Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into Fantasy pros. This is
Speaker 1: leading off live the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Joel Rico, joined today by Casey Bubba, and we are
Speaker 1: going to have some fun breaking down the headlines, a
Speaker 1: couple of interesting news and notes to get through a
Speaker 1: very lengthy injury report. Unfortunately, there's a lot to go
Speaker 1: through over there. But Bubba, great to be with you,
Speaker 1: my friend. I've gotten my Bubba and the Bloom T
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Speaker 2: Good, I'm doing well. That's the that'sdog. That's that's the
Speaker 2: first first rendition of the T shirts. That's great to see.
Speaker 2: But yeah, back in the saddle with you for another
Speaker 2: week of baseball. You mentioned lots of injuries to discuss,
Speaker 2: but we're still playing. We've got about two months to
Speaker 2: go before it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize there was an updated version. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to definitely get one of those. I love this one.
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Speaker 1: We are going to start it off today with Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: who just went nuclear last night, two big home runs,
Speaker 1: also a triple. He had six RBI and I'd heard
Speaker 1: a lot of talk over the last few weeks about
Speaker 1: how maybe the Mets trade Lindor and he's having a
Speaker 1: bad season. It's been a bit of a down year,
Speaker 1: but when you consider the hamdmate phone injury that he
Speaker 1: had to start the year a one oa WRC plus
Speaker 1: a seven forty three ops, it's not typical Lindor stuff, Bubba,
Speaker 1: But it hasn't been a horrible season here at all
Speaker 1: for him. What are your thoughts on Lindor's year as
Speaker 1: a whole, What do you make of him going forward?
Speaker 1: And do you think that there's a chance we might
Speaker 1: have entered the decline phase a little bit here?
Speaker 2: There's always a chance you're thirty two years old that
Speaker 2: we've we've entered the decline. And I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's a Mookie Betts level decline just yet, but we
Speaker 2: could be seeing it. But I'm also going to take
Speaker 2: that handmate injury with a grain of salt. With Francisco
Speaker 2: Lindor and he's starting to wake up at the plate.
Speaker 2: We know it takes guys a while, Like Vinnie P's
Speaker 2: went back for a bit, haven't seen much out of
Speaker 2: him power wise. Jerry m just returned. So we'll wait there,
Speaker 2: but we'll talk about another player that handmate to start
Speaker 2: the season. That's that's heating up all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you got Lindor just over. Like the last week,
Speaker 2: he's hitting three seventy five with three Jackson eleven RBIs.
Speaker 2: The play discipline's great skills are still there. I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about. I know the Mets are trying to clear salary,
Speaker 2: even though they have most money in the world, but
Speaker 2: Lindor wouldn't be at the top of my list to move.
Speaker 2: But I think he still got a handful of really
Speaker 2: good If they want to trade in to San Francisco
Speaker 2: for Reallyadamis, I'm in. Like, if they're fed up with him,
Speaker 2: I'll take him by the bay. But I'm not too worried.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't really been either. I think it'd be
Speaker 1: pretty short sighted if the Mets do end up selling him,
Speaker 1: or if you know, fantasy managers are saying this isn't
Speaker 1: really lind'or anymore. I think that he's still an excellent hitter.
Speaker 1: If you look below the surface, a lot of the
Speaker 1: stats are still very good. The barrel rates actually better
Speaker 1: than last year average exit velocity at ninety one six
Speaker 1: is the best of his whole career. Same with the
Speaker 1: forty nine percent heart hit rates. So I'm still on
Speaker 1: team Lindor here. He feels like a guy where we
Speaker 1: might get a little bit of a discount going into
Speaker 1: next draft season on him, and I'll definitely be taking
Speaker 1: it if we are actually finding that discount. You never know,
Speaker 1: we had a couple months left, he could finish really hot.
Speaker 1: But I'm a big fan of Lindoor and I still
Speaker 1: think that there are some.
Speaker 2: Good years left.
Speaker 1: Jhow cool stuff you on the Jumbo tron in Saint
Speaker 1: Louis last night. That's very very cool. It never happened
Speaker 1: to me, but definitely something that you know, it's pretty rare,
Speaker 1: I guess, Boba. Have you ever been at a sporting
Speaker 1: event and been interviewed by like an in game reporter
Speaker 1: or been on the jumbo tron or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been on the jumbo tron or so I've
Speaker 2: never been interviewed. No one who dare put a mic
Speaker 2: near me at a baseball game or even a basketball Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a bold like career ending, a potential situation. But
Speaker 2: I've I've made the jumbo Tron just by cheering and
Speaker 2: doing dumb things. Because yeah, I'm talking before the show.
Speaker 2: We all had a life before we grew up.
Speaker 1: We've all done some some some dopey things. We won't
Speaker 1: discuss them on stream here, but I do want to
Speaker 1: discuss Jackson Holiday because you mentioned the handmade gait that
Speaker 1: we had at the beginning of the year, and he
Speaker 1: was one of the guys that was impacted by it.
Speaker 1: He's played fifty five games this year and he started
Speaker 1: to really turn his season around a four hit game
Speaker 1: yesterday against the Tigers. Over the last month, he's hitting
Speaker 1: over three hundred and if you look at the season
Speaker 1: as a whole, a one to thirteen WRC plus, he
Speaker 1: has five homers, four stolen bases, a fifteen percent walk
Speaker 1: rate is pretty impressive to seven forty six ops. But
Speaker 1: there's also some things that I don't necessarily love. The
Speaker 1: bat speed has trended down in each of his big
Speaker 1: league seasons eighty nine, eighty eight point eight, and then
Speaker 1: eighty seven point six this year, the contact rates are worse,
Speaker 1: the swinging strike rates are worse. I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: what to make a Jackson Holiday, but I'm starting to
Speaker 1: feel like maybe he won't pan out as that top pick,
Speaker 1: as the huge prospect father with the Hall of Fame pedigree.
Speaker 1: I know he's not a Hall of Famer, but he
Speaker 1: could have been a Hall of Famer. I just don't
Speaker 1: know if Jackson Holiday has that skill set to actually
Speaker 1: pay off as the top pick and be a huge
Speaker 1: fantasy asset for years to come. What do you think
Speaker 1: of Jackson Holiday, Bubba, Because I'm despite the fact that
Speaker 1: he's looked pretty good over the last few weeks, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I'm all the way in on him, all
Speaker 1: the way in as a bold statement, I'm very interested
Speaker 1: still do twenty two years old, Like, Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be overly concerned in this situation. It's a
Speaker 1: head ground ball rate nearly a sixty percent ground ball
Speaker 1: like over the last month, So that's gonna take away
Speaker 1: a lot of the pop we're talking about.
Speaker 2: The back speed's interesting. Uh, maybe he's still kind of
Speaker 2: recovering from said hey injury, or he's trying a different
Speaker 2: approach to the plate. A lot of things to question.
Speaker 2: It's good to see him like over the last three
Speaker 2: weeks hitting four to ten and he's walking almost more
Speaker 2: than he's striking out. So those are things we'd love
Speaker 2: to see from a twenty two year old. Is he
Speaker 2: gonna be the you know his dad? No, no, not
Speaker 2: many aren't going to be that. But his dad might
Speaker 2: have had some help along the way, So let's just
Speaker 2: be real on that one. But I'm still just fine
Speaker 2: with holiday and we'll see where he goes, and hopefully
Speaker 2: it comes into discount next year and he could be
Speaker 2: a nice middle infielder for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder, you know, just the fact that the
Speaker 1: WRC plus is better, the walk rates better. I wonder
Speaker 1: what we're gonna see for a price on him. People
Speaker 1: will probably factor in some growth you think, like one
Speaker 1: fifty one seventy five range or does that even feel
Speaker 1: a bit too rich?
Speaker 2: That's probably about right, just because the name value the
Speaker 2: former number one pick. But like, let me give you
Speaker 2: a scenario this time, like years ago, we thought Bryce
Speaker 2: Terrang was a batting average guy. Like I'm not saying
Speaker 2: he's gonna be Bryce Terrang, but I'm my point being
Speaker 2: as a twenty two year old, things can change and
Speaker 2: change quickly at this area baseball.
Speaker 1: It's true. Yeah, Bryce Terrang was a guy that was
Speaker 1: seen as a single digit homer guy. He was gonna
Speaker 1: steal forty five fifty bases, He's gonna hit two sixty
Speaker 1: two seventy and his power games have been incredible the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. You know, the average exit velocities,
Speaker 1: the bat speeds, everything kind of improved from him from
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty five, and I could definitely see
Speaker 1: that happening with Jackson Holiday. The talent is there for him.
Speaker 1: I think they're fairly similar. Stature five to eleven, two
Speaker 1: hundred pounds for Holiday and Terrang is six feet one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety pounds, so fairly similar build. Holiday still
Speaker 1: a couple of years younger, but that I'd sign up
Speaker 1: for that in a heartbeat. If we could see him
Speaker 1: become Pryce Terrang and give you eighteen homers, twenty five steals,
Speaker 1: hit two eighty five, I think we'd all be more
Speaker 1: than happy with that from Jackson Holiday. But just wanted
Speaker 1: to point out that he's had a really nice stretch
Speaker 1: here and hopefully that does some things down the stretch
Speaker 1: and heading into next year as well. I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about Jock Peterson. I honestly wanted to put him
Speaker 1: at the top of the sheet here. But the couple things,
Speaker 1: you know, superseded at lind Or at holiday. But Jock
Speaker 1: Peterson a couple of home runs last night. He's having
Speaker 1: another really good season, And I think we're getting to
Speaker 1: the point where I wanted to discuss how underrated Jack
Speaker 1: Peterson has been throughout his career. Twenty twenty five was
Speaker 1: a horrible down season, but he's fully rebounded. He has
Speaker 1: nineteen homers, forty RBI, he's hitting two fifty four, and
Speaker 1: he has a one thirty eight WRC plus. This is
Speaker 1: a guy Bubba for the last decade. Most of the
Speaker 1: seasons that he's played, there have been, you know, some
Speaker 1: injuries here and there. But when he's playing a full season,
Speaker 1: you're getting twenty five to thirty homers, You're getting a
Speaker 1: decent batting average, a two to forty career hitter, and
Speaker 1: a one twenty career WRC plus. He doesn't really get
Speaker 1: his flowers. I don't think though. Every year, aside from
Speaker 1: last year, Jock Peterson's been a great fantasy asset but
Speaker 1: doesn't really get talked about. Roster rates are low. I
Speaker 1: don't really get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the only thing I can think of because
Speaker 2: I agree with you, and it's it's great. Is the
Speaker 2: two things if we're talking, are you talking fantasy love
Speaker 2: or baseball love?
Speaker 1: Both? Really? Both?
Speaker 2: Okay, because fantasy, like the biggest thing, as you know,
Speaker 2: it's utol only is going to turn a lot of
Speaker 2: people off. That's that's just the bummer of it. But
Speaker 2: he still should be appreciated. The other thing is and
Speaker 2: it's benefited him. It's made him a better fantasy player.
Speaker 2: It's just some people can't get through it. He sits
Speaker 2: first lefties, so there's times where he's not going to
Speaker 2: play a lot, and that turns people off as well.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I keep him on my bench when
Speaker 2: they play right he's I put him in. When he
Speaker 2: plays lefties, I put him down. It's a very simple game.
Speaker 2: And I have nineteen home runs and he's hitting two
Speaker 2: fifty four. So I'm just fine with that scenario, all
Speaker 2: things considered. But I think that's it. And he's thirty four,
Speaker 2: like he's older than I thought he was, to be
Speaker 2: completely honest with you, so that's the only thing I
Speaker 2: can see it being. And maybe maybe he doesn't get
Speaker 2: to love that he deserves because he keeps changing teams
Speaker 2: because it seems baseball doesn't care about him either, so
Speaker 2: that's another factor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's those are both really fair points just looking
Speaker 1: at it. His career kind of surprised me yesterday putting
Speaker 1: the sheet together, like twenty fifteen and twenty three year
Speaker 1: old Jock Peterson twenty six homers, one sixteen WRC plus,
Speaker 1: twenty four year old Jock Peterson twenty five homers, won,
Speaker 1: twenty eight WRC plus, and a decade later, he's still
Speaker 1: doing it. Really underrated career. He's at two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven homers. I wonder if he can push his
Speaker 1: way to three hundred bombs for his career either way.
Speaker 1: A really solid fantasy asset, not somebody that I would
Speaker 1: want to leave on waiver wires. The guy that definitely
Speaker 1: should be discussed more. CCD has a question here, Jock
Speaker 1: wars Jock versus Ajewing, and we'll talk about him right
Speaker 1: now because he's actually on the sheet. I'll skip ahead
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Ajewing three for five with the
Speaker 1: stolen base. Very impressive rookie season. He's now slashing two
Speaker 1: seventy one, three forty three, four seventeen. That's seven homers
Speaker 1: and twelve stolen bases as well in his sixty seven
Speaker 1: games and two hundred and seventy played appearances, So over
Speaker 1: the course of a whole season, he's pacing out to
Speaker 1: about a fifteen homer twenty five stolen base year with
Speaker 1: a good batting average as a rookie bubb But it's
Speaker 1: been really impressive. What are your thoughts it's been of
Speaker 1: viewing and would you prefer him or Jock Jams rest
Speaker 1: of season.
Speaker 2: I'm very, very impressed with Ajuan twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: We was talking about twenty two year old holiday. Aj
Speaker 2: Ewing is twenty one, and he does like on fire.
Speaker 2: I was when he came up with When Henry Bolte
Speaker 2: came up with the AIDS, it was kind of like
Speaker 2: that was the big fave week, and I took the
Speaker 2: discount on Bolty thinking I'd be fine, and for a
Speaker 2: while it seemed good. But Ewing has been amazing. I
Speaker 2: think he's out shining because the power was never really
Speaker 2: there in the miners. He had like a Nico Horner profile,
Speaker 2: and he's kind of shifted things to the big So
Speaker 2: very impressed. Curious to see where it goes with him
Speaker 2: at the big league level. And to CC's question, I
Speaker 2: took Ewing just because you get five categories out of him,
Speaker 2: and that's maybe goes back to the first question you
Speaker 2: had is why do people not respect jockaef. Well, you're
Speaker 2: getting power or like you're getting a lot of production,
Speaker 2: but a guy like Ewing can just run past that.
Speaker 1: I think that's right. Yeah, I think Ewing considering you're
Speaker 1: getting the five categories. I mean, I could see go
Speaker 1: with Jock if you're in a situation where you just
Speaker 1: strictly need power. But by and large I think I
Speaker 1: agree there that Aj Ewing is the guy you should
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Speaker 1: it going and talk a little bit of negative and
Speaker 1: that'll be George Kirby. Seven runs, including four homers. Jock
Speaker 1: Peterson definitely played a part in that, as the Rangers
Speaker 1: crushed him over his four innings. And it's been a
Speaker 1: really down season for George Kirby. This is a miss
Speaker 1: for me because I was investing in him. I thought
Speaker 1: that this was going to be kind of Kirby reverting
Speaker 1: back to what we'd seen over the first couple of
Speaker 1: years of his career, or we're sitting here with a
Speaker 1: three ninety eight era, And even more shocking than that
Speaker 1: is the one thirty whip. That's something that's always been
Speaker 1: there for George Kirby, the great command and the really
Speaker 1: low whips. It's been a horrible season for him, Bubba.
Speaker 1: The strikeouts aren't there. He's just not been very good.
Speaker 1: And I wonder what we do with George Kirby the
Speaker 1: first few years of his career, he looked like a
Speaker 1: top ten, top fifteen starting pitcher. These last two years
Speaker 1: doesn't even really look like a top fifty starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: So what do we make of him going forward?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he might be on a different team pretty soon,
Speaker 2: so we got that going for us. But I've been
Speaker 2: kind of hesitant on George Kirby for multiple years, Like Coast.
Speaker 2: Ryan Bloomfield loves George Kirby because he was a whip god,
Speaker 2: which you've mentioned not the case this year, and he's
Speaker 2: been very effective in that result. But I've just been
Speaker 2: kind of worried because I was never like big on
Speaker 2: his strikeouts and all those improved in the past, but
Speaker 2: those are down to twenty one percent on the season.
Speaker 2: You mentioned the contact he's given up. The walks are
Speaker 2: a little higher. For George Kirby standards, five percent is
Speaker 2: just fine, but I don't know, it's just a it's
Speaker 2: a profile. It's extremely hittable right now. He's got eleven
Speaker 2: point four percent swinging strike great, so he's it's good,
Speaker 2: but it's not great. He's not he's not dominating, he's
Speaker 2: pounding the zone. It's just not The fastball is not
Speaker 2: effective at all right now, and he's either changed his
Speaker 2: pitch micks up or figure something else out. But Kirby
Speaker 2: is not fooling anybody right now.
Speaker 1: He's hard to even really start. I think, I know
Speaker 1: he went through like a good phase there for five
Speaker 1: or six starts, but with the blow up potential, with
Speaker 1: the fact that there's not a lot of strikeouts, the
Speaker 1: fact that if he's not pitching at home, it worries
Speaker 1: me even more like when he's on the road. Opponents
Speaker 1: have a three to eleven batting average and a three
Speaker 1: point fifty nine wOBA against George Kirby. He's getting crushed
Speaker 1: on the road, and a lot of the time that
Speaker 1: happens for Seattle pitchers. We've seen some drastics splits. Brian
Speaker 1: Wu has some crazy splits this year. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to start him on the road. I'll start him
Speaker 1: at home in the right matchups right now, But this
Speaker 1: is not at all what I was expecting for George Kirby.
Speaker 1: I wonder what we're looking at for price on him
Speaker 1: next year, bub, But let's say he finishes with a
Speaker 1: four ERA and a one thirty WHIP. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't even think he's a top one hundred pick next year.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's not at all. He's probably do his
Speaker 2: teammate Luis Castillo where he went this past year. The
Speaker 2: problem is you mentioned those ratios. That is a whole
Speaker 2: lot of starting pitchers this year. So that's that's the
Speaker 2: only saving grace Maybe keeps Kirby in the discussion, because
Speaker 2: you'll have at least one guy in every draft will
Speaker 2: be remember the good days and hoping he can find
Speaker 2: it again. And maybe he does, and they'll take a
Speaker 2: shot on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might be that guy. I might be the
Speaker 1: guy who gets suckered into Kirby again next year. It
Speaker 1: could happen. It could definitely happen. The guy I will
Speaker 1: not be getting suckered into next year Kyle. Kyle Bradish,
Speaker 1: My goodness, he gave it all back yesterday. Five runs
Speaker 1: on ten hits, over four and two thirds, and that
Speaker 1: did seem like he had kind of figured things out,
Speaker 1: and he was actually one of the bets I made
Speaker 1: yesterday was taken the Orioles under just partly because of
Speaker 1: how good Kyle Bradish had been and Kyder Montero, they
Speaker 1: both got blown up, Thank you baseball. But Kyle Bradish
Speaker 1: three seventy four ERA A one point thirty six whip.
Speaker 1: His walk rate is still over ten percent, the strikeouts
Speaker 1: are at twenty two point eight. He did look like
Speaker 1: he had figured things out there for a while, Bubba,
Speaker 1: but the whole product here is still pretty poor. And
Speaker 1: I wonder what we're gonna do with Bradish even rest
Speaker 1: of season. Like if you're in a ten team league,
Speaker 1: even a shallower twelve team league. Is he a drop?
Speaker 1: Is he somebody that you're even trusting at this point.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're dropping him just yet, just
Speaker 2: because it depends on you. You said twelve team like
Speaker 2: man maybe in the twelve Actually, yeah, that's a possibility.
Speaker 2: It just stinks because prior to this last start, it
Speaker 2: was six straight starts to three and runs or less
Speaker 2: one and run less than four of them. So you
Speaker 2: had something going for you there. The whip has not
Speaker 2: helped you at all of late. He's not like racking
Speaker 2: up the case as you would hope for Kyle Bradish.
Speaker 2: I think he's just wearing down personally, coming back from
Speaker 2: the surgery last year, the innings pitch workers one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighteen innings, it just seems like it's a different Brad.
Speaker 2: It's just I wasn't in autumn to start the season
Speaker 2: because I was worried about the workload, and it's coming
Speaker 2: to for like an eight percent k to walk over
Speaker 2: the last month. But I guess if to your original
Speaker 2: question it's twelve percent on the season, that is not good.
Speaker 2: That is not good at all. When you're looking at
Speaker 2: a pitcher, you want to trust for fantasy. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I you know, a twelve team or shallow where you're
Speaker 2: getting closer to that time where Kyle Bradish is in
Speaker 2: the discussion to be dropped. I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: It's just baffling. Like the last couple of seasons abbreviated seasons, sure,
Speaker 1: thirty nine innings, thirty two innings. He was unbelievably good
Speaker 1: when he was out there to finish off last season.
Speaker 1: He had a thirty seven percent strikeout rate over those
Speaker 1: thirty two innings, and he just hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: carry it over. I wonder if there's something some kind
Speaker 1: of underlying injury or something like that. But he might
Speaker 1: just not be as good as we thought, or this
Speaker 1: could just be a little bit of a longer recovery
Speaker 1: after his two years off essentially than we had hoped for.
Speaker 1: And maybe next year is the year to buy in.
Speaker 1: But this year has not been a good year for
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Speaker 1: Pros app. Not a big rookie lookie, but I do
Speaker 1: want to talk about Zach Thornton. It was six and
Speaker 1: the third against the Braves yesterday. Three ar in runs
Speaker 1: on six hits with five strikeouts, and things have looked
Speaker 1: pretty good for Zach Thornton. And I should also specify
Speaker 1: there was previously an H on the end of his
Speaker 1: name that he is now dropped. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: in the waiverpool Z A. C. It's not there's no
Speaker 1: H at the end there. But he's looked really good
Speaker 1: over his first five starts. It's a two forty three era,
Speaker 1: it's a point nine to one whip only come with
Speaker 1: a twenty percent strikeout, right, But Bob, but if you
Speaker 1: see Zach Thornton sitting out there on waiver wires, is
Speaker 1: he a guy that you would immediately be picking up
Speaker 1: or is it you know it's still a rookie pitching
Speaker 1: for the Mats. Like, what's your interest level going forward?
Speaker 1: And I'll give you the next scheduled start here. It
Speaker 1: is against the Marlins.
Speaker 2: Uh, yes, that's where I was going to go with
Speaker 2: the Marlins, very very interested in even though they are pesky.
Speaker 2: They finally won a game on on Monday. That's a plus.
Speaker 2: But the other piece of I guess cold water I
Speaker 2: would put on this, but the Martin starts great, don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong, But when you're looking down the line here,
Speaker 2: I think Thornton will be fine long term this season.
Speaker 2: Just know Clay Holmes is expected back Sunday Monday, and
Speaker 2: he's supposed to take Thornton's spot in the rotation. Now,
Speaker 2: I say Thornton should be fine because Homes or Paralta
Speaker 2: might not be in this rotation much longer, which leaves
Speaker 2: Thornton here. So yes, I say pick up Jack Thornton
Speaker 2: if you can roll it while you got it and
Speaker 2: see where it goes. Just be wary that he might
Speaker 2: spend like a week in triple A.
Speaker 1: Definitely a possibility. I wonder what the Mets are gonna do.
Speaker 1: Do you think they're gonna pair it all down? Like
Speaker 1: do you think the Chet's gonna get traded? And do
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna trade Parolta? And you know, what
Speaker 1: do you expect them to do with the deadline Bubba?
Speaker 2: There are a lot of talk they're involved in everything.
Speaker 2: Even as we recorded, jeffast And just post tweeted that Peralta,
Speaker 2: the Mets, and the Brewers are talking about a Paralta trade,
Speaker 2: soccer like they haven't done that before. I had to
Speaker 2: make sure the date was correct on it, that I
Speaker 2: wasn't reading the wrong thing. So I think they're exhausting
Speaker 2: all avenues because they need to, because it has been
Speaker 2: an utter disaster in New York. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just don't see this team unless they just, you know,
Speaker 2: give pennies on the dollar for these moves, I don't
Speaker 2: see them getting what they want out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a weird situation to be in.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they're going to do the same thing
Speaker 1: next offseason and try and sign a couple of the
Speaker 1: big free agents. But I don't know. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: They're a mess, and I wonder if Stearns could be
Speaker 1: on his way out. I wonder what Cohen will end
Speaker 1: up doing. But it's ugly. It really really is ugly
Speaker 1: right now. Another thing that's pretty ugly, And I was
Speaker 1: kind of surprised by this. Jamison ty was DFA by
Speaker 1: the Cubbies and last year was a three sixty eight
Speaker 1: ERA over one hundred and twenty nine innings. Twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four was a three twenty seven ERA over one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five innings. He was almost kind of in
Speaker 1: this Michael waka Jose Quintana type of area in my mind,
Speaker 1: at least of guys who aren't like super super talented,
Speaker 1: but they still punch tickets on really good seasons nearly
Speaker 1: every year. But then Tye really fell apart this year
Speaker 1: and his fifteen starts a five to ninety two ERA
Speaker 1: one thirty six whip. I don't know, Bud, Do you
Speaker 1: think he latches on somewhere minor league dealer or something.
Speaker 1: He's going to be thirty five years old at the
Speaker 1: end of this year. Do you think there's a chance
Speaker 1: that Tyne just hangs them up, or you think there's
Speaker 1: any interest there that somebody will pick him up.
Speaker 2: Maybe, oh, he'll be on a team by the end
Speaker 2: of the week. Let's just face facts. Dallas Kiicel is
Speaker 2: on a minor league deal two days. So this will happen,
Speaker 2: is the reality of the situation, whether we like it
Speaker 2: or not. So teams are desperate, especially if teams do
Speaker 2: sell a bunch of pieces that they might just need
Speaker 2: a body for two months to make starts. So we've
Speaker 2: seen this time and time again as well. Carlos Carrasco
Speaker 2: has been signed and dropped six times by the Braves.
Speaker 2: Like this will happen. Tyan will get a shot. He's
Speaker 2: not what he used to be. He's a broken man,
Speaker 2: that's the reality. It's just crazy thinking we're going from
Speaker 2: Jamison taie On to likely Javier Asad and that's an upgrade,
Speaker 2: which the facade for those that aren't familiar with his name.
Speaker 2: But uh, but yes, he will get a job somewhere.
Speaker 2: He's not fantasy viable though.
Speaker 1: I don't think so either. It just makes me really sad.
Speaker 1: But the Cubs rotation this year, they just I'm really
Speaker 1: surprised this move was made just based on the fact
Speaker 1: that Ben Brown is on the shelf. Edwar Cabrera is
Speaker 1: rehabbing but still on the shelf. Kate Horton done for
Speaker 1: the year. Justin Steele, Brenda the show done for the year.
Speaker 2: I believe, how.
Speaker 1: Can you afford to lose hitching depth like this? I
Speaker 1: would have assumed that even if he's not been great,
Speaker 1: you'd still want to hold on and give him another
Speaker 1: chance or two.
Speaker 2: But well they got David Peterson Wills not cloud on
Speaker 2: that one. Just what it tells me is they're probably
Speaker 2: trading for a starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would make sense. They should, That's what it
Speaker 1: tells me. Go trade for Freddy Parlt or can I
Speaker 1: interest you in mister Kevin Gosman?
Speaker 2: Potentially chokou I have Tyler Mala. If you're interested in
Speaker 2: something and cheaper, we'll throw it. We'll throw at Adrian
Speaker 2: Hauser for free. All right, Robbie Ray you want Robbie Ray?
Speaker 2: Got that going too?
Speaker 1: Oh? How you spoil us, Bubba? I mean Molly actually
Speaker 1: had a good start yesterday. Yeah he did, he did,
Speaker 1: So sell him today, Buster, get on the phone, sell
Speaker 1: him today.
Speaker 2: I would have been on the phone at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the seventh while Molly's icing his elbow, like, hey,
Speaker 2: he's good, take him, got a deal for you. But
Speaker 2: they came out red Light special upe.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I did a trade deadline show like
Speaker 1: four or five years ago and Tyler Molly was on
Speaker 1: the thumbnail. And to think of how far we've come
Speaker 1: from Tayler Molly being on any thumbnails, it's we're long
Speaker 1: ways away. Let's get to the three up and three down.
Speaker 1: The best and worst of last night. Kumar Rocker six
Speaker 1: and two thirds, seven strikeouts, two earned runs and picked
Speaker 1: up the w Merrill Kelly. It's a shame that Welsh
Speaker 1: isn't here for all the bashing he's done of Merle
Speaker 1: Kelly five and two thirds, allowed one unearned run while
Speaker 1: striking out six against the Pirates. And Max Kepler playing
Speaker 1: for Arizona these days, three for four with a couple
Speaker 1: of by What do you think of Kumar Rocker, Baba.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that I've always thought could definitely have
Speaker 1: that potential to be a great pitcher, and you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen flashes of it, but we haven't seen the consistency.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the fact that he went to a good
Speaker 1: school and he was a high draft pick originally. But
Speaker 1: I'll always believe there's more in the tank from Kumar Rocker.
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that we're sitting here with a four
Speaker 1: h three ERA and a one point thirty whip? Am
Speaker 1: I crazy? Am I holding onto the past too much? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Year, not alone though, because I've been a huge Kumar
Speaker 2: fan this year, and I have taken a ton of
Speaker 2: heat for it, a ton of heat for it, even
Speaker 2: from Rangers fans to everybody that would give me their pulse.
Speaker 2: I think the skills are very very good still, and
Speaker 2: I get it. It is at in a rocky road
Speaker 2: with him. But when he's good, he's really good. When
Speaker 2: it's bad, it's really really bad. Not going to deny it,
Speaker 2: but as of late, a lot more good than bats.
Speaker 2: Like you mentioned his start on Monday against Seattle, great matchup,
Speaker 2: take advantage of it, but he threw six shoutout with
Speaker 2: six strikeous verst the White Sox to start before got
Speaker 2: beat up by Houston, but there was three runs, zero uns,
Speaker 2: two runs the three starts before. My point being he's
Speaker 2: getting better and better as the season comes along. Pitch
Speaker 2: mix is changing. Twenty six years old, Texas has nobody
Speaker 2: else around like Cody Bradford and Jomo Jordan Montgomery are
Speaker 2: going to be back soon. So as I said, they
Speaker 2: have nobody around cal Quantrill is their fifth starter. Rocker
Speaker 2: has got the leash and I think he's very good,
Speaker 2: and I'm I'm hoping he finishes mediocre so I can
Speaker 2: get a discount next draft season.
Speaker 1: Is this a safe place to say that I totally
Speaker 1: forgot that George Montgomery even existed.
Speaker 2: You're not alone, totally not alone. I only know because
Speaker 2: I have to do deep dives on the aost every
Speaker 2: week for HQ, So I've been like watching his rehab.
Speaker 2: I brought it up on The Fab Show with Ryan
Speaker 2: last week and he's like he's pitching, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's like one rehab start away. He might pitch this
Speaker 2: weekend or next week for Texas. Like he's real close.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be setting fab bits with Montgomery.
Speaker 2: Will it will be Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're getting there. We are definitely getting there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Meryl America like Kumar Rocker over his last five starts,
Speaker 1: a three seventy four, a three sixty five FIP, three
Speaker 1: forty nine expected FIP, and a one to zero four
Speaker 1: whip with a twenty one percent strikeout to walk right.
Speaker 1: So to your point, things are looking better for Kumar Rocker,
Speaker 1: and his next start appears to be at Houston, which
Speaker 1: is not you know, in my brain, it just beat
Speaker 1: him up. It still feels kind of scary. I I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't really worry about starting him for
Speaker 1: that one, would you No, I'm starting them there, and
Speaker 1: then it's Baltimore at the Angels, which is great.
Speaker 2: You just kind of play it. Like I there's a
Speaker 2: thing I've done a lot this year because pitching has
Speaker 2: been so bad, so I've been really utilizing the bench
Speaker 2: streamer so you don't have to start them, but you're
Speaker 2: not cutting him because it's like, Okay, maybe you don't
Speaker 2: start him against Baltimore. I still would, but maybe you don't.
Speaker 2: I am definitely starting him against the Angels the next
Speaker 2: week he faces Washington. Probably not, but they're like, you
Speaker 2: could kind of play that game and it's it works
Speaker 2: out rather well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The bench streaming is something that I don't think
Speaker 1: is as popular as it should be. You don't have
Speaker 1: to always just be picking a guy up off the
Speaker 1: waiver wire to put him into your lineup. If you
Speaker 1: keep three or four solid pitchers on your bench and
Speaker 1: then you have ten or eleven choices every week, I
Speaker 1: think that's the better way to go about it. I
Speaker 1: really do. And you can't always make it work depending
Speaker 1: on who's in the pool and you know what positions
Speaker 1: you need to have on your bench, but three or
Speaker 1: four bench pitchers and streaming there is usually a good call.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the down. Zach Wheeler Finally he was due.
Speaker 1: He had a bad one. Rather hilarious that this happened
Speaker 1: against the Marlins team that had lost twelve in a row,
Speaker 1: coming in five eurn runs over his three innings. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any real concern though, for Zack Wheeler. Buba,
Speaker 1: do you have any concern after this one or just
Speaker 1: a random bad start.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping it's just a random bas star like you
Speaker 2: had look as sharp, he said, he was fine after
Speaker 2: the game. I'm just notching it up to every once
Speaker 2: in a while you throw a clunker out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing with the Marlins, like they looked so
Speaker 1: good for a while and then they just looked so
Speaker 1: so bad. But this was a good offense. This was
Speaker 1: a good offense for a good chunk of the season
Speaker 1: that went through a down period. But still a good team,
Speaker 1: So nothing to really worry about, Zach Wheeler. I mentioned
Speaker 1: Kayder Montero earlier. Not cool in all of my lineups.
Speaker 1: You see, he's gonna a two start week. Put him
Speaker 1: in there. Six runs, four of them, earned nine hits
Speaker 1: with just one strikeout. And then Max Scherzer man two
Speaker 1: and two thirds. He allot four hits and walk three batters,
Speaker 1: so fifteen total batters faced, seven of them were able
Speaker 1: to reach. He did not make it out of the
Speaker 1: third inning. This is my plea to Max Scherzer. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming he is a leading off viewer like most baseball fans.
Speaker 1: Please Max Schuser, please retire. Let Spencer Miles take that
Speaker 1: spot in the rotation. I know was your birthday. I
Speaker 1: know was going back to National Park. It was his
Speaker 1: one hundredth career start there. But as Lee said, he
Speaker 1: sucks at this point. I don't know what he was
Speaker 1: able to do last year to give us some good
Speaker 1: playoff innings. But he's done. He's done, Bubba, and I
Speaker 1: hope that it happened sooner than later.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I watched all two and two thirds innings of
Speaker 2: that because it was that quick, and he was lucky
Speaker 2: that was the damage that was done. He was struggle
Speaker 2: bussing it just to get through that and it was
Speaker 2: just weird, like okay, and he like calls to come
Speaker 2: get taken out out in the middle of the inning
Speaker 2: and you're sitting on Yeah, it felt like a retirement
Speaker 2: downously the way that he starts waving to the fans.
Speaker 2: But this is a retirement tour.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a famous moment last year. I
Speaker 1: forget if it was in the playoffs or at the
Speaker 1: end of the regular season where John Schneider came out
Speaker 1: to take Max Chers out of the game, and Max
Speaker 1: Schers are essentially said, go back.
Speaker 2: To the dugout. Go back to the dugout.
Speaker 1: I'm not coming out of the game. And now to
Speaker 1: see he's pulling himself from games, it's like you're forty
Speaker 1: two years old. It's time to start thinking about grandkids.
Speaker 1: As least said up ten plus era before yesterday, so
Speaker 1: not very good, not very good stuff. Speaking of not
Speaker 1: very good, we have a lot of injuries. To get
Speaker 1: to Cody Bellinger. This is probably I probably should have
Speaker 1: had this higher up on the sheet, but we'll miss
Speaker 1: four to six weeks with a Grade two hamstring strain.
Speaker 1: There are going to be some leagues and head to
Speaker 1: head leagues that only go for another six weeks or so,
Speaker 1: Bubba in the formats that we're playing in predominantly the
Speaker 1: rodos that will go till Game one sixty two. Are
Speaker 1: you holding Bellinger or is this situation where you just
Speaker 1: caught him and move on.
Speaker 2: He's one step away from a cut. If you need
Speaker 2: roster spot, he has a cut. I'm more I'm a
Speaker 2: more of a ruthless cutter than most. I get heckled
Speaker 2: for it in my discord all the time. But literally,
Speaker 2: we have nine weeks of baseball left, eight FAB periods
Speaker 2: to go. That means this weekend, you're hoping he's back
Speaker 2: in three to five weeks and you have eight fabs
Speaker 2: to go. Worst case scenario, you get him for two
Speaker 2: to three weeks.
Speaker 1: He's a cut for me, and then you got a
Speaker 1: hope that he comes back and he's performing well and
Speaker 1: get a run. I probably he had been great either.
Speaker 1: I don't have a kind of Bellinger this year, so
Speaker 1: I've been following super closely. But I feel like over
Speaker 1: the last month plus of his plate wasn't that great.
Speaker 1: So I think you're you're probably all right to drop him.
Speaker 1: Laker was asking have we heard the health of Valdez
Speaker 1: and Mead. They both took pitches yesterday. Ezmerlynd Valdez, Curtis Mead.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fantasy gods are cruel here. Curtis meaet
Speaker 1: his first game with Boston, has to leave. Esmerlynd Valdez,
Speaker 1: who I believe is the number one Fantasy player over
Speaker 1: the last month, number one or number two. They both
Speaker 1: had to leave. I just did a quick check of
Speaker 1: the blurb feeds this if we've had any news come
Speaker 1: up here, haven't seen anything since last night. Met Mead
Speaker 1: has a contusion. X rays were negative, and I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything on Valdez, but it doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 1: super super serious. But you never really know. There could
Speaker 1: be a small fracture in the hand. We'll have to
Speaker 1: just wait this one out for a couple of days
Speaker 1: and see. Unless you've heard anything, Bubba, is there anything
Speaker 1: else that I've missed there with those two?
Speaker 2: Just a little bit more on Valdez nothing, you didn't
Speaker 2: miss much at all, but there was imaging done, apply
Speaker 2: X rays. Nothing came back, but he left without without
Speaker 2: a brace on smiling from the game. That's a plus.
Speaker 2: Any schedule to have more image whence I'm guessing's a
Speaker 2: CT this morning, which I always as a guy that
Speaker 2: does news all the time. Like I mean, obviously X
Speaker 2: rays is your negative. It's a contingsion. Please do the
Speaker 2: thing because the full scans, because I wouldn't you have swelling.
Speaker 2: The X ray can't show you everything. So yeah, asberlyin,
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna do that extra info and I
Speaker 2: hope we'd get some news here pretty soon.
Speaker 1: I hope. So he's been phenomenal. He's just the type
Speaker 1: of guy you dream about picking up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the season, the guy that come up for the miners,
Speaker 1: and then he has a month where he pops as
Speaker 1: the a top three fantasy asset. So definitely hoping that
Speaker 1: he is all right, especially in that lineup. Any combo
Speaker 1: in the return of Akunya haven't mentioned him. He did return,
Speaker 1: he was leading off. I think he had a hit.
Speaker 1: All good. Put him back into your lineup, Lee saying
Speaker 1: we know you follow all the Yankees players. Joe absolutely nuts,
Speaker 1: absolutely not that much, not anymore than I need to.
Speaker 1: But I've given my flowers this year to sh Littler
Speaker 1: into Van Rice and of course Judge and YadA YadA YadA.
Speaker 1: But that's enough Yankee talk. Let's get back to the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. Coincidentally enough here and it's a couple of well,
Speaker 1: it's one really sad update. Addison Barger had elbow surgery yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was a repair rather than a full reconstruction. His
Speaker 1: timeline is six months roughly, and he is expected to
Speaker 1: be ready for opening day. If you hear that Barger
Speaker 1: is going to be healthy going into the season and
Speaker 1: there's no setbacks, is he somebody that you would want
Speaker 1: to take a chance on heading into drafts next year?
Speaker 2: Bubba? Not yet? No, Like I'm just really he wasn't
Speaker 2: even playing that great before, given it wasn't very many
Speaker 2: at bats. Let's be honest, but I wasn't early in
Speaker 2: on him this year. Things are crowded than Toront done
Speaker 2: out the roster changes. We kind of a conversation, but
Speaker 2: I'll probably to sit back and watch and hope he
Speaker 2: finds it a game.
Speaker 1: I hope he does too. Definitely one of my favorite players,
Speaker 1: Addison Barger. Another update from Toronto, this one a little
Speaker 1: bit better he as you say it, Jaz could rejoin
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays over the weekend when the Cardinals come
Speaker 1: to town, and I did want to ask you, Bubba.
Speaker 1: Of course, contractually obligated to talk about at least one catcher.
Speaker 1: Andy Roudriguez, was activated from the IL, and he's a
Speaker 1: guy that was actually kind of low key doing really
Speaker 1: good things. This season. Catcher has been so crowded it's
Speaker 1: hard to keep track of all the good ones. But
Speaker 1: in his thirty six games, five homers, two steals, who's
Speaker 1: hitting two sixty five A one thirty eight WRC plus
Speaker 1: from Andy Rodriguez, quite literally, and one hundred point improvement
Speaker 1: over his WRC plus from last year. Any long term
Speaker 1: interest in Andy Rodriguez, whether it's redraft, dynasty deeper, anything
Speaker 1: like that, looking towards the future for Andy Rodriguez showed
Speaker 1: some pretty good skills this year.
Speaker 2: I like what we're seeing this year, and I think
Speaker 2: that's why they were willing to trade Joey Bart. I
Speaker 2: know Bart wasn't great, but they kept going back to Bart.
Speaker 2: They were willing to trade Bart. They've given Henry Davis
Speaker 2: the Schemes treatment. That's his guy, and they they were
Speaker 2: letting Andy be the catcher one at least sixty percent
Speaker 2: of the time, which makes him a catcher two in fantasy.
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited what we're seeing here, and it's
Speaker 2: a guy we wanted to be good a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. It's never panned out.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, indeed, I'm interested. I got a couple of shares.
Speaker 1: I actually picked him up in one fab league on
Speaker 1: the Sunday, and I think it was the Monday morning
Speaker 1: he was put on the IL. So I'm actually gonna
Speaker 1: get with my lineup because for whatever reason, I actually
Speaker 1: held him in that league. It's a couple of dark
Speaker 1: catchers teams this year we won't get into but a
Speaker 1: couple more injury updates. Kerry Carpenter are trending towards an
Speaker 1: IL stint due to his aggravated heel injury, and then
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer placed on the aisle with a partial tear
Speaker 1: in his wrist. Spencer Steer, I know he's not a
Speaker 1: great player, but he's a solid fantasy asset. You get
Speaker 1: a couple positions of eligibility every year. You're getting, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty ish homers, you're getting some speed, getting
Speaker 1: an all right batting average. I know he's not amazing, Bubba,
Speaker 1: but he's having a pretty solid year. I mean sixteen
Speaker 1: bombs in ninety eight games, fifty four runs scored. You
Speaker 1: ever been a Spencer Steer guy?
Speaker 2: Is he?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Is he a guy that you target
Speaker 1: year in and year out or not?
Speaker 2: Really? He's not like a priority. But I've had plenty
Speaker 2: of shares, I had chairs this year. I like his flexibility,
Speaker 2: I like his price tag. I think he's over. He's
Speaker 2: exceeded expectations this year, I'll say in the power in
Speaker 2: the speed department. So yeah, I like Spencer Steer. It's
Speaker 2: a bummer. Like they say, you mentioned the partial tear.
Speaker 2: They flat out said he's gonna miss a good amount
Speaker 2: of time. Like so it sounds like a season anything
Speaker 2: for Spencer Steer. That is not good.
Speaker 1: Guys, Let's take a look over at the home run
Speaker 1: board and we'll see what's going on today, Hi Koby,
Speaker 1: I mean I mentioned it last week. It was up
Speaker 1: by three, now up by five. Starting to pull away
Speaker 1: a little bit here, Lee Goldman at forty one, whips
Speaker 1: So Flow, Solar Flare, and Razor Ramone all at thirty eight.
Speaker 1: The contest is far from over, but Hi Koby, definitely
Speaker 1: starting to pull away from my home run call today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a little bit outside the box and
Speaker 1: go with Freddie Freeman facing Luis Castillo and the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 1: He's been due for a homer. I haven't seen one
Speaker 1: in a while, and Luis Castillo given up five homers
Speaker 1: over his last two outings. So I will go with
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman today, Bubba, who are you liking for a
Speaker 1: home run call?
Speaker 2: Let's just say in general, I like the Miami Marlins today.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a target of mine in DFS. So
Speaker 2: I had to narrow it down. I was like, good,
Speaker 2: I just conine go back to back games. Yeah, we're
Speaker 2: going to Kyle Stowers. We're gonna go to Kyle Stowers.
Speaker 2: One the reason I'm excited about the Marlins is there's
Speaker 2: this guy that's Italiano that pitched really well in the
Speaker 2: WBC and fool people to draft him in fantasy, named
Speaker 2: Aaron Nola. He has not been good again this year,
Speaker 2: and over his last eight games, he's allowed fourteen home runs.
Speaker 2: He's allowed six in his last three games. He's allowed
Speaker 2: twenty seven and in runs in his last forty two
Speaker 2: and a thirty of these pitch. If you want me
Speaker 2: to keep going, I can. It's been brutal, and that
Speaker 2: just means that he's gonna throw seven shout out today
Speaker 2: because I just buried him on this show. But give
Speaker 2: me all the Marlins exposure you can, and I think
Speaker 2: Kyle Stowers and multiple good. He's given up at least
Speaker 2: two home runs tonight, if not three.
Speaker 1: He's finally broken the pattern that he had going since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen of the even and odd years. He was
Speaker 1: brutal last year coming into the even year. It was
Speaker 1: at least written in my notes under him, it was
Speaker 1: a bullet point of it's an even year, and every
Speaker 1: even year in his whole career he's been good. And
Speaker 1: finally the pattern is broken now with thirty three year
Speaker 1: old Aaron Nola, and I think we can have you know,
Speaker 1: the curtains can close on that. Well, maybe next year
Speaker 1: he'll break the pattern. Like no, he's I'm just done
Speaker 1: drafting Aaron Nola and streaming Aaron Nola any of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: for the fences to day. Payable in bonus bets, not
Speaker 1: a cash offer offered by the Seminol Tribe of Florida.
Speaker 1: In Florida, offered by Seminal hard Rock Digital, LLC. In
Speaker 1: all other states, must be twenty one plus and physically
Speaker 1: present in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: or Virginia to play terms and conditions apply. Concerned about
Speaker 1: gambling in Florida, call one A three to three play wise.
Speaker 1: In Indiana. If you are someone who knows a gambling
Speaker 1: problem and wants help, call one eight hundred and nine
Speaker 1: with it. In Arizona, Ohio and Virginia, call one eight
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Speaker 1: That will wrap it up for us for today. We
Speaker 1: definitely hit the under. I mean the over has been
Speaker 1: cashing on like forty nine and a half fifty minutes,
Speaker 1: fifty one minutes. Unintentional under hit today, But always a
Speaker 1: great time, my friend.
Speaker 2: Always a great time chatting ball with you, and hopefully
Speaker 2: less injury news when we talk again on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope there's no four to six week type
Speaker 1: of things that happen in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow you will get a little ITL invasion here, Welsh
Speaker 1: and Bogman. You'll still see me later yet tomorrow on
Speaker 1: the channel. Later yesterday, I was about to say my goodness.
Speaker 1: We got to wrap up tomorrow on the channel, you
Speaker 1: will see myself and Welsh at four pm Eastern time
Speaker 1: for a live stream doing Q and A, and it
Speaker 1: is potentially our last one. We're not one hundred percent sure,
Speaker 1: but if you guys show up and if we have
Speaker 1: a ton of people in the stream, we will continue
Speaker 1: to do though, so if you guys like the live streams,
Speaker 1: be sure to show up four pm Eastern that is
Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel. But guys that will do it
Speaker 1: for us for today or Casey Bubba, I'm Joel Rico.
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