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Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Stanfell.
Speaker 1: I am Greg salesman. Frank, what's about reggae? How's everything going? Happy?
Speaker 1: Thursday to Thursday? That means the week is almost over,
Speaker 1: Greggy excited the weekend? Memorial Day it is? It is,
Speaker 1: in fact Memorial Day weekend. Very excited to get started
Speaker 1: with you and very very excited to get everything under way.
Speaker 1: I'm also excited to be joined as we are reaching
Speaker 1: every Thursday. But the Man show off, it's Brad Ziegler.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Bred? Not a lot guys, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? Not much, man, I'm doing well. I feel good.
Speaker 1: How Brad, how did you sleep last night? Uh? Decent.
Speaker 1: We We've had a pretty pretty strong series of thunderstorms
Speaker 1: coming through the Midwest, so uh. Sometimes the nights are
Speaker 1: a little little dicey, little loud um loud thunder the
Speaker 1: dogs get nervous, kids getting nervous. But other than that,
Speaker 1: all good night. I slept well. I was I was
Speaker 1: out like like Greg. I went out for dinner last
Speaker 1: and not last night. I told you about that. Went
Speaker 1: to a Mexican restaurant, drank a margarita tower. Sounds delicious.
Speaker 1: Hundred ounces of margarita. You king by yourself? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you have to have four people with you in order
Speaker 1: in order to get it done. How much of it
Speaker 1: did you did? You drink? Probably like three or four
Speaker 1: glasses raspberry margarita? Love it sounds great. I had a rasper.
Speaker 1: I slept very well. I had a raspberry yogurt this morning.
Speaker 1: That's gross. Sorry, very nice, Brad. Do you like yogurt?
Speaker 1: I like yogurt, but I am not a raspberry fan
Speaker 1: at all, so I would I would definitely pass on
Speaker 1: that one. That's a mistake by you, and both of
Speaker 1: you really yogurt. It's good for you. It gets the
Speaker 1: body working, the stomach working. It's like it's almost like
Speaker 1: a probiotic. Well, it also tastes gross. Sorry, Greg, it's fine.
Speaker 1: It's just a bacon, egg and cheese. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: do most people. Most people do. All right, let's not
Speaker 1: let's get into today's show. We only have Brad obviously
Speaker 1: for a little while, and I want to start with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. I'm gonna start with Giancarlos Stanton because this
Speaker 1: is ridiculous already. And I know we're I'm a Yankee
Speaker 1: fan and frankst fan. I know we're fantasy players, and
Speaker 1: gian Carlos Stanton on a team that's in second place,
Speaker 1: we want to get to first, and we really standing back.
Speaker 1: But Brad, this is really ridiculous at this point where
Speaker 1: he has a strained bicep, which is okay, fine, he'll
Speaker 1: be back in about three weeks, all good. That turns
Speaker 1: into a quarter zone shot in his shoulder, which has
Speaker 1: been significantly bothering him going back to his days in
Speaker 1: Miami when you played together. Fine, but although it was
Speaker 1: very weird, the Yankees didn't reveal anything about this at all. Well,
Speaker 1: he was going on a minorlygu really have assignment. First game,
Speaker 1: hits a home run, talks to reporters after the game.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good, ready to d h tomorrow. I'll be
Speaker 1: back in no time. He's gotta get my bats under me. Fantastic.
Speaker 1: This isn't the word to anybody there. The next day
Speaker 1: he had a little bit of calf tightness, what from
Speaker 1: a hit he was hit by a pitch in batting
Speaker 1: practice on the calf muscle. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: that works because your legs. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: the ball is going to get to the I don't
Speaker 1: know how that works. I don't even know if I
Speaker 1: believe it. So fine, all good until he's scratched from
Speaker 1: the lineup that night. Next day. Yeah, he should be
Speaker 1: ready to go, should be back in their d h
Speaker 1: NG right on schedule, until he's pulled off the rehab
Speaker 1: assignment because he has a strained calf muscle from a
Speaker 1: hit by a pitch. Now, Aaron Boone, the manager, was asked,
Speaker 1: how do you strain your calf muscle from being hit
Speaker 1: by a pitch in batting practice. Aaron Boone responds, I
Speaker 1: have no idea, but he is. What do you make
Speaker 1: of all of this? Well, the biggest thing I mentioned
Speaker 1: this before. When a guy gets hit with a pitch,
Speaker 1: it weakens the muscles in that area. Um, even if
Speaker 1: it's batting practice. You know, the guy throwing sixty, it's
Speaker 1: not you know, not a huge deal. You don't think
Speaker 1: of that much of it. But if he gets hit
Speaker 1: square in the muscle, you know, it's probably gonna bruise,
Speaker 1: it's gonna weaken that muscle a little bit, and it
Speaker 1: just becomes tighter naturally. And you're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who's already a massive human being. I mean he's six seven,
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred fifty pounds and just chiseled. At
Speaker 1: that point, he is very muscle bound. He um, his
Speaker 1: he needs everything to to be functioning properly because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the room for error that us guys with
Speaker 1: a little pudge have. Um, everything's gotta be going going,
Speaker 1: just smooth and and so um. When when you get
Speaker 1: a little nick here and there, his his body will
Speaker 1: react differently than it does to the average human being.
Speaker 1: And and because of that, um, you know it it
Speaker 1: lends itself to to you know, higher volatility for injury
Speaker 1: injury likelihood. Yeah, so he is jacked up, unlike our
Speaker 1: little pudge. Let you, Brad, we we have the pudge.
Speaker 1: You're you're, you're. He's clearly um. But well when it
Speaker 1: comes to stand I know, Frank, your question was, can
Speaker 1: you've too chat? Yeah? Is that a real thing? I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy has built like Hercules, Brad. And there was
Speaker 1: an article earlier on in the season, it might have
Speaker 1: been the Post or the Daily News, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and they said, well, the reason why Babe Ruth never
Speaker 1: got hurt was because he was just a fat guy
Speaker 1: whoad hot dogs and drank beer. And is there any
Speaker 1: truth to like being too muscular for baseball? Is that
Speaker 1: that even a thing? Is that real? I definitely think so,
Speaker 1: and I think it can be real, not only in
Speaker 1: baseball but in all sports. I mean, look at look
Speaker 1: at how many non contact injuries happen in football because
Speaker 1: the body is just not designed to hold the muscle
Speaker 1: mass that that it's holding. Now, the joints get strained
Speaker 1: at a you know, at a higher rate. Um, the
Speaker 1: everything is is just working differently than it is if
Speaker 1: you're just a normal human being walking through life. In general. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can. I think you can't get too muscle strapped.
Speaker 1: I think you can um get to the point where
Speaker 1: it almost hinders you, especially in a scenario where you're
Speaker 1: you're injured and trying to come back from it. It
Speaker 1: might take you a little longer and you're you have
Speaker 1: a higher likelihood for set bats. Yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: should start a petition for the Yankees, specifically Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: and Dark Carlos Stanton to go on the CC Sabathia diet.
Speaker 1: Forgetting the CC's forget the CC diet, just have the
Speaker 1: Gragon Frank diet will work fine well, minus the yogurt
Speaker 1: yoga yogurt yogurts too healthy? Man is the salads as well?
Speaker 1: You don't you don't want you don't want to do that. CC,
Speaker 1: by the way, actually headed back the ill of his
Speaker 1: own knee problems, although I honestly like backpatting or anything.
Speaker 1: But I watched him obviously last night that I'm about too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I watched him last night. I was like, I
Speaker 1: feel like the knees bothering him, Like he just seemed
Speaker 1: a little off. And it was when it wasn't when
Speaker 1: he was living around, but just something seemed off. I like,
Speaker 1: I think the knee, he's bothering him. And when I
Speaker 1: saw it after the game, I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: was cool. I knew it, you know, a little small
Speaker 1: you just we watched CC for over a decade now,
Speaker 1: so like you kind of know certain things. It was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. But speaking of non contact injuries,
Speaker 1: at it and it's beking of injuries in general, and
Speaker 1: injuries the Babe Ruth never had. That brings us to
Speaker 1: a strained oblique muscle, and Wade Davis is the latest,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge being not the earliest but another recent one
Speaker 1: that has a strained oblique. I feel like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know if my oblique was strained. So maybe I'll
Speaker 1: just walk out of here today and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I have a strained obleakue. But this is you have
Speaker 1: an oblique to strain it. That's the real that muscle, Greg,
Speaker 1: you probably don't have it. That's a really good point. Um.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why Babe Ruth and all those guys years ago,
Speaker 1: I never had a strained no blak muscle. U what
Speaker 1: is it? How does it hurt? And how? I don't
Speaker 1: know how painful is it? I guess so I I
Speaker 1: unfortunately never had a strained oblique. I strained a back
Speaker 1: muscle that was very close to the oblique. But obliques
Speaker 1: basically just the side of your rib cage down in here. Um.
Speaker 1: If you're, if you're a picture, you're a hitter, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a huge muscle um to to potentially have an
Speaker 1: injury because if you're you're there's so much rotation in
Speaker 1: baseball that it is you know, extremely likely um that
Speaker 1: that you will reinjure this again or you will have
Speaker 1: a setback when you have an oblique issue. Um. They're
Speaker 1: very easy to to hurt. You know. It can be
Speaker 1: picking up a suitcase. It can be bending over to
Speaker 1: pick something up. It's it's it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: back like it affects so many things that you do
Speaker 1: that that it doesn't take a lot, especially the older
Speaker 1: you get, it doesn't take a lot to strain it. Um.
Speaker 1: And it is such a vital part of of playing baseball. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's painful. I mean it can. You can strain
Speaker 1: it bad enough to the point where like you have
Speaker 1: trouble breathing, you can pull ribs out of place. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you strain it bad enough. So it's just something
Speaker 1: that you know a lot a lot of people uh
Speaker 1: may not may not realize it, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: it can be a huge factor. It's hard to come
Speaker 1: back from. UM. At that standpoint, it's UM. It is
Speaker 1: going to be something to monitor for way Davis long
Speaker 1: term because, like I said, this is an injury that
Speaker 1: be UH have. It's very likely, um that there will
Speaker 1: be setbacks in the rehab process. So you can hurt
Speaker 1: your oblique by violently swinging any violently swinging back like alright,
Speaker 1: Judge did or or violently doing anything with your core
Speaker 1: your side muscle here, um Like like wait Davis did,
Speaker 1: So you're saying, Brad, if I violently swing this umbrella
Speaker 1: right here like this, there's a good chance, Hiven, that
Speaker 1: I have not worked out my core muscles over here,
Speaker 1: I will hurt my oblique and then I can go
Speaker 1: on the eile and miss work for a while. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's possible again that that it actually can be something
Speaker 1: where if you don't work it out a whole lot,
Speaker 1: it actually may not be that much of a problem.
Speaker 1: But whenever you do work it out, it can be
Speaker 1: It can be something where, um, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: like the Stanton thing. You've got these muscles that are
Speaker 1: bigger than they're designed to be and and therefore they're
Speaker 1: more susceptible to injury. All right, so I guess there's
Speaker 1: no chance to be injuring my oblique swinging his umbrella.
Speaker 1: You keep playing spike ball and kickball, I'm sure you'll
Speaker 1: you'll end up straining something. That's good. It's good, you're confident,
Speaker 1: you're confident sticking sticking with Colorado though, Brad so Way
Speaker 1: Davis goes out and they announced shortly after that that
Speaker 1: Scott Oberg was going to actually be the intern closer.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't like clear to fantasy owners that over
Speaker 1: would be the guy. Like his underlying numbers not great,
Speaker 1: good year last year, almost as many walks of strikeouts,
Speaker 1: not great, Bob fair to side, but he's ultimately gotten
Speaker 1: the job done. Is there a feel inside the bullpen
Speaker 1: that like they know who's going to be the guy?
Speaker 1: Went to fantasy owners? It's not necessarily clear. Like I
Speaker 1: think it's one thing where there's clearly guy, a guy
Speaker 1: like yourself who has closing experience, and a guy goes down,
Speaker 1: you're in the next fan, not like Texas was pretty obvious,
Speaker 1: right Jos Clark goes down. Clearly Sean Kelley was going
Speaker 1: to take over and he's done. So even coming off
Speaker 1: the I M with Colorado, it wasn't that easy for
Speaker 1: us fantasy owners. And but black name Scott Oburg the
Speaker 1: closer um with way Davis out? Is there that feeling
Speaker 1: in the bullpen and how do the roles change and
Speaker 1: how do the guys react to that? I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times you have a pretty good idea who
Speaker 1: it's going to be, especially if you're you're eighth inning
Speaker 1: guy has been throwing well, a lot of times it
Speaker 1: will be that guy. Um. There there are the scenarios where,
Speaker 1: especially in today's game, the way bullpens are used, where
Speaker 1: guys um you know, managers may not want to alter
Speaker 1: the the the chemistry of the bullpen. They want to
Speaker 1: keep guys in these certain roles and and kind of
Speaker 1: have someone leap frog them to get to the ninth inning.
Speaker 1: Because you've got a guy that's succeeding in the eighth inning,
Speaker 1: Why change it? You've got a guy that succeeding in
Speaker 1: the seventh inning, Why change it? You've got a guy
Speaker 1: to come in with runners on base, Why change it,
Speaker 1: Let someone else figure out the ninth and at least
Speaker 1: use those other guys to get the ball to the ninth.
Speaker 1: Whereas if you change up a whole lot of other
Speaker 1: stuff prior to the ninth inning, then it's possible that
Speaker 1: you don't even get to the ninth inning with the lead.
Speaker 1: So um, I think, Um, you know, obviously got closing
Speaker 1: experience helps, but it's not it's not mandatory. I mean,
Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about a short time, all you
Speaker 1: need is the guy that's pitching well at that moment,
Speaker 1: get get us through this time where our closers out. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully for for Wade's sake, that is a
Speaker 1: short amount of time. But but like I said, it
Speaker 1: could turn into a lengthy, lengthy thing. And at that
Speaker 1: point you've got to kind of feel, um like like
Speaker 1: over is gonna have a chance to here to essentially
Speaker 1: establish a really good role on this team. And and
Speaker 1: when as far as within the bullpen um, a lot
Speaker 1: of times the manager will sit down, um, you know,
Speaker 1: especially prior to a series and look, guys, um, you
Speaker 1: know obviously wades out now. Um, so this is the scenario,
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do, and they'll they'll kind of lay
Speaker 1: it out for everybody, and a lot of times they will.
Speaker 1: They he probably would have talked to Oberg ahead of time. UH,
Speaker 1: let him know, Hey, you're gonna be the guy right now,
Speaker 1: so that you can start preparing mentally to be that
Speaker 1: ninth inning guy, to be the guy, um that that
Speaker 1: is in that situation, you start you do everything differently.
Speaker 1: You start stretching later in the game. Uh, you start
Speaker 1: mentally preparing like, Okay, where are they at in the lineup? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know who's who's looking like it might be in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning, and start looking at scouting reports, have
Speaker 1: a good feel for who's on the bench, who might
Speaker 1: be pinch hitting. Um. It does change a little bit depending,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're especially if you're not
Speaker 1: used to being an eighth or ninth inning guy. I
Speaker 1: want to stick with the bullpens here, Brad, and I
Speaker 1: want to kind of go to the opposite of the
Speaker 1: closer right now, which is the opener. Uh. First and foremost,
Speaker 1: I want to ask, how do you feel about the
Speaker 1: opener considering that you were a successful reliever for as
Speaker 1: long as you were, and how would you have felt
Speaker 1: if you were asked to be an opener. I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge fan of it. I'm kind of a traditionalist,
Speaker 1: a little bit to the point where I don't even
Speaker 1: like UM. You know the managers taken starting pitchers out
Speaker 1: after sixty seventy pitches just because of a matchup, potentially
Speaker 1: so UM. At the same time, UM, I realized that
Speaker 1: analytics are changing the game. Some teams are are really
Speaker 1: buying into this UM. If I was asked to do it.
Speaker 1: The hardest part, if you've never done it before, or
Speaker 1: even moving from a starter to reliever or vice versa,
Speaker 1: is figuring out a warm up routine. When do I
Speaker 1: start throwing, Because when you're a reliever, a lot of
Speaker 1: times where they're at in the lineup in the inning
Speaker 1: will dictate you know, how how fast you go when
Speaker 1: you start throwing. If you're If they finish the seventh
Speaker 1: inning and they call, the manager calls down, says ziggers
Speaker 1: got the eighth inning. You know you've got three outs.
Speaker 1: You can kind of watch the game, get a feel
Speaker 1: for for how the inning is going to see. You
Speaker 1: know when exactly you need to be ready. If you
Speaker 1: get two quick outs, you gotta speed it up. If
Speaker 1: it's you guys get a couple of base hits and
Speaker 1: a walk to start the inning, you kind of back
Speaker 1: it down a little bit because you don't want to
Speaker 1: throw sixty pitches in the bullpen before you go out there.
Speaker 1: That's harder to do. Whenever you're you're essentially saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you got the first inning. You know, if it's the
Speaker 1: bottom of the first that that you're pitching, if you're
Speaker 1: on the road, then maybe it's you can kind of
Speaker 1: treat it like I'll just get up and start throwing,
Speaker 1: you know, when the when the game starts. But if
Speaker 1: it's the top of the first and you're you're the
Speaker 1: home team and you're going out there to lead, it's
Speaker 1: most relievers don't know how much time it takes them
Speaker 1: to get loose. You have us kind of a certain
Speaker 1: number of throws. Maybe, but the adrenaline is different when
Speaker 1: you're warming up and there's nothing going on in the
Speaker 1: field except guys just kind of running around, stretching national
Speaker 1: anthem all that stuff. That's different than when you're pitching
Speaker 1: the seventh inning. So, um, I would not have been
Speaker 1: a fan of it at the same time. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: most guys would be like, Hey, if if this is
Speaker 1: what you think, give us the best chance to win,
Speaker 1: give me the ball bad Do you have a couple
Speaker 1: woman to say out of us? Yeah, of course awesome.
Speaker 1: When we come back. We talked to Brad before the
Speaker 1: season began about pine tar and substance. It's kind of
Speaker 1: back in the news. I'm interesting to talk to Brad
Speaker 1: about that as well as come back from injury and
Speaker 1: finding your group. Let's talk to Brad's eager about that.
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Speaker 1: Best Friends Forever. Frank Staffell, Brad Ziegler, and Greg Susan
Speaker 1: Hay out with you on a Thursday, and Brad, we
Speaker 1: actually talked to you and I specifically before the season
Speaker 1: began about the use of a foreign substance. We talked
Speaker 1: about Michael Pinato and and the um the substance that
Speaker 1: he had on the back of his neck, and it
Speaker 1: kind of came up again when the Yankees faced off
Speaker 1: against the Mariners a week or two back, and we
Speaker 1: saw through the y S cameras that you say, a
Speaker 1: cou she had something right on the under the brim
Speaker 1: of his hat, and you know, he would take the
Speaker 1: hat and he wipe in. He did the thing and
Speaker 1: the wipe his arms and it was very obvious what
Speaker 1: he was doing. You pointed that out to me that
Speaker 1: every time you see a piget do the same thing
Speaker 1: like you know they do, they were doing. And that
Speaker 1: actually leads me back to last night, Frank that between
Speaker 1: every yet batter, Dan Sterlia rubbed both of his arms,
Speaker 1: rubbed every single time. Did no. It did not help
Speaker 1: Dan Australia at all. Last night but he was doing
Speaker 1: the same thing. I was like, this guy was routine,
Speaker 1: and like, oh yeah, Brad told me about this, Like
Speaker 1: it's clearly he's got some suntan lotion or whatever to
Speaker 1: better the ball. But again it didn't help. Does Obviously
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone didn't say anything or do anything about it
Speaker 1: because he doesn't care because these pictures are doing the
Speaker 1: same thing. As you pointed out, almost all pictures are
Speaker 1: doing something to get a better grip. It's an unwritten
Speaker 1: acceptable rule in baseball. But just using a substance help
Speaker 1: with a particular pitch, and can we use as fantasy
Speaker 1: owners as information to help us at all? I mean
Speaker 1: it can. It depends on the substance. I guess when
Speaker 1: you're talking about, um, you know, if it's a pine
Speaker 1: tar or the sunscreen and rosing combination, that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: that that's not going to help with a particular pitch.
Speaker 1: That's a picture just looking to get better grip on
Speaker 1: the ball. Um, it's you know, the balls are slick.
Speaker 1: They get in this routine, um where they after you
Speaker 1: do it a couple of times, you just want to
Speaker 1: have that feel in the consistency, so you basically just
Speaker 1: do it every start. Um, even if the balls don't
Speaker 1: feel that slick that night. Um. At the same time,
Speaker 1: um uh, they could do a lot in baseball if
Speaker 1: they just would in hands the mud that they rubbed
Speaker 1: the ball up with. Um. We had a bullpen catcher
Speaker 1: in Oakland that that put some barber sall shaving cream
Speaker 1: in the You rubbed the ball up with the mud first,
Speaker 1: and then put the shaving cream over the top. Just
Speaker 1: for the bullpen balls, not for the game balls. But
Speaker 1: the bullpen balls felt amazing. And the problem is that
Speaker 1: you throw with this ball that felt amazing, you go
Speaker 1: out in the game and and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you're throwing with slick balls again. So did you put
Speaker 1: any shaving cream in your back pocket that you pretend
Speaker 1: you're going to get some sut of flower seeds? Are
Speaker 1: really a shaving cream? No? No, And that's um. You know,
Speaker 1: But from that standpoint, it doesn't affect the pitch. You know,
Speaker 1: you can get a glob of pine tar on a ball.
Speaker 1: You've you've seen you know the film Necro thing where
Speaker 1: you use sandpaper to siss the ball up. If you're
Speaker 1: changing the surface of the ball, that's completely different than
Speaker 1: using something for grip and so um, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: make the ball move funny ways. I've heard stories about
Speaker 1: guys even putting like basiline in their mouth, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and they grab it and and when the balls, when
Speaker 1: the balls slick like that and you're trying to get
Speaker 1: that slick feeling coming off your hand, you can make
Speaker 1: the ball move quite a bit more doing that. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, at least from what I heard that that's
Speaker 1: something I never tried because I was always afraid I
Speaker 1: chuck it over the back stuff. In addition to you know,
Speaker 1: not wanting to do anything like that to begin with us. So,
Speaker 1: but it's there. There are guys who have figured out
Speaker 1: certain things and and from that standpoint on on, you know,
Speaker 1: when it's ATTACKI steps and stuff, it's it's all for grip.
Speaker 1: We talked before. Most hitters don't care because they want
Speaker 1: the picture knowing where the ball is going as opposed
Speaker 1: to the ball feeling slick and the guy is throwing
Speaker 1: nine and it gets away from him and smokes, you know,
Speaker 1: smokes a hit it in the back of the head
Speaker 1: or you know, you know, having forbid something worse. Well,
Speaker 1: whatever you say, Kikuchi has been doing. Greg he's got
Speaker 1: to keep doing it. So whether it's a substance or
Speaker 1: you know, pitch makes or whatever he's doing differently, keep
Speaker 1: doing it because it's working for for fantasy baseball purposes.
Speaker 1: Great teas before the break that we were going to
Speaker 1: talk about, uh, some young players specifically, you know, guys
Speaker 1: getting derailed their momentum from injury and then bouncing back
Speaker 1: from that. So we've seen that already with Clint Fraser.
Speaker 1: He got off to a red hot start this year.
Speaker 1: No pun intended there um, but then he hit the
Speaker 1: I L and came back and just completely threw him
Speaker 1: off Brad like he's striking out every other at that.
Speaker 1: He did have a multi homewered game this week, so
Speaker 1: it looks like he's starting to bounce back a little bit.
Speaker 1: But we also saw Willy Calhoun get called up and
Speaker 1: he was crushing it. Now he has a quad injury
Speaker 1: and he lands on the I L. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you from a major league player perspective,
Speaker 1: what happens when your rhythm gets snapped like that, especially
Speaker 1: you know for a younger player, um, and you know,
Speaker 1: how hard is it to bounce back from something like that,
Speaker 1: especially for some of these young guys like Clint Fraser
Speaker 1: and Willy Calhoun, it is challenging. It's it's tough for
Speaker 1: them to to keep a rhythm going. I mean, baseball
Speaker 1: is so much a rhythm sport. And when you were
Speaker 1: on when you're feeling good and you're on a hot
Speaker 1: street like Frasier was earlier in the season, Um, you
Speaker 1: you just want to get out there every day. You
Speaker 1: don't want you don't want any days off, you don't
Speaker 1: want any games reigned out. Um you don't, you know,
Speaker 1: you just want to go out there and play. And
Speaker 1: and then the injury. Typically with with an injury is
Speaker 1: you have to sit and and do almost nothing for
Speaker 1: a week to ten days, depending on the injury. And
Speaker 1: then you try to come back and get that rhythm back,
Speaker 1: and it's just not the same, Like you've taken too
Speaker 1: much time off to to let the injury heal. And
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. It's it's tough to to get that
Speaker 1: rhythm back. I mean, it's it's tough. Even from a
Speaker 1: picture standpoint, say you're a reliever, you just get four
Speaker 1: or five days off because of the way the game
Speaker 1: flow was, it's hard hard to go back out there
Speaker 1: and be really sharp that next time. But a lot
Speaker 1: of times you don't like pitching. If you're a closer,
Speaker 1: you know that it's used to pitch in these tight games.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden you've got a tend
Speaker 1: to one game and they're like, hey, you haven't pitched
Speaker 1: three days, we're gonna throw you out there. That mentality
Speaker 1: is different too, and it can it can end up
Speaker 1: leading to a tough inning for a guy and ended
Speaker 1: up kind of throwing him out of the rhythm he
Speaker 1: was in before that. So UM, it's it's I'm you know,
Speaker 1: there's obviously no scientific way to say, like, hey, when
Speaker 1: you come back from this injury, we're gonna you can
Speaker 1: do this and keep the same rhythm you I'd go
Speaker 1: in UM at the same time, I from a from
Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint, because of that, I would be inclined
Speaker 1: to hold onto these guys. Put him on your I
Speaker 1: L spot if you have one. UM, even if you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, there was enough production there early to hold
Speaker 1: onto him. And then right about the time where it's
Speaker 1: it's like they're finishing up the rehab assignment, they're gonna
Speaker 1: come back, find a team that needs needs the guy
Speaker 1: at that position, and trade him away because the odds
Speaker 1: of them coming back hitting as well as they were
Speaker 1: before that are are very low. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: Willy cal who's not gonna hit four thirty all season,
Speaker 1: so so you probably already got the best of him
Speaker 1: at that point. Trade him away while you can get
Speaker 1: get some high value for him, because if he comes
Speaker 1: back and goes over his first nineteen, who's gonna win
Speaker 1: him at that point. I think that's a really good
Speaker 1: point by Brad too, especially Greg. The last thing that
Speaker 1: we remember about Willie Calhoun was that everyone was spending
Speaker 1: all this fab money on him, and I think when
Speaker 1: he's ramping up is rehab being getting ready to return,
Speaker 1: I think people are gonna be excited for him and
Speaker 1: something like that once again, so you might be able
Speaker 1: to flip him. And it's funny you say that, Brad,
Speaker 1: because over the weekend, once it was announced that Stanton
Speaker 1: was going to go on a rehab assignment, I was
Speaker 1: able to trade him in one of my home leagues
Speaker 1: to pick up Zach Wheeler because I needed starting pitching.
Speaker 1: So I'm obviously grateful that I was able to pull
Speaker 1: that off. I couldn't predict that Stanton was gonna get
Speaker 1: hurt again. But once I saw he was gonna go
Speaker 1: on a rehab, I started shopping him. I moved him.
Speaker 1: And this might be something to consider, greg for some
Speaker 1: of these other sluggers that are coming back for the Yankees,
Speaker 1: specifically Aaron Judge. You know we spoke about oblique earlier
Speaker 1: with Wade Davis. There's gonna be a high percentage chance
Speaker 1: that for him to re injure that. Specifically, so he
Speaker 1: was a borderline first round pick, you might be able
Speaker 1: to move Aaron Judge when he gets close to returning.
Speaker 1: Uh and then another guy, indeed, Gregorious. Although I don't
Speaker 1: have as many concerns for d D as I do
Speaker 1: for Aaron Judge. Brod, I know we gotta let you go,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to have one follow up because she
Speaker 1: talks about baseball is such a game of resiliency and
Speaker 1: in a game of streaks and and and getting hot
Speaker 1: and getting out of slumps and regaining form, and Aaron
Speaker 1: moves me something interesting today. Labor Tores has twelve runs
Speaker 1: of the year, ten ten of which against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez has like sixteen home runs Tom against seems
Speaker 1: total would seem to me against the Orioles, both Sanchez
Speaker 1: and Tores are out of the lineup today, and you said, hey,
Speaker 1: when you get hot, you go to the manager, owner
Speaker 1: the manager and be like, what are you doing? So
Speaker 1: if you're Glabor tour Is, you're Gary Sanchers, who are
Speaker 1: just on this incredible hot streak against the Oriels, not
Speaker 1: in the lineup today in a game that first pitch,
Speaker 1: I've leave a schedule for five minutes from now. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you do? Well? I mean he basically said,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get these guys a day off and
Speaker 1: stay after night game. Why not? Now, what what do
Speaker 1: you do to stay hot? Because you're scorching right now
Speaker 1: and you're out of the lineup. Well, the part of
Speaker 1: the difference is because um, you know, when you're hurt,
Speaker 1: you don't even get to take batting practice a lot
Speaker 1: of times, and and so you completely lose your swing.
Speaker 1: Whereas these guys can still go through the normal routine,
Speaker 1: hit off a t hipp p they might get a
Speaker 1: chance to pinch it later in the game. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: win the games on the line, and and that's the spot.
Speaker 1: They would be huge weapons coming off the bench based
Speaker 1: on their success against Baltimore and and how confident they
Speaker 1: would be in that scenario. Um. At the same time,
Speaker 1: just the nature of the game today, there's no one
Speaker 1: playing a hundred sixty two games anymore, very very few
Speaker 1: guys do. Um, you want to keep them healthy all
Speaker 1: your you don't want to to do to these guys
Speaker 1: by running them out there every single day and and
Speaker 1: running to the ground. What happened to Stanton, what happened
Speaker 1: to Judge, what happened to Fraser, all these you know,
Speaker 1: different scenarios. He's trying to find a way to balance
Speaker 1: that because they've been snake bit like in you know,
Speaker 1: for that franchise this year, they want to alter that.
Speaker 1: So they're like, look, the guys that are healthy, they're
Speaker 1: playing well, we want to keep them that way. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of times they would have known
Speaker 1: last night that they weren't playing today. Um. It gives
Speaker 1: him a chance to kind of, you know, go out,
Speaker 1: have have you know, maybe have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a late night out and and just kind of take
Speaker 1: some some steam off because they can't do that on
Speaker 1: on when they're going out and and playing every single
Speaker 1: day and and get a good, really good night of sleep,
Speaker 1: just knowing like I don't, I can wake up tomorrow,
Speaker 1: be a little more relaxed when I get to the
Speaker 1: park and then kind of flipp that scis latter in
Speaker 1: the game, and be ready to go the next day.
Speaker 1: A lot of times a mental day off can be beneficial, um,
Speaker 1: just like a physical day OFFCAM all right, there you go.
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Speaker 1: of course all of his baseball background as well. We
Speaker 1: appreciate the time Brad, with fowards talking to you next week.
Speaker 1: My pleasure, guys, thanks for having me on. There you go,
Speaker 1: it's Brad Ziegler. I think it's a good place to
Speaker 1: go now. Frank mentioned Glabor torres Uh mentioning gian Carlos
Speaker 1: Stanton mentioning the Yankees and Gary Stanches as well, to
Speaker 1: talk about last night's Yankee game. Admittedly Yankee fans, admittedly
Speaker 1: uh oriole bashers after just watching this team all week,
Speaker 1: and the Orioles are awful. They're announcing not so awful. No,
Speaker 1: it's not actually actually love Gary Thorne. He was. He's
Speaker 1: called a few of the video games too, like his
Speaker 1: announcer voice for Video games voice. Yeah, but Greg, you
Speaker 1: can call me out. But it is just a big
Speaker 1: story as well. I don't think it's just because like, oh,
Speaker 1: we live in New York or Yankee fans. I mean,
Speaker 1: labor Tores is hot. He's one of the hottes hitters
Speaker 1: in baseball right now. Another two home runs, ten of
Speaker 1: his twelve homers coming against the Baltimore Orioles. Gary Santis
Speaker 1: hits another one. Shout out to Drew drink Drew dink Meyer.
Speaker 1: He he liked Gary Santez yesterday said that during the
Speaker 1: fandal hurry up video, Tyros Trotta getting it done too, man,
Speaker 1: I mean the Yankees are just getting it done. He
Speaker 1: went out, these guys in the line of great they are,
Speaker 1: they are getting it done and four Glabor Torres. It's
Speaker 1: he's frustrating Orioles fans. He's frustrating Orioles announcers. And last
Speaker 1: night's home runs sounded like this during the streak. He's
Speaker 1: sitting over four hundred during this ten game at streak.
Speaker 1: Cars pumps that one in the air that's still left
Speaker 1: center field. Well, Gerson back, I don't run. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You cannot imagine this happening in Major league basketball or
Speaker 1: any other place in baseball. And like then he had
Speaker 1: to still get his call in there, right, he had
Speaker 1: to get the goodbye hole run in there, good by
Speaker 1: home run. It's like, but it's mich okay, and it's
Speaker 1: obviously be like all right, see you Like, no matter what,
Speaker 1: he had to get his call in you have to.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a that's a that's the rule
Speaker 1: of yeah, yeah, alright. It was like, all right, goodbye
Speaker 1: home Ruther, thanks thanks Gary, make sure you got your
Speaker 1: calling there. But glavor the Glabory Tores goes to even
Speaker 1: the run was it one second? What was every one second?
Speaker 1: So Glaory Toures hits the first home run, and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there watching, hid not believe he does again. He's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: like this is ridiculous. So of course then he comes
Speaker 1: up later in the game and then this happens. Runs
Speaker 1: four hits in that ball game. Two of the runs
Speaker 1: armed in the ad a right field man Seeney going
Speaker 1: back on the ball by Torres way back hop and
Speaker 1: that sounds like he's just lapping goodbye home run there
Speaker 1: it is good home run. Last two at bats. He's
Speaker 1: had home runs numbers eleven and in the season, eleven
Speaker 1: and twelve on the season, nine and ten against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: How many Orioles have ten home runs this year? Not this?
Speaker 1: Mancini have it? Mancini is close. He has ten. He
Speaker 1: has ten? How many ten home runs? Is like VR have? Uh?
Speaker 1: Definitely not ten? Yes? Five? Does anybody in the Orioles
Speaker 1: have more than ten? I can't imagine. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: tray Mancini has consistently been their best hitter all season long.
Speaker 1: Renato Nunez hit his ninth of the season last night,
Speaker 1: so he's pctually the next closest one. So I just
Speaker 1: love if you listen closely to that second call, they're
Speaker 1: just like inaudible sound in the backgrounds. It kind of
Speaker 1: just sounds like he's like slapping his leg or he's
Speaker 1: like falling off the chair. He's got nothing. Labor Torres
Speaker 1: more home runs against the Orioles than any player on
Speaker 1: the Orioles has in general, other than tray Mancini. He
Speaker 1: has the same that is correct. Nobody has more home
Speaker 1: runs than Labor Tour. Nobody other Orioles has more home runs,
Speaker 1: and Glabor Tours has this year against the Orioles. So
Speaker 1: can can someone make the argument Greg and say now
Speaker 1: is the time to try and sell high in Glabor
Speaker 1: touris because he's not always gonna be facing the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fair argument to make. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna face other bad pitchers in baseball too, right,
Speaker 1: just rearly as bad as the Baltimore Oriole. He's also
Speaker 1: batting three hundred, stating three hundred. He fased the Orioles
Speaker 1: eleven times thus far. Yeah, eleven rights, eleven games versus
Speaker 1: the Orioles, ten on runs. I believe that's the number.
Speaker 1: So Greggy, I wouldn't even be trying to sell him. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's twenty three years old. It's fun, it is
Speaker 1: and and I mean, look, he's doing all this without
Speaker 1: the protection in the lineup and no standing and no
Speaker 1: judge and the county status are still really good. Twelve homers,
Speaker 1: twenty eight runs, twenty six ribbies, three stolen bases three
Speaker 1: O two. I have to a player, Greg, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think that we're expecting many more stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Like if he gets to Tan, if he gets the twelve, fine,
Speaker 1: that would be great. But look at some of these
Speaker 1: other numbers rest of season projections for on Fangraphs. You know,
Speaker 1: guys like Derek Carty with the bat and the Steamer projections,
Speaker 1: they have him for between eighteen and twenty home run
Speaker 1: twenty one home runs the rest of the way. That
Speaker 1: would would give him anywhere from thirty to thirty three
Speaker 1: homers at the end of the season. Uh, well, what
Speaker 1: would what would those home runs sound like? Chris just
Speaker 1: wondering if if they happen to come against the Orioles,
Speaker 1: what would those home runs sound like if he if
Speaker 1: he did with Derek Carty's projecting, Okay, so it would
Speaker 1: sound like nothing. You give me one of those balls,
Speaker 1: I could drop it, and that's what it sounds like,
Speaker 1: dropping the ball. I wanted to Yeah, that's that's what
Speaker 1: it sounded like. Yeah, I wanted to know. I wanted
Speaker 1: to know. With Gary Thornton, what would have made it
Speaker 1: sound like we can only do that once per segment?
Speaker 1: Greigt seven percent hard hit rate ball. Look Florio dubty club.
Speaker 1: Labor Torres is part of that. As a middle infielder.
Speaker 1: If the guy hit thirty bombs, he will he would
Speaker 1: have lived up to his fifty sixth round price tag,
Speaker 1: which so many people were scared that he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to be able to live up to live it up
Speaker 1: to it right now, not over the ball dropping thing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to let it go, but you're not yet.
Speaker 1: Tyrostrad in the lineup again today, Greg, great, It's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd rather glabor. But as river as River
Speaker 1: of Blues tweeted out, like there's never a good time
Speaker 1: in bench. Gary Sandra's labor tourist. You never had a
Speaker 1: one him to But like is the Orioles like come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, we need this. By the way, that also
Speaker 1: works in favor of cop and I call for right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the sound that I was talking about back
Speaker 1: top and or Gary Thorne, Man, he does a great job.
Speaker 1: What is he gonna do? Good? What is he gonna do?
Speaker 1: Ynha sit there and say goodbye home run, alot, goodbye
Speaker 1: home run. You can't imagine this happening in baseball. Goodbye run?
Speaker 1: Do you think Jim Brock Meyer would have called that
Speaker 1: run goodbye, home run drink. Can you believe it? Can
Speaker 1: you believe it? Labor Torres again with another home run
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Oriols. I can't believe it, Jim, neither
Speaker 1: can unbelievable. Unbelievable Gobahama. But Jam brock Meyer good other
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Speaker 1: Frank Staffill joined by Greg Susman. Hopefully at some point
Speaker 1: we'll be back. He was teasing the Mets in the
Speaker 1: Nationals game. Before he went to break. He checked out
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Network YouTube page yesterday. You would have
Speaker 1: seen that Greggy thought that the total in that game
Speaker 1: was a sucker bet. His reasoning, Vegas knows, Vegas always knows.
Speaker 1: The total for that game yesterday was six and a half,
Speaker 1: and we did get a pictures duel between Jacob de
Speaker 1: Graham and Max Scherzer, and I would argue that Greg
Speaker 1: got a little bit lucky here six runs in the
Speaker 1: eighth ending scored by the New York Mets to go
Speaker 1: over the number. The Mets win six to one, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure Greggy will have some more other fun bets
Speaker 1: similar to this that he made yesterday. He said, faith
Speaker 1: the Mets and the Nationals go under, will fade the
Speaker 1: under for the six and a half there, and he
Speaker 1: knew it. He called it the game ends six to one.
Speaker 1: But wasn't only you get the much needed bouncebacks from
Speaker 1: Jacob to Gram and Max shuts, which was always great
Speaker 1: to see. Great It wasn't the only under called. I
Speaker 1: also had that that Indians Oakland that's during during the
Speaker 1: day games. And he said, well, you want you want
Speaker 1: some day action. I'm feeling good man. Hey, you're on
Speaker 1: roll man, stay hot. We're gonna try it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: pick a little bit later on today, a little bit
Speaker 1: later on the show. You gotta stay tuned for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Medicine Nats. You've got a great outing from Max
Speaker 1: Shrews and you've got a great outing from Jacob Dugram.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't say it was like needed from both
Speaker 1: of them, but it was obviously very very good to see.
Speaker 1: It was needed, all right. The ground six innings, one run,
Speaker 1: two hits, three walks, eat strikeouts, only running allows was
Speaker 1: I believe the lead off home run to Adam eating
Speaker 1: or sorry he's backing second? Yesterday with Turner leading off
Speaker 1: a first inning home run to Adam Eating and then
Speaker 1: Max shrews Are allowed nothing in his six innings of work.
Speaker 1: Did throw hundred and nine pitches, though it's a lot
Speaker 1: over six innings. Before hits two walks, he struck out
Speaker 1: nine really good outings from both the Graham and Scherer,
Speaker 1: but thanks to the bullpen implosions, we're good and we
Speaker 1: went over the number. Yeah, it was a little disappointed.
Speaker 1: I think this is me being greedy and Max Scherzer
Speaker 1: fantasy owners out there being greedy in general that you
Speaker 1: wanted a little bit a bit more length here from
Speaker 1: Max Jersey. He goes to six endings pitch, but you
Speaker 1: mentioned it, Greg, he needed a hundred and nine pitches
Speaker 1: to get through six endings against that Mets line up yesterday.
Speaker 1: I was expecting more. But overall, still really good performance.
Speaker 1: Uh six hits and walks combined over six innings pitch,
Speaker 1: so that's a one whip nine strikeouts. Obviously you'll take that.
Speaker 1: He had twenty five swinging strikes on the other side,
Speaker 1: Greg Jacob de Graham, who had been scuffling a little
Speaker 1: bit here. You're not used to seeing him walk to
Speaker 1: so many guys, you have still had three walks yesterday,
Speaker 1: gave up the home run, but settled down eight strikeouts
Speaker 1: against a really really good Washington Nationals lineup, one that's
Speaker 1: getting better and obviously getting a little bit more healthy
Speaker 1: and getting there their legs underneath them. Trade Turner back obviously,
Speaker 1: Anthony Wren done back, Juan Soto, You're all kind of
Speaker 1: returning from injury and starting to gel a little bit.
Speaker 1: Matt Adams back yesterday as well for the team. Um,
Speaker 1: and then Victor Rollos. The only one we're missing Carter Keble,
Speaker 1: and let's get Keble and back on this roster. Come on, Brian,
Speaker 1: does there's any two or three with six ops? Get
Speaker 1: him out of here? Greggy is your micn for that?
Speaker 1: You might want to repeat it? Get him out of air?
Speaker 1: Than Sorry, I was, I was coughing. I don't want
Speaker 1: me to cough on there, so I shut my MIKELF.
Speaker 1: That was a problem there. Um, yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was bad anti from the National's bullpen, who saw the
Speaker 1: implosionable Kyle barrack Claw and Sean Doolittle. Everyone was crushing
Speaker 1: the Nats bullpen all over Twitter yesterday. I understandably, so,
Speaker 1: UM do it was actually pitched really well other than
Speaker 1: last night, So I didn't feel I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: he deserved all this blame. But that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Kyle bear Claw has not been great, no cal Barra
Speaker 1: Claws being so has Trevor Rosenthal for this team horrific.
Speaker 1: They were trying to turn back the clocks with if
Speaker 1: I can turn back to bad they were. They tried
Speaker 1: to turn back the clocks or turn back time, as
Speaker 1: Greg likes to say, say for a guy like Trevor
Speaker 1: Rosenthal hasn't worked out. Kyle Barclaw always a guy that
Speaker 1: was able to get a lot of strikeouts in Miami,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, struggles with walks, gives up some
Speaker 1: runs at times, and you see that here. Uh, Greg,
Speaker 1: we might be down to a two team race for
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberal's services. It might be an n l E
Speaker 1: showdown here. But here's the thing. So I know we
Speaker 1: did this with the Mets couple of days ago, but
Speaker 1: it's much worse than that's and that's are currently eleven
Speaker 1: games under five hundred. What business do they have going
Speaker 1: out and getting Craig Martinez still have? And I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's even his fault, necessarily, But what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? What are we doing? Of course? I
Speaker 1: mean this team has Max Scherzer, Steven Strassburg, they signed
Speaker 1: Patrick Corbin. I don't care that you lost Bryce Harbor.
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for this man. Like you know, the
Speaker 1: Mets are getting crush right now for getting off to
Speaker 1: a decent start and then slowing down here in their
Speaker 1: twenty three and twenty five I feel like no one's
Speaker 1: talking about the Nationals Greg. They're nineteen and thirty's embarrassing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a team that was picked
Speaker 1: by multiple people US and we're not the only ones
Speaker 1: great to win the National League East. Yeah, eleven games
Speaker 1: under five hundred, what's going on here? Come on? Um,
Speaker 1: That's why I don't think he's saying Kimber. That's why
Speaker 1: I think kimberal heads. I think it's I think he
Speaker 1: heads to Atlanta. I think the clear favorite. I don't
Speaker 1: want to rule out Boston still makes sense. That's about it. Probably,
Speaker 1: And I know we heard whisper someth Milwaukee, but I've
Speaker 1: mentioned Chicago before too. Yeah, definitely, definitely, especially especially with
Speaker 1: the way the Cubs are playing right now. Cubs are
Speaker 1: certainly an option. Uh, they're no doubt right around June second,
Speaker 1: June third, right when the draft competence. So we're looking
Speaker 1: at a few weeks away if you held on to Craig.
Speaker 1: Not few weeks, dude, a week? Uh well yeah, like
Speaker 1: a week and a half whatever, it's like ten eleven days,
Speaker 1: Like the Monday after, like a week from this Monday,
Speaker 1: he could sign face. I'm sure you will. It'll probably
Speaker 1: be back in the bullpen shortly after. The reasons that
Speaker 1: I brought off the Red Sox because is because of
Speaker 1: what happened last night for Boston as the Red Sox bullpen,
Speaker 1: won't they all just let up runs we expected from
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays bull but not necessarily Boston's bullpen as
Speaker 1: Brandon Workman, Matt Barnes, uh and in Marcus doesna markets
Speaker 1: it is markets, right cool? Marcus Walton all allowed runs
Speaker 1: for Boston in their inning or two of work. Uh,
Speaker 1: they all just were not good yesterday against Toronto. Boston
Speaker 1: ultimately one in extra innings, six to five, with uh
Speaker 1: Rick Porcella pitching well six and eight, three hits, one run,
Speaker 1: didn't walk anybody, He struck out four. Aaron Sanchez also
Speaker 1: pitched pretty well six innings, four hits, two runs, two walks,
Speaker 1: five strikeouts. Could not drop him after that, Frank No,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good job by you. You preach
Speaker 1: patients for once here. Great seeing that from you, But
Speaker 1: I think that was a good call. I have him
Speaker 1: in a few fifteen team leagues still holding on as well,
Speaker 1: but needed to see this as well. For Aaron Sanchez again,
Speaker 1: his last start, he was cruising through I think it
Speaker 1: was three four innings, gets pulled with a blister, whatever reason.
Speaker 1: The way he throws, he's always dealing with blisters. And
Speaker 1: I still think that Aaron Sanchez is a competent picture.
Speaker 1: I think that he can be a viable pitcher for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes, but he's always dealing with these blisters. So
Speaker 1: you just have to know that when it comes to him,
Speaker 1: like there's a chance that every single start that he
Speaker 1: makes he can leave early due to a blister. He's
Speaker 1: kind of like the Anthony Davis of fantasy baseball, except
Speaker 1: not nearly as valuable as Anthony Davis. He's like a
Speaker 1: really really poor man's Anthony Davis. Um. I don't think
Speaker 1: he has a Uni brow or anything like that, but overall,
Speaker 1: this was a really good start for him, going up
Speaker 1: against the Boston Red Sox, being able to limit them
Speaker 1: to just two earned runs, an offense that frankly, Greg,
Speaker 1: even without J. B. Martinez, has been coming around, led
Speaker 1: by Raffie Devers is doing in the month of May.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is just red hot right now.
Speaker 1: So I know he got off to a slow star.
Speaker 1: We spoke about him, you know, maybe a month agoes time, Greg,
Speaker 1: and we said, you know, he's doing things differently this year.
Speaker 1: He's not striking out as much, but it seems like
Speaker 1: he's hitting more for contact and he's sacrificing some power.
Speaker 1: But seemingly since we brought that up, um, he's been
Speaker 1: he's been able to turn this around. Greg. So in
Speaker 1: the month of May, specifically for Raffie Devers th forty
Speaker 1: one batting average, six homer's, nineteen ribbies, two stolen bases
Speaker 1: s he has six home runs in an underrated part
Speaker 1: of his game, Greg, six stolen bases, something you don't
Speaker 1: expect from ro Absolutely not great job by him turning around.
Speaker 1: He's he's finally looks like he's paying off some of
Speaker 1: that value that that we thought he could have. I
Speaker 1: feel like I may have missed one of my favorite
Speaker 1: parts of the day annually. What happened? I didn't miss
Speaker 1: your your your daily tantrum? Yet I missed it. I
Speaker 1: didn't have one. Now you didn't have it with Daniel
Speaker 1: murphys on the bench today. Oh oh man, And it's
Speaker 1: against the righty too, it is. Oh yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know you know how to rile me up. You
Speaker 1: gotta you know those little toys where you just like
Speaker 1: wind up the back and they go marching back and forth.
Speaker 1: That's what you do. You like doing that to me,
Speaker 1: don't you? Just Daniel Daniel Murphy and David Donal. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are the two names that David wasn't in the
Speaker 1: line up yesterday. So of course if you own both
Speaker 1: of these guys, they can never be in the line
Speaker 1: up together. Why would we have that? Come on, Bud Black,
Speaker 1: we can't have nice things. Daniel Murphy finally gets off
Speaker 1: this night. HiT's a bomb last night. You know what,
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy, you played so well, we're gonna stick you
Speaker 1: on the bench. Going up against Jordan's miles today in
Speaker 1: p n C. The swing looked pretty good from Daniel Murphy,
Speaker 1: last night. It's all the home. This looks like vintage
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy. Nice a little up brick cut swing on this.
Speaker 1: It's a bomb to right center field, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you get a benching. I get it a little bit more, Greg,
Speaker 1: because Daniel Murphy it doesn't seem like he's completely over
Speaker 1: this finger injury, and they're trying to find ways to
Speaker 1: give him days off. So I guess it's day game
Speaker 1: after a night game. That's their excuse for Daniel Murphy whatever.
Speaker 1: At least at the least David dal isn't there. So
Speaker 1: that's great to see. I was so happy to see
Speaker 1: that Daniel Murphy home run. Greg last night. I said, please,
Speaker 1: over the weekend, you're going up against Baltimore, give me
Speaker 1: a few more of these. Give me to Daniel Murphy homers,
Speaker 1: or give me death, give me to David Doll Homers,
Speaker 1: or give me death from D and D not you
Speaker 1: know the guys who want thrones and ruined it the
Speaker 1: new D and D. If your initials are D D D,
Speaker 1: you suck. You want the double D David and Daniel,
Speaker 1: the double DS stingers this weekend so I can trade
Speaker 1: your asses away. Do you want you want triple Day
Speaker 1: and get off, my lady. You want the dig or
Speaker 1: from double Day, which makes a trible day. Whatever you
Speaker 1: wanted to be, Greggy, that was my rant. Thanks for
Speaker 1: rising me up starring mar Day still us a base.
Speaker 1: That's cool, Gregy planco hit a home runs? Are you?
Speaker 1: That's a little bad? You own? I do. But what
Speaker 1: happened was on Tuesday he was scratched from the lineup
Speaker 1: and I didn't know why. And I mentioned, for who, um,
Speaker 1: his teammate Brian Reynolds, because I thought if there was
Speaker 1: gonna be like an extended absence here, that Brian Reynolds
Speaker 1: would just fill in for him. I just can't do
Speaker 1: anything right. I feel like you have let's just do
Speaker 1: the show for the rest of the day without me.
Speaker 1: I feel like you may have you gotten too cute there, Frank.
Speaker 1: What the thing was? So my thinking was, I'll walk
Speaker 1: you through the process. The process Gregory Polanco Obviously he
Speaker 1: was dealing with the shoulder injury before the season, and
Speaker 1: when I saw that he was scratched due to undisclosed injury,
Speaker 1: I mean, all these thoughts are going through my mind
Speaker 1: and like, well, I don't know what he's dealing with
Speaker 1: you know, he might miss a couple of games here,
Speaker 1: you might miss the entire week. So and you know,
Speaker 1: for me, greg when it comes to points leagues, I
Speaker 1: can't stand my my players not playing. And of course
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds is not playing today and Gregory Polanco is,
Speaker 1: but at the time I didn't know that, so I
Speaker 1: just said, all right, let me pick up his replacement,
Speaker 1: which would be Brian Reynolds, and I'll put him in
Speaker 1: the lineup. And he's done it right so far. I
Speaker 1: think he had like a double and a couple of
Speaker 1: walks so far on the week. So that was my thing.
Speaker 1: I want to get something rather than nothing. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know if Gregory Planco was gonna play, and he's playing,
Speaker 1: he's playing well, he's hit a dinger. But overall, if
Speaker 1: you own Gregory Polanco, I think you're pleasantly surprised she
Speaker 1: got from him so far. I mean, I couldn't have
Speaker 1: predicted that the power would come back this quickly for him,
Speaker 1: greg And um, I'm I'm very welcoming absolutely for this production.
Speaker 1: Back to Boston and Toronto from last night for Mookie
Speaker 1: bats Homer for the eight time this year. Michael Javis
Speaker 1: homer for the tenth time him this year. To go
Speaker 1: along with what you mentioned of Rabi Devers, Bets also
Speaker 1: stole his fifth base of the season. Nicest he bets
Speaker 1: to a little a little bit of both last night
Speaker 1: gets it will be back over four for Toronto. Rowdy
Speaker 1: tell us homers again. He's third home running two days
Speaker 1: for the ninth the season. But he's hot. He's hot, Vladdy, Daddy.
Speaker 1: Fifth homer of the year for Vladimir Guerrero. He's hot
Speaker 1: as well. Blue Jays are getting hot. Justin Smoke homer
Speaker 1: for these seven times this year. And you know, this
Speaker 1: is what I said. This is why I said what
Speaker 1: I said about Rowdy t Lez maybe a month ago
Speaker 1: and wrote about a little bit on my Patreon and
Speaker 1: I was trying to pick him up everywhere because I
Speaker 1: thought that the Blue Jays offense was about to take
Speaker 1: off once Vladimir Guerrero joined the team. Now it's taken
Speaker 1: a few weeks, but I mean, he's one of the
Speaker 1: hottest hitters in baseball right now. And then because of that,
Speaker 1: I think that everyone else in the team is kind
Speaker 1: of feeding off this energy. Greg. And you know, when
Speaker 1: you have runners on base like pictures fall behind accounts,
Speaker 1: they have to they have to pitch to you. We
Speaker 1: saw that the other day with it WARDA Rodriguez. I
Speaker 1: fall behind an account, you have to pitch to Roddy Telez.
Speaker 1: What happens Boom to Dingers last night another jinger for
Speaker 1: Rowdy Telez. So if he was dropped, especially in deeper leagues,
Speaker 1: you need a corner infielder, you need a first baseman,
Speaker 1: utility bat, whatever it might be. I think that Roddy
Speaker 1: Telez is about to do a little bit of what
Speaker 1: I was expecting when Vladimir Guerrero got called up. Greg
Speaker 1: Roddy Tiles finally coming through four Fantasy owners in the
Speaker 1: middle of that line of this entire Blue Jays lineup
Speaker 1: opening up with Vladimir Guerrero getting hot, kind of what
Speaker 1: you expected. Maybe a week or two after what you expected.
Speaker 1: What was happening, Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a
Speaker 1: matter of time. Look the I mean, Vladimir Guerrero is
Speaker 1: too talented. Everything that we heard about him coming into
Speaker 1: the year, it's played discipline, is his ability to make
Speaker 1: contact and all different kinds of pitches. Um, he's legit,
Speaker 1: He's legit. And it was just a matter of time.
Speaker 1: And you see that with the home runs he's hitting
Speaker 1: straightaway center field. He'd go to all fields. He's a
Speaker 1: legitimate hitter, and I think that's gonna rub off the
Speaker 1: rest of the some of the rest of these guys here,
Speaker 1: specifically Rowdy tell Us. So I'm a fan of him.
Speaker 1: He was dropped, pick him back up? Didn't you drop
Speaker 1: him somewhere? I did, dropped him in the pit league league.
Speaker 1: It's something that I would consider. You just said a
Speaker 1: quote if you dropped the pick him back up? Now
Speaker 1: you're like, consider, Yeah, but I was able to pick
Speaker 1: up Dan vogel Box because someone dropped him. I would
Speaker 1: argue that Dan vogel bok Is has more value than
Speaker 1: Rowdy tell Us, So why would I? Probably it's probably close.
Speaker 1: It's close, but yeah, why would I. I mean, if anything,
Speaker 1: they're similar players, So it's probably a wash. Greg. I
Speaker 1: have two pictures going against you right now, Frank true,
Speaker 1: I have one. I have Strasburg against the Metzis. I
Speaker 1: musta here at Tanaka. How about that line up for
Speaker 1: the METSI today, Greggy and Jordan Lyles. The Mets line
Speaker 1: up today is hysterical. It's like absolutely hysterically. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not hysterical about it, Dady Davis, isn't it? Greg?
Speaker 1: And this is what we wanted, is what we were
Speaker 1: banging to take it before onto the I l at J. D.
Speaker 1: Davis man, especially in deeper leagues. If this guy, especially
Speaker 1: if he has third base and outfield eligibility, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have dual eligibility. Okay, went over this either. I think
Speaker 1: it was yesterday. The underlying numbers for J. D. Davis
Speaker 1: are really good, the sadcast numbers. He hits the ball hard, um,
Speaker 1: he hits up on the air. He's you know, he's
Speaker 1: had like five home runs in limited quaene time this
Speaker 1: year and he's batting second. He's back a second for
Speaker 1: the Mats. So I'm interested, definitely interested in J. D. Davis. Greig,
Speaker 1: by the way, inside Injuries just tweeted out we're talking
Speaker 1: Dr Ray coming up in about twenty minutes or show.
Speaker 1: In regards to J. D. Davis regards the Mats Robin's canal,
Speaker 1: this comes directly from inside injuries. He has a concerning
Speaker 1: injury history that includes a quad strain in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: hamstring strains in twenty seventeen, and ten and in the
Speaker 1: past he has stroll to quickly overcome these lower body
Speaker 1: muscular strains trains. This may be a lengthy absence for
Speaker 1: the Mets second basement directly from inside injuries. What are
Speaker 1: we talked before the season that was worried about him?
Speaker 1: Was it Brad Ziegler or was it Ian Con because
Speaker 1: getting it confused now, I don't think one of them
Speaker 1: was really probably Brad because we we we we drafted
Speaker 1: him and then Brad told us are idiots? Thank you're right,
Speaker 1: but yeah, shout out to Brad Ziegler. He said that
Speaker 1: he was worried about this year, one year older and
Speaker 1: the fact that card for the steroids last year that
Speaker 1: might have been something that helped him for so many
Speaker 1: years he the iron Man that he was not able
Speaker 1: to make. And what's happening now the first year after
Speaker 1: getting busted with the p E d s to find
Speaker 1: himself underperforming dealing with injuries. So number two, Christ, you're dry.
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