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

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Mike Mayer, and I am joined

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Speaker 1: once again by Kelly Kirby the Wonky Penguin. And just

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Speaker 1: as a reminder to everyone, this is our weekly fantasy

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Speaker 1: baseball podcast on the Fantasy Pros Baseball feed. So you

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Speaker 1: have leading off for your daily fix of baseball, and

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Speaker 1: then every week we come in and take more of

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Speaker 1: a macro look at the fantasy baseball landscape, kind of

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Speaker 1: recap what's happened recently and look ahead to the weekend

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Speaker 1: and the week ahead. And yeah, that's pretty much how

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Speaker 1: it goes. Kelly, how are you doing today? I believe

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Speaker 1: this today is Friday.

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Speaker 2: Last I checked, it's Friday. I'm doing pretty well. I'm

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Speaker 2: kind of excited to be here talking about baseball because

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Speaker 2: I think you and I have spent ninety hours or

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Speaker 2: so in the last four days working on football. So

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Speaker 2: this is a nice refreshing break.

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Speaker 1: I love being here, that's right, And I did I almost.

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Speaker 1: I am glad you brought that up because I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring that up in my intro and I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I failed to do so, and so you reminded me

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Speaker 1: that it's now the very end of August, the calendar

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Speaker 1: is turning over to September. Football is everywhere. Already there

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Speaker 1: was there was already a full sleight of college football

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Speaker 1: games last night, and everyone's minds are really kind of

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Speaker 1: flipping over into football mode. But we still have baseball

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Speaker 1: championships to win, and so I think we mentioned it

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. It's a really interesting

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Speaker 1: time of year. The season is shrinking, strategies are changing,

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Speaker 1: people's minds are wandering, but yeah, this is the time

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Speaker 1: to win. And also the waiver wire and free agency

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Speaker 1: in baseball leagues right now is just it's just gross.

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Speaker 1: There's just not a whole lot out there. If players

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Speaker 1: were good, they were picked up a while ago, and

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of dart throws. It's a lot of young,

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Speaker 1: younger players getting opportunities, which can be exciting. It is

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Speaker 1: also kind of tough to trust young young players at

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Speaker 1: this point in the season because you're either you know,

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Speaker 1: getting down to the wire in your road leagues or

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Speaker 1: in very important head to head matchups where you're fighting

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Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs, or you might already be

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs heading into September. I know, I think

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Speaker 1: I'm in a couple of leagues where we are starting

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Speaker 1: the playoffs very soon, possibly next week. I should probably

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Speaker 1: look I should probably look that up and make sure

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Speaker 1: that I know that. Yeah, let's got right into it.

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Speaker 1: The question on everyone's mind is bout In Francis the

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Speaker 1: best pitcher in baseball? And I'll just toss it right

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Speaker 1: over to you. I know you like when I don't

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Speaker 1: do a big, long intro and set it up. I

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Speaker 1: know you just like when I toss you the question.

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Speaker 2: That's my absolute favorite. I don't know if I could

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Speaker 2: call him the best picture in baseball, but he is

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Speaker 2: pretty much the picture I would want to have on

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Speaker 2: my fantasy roster in baseball at this point, I unfortunately

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Speaker 2: do not. In fact, my biggest rival in my home league,

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Speaker 2: where our playoffs start on Monday, he has him. So

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping that Francis stops doing what he's been doing.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, his last five starts are just ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: He's gone seven or eight innings and all of them

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Speaker 2: hasn't struck out twelve guys against the Angels. But you know,

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Speaker 2: to his credit, I think you and I could strike

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Speaker 2: up twelve guys against the Angels. But yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: he's allowed what two earned runs in the whole time.

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Speaker 2: It's just he's on a run. So if he if

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Speaker 2: he is available somehow someway like pick him up yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can strike out twelve Angels. My arm is shot.

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Speaker 1: I've actually been dreading it because I have a you know,

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Speaker 1: need shoulder surgery here. So we'll talk about that on

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Speaker 1: our Injury show about my upcoming shoulder surgery. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I cannot currently strike out twelve Angels. But Kelly Ken,

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I don't want to say this came out

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Speaker 1: The numbers are interesting. There's also not a whole lot

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Speaker 2: It's it's interesting because we're very used to starting pitchers

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Speaker 2: like the complete opposite, And so yeah, it makes it

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Speaker 2: I did. His walk rate is vastly improved from previous

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's he's kind of an older prospect. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen in Double A, he had an ERA just

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Speaker 1: that was a mix of starting and relieving that year.

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Speaker 1: But then came back in twenty twenty three, lights out

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Speaker 1: It's kind of been in the bullpen again, but now

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Speaker 1: through so much pitching right now, trade pitching for hitting.

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Speaker 1: pictures everywhere. Trade pitching for hitting now. Not the case.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot of pitchers out there. And you know,

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Speaker 1: waivers and streamers section of the show. But you just

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Speaker 1: someone like Bowden Francis comes along, you have to take

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Speaker 1: a shot on him. I have to look at what

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Speaker 1: his roster. I looked at his roster percentage earlier and

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Speaker 1: I forgot to write it down, but I know it

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Speaker 1: was he was not rostered everywhere. I want to say

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Speaker 1: it was like sixty percent, maybe sixty five percent of leagues.

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Speaker 2: Yep, sixty eight is what I think I see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he might be available in some leagues.

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Speaker 2: He's He's a really prime example of the if your

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Speaker 2: so yeah, it's worth a shot to look at.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know I'm in one league where he is available,

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Speaker 1: but I've yet to add him. But it's a little

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Speaker 1: but ten teams, and it's head to head. But like

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Speaker 1: And I also don't really have any bench slots because

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Speaker 1: But he's someone I'm like, you know, I added him

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Speaker 1: to my watch list. At least he's at least you know,

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Speaker 1: he's got a ticket to my to my complex whenever

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Speaker 1: anything else, I'm bound in Francis before we move on.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've kind of covered it all with him.

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Speaker 1: But you know, he's by far the most intriguing out

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Speaker 2: I think, Yes, yep, I agree, with you entirely.

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Speaker 1: Okay, going next, as my computer phrases, or at least

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Speaker 2: So I think we're going to we're according to that

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Speaker 2: she We're supposed to start with Wilson Contreras, who we

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Speaker 2: believe is gone for the year. Right, he's not expected back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's gone for several weeks, and like there's

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Speaker 1: maybe before the regular season ends, but like in terms

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Speaker 1: of fantasy, you're probably out of luck. He's someone I

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Speaker 1: was just talking about about my roster. I still have

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Speaker 1: hope yet. But like I said, I need I need

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Speaker 1: the roster spot because I don't have. It's a keeper leak.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of guys in my el I

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Speaker 1: can't drop A lot of people probably aren't in that situation,

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Speaker 1: but I am, unfortunately, And so I don't know, do

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Speaker 1: you drop him? What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I actually had him in a league and I

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Speaker 2: did drop him for pretty much the same thing. It's

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Speaker 2: like it's a ten team, So there were options. I

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Speaker 2: but I yeah, with him. You know, all preseason I

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Speaker 2: kept talking about like the Contrarast brothers, like William is

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Speaker 1: Based on this time of year. I mean, per ideal

434
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Speaker 1: scenario is I get five innings in a win out

435
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Speaker 1: of him and you know, two or fewer earned runs

436
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Speaker 1: and six or seven strikeouts. So that is the ideal scenario.

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Speaker 1: I feel like what's more likely is I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get three or four innings and like four or five

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Speaker 1: strikeouts out of him. That at that point, I'll at

440
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Speaker 1: least still take the ratios. Yep, but yeah, that would

441
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Speaker 1: be disappointing. But also, like like I said, pitching is

442
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Speaker 1: hard to come by right now, and so I'll take

443
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Speaker 1: the innings.

444
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Speaker 2: And I also did check. He is literally not available

445
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Speaker 2: in any of my leagues, so I don't even have

446
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Speaker 2: to make the call.

447
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Speaker 1: That was great multitesting to do that while you're talking

448
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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. I'm good at those things.

450
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Speaker 1: All right. We don't have to spend that much time

451
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Speaker 1: on every injury, but I will go through the rest

452
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Speaker 1: of the list and we can talk about which ones

453
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Speaker 1: we want to talk about the big one. We probably

454
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Speaker 1: should have started with this one, but you know I didn't.

455
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Speaker 1: Vinnie pass Quantino is out six to eight weeks. That

456
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Speaker 1: is brutal, So he's officially done. You can drop him.

457
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Speaker 1: Bobby Miller is dealing with a knee injury. But quote

458
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Speaker 1: and this I did read from our fantasy gross news desk,

459
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Speaker 1: he believes he can manage it and pitch through it.

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Speaker 1: Not interested really in that Zach Efflyn could return this weekend.

461
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Speaker 1: He is likely stashed on the el in some of

462
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Speaker 1: your leagues. But when he was hurt it's very likely

463
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Speaker 1: that he was dropped if that manager did not have

464
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Speaker 1: eyel slots. And so in a league, in a format

465
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Speaker 1: where we need pitching, you should add Zach Eflin. So

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Speaker 1: pause the show, go see if he's available. All right,

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Speaker 1: I assume you did that, and now we're back. See

468
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Speaker 1: that's professional hosting right there, Kelly. I paused, gave people

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Speaker 1: time to pause, and I really gave the illusion of

470
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Speaker 1: a pause, but really I just stopped talking for a second.

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Speaker 2: I learned so much from you every day.

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Speaker 1: That's really my goal.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

474
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Speaker 1: This show isn't for the audience. This show is for you.

475
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Speaker 2: I know, gosh, I'm just a sponge to your knowledge.

476
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, we talked about a little about him a

477
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Speaker 1: little bit before the show, still without a timetable. They

478
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Speaker 1: I saw an update that he was like doing some

479
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Speaker 1: baseball activities, which that could mean anything. That could mean

480
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Speaker 1: flicking sunflower seeds out of a dugout at this point

481
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Speaker 1: and not really sure what that means. And it just

482
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Speaker 1: it just seems really brutal he was having. He was

483
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Speaker 1: off to such a great start and then he got

484
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Speaker 1: hurt and it just seemed like he wouldn't be out

485
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Speaker 1: for that long, and he's just been out the whole

486
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Speaker 1: year since then, and it's starting to not look like

487
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Speaker 1: he's going to be back anytime soon, because, like we said,

488
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Speaker 1: with Tyler Gross now having a catch, not playing a catch,

489
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Speaker 1: that is like six or seven steps away from returning,

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Speaker 1: I feel like baseball activities is kind of the equivalent

491
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Speaker 1: of having a catch for a position player, like you're

492
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Speaker 1: still five or six steps away from, you know, from returning.

493
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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: And then Freddy Freeman should be back today Friday, Okay,

495
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Speaker 1: any of those you think we should dive into a

496
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Speaker 1: little bit more, you think we're good.

497
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Speaker 2: I think that we're going to talk about Pasconino replacements

498
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Speaker 2: a little bit later in the show. I feel like

499
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Speaker 2: he's the one that, like you said, that one's going

500
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Speaker 2: to hurt a lot Freeman. If Freeman doesn't come back,

501
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Speaker 2: I would argue that one's going to hurt more. But

502
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Speaker 2: like they seem very optimistic about him, So we're gonna

503
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Speaker 2: we're gonna hope, especially for those of us who roster him.

504
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think we'll talk more about Pascatoina in

505
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Speaker 2: a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see about that. I was still determined whether

507
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Speaker 1: or not we talked about it.

508
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Speaker 2: Is there anyone you want to talk about it out

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Speaker 2: of that one?

510
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Speaker 1: No, Okay, let's skip ahead to so the next kind

511
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Speaker 1: of we'll do these as separate segments, but I kind

512
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Speaker 1: of wanted to There are very similar topics, but just

513
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Speaker 1: split between pitchers and hitters, and we keep circling back

514
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Speaker 1: to the same thing of just short season strategy, and

515
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Speaker 1: so really taking things week to week right now and

516
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Speaker 1: looking at waivers this time of year is really like streamers.

517
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Speaker 1: It's kind of the same thing, whereas earlier in the

518
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Speaker 1: year it's more about adding for a potential for rest

519
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Speaker 1: of season, or can I get a few good weeks

520
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Speaker 1: out of this guy. That's kind of the difference between

521
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Speaker 1: waivers and streamers earlier in the year in April and May.

522
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Speaker 1: Now they're the same thing. Waivers are streamers, and like

523
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Speaker 1: there is no picking up a guy, putting them on

524
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Speaker 1: your bench and seeing what he looks like. We don't

525
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Speaker 1: have time for that. And so the kind of players

526
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Speaker 1: we're looking for is who's out there that could potentially

527
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Speaker 1: help me this week, who could be better than what

528
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Speaker 1: I have on my roster right now. And we'll do

529
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Speaker 1: pictures first. The biggest name Bowden Francis. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: already talked about him. We don't need to dive back

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Speaker 1: into him. But he's still available in more than thirty

532
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Speaker 1: percent of leagues, and so if you know, we can

533
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Speaker 1: do the whole pause then again if you want, but

534
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Speaker 1: you know, pause the show, go pick him up. All right,

535
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Speaker 1: we're back. So he's the big one. The next thing

536
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Speaker 1: you put on there was Mackenzie Gore. So why don't

537
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Speaker 1: you tell me a little bit about why you have

538
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Speaker 1: interested in Mackenzie Gore.

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Speaker 2: This upcoming week, Gore is scheduled to face Miami I

540
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Speaker 2: believe in the middle of next week. Let me just

541
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Speaker 2: look that up to make sure. Yep, I think it's Wednesday.

542
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Speaker 2: He's scheduled, and the last time that he faced them,

543
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Speaker 2: he went seven innings, struck out ten guys, only gave

544
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Speaker 2: up one earned run. He also has a vbr SO

545
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Speaker 2: ranking in our rankings. He's at forty nine, which seems,

546
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Speaker 2: you know, a little bit low for a picture. I

547
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Speaker 2: just in terms of if we're looking for a streamer,

548
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Speaker 2: he's only rostered in thirty one percent of leagues, So

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have any issue like if I needed to

550
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Speaker 2: pick if I had somebody that I didn't really want

551
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Speaker 2: a bad matchup. Whatever I could, I would be willing

552
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Speaker 2: to throw Gore in there for this next week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned VBR, which is a lot of

554
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Speaker 1: how I use our stats and our projections at Fantasy Pros.

555
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Speaker 1: I just find that's, you know, the most valuable way

556
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Speaker 1: to do it, and you can kind of like see

557
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Speaker 1: like the real value for these players, whereas whereas some

558
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Speaker 1: other side you're just looking at, like peer stats ABR

559
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Speaker 1: gives you like the real fantasy value of these players.

560
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Speaker 1: And the one thing I was looking at it this week,

561
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Speaker 1: you mentioned that Mackenzie Gore has a VBR of forty nine.

562
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Speaker 1: I always just kind of scroll and like when you

563
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Speaker 1: go to the on our projections page, if you have

564
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Speaker 1: your league saying you can see see highlighted who's roster,

565
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Speaker 1: who's taken, who's available, and I kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: player on with my lead you can like sort by

567
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Speaker 1: your leagues and you know, see who's available in different

568
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Speaker 1: leagues like that, and I just kind of scroll through

569
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Speaker 1: and I look at the highlighting, and I look at

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Speaker 1: the right column, which is the roster percentage, and I

571
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Speaker 1: was just looking for pictures for this week and I'm

572
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Speaker 1: seeing a whole lot of not available and a whole

573
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Speaker 1: lot of rostered in more than seventy percent of leagues,

574
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Speaker 1: more than eighty percent of leagues, and just kind of

575
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Speaker 1: scrolling down and you kind of have to get to

576
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Speaker 1: that Mackenzie Gore range before you even find someone there.

577
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Speaker 1: You know, there's not a whole lot out there. There's

578
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Speaker 1: like a Taj Bradley at fifty two, but he's someone

579
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Speaker 1: who's kind of like trending. The other direction is probably

580
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Speaker 1: you don't want. You know, he's at fifty eight percent

581
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Speaker 1: roster right now, and that rostership percentage is not going up,

582
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Speaker 1: it's going down, So that's probably not the guy you

583
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Speaker 1: want to stream right now. And yeah, it's when you

584
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Speaker 1: get into like the top sixty, there's really only like

585
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Speaker 1: two names worth I think even discussing this week. One

586
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Speaker 1: would be Mackenzie Gore because he's rostered, he's only got

587
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Speaker 1: a thirty one percent roster rostership percentage and he's got

588
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Speaker 1: good matchups. And the other one I want to talk

589
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Speaker 1: about is Jeffrey Springs, who I feel like his rostership

590
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: percentage is still way too low and I'm not really

591
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Speaker 1: sure why. In Yahoo leagues, which is a little bit

592
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Speaker 1: more indicative of what we want to talk about than

593
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Speaker 1: ESPN right now, just not as a knock on ESPN,

594
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: just in terms of, you know, their shallower leagues. The

595
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Speaker 1: rostership percentage is not necessarily as indicative of what true

596
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 1: rostership percentage will be in non y SPAN leagues right

597
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: just because roster numbers there will always be lower because

598
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: the teams are smaller and the leagues are smaller. But

599
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Speaker 1: he's only rostered in forty three percent of leagues, and

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Speaker 1: he's got a VBR of fifty five for the upcoming

601
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Speaker 1: week projections wise, and I just feel like he needs

602
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Speaker 1: to be rostered in like eighty percent of leagues, and

603
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure why he isn't, other if it's

604
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Speaker 1: other than just like people being checked out and not

605
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Speaker 1: adding him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I have I think the strongest theory there,

607
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Speaker 2: at least what happened in my leagues was they picked

608
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 2: him up, they started him, and for sure confidently started

609
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Speaker 2: him against Oakland, and he only went three and a

610
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Speaker 2: third and gave it only struck out three people, And

611
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people dropped him, so like, yeah,

612
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: he's kind of become a streamer where I assume his

613
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Speaker 2: roster percentage next week will go up again. So I

614
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Speaker 2: don't remember who he has on deck. It wasn't overly.

615
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: He's got Minnesota and Baltimore, so he's going to give

616
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Speaker 2: you two starts, but Minnesota and Baltimore a little risky,

617
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Speaker 2: although I think the Twins are gonna The Twins have

618
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Speaker 2: been striking out a lot lately, so he's probably solid

619
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Speaker 2: for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Oriole scares me a little bit, but he's

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Speaker 1: almost at the point now where he's I don't want

622
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Speaker 1: to say an auto start for me, but he's close

623
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Speaker 1: to an auto start for me, just because it looks like,

624
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Speaker 1: you know, in his last start against the Mariners, which

625
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Speaker 1: you know, not exactly the vaunted off, you know, an

626
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: office to be feared right now, but he went he

627
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: only went five innings. But he's still been building up,

628
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Speaker 1: you know, and like you said, when he first came out,

629
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Speaker 1: only did like three, you know, three and two thirds innings.

630
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Speaker 1: There's another start we only went three and a third innings.

631
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Speaker 1: He's still, you know, still building back up from a

632
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 1: long layoff. But he went five innings, one hit, two walks,

633
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: no runs, and nine strikeouts, and in three of his

634
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Speaker 1: last four starts he has at least seven strikeouts, And

635
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: so what are we doing here? We need to be

636
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Speaker 1: at ad in Jeffrey Springs. This is a former song

637
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: candidate who he you know, he's working his way back

638
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: from a long layoff, and of course he wasn't going

639
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: to come back and be perfect right away. But this

640
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Speaker 1: is exactly kind of what I expected as a Jeffrey

641
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Speaker 1: Springs fan. Maybe I'm just getting out ahead of myself,

642
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I feel

643
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: like he's on the upswing and forty three percent is

644
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: absurd and needs to be rostered everywhere. And even if

645
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: you even if you want to sit him against the Oriels,

646
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: if you have a daily lineup where you can kind

647
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: of moving back and forth, but I think if it's

648
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: a two star week, I'm still throwing him out there. Yep.

649
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: Orioles be damned.

650
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: Well, and sometimes you just have to because but yeah,

651
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: I like Springs a lot. I've held I held on

652
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 2: to him forever, so I'm in agreement with you. I

653
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 2: just also know that I saw a lot of people

654
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 2: drop him after Alkland, so.

655
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's probably part of it. But you just

656
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: kind of have to when when a pitcher is coming

657
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: back from something like that, you just kind of have

658
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: to expect that a few of his first starts are

659
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: gonna be three four innings. You just have to live

660
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: with that, just like we were talking about with the

661
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: ground right. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, So add Jeffrey Springs.

662
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: I'll deal with it. If you lose, you can.

663
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: Blame it perfect I love to blame it.

664
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: I won't pay your league fees, but I'll take the blame.

665
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: And then the other name I already mentioned was Zach Eflin.

666
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: He's another name. If he's available, you need to add him.

667
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: Just this time of year, you need to add someone

668
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: like Zach Goughlin. Let's move over to hitters, and there's

669
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: a lot more going on in the hitter world right now,

670
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: especially with some young hitters, whereas pitchers, as we already mentioned,

671
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: not quite so easy to find out there. Not that

672
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: it's easy to find hitters either, but there's a lot

673
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: happening with some players who could be available in a

674
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: bunch of leagues. The first one is Lawrence Butler, the

675
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,719
Speaker 1: kind of player of the night. Last night he had

676
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: three home runs. He now has five home runs in

677
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: his last three games. And this is actually his second

678
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: three home run three home I keep saying, I want

679
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: to say like three run home run, but his second

680
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: three home run I almost mess it up again. His

681
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: second three home run game of the season July fourteenth

682
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: against the Phillies is the last time he did it.

683
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 2: Yep.

684
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: And he is someone when you look at VBR, projected

685
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: to be eleventh in VBR next week, kind of building

686
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: in some of that hot streak in the second half,

687
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: batting three eleven with ten home runs and six stolen

688
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: bases in thirty six games, fifty one percent rosters on Yaho,

689
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: So he's still available in half of leagues out there

690
00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: despite this another hot streak, and he seems like someone

691
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: you need to add, especially even if it's just for

692
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: a streamer. See, he's the kind of player who he's

693
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: this hot, he can kind of win you a week.

694
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: Any interest in Lawrence.

695
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: Butler, Yes, I have all sorts of interests in Lawrence Butler,

696
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: so I would go and grab him if he's available anywhere.

697
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it this way, because I feel

698
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: like if I just ask you if you're interested in

699
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: these next four guys except for maybe Connor Norby because

700
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: you hate Connor Norby. That you might, Okay, you despise

701
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: Connor Norby, and it's well documented on the show. Despised

702
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: Connor Norby. So let's let me throw out all four

703
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: names for you, okay, and then we can talk about

704
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: each one, but we'll rank how how interested you don't

705
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: you know which? You know you can rank them one

706
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: to four of your you know, your interest level, whether

707
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: it be for do you want to do this upcoming

708
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: week or rest of season or just kind of combine it.

709
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can kind of combine it at this one,

710
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: I think.

711
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: Okay, so Lawrence Butler outfielder for the A's, Michael Toglia,

712
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: which I confirmed that is how you say his name,

713
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: Kap for the Rockies, Dylan Cruz, and Connor Norby one

714
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: to four. Give me your level of interest, whether it

715
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: be short term, I mean, they're all kind of short

716
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: term streamers at this point. But give me your level

717
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: interest in those four players.

718
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: Okay, I would go because.

719
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm not actually Norby at four.

720
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: I know, because I'm not actually a hater of Connor

721
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 2: Norby in anyway, I actually like totally a lot. I

722
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 2: already roster him. He's he's got some power plays in Colorado.

723
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: I think they're home a lot in coming up in

724
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: the next month, So I'd put him for snrby second Butler.

725
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 2: I like Butler. Like I said, I picked him, I

726
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: would pick him up everywhere. The issue with him is,

727
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 2: like I just looked at their schedule and they get

728
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: four games against Seattle, so for next week, I don't

729
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 2: actually know if i'd want him, but I would put

730
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: him third, and then Dylan Cruz. You know, again, it's

731
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 2: the rookie thing, like they come on they that can

732
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: just explode go off, or they can like have three

733
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: really great games and then just hit the rookie wall

734
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 2: for like two weeks. And so he would be my

735
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 2: last pick if we're just talking about kind of what

736
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 2: who do you want in the playoffs? But I love

737
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 2: Connor Norby. I think he's fantastic and I've never said

738
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 2: anything otherwise.

739
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: So that's not true. The record will show that you're

740
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,959
Speaker 1: not telling the truth. Right now, all right, I'll stop

741
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: that bit. I'm going a little too too long with

742
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: that bit. I will keep it going, Just keep it going.

743
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: It's okay.

744
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: I agree. I would put Dylan Cruz at fourth. I'm

745
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: debating internally, I think Dylan Cruiz to me is a

746
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: clear fourth despite and like not a knock on him

747
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,439
Speaker 1: as a prospect. He's right, no, very highly touted first

748
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: round pick, a very good prospect we're talking about just

749
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: right now. I feel like I would put him forth.

750
00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: I would put Man. It has been so hot. I like,

751
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: I'm honestly debating, like Butler's the hardest one for me

752
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: if I want to put him at one, two or three,

753
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: and I honestly can't decide just because of like of

754
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: how hot he's been. I feel like my heart wants

755
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: to put Connor Norby first, just because I'm a big fan.

756
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: I also feel like in a lot of leagues like

757
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: second and or third base eligibility, there's a lot of

758
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: value in those positions right now, which is where I

759
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: would need a lot of help in my leagues. Yep,

760
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: so I would do. I think I would do Connor Norby, Butler, Togalia,

761
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: Cruzka would be my ranking. What did you say? You

762
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: said Totalia, I.

763
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 2: Said totally Totalia, Norby, Okay, Butler, Butler, Cruise And the

764
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,240
Speaker 2: Butler thing is only strictly because they have four games

765
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: against Seattle, and Seattle's pitching next week. So so even

766
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: though the rest of season, yeah, I would like him.

767
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 2: I mean, his his hot streak came in Cincinnati, and

768
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: the home run predicting predictor said that each day it

769
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 2: was basically the ten and out of ten that the

770
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: wind was blowing out the whole time. So it's it's

771
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: like I said, I really like him. I like his power,

772
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 2: but if you have a different need, it's okay to

773
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: stay off of him this week.

774
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: Now what about Toglia? Why why do you like Toglia?

775
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: And why do you already roster a guy batting two

776
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: nineteen because I don't.

777
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: Care about bating average. I lost all of my outfielders

778
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 2: at one point, so I think that's where it all

779
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 2: kind of came in. And Tristan Casas, so he at

780
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: least in the league I have him. He's got first

781
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: base outfield eligibility, he's got twenty one home runs. He

782
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 2: just sort of filled the need. And then it was

783
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 2: like as people got healthy, other people on my team

784
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,240
Speaker 2: just kept going down. So I just kept the power

785
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: because out on the waiver wire it was a lot

786
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: of not power. So and I've got people to hold

787
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: down the average. That's that's why I already roster him.

788
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: Fair enough, it is worth noting he's bad two forty

789
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: eight in the second half after batting one ninety seven

790
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: in the first half, so slightly better that two nineteen average.

791
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: It's at least going in the right direction.

792
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure didn't pick them up till the

793
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 2: All Star break.

794
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: So it's okay, Well then it's all gravy for you,

795
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: isn't it.

796
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm brilliant, is really what we're trying to say.

797
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: That's why you're on the show. Why I'm just the

798
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: host exactly, just pitching it to you. We're just having

799
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: a catch here.

800
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: We're just having a catch, all right.

801
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: Okay, So we've talked a bunch about injuries, and before

802
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: we get into forty close things out with our two

803
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: star pitcher competition, we want to talk a little bit

804
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: about some injury replacements. We already kind of did that

805
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: a little bit with our you know, our waivers and

806
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: streamer section, but there was a few kind of positional

807
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: positional specific players we wanted to talk about, so some

808
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: potential third base replacements, and a lot of people still

809
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: do need third base replacements, especially after the Austin Riley

810
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: News we covered a week ago. So you put three

811
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: names in here, Addison Barger, Ramon Urius and Paul DeYoung. Yeah,

812
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: so VBR of nine positional VBR of nine for Barger,

813
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: Urius is VBR eleven, Diyong is VBR twenty. And that's

814
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: positional for third base, not overall, which would be a

815
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: lot more oppressive. But who so do you so you

816
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: put these names in the sheet? Is this in order

817
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: of interest for you? Barjar, Urius and Dion?

818
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 2: Yeah? So. On discord if you join our fantasy post Discord,

819
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: you can ask questions.

820
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: Uh every day both dot com slash chat.

821
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 2: Fantasy person dot com slash chat, and I was asked

822
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: at least a half dozen different places who I would like.

823
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: People are still trying to replace Riley my and my

824
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: suggestion is to stream third base. So for next week

825
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: I would probably go in the order that they are

826
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 2: in VBR. If you're asking me for the rest of

827
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 2: this season, like I would stick with Urius. De Young

828
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: doesn't bother me because of the lineup that he's in.

829
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: But I I have been using the VBR pretty pretty

830
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 2: religiously this year for any sort of streaming and that's

831
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 2: your those your top three, that's who I'd go after

832
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: for Week twenty three.

833
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am pretty much a walking commercial for VBR.

834
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm a VBR truther. It really helps me get out

835
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: of my own way sometimes because I you know, if

836
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 1: like you can kind of it gives you the full

837
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: picture of a player's value as opposed to just like

838
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: maybe like overvaluing home runs or overvaluing you know, just

839
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: one category, which in some leagues you do need to

840
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: target like one specific category. But it's really helpful, especially

841
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: with some of the you know, some of the different

842
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: sites I play on, like their projections aren't great, and

843
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: they're they're kind of like how how they would value

844
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: certain players. It's not specific to my league, and so

845
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: it's not really helpful. And so you know, I'm not

846
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 1: going to say the names of the platforms because especially

847
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: because they might be partners of ours. But you know,

848
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: I'm not going to besmirch any of those sites. But

849
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: I spend a lot of time on Fantasypro's stats and

850
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: projections pages and just sinking my leagues and just looking

851
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 1: at VBR because it helps me value, you know, determine

852
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: like the real value of a lot of these players,

853
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: whereas like sometimes my priors can get in the way. Yes,

854
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, as much as I trust my gut and

855
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: my own analytical acumen, the VBR is really helpful, and

856
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: you know it helps me stan top at all that stuff.

857
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: That's why I bring it up almost every show. Yes,

858
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: So now I'm glad that you're here also bringing up

859
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 1: And so that was third base. Let's do first base,

860
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: especially because after the I will give in and we

861
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: can talk a little bit about Vinie pas Quantino a

862
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: little bit major injury, going to be out the rest

863
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: of the year, and if you have him, you can

864
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: drop him, but you also need to replace him. So

865
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: one of the names we you put three names on here,

866
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: Michael toglia At, Ryan O'Hearn, Lamont Wade Junior totally. We're

867
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: already talked about bat in two nineteen famously, but that

868
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: in two forty eight and the second half and a

869
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: little bit of power and also plays some games of

870
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: course field. That's always helpful, always dangerous to play the

871
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: young player game with the Rockies, given their I won't

872
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: finish that then, but you know where I'm going with it.

873
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: I do.

874
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn was just bananas. Earlier this season, stadcast was

875
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: a deep sea of red and then Lamont Wade Junior

876
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: is a person who plays baseball. Yeah, so we know

877
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: why you like Togalia. I should have probably waited to

878
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: ask you about him until this segment. That would have

879
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: been you know, if I looked ahead, I probably would

880
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: have waited to dig in more on Toglia. I'd rather

881
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: than ask you that follow up question before. It's a

882
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: bad job by me, but you know that's that's part

883
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: of learning on the job here, you know, so we

884
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: know that Togalia. So why O'Hearn and Lamont Wade Junior?

885
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: Who are this is positional VBR? Togalia is three for

886
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: first base, so Hearn is five and Lamontway Junior is seven.

887
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the reason why if somebody positionally has a

888
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: top ten VBR, and I'm especially looking for a replacement

889
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 2: for somebody that got injured. That's where I look. I'm

890
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: kind of in the same boat with Space. You just

891
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: take a look at it, stream it for the rest

892
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 2: of the season if you need to, Like, yeah, it's

893
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 2: I don't want to say desperate times, desperate measures, but

894
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: like I can't stress it enough that VBR just like you.

895
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 2: It has saved me from myself so many times where

896
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: you know, and it's probably the this is the Michael

897
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 2: Toglio like push or plug right where I'm sure I

898
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 2: picked him up one week because his VBR was high,

899
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 2: and then I've just kind of held on to him.

900
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: So look at that. Trust that number. You can go

901
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: with your gut if you want to. But if your

902
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 2: gut is saying like, oh, Nolan Jones is available, like,

903
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 2: stay away from your gut and look at VBR. So

904
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 2: that's my that's my plug on that. So yeah, so

905
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: that's what I like. I also had O'Hearn pretty much

906
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 2: all of the first half of the season. He doesn't

907
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 2: get as many at bats because he's in a pretty

908
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: strong uh split, but he's when he does have it bats,

909
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: his power is there. He's bats for average. So I

910
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 2: think any one of the three, even the guy who

911
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 2: even the mont wayde who just plays baseball, sometimes does

912
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 2: play it well. So I wouldn't mind filling him in

913
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 2: for this week he's at seven.

914
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, oh Hearn, especially in daily lineup

915
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: leagues where you can move him in and out of

916
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: your lineup and maybe you have someone else who can

917
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: fill in. Like, that's where he's most valuable. You know,

918
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: sometimes in a weekly league it can kind of stink

919
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: if he sits a couple of days that week, still valuable,

920
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: but in daily leagues, infinitely more valuable because you can

921
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: just put him in and when he's in there, he

922
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: plays well. And I'm like most other kind of rosters,

923
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: he would be a lot better or at least a

924
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: lot more valuable because he would play every day.

925
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 2: Yep.

926
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: So now we can close things out with our two

927
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: star pitcher competition, and I'm happy to say big win

928
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: for me last week back on the board, dominating performance,

929
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: I might I can actually call it dominating performance. So

930
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: I had Chris Dale last week. You famously had Kyle Harrison.

931
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 2: That was two weeks ago.

932
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, two weeks ago. So this past week it's

933
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller versus Ryan Pepio Pipiat. It's Pepio, but they're

934
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: obviously still pitching right now, so we can't close the

935
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: lid on that matchup. Kind of had to do this

936
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: all year. It's kind of interesting. You have to look

937
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: back two weeks degree the contest because the previous week

938
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: is still happening. So two weeks ago, I had Chris

939
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: Sale at San Francisco and at Los Angeles Angels of

940
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: Anaheim in California and the United States of America, and

941
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: you had Kyle Harrison against the Chicago White Soots and

942
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners. Two good matchups but not enough to

943
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: get it done. Worm did not care for my decision

944
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: last week to give myself the win.

945
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you guys, he did really not care

946
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 2: about or did not did not like that at all.

947
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: If he doesn't like it, tell him to stop doing

948
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: football and come back on the show, all right. If

949
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: you don't like it, come deal with it. Worm. So

950
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: you lost, deal with it this past week. Win for

951
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: your guy, Mike Maher Chris Sale thirteen innings, one win,

952
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: two earned runs, ten hits, twenty two dominating strikeouts, and

953
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: two walks. Kyle Harrison a perfectly cromulent week. Eleven innings,

954
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: one win, foururn runs, eleven hits, eleven strikeouts, four walks

955
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: would be fine in most weeks, but not when you're

956
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: going up against me and Chris Sale. So that is

957
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: a win for me and Chris Sale, which I believe

958
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: brings the current season long record to I have eight

959
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: wins and Worm Slash Kelly has eleven wins. But I

960
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: will say there's you know, there's an asterix there. I

961
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: like to bring up with a couple of questionable wins,

962
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: but official record eight wins for me, eleven wins for

963
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: the bad guy. And so who is your two star

964
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: pitcher for this week? And it is an interesting name,

965
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: I will say that.

966
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. You know, I appeared on the

967
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 2: show a couple of times, but Worm was still picking

968
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 2: his own pick at that point, and he used all

969
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 2: of the guys, so he frontloaded. I know you talked

970
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 2: about this like he frontloaded this contest because I was like,

971
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 2: obviously Corbyn Burns is the pick for this week, Like

972
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 2: that's that's easy peas. He shouldn't even be a question

973
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 2: except that Worm used him. Was it the first week?

974
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 2: It was somewhere very early in the season.

975
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: So I'm going through the list at the time, waiting

976
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: on Yeah.

977
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 2: So this is this is how this comes back because

978
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 2: now I'm I'm only that the two start pitchers going.

979
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 2: I don't want any of them. So I am going

980
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 2: with David Festa for the twins and he is going

981
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: up against Seattle, so I'm sorry up against Tampa Bay,

982
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 2: which I think Tampa Bay is fallible, and he's also

983
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: going up against Kansas City, and I'm not as scared

984
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 2: of them without Pascantino, especially against a righty so uh.

985
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 2: He has been striking out people. He managed the Braves

986
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 2: line up pretty well. He you know, he's getting seven

987
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 2: six y five strikeouts pretty much every time out, mostly seven.

988
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 2: I would say, so I'm gonna roll the dice on

989
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: that with him, but I would just like noted, like

990
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,919
Speaker 2: if you want to put an asterisk, like, I'm going

991
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 2: with him because Warren Burned all the other pictures I

992
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: would want to go with.

993
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: So I absolutely love it. I love that for you,

994
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: I love that for him. I am going with Corbyn

995
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: Burns as you as you alluded to, because I have

996
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: not used Corbn Burns yet this season. I saved him

997
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: for just this moment as I as I begin my

998
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: comeback tour and just close this thing out with a

999
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,760
Speaker 1: winning streak to take home the whole thing. And he

1000
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: not only is a great picture, but has two good matchups.

1001
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: He gets the White Sox would just maybe the best

1002
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: matchup for a picture in baseball history. And I also

1003
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: agree the Rays are not as scary as they normally are,

1004
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: and so I have him a home for both of

1005
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: those starts, and hopefully they come up with another win.

1006
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: Anything else before we get out of here.

1007
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 2: No, I think that's it. I mean, like I said,

1008
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 2: at this point, I'm willing that it's no longer just

1009
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: streaming pictures like you can literally stream any position that

1010
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 2: you need help with. So just remember that as you

1011
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 2: as you head into waiver weekend.

1012
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And just as a one last reminder before

1013
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: we get out of here, the best freeway to show

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