Speaker 1: He to know what I think, more than every for
Speaker 1: Greg that I think can help Will Myers, especially because
Speaker 1: he plays in the outfield and he was much more
Speaker 1: valuable a couple of years ago when he played first
Speaker 1: base because he didn't have to run around in the
Speaker 1: outfield as much and not prone to getting injured. Is
Speaker 1: that they have a little bit more depth, so they
Speaker 1: you know, while we want our players in fantasy to
Speaker 1: play every single day, with a player like Will Myers,
Speaker 1: they have to be smart about the way that they
Speaker 1: use him. They got to give him off an extra
Speaker 1: day or two per week because he's a guy that's
Speaker 1: been injury prone. But if it's something that's gonna keep
Speaker 1: him healthy, I'm okay with it as a fantasy owner,
Speaker 1: you know, like regarding guys that have been hurt in
Speaker 1: the past. If this is what you need to do
Speaker 1: to keep him healthy and give us that shot at
Speaker 1: getting twenty five home runs and fifteen twenty stolen bases, whereat.
Speaker 1: You know, you give him off a day here there,
Speaker 1: and maybe he only plays forty games, but if he
Speaker 1: keeps him healthy and he plays well, I'm fine with
Speaker 1: it because he'll give you quality production and they have
Speaker 1: that luxury season because they have depth have friend Murrays,
Speaker 1: and they have Hunter rent From and they have Manuel Margo.
Speaker 1: So and he's actually works out well Fred Meyers, and
Speaker 1: he's still playing more often than not. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's pretty much every time they played six games,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play at least five of them. So I'm out,
Speaker 1: I listen. I have him in a lot of having
Speaker 1: like two or three places, I think so, And I've
Speaker 1: been fine with him. You know, it's a guy that
Speaker 1: I just it's a guy I always liked to have
Speaker 1: him in my line up. People kind of sleep on
Speaker 1: him sometimes and you get him a little later than
Speaker 1: the really good guys. So I like to grab him
Speaker 1: as like a third out fielder or something like that.
Speaker 1: And he does the job unless he gets hurt. He
Speaker 1: does the job. Man. He produces. Last night in Miami,
Speaker 1: the Cubs defeat of the Marlins seven to two, it
Speaker 1: was you, Darvish going five and two thirds four hits,
Speaker 1: two runs, four walks. He struck out eight, just missed
Speaker 1: out on the quality star at pitch tack of a
Speaker 1: lot better than Trevor Richards did, who went four and
Speaker 1: two thirds four hits, five runs, he walked For what
Speaker 1: we have a Mike in Los Angeles on the line. Uh, Mike,
Speaker 1: let's go to you. Mike and La, what's going on?
Speaker 1: We know what what do you say? We are hearing
Speaker 1: from Mike in Los Angeles right now. Got guys that
Speaker 1: the changeup was still really good. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: just he got hit. What would like to hear this?
Speaker 1: He got he got hit with a little dinking dumps yesterday.
Speaker 1: And you know the command wasn't great early on, but
Speaker 1: he really turned it around. You know, he was unlucky
Speaker 1: from a few fielding situations. But I still have a
Speaker 1: lot of faith in interpret Richards. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a top twenty picture this year. Guys, all seriousness though,
Speaker 1: you went you specifically, Frank's gonna kill me. You guys
Speaker 1: went off about these Marlin's pictures that how amazing they
Speaker 1: are like a week ago, and now he just made
Speaker 1: fun of Trevor Richards. He started was like, because it
Speaker 1: feels like he just makes excuses like if anything ever
Speaker 1: goes wrong for Trevor Richards. But great for the most part,
Speaker 1: and I'm just joking around. For the most part, Trevor
Speaker 1: Richards has been great. You know, the three starts before this,
Speaker 1: while you know the walks have been issues, He's given
Speaker 1: you a quality start three starts in a road to
Speaker 1: start the season. And then he runs into a Chicago
Speaker 1: Cubs line up yesterday that's very good. They just come
Speaker 1: outside of Javier Bayaz, who's good, but in a different
Speaker 1: way than everyone else. Everyone else in this lineup is
Speaker 1: very disciplined. Greg. They're gonna take their pitches. You know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna swing it whatever. Everything he'll just throw is
Speaker 1: bad at it, and somehow he'll get a hit out
Speaker 1: of it. But everyone else in this lineup, Greg is
Speaker 1: very disciplined, and they're gonna take their walks. And you
Speaker 1: saw that yesterday. Another four walks for Trevor Richards and
Speaker 1: he hit a batter. And I was watching the start
Speaker 1: because watching it very closely because I have one share
Speaker 1: of you, Darvish in the home league, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to see if he can turn it around. So obviously
Speaker 1: I was watching Trevor Richards on the other side as well,
Speaker 1: and he ran into trouble in that final ending. This
Speaker 1: is something that he does normally. Trevor Richards gets off
Speaker 1: to a slow start early on, UH struggles with commands
Speaker 1: exactly what he did in the first he had like
Speaker 1: bases loaded and he walked in a run, and then
Speaker 1: he gave up a single, and before you know it,
Speaker 1: he gives up three runs in the first standing and
Speaker 1: he hit a batter two. But he settled down for
Speaker 1: the next three or four and he's after that, and
Speaker 1: then when he was in the fifth he ran into
Speaker 1: this trouble. But for the most part, he was giving
Speaker 1: up a lot of hard contact that I saw yesterday,
Speaker 1: a lot of balls just dying on the warning track.
Speaker 1: Its he like he was a little bit fortunate to
Speaker 1: be pitching in Marlins Park yesterday. But guess what, He's
Speaker 1: gonna be pitching in Marlins Park all season this year, Greg,
Speaker 1: So he's he's got to get the command right. He
Speaker 1: can't walk and make any batters as he does, because
Speaker 1: when he faces a good lineup like the Cubs, they're
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage. That's the biggest issue for Trevor Richards.
Speaker 1: But the fact that he pitches in Marlins Park and
Speaker 1: what I saw from him yesterday is that's gonna help him.
Speaker 1: That's gonna help him because you know, normally in other
Speaker 1: places where these would be home runs, they weren't yesterday
Speaker 1: in Marlins Park. Yeah, no, I agree. Listen, I think
Speaker 1: he's obviously better than this. Um. I think he's a
Speaker 1: guy you could stream all year. I started him for
Speaker 1: two this week, confident in him. Obviously got shelter here,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure I'll make it up in the next start.
Speaker 1: But like, it's not a guy you want to really
Speaker 1: drop unless you see something really good. Yeouldn't right into
Speaker 1: the Cubs up. Look at his first three starts, he
Speaker 1: was great. Yeah, I'm not dropping him for that. He's
Speaker 1: got to get the command right though. He can't walk
Speaker 1: this many batters because again, when he faces the Phillies
Speaker 1: who are in the division, when he faces the Nationals,
Speaker 1: the Mets, if you walk this many guys, given the
Speaker 1: bats that they have, when they make contact with with
Speaker 1: men on basics, are gonna happen, you know, So that
Speaker 1: can't be a recipe for you. He's predominantly a fastball
Speaker 1: change up picture. Everything works off of that change up.
Speaker 1: We know that. But if he's not spotting the fastball
Speaker 1: and the changeup, well, and I was listening to the
Speaker 1: Marlins radio broadcast on the way home that those are
Speaker 1: gonna be the games where he's gonna run into big,
Speaker 1: big problems. And you know what, I think, this what
Speaker 1: you should expect because you drifted him as an sp
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna get blown up once in a
Speaker 1: while and you're expecting that. But if he could give
Speaker 1: you two really good games before every blow up, I'll
Speaker 1: take it. Or in this case, he gave you three
Speaker 1: quality starts to start off season before a blow up here, Greg,
Speaker 1: So I still do have faith in Tevor Richards and
Speaker 1: the swinging strikes have been awesome this year. But and
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike would tell you this too, he's got
Speaker 1: to be better with his command, especially early on. It
Speaker 1: starts there the guy on Piss that I didn't get
Speaker 1: anywhere this year, Wilson Contres was absolutely hit and bombstras
Speaker 1: to one second you because let's skipped over, but you're
Speaker 1: talking about Trevor Richard to you know, I was doing
Speaker 1: one pitch R at a time. He jumps right over
Speaker 1: to you, Darvish. You just missed down the quality starts.
Speaker 1: I know he's been really bad to start off the year.
Speaker 1: This is his best start yet. He still walked four guys,
Speaker 1: but the strikeouts eight was was nice to see. It's
Speaker 1: against the Marlins. What, Frank, can we take away from this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the pros and cons real quick here
Speaker 1: for for Darvish, because there was there was a lot
Speaker 1: that I liked. Obviously in this start, um he goes
Speaker 1: deeper than he has um than usual. Regarding you, Darvish,
Speaker 1: this was the first time, at credit to the Cubs broadcast,
Speaker 1: first time that he's gone at least five innings in
Speaker 1: back to back starts as a member of the Cubs.
Speaker 1: How crazy. That's crazy of a stat. And this isn't
Speaker 1: the furthest he's gone because last year he did go
Speaker 1: six innings a few times, but it was never in
Speaker 1: consecutive starts. So first time in back to back starts
Speaker 1: that he's gone at least five innings for the So
Speaker 1: I guess that's a pro. That's that's that's a positive
Speaker 1: takeaway here for you Darvish. And the fact that Greg
Speaker 1: he his fastball was maxing out at nine point seven
Speaker 1: miles per hour and in the final ending in the
Speaker 1: sixth and he was hitting quite regularly and he was
Speaker 1: a little piste off at the home plate umpire because
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting a few calls. So I wonder if
Speaker 1: he was just kind of like amped up, and you know,
Speaker 1: he was just yearing back and throwing a little bit
Speaker 1: hardy yesterday. But this is what we said about him.
Speaker 1: He's slowly working himself back into game shape and he's
Speaker 1: starting to throw harder now. And you know, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of great break and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of great movement on his pitches yesterday, but still again
Speaker 1: struggled with the walks. If you're gonna walk four or
Speaker 1: five batters, you can get away with it against the Marlins.
Speaker 1: But when you're pitching in the National League Central, when
Speaker 1: you're going up against the Brewers and the Reds and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and you're walking four or five guys, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna work. It's not gonna work, you Darvish. So
Speaker 1: I like what I saw yesterday, Greggy at thirteen swinging strikes,
Speaker 1: he goes deeper into the start, he's throwing harder. He
Speaker 1: had the eight strikeouts. That's fine, it's to get right.
Speaker 1: Performance against the Miami Marlins. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: good that I took away from this, but four walks
Speaker 1: hit a batter as well. Lewis Brinston almost ended his
Speaker 1: chance at having kids by the way he got hit
Speaker 1: right in the thigh with a with a ninety fastball locket.
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Speaker 1: bring down the pitching when it came to the Cubs
Speaker 1: and the Marlins, let's pake down the hitday. I'll start
Speaker 1: with the good first, because we're positive people in the
Speaker 1: show where the show of positivity. Chris Wilson Contreres has
Speaker 1: been ubert uber hot to start the year. He had
Speaker 1: his sixth whole run of the year already, and he's
Speaker 1: now batting three forty one with VP of four seventy one.
Speaker 1: He's disgustingly hot and if he's one of the top
Speaker 1: catchers off the board. Yet you said, you say you
Speaker 1: don't have any shares of him. Yeah, I missed, Um,
Speaker 1: I guess because I remember we're talking about this, like
Speaker 1: we waited for that the end of that tier. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to get the last one in that TiO
Speaker 1: because it's catcher. You know. Yeah, definitely very head and miss.
Speaker 1: But I did like Wilson Contreres coming in. I did
Speaker 1: have him ranked ahead of like Wilson Ramos and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I end up getting Wilson Ramos because he ended
Speaker 1: up being the guy of that tier that fell the
Speaker 1: furthest I got him in two places. Those are two
Speaker 1: places I probably would have got Contraris because I was
Speaker 1: targeting a catcher, and I'm upset I didn't at least
Speaker 1: get him in one place. And I have seven leagues,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of frustrating. I do I always I've
Speaker 1: had him even leagues. Um, I only have like two
Speaker 1: or three home leagues and I got seven. I have
Speaker 1: two home leagues, um, and I have I have that
Speaker 1: best ball league with you, which I count. You know,
Speaker 1: it's small about whatever. I have a goon squad league,
Speaker 1: I have our pit league, and I have another league
Speaker 1: with a fan of the show, Shane, I mean one
Speaker 1: of his leagues he named Shane Shane from Colorado. So yeah,
Speaker 1: seven leagues, seven leagues and no Wilson Tras. I ended
Speaker 1: up with one share of Wilson con Traris, Greig. He
Speaker 1: wasn't an a void for me. I agree. I had
Speaker 1: him in that tier obviously. I think everyone did of
Speaker 1: you know, the top catchers after Sanchez and a Muto,
Speaker 1: but he was in that same you know, Wilson Ramos
Speaker 1: and he has money grand dolls, and I had him
Speaker 1: in that tier. But I had him last of that tire,
Speaker 1: and I had him ahead of Buster Posey, who I
Speaker 1: barely even consider in that tire anymore. But and I
Speaker 1: think this is a good transition into something else as well.
Speaker 1: Greg Wilson and Traders was always someone who hit too
Speaker 1: many ground balls, absolutely, And this year is fly ball
Speaker 1: rate is all the way up to forty six. Is
Speaker 1: previous high in terms of fly ball percentage is thirty
Speaker 1: point seven percent. Craig, So he's hitting the ball hard, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, forty three hard hit rate he's squaring the
Speaker 1: ball up this year and hitting more flyballs than ever before.
Speaker 1: He was always a guy who just hit too many
Speaker 1: balls into the ground, and this year he's lifting it
Speaker 1: more and he's hitting more home runs as a result.
Speaker 1: And last night that was a bomb that was like
Speaker 1: left center field. It was basically where the sculpture used
Speaker 1: to be for for in Marlins Park, but it's not
Speaker 1: there anymore, and it would hit off of it. But
Speaker 1: it was a bomb. So it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: this wasn't a cheap either. So this regarding and this
Speaker 1: happens with a few players every single year, you have
Speaker 1: to trust the talent at some point, the prospect pedigree,
Speaker 1: and you know what got you this far rather than
Speaker 1: just looking at last year, because we knew last year
Speaker 1: was just a disaster for me only at ten home runs,
Speaker 1: he atty nine. There was clearly something going on. But
Speaker 1: if you just trust that he has the talent, and
Speaker 1: we were had all these big expectations just two years
Speaker 1: ago for him, and it's twenty one home runs two
Speaker 1: years ago, then you would have known, and you you
Speaker 1: knew that you were getting him at a discount, and
Speaker 1: ultimately that is what's happening right now. But he's lifting
Speaker 1: the ball. Greg, what's like someone else who hit three
Speaker 1: home runs last night is very good, dude. Yeah, headphones
Speaker 1: are just constantly going in and out. Um, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, I agree with that. So like contra he
Speaker 1: he didn't really get him at too much of a
Speaker 1: dis guy, I don't think, because catcher is such a
Speaker 1: bad position. So how much are you gonna full you know,
Speaker 1: the talents there. The guy always hit the ball hard.
Speaker 1: I think the issue is what you said, Frank, round
Speaker 1: ball guy. Right, he's still hitting the ground ground balls
Speaker 1: at a high rate of the time, right so, um
Speaker 1: and his babb it worries me a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: three sixty four right now. She's really high for him.
Speaker 1: I think obviously that's gonna go down. But he is
Speaker 1: having a really hot start to the season, so we're
Speaker 1: expecting some sort of regression, right. I just hope the
Speaker 1: power stays relevant and his fly ball rate stays over that,
Speaker 1: you know, mark of where he's at right now. If
Speaker 1: it stays like that, he's gonna gets easy and still bad,
Speaker 1: you know, to seventy something like that. I said Wilson
Speaker 1: Contrairis in my home league in the round if you're
Speaker 1: forget about it. Was he an active target of yours
Speaker 1: or was he just oh I want someone from this
Speaker 1: so Yadi. Everrolina was actually left in that tier. He
Speaker 1: went around or so later. I like Contrairis more than Willina.
Speaker 1: I know you had it from Mars, I believe um,
Speaker 1: but I think at the time I remember correctly, it
Speaker 1: was almost like he was the high this guy on
Speaker 1: the board. Like I knew I needed to fill catcher
Speaker 1: I thought there was a significant drop off of you
Speaker 1: didn't get Wilson or or YadA. You're going like the
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen tire and you're just hea can get shot basically.
Speaker 1: So I thought in Cherris was a guy that take
Speaker 1: a shot, and he's pretty he used to be pretty good.
Speaker 1: So so I took a shot at my home league,
Speaker 1: and obviously through the first two weeks it's worked out
Speaker 1: pretty okay. Now it's worked out for Wilson Rairis, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked out for Mr Groundball r V. I himself,
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, and we did have an Anthony Rizzo and
Speaker 1: Yahoo last year because of me, admittedly, because I pushed forward,
Speaker 1: because you had that second base of eligibility, and we
Speaker 1: constantly would have the groundball r v I s and
Speaker 1: we made it a joke calling at the Anthony Rizzo
Speaker 1: the fielder's choice for an rv I and he's basically
Speaker 1: up to his old tricks again. Yesterday Rizzo went over
Speaker 1: three scoring Iran. He walked twice. Ob pe sits in
Speaker 1: a pretty healthy But the average of here and I
Speaker 1: standard five by five league is one eighty two. And
Speaker 1: we get I'm getting questions now, should I be nervous
Speaker 1: about Anthony Rizzo? What do I do about Anthony Rizzo?
Speaker 1: And I'll point to this in his career, in the
Speaker 1: month of March and or April, he's a two thirty
Speaker 1: seven start every single year heads two thirds. I mean,
Speaker 1: the average is two thirty seven. He is significantly worse
Speaker 1: early than he is late. As the weather gets warmer
Speaker 1: in May and June and July and August gets better
Speaker 1: and better, gets better and better, so in the first half.
Speaker 1: Traditionally he heats up once the weather gets hotter. This
Speaker 1: is not a surprise to be Anthony Rizzo is doing.
Speaker 1: If you drafted him, you're gonna have to stay the course.
Speaker 1: You can't get anything from right now. Things are gonna
Speaker 1: get better for Anthon. But on the other side, if
Speaker 1: you're a guy that drafted like a Matt Olson or
Speaker 1: somebody that's not producing, and you need a first basement,
Speaker 1: if people are unaware about history, take advantage, take advantage
Speaker 1: of the dude who doesn't, and try to buy Rizzo
Speaker 1: at this low right now, perfect by low candidate getting
Speaker 1: one right now. So I think you could get something.
Speaker 1: You know you could get him for not not giving
Speaker 1: away too much. Frank, I know you're not the Anthony
Speaker 1: Rizzo guy you never will be again, But I don't
Speaker 1: say it like that, right, Are you nervous? Ay? Riz All? No,
Speaker 1: not necessarily, because he has still has three homers. He
Speaker 1: has thirteen runs scored ten RBIs. So the counting stats
Speaker 1: are there, and you you're talking about a guy who
Speaker 1: people are worried about. I get it, he's hitting one
Speaker 1: eighty two, but at least you know, unlike Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: who who is hitting one fifty and has like no
Speaker 1: counting stats outside of stolen bases, and then he rizzles
Speaker 1: hitting one eighty two, But the county stats are still
Speaker 1: there because his team is a lot better. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: hitting three homers, that, but that's but that's part of it.
Speaker 1: That's why, like you can even when Anthony Rizzo is slumping,
Speaker 1: his team is so good around him that the counting
Speaker 1: stats are gonna be fine. Like he again, thirteen runs scored,
Speaker 1: ten Ribby's, and he's still he's hitting the ball extremely
Speaker 1: hard according to Fangrass fifty percent hard hit rate, but
Speaker 1: he's sitting. He's getting a lot of fly balls too,
Speaker 1: like maybe a little bit too many. He's hitting fifty
Speaker 1: send flyball rates. And I know Jason Hayward is a
Speaker 1: guy who's hitting more flyball So I almost wonder if
Speaker 1: it's like an organizational philosophy thing and they're trying to
Speaker 1: hit the ball in the air a little bit more
Speaker 1: of this year. But I think you hit the nail
Speaker 1: on the head, Greg When you first introduced it was
Speaker 1: that he's a slow starter, and he's typically always been.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if it's a cold weather, whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. The Cubs have played in some very sub
Speaker 1: optimal weather to start the season. I know Marlins Park now,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit better there, but it's not
Speaker 1: a hitter's park. But yeah, he's a two thirty seven hitter.
Speaker 1: In April and March, and then look at every other
Speaker 1: month in his career, May to seventy June two eight two,
Speaker 1: so why to sixty six August two eight two September October.
Speaker 1: So you know he's gonna get better. And you should
Speaker 1: have known this coming in. He's always a slow starter, yes,
Speaker 1: and he and he's always consistently ends up with similar
Speaker 1: numbers year and year out right, um and the other thing.
Speaker 1: This is why I say I like guys that walk
Speaker 1: a lot. Even when he's in a slump, he's producing
Speaker 1: because he's getting on base, he's getting run scored, like
Speaker 1: he's still got thirteen. He hasn't been hitting well. Uh
Speaker 1: So you want those guys that have great place to
Speaker 1: play discipline, because even when your guy is slumping, he's
Speaker 1: still doing some sort of production for you. He's not
Speaker 1: a complete zero like other guys out there who might
Speaker 1: have power but don't walk very much at all. Then
Speaker 1: they're complete zeros when they're in a slump. You don't
Speaker 1: want that. That's why I like these guys like Rizzo, Um,
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez. He walks a lot obviously as well. Uh
Speaker 1: So he's fine. You know, he's getting a stone basis
Speaker 1: he's still producing even though you know he's batting for
Speaker 1: such a low average. I mean, guys are just gonna
Speaker 1: get into slumps. That's the big people, that's the nature
Speaker 1: of the game. You know, happens everybody. Let's move on, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: and let's hit up the Twins and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: Please just want this one. Uh, five to three is
Speaker 1: a couple of things I want to take away. I
Speaker 1: want to start with more Team Paris. I would think
Speaker 1: this is the first start of the year, right, Frank,
Speaker 1: So it's his first start of the year. There's a
Speaker 1: guy you were very high on coming into this year.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I have more Team Pais at
Speaker 1: some point every single year because he's been around so long.
Speaker 1: He's been around so long, and he's always a guy
Speaker 1: that for a while usual a lot of quality starts
Speaker 1: like City three. And the reason Frank was high on
Speaker 1: him because I believe he added a pitch in the
Speaker 1: velocity went up. So yesterday against the Blue Jays, which
Speaker 1: is a tasty matchup. I didn't pick him up because
Speaker 1: I don't know how long the length would be. I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure we were going to get what we got
Speaker 1: was six innings of seven hit ball, one run. He
Speaker 1: walked to he struck out five, throwing eighty six pitches
Speaker 1: in the outing. It was a good start from our team. Perez,
Speaker 1: what did you see, Frank And are you encouraged? Definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely encouraged. And you mentioned the fastball velocity being up.
Speaker 1: That's something that we were tracking throughout the spring, and
Speaker 1: we mentioned, you know, we might have a Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: situation on our hands here regarding Martine Perez. Whereas in
Speaker 1: his career ninety two point six mile per hour average
Speaker 1: fastball velocity. Yesterday he averaged point two miles per hour
Speaker 1: on his fastball, and that was throughout the course of
Speaker 1: an entire start. So it's not like, all right, they
Speaker 1: were just using him for a few innings in relief
Speaker 1: and his velocity went up. No, he did it for
Speaker 1: the entirety of the start. So the fastball elocity is
Speaker 1: up about two or three miles per hour, greg And
Speaker 1: he threw a cutter twenties seven times yesterday on eighties
Speaker 1: six pitches. Entering tonight, he had a few really entering
Speaker 1: last night, he had a few relief appearances where he
Speaker 1: was throwing the cutter about at the time, but that
Speaker 1: was a pitch that he never used before this season. Greg,
Speaker 1: So we're talking about a guy who has increased velocity
Speaker 1: by two or three miles per hour on the fastball,
Speaker 1: added a new pitch, he's using a cutter, and he's
Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna get around fifty groundball. What's not
Speaker 1: to like? Right? Am I missing something here? Because this
Speaker 1: reminds me of a Charlie Morton type situation. I would
Speaker 1: say that similar, But I think a better comp to
Speaker 1: the Charlie Morton situation is Matthew Boyd because of the case,
Speaker 1: like the case of skyrocketed now for Boyd, since his
Speaker 1: velocity was went up, that's what happened to Charlie Morton.
Speaker 1: I think when you're gonna add to Martin Perez is, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll get maybe probably more cage just because the velocity
Speaker 1: went up. But he's not really a k Pitture. He
Speaker 1: never really was. I feel like he's more of just
Speaker 1: a groundball guy. He could be efficient and economical and
Speaker 1: that mainly two longer outings. So maybe he's a guy
Speaker 1: that could be good in the sense that he could
Speaker 1: give you a strong seven innings down the line at
Speaker 1: some point, maybe only five or six k's as opposed
Speaker 1: to eight or nine, but still quality, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I do like all the things you said.
Speaker 1: The cutter being a new pitched, the velocity up, these
Speaker 1: are all great signs. Definitely a guy to watch, maybe
Speaker 1: even to pick up. I mean, like we always say,
Speaker 1: should we should pick him up sooner rather than later
Speaker 1: before he's gone, Right, you think it's a guy we
Speaker 1: should pick up sooner rather than later, right, I'm the
Speaker 1: next start is against Baltimore this weekend. Actually wrote him
Speaker 1: up on Patreon as a two star pitcher that I liked,
Speaker 1: assuming he stays in the rotation for that second start.
Speaker 1: But I don't know why the Twins would get away
Speaker 1: from him. It's not like they have the best pitching
Speaker 1: staff known to man. It's like Jaco to Reesi and
Speaker 1: Kyle Gibson have not been good outside of Jose Barrios
Speaker 1: and has been all right too. It's like you don't,
Speaker 1: you don't have the best pitching staff of all time,
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't Martine Perez be in your rotation? And
Speaker 1: I know to start the season, um, he was the
Speaker 1: fifth starter and you know, a lot of teams kind
Speaker 1: of finagle their way out of like, Okay, we don't
Speaker 1: have to use this guy for the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks because of off days, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: That's why Brad Peacock ended up in the rotation in
Speaker 1: the bullpen for the Astros to start the year. But
Speaker 1: now I think Martine Perez, as this newfound fastball velocity,
Speaker 1: as this new cutter, I think he should get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to start with the Minnesota Twins. Why why wouldn't
Speaker 1: he Exactly? Yeah, you're right, and he's better than most
Speaker 1: of the options they have, even more so for the
Speaker 1: fact that he does have a lot of MLB experience
Speaker 1: under his belt, which is important. You know, big prospect
Speaker 1: Greg a long time ago. Yeah, with with the with
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers, never came to fruition. But when you
Speaker 1: see the little spike like this and and adding a
Speaker 1: new pitch, I think you have to be intrigued. I've
Speaker 1: intrigued this week in at Baltimore. It could be moved
Speaker 1: by make as we get closer one percent owned on Yahoo.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows yet, but telling you now, Frank's telling you now,
Speaker 1: you know, get on the phone, Open up another tab,
Speaker 1: go to Yahoo before you lead me, open up your league,
Speaker 1: because wow, only one percent. It's very surprising. Greg on
Speaker 1: the other side of the shoe went six and these
Speaker 1: a lot of four hits, three runs, you walk four
Speaker 1: struck out for the ear a still sits at one
Speaker 1: point seven five venture which you think of the shoes performance,
Speaker 1: I think this is more along the lines of what
Speaker 1: you'll get from him on terrible. It's not terrible, but
Speaker 1: it's not that you know, he's not gonna have a
Speaker 1: one seven five r right at the end of the season, right,
Speaker 1: So like this is more of what you're gonna hope for,
Speaker 1: like a nice quality start. You don't want to see
Speaker 1: four walks, right, you want to see less than that.
Speaker 1: But and the case, you know what do you have
Speaker 1: only four k's? So like, I feel like this is
Speaker 1: what you'll see more of, what with less walks, not
Speaker 1: three walks. And once in a while he will, you know,
Speaker 1: get bombed. But for the most part, if you could
Speaker 1: give you a quality start you're happy with Shoemaker has
Speaker 1: given you because listen, you pick him up off the
Speaker 1: wave of wire. Let's be honest with ourselves. That's all
Speaker 1: you could hope for is good quality starts out of
Speaker 1: the guy, and he ran into trouble yesterday. The one
Speaker 1: bad pitch that he made was to c J. Crone
Speaker 1: which turns into a three run homer, which was which
Speaker 1: were the entire runs that he gave up. If you
Speaker 1: look at his his line yesterday, six endings, three runs,
Speaker 1: and you know he's giving you quality starts and three
Speaker 1: out of four starts Greg and the one where he
Speaker 1: didn't it was five and two thirds of two earned
Speaker 1: run ball against the Red Sox, pretty good lineup. So
Speaker 1: yesterday ran into some trouble with the walks again, gives
Speaker 1: up the home run to c J. Crone. And when
Speaker 1: things aren't necessarily working right for Shoemaker, this is what
Speaker 1: can happen Greg, because he's so split her heavy that
Speaker 1: there are times where he can't locate it for strikes
Speaker 1: and that's when people are laying off of it, and
Speaker 1: then you know, he tries to bring it up in
Speaker 1: the zone and then he ends up getting crushed. So
Speaker 1: these are kind of the two bugaboos for him at times,
Speaker 1: giving up walks and then giving up the home runs.
Speaker 1: But for the most part of the season, he's been great.
Speaker 1: It is worth mentioning his first two starts when he
Speaker 1: goes seven, it was against Baltimore and Detroit, as who
Speaker 1: starts against the Twins and the Red Sox. He's still
Speaker 1: been very good. He should be owned. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: in my mind he should be owned. I agree with
Speaker 1: the next stoor is in Oakland for Matt Shoemaker. The
Speaker 1: other interesting part of this pitching was that Joe Biagini
Speaker 1: gets the save, his first save of the season. Is
Speaker 1: it a normal day off for Ken Giles Frankers? There's
Speaker 1: something more at play here. I think there's a little
Speaker 1: something I play here. Um. There was an update after
Speaker 1: the game that he was quote sick, but I also
Speaker 1: tweeted at a beat reporter of the Blue Jays regarding
Speaker 1: and Giles to see what was going on, and someone
Speaker 1: else responded to me saying that the broadcast talked about
Speaker 1: him having like a heating pad on his back. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if like the sickness was just kind
Speaker 1: of an excuse he couldn't yeah back injury or you know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to speculate too much, but the last
Speaker 1: time he pitched were Saturday and Thursday, so typically he
Speaker 1: should have been good to go for a last night's game,
Speaker 1: So I think it is worth noting that for your
Speaker 1: Ken Giles shares out there in deeper leagues where we're
Speaker 1: constantly speculating on saves. If anything happens to him, it
Speaker 1: looks like Joe Bia Jeanie is the next man up.
Speaker 1: So Danny Hudson pitched the eighth inning in this one.
Speaker 1: I want to get to Yellow after the break because
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Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna hit on Christian Yelloch, We're going
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Speaker 1: glad I was able to help you. Ain't sarcastic. In
Speaker 1: Milwaukee last night, the brew Crew defeat of the Cardinals
Speaker 1: ten to seven. From the parole that doesn't make it
Speaker 1: through four? A lot of three runs were walks, three ks?
Speaker 1: What do you know? Big? The vent? You know who
Speaker 1: I had going yesterday? Listen's time has come and gone on.
Speaker 1: Freddie purulta, Joey Looke CAZy and Aaron Nolas. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a great day for you, horrible. What are the what
Speaker 1: are those guys equal like five Fantasy points combined? For you,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, but keep talking ill on the other
Speaker 1: side to code, Hudson also got destroyed three and two thirds,
Speaker 1: eight hits, six runs to me on the Cardinals Alex
Speaker 1: rayeses in triple A. Sure would like to see him
Speaker 1: stretched out as a starter and replaced the coda Hudson
Speaker 1: just saying, let's anyone in the car and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: front office is listening. Now sits at six. The big
Speaker 1: story in this one, of course, was Christian Yell It's
Speaker 1: going deep, not once, not twice, but three times. It
Speaker 1: was his seventh whole run of the season against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: He has seven home runs this season against St. Louis.
Speaker 1: That's insane. That's more than most players have in total
Speaker 1: is eight home runs over all. Oh what a start
Speaker 1: for the rating MV pick. His bat just stays through
Speaker 1: the zone so long. I feel like, you know, like
Speaker 1: he could just control like Trout. You know how Trout
Speaker 1: could like hit a ball by his kneecap and just
Speaker 1: like go the opposite way with it. Like I feel
Speaker 1: like Yelloish is the same type of head. It just
Speaker 1: could hit everything in every zone. He has no cold zone.
Speaker 1: You can't get him anywhere, and he could go opo,
Speaker 1: he could pull it. He does everything you want out
Speaker 1: of a hitter. He's the prototypical three hitter that you
Speaker 1: want in your lineup. The Brew is a static right now,
Speaker 1: what they got right? You know how people take victory
Speaker 1: laps regarding players based on what we've seen thus far.
Speaker 1: If you were a Christian yellows guy or girl, take
Speaker 1: a victory lap. I don't care because if he keeps
Speaker 1: this up. Greg in terms of his launch angle, because
Speaker 1: everyone said that he couldn't replicate what he did last year,
Speaker 1: right because his home in the fall ratio was astronomical.
Speaker 1: There's no way someone can keep that up. But what
Speaker 1: do we say about him his entire career, he was
Speaker 1: one launch angle uptick away from b being amazing away.
Speaker 1: Now he plays in Miller Park. His launch angle this
Speaker 1: year on average fourteen point five degree launch angle. Do
Speaker 1: you want to guess what his launch angle was last year,
Speaker 1: which tidy career high Greg? This year it's fourteen point five,
Speaker 1: which is which is not that like, like fourteen and
Speaker 1: a half is on average as a line drive. But
Speaker 1: this is on average. What would you say it was
Speaker 1: last year four point seven, So you're telling me that
Speaker 1: if he's upping his launch angle I ten degrees this season,
Speaker 1: making a conscious effort. Now, I don't know that he's
Speaker 1: ever done this before to hit more line drives and
Speaker 1: more fly balls. Given his contact skills. Greg, with his
Speaker 1: strikeout rate actually being down this season to fourteen percent
Speaker 1: and his average exit velocity at miles per hour, doing
Speaker 1: what he's doing and lifting the ball, the guy can
Speaker 1: hit home runs, Greg. And and and that's not just me,
Speaker 1: he can hit Question what was his launch angles before that,
Speaker 1: like like when he was hitting seen in sixteen when
Speaker 1: he hit let's see here, he had twenty one home
Speaker 1: runs right with the Marlins that year because launce average
Speaker 1: launch ango was two point five degrees five and the
Speaker 1: two seasons after that it was four point seven. Seen,
Speaker 1: it was four point seven last year eighteen. This year
Speaker 1: is fourteen point five degrees. Now he's lifting the ball finally,
Speaker 1: and he plays in Miller Park. Reggy, he can ye
Speaker 1: might well, we can't project something that we've never seen
Speaker 1: him do before. Well, and it's not like you know,
Speaker 1: they weren't gonna give it away before the season that
Speaker 1: oh well, he's gonna just try and like you know,
Speaker 1: he wants to keep people guessing coming into the year.
Speaker 1: You know, like there was no way for us to
Speaker 1: project something that he's never done before. But we've always
Speaker 1: said this about Yeah, it's that if he started to,
Speaker 1: if he's just up the fly ball rate by five
Speaker 1: seven percent, that he can be awesome. Yeah. But I
Speaker 1: mean based on this right, he can legitimately hit uns. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying, and I agree with you,
Speaker 1: And you can't really predict it, like you know something
Speaker 1: that you know done before, you can in a sense,
Speaker 1: all the people that said maybe he can't hit thirty
Speaker 1: plus thirty plus homes before, you know, earlier in his career,
Speaker 1: I would say, because to myself, when knowing what I know,
Speaker 1: when I saw Christian Nellas first come up, I was like,
Speaker 1: listen this guy sayting thirty eight doubles, thirty six doubles.
Speaker 1: Doubles do turn into homers eventually if the guy makes
Speaker 1: the right adjustments as he gets comfortable with the league. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, thirty eight thirty six doubles can turn
Speaker 1: into homer's if they're a while and you know, last
Speaker 1: year with thirty four doubles. But yeah, thirty thirty six
Speaker 1: homers as opposed to eighteen or twenty one, So I
Speaker 1: think that's part of it too. You could see it
Speaker 1: slowly coming, you know what I mean. Power has also
Speaker 1: gained over the years from when you're early twenties to
Speaker 1: late twenties. You're most powerful probably in your late twenties
Speaker 1: early thirties, So I would say, you know, this is
Speaker 1: just a natural progression from No one expected thirty six
Speaker 1: homers out of nowhere. But I think you could have
Speaker 1: seen this coming a little bit if you would have
Speaker 1: hit like twenty eight last year, I think it was
Speaker 1: like the next step was thirty five, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But even I even I said this regarding
Speaker 1: Yellet's coming into the year, and I wasn't off him
Speaker 1: because I always said, even if he regresses, he can
Speaker 1: regrets to the point where he's still a first round player.
Speaker 1: He had thirty six home runs last year and hit
Speaker 1: three twenty six, And what I was saying was, let's
Speaker 1: say he HiT's twenty eight home runs and seals twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty five bases and hits over three d and
Speaker 1: the counting stats because he plays in the Brewer's lineup
Speaker 1: and in Miller Park, he was still gonna give you
Speaker 1: around a hundred runs scored, around a hundred urbis. That's
Speaker 1: a first round player. So even if you regressed from
Speaker 1: last year, he was still gonna be a first round player.
Speaker 1: And now he's doing something different that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1: From twenty seventeen eighteen, he lowered his groundball rate by
Speaker 1: four percent. That was last year, Okay, modest improvement. He
Speaker 1: hits line drives five percent more this year. Greg He's
Speaker 1: lowered his groundball rate from fifty one point eight percent
Speaker 1: last season to forty three point six percent this year.
Speaker 1: That is huge for him. Huge. His fly ball rate
Speaker 1: is up from twenty three percent last year to thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent this year. You're telling me this isn't a
Speaker 1: conscious decision that the owners didn't come to him in
Speaker 1: the off season and they were like, hey, man, look,
Speaker 1: you're one tweak away from if you lift. We know
Speaker 1: that you square the ball up. You obviously hit the
Speaker 1: ball extremely hard. Now can you continue to do that
Speaker 1: while hitting a few more flyballs this season? And if
Speaker 1: he just bought into it, he's sitting runs this year. No,
Speaker 1: it's a conscious effort. It's it's does he keep this upgrade?
Speaker 1: That's the biggest question. So, you know, does he go
Speaker 1: back to kind of hitting groundballs again. It's like, I
Speaker 1: don't think so, because we're seeing this now. It's a
Speaker 1: trend three years in a row where he's lowering the
Speaker 1: groundball rate and he's raising the fly ball rate. He's
Speaker 1: doing this on purpose, no, absolutely, And he may get
Speaker 1: into slumps where he's hitting you know, ground balls as
Speaker 1: opposed to fly balls, you know what I mean, and
Speaker 1: not and has like a home run slump at some point,
Speaker 1: But I don't think it would last too long. The
Speaker 1: guys just too good of a hitter for that to last. Um,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he hitt homes I really wouldn't, dude.
Speaker 1: Even the year when he hit eighteen homers, that was
Speaker 1: a fantastic season. He was a top outfielder that year.
Speaker 1: Look at all the numbers across the board. He was
Speaker 1: a top outfield there. So you knew this guy was
Speaker 1: a talented player. So you you if you bought him back,
Speaker 1: then you're reaping the venefits now because you know, if
Speaker 1: you keep buying back into him, the guy is just
Speaker 1: one of the best hitters in the league. Now he's
Speaker 1: just you know, consciously making an effort to more flight balls,
Speaker 1: to get more home runs. And the plate discipline on
Speaker 1: the year eleven strike outs, eleven walks, so he's getting
Speaker 1: better even in terms of plate discipline. And you know,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna continue hitting home runs like this, people
Speaker 1: don't not I'm not gonna want to pitch to him,
Speaker 1: but it's a really strong Brewer's lineup, so you kind
Speaker 1: of have to pick your poison. Do you want to
Speaker 1: walk the guy and let him get on base. He's
Speaker 1: gonna walk a hundred times this year because this a
Speaker 1: hundred times, and he's never he's never walked more than
Speaker 1: eight in his career though, But yeah, if he if
Speaker 1: he keeps this up, he's he's gonna approach might exceed it,
Speaker 1: probably like twenty five Intentral looks. There's just everything to
Speaker 1: like right now, Greg and and too. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: it's not an overreaction because we know how good he is.
Speaker 1: He was the MVP last year and he's getting better.
Speaker 1: He's in the prime of his career. He's twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old, seeing the ball well, hitting it hard, lifting
Speaker 1: it Now not striking out walking more. This is this
Speaker 1: was this trying to figure out how to word this.
Speaker 1: People didn't want to buy him coming off a career year,
Speaker 1: but now he might he might up his career year.
Speaker 1: This might be his career year, and then next year
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna want to buy in. And then maybe that's
Speaker 1: the year that like we get the regression right because
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think coming for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think he might just keep getting better. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: might be one of the best places in that for
Speaker 1: the next ten years. He might be a generational player
Speaker 1: that we're talking about, possibly a Hall of Fame at
Speaker 1: ten years from now. That's the type of guy with
Speaker 1: profileing right here right now. I mean, look at look
Speaker 1: at this career path right now. It's insane. He does
Speaker 1: everything well. He does every exceptionally well. And you know
Speaker 1: you could find this and other guys too right now,
Speaker 1: like Contres, we talked about it. If he's hitting more
Speaker 1: on an angle right because he's a big time ground
Speaker 1: ball hitter, he hits the ball hard, he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: more home runs. Contre is gonna have a much better
Speaker 1: year because of that. So guys that are consciously doing
Speaker 1: this that are normally groundball guys might blow up as well.
Speaker 1: Josh Bell comes to mind. Josh Bell comes to mind. Man,
Speaker 1: it's the guy that could have a similar career path.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a career paths. Christian yellis, well,
Speaker 1: I mean he's not gonna eat thirty six homers, but
Speaker 1: probably not. Yeah, yeah, but he might hit gonna be
Speaker 1: an m v P. He might hit thirty. He might
Speaker 1: hit thirty this year. Macky Mustakis also the home run
Speaker 1: for the Brewers last night, by the way, his sixth
Speaker 1: home run of the season. Travis Shaw was back in
Speaker 1: the lad up as well. He struck out three times.
Speaker 1: He's not a dreadful star. We talked about it a
Speaker 1: little bit on last week's show. Paul Goldschmid also hit
Speaker 1: his seventh home run of the year, four St. Louis
Speaker 1: by Morizello. Zuna continues, is just Rake, Frank, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you had any concerns regarding Marcello Juna, those are in
Speaker 1: the back of your mind by now. Greg and it.
Speaker 1: We had the side issue. We didn't know if it
Speaker 1: was an oblique or not. We had the the fiasco
Speaker 1: with the wall trying to climb the wall and and
Speaker 1: and catch the ball. And we all saw how that ended.
Speaker 1: It was terrible. But this is what he does. I mean,
Speaker 1: as long as he's healthy. Last year he wasn't healthy,
Speaker 1: and I truly believe that as long as the healthy looking,
Speaker 1: he's hitting in a great spot in a great lineup
Speaker 1: again behind Carpenter, Goldschmidt and de Young, that's just a
Speaker 1: great spot. To who do you pitch you? Like, how
Speaker 1: do you choose who to pitch you? Right? So the
Speaker 1: answer is nobody, and he's coming up with guys on
Speaker 1: base and r bis have been there. He's already got
Speaker 1: thirteen Ribbys and he's got six home runs now to
Speaker 1: home run off Josh, hater of all people, he's a
Speaker 1: home run off Josh. How many works does he have?
Speaker 1: By the way, right now, are you looking at it?
Speaker 1: Regarding Azuna, I don't have that alright, because I feel
Speaker 1: like he'll get a lot more walks this year too,
Speaker 1: just for the fact that it's kind of a drop
Speaker 1: off after him. Don't don't sell you OUTI Molina. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna actually not crazy power. He's not walking
Speaker 1: at all. He has two walks on the season, so
Speaker 1: he needs to get a three percent walk rate. But
Speaker 1: maybe he's been maybe he's the guy that, okay, like
Speaker 1: let them walk the batters ahead of me, and then
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be the one that let me just
Speaker 1: come up with guys on base and I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and do as much damage as I possibly. I could
Speaker 1: just see pictures though, saying, you know, whatever, the face
Speaker 1: a Zuna on Molina next, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And a lot of situations. So and everyone's buying in
Speaker 1: greg so far too. Like we've mentioned the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, everyone's buying into launch angle. It seems this
Speaker 1: year specifically, a lot of guys that have always hit
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground, even Marcelo Zuna. In his career,
Speaker 1: he's a forty seven percent groundball rate. We always said
Speaker 1: it was a little bit too high. This year he's
Speaker 1: lowered the groundball rate by ten percent. He's hitting more
Speaker 1: line drives and hitting more fly balls, and it's working
Speaker 1: out for him. He's already he's already got six home
Speaker 1: runs and he could be a steel compasci here. He
Speaker 1: only hit twenty three, so I mean he did he
Speaker 1: did major damage in Miami home runs two years ago.
Speaker 1: So but he wasn't healthy last year and he still
Speaker 1: hit two eighty with eighty eight Ribby's, So you know
Speaker 1: that the guy's obviously going to have a big year
Speaker 1: if he stays healthy. Definitely has a really weird beard though, Greg, Yes,
Speaker 1: like dilonde, like Antonio Brown's mustache, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like it's blonde. That's just I'm all for crazy hair
Speaker 1: facial hair stuff. I don't know, man, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like mustache for Antonio Brown is brutal. Like you know,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you exactly what a rotten milk mustache. That's
Speaker 1: what it looked like. Yeah, a dirty milk. Yeah, gross
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. Do you want to note? Cole other notes left?
Speaker 1: Like four minutes left. So when you jump around here,
Speaker 1: ump around Delato de Shields at the sixth, sixth steel
Speaker 1: of the season. Found it, Greggy got him. You're not
Speaker 1: getting that out of me. You're a hater. You're a
Speaker 1: hater on the shield O BP is three seventy right now.
Speaker 1: Adding average isn't necessarily there. But he's always said decent
Speaker 1: plate discipline in terms of walks, Greg, he's struggles with
Speaker 1: strikeouts in his career. He's around its twenty two percent
Speaker 1: strikeout rate. That's too high for a speedster. Normally you'd
Speaker 1: want a guy that makes more contact. Hey, just hit
Speaker 1: the ball into the ground and run it out. That's
Speaker 1: what we want you to do. But he actually has
Speaker 1: a good play discipline to Gregg, he walks a lot.
Speaker 1: I found an interesting in Danny Santanna, who started this
Speaker 1: game at second base with the Rangers, was right in
Speaker 1: the two hole and ruet Odors spot, and he went
Speaker 1: two for five. He sold two bases yesterday, basically doing
Speaker 1: what we want being Rugnette Odor interest, I would say
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues only, he's gonna play middle infield in
Speaker 1: a in a fifteen team mixed roto if he's batting
Speaker 1: between Shinsu Chu and then right ahead of Elvis Andrews
Speaker 1: and No Marmazara and Joey Gallo at his second in
Speaker 1: the Good ballpart two, how long is he gonna be?
Speaker 1: I mean, when is Odor supposed to come back? He's
Speaker 1: not thinking of a bath for the next two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be a short term thing. That might not
Speaker 1: be You could it could just be him and and
Speaker 1: Odor tied together, right like, as long as Odor is out,
Speaker 1: start this guy. We could see some looking foresyth and
Speaker 1: there I do logan. Foresight played yesterday and started at
Speaker 1: first base because Ronald Gooseman's hurt. So it's not like
Speaker 1: I don't think Foresight is gonna take Danny Santanna's playing
Speaker 1: time time. Yeah, I wanted to say this, by the way,
Speaker 1: for Nola had four points, Lucazy at eight point six,
Speaker 1: for Aught at two point seven, so that's a total
Speaker 1: of right around not what you want. And I f
Speaker 1: Bower who had point four, so his one picture had
Speaker 1: ten more points than me, or more against my three pitches.
Speaker 1: It is worth mentioning that I was I was sipping
Speaker 1: some hadrid. Regarding Christian Yellis last night. I have zero
Speaker 1: shares of Christian Yellish and I'm going up against Florio
Speaker 1: in her home league head to head points league. Every
Speaker 1: time I see the Brewers score runs, I click on
Speaker 1: their box score. Are you serious, bro, you put up
Speaker 1: like twenty five Fantasy points yesterday in my home league.
Speaker 1: It's basically what a starting pitcher who has a really
Speaker 1: good start does in our league. So Christian Yellows had
Speaker 1: a great start yesterday as a pitcher, and basically his
Speaker 1: first game so I was giving Florida's crap earlier on,
Speaker 1: but he is because I'm a hater. He's one skillet
Speaker 1: scoring against me. Man I was. I was so pissed.
Speaker 1: He's worth that first round pick, like he's he's really
Speaker 1: worth it. It worked out because he had Richards and
Speaker 1: synderguard pitch and they basically gave him zero Fantasy points.
Speaker 1: They were not good. But then he had Yellows go
Speaker 1: on and he had anchor Nacione give him a homer,
Speaker 1: and he had Plea give him a homer. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. Every time I looked down at his team,
Speaker 1: there another home run. I want to do a thing
Speaker 1: before we end. Massara starting to get heat up a
Speaker 1: little bit. I think this is a guy that could
Speaker 1: have his finally, finally have his breakout. Yeah, Joey Yellow
Speaker 1: had his fifth home run of the season yesterday as well.
Speaker 1: By the way, right, Boxburg continues to pitch late engage
Speaker 1: in the Royals. It doesn't make sense, sucks, it's very
Speaker 1: he socks shout out to Beef Castillo down on the
Speaker 1: board and hunt your doger if you still out there,
Speaker 1: pick him up. He's scooch. Donna go two hours when
Speaker 1: I was talking about hunting another home run at that time. Man,
Speaker 1: you guys, but like the idea that Chris Fincher think
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