Speaker 1: Welcome in friends to leading off. That's right.
Speaker 2: We are here, We are live, and we are here
Speaker 2: for the playoff run.
Speaker 1: The Fantasy playoffs should be here. I am Chris Welsh.
Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at is it the
Speaker 2: Welsh In Joining me today is Andrew Seifter on Twitter
Speaker 2: Andrew underscore Sifter.
Speaker 1: It is playoff time, Andrew, How are we rocking? How
Speaker 1: are we prepared? Who are we streaming? Tell me every
Speaker 1: little detail about your playoffs? Go? All right?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a rotisserie league guy, so I like the
Speaker 3: slow build to the end.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: But I'm still in a neck and neck race for
Speaker 3: first place in my oldest league, so I'm sweating it out,
Speaker 3: staring at the categories every single day, figuring out if
Speaker 3: I can get that one extra saver or that one
Speaker 3: extra home run that I need to jump up a
Speaker 3: spot in the standings, because it really could come down
Speaker 3: to anything. I remember a few years ago I won
Speaker 3: I tied for the league championship on the final day
Speaker 3: because Carlos Correa stole a base. So it really can
Speaker 3: come down to the end, even in those retissary leagues.
Speaker 3: But of course in head to head it's even more intense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have that.
Speaker 2: I mean, y'all you have those memories too. There's that
Speaker 2: There'll always be that one Fantasy Baseball memory, whether it's
Speaker 2: roto or whether it's.
Speaker 1: Head to head. And I had one of those with one.
Speaker 2: Of our buddies where it was the last day, last
Speaker 2: Games Sunday Night baseballs of years ago. Hunter Pence hit
Speaker 2: two homers which tied me in homers, I think in runs,
Speaker 2: and we tied eight eight, and I moved on to
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker to go to the championship. And one of
Speaker 2: my good friends always remembers that that's what it is,
Speaker 2: and Fantasy baseball is built around the grind.
Speaker 4: So hopefully, yeah, and we count pens. This is awesome, man.
Speaker 3: I bet you he would appreciate that if you told
Speaker 3: him that story on Twitter or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably should. I'll always remember him and me
Speaker 2: and my buddy.
Speaker 1: What we do is we just text each other.
Speaker 4: Eight eight.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: The eight eight tie is what it was because it
Speaker 2: was a big head to head categories league, very good stuff.
Speaker 2: But we are here for the grind and hopefully we
Speaker 2: can help you make all of those decisions. We're talking
Speaker 2: about Andrew's top pickups. We are going to be going
Speaker 2: through all of the stuff and things stat leaders from
Speaker 2: over the weekend home run calls. What do you guys
Speaker 2: think the leaderboard looks like? Because I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: a little hinted tip. We got a brand new person
Speaker 2: at the top. We have a new leader that we
Speaker 2: have not had all season long, and we've only got
Speaker 2: a couple weeks to go, so it should be awesome.
Speaker 2: What was awesome, especially as a personally Diamondbacks fan, but
Speaker 2: was a really just great record. Zach Gallen had the
Speaker 2: scoreless streak extended to become the number one Diamondback of
Speaker 2: all time, but he just lost his scoreless streak, which
Speaker 2: was forty four in a third consecutive innings.
Speaker 1: It was snap when CJ.
Speaker 2: Crown had an RBI single in the fourth inning, but
Speaker 2: an incredibly impressive performance by Zach Gallen. And this had
Speaker 2: me thinking over the weekend, I was working a lot,
Speaker 2: and we're going on a lot of ranks right now,
Speaker 2: and I was working on my early twenty twenty three ranks.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm I focused.
Speaker 2: I finally focused, and I'm like, that's the one I'm
Speaker 2: going to get done first, and then I'm going to
Speaker 2: move to my dynasty in prospect get those cleaned up.
Speaker 2: But going through and looking at twenty twenty three ranks
Speaker 2: and comparing performances can make it really difficult.
Speaker 1: On values.
Speaker 2: Zach Gallon is a tough one because he was dominant,
Speaker 2: had a lull, and he's gone back to complete dominance on.
Speaker 1: A subbish par team.
Speaker 2: But that scoreless streak nonetheless probably one of the more
Speaker 2: impressive performances of the year.
Speaker 3: Andrew, Oh, yeah, absolutely, And of course it has to
Speaker 3: end in course field of all places. Not really fair.
Speaker 3: I think that they should have like a stat for
Speaker 3: consecutive scoreless innings at normal elevation, and we should be
Speaker 3: able to just keep it going. But I'm glad that
Speaker 3: he gave us a nice parting gift for fantasy with
Speaker 3: eleven strikeouts in that outing, So even though he ended
Speaker 3: up giving up a few runs, it was still a
Speaker 3: very nice performance to help us for those stretch runs.
Speaker 2: And on the year, one hundred and fifty eight innings,
Speaker 2: he's a twelve and two record, a two five era
Speaker 2: X fifth that is around three three to two. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have a fifth that's under three.
Speaker 1: On the season.
Speaker 2: He's cut the homers by a dramatic marker was one
Speaker 2: point four to nine last year down to point six
Speaker 2: y two walks that were cut by a full walk.
Speaker 2: And the strikeouts. He's taken a little bit of a
Speaker 2: tickdown in the strikeouts, but he's been phenomenal three three
Speaker 2: three Sierra, which is just proven that he is in
Speaker 2: the elite.
Speaker 1: Class of pitchers.
Speaker 2: And I think he's going to be a primary target
Speaker 2: after the Big Dogs next year, whatever the big Dogs
Speaker 2: look like, by the way, but Zach Gallon having that
Speaker 2: streak broken really nonetheless impressive of what he does. Speaking
Speaker 2: of impressive six ninety seven, Albert poolholes hit six ninety
Speaker 2: seven off of Chase to Young in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: passing Alex Rodriguez for fourth place all time on the
Speaker 2: home run list, now three away from seven hundred and
Speaker 2: kind of a cool story. The woman that caught it
Speaker 2: came back after they brought her back to give him
Speaker 2: the home run ball, and she had talked about, oh man,
Speaker 2: it was like losing a job and had.
Speaker 1: Lost their father or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: There's a whole bunch of like stuff there, and Albert
Speaker 2: ended up saying, you keep the ball, this will mean
Speaker 2: more to you and signed a couple more.
Speaker 1: Balls for her, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: He's gonna probably want seven hundred, to be honest, if
Speaker 2: he gets their Andrews. So we are now, you know,
Speaker 2: twenty less than twenty days away from the season, and
Speaker 2: you and I were looking before the show and Pools
Speaker 2: is still not playing every single day. They got to
Speaker 2: get him out there every single day.
Speaker 1: He is three away.
Speaker 2: There's no way he can fall one short. They would
Speaker 2: be everyone to be devastated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this seems like a no brainer. They've
Speaker 3: got an eight game lead in the division at this point.
Speaker 3: Just play the man. Everyone wants to see it, you know,
Speaker 3: give give your fans what they want.
Speaker 4: That's what the fans want.
Speaker 3: They if they come to the game at Bush Stadium,
Speaker 3: they want to see Albert pooh holes. You know, they'll
Speaker 3: be disappointed if they don't. And the way he's hitting,
Speaker 3: it's not like it's exactly hurting the team to play
Speaker 3: him either.
Speaker 4: By the way, and.
Speaker 2: He's at home for the next two series. At least,
Speaker 2: He's got a two game versus Milwaukee and then they've
Speaker 2: got Cincinnati, both at home.
Speaker 1: He should play all of those. He should be.
Speaker 2: Out there for every single one of those to break
Speaker 2: this record because we are getting so close.
Speaker 1: But I just have an eerie bad.
Speaker 2: Feeling that we are going to end at six ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's my anarchisis in that's inside of me. I
Speaker 2: just feel like we're going to end at six ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Andrew, you're such a pessimist man. I'm saying he's gonna
Speaker 3: break it with a week to spare.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that'll be nice. Well, maybe we can get
Speaker 1: it going pretty pretty soon. Some other stuff around the league.
Speaker 2: Kenley Jansen allowed two homers in the bottom of the ninth,
Speaker 2: took a loss on Sunday against the Mariners. I believe
Speaker 2: that was the game that Julio Rodriguez had a one
Speaker 2: seventeen ev home run. Who continues to be the top dog.
Speaker 2: And you know a big move I made. I hadn't
Speaker 2: made this move quite yet, as I told you, I
Speaker 2: was only working on my redraft, But in Dynasty, I
Speaker 2: moved Tulliou to number one in Dynasty right now, and
Speaker 2: I just think it's hard to justify anybody else. Tatis,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously going to miss games and questions. Akunya's
Speaker 2: power has kind of wavered out Soto is a hitter
Speaker 2: I think can improve, but doesn't steal bases. Just across
Speaker 2: the board. There's a lot of big questions. But I
Speaker 2: made this about Julio here, even though Jansen got blown up.
Speaker 2: Any Jansen or Julio takes.
Speaker 3: Well, there's the guy on the other side, Michael Harris
Speaker 3: that we love, who's rocketing up those rankings as well.
Speaker 3: Maybe not quite the number one just yet, but that's
Speaker 3: in the range of possibility for next year if he
Speaker 3: keeps doing what he's doing this season.
Speaker 1: Some claiming for MVP votes for Michael yeah, wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: With Jansen, I mean they they may need to give
Speaker 3: him some low leverage spots at this point because he's
Speaker 3: really been struggling for a while now, and you know,
Speaker 3: they're in a pennant race. They need they They're not
Speaker 3: like the Cardinals with an eight game leading their division.
Speaker 3: They need to win these games, try to win that division.
Speaker 3: It's it's neck and neck with the Mets right now.
Speaker 3: So I would yeah, I would expect, especially with a
Speaker 3: guy like Razel Iglesias there as well, who's a proven closer,
Speaker 3: that they could, you know, move Jansen to some earlier
Speaker 3: innings and let him work things out because they want
Speaker 3: him ready to rock for the playoffs. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: had some ups and downs over the over the years,
Speaker 3: especially in the last few years, i'd say, so you know,
Speaker 3: he does bounce back from those, and he can bounce
Speaker 3: back from this. But they their priority has to be,
Speaker 3: you know, don't blow games now, try to win that
Speaker 3: division and make sure that he's ready to go come
Speaker 3: playoff times. So you know, it's not what his fantasy
Speaker 3: managers are going to want to hear, but I think
Speaker 3: there's a real chance that he doesn't get the next
Speaker 3: save opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the that's kind of the big rub
Speaker 2: here is that you know, you might be out Kenley
Speaker 2: Jansen's save opportunities in the most important time here. I
Speaker 2: think they might want to push him back, and they've
Speaker 2: got other options. That's why they you know, the main
Speaker 2: moves they did Seay McClanahan, who had that scary injury,
Speaker 2: likely to return on Thursday and start against.
Speaker 1: The Blue Jays. So you guys can feel good about
Speaker 1: that getting him back. I feel very good.
Speaker 2: And I know Wonky tweet about this saying, you know,
Speaker 2: I was probably freaking out somewhere and Chris Clig was
Speaker 2: on the show. We literally talked on Friday about Josh
Speaker 2: Young and I said, I was like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I see Josh Young hitting a homer in his first game,
Speaker 2: but I absolutely see a hit, and sure enough, first
Speaker 2: at bat gets his first career.
Speaker 1: Home run, Josh Young does.
Speaker 2: And since then I didn't even think to pull up
Speaker 2: the numbers three for twelve. He's got that homer, had
Speaker 2: he did steal a base hitting two fifty. I told
Speaker 2: you the sneaky, the sneaky speed is out there. So
Speaker 2: hits in two of his first three games. I've actually
Speaker 2: got a double header here on Monday. So Josh Young
Speaker 2: looking like a pretty good pickup right now.
Speaker 3: Andrew, Yeah, for sure, And you know we are going
Speaker 3: to mention him again, I guess later in the show
Speaker 3: because of the golden Sombrera that he just had. So
Speaker 3: it's not going to be all smooth sailing necessarily. But
Speaker 3: he's just such an impressive prospect. And he's one of
Speaker 3: those guys where I feel like we haven't fully got
Speaker 3: to see it because there's just been you know, circumstances
Speaker 3: take looking over. He had that flucish injury last year,
Speaker 3: then he had the flukeish injury in you know, the
Speaker 3: winter this year with weightlifting, so he's missed a lot
Speaker 3: of time.
Speaker 4: But when he's played, he's he's.
Speaker 3: Looked exactly like the prospect that you would expect, and
Speaker 3: the power is legitimate, batting average, abillia is there, as
Speaker 3: you said, maybe even some sneaky speed. So yeah, there's
Speaker 3: lots to like and the future is bright.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The speed thing, to me became something that like all
Speaker 2: of a sudden appeared when he was rehabbing, Like he
Speaker 2: became so much faster, he leaned out a little bit,
Speaker 2: and we probably would have seen a lot of him
Speaker 2: had he not gotten injured.
Speaker 1: But he's a good bet the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: If he is still sitting out there, he is only
Speaker 2: again read it for what it is for dead leagues
Speaker 2: and whatnot, but twenty three percent owned in Yahoo, which
Speaker 2: you know is probably closer to like of active league,
Speaker 2: probably like around sixty percent, So he might be sitting
Speaker 2: out there someone I would probably take a look at
Speaker 2: on the injury front, and then we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about some pickups. Rolldis Chapman had a scoreless ending on
Speaker 2: Sunday in a mind League rehab stint, which I think
Speaker 2: the minor leagues are done or into the next day
Speaker 2: or two, so that's going to be all done here
Speaker 2: in double A, so he could be coming back here
Speaker 2: in the near future. Mackenzie Gore toss one two thirds
Speaker 2: one in two thirds of a scoreless frame on Sunday
Speaker 2: in a minor league rehab start and triple A again,
Speaker 2: that'll be the last one. He'll probably get a start
Speaker 2: at least started to to end out the year. Nico
Speaker 2: Horner was removed from Sunday's game against the Giants du
Speaker 2: to tightness in his right tricep and Trevor Story was
Speaker 2: removed from Sunday showdown against the Orioles due to pain
Speaker 2: in his left hand. Trevor Story had been a disaster
Speaker 2: this year, and Nico Horner has been sneaky, sneaky good
Speaker 2: in getting stolen bases, a little bit of power one
Speaker 2: of those guys. Again, I was doing my twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three ranks. I was really looking at and trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how I want to value Nico Horner because
Speaker 2: I feel like he's been sneaky, sneaky. But you know,
Speaker 2: with this any type of banged upness, you can probably
Speaker 2: move on immediately with only a couple.
Speaker 4: Weeks to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's a player that I kind of
Speaker 3: had dismissed really as maybe just like a point league
Speaker 3: points league's kind of a guy. But then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, the soul basis just I've really come out
Speaker 3: of nowhere this year.
Speaker 4: I mean not totally.
Speaker 3: He did have five and forty four games last year,
Speaker 3: but to be up to eighteen already this season, I
Speaker 3: mean part of it's obviously playing time, but the power. Also,
Speaker 3: he didn't hit a single home run in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: or twenty twenty one. It's got nine this year, so
Speaker 3: still still not exactly Albert Poohols, but you'll take it,
Speaker 3: you know. It's it's the sneaky production that can really
Speaker 3: help you win if he's healthy. But again, don't hold
Speaker 3: when he's day to day.
Speaker 2: No a last thirty days, six stolen bases, two homers,
Speaker 2: hitting two sixty two, sixteen runs and eleven are of you.
Speaker 2: And that brings us to the question of who are
Speaker 2: you picking up? So even in the chat, if you
Speaker 2: guys have any comments on pickups and who you're picking
Speaker 2: up or who you might drop it. But Andrew you
Speaker 2: drop an article. Who are you picking up? Who are
Speaker 2: some pickups people should be focusing on.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm definitely picking up Hunter Brown, the pitcher for
Speaker 3: the Astros. He's a prize prospect. He looked really good
Speaker 3: in his first start against Texas last week. He gets
Speaker 3: a matchup with Detroit. That's a really juicy matchup coming up.
Speaker 3: You know, we have to see about whether he's in
Speaker 3: the rotation for the entire rest of the season or not.
Speaker 3: The Astros always have a lot of options, and if
Speaker 3: Verlander does come back off the IL, we'll have to
Speaker 3: see what they decide to do. They've been rolling with
Speaker 3: a six man rotation recently and they'll probably stick with that,
Speaker 3: but even so, with verlanderback, it could be seven. Then again,
Speaker 3: a guy like Erkidi has been struggling, so you could
Speaker 3: easily see him getting moved to long relief if Hunter
Speaker 3: Brown continues hits really well both there on.
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown had worked some relief in the minors before
Speaker 2: he was called back up, so they could put him
Speaker 2: to that. But you know, Texas, he just diced six innings,
Speaker 2: had five strikeouts. He can give up an earned run
Speaker 2: and then on Tuesday he's got Detroit it's like a
Speaker 2: must star. That's actually one of the biggest must pickups.
Speaker 2: If he's still sitting out there, you could do is
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown against Detroit. So I completely agree with that.
Speaker 3: Who else do we have for Yeah, he's only like
Speaker 3: thirty four percent rostered or something like that.
Speaker 4: I believe in Yah, yahoo, So what thirty nine percent?
Speaker 4: But yeah, still pretty low.
Speaker 3: Cal Raley, you know, this guy is not exciting, but
Speaker 3: he actually is right up there for the league leading
Speaker 3: home runs among catchers. So and he's got a decent
Speaker 3: number of RBIs for a catcher as well. So, uh,
Speaker 3: maybe that's a sign of some of those dead leagues
Speaker 3: you're talking about that he's still available because there are
Speaker 3: just there aren't that there aren't enough catchers to go
Speaker 3: around at any given time. So if this guy's putting
Speaker 3: the ball over the fence like this, I mean, he's
Speaker 3: got twenty three homers and fifty four RBIs in just
Speaker 3: three hundred twenty six at bats. Batting average is going
Speaker 3: to be gross, we know that.
Speaker 1: But it's catchers two hundred over the last thirty days.
Speaker 2: But over the last two weeks he's up to two
Speaker 2: forty two and has five homers in that period of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So you know hot bat had a weak position,
Speaker 3: go for it.
Speaker 4: You know, Pete.
Speaker 3: Fairbanks is you know, he's not going to be the
Speaker 3: exclusive closer for the Rays, nobody is, but he's been really,
Speaker 3: really good and he is the leader of the committee
Speaker 3: chair at this point. So I saw a stat that
Speaker 3: he is the lowest expected weighted on base percentage out
Speaker 3: of any pitcher in baseball according to Stackasse. It's a
Speaker 3: pretty small sample size, but still like he's pitching great
Speaker 3: and belongs on a fantasy roster at this point, I
Speaker 3: would say.
Speaker 1: Some good pickups we got in the chat.
Speaker 2: We had McCarthy, Carroll, and Escobar as pickups, all guys
Speaker 2: that you should be looking at. Diamondbacks roster in general
Speaker 2: has been turning out some fantasy options and Escobar has
Speaker 2: been a half decent corner infielder to take a look at.
Speaker 1: So there are some guys out there. For sure.
Speaker 2: McCarthy you can't imagine available anywhere, but you know, the
Speaker 2: Carrol might still be floating around out there. JP Friedel,
Speaker 2: there's another one of those. Actually some good early matchups
Speaker 2: this week. That's another one of those guys to take
Speaker 2: a look at. Some good pickups if you guys are
Speaker 2: looking for some hitters. Pitchers are a little bit tougher,
Speaker 2: but you know, I don't hate Cole Reagans. I don't
Speaker 2: hate Cole Reagans. It's sitting out there. I think he's
Speaker 2: got to start today and that'll give him a two
Speaker 2: start for the week.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Bailey Falter is another one you could look at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe he's got the Marlins again, and his
Speaker 3: next start, he just pitched pretty decently against them, so,
Speaker 3: you know, not massive upside, but a pretty solid floor.
Speaker 2: I would say some pickups for you guys, and if
Speaker 2: you guys have any questions during the week, feel free
Speaker 2: to drop them and we might do a focus you know,
Speaker 2: maybe like mid episode. I probably need to dedicate a
Speaker 2: time for it. But throughout the week, if you guys
Speaker 2: have any questions in the chat, you can drop them
Speaker 2: and we will will answer a few of them, and
Speaker 2: maybe I'll tell you at the beginning of the episode.
Speaker 1: Win we'll do it so you guys actually know. But
Speaker 1: you guys can drop it in today. Let's keep going here.
Speaker 2: Fun fact Edwin Jackson officially announced his retirement from baseball.
Speaker 2: This was on the tenth vias Instagram, and Jackson played
Speaker 2: for fourteen different teams, which is an all time record.
Speaker 2: He also had the no hitter for my Diamondbacks. I
Speaker 2: think he walked seven in it or whatever it was,
Speaker 2: and I actually have this memory of that matters to anybody.
Speaker 2: There's this series called the Dreams Series where it was
Speaker 2: out here in Phoenix, and it's a series of like
Speaker 2: it's like high school and down to fourteen year old
Speaker 2: kids and stuff like that. It's like the Martin Luther
Speaker 2: King Dreams Series, I think it is. And I remember
Speaker 2: Edwin Jackson just rolled up and was talking.
Speaker 4: With the kids.
Speaker 2: He just rolled up in like, you know, whatever, big
Speaker 2: suv and he just walked out and he was all
Speaker 2: bling down. I always liked Edwin Jackson, But none of
Speaker 2: that actually matters. But fourteen teams that Jersey room probably
Speaker 2: looks quite amazing for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I was going to say the fact that he
Speaker 3: played for that many teams is kind of fitting because
Speaker 3: I feel like he's the kind of player that could
Speaker 3: have played for every team in your fantasy league in
Speaker 3: a given season, because he was like that guy that
Speaker 3: you would always consider streaming, but you would never roster
Speaker 3: him for the whole season.
Speaker 1: Jackson.
Speaker 2: Everyone's own Edwin Jackson at some point, it'd be hilarious.
Speaker 2: You go and look at like all time, there's no
Speaker 2: way someone has never not rostered Edwin Jackson at some point,
Speaker 2: some point you're streaming, some point you're doing your eating
Speaker 2: innings or whatever. So hat tip to Edwin Jackson. Some
Speaker 2: stat heroes from the weekend and yesterday. Tony Kemp three
Speaker 2: for four with a homer, three RBI, Rowdy Telez had
Speaker 2: two bombs, going three for five with four RBI, Alo
Speaker 2: Lopez three for three with a homer and three RBI
Speaker 2: plus three runs. A lot of three run categories you
Speaker 2: can pick up here. Justin Turner had two homers, five RBI.
Speaker 2: Thomas Nido Thomas Nido Nido homer three RBIs going three
Speaker 2: for four. Julio had two homers, three for four, two RBIs,
Speaker 2: two runs. Michael Harris had two bombs, Glaber, Johannio Suarez
Speaker 2: and Brian Anderson all all big two homer performances, Lots
Speaker 2: of RBIs, lots of runs in there, and anybody that
Speaker 2: you want to touch on, whether it is a low
Speaker 2: low named like Tony Kemp or you know you did
Speaker 2: mention the Michael Harris stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know who we can get out of it,
Speaker 1: but you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could talk about him forever, but I will say,
Speaker 3: you know, with a guy like Justin Turner, it's a
Speaker 3: good reminder of just how long the season is in fantasy,
Speaker 3: because this was a guy that really really struggled in
Speaker 3: the first half of the year, but he had this
Speaker 3: very long track of production to fall back on. You know,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have blamed anyone for dropping him at any point,
Speaker 3: but if you were the person that went and took
Speaker 3: him off the trash heap and put him into your
Speaker 3: lineup in the middle of the summer, you've been getting
Speaker 3: exactly vintage Justin Turner production out of him. You could
Speaker 3: say the same thing for Max Munci specifically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Max Mounsey has been picking up specifically right now
Speaker 2: though Justin Turner over the last two weeks, hitting three
Speaker 2: seventy eight and has had just about a third of
Speaker 2: his total home runs for the season have happened in
Speaker 2: the last two weeks, So it's catching fire. So it's
Speaker 2: picking him up, getting him out there while he's catching fire,
Speaker 2: and he is doing so a lot of multi hit games.
Speaker 2: He I mean, since September one, he has had a
Speaker 2: run This is a wild number in seven of nine
Speaker 2: games he's played in. So if you're looking to get
Speaker 2: some run categories, Justin Turner is that guy.
Speaker 3: To your point, Yeah, well, when you play for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: it's a good lineup to be in. So and I'm
Speaker 3: sure the Dodgers are happy that he's playing his best
Speaker 3: baseball this season as we head to the fall as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well this is when they need it the most.
Speaker 2: On the pitching side, Mitch Keller wins seven, giving up
Speaker 2: only two hits, three walks, those six strike six strikeouts.
Speaker 2: On the day, Brady Singer had a seven inning performance
Speaker 2: six strikeouts, giving up four hits, walking only one, Taylan
Speaker 2: Walker seven and ten k's, Kyle Bradish seven innings, three k's,
Speaker 2: and Marco Gonzalez five k's six innings. Kyle Bradish has
Speaker 2: just been impressive. You need run support, you need wins.
Speaker 2: Plays on a team that kind of struggles with that.
Speaker 2: But over the last thirty days he's got two wins
Speaker 2: with a two five to five, twenty eight strikeouts and
Speaker 2: a one to one three whip. He has been more
Speaker 2: than serviceable, and the Toronto game wasn't fantastic.
Speaker 1: But three of his last four starts.
Speaker 2: He's gone at least seven innings, and he does have
Speaker 2: Toronto coming up again. Actually, you know, you know it's weird.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at here his whole schedule.
Speaker 2: He's already faced Toronto three times and this is his
Speaker 2: fourth start coming up of Toronto, and none of them
Speaker 2: have gone well. So just pointing that out to everybody,
Speaker 2: But anything on Cale Bradish for.
Speaker 3: You, I mean, I'd have trouble really trusting him. But
Speaker 3: you know, if you're in one of those leagues with
Speaker 3: no innings limit and you are just trying to pick
Speaker 3: up as many wins and as many strikeouts as you can,
Speaker 3: I don't have a huge problem with it, because, like
Speaker 3: you said, this is the best stretch of the season
Speaker 3: for him by far. I will also point out with
Speaker 3: a guy like Brady Singer, like he has been excellent
Speaker 3: over the last couple of months, but I just dropped
Speaker 3: him this morning because his next two starts are at
Speaker 3: Boston and against Seattle, and we're at the time of
Speaker 3: the season where it's not what you've done for me,
Speaker 3: it's what are you going to be able to do
Speaker 3: the rest of the year, and I had John Gray
Speaker 3: coming off the al I activated him and I had
Speaker 3: to make room. So sorry, Brady Singer, You've been huge
Speaker 3: for my fantasy team, but it's time to move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and i'd looked here.
Speaker 2: By the way, this will be the fifth start for
Speaker 2: cal Bradish against Toronto. It's just kryptonite. I want to
Speaker 2: see what is Era look like if he didn't face Toronto,
Speaker 2: because each one of those he's gotten lit up in
Speaker 2: all four of them, with number five coming up, so
Speaker 2: if you're planning to start him, just beware on the
Speaker 2: stat zero side. Jonathan India oh for five with five strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Boy do in India has not been anything we hoped
Speaker 2: for this year and it has just gotten worse. Josh Young,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, oh for four, four strikeouts. Well, Myers
Speaker 2: also oh for four, four strikeouts, and then some over
Speaker 2: four with three strikeouts. Fried Old Black Men, Garlic von Grissom,
Speaker 2: and Austin Hedges all ohver four with three strikeouts. On
Speaker 2: the pitcher side, Luis Bettino got lit up one in
Speaker 2: one third, nine earned runs, gave up three homers, walked four,
Speaker 2: no buy zero Justin Dunn six earned runs in three,
Speaker 2: gave up a couple of homers, Johnny Quato a rare
Speaker 2: light up four and two thirds five earned runs, gave
Speaker 2: up eight hits, and Jesus Lozardo just when we were
Speaker 2: getting all happy three and one third, five earned runs,
Speaker 2: three k's. Homer Cueto's are probably probably a good example
Speaker 2: of like the quick burning churn. He's been so good,
Speaker 2: he gets lit up. There are you immediately turning that
Speaker 2: into a streaming spot? Are you holding tight?
Speaker 3: You know, it's been so hard to trust Johnny Quato,
Speaker 3: even as he's been putting up these good numbers all along.
Speaker 3: So like at this point in the season, trust is
Speaker 3: so important when when you can you know you're in
Speaker 3: a head to head league playoff matchup and one bad
Speaker 3: outing can literally end your season. So yeah, I can't
Speaker 3: say I have a ton of confidence in him right now.
Speaker 3: If there's someone with a good matchup that's pitching well
Speaker 3: lately available, I wouldn't have a problem making the switch.
Speaker 2: It's like head to head in relationships. Trust that's what
Speaker 2: it's all built on. It's all built on trust.
Speaker 1: For your head to heads home run calls.
Speaker 2: Baby, we have a brand new leader at the top
Speaker 2: of the board because Cat Fox got two correct home
Speaker 2: run calls over the weekend, has passed d Blum for
Speaker 2: everybody that is paying attention to it. Our home run
Speaker 2: call race has been a wild one throughout the season
Speaker 2: and cat Fox is now at the very top with
Speaker 2: fifty one home runs. They had Christian Walker on Sunday
Speaker 2: that did not end up working out. Cat Fox is
Speaker 2: at fifty, dee Blum is at I'm sorry, cat Fox
Speaker 2: at fifty one. Dee Blum is a fifty go cards,
Speaker 2: tied with High Cubby at forty nine, l Scale at
Speaker 2: forty eight. And that is how the list looks right now.
Speaker 2: Brand new Catfox. I don't believe it's ever been at
Speaker 2: the top of this leader board and is the leader
Speaker 2: and it is a tight race, frendo. So make sure
Speaker 2: you're getting those home run calls in. And if you've
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Speaker 1: So some props today, I've got Andrew. I'm going to
Speaker 1: out four for you and you let me know what
Speaker 1: you did. You guys know the drill.
Speaker 2: I got you the top prop total base and the
Speaker 2: top strikeout and then I give you the plus money
Speaker 2: one and see what you like. The top total base
Speaker 2: for the day is Rodolfo Castro, who you need one
Speaker 2: total base from. It's on bet mgm and it's minus
Speaker 2: one ninety.
Speaker 1: So Pittsburgh's at Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: All you need is a single hit and that is
Speaker 2: their top hit and top bet on the algorithm for
Speaker 2: betting pros. The plus money play is Aristides Achino, which
Speaker 2: it's one and a half total bases, but it's paying
Speaker 2: you one fifteen plus one fifteen in the same game,
Speaker 2: So two bad pitchers. The expectation is there's going to
Speaker 2: be some runs on the pitching side. The top strikeout
Speaker 2: play is Connor Pin.
Speaker 1: Is it Pinking ten?
Speaker 2: Who is three and a half strikeouts projected to v
Speaker 2: five on DK. This is minus one sixty five on DK,
Speaker 2: and then the plus money plays read debt Meers, who's
Speaker 2: going up against Cleveland four and a half strikeouts are
Speaker 2: projecting just barely over it.
Speaker 1: It's plus one of five.
Speaker 2: So you've got Pinkington, You've got Debtmer's on the strikeouts,
Speaker 2: A Kino and Castro. These are not It is not
Speaker 2: a big name prop generating thing today. Andrew, are any
Speaker 2: of those for your liking?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's tough.
Speaker 3: I mean the Dettmer's one like feels like it should
Speaker 3: be pretty doable. That the problem is that the Guardians
Speaker 3: really don't strike out a lot, so.
Speaker 2: And Detmers can also get very not strikeout. Ye, I
Speaker 2: actually don't particularly like that one.
Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, yeah, I might go with Pilkington honestly,
Speaker 3: just on the other side of that game. You know,
Speaker 3: the Angels seem to outside of Mike Trout and Otani
Speaker 3: seem to have kind of given up on the year.
Speaker 3: And it's such a low number three point five strikeouts,
Speaker 3: so I think if he can just get five innings,
Speaker 3: he can probably do that.
Speaker 2: It's just one of those things I just couldn't say
Speaker 2: his name Pilkington. Also, I had my text type way
Speaker 2: too tiny. I need to bring that up. You see
Speaker 2: how tiny that is. That's a seven and a half.
Speaker 1: Who does that?
Speaker 2: I need to put this up to ten and a half.
Speaker 2: That's I'm doing crazy stuff. I even read the name.
Speaker 2: The one I would take a look at. I don't
Speaker 2: see it listed on here is Spencer Strider. I don't
Speaker 2: even see it on the list. I'm always a Spencer
Speaker 2: Strider over. If the numbers eight and a half, I'm
Speaker 2: comfortable with it. If it's nine and a half, I
Speaker 2: probably don't want to play with it. But Stryder's on
Speaker 2: something and him and his teammate Michael Harris, they are
Speaker 2: vying for the Rookie of the Year, so I don't
Speaker 2: expect any slowdown. So if you don't want to play
Speaker 2: any of these algorithmy plays of like, here's the top
Speaker 2: one they generator, here's the plus money, just go to
Speaker 2: the old try and true and go with Spencer Strider
Speaker 2: and you feel you feel a lot better about yourself.
Speaker 1: Trust me.
Speaker 4: Over.
Speaker 2: On the DFS side, Fan Duels Striider is ten to four.
Speaker 2: Bassett is even ten and probably the play of the day,
Speaker 2: probably the biggest chalkiest play is going to be Framber Valdez,
Speaker 2: who's eleven. I don't have a lot of pivot plays.
Speaker 2: I don't see a whole lot of pivot plays on pitching,
Speaker 2: so I think Framber is going to be highly owned.
Speaker 2: Chris Bassett might be the best pivot off of those guys,
Speaker 2: even though I love Streider as a play for your
Speaker 2: implied runs, I believe La is the only one implied
Speaker 2: over five runs, but your top one are Mets, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and Toronto. So I think, as if you're getting like
Speaker 2: a gist here is maybe go and take a look
Speaker 2: at that Pittsburgh Cincinnati game, which has got awful pitching.
Speaker 2: Bryce Wilson is in there, and stack some of those guys,
Speaker 2: maybe a jack for maybe a freely you can put
Speaker 2: in there. Just stack a couple of those players, because
Speaker 2: there should be a whole lot of offense, and Cincinnati
Speaker 2: is on those implied totals. And friend, does that take
Speaker 2: us to the home run calls? We're gonna get it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna see what the leaderboard looks like. Andrew, what
Speaker 2: do you think who you got on your home run
Speaker 2: call for today? We don't have a full slate of games,
Speaker 2: but we got some hitters to choose from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Jose Altuve. He's got really
Speaker 3: nice career numbers again, Seiguardo Rodriguez, He's been hitting pretty
Speaker 3: well recently as well, and most importantly, I have him
Speaker 3: on my fantasy team. So I am putting some good
Speaker 3: karma out there into the world for Jose Altuve to
Speaker 3: put one over the fence for me.
Speaker 2: Very impressive numbers too. When you break down second base,
Speaker 2: you break down overall second If you don't look at
Speaker 2: Yahoo eligibility, Yeah, who's eligibility is like silly nonsense. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they still have BOOKI that's listed there. You've got Trey
Speaker 2: Turner still listed there. So if you go into real
Speaker 2: world stuff, pretty easy argument that al Tuve becomes the
Speaker 2: number one second basement again in Fantasy Baseball ed then
Speaker 2: is a definitely question. With the stolen bases, you can
Speaker 2: make the argument Ozzy Albi's has missed a lot of times,
Speaker 2: but you know you're looking at redraft stuff for next year.
Speaker 2: Al Tuve has just done his stuff again.
Speaker 1: And that's a good one.
Speaker 2: I believe you've also got may Or going in the
Speaker 2: same game. He's going with Bregman, Wonky is going with TJ.
Speaker 2: Friedel and I'm gonna go with Vladimir Guerrero junior bad pitching,
Speaker 2: give me Vladdie Daddy.
Speaker 1: For the home run and friends. That is it. That
Speaker 1: is what we've got for you.
Speaker 2: So make sure you lock in tomorrow because like I said,
Speaker 2: we'll probably take some fantasy questions as far as start
Speaker 2: and sit in whatever you've got, and I'll give a
Speaker 2: designated space for it, so you guys can all know
Speaker 2: that and we can get you guys set for the
Speaker 2: playoffs because it is grind time, baby, whether it's rot
Speaker 2: or head to head. Andrew, what do you got going
Speaker 2: on on the baseball front? I know you just released
Speaker 2: the pickups article, I believe on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Anything else going down?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's the main thing.
Speaker 3: Just doing that waiver Wire article each week over at
Speaker 3: Fantasy Pros, and I can continue to do my rest
Speaker 3: of season rankings podcast. We're talking a lot of football
Speaker 3: there at the moment, but we'll try to get another
Speaker 3: baseball pod in here soon before the end of the year.
Speaker 4: And you can follow me on.
Speaker 3: Twitter at Andrew Underscore sifer ros Rankings dot Com is
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Speaker 2: Follow me on Twitter at is it the Welsh. You
Speaker 2: guys know the drill and everything else. Until next time, friends,
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