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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the cycle.

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Speaker 1: I am not Ryan Wormley, he abandoned us for football.

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Speaker 1: I am like Mayor, and I'm joined by Kelly Kirby. Kelly,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I am doing pretty well and still paying attention to baseball,

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Speaker 2: so that's good.

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Speaker 1: As am. I. Worm has famously abandoned us for football,

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Speaker 1: much like Joey p did on the leading off side

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Speaker 1: of things. But you and I are hardcore baseball fans,

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Speaker 1: hardcore baseball truthers, and we are here until the bitter end,

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Speaker 1: even though some of our championships are already happening right now,

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Speaker 1: because our league only does half the season.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, which I got knocked out of last week, which

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Speaker 2: you know only stings a lot.

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Speaker 3: So it's okay you did.

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Speaker 1: For the listeners at home who haven't been following along

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Speaker 1: throughout the season, who we've been kind of complaining about

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Speaker 1: this league just a little bit here and there, especially

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Speaker 1: when Kelly's been on the show. We have multiple in

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Speaker 1: house leagues at Fantasy Pros, but it's a really short season.

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Speaker 1: We're already in the championship, as I said, and the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's not like we just got to the playoffs, were

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Speaker 1: in the championship. Our playoffs started I think eight weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: We were in the playoffs set before the All Star break,

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Speaker 1: like actually before the All Star break, like July first. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Kelly and I were in the championships of the

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Speaker 1: two separate leagues. And now I was hoping to face

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Speaker 1: Kelly in the championship that league. But now I am

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Speaker 1: in the championship against someone else. It's a little touch

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Speaker 1: and go how I'm doing. I've been complaining to Kelly

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Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks because we have like

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Speaker 1: a limit on transactions for the season, and they didn't

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Speaker 1: reset in the playoffs, which I thought they would, and so,

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Speaker 1: as I said, the playoffs have been eight weeks and

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Speaker 1: I've been sc scratching and clawing and trying to limit

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Speaker 1: my transactions because I was really at the limit hitting

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And I offered to loan you or sell you some transactions,

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Speaker 2: and no one would let us do that. I was like,

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Speaker 2: come on, fifty bucks here, fifty bucks there, let's do this.

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Speaker 1: I made a lot of proposals to the commissioner. None

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Speaker 1: of them were heard, and so I'm just I actually

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Speaker 1: have one transaction left and I have I've been debating,

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Speaker 1: like do I use it early in the week, but

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Speaker 1: then what happens, you know, if someone gets hurt and

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Speaker 1: I just can't replace him. I just had to eat that.

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Speaker 1: Jaron Duran suspensions and that was fun. Thank you to

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Speaker 1: him for, you know, saying awful things.

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Speaker 3: You can always count on a Red Sox to do that,

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Speaker 3: can't you?

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Speaker 1: Easy? Easy? Okay, Okay, let's jump right into it. You

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Speaker 1: sent me something right before the show about something that

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is considering and trying to debate. If

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Speaker 1: I should just let you jump in, I guess I'll

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Speaker 1: intro it for you. So their news reported we saw

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Speaker 1: it on CBS Sports, is that MLB major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: is reportedly weighing a six inning requirement for starting pitchers,

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Speaker 1: which is just a wild thing to consider based on

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Speaker 1: how things have been going the last several years, you know,

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Speaker 1: with openers and with really limiting pictures, not letting them

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Speaker 1: see a third time through the lineup, sometimes not even

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Speaker 1: completing a second time through the lineup, and also with

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Speaker 1: younger pictures really limiting their workloads. Requiring a picture to

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Speaker 1: go six in is just a wild thing. To even

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Speaker 1: consider it. Says in the report that the average I

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Speaker 1: average you know, it's right in the subtitle starting pitchers

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Speaker 3: I had the same response.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some some caveat so and the one

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Speaker 1: thing they said is like, we are years away from

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Speaker 1: doing this. This is not something they're even ready to

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Speaker 1: in the report it says it would include exceptions to

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Speaker 1: no way they're going to get that that part approved.

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Speaker 1: And if they're giving up four more earned runs, which

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Speaker 1: And then getting injured, which my mediate thought was okay,

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Speaker 1: why do you wanted to talk about it?

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Speaker 2: I thought it was super interesting from the idea that

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Speaker 2: how many pitcher injuries have we dealt with this year?

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Speaker 3: And whether it's up or down, I don't care.

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Speaker 2: It just seems like it just person after person is

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Speaker 2: and people are trying to figure out, like if the

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Speaker 2: have to just keep pitching even if your arm falls off.

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Speaker 2: And I understand what they're doing, but I also it's

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Speaker 2: maybe even in college, they're gonna have to really change

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Speaker 2: how pitchers come up because right now, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: like if your picture is getting shelled, fine, but you

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Speaker 3: So that's my response.

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Speaker 1: You're not in favor of it, even the idea. What

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Speaker 2: I've always been in favor of the if you're some

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Speaker 2: But you know, knowing that you're facing a starter who's

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, there's no way, and it's there's a lot,

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Speaker 1: the Big Bully and major League Baseball, which never seems

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Speaker 1: to help out the small market teams. Not that they

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Speaker 1: Go back to being a small market team and just

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Speaker 1: the face of the Pirates right now coming out of nowhere,

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Speaker 1: I think they're years away from even attempting this. Knowing

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Speaker 1: have some extreme stipulations. The hundred pitches things. Teams don't

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Speaker 1: even want their their pitchers throwing one hundred pitches in

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Speaker 3: Exactly. That's everything happen, Yeah, for sure, and not.

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Speaker 1: To stay on this for so long, but there is

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Speaker 1: and maybe stop changing the baseball maybe that would also

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Speaker 1: you read the book The Arm by Jeff Passing. If not,

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend their check it out. But I read

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And I think, yeah, exactly, And I was

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Speaker 2: just the only other thing I was going to add

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Speaker 3: Although I think.

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Speaker 2: If we'd ask people who those two pictures were, I

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Speaker 2: then they said, like, forty years ago, pictures were basically

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Speaker 2: pitching a full inning more than what they are now.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm we can talk about this at nauseum obviously,

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Speaker 2: but it's it's an interesting thing, just again to watch

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Speaker 2: I'm interested to see. I think the conversation goes yeah,

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Speaker 2: and changing the baseball, which you and I could you

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Speaker 2: and I talk about I think twice a week.

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Speaker 1: So yeah. I also remember earlier in the year, I

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Speaker 1: believe the first two pictures to throw complete games this

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Speaker 1: year were Ranger Suarez and Renel Blanca, which is who

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Speaker 1: everyone predicted to throw the first two. I just I

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Speaker 1: remember that talking about on this show.

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Speaker 3: They were high round two picks, right, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well Ranger Suarez, as famously declared on this show

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Speaker 3: Sorry?

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Speaker 1: Any interest whatsoever in any league anywhere in Jordan Walker

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Speaker 1: They just do all these weird things, and it's been

434
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,280
Speaker 1: a rough run for him. But yeah, I agree, I

435
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,880
Speaker 1: am not interested the rest of season. But in Dynasty,

436
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 1: I'm still holding out hope. I don't know what the

437
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,760
Speaker 1: ceiling is. But he's still so young, and you can

438
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,840
Speaker 1: see the talent is there, especially with a build like him.

439
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,120
Speaker 1: We're not talking about like a five ten, five eleven guy.

440
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,320
Speaker 1: He's like six foot five, two hundred and twenty five pounds.

441
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,520
Speaker 1: He's built to have that kind of power. And so

442
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,320
Speaker 1: we'll say how it goes. It's too early to pooled

443
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:08,720
Speaker 1: the plug on something like that because he's so young,

444
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 1: and you see the potential there the rest of season,

445
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,400
Speaker 1: especially if you need things like batting average, and it's

446
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,720
Speaker 1: just kind of too and we'll talk about this a

447
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,040
Speaker 1: little bit more going forward. It's just kind of too

448
00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 1: late in the season to take a chance on someone

449
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,679
Speaker 1: like him, because you know, if this is April and

450
00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 1: he's up, maybe you roll the dice and you see

451
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,640
Speaker 1: what you see what things look like, because you can

452
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 1: still make back some of those things. But we're in

453
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 1: mid August. It's crunch time. You just can't roll the

454
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 1: dice on someone who might give you nothing this week.

455
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,320
Speaker 1: So I think we're in agreement on that.

456
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 3: Yes we are.

457
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,320
Speaker 1: Now another player who is back back from the way beyond.

458
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,400
Speaker 1: Is Victor Roblist good now?

459
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,879
Speaker 2: I was expecting you to give a much longer intro,

460
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 2: but instead on the one that I'm the one that we're.

461
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:58,520
Speaker 3: Like, ah, you're like here, start talking? Is he good now?

462
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with not necessarily. I don't know exactly

463
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 2: what Seattle decided to extend him based on. You know,

464
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 2: he's got the three home runs like since he came

465
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,919
Speaker 2: over to them, but it is still Victor rolled us

466
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 2: with the average of two thirty nine. That's his career

467
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,199
Speaker 2: average and career ops of six seventy four, Like, like,

468
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 2: what are you seeing in him that no one else

469
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 2: has seen that would want him for another two years?

470
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 2: I mean even like, yeah, he's still twenty eight bases

471
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen and then since then it's just been

472
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 2: this kind of just mediocre, replacement level guy. So I

473
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 2: don't know why they would do that, but maybe it's Seattle.

474
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 3: They don't care about hitters.

475
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, So, yeah, I could have given you

476
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 1: a longer, longer insur there, but I felt like that

477
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 1: was a good, a good way to just toss it

478
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: right to you. Also, I'm losing my voice, so I'm

479
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 1: trying to trying to host the show the best I

480
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 1: can without losing my voice. Pretty Much everyone who went

481
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,120
Speaker 1: to the Any Football Expo is losing their voice this week,

482
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 1: just from late nights of yelling over each other and

483
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: crowded you know, either crowded events or crowded bars, and

484
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: we're all just we're all just losing our voices. So

485
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 1: I'm doing my best. I Also, yeah, it was a surprise,

486
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 1: like it was fun for them to you know, get

487
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 1: something out of Victor Roblists. I thought it was a

488
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 1: pretty quick move to sign him to an extension, not

489
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 1: that it was an overly expensive extension. To clear up

490
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, the Mariners have, you know, recently

491
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 1: acquired I guess not so recently, but like a couple

492
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: months ago acquired Victor Roblists, And they've already signed him

493
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: to a tow year extension and his numbers are fine,

494
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 1: you know, through fifty eight games, he's been into fifty

495
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 1: two three Hume runs sixteen stolen bases, explaining good defense

496
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: for them, which is, you know, he'll always do that

497
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: for you, and I guess they're just very happy with that.

498
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 1: The problem with Victor Robliss has always been and and

499
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: I kind of I remember, I remember before the COVID year.

500
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 1: Actually I think I was, you know, when he had

501
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: his breakout twenty nineteen year where he had seventeen home runs,

502
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: twenty he had stolen bases. Bat at two fifty five,

503
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: he was still on the twenty two years old. I

504
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: acquired him in a trade with Dan Harris. I can't

505
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: even remember. If I asked him right now, he would

506
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: know what the trade was. I can't remember what the

507
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 1: trade was. And I think it actually ended up getting

508
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: avoided by the COVID year, luckily for me. But there

509
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 1: were concerns at the time about his bat at ball

510
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: data and it was okay, he hit seventeen home runs,

511
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: but the bat ball data isn't great. Is that power sustainable?

512
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: And it turns out no, it is not, because he

513
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 1: hit seventeen home runs that year and he's only hit

514
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: five eleven fourteen home runs in the five season sense,

515
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: so it seems like the power was not sustainable. Speed

516
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: will always be their defense will always be there. And

517
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,679
Speaker 1: if you look at you can't even really look at

518
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: his stat cast data for the last two years because

519
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,719
Speaker 1: he doesn't qualify for you know, a lot of it

520
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 1: unless you kind of lower the threshold. But if you

521
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: look at the last in twenty twenty two, when he

522
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: played one hundred and thirty two games, his stat Cast data,

523
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: it's about as bad as it's. It's dark blue ones

524
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: and threes, and you know, it's XWOBA one XBA three

525
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: And for people at home, we don't know what I'm

526
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 1: talking about. This is a percentile of one to one hundred,

527
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: and so you want to be one hundred is good,

528
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 1: So one is about as bad. It means you're the worst. Yeah,

529
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 1: so x well, but one XBA three, x lug one average,

530
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 1: x velocity, one barrel percentage eight, hard hit percentage one

531
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: and it's just all dark blue. It's it's not even bad.

532
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 1: It's like as bad as you can be. It almost

533
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: have to try to be that bad. And so that's

534
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 1: the really concerning thing about his profile is that unless

535
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: they've unlocked something with him, he's still only twenty seven

536
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: years old. Unless they've unlocked something to really change his

537
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: added ball data, he's still going to be a guy

538
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: who doesn't hit a home a lot of home runs,

539
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: doesn't hit for a great average, and can run a

540
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: little bit. And it feels like those guys are a time.

541
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: It doesn't.

542
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the only thing is I'm looking at

543
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 2: like his profile, and I do. I should say very

544
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 2: I roster him in one league where I need stolen bases,

545
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 2: and since you got traded to Seattle, he's got twelve

546
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 2: of them, so they're kind of letting him steal at

547
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 2: will I think at this point. So I'm not, and

548
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 2: he's batting on the top of a terrible lineup, but

549
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: it should put him in position to score runs if

550
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 2: he's around, So yeah, I would.

551
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 3: So the rest of season.

552
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with rostering him if you're

553
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 2: kind of just trying to boost your stulen base. But

554
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 2: if he if he craters in terms of betting average,

555
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: just jump ship as soon as possible, because I don't

556
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 2: see anything long there's nothing long term there. It's like,

557
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 2: if you stop stealing, then there's not much that I

558
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 2: want him for.

559
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: So it does. It does seem like just kind of

560
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: looking at and it's still it's fifty eight games, one

561
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five played appearances, so it's still a

562
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: pretty small in the grand scheme of things. Sample size

563
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 1: canpare to the rest of his career. There are some

564
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: interesting changes in his profile. His hard hit percentages is

565
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: not up from last year, but it's up for his career.

566
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: It's twenty seven point seven percent. He's a career twenty

567
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 1: four point eight percent. His swinging strike percentage is actually up.

568
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: His career number is eleven point seven percent. It's thirteen

569
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: point six percent now after being below ten percent last year.

570
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: His barrel percentage is way higher. His career barrel percentage

571
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: is three point nine percent. It's up over it's up

572
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 1: near nine percent now. So you almost wonder like, is

573
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: he really changing some things and selling out, you know,

574
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: or just kind of changing his approach a little bit.

575
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: It's hard to say you're selling out when your barrel

576
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: percentage is up and your harp percent hit percentages down.

577
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't really doesn't really calculate there. Fly balls are up, though,

578
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: so he's hitting the ball in the air more. So

579
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: there are some changes. Maybe that's really what the Mariners

580
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 1: are counting on. They're like, we've seen enough, we're seeing

581
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: the profile change, we think he can develop, and this

582
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: is you know, it's like I said, they didn't break

583
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: the bank on this extension for him. It's two years

584
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: and I don't even remember like nine million or something,

585
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: not over the expensive in the grand scheme of baseball

586
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: contracts and what you're seeing others get. So I guess

587
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: it's a low risk move for them. I don't know

588
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: that they really need to do that move.

589
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: Yet, but yeah, and you know, they're their entire right,

590
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: their entire bread and buttery right now is just the pitching,

591
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: so you might as well add a high, high caliber

592
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 2: defensive guy. I just feel like how they're building their

593
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: team is very interesting, and they've blown giantly in the West,

594
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 2: so you know it's but I think that's why they

595
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: like him is, yeah, here's play defense behind our fantastic pitchers,

596
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 2: and we will still miss the playoffs.

597
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: So shots fired. That's not nice, all right? So that

598
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: that ends our guess who's back section. Let's go over

599
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: to our newcomers section, which these players are not all

600
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: newcomers in the same sense. One of them was just

601
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: called up. A couple of them or a few of

602
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: the others have been up for a while, but they're

603
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: still new pretty much for this year. So the big

604
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: one is Junior Cameronaro, and he was recently called up

605
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: by the Rays and it's only been two games, but

606
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: the early results not great. He's I mean, but it's

607
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: hard to say, like not for two games, right, he's

608
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: only had eight played appearances. You can say he's betting

609
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: one forty three, but you know that's that can triple

610
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: if he has a good game today, right, But in

611
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: terms of the you know, the prospect profile, he's a

612
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: highly regarded prospect in Triple A this year in fifty

613
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: three games he's been in two seventy six with thirteen

614
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: home runs, one stolen base, thirty four MBI, thirty three

615
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: runs scored. He's walking six point eight percent of the time,

616
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: strikeout rate is a perfectly reasonable twenty one point two

617
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: percent of the time twenty one point two percent. And

618
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three in Double A he hit twenty

619
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: home runs in eighty one games, So we do see

620
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: the power profile there. So what's your interest level in

621
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: Junior Cameronaro? For obviously in Dynasty you need to have

622
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: interest in him everywhere because he's that kind of prospect.

623
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: But what about rest of season.

624
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 2: I'm I'm pretty I've kind of avoided him in redrafts

625
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season, just I don't like

626
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,959
Speaker 2: some rookies come up and go on fire for like

627
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: three games and then creator out. Some take much longer

628
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: to develop, like where he's gonna go, He's gonna have

629
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: a lot of over games to start with, or just

630
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: not show all that power yet. So I you know,

631
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 2: if you have him, it's fine. I'm not suggesting that

632
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 2: you drop him if you want to wait it out,

633
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: but like in a in a league where you have

634
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: like shallow rosters, I don't. I don't want him at

635
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 2: this point unless I am desperate for him, like a

636
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 2: third baseman. So it's it's like I'm excited about him

637
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: if you know, if you have him in dynasty, like

638
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: you said, just don't you don't even think about it.

639
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 2: But in redraft right now, I just don't. I don't

640
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: want to roll that dice if I'm in contention.

641
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's kind of where I'm at too. If

642
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: I have the roster spot out, I'll grab him and

643
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: stash him. I tend to not have those roster spots

644
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: at this time of the year or the fab to

645
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: add someone like Junior Camonaro at the year. Yeah, and

646
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: like you said, it has been a really pretty much

647
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, position players have not

648
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: come up and hit the ground running for the most part.

649
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: We even saw Jackson Holliday come up and just fall

650
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: in his face earlier this year, and now he's back

651
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: and he's doing better. But like we were saying about

652
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: Jordan Walker, even with a prospect like this on August fifteenth,

653
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to just jump in and trust

654
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: someone like that when when they can just give you

655
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: a zero for the week or just greater a category

656
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: for a week or two. Because that's why I'll grab

657
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: him and stash him if I can. I understand the

658
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: ceiling is there. I've always thought he was a little tiny.

659
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: He's like my height and like twenty or thirty pounds

660
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: lighter than me, and like I don't not that big

661
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: a guy, so he seems very small, which is interesting.

662
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: You know, you wonder if he can you know, he's

663
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: still twenty years old, he's just a baby. If he

664
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: can continue to build out that frame. Maybe the power

665
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: gets even even better if he can put on like

666
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: twenty pounds or even like ten pounds muzzle. I don't

667
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: know that this is true, but his listed weight on

668
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: Fangraft right now I was one hundred and fifty seven pounds.

669
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that's still the case because that is

670
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: really small. Five to eleven guy.

671
00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it reminds me of my favorite that my

672
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: favorite official weight last year was Christopher Morrell was listened

673
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: at one forty and I was and I'm like, have

674
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: you looked at him like his his like legs way

675
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty, what are we talking about? But

676
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: you know, so sometimes they undershoot by like thirty forty pounds.

677
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, in his case, I hope so, because yeah,

678
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: one fifty seven for his height is very small, yes,

679
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: and probably not true. So let's go through a couple

680
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: of pictures. Next, we'll pair him together. I was going

681
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: to talk about them each individually, but I don't know

682
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: that we need to. They're a little bit different. But

683
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: we can jump into Spencer Schwellenbach and Drew Thorpe and

684
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: Schwellenbach has been on a bit of a heater he's

685
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: been pitching really well lately. He's someone I kind of

686
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,959
Speaker 1: I have him in Dynasty, and like I said, it's

687
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: some of the leases I need volumes. So I've been

688
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: rolling him out there and I was just for some

689
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: for some weeks, I was just rolling him out there

690
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: and put my hand over my eyes and watching between

691
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: my fingers and seeing and hoping for the best. At

692
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 1: some of his early starts not so great, but not terrible,

693
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: and recently he's been a lot better. And so twelve starts,

694
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: seventy and two thirds innings, seventy seven strikeouts, three point

695
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: nine to five ERA, all of his expected ERA numbers

696
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: fifth X, fips, heerra, XCIRA, all between three point h

697
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: nine and three point through three, so they're all actually

698
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: lower by half a run than in his actual ERA.

699
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 1: Whip is one point oh six, strikeout percentage twenty six

700
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: point eight percent, so lots of Like in his profile there,

701
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: he's twenty four years old. And then Drew Thorpe, he

702
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: famously pitches for the White Sox, highly touted prospect, has

703
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: not gone great this year. I had some interest earlier

704
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: in the year. That interest has been decreasing by the week,

705
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: and it is now approaching zero, and that is because

706
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: one he starts for the White Sox. Two, he's not

707
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: been pitching well. Through nine starts, forty four one third innings,

708
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: only twenty five strikeouts, which is kind of baffling for

709
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: a guy who should be doing a lot better than that.

710
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: We've seen his strikeout rate of decreased as he's climbed

711
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: the you know, climb the levels, and he's still you know,

712
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: he's still very young. He's still very new to professional

713
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: baseball because he was in high A last year, so

714
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: he's kind of gone through it rapidly and it seems

715
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: like maybe he's not ready. But yeah, five point four

716
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 1: eight e RA. His expected numbers are all between four

717
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 1: sixty six, which is only x c RA, and all

718
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: the other ones are about in the five eights, so

719
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: they're all actually higher than he's actually ERA. So I'm

720
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and assume you have no interest in

721
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: Drew Thorpe press of season to say, probably for Dynasty,

722
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: But what about Spencer Schwellenbach.

723
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 2: Well, over the course of the last month, I've kind

724
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 2: of like fallen in love with to Spencer, So I've

725
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: got Schwellenbach, and then there is it Raghetti to correct.

726
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer, Is I think the name you're looking for?

727
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, that's your guy.

728
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

729
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: No, I I think I've really enjoyed I've enjoyed roster

730
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 2: and Schwellenbach everywhere.

731
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 3: I've got him for about the last month.

732
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: And the only reason I had him, and this is

733
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: just a free plug for Fantasy pros projections, was I

734
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: needed a streamer for a week and he was like

735
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: number three in VBR And at first I thought it

736
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: was a like it was wrong, Like I almost checked

737
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 2: with like our data guy to be like I think

738
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 2: this is this isn't right, like you've got the wrong numbers.

739
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 2: But I picked him up because I trust our system

740
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: and he gave me like his two best starts in

741
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 2: a row, like it was, so now you know, I

742
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 2: have him everywhere, and I just like what he's been

743
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 2: doing over the last like five six starts. He's striking

744
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 2: out a ton of people. His K percentage at twenty

745
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: almost twenty seven, yeah I I yeah, So I'm in

746
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: on him, I guess. And if if he's available in

747
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 2: your league, s grab him.

748
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I should have looked up his roster percentage,

749
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: but I don't have it in front of me.

750
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 3: I got it.

751
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who's got him? Seventy three percent? And ESPN's

752
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 2: at forty seven.

753
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, ESPN's always lower because O shallow leagues Spencer.

754
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: So instead of Drew Thorpe, we should have talked about

755
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: Spencer Ragetty because his numbers on the surface are not great,

756
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: his expected numbers are a lot better, and he's been

757
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: pitching a lot better than because he came up, I believe,

758
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: and got lit up when he first got called up.

759
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: But he's been pitching a lot better lately and for

760
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: the for the season, twenty one starts, one hundred and

761
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: five innings, one hundred and twenty nine strikeouts, eras five

762
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: point one four, but his expected numbers are all a

763
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: run or lower, a run lesser beneath. I really butchered

764
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: the order of those words. But his ERA is five

765
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: point five point one four, and it's like x Fit

766
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: four point one eight or four point four fIF four

767
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: point one eight. Sierra and x Ara are all below four,

768
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: so signifantly better. His whip is still pretty high, but

769
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: if I look at the splits, I will see that

770
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: he was pitching a lot better. So Yeah, in the

771
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: second half overall three point six oh ERA and in

772
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: August through thirteen innings two point oh eight e RA.

773
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: So that speaks to why you like him and why

774
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: he's been a popular ad on the waiverbi over the

775
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: last few weeks, despite a rough start to start to

776
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: it when in March and April at ten point nine

777
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: to seven y so that is about as rough as

778
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: it gets to.

779
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 3: Start for sure.

780
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the other one that at first I

781
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: was like, I was calling all my home run calls

782
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 2: were going against him as quickly as possible. But yeah,

783
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 2: I think I remember, like Joe on leading off talking

784
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 2: about like he had no interest in either of these

785
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 2: two guys, and so it's actually kind of I mean,

786
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: you know, Joe is always wrong, but as time has

787
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 2: gone on, I'm just like, I don't know, I have

788
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 2: a ton of interest.

789
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 3: In both of them.

790
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: So I would say I would want either, and especially

791
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 2: if you're streaming, and I would pick up based on that.

792
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: So how about a hitter who's been pretty hot and

793
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: has been, you know, finally playing as much as we

794
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: wanted him to play in Colton Kownser who I just

795
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: moved to his game log to see something else, but

796
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, and moved away from his season long numbers.

797
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: But he's been batting lead off, which is great. He's

798
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: been playing mostly every day for the Orioles, which is

799
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: something we were, you know, lobbying for earlier in the year.

800
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: But now through one hundred and thirteen game four hundred,

801
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: just over four hundred plate appearances, he had eighteen home runs,

802
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: fifty five year RBI. He's striking out twenty eight point

803
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: six percent, which is the exact same number he had

804
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: last year when he was called up, and it's on

805
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: par with you know, pretty much he's going to strike out.

806
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: You know, he's going to be close to thirty percent

807
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: strikeout right batting to forty seven expected batting average, also

808
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: to forty seven seven stolen bases, so a little bit

809
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: of power speed. I assume you have interest in Culton

810
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 1: Kownser the rest of season, despite the early playing concerns

811
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: he had.

812
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: Yes, now that he's playing regularly and they're doing what

813
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 2: they're doing, I have plenty of interest in Cowser.

814
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 3: I would take.

815
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 2: Him, And yeah, as long as he continues to bed

816
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 2: at the top of that order, I don't see any

817
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: reason to stay away from him.

818
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: So, yeah, he does seem a little streaky, but he's

819
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, he has the kind of ceiling and he's

820
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: been kind of consistently good enough that you know, I'm

821
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 1: still interested in him, especially now that you know, like

822
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: like we said, he's playing every day, or not every day,

823
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: but most days, as opposed to you know, earlier when

824
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: he was just kind of they called him up. He

825
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: wasn't playing all the time. In the second half. In

826
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: one hundred of backs, he's betting three twenty after betting

827
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: two nineteen in the first half, and so we've seen

828
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 1: him kind of turn turn a corner there. Numbers are

829
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: a little bit down in the small sample size in

830
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: August after a really hot July, but in May he betted,

831
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: so he came out and in twenty seven games in

832
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: April bat at three oh three, and then in May

833
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: and June he batted below two hundred, and then in

834
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: July three twenty nine, and now in August only twelve

835
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: games but two forty. But it does come with two

836
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: home runs, you know, in just twelve game fifty played appearances,

837
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,720
Speaker 1: and so it seems like he's a little bit streaky,

838
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: but the ceiling is there pretty much across the board

839
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm in agreement. He's probably rostered everywhere

840
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: because of that ceiling. But I just wanted to mention

841
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: him because he's kind of, you know, he was kind

842
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: of an for that before, but now that he's playing

843
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: every day, he's a must start, and you know, he's

844
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: highly unlikely to be available in your league, but if

845
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: he is, somebody should have exactly. So the last section

846
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: here of rest of season interest is kind of this

847
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: pitcher pot pourrie. I wanted to call it for no

848
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: apparent reason other than it was just a pile of pitchers,

849
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: and so we can talk about them quickly. But I

850
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: grouped them all together. Cutter Crawford and Tanner Hawk, who

851
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: we agreed before the show might be the same person,

852
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: Blake Sell, Black Snell, and Garrett Crochet, and we can

853
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: talk about them for all different reasons except for Crawford

854
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: and how who are the same person. Some new pitchers

855
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: who really had great starts of the year with all

856
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: the Red Sox pitching development, you know, overhauled kind of

857
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: their whole approach. They both regressed in a big way

858
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: the last month or so. Blake Snell, who didn't have

859
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: a contract coming into the year, started very late, started

860
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: very poorly, and has now been pitching his butt off.

861
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: And then Garrett Crochet, who you said before the show,

862
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: you can probably drop everywhere.

863
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: I yeah, I'm out on Curchet for the rest of

864
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: the season, not even a question. I feel like I

865
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: told you before the show that I think he thoroughly

866
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: thought that he was going to get traded, even with

867
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 2: his little disclaimer, Like it felt like he fully expected

868
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: all of that to fall perfectly into place, and then

869
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 2: it didn't. And now it's like he's realized he's on

870
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 2: the White Sox and he's got nothing to pitch for.

871
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 2: And so I feel like, in some ways, you know,

872
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: and I'm not saying this, this is just how it looks,

873
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 2: at least statistically and for fantasy purposes, it just looks

874
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: like he's kind of quit. I'm not saying that about

875
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 2: him personally. I'm sure he's still doing everything he can.

876
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 2: It just he doesn't keep I would hope not, but

877
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 2: he just he just doesn't have the look of a

878
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 2: guy that's trying to really do anything special at all.

879
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 2: And if they're gonna cap his innings the way there

880
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: are three innings for and like I'm fully out you could, yeah,

881
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: without I would just drop him, is where I'm at.

882
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, what Aboututter Crawford and Tanner Hawk? Where are you

883
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: in terms of rostering them and dropping them? And I'll

884
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: give you some quick numbers to kind of paint why

885
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm asking here. So Tanner Hack, I'm not looking at Tannerhick. Yeah,

886
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: Tanner Hawk through the first half two point five four ERA,

887
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: and that includes in April one point six oht e

888
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: RA and May two point oh nine RA. So just

889
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: came out of the gate of the gates fireing in

890
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: twenty nine two thirty AYE in the second half four

891
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: point eight five RA, including a four point five eight

892
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: e RA in August. So he's just kind of fallen

893
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: apart a little bit here, and then Crutter Crawford. It's

894
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: even worse for Credit Crawford. He started out with a

895
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: one point three five ERA. He kind of fell apart

896
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: again in May with a five point one four ARRA,

897
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: but then he settled in around you know, in June

898
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: and July it was between four and three and a

899
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: half second half nine point seven five RA, including a

900
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: nine point four to two ERA. He is just I

901
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: don't know, aut of gas or something, and I think

902
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: Tanner Hawck maybe I'm more inclined to hold on Cruter Crawford,

903
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: the person I was playing against in last week's playoff

904
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: matchup streamed him to his demise pretty much. Yeah, but yeah,

905
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: it's not going great for Credter Crawford, So you know,

906
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: I would lean drop on definitely Crawford. And I'm on

907
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: the fence about Tanner Hawk. Where are you on those two?

908
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I play in a few deep

909
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 2: leagues where dropping pictures is just a terrible idea almost

910
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 2: across the board. But if I have the choice, I

911
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 2: would drop Crawford. Yeah, I'm on the same boat with

912
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 2: hawklike I would. I think I'll stream him and otherwise

913
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 2: it's kind of that keep him on the bench, and

914
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 2: then if you continuously keep him on the bench, like

915
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 2: through three starts in a row, drop him because you're

916
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: not going to stream him against anybody.

917
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, and then Blake Snell real quick, there's not

918
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: a whole lot actionable here because he's going to be

919
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: rostered everywhere based on what he's doing right now. But

920
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: it's there are going to be a lot of stories

921
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: head of next year that people who won their leagues

922
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: probably picked up Blake Snell from someone who dropped him,

923
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: because when he came out he he had an eleven

924
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: point five He started the year late eleven point five

925
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: to seven the RA in April. May wasn't made much

926
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: better at eight point five to nine. June was slightly

927
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: better at five point seventy nine, and since then he's

928
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: been unhittable, just unhittable. And July zero point seventy five

929
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: y RA, August one point two to seven the RA,

930
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: and then for the second half one point three to

931
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: five RA and just you know, he even pitched uh,

932
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, more than seven innings a couple of weeks

933
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: ago about that first time ever. Yep, and one point

934
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: three five hours. He's just winning people league. So it's

935
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: not a whole lot actionable there. I just wanted to

936
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: point that out because it's just a wild story for him.

937
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: I've never been a huge Blake Snell guy because even

938
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: when you get you know, like you there are those

939
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 1: wild fluctuations, and even when he's going great, like sometimes

940
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: you don't even get those quality starts because of how

941
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's like a five inning kind of guy.

942
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: But now there's gonna be a lot of stories next year.

943
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: Are people who just got fed up and dropped him

944
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: and people who picked him up and they're just riding

945
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: him to a championship right now.

946
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I mean he's just that's just kind

947
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 2: of the lasting impact from him at this point, is

948
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: you know, even if they start late, if this is

949
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 2: kind of a proven commodity of especially a strikeout artist

950
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: like he is, you might either you hold on to

951
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 2: him as long as you possibly can, or you draft

952
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 2: them in the first place.

953
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, so real quick, I want to hit on a

954
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: few players. We don't have to spend a lot of

955
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: time on this because I you know, I think we're

956
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: going to be in agreement on it. But there are

957
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: a few injuries for all different players that have injuries,

958
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: but kind of like different phases of their injury. There's

959
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: Jazz Chism who just went down with an elbow injury

960
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: that doesn't look great. The latest news on him is

961
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: that he's they're hopeful he'll be back in three weeks.

962
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: The three weeks is pretty much the rest of the

963
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: fantasy season, and so not a whole lot to be

964
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: helpful about there. Tristan Kassis, it sounds like he's coming

965
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: back to the Red Sox soon. But he's been on

966
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: just the longes. You know, he's been out pretty much

967
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: the entire season. He's been even he's been in the

968
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: minor league minor leagues in a rehab assignment for a while.

969
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: It apparently runs out next week, so like he's eligible

970
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: to come back, they just haven't brought him back. They

971
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: want to keep him down there despite the fact that

972
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: they could really use him in that lineup. So that

973
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: kind of shows you where he at, where he's at

974
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: in his rehab. But he'll be back next week apparently, sure,

975
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: you know, supposedly see and then there's Max sures Or,

976
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: who seems like you can probably just drop him for

977
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: right now. So what do you think about any of

978
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: those three Jazz Chisholm, Tristan Cassis, Max sures Er. I

979
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: feel like I don't know that I want to roster

980
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: any of them right now, And if I want to

981
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: roster one of them, it's probably Cassis, and it's just

982
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: rolling the dice that he comes back and is anything

983
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: like he can be.

984
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I drafted Cassis everywhere, so he's on my aisle everywhere,

985
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 2: even when he was you know what did he call it?

986
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 2: He was visualizing swings, which I'll never get over as

987
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 2: long as I live.

988
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't.

989
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I think if you head Chisholm the Yankees

990
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 2: and you have gotten everything you're gonna get out of him,

991
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 2: So I could drop him if I need space. And

992
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 2: you know, I think it's time we talk about Schurezer

993
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 2: might just be old, and so you can drop him too,

994
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 2: because even like in a keeper league or dynasty, like,

995
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 2: he's not going to give you anything anymore.

996
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's where I'm at. So yeah, I would keep.

997
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 3: I would.

998
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 2: I'm keeping Castes just because I have him everywhere. But

999
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 2: the other two I think you can drop.

1000
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: Yeah. I actually I don't have Chisholm in this one league.

1001
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: But in another keeper league, I drafted really well and

1002
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: I had good keepers, and I just kind of stashed

1003
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of players for the playoff run because that's

1004
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: always what happens to me. I happen to have Mike

1005
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 1: Trout and Christian Yelich in that league, and so September

1006
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: has not been kind to me, and I head to

1007
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: head league having rostering those two players. But I drafted

1008
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: well and I was able to draft people late like

1009
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: Shrezer and de Gram because I was like, Okay, these

1010
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: will be good late season fireballers for me for the

1011
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: head to have playoffs. And then I had some depth

1012
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: at other positions and I acquired assets like I don't know,

1013
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: six weeks ago, just for just for this push, this push,

1014
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: And now I'm concerned that Like luckily it's in ops league,

1015
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: so you know, he won't hurt me as much of

1016
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: batting average because of you know, his tendency to get

1017
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: on base. But he's just been out for so long

1018
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: and his rehabs had taken so long that I'm just

1019
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: worried what we're what we're even getting back at this point.

1020
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: So I do have interest in Casses, but it is

1021
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:23,959
Speaker 1: a concerned interest for sure.

1022
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: Yes.

1023
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: So in the past, we've done waivers where we each

1024
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 1: picked two players a pitcher and a and a hitter

1025
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: to target. We're at the point of the year. I

1026
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: don't think we can do that anymore. The pickings are slim,

1027
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: and so I just kind of went through and I

1028
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,959
Speaker 1: listed a bunch of players of varying roster percentages, and

1029
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: I think we can just go through them quickly and see, yes, no,

1030
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: do you have any interest in adding them, and I

1031
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: kind of looked at the rest of season VBR and

1032
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: these are the names that stuck out. The one I

1033
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: kind of cheated on is Nate Loud, but I'll get

1034
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: to him. So the three names are Jesse Winker, who

1035
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: is rostered in thirty three percent of leagues, Nate Loo

1036
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: sixty percent of leagues, Brandon Lowe, his brother, forty six

1037
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 1: percent of leagues, Jeffrey Springs thirty nine percent, Ryan Nelson

1038
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: twenty six percent, and Paul Blackburn thirty percent. The Blackburn

1039
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: number I thought was low because he's been pitching really

1040
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: well and is a two star pitcher this week, so

1041
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: I thought his roster percentage will be higher, but I

1042
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: guess not enough people are picking him up. Jesse Winker

1043
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: was a name that stood out because of the just

1044
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: bizar year he's having. But I talked a lot on

1045
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: this show about how and you mentioned earlier the VBR

1046
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: on Fantasy pros and I like to look at that

1047
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: for like season long stats and then also for projections,

1048
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: just to see the value of a player that I'm

1049
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: thinking about picking up. And the wild thing about Jesse

1050
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,280
Speaker 1: Winker is when I was looking at his weekly VBR.

1051
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: This week that we're currently in, he was twenty eight

1052
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: overall VBR in terms of value for hitters. Rest of

1053
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: season he's two twenty eight, So I don't know what

1054
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: we saw in him this week he jumped to the

1055
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: top thirty, but rest of season two twenty eight and

1056
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: this week, I guess we really like it. Maybe we're

1057
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: not protecting him to just get that kind of playing

1058
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: time going forward, but that was really interesting. And then

1059
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: Nate low is eighty four VBR rest of season, Brandon

1060
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: Low ninety six VBR rest of season, both playing pretty well,

1061
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: especially Brandon not actually brothers. That was a joke by me,

1062
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: so and a really funny one at that. So Jeffries, yeah,

1063
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Springs, and especially when they're pnounced differently, jeff spelled

1064
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: the saying pronounced differently. Whichever one of those hominem homophone

1065
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: words those are holographs.

1066
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely a holograph, Yeah, one of those.

1067
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: And then Jeffrey Springs is a picture. Sorry, Jeffree Springs

1068
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: is a picture that I've always been very high on. Obviously,

1069
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: he's still working his way back from injury, but thirty

1070
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: nine percent, I feel like it's too low for him too,

1071
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: especially you know, we've talked about throughout the show about

1072
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 1: needing volume. Jeffery Springs something I'm really interested in, and

1073
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: he needs to be rostered in definitely more than fifty

1074
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: percent of leagues. So I'll read the name again. Jesse Winker,

1075
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: Nate Loo, Brandon Lowe, Jeff Springs, Ryan Nelson, Paul Blackburne.

1076
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: I don't know why I call them jeff Springs. His

1077
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,240
Speaker 1: name is Jeffrey. I don't know everyone can call him Jeff.

1078
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 3: I mean at this point, but are we going to

1079
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 3: do any of them correctly?

1080
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, So any interest in any of those

1081
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: hitters or pitchers the rest of season or at least

1082
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: not even rest of season, but at least it's.

1083
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 3: Upcoming week, So yeah, Winker.

1084
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: I feel like if you look at weekly projections, occasionally

1085
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 2: he'll be like the top free agent pickup and then

1086
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 2: the next week non existent, So you have to be

1087
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 2: careful with him. Obviously, he's always been good for base

1088
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 2: percentage league, so if you are in one of those,

1089
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 2: then I would definitely make sure he's on your team.

1090
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: I don't have I don't really don't have a lot

1091
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 2: of interest in either of the non brothers right now

1092
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 2: unless you really need them.

1093
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 3: Brandon.

1094
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 2: I've never liked rostering Brandon, so I just kind of

1095
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 2: stay away from him. I have springs. I picked him

1096
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 2: up a lot of places or drafted him, so yeah,

1097
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 2: you got to wait him out. I don't know in

1098
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 2: terms of volume how long he's been able to go

1099
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 2: in both of his first two starts or first three starts,

1100
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,240
Speaker 2: but he's definitely got a lot of upside. I actually

1101
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,240
Speaker 2: like Ryan Nelson a lot, but again as a streamer,

1102
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: and Paul Blackburn, he's just hurt by his name because

1103
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 2: everyone knows him as Paul Blackburn the Oakland Athletic where

1104
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 2: you know you get one good start followed by four

1105
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 2: really not good starts. So there's a lot of I

1106
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 2: again with I don't know, I feel like right now

1107
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 2: in most league, like I'm just looking for pitching, So

1108
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 2: I'm really really focused on those last three. I could

1109
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 2: roster any one of them, but I would definitely want

1110
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 2: to play matchups, I think for the most part.

1111
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we mentioned how Paul Blackburn had a two

1112
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 1: start week this week. I had really grand visions of

1113
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: riding Paul Blackburn in my championship, especially because I've given

1114
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: Joe such a hard time about it, as my dog

1115
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: shakes's collar next to me right here, just because I

1116
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: gave Joe such a hard time about Paul Blackburn for years,

1117
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: and so I was just hoping to just, you know,

1118
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 1: pick up Paul Blackburn, ride his two star week right

1119
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: off into sunset with the championship and just throw it

1120
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: in Joe's face. But I was not able to pick

1121
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: him up because of the rules of our championship were

1122
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: because they're two separate leagues. You can't pick someone up

1123
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 1: who's rostered in the other league and someone somehow was

1124
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: still who's been out of it for like two months,

1125
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: it's still rostering Paul Blackburn. I was like, why were

1126
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: you rostering Paul Blackburn two months ago? But for whatever reason,

1127
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: he is and I couldn't pick him up. And so

1128
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: you know, that's why I'm going to lose the championhip,

1129
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: because I couldn't roster Paul Blackburn.

1130
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 3: That's the only excuse, Yeah, the only reason.

1131
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 1: All right. So one other thing I wanted to get

1132
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 1: into and I threw this set you right before we started,

1133
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: so you had no time to prepare for It was

1134
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: kind of the theme of the show is rest of

1135
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: season strategy and how to approach your leagues. And I

1136
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: just wanted to do like one piece of advice for

1137
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: fantasy managers because if I feel like, if you're sticking

1138
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: it out this long in mid August, you know you're

1139
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: in it for the long haul, but you also need

1140
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 1: to understand that like the game has changed. You know,

1141
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: this is not the season long format you're used to.

1142
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: This is a sprint to the finish, and you you

1143
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: just can't treat it the same as you know, like

1144
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,240
Speaker 1: we were talking earlier, like you can't value Jordan Walker

1145
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: in August like you value him in April. It's not

1146
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's a different game. The game's unchanged.

1147
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: And so what's one piece of rest of season advice

1148
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: that you would give to fantasy managers here in mid

1149
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: August with you know, just you know, however, many weeks

1150
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: are left in there in a roto or head to

1151
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: head seasons.

1152
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 2: Right, So you technically took the one that I was

1153
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 2: probably going to do or what like, I think that's

1154
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 2: the most important one. So I'm taking just a kind

1155
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 2: of a different version of it, which now you can

1156
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 2: stream to your heart's content, like wherever. I mean obviously

1157
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 2: acquisition limits, which you should never take Mayor's advice on,

1158
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 2: but but street like, if you want to stream picture,

1159
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 2: you want to stream a hitter for a week, you

1160
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 2: want to stream a like, go for it, there's nothing

1161
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 2: and go ahead and kind of cut whoever you want

1162
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 2: to cut, Like, don't feel bad about picking up Paul

1163
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 2: Blackburn for a two start week and then dropping him

1164
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 2: for you know, Kyle Harrison or Ryan Nelson or like,

1165
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 2: It's okay depending on on the matchups and hitters are

1166
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 2: really the same way, like I was talking about with Winker, Like,

1167
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 2: the cool thing about streaming a hitter is that you

1168
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 2: know exactly who you're going to drop for your next streamer,

1169
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 2: so you're basically rotating like one roster spot and at

1170
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 2: this point in the season like that, I think that's

1171
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 2: one hundred percent like a valid way to go about it.

1172
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my advice is is pretty similar, and I

1173
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: just wrote down to ignore the names viciously cut guys,

1174
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: And obviously I don't mean that literally, don't cut your

1175
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: whole team. But a lot of times in fantasy, you know,

1176
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: if it's may you know and this high you know this,

1177
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: you know superstar name is struggling. You can't cut him

1178
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: in May if if he's struggling, or if you're coming

1179
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: into a week and he hasn't been playing great, and

1180
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, especially if it's like a head to head

1181
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: matchup and you're going to the playoffs and he's only

1182
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: got five games and there's someone sitting on the waiver

1183
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: wire with good matchups who's got seven games. Cut him.

1184
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: Just cut that guy. Don't worry worry about next week.

1185
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: Next week, you can't. You just have to treat it

1186
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 1: like week to week right now and get to the end.

1187
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: And you just can't worry about cutting someone for name

1188
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: value because you know you're not going to regret cutting someone. Oh,

1189
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: I didn't have this guy for the last two weeks

1190
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: of August, because if you don't cut him, you might lose,

1191
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: and you might you might have to worry about it anyway.

1192
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: So just ignore the name, look at the matchups and

1193
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: and you know, and the value and you know, like

1194
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,760
Speaker 1: your advice kind of goes the same like stream stream guys.

1195
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, like the name value is gone. Just cut

1196
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: those guys.

1197
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 2: I remember last year I was in the championship in

1198
00:55:55,320 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 2: the league and and I cut Mattelson's he struck out

1199
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 2: like he was just in the middle of this horrible

1200
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: slump and I needed a spot for some I don't

1201
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 2: remember who I picked up, but it worked out kind of.

1202
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 2: So but yeah, it's you just you have to if

1203
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 2: it's not a keep, especially if it's not a keeper,

1204
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 2: or if you're not going to keep them, it doesn't

1205
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,359
Speaker 2: matter what their name is, and maybe your opponent will

1206
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,479
Speaker 2: go pick up the guy you just dropped and he'll

1207
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: continue to suck for that guy.

1208
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's especially true for leagues going into the playoffs.

1209
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: A lot of leagues have rules about transactions as you

1210
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: get if you're like into head to head in the playoffs,

1211
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: so there's a low chance you're even gonna lose that guy.

1212
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: If you want it back next week, you're probab gonna

1213
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: be able to pick himup, because if you win your matchup,

1214
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: there might only be two or three teams left even

1215
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: able to pick that guy up. Chances are if you

1216
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: cut him, they probably don't want him anyway. And so yeah,

1217
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: just don't get fooled by that name value. Don't feel

1218
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: like you can't cut someone just because they're an All star.

1219
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: If they're even enough they've been bad for a month

1220
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: kind of or you know, yep, it's all about now,

1221
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: all right, Before we get out of here, we have

1222
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: to continue the season one and two start pitch your company,

1223
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: So even though Worm is not here, you will be

1224
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: picking for Worm. We have yet to decide what the

1225
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: punishment is, and hopefully it's not too bad because I

1226
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: am losing this matchup. And we also pointed out that

1227
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: while we were both like out at various points in

1228
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: July and August, the replacements all won their matchups against

1229
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: the incumbents, so we should so basically I have no

1230
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: chance of beating you. And also heading into this week,

1231
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: he was up ten to six. But I like to

1232
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: point out that there were two selections, I think, one

1233
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: picked by you and one picked by Tuma, where it

1234
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: was essentially a dead heat for the week, and you

1235
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: guys both picked Worm, and so if you would both

1236
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: pick me, it would be an eight eight tie right now.

1237
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: So I just like to always mention that as we

1238
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: get into the two start competition, it looks like I'm

1239
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: winning big, but it's really a coin flip and this

1240
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: is tiede So just so the listeners know, I want

1241
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: that in a record, So I am a bad host

1242
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: and I've not tallied last week's two starts yet. Hopefully

1243
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: Worm doesn't listen to this and doesn't know, so I'll

1244
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: update that score next week. We're always like a week

1245
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: behind because the two start pictures that are happening, or

1246
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: actually there was no last week, so that we're not

1247
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: even behind that much. So maybe I might have the

1248
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: tally right now. Definitely don't tell where I'm that I'm

1249
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: that far behy. It might be ten eight. I might

1250
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: be only down ten eight right now for all I know.

1251
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 3: Yep.

1252
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you it all for next week and

1253
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: we'll see where the standings are. But we also we

1254
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: have yet to determine a punishment, so if you have

1255
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: any good ideas for a punishment, we're probably gonna do

1256
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: it heading into next season when we start doing like

1257
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: draft coverage in February March. We'll be on YouTube then,

1258
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: so make sure to tune in when we're on YouTube.

1259
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: You get to see my face this time, and so

1260
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: hopefully the punishment isn't too bad because I'm losing. So

1261
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: all that being said, who is your two start picture

1262
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: selection for this week? This very important week in the competition.

1263
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 3: Very important week.

1264
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 2: So I looked at Hunter Green, I wrote him down,

1265
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 2: and then I continued to look at Kyle Harrison, for

1266
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 2: the is scheduled to get the White Sox and the Mariners.

1267
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 3: And I don't. I'm again, what are you doing right?

1268
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you know that could definitely backfire now watch

1269
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 2: rules will hit like three homers often, but I like

1270
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 2: any pitcher against those two teams to rack up just

1271
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 2: all the strikeouts. The only way it could be better

1272
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 2: is if he had a third start against Colorado.

1273
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, not in Colorado, right my pick. I'm going with

1274
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: Chris Sale, who I have not used yet this season.

1275
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: Worm was giving me a hard time earlier this year

1276
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: because I was kind of saving my bullets till the end,

1277
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: and he was like, the season isn't that long, You're

1278
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: going to run out of guys. Pretty you know you're

1279
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: not going to run out of guys. So I get

1280
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: to use Chris Sale, so let's hope I will. He's

1281
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: got San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Angels, who

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Speaker 1: might sneakily be the worst roster in baseball. Everyone looks

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Speaker 1: at the Rockies and White Sox, it might actually be

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Speaker 1: you know, he continues to be Chris Sale doesn't turn

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Speaker 1: back into bad Chrisale this week. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: in one of these weeks. Hopefully we got one more

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Speaker 1: week of good Chris Sale. Yeah, that is pretty much

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Speaker 1: anything else before we close it out.

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Speaker 2: No, I just wanted to totally remind everyone what you

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Speaker 2: said at the beginning, which is like, this is when

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Speaker 2: you win it, you can like people are checking out,

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Speaker 2: they're not paying attention. Just take over and find the

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Speaker 2: other person in your league who's really paying attention and

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Speaker 2: try to counter what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this time of the year also, it's an exciting

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Speaker 1: time of the year. It's also going to be a

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Speaker 1: frustrating time of the year, especially in RODO where you

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Speaker 1: see teams. Obviously, if a team's really checked out, they're

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Speaker 1: not sitting their lineup, it's a problem and they need

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Speaker 1: to be out of your league. But it's also like

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Speaker 1: if a team is just kind of an autopilot, you

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Speaker 1: someone that you're like really competing with in the standings,

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Speaker 1: that team that's not really paying attention and they're just

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Speaker 1: kind of an autopilot. They'll start to fall on the standings,

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Speaker 1: and so it can be frustrating if like your competition

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Speaker 1: is gaining on those categories. So it could be an

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Speaker 1: interesting thought experiment or strategy for you to look at

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Speaker 1: the bottom of your standings and look at those teams

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Speaker 1: that are at the bottom and then look at the

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Speaker 1: probably a few categories where they're still like above you,

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Speaker 1: and just see if you can catch them in that categories.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you know, that can impact who you stream on

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Speaker 1: a week to week basis. Maybe you're only like three

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Speaker 1: stolen bases behind that team. It's on autopilot, and you

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Speaker 1: can load up on a couple of stolen based streamers

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Speaker 1: and steal a category, and that can be the difference

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Speaker 1: between winning your league and you know, not catching the

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Speaker 1: guy ahead of you. That's pretty much it. That's all

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