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Speaker 1: And that is The Closer Christ Chris. What's up, guys?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? It's your boy, The Closer Chris
Speaker 1: Venture here. How's everybody doing today? Nice day? Summer is
Speaker 1: here almost almost. We're actually getting more spring weather, which
Speaker 1: I appreciate, Venture, because it feels like we don't really
Speaker 1: have FeAs anymore here in New York City. Like on
Speaker 1: Monday it was eighty and it felt like it was
Speaker 1: summer already. So you know, I was just complaining a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago that it was like fifty and raining.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna start complaining that it's too hot. So
Speaker 1: I was never happy what today's weather. I like seven degrees.
Speaker 1: I like seven deal the time, like San Diego with
Speaker 1: that warm breeze. But I won't complain if it's too hot.
Speaker 1: If I'm sweating, it's all right. Well. You know, I've
Speaker 1: always said that I like the heat more because I
Speaker 1: think it's easier to cool down than it is to
Speaker 1: warm up. Yeah, and when you walk into your house,
Speaker 1: you can just strip down and turn on your air conditioner.
Speaker 1: I know people eats a little bit longer though, to
Speaker 1: warm up to heat up. It's true, and I agree
Speaker 1: with that. But I know people that say, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't like to sweat because you can't reverse the sweat.
Speaker 1: Once it gets on you, you're sticky, and you gotta
Speaker 1: go home and showers. I mean, especially in New York.
Speaker 1: Like the weather in New York. The human New York
Speaker 1: is much different than heat other places. It's so humid,
Speaker 1: it's so sticky. It seems like the past couple of
Speaker 1: years it might even be more like humid and sticky
Speaker 1: than ever before or something. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: heck is going on, but you know, like when I
Speaker 1: went to Vegas, or I visited one of my buddies
Speaker 1: in Arizona years ago. The way I mean, the heat
Speaker 1: there is just different. It's like why heat. So it's
Speaker 1: not humid, and it's you could breathe better, like Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's a hundred and ten degrees, but like you can
Speaker 1: actually breathe, and if you're it's hard to breathe. If
Speaker 1: you're in the shade, it's like completely different. It's like
Speaker 1: actually a little cool, even a hundred degrees. So I
Speaker 1: went in. So yesterday I walked to um to a
Speaker 1: print shop across the street and I was just staying
Speaker 1: in the shade for a MONA was on the phone.
Speaker 1: It was cold. Yeah, it was just cold. You ever
Speaker 1: been to Vegas? Yeah, So when I went to Vegas
Speaker 1: and dude, it was so hot. It was like a
Speaker 1: hundred and ten degrees. Like my shoes were sticking to
Speaker 1: the pavement, like the tar in the streets. That's why
Speaker 1: it's it's not actually black over there. The street is
Speaker 1: actually like great, it's not black, Like it doesn't look black.
Speaker 1: There were some streets that like you walked across the
Speaker 1: street whatever in the tar, like your shoes would stick
Speaker 1: a little bit because that's how hot. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: But to draw, you're not really sweat. It's good today.
Speaker 1: It's it's nice out here, Greg, I didn't want to mention.
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about Chris Archer dealing with
Speaker 1: the thumb injury, and Robert digs in the chat a
Speaker 1: long time listener watcher. I can't believe you're actually in
Speaker 1: indicating this reading. I thought it was I thought it
Speaker 1: was funny. I thought it was pretty awesome. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: he wrote in the chat, I hurt my thumb batting
Speaker 1: in softball last night, and it was affecting my pitches
Speaker 1: as a softball player. Wait, this hurt MLB players? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but it's very employant to know if, because
Speaker 1: that's why it's even more relevant, Greg, because if it's
Speaker 1: a soft toss and it's affecting your pitching soft tossed,
Speaker 1: imagine being a major League baseball player and you have
Speaker 1: a thumb injury, like of course it's going to affect
Speaker 1: your performance. Yeah, you're right, This is what Robert for
Speaker 1: the story there. This is probably why pitchers get hurt
Speaker 1: way more than uh then often be more than that
Speaker 1: can go wrong. Chris, It's like it could be a finger,
Speaker 1: it could be a shoulder, leg tending, it could be
Speaker 1: an elbow, It could be so many different things that
Speaker 1: could go wrong. For a pitcher, your core, your legs
Speaker 1: are important. That's your power. You know your torque, which
Speaker 1: is your core. So when you turn, if you've got something,
Speaker 1: I've had, I've had pain in like my side, my hip,
Speaker 1: pitching ones, and I couldn't pitch. I had a little
Speaker 1: paint on my side. Every time I pitch, it got
Speaker 1: worse and worse. Like littlest thing could aggravate you and
Speaker 1: affect your pitching badly. So this is why a lot
Speaker 1: of them get hurt. You own Chris Archer anywhere. We
Speaker 1: just had a very spirited discussion about dropping him. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I don't, and I amost traded for him, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad I didn't. You Chris Paddock and Tommy fan for
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, trade this is what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Some of the best trades you make are the ones
Speaker 1: you don't exactly. Um, I don't know if I drop
Speaker 1: him though, Would you drop him for Tyler Malley? That's
Speaker 1: that's basically the cut off. We got to and I
Speaker 1: said I would do it. Tyler Malley has like a
Speaker 1: sub three. You say it, you say it, would you
Speaker 1: actually actually be able to pull the trigger, like it
Speaker 1: would be tough? I understand. I understand it would be
Speaker 1: tough because you think if he was the worst picture
Speaker 1: on my team, I think, like I think I would
Speaker 1: hate drop him. So if I had him in my
Speaker 1: line up, I would be so piste off. Last night
Speaker 1: I was just like, I was looking through two starters.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop Spetzer term fine, I was. I was
Speaker 1: about to hate drop him. So I'm gonna read you
Speaker 1: my pictures on my team that I could do this.
Speaker 1: There's only one other guy that I could drop for him,
Speaker 1: for Tyler Mallley, in my opinion, as totally correctly ready,
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler, No Franky Manzaz, Greg Holland, Shane Green, Felippe Vasquez,
Speaker 1: Kirby Yates. As Zack eflynet to him in a few moments,
Speaker 1: what what about Zach Eflyn getting we're getting warmer? Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to see what else you got. We're definitely
Speaker 1: getting warmer, all right, Blake Snell, Oh yeah, definitely dropping
Speaker 1: John Lester. M No, I can't drop John Lester. I'm
Speaker 1: saying I would more like, no, he's still you know,
Speaker 1: he's still John Lester, Lucas Gelida, I know, No, Aaron
Speaker 1: Sanchez's there's the one I would so that was it right,
Speaker 1: Probably it's Aaron Sanchez or Chris Archer. I would drop
Speaker 1: as much as I liked Aaron Sanche's coming into the year,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just dealing with another disaster here his
Speaker 1: walkspern or five point one right up there with Chris
Speaker 1: Archer dealing with another issue. Starting today against Boston. Art
Speaker 1: has a much better penny. Aaron se eight year, eight
Speaker 1: one five one whip screams out, that is rais about
Speaker 1: Aaron Sanchez on my bench today against Boston. And Greggy,
Speaker 1: you know you're the guy who will start anybody in
Speaker 1: a head to head categories league in the daily league,
Speaker 1: I just can'tnot. I can't stomake Aaron Sanchees against Boston.
Speaker 1: I would. I would be more prone to dropping hands.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting to the start tonight. See how good before?
Speaker 1: So if I had a good pitching team like like,
Speaker 1: if you have a good pitching team like that, where
Speaker 1: Archer's probably just wait on him. You probably just watch
Speaker 1: that moving together a starter two, then I would look
Speaker 1: into trading him. I agree, someone might buy that. I
Speaker 1: agree on a team like that. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: afford to wait on it, right, But I'm not putting
Speaker 1: him out my lineup. That's I'm benching it. Even in
Speaker 1: the daily league. I'm best right now. That's what I like.
Speaker 1: If you're the next starting starters, I gotta see something
Speaker 1: from Archer again before I put him back out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it in my god, put him in there.
Speaker 1: But you keep him on your bench. You have a
Speaker 1: great starting team. All your start is a good oil,
Speaker 1: clothes are good, and he's like your worst pitcher on
Speaker 1: your team. I just hold him there. Good point. On
Speaker 1: the other side of Chris Archers. Last night, I meing
Speaker 1: back into the game. Her mom mark has when eight
Speaker 1: innings allowed, three hits, struck out, seven, one walk. I
Speaker 1: be Leavi saw on Twitter, and I don't have in
Speaker 1: front of me and his ear a like away from
Speaker 1: course Field. This year it's like ridiculous, He's like too
Speaker 1: is ear right at course Field this year is like
Speaker 1: six it's two point zero eight roads, five three four
Speaker 1: at home all right, little less than six? Wow? But
Speaker 1: this yeah, this all you have to have for Chris
Speaker 1: what you really have to have I don't know if
Speaker 1: patience is the right word, but the ability to bench
Speaker 1: him in every home start and start him and everyway start,
Speaker 1: that's it. Well, I don't know if I ben from
Speaker 1: your road starts, you legitimately have like a top fifteen
Speaker 1: starting You have to be able to do what you have.
Speaker 1: You have to do that. And when he's this is
Speaker 1: how crazy it is when it comes to Colorado Rocky
Speaker 1: starting pitchers and everyone before the season, we love her
Speaker 1: Man Marque is still great. I mean, he's good, but
Speaker 1: do you love him to the point where starting? Okay?
Speaker 1: Having a picture like this, because when he's at home,
Speaker 1: he's like outside the top fifty starting pitchers, and when
Speaker 1: when he's on the road, he's a top fifteen start
Speaker 1: he has he has seven two sevent put it together,
Speaker 1: he's somewhere in the middle. He's like the top thirties,
Speaker 1: seventy two strikeouts, thirteen walks, one one one whip and
Speaker 1: at three three a d R. Right, how is that
Speaker 1: out of the top fifty pitchers. He's what he said,
Speaker 1: he said at home at home outside the top fifty
Speaker 1: starting pitchers and when he's on the road, he's a
Speaker 1: top fifteen starting right, but combined he's still a top
Speaker 1: twenty five pitcher. Yeah, top thirty, top twe yeah, probably
Speaker 1: in that range. So but that's what you got overall numbers,
Speaker 1: And I can't speak the overall numbers are good, but
Speaker 1: we just laid it out so blatant, blatantly that he
Speaker 1: sucks at home and is great on the road. I
Speaker 1: would still start him at home in the rights situation,
Speaker 1: Cisco San Diego, something like that. That's about it. But
Speaker 1: the rest of what you said is right, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't start him at home against the doctor will say this,
Speaker 1: His X five on the road is three point oh two.
Speaker 1: His X five at home three point three, which is
Speaker 1: very good. But we always we've said that for how long, Greg,
Speaker 1: Like you're always going to have better underlying numbers as
Speaker 1: a picture in college, dude, it's the John Gray effect
Speaker 1: without questions, John Gray, John Gray has good stuff. Like, dude,
Speaker 1: if you put John the San Francisco Giants, like that's something.
Speaker 1: If I were the Giants, I would actually look into
Speaker 1: do it, Like I don't think Garner, I'll give you
Speaker 1: Madison no, Yeah, Like I would actually go into like
Speaker 1: I would get John Gray. Like if I was a
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants, I would say, I'll give you bumb Garner,
Speaker 1: you give me John Gray and Garrett Hampson. Yeah, because honestly,
Speaker 1: like Ryan McMahon or like another right right, mel Tapia,
Speaker 1: you mean that in John Gray, I'll give you Madison
Speaker 1: By because they have a lot of bats that they
Speaker 1: could Oh well, oh you're what Colorado does not San Francisco.
Speaker 1: San Francisco needs everything. They needn't have anything. Like John
Speaker 1: Gray listened, he'd have a three point two. We are
Speaker 1: a probably on any other team got a four seven
Speaker 1: three right now, Like in San Francisco, he'd probably be
Speaker 1: like a three five r A pitcher seriously maybe better.
Speaker 1: He's got the stuff. But I mean, look, this comes
Speaker 1: with the territory of owning her mamork Like he's really talented.
Speaker 1: His X fit is three six six swinging strikes last
Speaker 1: night for her mamoriques out of a hundred and four pitchers,
Speaker 1: Like he's a he's a good picture, Like you just
Speaker 1: can't trust him at home. I mean the swinging strike
Speaker 1: create this year, the underlying numbers all three again, what
Speaker 1: I like to look at chase rate, first pitch strike percentage,
Speaker 1: swinging strike rate. Mamorikis is right in all of those.
Speaker 1: He he legit might be top ten among starting pitchers
Speaker 1: and all three of those categories. I gonna pull it
Speaker 1: up right now because I'm I'm intrigued by this. Is
Speaker 1: swinging strike right is twelve. Is first pitch strike percentage
Speaker 1: as a starting pitcher is ninth. Is oh swing His
Speaker 1: chase rate how often he gets opposing batters to chase
Speaker 1: pitches outside the strike zone is eighteen, So not quite
Speaker 1: top ten, but he's top twenty in three really important categories.
Speaker 1: Is a starting pitcher being able to stabbles the strike
Speaker 1: zone early accounts, getting swings and misses, and getting opposing
Speaker 1: batters to chase pitches. He's top twenty in all three
Speaker 1: of those. He's I'll go as far as to say
Speaker 1: that he is a really good starting pitcher. He's a
Speaker 1: douce shy of being a great starting It's a really
Speaker 1: good starting pitcher on a normal team. He's a deuce.
Speaker 1: You can't start him for half of his starts because
Speaker 1: of this Colorado. It's it's it's annoying. Really needs to
Speaker 1: move back there. I don't own him anywhere. They should
Speaker 1: change their whole stadium. That's what they should do, not
Speaker 1: even the stadium do I know it's not the stadium,
Speaker 1: but iron it's the air, right, But you could you
Speaker 1: can maybe deter that a little bit by first of all,
Speaker 1: the gaps are too big. Make the dimensions a little
Speaker 1: smaller for the gaps, and then you know, push the
Speaker 1: the fences back more a little more. It might affect it.
Speaker 1: It might deter it a little bit. Make these pictures
Speaker 1: at least, you know, show their true quality, because Marcus
Speaker 1: is so much better than what he what he is
Speaker 1: at home, Greg next start at home in course Field
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Orioles starting there. Yes, so everything we
Speaker 1: just said means nothing. This made me well you started
Speaker 1: them anyway, because it was two star weeks. I asked
Speaker 1: Venture about a rocky downstairs. I want to throw it
Speaker 1: to you. It's not a picture. It's David don Did
Speaker 1: I start Daviddal and this guy stakes? I really had
Speaker 1: your last night with David? And then she was like
Speaker 1: the Adventure was like, listen, the VP is good. This
Speaker 1: guy does nothing. You want to hear the most frustrating
Speaker 1: team in baseball Greg, I have David Doll on a team.
Speaker 1: I have Daniel Murphy on this team. I have Spencer Turnbull,
Speaker 1: have if Laurel Rodriguez. I just traded for Zach Wheeler,
Speaker 1: I have you Darvish. This team that I have in
Speaker 1: my home league is the most frustrating fantasy team that
Speaker 1: I have ever. And over the weekend, Greg, I actually
Speaker 1: sent out a few offers, and I realize I realized
Speaker 1: at the time of sending these offers that in a vacuum,
Speaker 1: I might be losing a little bit. And it's like
Speaker 1: outfielder for outfielder trades, So most fantasy owners are not
Speaker 1: gonna want to do these trades. I realized that. But
Speaker 1: I offered him straight up for Nicholas Castellanos and Doll. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the other fantasy owner said, no, I don't see
Speaker 1: that as outlandish. They're about me, No, yeah, like I
Speaker 1: don't play me. Like they're similar players, Like I can
Speaker 1: make the argument for either. Some people might look at
Speaker 1: David Donald say, oh, I want exposure to Colorado, but
Speaker 1: he still sits out some games against left handed hitching,
Speaker 1: and he strikes out a top He's striking out an
Speaker 1: absurd amount this year, so you wanted to ask me
Speaker 1: about David dal Greg, what do you want to ask me?
Speaker 1: Like what to do with him? Yes? What do I do? Hold?
Speaker 1: I mean it's not to the same Like, it's not
Speaker 1: like he's the hitter version of Chris Archer said that because,
Speaker 1: like the underlying numbers are still good batting average, but
Speaker 1: he's got three homers, six percent walk right, thirty four
Speaker 1: percent strikeout rate. He's hitting more round balls this year.
Speaker 1: The fly ball rate has gone down eleven percentage us
Speaker 1: any more line drives. So that's why you still see
Speaker 1: the batting averages as high as it is. Because badman
Speaker 1: is four thirty two butt line drive rate, and being
Speaker 1: a player who plays half his game in corpse field,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a high babbit right average is gonna
Speaker 1: be I don't. I've been trying to trade him, Greg,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to trade even losing. Even losing a trade,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to just trade David Dollar, Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: for players to play every day because in the Points League,
Speaker 1: I get so mad when my guys are sitting against
Speaker 1: left handed pitching. They're not playing games at home and
Speaker 1: course field when they're supposed to I offered Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: for Jonathan VR in a points league, and Vr is
Speaker 1: not like a great points league player, but he plays
Speaker 1: every day, so I offered it. Said, no, I can't
Speaker 1: blame people play. He plays a better position too, So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to trade them for similar
Speaker 1: players who at least play every day. But to this point,
Speaker 1: I've been unsuccessful, and you should You shouldn't be surprised though,
Speaker 1: because you're selling low. Kind of you're not. But what
Speaker 1: do I do? Just kid, So what do you do
Speaker 1: when you're in this position? Your hole just keep losing games,
Speaker 1: losing fantasy games? Well, you have it. Guys on the bench,
Speaker 1: you know, bench them, hold them. Daniel Murphy's on my bench.
Speaker 1: I don't know then. I mean I think you just
Speaker 1: got I think you gotta hold or I mean you
Speaker 1: could do what I'm trying to do, try and trade
Speaker 1: him for a player of similar value who at least
Speaker 1: plays every day. I've been unsuccessful. I think if you
Speaker 1: hold your own David dal upside, you can't drop him.
Speaker 1: When do we come back. We'll talk about the Mets,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Zach f Flyn. Let's talk a lot
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Speaker 1: Because Mr Manhattan he's the three eyed Raven. He's trying
Speaker 1: to be three eyed, but he's essentially Yeah, he's trying
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Speaker 1: I love that. It's amazing. Pick on the ones you love.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like it's like some say hey, how
Speaker 1: are you, and some say this is wrong, Like your
Speaker 1: your camera shot isn't straight, your table is not straight,
Speaker 1: your Twitter's not updates. Things like that. Yeah, I hate
Speaker 1: your shirt, Greg, stupid pants? Are your pants looking today? Pants?
Speaker 1: A normal? Where I look right? Where are my normal
Speaker 1: jeans today? Okay? Yeah, me too. We we're going boat shoose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: power my boat choose. I don't necessarily boy, yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't really strike me now, great patent leathers. We can
Speaker 1: we get Christ's shoes on your blas. I like those,
Speaker 1: by the way, those are Christina got him from me.
Speaker 1: Oh there we go. Looks nice? You like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you don't know what to do with your leg,
Speaker 1: like it's just dangling there you go. I mean you know,
Speaker 1: I mean what do you do? What do you want
Speaker 1: to do? Yeah, so we got boat shoes on this side.
Speaker 1: We got doors over there, and then in the corner
Speaker 1: just people are yelling at us. Yeah, we have people
Speaker 1: yelling at us. Well, we gotta get venture a pair
Speaker 1: of boat shoes so we could fit in. Yeah. Actually,
Speaker 1: so I was looking my closet over this weekend, so
Speaker 1: we I don't want new boat shooes like I got these,
Speaker 1: like these they like into the other pair. I like
Speaker 1: your brown and pink ones, so I have those. I
Speaker 1: haven't worn those yet this year. Have I yeah, I
Speaker 1: just saw you wearing them. Are you're right? I wore him.
Speaker 1: I wore him Monday, right, those those two and I
Speaker 1: got a red one. Well, I would argue you have
Speaker 1: too many boat shoes. I only yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: don't need them. I might have a pair. I don't
Speaker 1: think you do. You should probably buy those new sneakers
Speaker 1: what I need. Should buy those blinds that you wanted
Speaker 1: instead when you keep the sun out any new sneakers.
Speaker 1: I feel like sneakers are just much more comfortable, you know.
Speaker 1: Are they comfortable? Yeah? Man, Yeah, you can wear them
Speaker 1: with no socks. That's the thing. There's a comfortable Yeah.
Speaker 1: My feet sweat, so I can't do that. Wear socks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my feet terrible. You're not wearing some stuff in you.
Speaker 1: I try. That doesn't work. Four and after I do it,
Speaker 1: stinky feet suesmen. That's what we got going on at
Speaker 1: Get those things away from wearing socks. You're fine. Out
Speaker 1: of here. Dude, he's wearing wearing socks. Shows don't they
Speaker 1: like fall underneath your healing? Frustrating, It's really frustrating, very frustrating.
Speaker 1: Go to fix them all day. But he buy good ones.
Speaker 1: They're great. It's true. Stinky feet out of here, stinky Susman.
Speaker 1: That's not very nice, but it's true. Your feet sweating
Speaker 1: those things if you don't want to sucks. Greg. We
Speaker 1: have news, We have big news here. I hope you
Speaker 1: didn't go out and spend all your fab on Willie Calhoun?
Speaker 1: What what? Because he has landed on the injured list
Speaker 1: and who has been recalled the why know? Does she
Speaker 1: man hopefully will be better than Alex Smith? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a it's a very tall order to ask anybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, Alex hasn't really been doing much. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I picked them up because of you on the pit league,
Speaker 1: and so Smith goes on l No, he does not, Greg,
Speaker 1: they left quads strain man. That sucks. Do you have
Speaker 1: any al spots? No? Did you spend a lot of
Speaker 1: money on him? Nope? It always depends who it's four.
Speaker 1: I don't actually have anything harder to stash someone in
Speaker 1: a daily line up league where you think of Tyler Mallley,
Speaker 1: you need that spot. There you go, We'll drop Aaron
Speaker 1: Sanches before you drop Calhoun. Greg, you know my honestly,
Speaker 1: you know what? Honestly, I feel bad for Willie Calhoun,
Speaker 1: dude sucks. Like just when he comes off, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to rake. What are you have against? Willie Calhoun has
Speaker 1: probably got way more money than I do. He does,
Speaker 1: he does he playing then he's not making like great money.
Speaker 1: He's got the rookie con. He'srobably got more money that
Speaker 1: we do. He's making hundreds of that. He's probably got
Speaker 1: more money than all three of us combined. Not probably
Speaker 1: making like four something right, not yet, not yet, Like
Speaker 1: his signing bonus probably gave him enough. You got enough
Speaker 1: money to get braces, that's for sure. Traces. He's got
Speaker 1: the braces. He's got braces, right, did you guys see
Speaker 1: Ronald Lacuna was rocking the wild Thing glasses the other night. No,
Speaker 1: you wrote that the rundown he just sue home runs
Speaker 1: while wearing the wild Thing glasses. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was will these every night where the wild Thing glasses,
Speaker 1: Like maybe he can't see the ball. Maybe he was
Speaker 1: wearing them because apparently in San Francisco it was so
Speaker 1: windy right there on the water that it was affecting
Speaker 1: his vision. His contract. Willie Calhoun uh making five hundred
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars more than us. Yeah, I don't feel
Speaker 1: bad for him. That's fair. I mean, you know, he's hurt.
Speaker 1: I feel bad about that. About five hundred thirty thousand
Speaker 1: more than we make Greg. Yeah. Last, we'll just sit
Speaker 1: here and talk about Willie cow Last year he made
Speaker 1: five hundred forty five thousand dollars. He doesn't. Does he
Speaker 1: make that even if he's in the miners. Yeah, it's contract, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a rookie contracts contract. Okay, well, yeah, he was
Speaker 1: the top prospects. Things are going well. Other minor league
Speaker 1: like Tim Tebo makes like nothing. I'm changed. I don't
Speaker 1: feel that every team till either. Don't feel bad for
Speaker 1: him either, but I'm saying other minor leaguers were not
Speaker 1: really going to get a shot in the makings. He
Speaker 1: don't get paid a lot of money. Oh yeah, when
Speaker 1: you're a single a bullplayer and live off, it's miserable
Speaker 1: almost like you have to go in a bust and
Speaker 1: you're making like thirty thousand a year, Like it's like
Speaker 1: it's terrible. Yeah, you know, it's a rough road if
Speaker 1: you're not a top prospect. It is all right. So
Speaker 1: let's try my best to hold on to Willie Calhoun.
Speaker 1: But okay, I understand like it's it's hard to stash
Speaker 1: all these injured guys right now. My thought is that
Speaker 1: maybe I could replace him on the ile of us
Speaker 1: Andrews when he comes off the l which as soon.
Speaker 1: By the way, my under not looking so great after
Speaker 1: the top of the first innings, A's went of the
Speaker 1: first Yeah, get a little cushion from Manta. All right, well,
Speaker 1: you know not many people are actually anyway freakyns to
Speaker 1: throw in two pitches and there's a loowed what it right? Whatever? Um, okay,
Speaker 1: let me get back in the last night I mentioned
Speaker 1: Zach Efflyn. I want to get into Efflyn here, Efflyn
Speaker 1: faced off. It's Chicago Cubs and pitch relatively well. Six innings,
Speaker 1: six hits, four walks isn't good. Let me check out
Speaker 1: two only a lowed of one run, limited the damage.
Speaker 1: Gave you the quality start on the other side. Whose
Speaker 1: Quintana was fantastic? Kintana six innings, two hits, three walks,
Speaker 1: struck out four, allowed no runs over his one pitches
Speaker 1: in six innings. Jose Quintana really has turned back the clocks. Greg.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's back to be like he called
Speaker 1: this one Chicago White Sox version of Jose Kantana not
Speaker 1: getting a ton of strike it's not getting a ton
Speaker 1: of swinging strikes, but limiting the damage. Not walking that
Speaker 1: many guys. He's cut down the walks from last year.
Speaker 1: That was a huge issue for him. So I would
Speaker 1: take this version of Jose Kantana. I know last year,
Speaker 1: you know he was being drafted at the top twenty
Speaker 1: starting pitcher because when he got traded to the Cubs
Speaker 1: originally in that second half, I guess it would have
Speaker 1: been in at this point, he was striking out a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, but he was also walking a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. I'll take this version of Jose Kantana, which
Speaker 1: you know he's just limiting the damage. He's a quality
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. And I think these two pictures, Greg, I
Speaker 1: think that they're almost mirror images of each other. Greg,
Speaker 1: where they both don't get a lot of strikeouts, they
Speaker 1: do enough to limit damage there. You know, you depend
Speaker 1: on these guys for quality starts, but the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: for zac Eflyn, they're just not good. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna try and paint a picture that's not there.
Speaker 1: It's two point seven six e r A. He's got
Speaker 1: a four point zero to five a four point six
Speaker 1: seven x fit um. His first pit strike percentage is
Speaker 1: only se so he's got good command. He doesn't walk
Speaker 1: many guys per nine or under two, but yeah, he
Speaker 1: does allow fort fly balls and he pitches in citizens
Speaker 1: Bank So that's why you see the x fips so
Speaker 1: much higher, because they're saying that more home runs are
Speaker 1: gonna start to come. Given as many fly balls as
Speaker 1: he does, and he pitches the contact and he pitches
Speaker 1: in citizens Bank Park, that he's gonna start giving up
Speaker 1: more home runs and ultimately that's going to lead to
Speaker 1: a higher e r A. I still like Jose Cantana
Speaker 1: more than Z but I think that they're similar pictures. Okay,
Speaker 1: similarly you killing the zact Evelyn's hose a Kantana light.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that, I really am. I think I
Speaker 1: think that's a fair comp What do you think, Vetter,
Speaker 1: do you have any Flynn? You're right with him? I'm
Speaker 1: a right with him because obviously he's doing well, but
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't. Yeah, I'd take that a little
Speaker 1: bit with a grain of salt. Like you said, I
Speaker 1: think you know works days are coming Quintana. I trust Listen.
Speaker 1: Quintana was but wasn't himself last year on the on
Speaker 1: the Cubs, but every single year before that, it was
Speaker 1: a good year. Even his r A was four and five.
Speaker 1: But you know he had a d his pitch. He
Speaker 1: had two hundred and seven strikeouts, a hundred seventy hits.
Speaker 1: Again like he was quality. You know, he gave you
Speaker 1: quality innings. Uh, and he that's what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: I don't think he at the beginning of the season
Speaker 1: when he was getting rocked, I was worried a little
Speaker 1: bit that maybe his time has passed. But he's clearly
Speaker 1: corrected that. Maybe the strikeouts aren't the same as they
Speaker 1: used to be. But he's still almost a caper not printing.
Speaker 1: So you know, you're getting pretty much what you wanted
Speaker 1: at a Quintana right now. And you know he turned
Speaker 1: it around since the beginning of the season. I would
Speaker 1: absolutely take Quentana of f flyn. I trust him more,
Speaker 1: That's what I would say. In the swinging strike rate
Speaker 1: for Jose Quintana, the highest it's ever been in his career.
Speaker 1: It's ten percent. It's still not great. He's never a
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna get a ton of right. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like I think his ten per cent to be strike
Speaker 1: rate could be could correlate with a you know eight
Speaker 1: eight and a half case per nine and the walks
Speaker 1: t down. This year, he's got a fifty point six
Speaker 1: percent groundball rate. So the few starts that I've watched
Speaker 1: from him, he's keeping the ball down, a lot of
Speaker 1: his pitches down, and he's inducing a lot of groundballs,
Speaker 1: which has been really good for him. In the underlying numbers,
Speaker 1: you got a three three oh e r A three
Speaker 1: seven three fit three five x fit one point to
Speaker 1: to whip beautiful, perfectly fine with that. You know, when
Speaker 1: we had Nick Pollock on Pitcherless Greg, he called Jose
Speaker 1: Kanana a Toby. He's at the office. You know, he's boring.
Speaker 1: What does he bring to the table. But this is fine.
Speaker 1: Boring is good. Don't try and do anything like, don't
Speaker 1: try and do too much. Jose Kitana's hanging for Zac Efflin.
Speaker 1: If if these guys are Toby's, if they're boring, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't want them to try and you know, get
Speaker 1: get outside their comfort zone. Last year, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: that's something he was trying to do trying to you know,
Speaker 1: induce too many strikeouts and ends up walking the world
Speaker 1: and clearly didn't have his command and fix that over
Speaker 1: the second half of the season with something mechanically. And
Speaker 1: that's why I was on Jose Katana. There was more
Speaker 1: of a track record of him being a quality picture
Speaker 1: venturer than there was of him being not. Absolutely, his
Speaker 1: career is really solid. If you look at his career
Speaker 1: and numbers for your career, beautiful, perfectly fine. I'll take that.
Speaker 1: Not to mention he's a lefty, which is hard to
Speaker 1: come by quality lefties that are consistent. And you know what,
Speaker 1: he's helped the Cubs. The Cubs are in first place
Speaker 1: eighteen so him turning around from his you know, really
Speaker 1: bad start earlier in the season has helped the Cubs,
Speaker 1: and the Cubs themself, a lot of them have turned
Speaker 1: it around. Maybe even Darish Darvish is starting to turn
Speaker 1: it around. Maybe not, let's hope. So, yeah, it's you.
Speaker 1: It's the solid starts in a row. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what I would say, don't hold your breath, don't
Speaker 1: hold your breath. But Hamiles has been you know, consistent.
Speaker 1: You know when you mentioned the Cubs were in first place.
Speaker 1: I realized that I very rarely look at standings. I
Speaker 1: just look at like fantasy numbers and in the actual great,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything that's going on with anything. So
Speaker 1: let's just be honest. They're like, I don't know anything
Speaker 1: that's going on with anything. You know, the players? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, like you know, fantasy numbers and stuff and
Speaker 1: how players are performing. But like, but it's crazy that
Speaker 1: the Cubs are in first I didn't know that the Dodgers, Astros,
Speaker 1: and Twins all have the best records in baseball. Do
Speaker 1: you know who's in the last in the Al West?
Speaker 1: Um the team that started the best. Wow, it's been
Speaker 1: quite the fall from ace for the Seattle Mariner'sgredy. That's
Speaker 1: Big four. That's bad. You know. We talk about the
Speaker 1: Royals and like how fun their offenses. They're terrible sixteen
Speaker 1: thirty one and they have no pitching. Good, No, Frank,
Speaker 1: they're awful. Baltimore fifteen and thirty three, we can talk
Speaker 1: about right now. Fourteen and thirty one. Dude, I watched
Speaker 1: I watched Baltimore this week because basically Egges joke how
Speaker 1: we got swept by them early in the season. I
Speaker 1: don't know the Eges wearing the right mind, but like
Speaker 1: hems a joke, they're the worst. David Hale, it's four
Speaker 1: innings yesterday for the Yankees. Oh David Hale. Yes, they
Speaker 1: were talking about the Orioles. But I think David Hess
Speaker 1: you know David insert last name, it starts winning h
Speaker 1: in his four level letters. He had nine runs yesterday,
Speaker 1: the Yankees nine runs? What do you expect? Greg? Including
Speaker 1: two bombs by Clint Fraser spoke about yesterday. Man, it's
Speaker 1: getting right. All the Eggies home runs against the Orio
Speaker 1: glabor and leave like ten Gary Sanchez, what do you
Speaker 1: think the over under in these games is going to
Speaker 1: be this weekend? It's the Rockies against the Orioles in
Speaker 1: Coors Field. It could be like eleven and a half
Speaker 1: and rightfully, so what's gonna happen in those games? Venture
Speaker 1: the Orioles might not score away? Yeah, a home run yesterday?
Speaker 1: Someone I picked up in the main event, my guy
Speaker 1: Stevie Wilkerson, Greggy, you know Homeron nicked him up in
Speaker 1: the main event? Is he started him? And three run bomb?
Speaker 1: Is he related to Brad Wilderson? X player can't tell
Speaker 1: you but you know, just talking about Yankees for a
Speaker 1: second here, Clint Fraser, we needed we needed this. We
Speaker 1: needed this from Clint Fraser. I mean the Yankees needed
Speaker 1: this from him. Fancy owners needed to see this from him,
Speaker 1: sort of the scouts that were there, by the way,
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giant scouts or in attendance for this game,
Speaker 1: as were the Detroit Tiger scouts. Where the Tiger scouts
Speaker 1: maybe the bulls available? Really like, what what are the
Speaker 1: what are the Tigers have? Actually tigers? I'm sorry it
Speaker 1: was the pirates. Pirates they're ready to Chris Archer will
Speaker 1: not be in pitch stripes. I'll tell you that right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: who do they so the Pirates? Who are the I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. They weren't scouting any of the Orioles players.
Speaker 1: It's oh, I got who else would be available for
Speaker 1: the for the Yankees. I guess maybe maybe in stripes
Speaker 1: he get bombed in pinch strips. Stop you get bombed
Speaker 1: in the A L. Stopping He's in a good area.
Speaker 1: Now pinch the contact, all right. You know. Originally in
Speaker 1: the year Greg I said I wanted the Yankees to
Speaker 1: target jameson Town. I mean, given everything that's going on
Speaker 1: with him. I don't really want that anymore. Well, he's
Speaker 1: on the island. I don't really know that there's anyone else,
Speaker 1: some on the pirates that I would want the Yankees,
Speaker 1: But I guess you can fleece them, right, because the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay ray certainly did. They got glass now and
Speaker 1: they got we could get and more and more. What
Speaker 1: a trade for the Tampa Bay Rays? Man, Maybe we
Speaker 1: get Josh Bell. No, they wouldn't do that. Maybe they
Speaker 1: would bump Garner and pitch dripes. Craig, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to do that. You don't want that, Hey,
Speaker 1: Bummy's pitching well this year, Greggy, that's not a bad,
Speaker 1: uh four or five stature. They would be depending on
Speaker 1: him to be like their two or three. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You you'd probably have three. You'd have to give up
Speaker 1: Clint Fraser. I saw you did that one for one.
Speaker 1: It was like a Bleacher Report article putting together the
Speaker 1: best trade packages for Madison bumb Garner, and they had
Speaker 1: the Yankees giving up Chance Adams and Sevan Florio. You
Speaker 1: do one for one, Clint Fraser? Four? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Giants would do that because
Speaker 1: they have so many holes. Like I would just rather
Speaker 1: take shots on give me like three, give me one
Speaker 1: really good prospect and give me too like lower level.
Speaker 1: I just need to take shots because the Giants have
Speaker 1: to build their farm system. It's so bad. Would you
Speaker 1: give up estim On floriale Greg to get Bump Guarner.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would want the Yankees to give
Speaker 1: up Floria. No, I don't get that you have to
Speaker 1: give something to get something I really wanted. I mean, no,
Speaker 1: one's a touchable form, not as bump guard. I gotta
Speaker 1: look more into Bummy. So again the Bleach Report, Fraide
Speaker 1: was Floorial and Chance Adams and like another lower level
Speaker 1: prospect for knocking a Frasier that deal. No, you're not
Speaker 1: like another prospect for prospect. It was like a lower
Speaker 1: level Garcia or anything. Yeah, you would do that. Are
Speaker 1: you surprised that Chance Adams hasn't had been given more
Speaker 1: of an opportunity Greg the major league level? No? Not
Speaker 1: all right, So we'll see what happens with Clint Frasier
Speaker 1: obviously in a really good spot with the Yankees. But
Speaker 1: if you were to go to San Francisco, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: There's a good chance that he gets traded. Obviously, he's
Speaker 1: a huge piece and the Yankees, you know, when everything's
Speaker 1: going right, they do have a lot of outfit. Have
Speaker 1: Higgs to have right, he got out of it, Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: So we need to see this from Clint Fraser. There's
Speaker 1: a chance that he gets traded, but looks like he's
Speaker 1: a starting to turn around again. Greg, it's like a break.
Speaker 1: Stanton got hurt. We gotta talk about that too. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: What's up with him? Frank? That is a fabulous question, Greg.
Speaker 1: And he was originally in the lineup yesterday for the
Speaker 1: Single A or high A club whatever he's been rehabbing with,
Speaker 1: and then when the lineup came out later on, he
Speaker 1: was scratched. And it's because he's dealing with half tightness
Speaker 1: um which has also somehow morphed into something with his
Speaker 1: knee because he got hit by a pitch, Greg, during
Speaker 1: batting practice. Are you kidding me? I mean, for somebody
Speaker 1: who has built like Hercules, Greg, I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: is so goddamn How can you be so brittle? You're
Speaker 1: built like Hercules. You get hit by a batting practice
Speaker 1: pitch on your calf and now you're dealing with a
Speaker 1: calf in a Yeah, but you have you hear the
Speaker 1: old saying the bigger they are the hot day fall.
Speaker 1: That's the truth. Oh my god, that's what it is, man, Greg.
Speaker 1: Is he ever coming back? I don't know, Man? Is
Speaker 1: he being a lattup tonight? That's the first question? Oh God?
Speaker 1: But think you try to see. I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: has the answer right now. Would just be pure speculation,
Speaker 1: but he probably wouldn't even hit if he was back
Speaker 1: anyway for like a good month. Correct, he's dealing with
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. Well, to be fair, like the first
Speaker 1: at bat he saw in rehab, he hit a bomb
Speaker 1: was single. But you know he does like normally his
Speaker 1: home runs are four fiftt So it turns out like
Speaker 1: he's hitting the ball like four feet. It's probably still
Speaker 1: gonna go out right. You just have otherworldly power, but
Speaker 1: he'll probably look if I'm a standing owner, which I
Speaker 1: traded him in one league for Zach Wheeler, and I
Speaker 1: don't regret trading him. Um, nope, I'm gonna I'm gonna see.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold on here. I'm gonna you've waited this long.
Speaker 1: I think that's what it comes down to. You've waited
Speaker 1: this long he's rehabbing. Unless it turns out now he's
Speaker 1: shut down for another two weeks because of calf um.
Speaker 1: More often than not, you're not gonna get fair value
Speaker 1: for him. Like if you if you need pitching, if
Speaker 1: you need to win now, and you keep sliding down
Speaker 1: the standing, I understand shopping him, but you've waited this long,
Speaker 1: I'd probably try and hold on venture. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: what else can you do with it? You can't drop him,
Speaker 1: you can't. You know, you're only gonna trade him if
Speaker 1: you need pitching. But he does have name value and
Speaker 1: he plays for the Yankees, so I was still able
Speaker 1: to get Zach Wheeler for him. I was actually kind
Speaker 1: of surprised because he's coming back, because he came back
Speaker 1: soon after. That's the person I was trying to trade
Speaker 1: with said, I needed to see a timetable for him
Speaker 1: first before a trade Wheeler, or I need to see
Speaker 1: like a rehab. So once that was announced over the weekend,
Speaker 1: we were able to make the trade happen. And I
Speaker 1: think he did the right thing because if you wait
Speaker 1: too long now let's let's say it does say, oh,
Speaker 1: well he's gonna be out for another you know, two
Speaker 1: or three weeks or a month, it's like now his
Speaker 1: value just plummeted again, and now you can't get his
Speaker 1: Zach wheel off him. And we spoke about that a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. I said, we were at a crossroad
Speaker 1: where you can trade standing now based off his trade
Speaker 1: value and just get something, or he could be shut
Speaker 1: down for even longer and then that hurts his value.
Speaker 1: So we we kind of addressed that a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and his value is just going down anyway because all
Speaker 1: these different injuries are coming up. He's got a shoulder
Speaker 1: and by seven it's it's like we're holding this guy
Speaker 1: together with Scott's tape. So who wants that on that team?
Speaker 1: A glass a glass player, nobody wants. Well, so the
Speaker 1: guy traded with was six and one in my league,
Speaker 1: so he can afford to wait, I was, you know,
Speaker 1: three and four, so I gotta I had to make
Speaker 1: a move crushed. Oh well, ye standing to help who.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to David Dall's fault. It's Daniel Murphens.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the Metropolitans who defeated and that's
Speaker 1: again last night, beating him six to five, Peter Alonso again,
Speaker 1: frank four foot bomb to tie the game in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the eighth inning. It was Alonso's sixteenth home
Speaker 1: run of the season. Guys, just absolutely ridiculous. Greg, And
Speaker 1: you know, they're actually doing second chance drafts this weekend
Speaker 1: on the NFBC that you can jump in if if
Speaker 1: you want to get into, like if you're in thirteen, fourteen,
Speaker 1: fifteen place in EUROTA League and you want to play
Speaker 1: a league out from June one on. They're doing drafts
Speaker 1: this weekend. Actually like that some Memorial Day drafts that
Speaker 1: play out from June one on. And Rob Silver brought
Speaker 1: this up on Twitter. Where do you think Pete Alonso
Speaker 1: is gonna go? Because I think he's like the secondly
Speaker 1: interesting player second league team draft and he had a poll.
Speaker 1: I think there was like third and fourth round was
Speaker 1: an option, and I think that's what I clicked. I
Speaker 1: would have said third and fourth third was verse think
Speaker 1: the key in my mind, but I mean deservedly so.
Speaker 1: Everything he's doing right now, like the batting average has
Speaker 1: come down a little bit, but that's power is one.
Speaker 1: This is what you expected anyway to sixty, Like, I'll
Speaker 1: take two sixty with that of the year. Peter Alonzo, Yeah,
Speaker 1: looking pretty good, Gred you know, I think right, I
Speaker 1: think you know both guys. Hey, we just had Paddick
Speaker 1: versus Alonzo, what was it last week? Two weeks and
Speaker 1: that was you know, that might be foreshadowing of what's
Speaker 1: to come from the rookie of the years. Absolutely what
Speaker 1: goes on there. Zach Wheeler in this one went seven
Speaker 1: in things allowed three runs walked to struck out six
Speaker 1: four hits. The big bombs allowed by Zach Wheeler a
Speaker 1: home run to one Soto in the first of a
Speaker 1: solo shot was a bomb by the way, and then
Speaker 1: the seventh inning a two run shot by Brian Doser
Speaker 1: also a bomb. Yeah, so I referenced this early on.
Speaker 1: I thought Mickey Callaway was just trying to get a
Speaker 1: little bit too cute. Zach Wheeler was pitches through six.
Speaker 1: I get starting him off that ending, but once someone
Speaker 1: reached I probably would have pulled him. And with Zach
Speaker 1: Wheeler like this is someone who typically struggles with the Nationals,
Speaker 1: and I just thought that they were trying to get
Speaker 1: a little bit too cute greg and if they push him,
Speaker 1: you know, close to that threshold. And yeah, he still pitched. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I needed to see this from him. Seven innings, three
Speaker 1: on and run, six strikeouts gives you the quality start.
Speaker 1: The solid start also had eleven swinging strikes on a
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen pitches. So the Nationals are our gae team.
Speaker 1: They don't strike out all that much, so I thought
Speaker 1: it was It was a good bounce back here for Zacchueler,
Speaker 1: who has been getting bombed against the Nationals over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. You know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to throw a J. D. Davis Gregg. He's a name
Speaker 1: that you know, everyone's talking about stashing prospects. If we're stashing,
Speaker 1: if you play in a deeper league and you have
Speaker 1: the ability to stash a hitter who if he were
Speaker 1: given everyday playing time, would be awesome. I think J. D.
Speaker 1: Davis is on the top of that list, Greg. His
Speaker 1: stat cast numbers this year are phenomenal. He's got a
Speaker 1: two eight three batting average, but an expected batting average
Speaker 1: of three twenty average eggs of last one miles per
Speaker 1: hour hard hit rate UM. He's played very limited time
Speaker 1: this year, thirty nine games, and still has five home runs.
Speaker 1: If they were able to just pull the cord on
Speaker 1: Todd Frasier and give J. D. Davis every day playing time, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think this is a guy that can make some noise.
Speaker 1: But they have to pull that plug on a Frasier
Speaker 1: and or or one of their outfielers because he could
Speaker 1: play a corner outfield position and never got hurt last night. Right,
Speaker 1: never got hurt last night, I thought, and Fraser stinks.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, that he had back in April.
Speaker 1: He said it never properly healed. That's bad, just like
Speaker 1: the thing you don't like, So they don't. They had
Speaker 1: McNeil yesterday in left field and wand Legarison center and
Speaker 1: Carlos Gomezen. Right, Oh man, why don't we like J. D.
Speaker 1: David's play every day? Right? Because he's awful fielder? Well,
Speaker 1: we have the Mets ever cared about defense, Greg But
Speaker 1: Todd Fraser, will you just put your best lineup together?
Speaker 1: Todd Frasier is awful. He shouldn't be start six. He
Speaker 1: bats fit for the New York Mets. That's terrible, Todd,
Speaker 1: Like he can't play? Why he's horrible for years? We
Speaker 1: just heard you chime in a little bit on on
Speaker 1: Brandon Nimo. Do you think as a Mets fan that J. D.
Speaker 1: Davis should have an opportunity to play every single day?
Speaker 1: Because I think that he's earned that opportunity he ad
Speaker 1: percent has, especially with the limited playing time, the fact
Speaker 1: that he's still producing like this, because you know how
Speaker 1: hitters are, they need to get in a really exactly,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's still producing after all this time. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else they need to see. Rody
Speaker 1: van Wagenen said in in the off season when he
Speaker 1: took the job that they're going to get their best
Speaker 1: guys and play their best guys. But that hasn't been
Speaker 1: the case. Nemo has been terrible. I mean, Frasier is
Speaker 1: awful as well. I just I mean. J. D. Davis
Speaker 1: should be the every day third base. There's no excuse
Speaker 1: for it, third basement or right field, like I know,
Speaker 1: but man, he if he's been at defense, you don't
Speaker 1: want him playing right field. I mean even third base.
Speaker 1: You might be able to get away with it because
Speaker 1: the bat is that good. Fraser is just so bad
Speaker 1: he can't be starting. He's such a bad bat. The
Speaker 1: Braves had Austin Riley played five games in the outfield
Speaker 1: in the minors, and he's playing every day in the outfield.
Speaker 1: You're telling me the Mets, who have never cared about defense,
Speaker 1: can't let J. D. Davis play in right field instead
Speaker 1: of Carlos Gomez. They used to play Lucas Douda in
Speaker 1: left field when he came up. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: understand why he can't put J. D. Davis there. It
Speaker 1: makes no sense. They're playing cold mezts but honestly rather
Speaker 1: stock than Todd Fraser. The reason freak and I think
Speaker 1: your poison. The reason Freak and I gave ourselves a
Speaker 1: high five moment ago. I don't even know why. Oh
Speaker 1: Kessing hero and move, Oh let's go Kestinghira your boy,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I really wanted the Calhouna to
Speaker 1: the weekend, and we were both kind of disappointed that
Speaker 1: we over Willie Calhoun. Not disappointed anymore, certainly not today.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you don't believe not a Kesting hero guy. Dude,
Speaker 1: I saw people don't see it the side by side
Speaker 1: with his with his batting stance and Mike Trout's. Oh stu.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, if there's anyone that you're gonna try
Speaker 1: and model your offensive game after, of course, why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you do it after Mike Trout. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: he's Mike Trout that, but I mean there are similarities
Speaker 1: in the swing. I could see that. But he's not
Speaker 1: gonna obviously be that guy. What are you reigning on
Speaker 1: Kessing here as parade venture? Come on, I don't know,
Speaker 1: he's just at his second homer. I feel like he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be He's gonna be a good baseball player,
Speaker 1: but not a good fantasy player. He's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those guys. It was awf of Luis Caste. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive, Like he'll he'll a good average, he'll
Speaker 1: do everything above average, but nothing extremely well. Like at
Speaker 1: thirteen Homers he'll let you know, he'll still maybe ten bags.
Speaker 1: And you're talking, I mean that might be he might
Speaker 1: be able to do that this year. I agree, kind
Speaker 1: of expecting that this year, you're expecting that. I think
Speaker 1: I think in his prime venture he might be a
Speaker 1: three hundred hitter. Okay, let's say, let's say Clu Likeayer, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Homer's maybe grows into the power a little maybe
Speaker 1: like fifteen stolen basis. That's fine. I say stolen bases
Speaker 1: is his max to me max just because he's a
Speaker 1: smaller dude, hold two bays, A small dude. I know,
Speaker 1: obviously power girl and I say this all the time,
Speaker 1: and I believe in those guys with the power girls
Speaker 1: within the guy who gets older. But I just don't
Speaker 1: see this guy being that type of hitter his whole career.
Speaker 1: And I hate to say it, but like hitters that
Speaker 1: come from Asia, usually and play a lot a lot
Speaker 1: of their career in Asia. Don't tend to swing for fences.
Speaker 1: They tend to swing for contact. They tend to try
Speaker 1: the fences. Honestly, that's American. Well, I mean, he's of
Speaker 1: Asian descent, but he's American. He hasn't played that long
Speaker 1: in the minors. He was he went. He's Californian, I mean,
Speaker 1: but he's still an Asian player. He might have went
Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole here a Ventra maybe. So he's
Speaker 1: half and he's half Chinese half Japanese, but like he's not.
Speaker 1: Like he didn't play Japanese baseball, so he didn't play.
Speaker 1: He's American. Wins. You see Irvine the college bass baseball,
Speaker 1: and ye're in California. He was born in California. But
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just don't think that this is
Speaker 1: that type of player. Like it doesn't matter that he
Speaker 1: didn't play in Asia. But he's not gonna I'm not doing.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be that type of player.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a like Max twenty homes
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, twenty homes Max not this year either,
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be on him this year. Yeah. Look, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: these prospects can go multiple directions. It's it's very hard.
Speaker 1: I believe he can hit for average or any prospects.
Speaker 1: I also don't think. I also don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a super high o b P. In terms of walking,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna walk a ton. Well, he
Speaker 1: was a three sixteen hitter in the miners in his career.
Speaker 1: He right pretty good. Eight o b P compared to
Speaker 1: three sixteen total. Yeah, sixty five points higher than his
Speaker 1: batting average. I mean, so he played a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: three games and only walk thirty six times. That's not terrible,
Speaker 1: but it's not great. It's okay. His walk rates have
Speaker 1: ranged from six point one percent to ten point two
Speaker 1: percent in the miners. So if he settles in somewhere
Speaker 1: like a seven eight percent walk right, that's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: so far, he's only three percent walk right in the majors.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't know if I
Speaker 1: I see it yet. I need more time. I need
Speaker 1: to let him. He needs to grow on me anything. Hey,
Speaker 1: you don't have to love that, Like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: pick him up now. You know, fifteen teamers maybe for
Speaker 1: the average in a row. Thought a couple of steals
Speaker 1: here and there. I say, fifteen teams may have to
Speaker 1: agree on the same teamers, maybe twelve team leagues. Absolutely
Speaker 1: on the upside. Milwaukee Brewers. He's Bettingwa Brewers. He realized
Speaker 1: how good this guy is. I know what he's done.
Speaker 1: He got a three thirty with eleven homers in twenty
Speaker 1: in thirty five games. And the miners this year and
Speaker 1: he Batson Miller Park, that's his home park, so twenty
Speaker 1: three runs scored. He's oh, he's over four hundred of
Speaker 1: the miners is here well, but he hasn't. Really that's
Speaker 1: a small sample size. Okay. The year before he hated
Speaker 1: to seventy in Double A with uh six homers eleven
Speaker 1: still in bases. Earlier in the year he had seven
Speaker 1: more homers and four still bases. He went thirteen fifteen
Speaker 1: in the minor league season. Last thirteen homers, fifteen stolen
Speaker 1: basis right, eleven quot stealing like I just old though, yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty one years old. But that's the miners. Also. You know,
Speaker 1: usually first of all, you play less games, but you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily translate minor league numbers two major league numbers
Speaker 1: right away. First of all, it's impossible to project prospects
Speaker 1: right Lindor was regarded as a defensive defense first player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look what he developed into. Well, nobody thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna be a thirty He had a ton of
Speaker 1: speed in the miners, so they knew he was gonna
Speaker 1: stot he was gonna be a thirty five home right
Speaker 1: hitter in the major Right. The power is the hardest
Speaker 1: thing to figure out because in the minors a guy
Speaker 1: is just younger. He doesn't he hasn't filled out yet.
Speaker 1: So maybe he that's the thing. Maybe he could develop one.
Speaker 1: But fifteen stone basis eleven quart stealing isn't very good either. No, no,
Speaker 1: you don't. You want to see better efficiency than that
Speaker 1: at the minor league level. So maybe I was a
Speaker 1: little ambitious with the stone base. Maybe he's more like
Speaker 1: a ten soul and base guy. But I think he's
Speaker 1: someone that could hit for good batting average, And why
Speaker 1: the OTO more than I do? Maybe points leaks. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he'll he'll give you the points you
Speaker 1: want in points leak. Right now, he's only averaging two
Speaker 1: point four and points like, yeah, he just came up,
Speaker 1: so obviously you know that could go up. But I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be more than a three point three
Speaker 1: guy or three point two Gregy Frankie Montas in a
Speaker 1: little bit of trouble here is second and third with
Speaker 1: Frankie Lindor at the dishes full count two outs. The
Speaker 1: runners will be on the run and it will not
Speaker 1: be its second and third on the run. Frankie struggling
Speaker 1: here a little bit. So it's my my verse, Frankie,
Speaker 1: So it's my under in this game. That's also an issue.
Speaker 1: Re zip Y Rodriguez not getting the job might be
Speaker 1: more in a moment, right what I gonna find out?
Speaker 1: You will know what, listen. I just want the quality
Speaker 1: start your fantasy best bet forever. I like Martin Perez
Speaker 1: night and the Twins money line. I also like are
Speaker 1: laying together the Astros to win and the Braves money
Speaker 1: line as well, Braves Giants under seven and a half
Speaker 1: for Chris Franklin. I am Greg, have a great night.
Speaker 1: We'll do it all gonnamorrow, we hope.