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Speaker 1: network alongside Frankie Stamfull and an hour number one today
Speaker 1: you're a lot of wrestling talk coming your right now.
Speaker 1: And number two it's The Closer Chris venters up, Chris,
Speaker 1: what's up? It's your boy The Close Up Friday, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm a little interested in WrestleMania. Yeah, you know, watch Yes,
Speaker 1: probably stick around for hour two if you just your
Speaker 1: brother is coming on. I don't know much about a sport, dude,
Speaker 1: is frank It just Johnny and yeah, I wanted I'll
Speaker 1: try and mediate it. I'll be I'll meet somewhere in
Speaker 1: the middle. I'll be like, oh, yeah, that sounds right.
Speaker 1: Good job Greg, that's gonna be my contract and a
Speaker 1: good job Johnny, and that'll be it. Yeah. How are you? Frank?
Speaker 1: How am I? I'm feeling pretty good. It's Friday. A
Speaker 1: lot of wrestling this weekend. I'm comfort Tonight n XT
Speaker 1: gonna be a great show. Tomorrow, I'm I'm coming out
Speaker 1: to MSG to watch the new Japan Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: show and the Sunday WrestleMania. So it's a it's a
Speaker 1: big weekend. We're not gonna forget about baseball entirely, obviously.
Speaker 1: The first hour here we're gonna talk a lot about
Speaker 1: waiver wire stuff and recap events from last night. But
Speaker 1: I'm excited, man, I'm excited. Do you feel do you
Speaker 1: feel badly that you're not going to WrestleMania and it's
Speaker 1: in your backyard? It's it's here in New York. If
Speaker 1: I've if I've never been to WrestleMania, I probably would.
Speaker 1: But I've already gone to Rorestlemania, so it doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean much. I went last time. They were in
Speaker 1: I guess the meadow Lands at the time already. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went last time. I was so drunk I couldn't
Speaker 1: see the ring. I had to eat food. It was
Speaker 1: very high up, man. You know it's pretty game in
Speaker 1: herrows Tailgating got to buy a big sausage Hero the
Speaker 1: same man, I was. I just leave last night? How
Speaker 1: did I say? Still? Very well? Very well you buddy law?
Speaker 1: Last night you drank a lot. You're death draft. Yes,
Speaker 1: the two heavy beers here and then we went to
Speaker 1: Lare and drinking a lot more during the Game of
Speaker 1: Throne's Death Pool draft. You must have slept very well.
Speaker 1: It might have been kind of hard to get up.
Speaker 1: But yes, precisely. Yeah, I mean I've been there a
Speaker 1: million times. We should do a Game of Thrones at
Speaker 1: the draft. I'm not gonna say my team then in
Speaker 1: the network for the house scheme, what we should do
Speaker 1: the opposite? Then why don't we do a survivor draft? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not as I know, Yes, Alex, Alex is complicated.
Speaker 1: I don't like. I like, let's do the opposite of
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Then already doing a debt draft. Don't
Speaker 1: want to do a survivor draft, but you want to, Okay,
Speaker 1: we do that. Thing is gonna survive, all right, But
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to do the
Speaker 1: whole network because there's too many people. Yeah, obviously, okay,
Speaker 1: like people whatever A twelve characters, there are six seventy
Speaker 1: eight characters. You're not gonna have your team will be yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly like us. Three cut. I don't know if Steve
Speaker 1: watch the Game of Thrones will get him in there.
Speaker 1: I gotta cut it. We'll get Alex if he wants.
Speaker 1: You gotta cut it. But what do you mean because
Speaker 1: Brian in there wait wait, women feel like Alex is
Speaker 1: trying to talk, but we're just overpowering him. As if
Speaker 1: you want a reference for my draft. And it's not
Speaker 1: a death draft, it's a survivor draft. We picked people
Speaker 1: who think we're gonna get in an episode and survive
Speaker 1: to the end of that episode. And we have seven
Speaker 1: teams with seven players on each team. So there was
Speaker 1: about forty nine people we could pick from in a
Speaker 1: pool of people that were still alive. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: could do something with ten people and have five guys
Speaker 1: on each team. It's possible. It's fifty guys. Sure you
Speaker 1: have to set it up there. Oh no, you're the
Speaker 1: commissioner of the Game of Thrones draft. I'm already a
Speaker 1: commissioner of a horribly controversial, fancy baseball league. Constant annoying
Speaker 1: is doing surgery now was going on. He's got I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on here. Greg's all over the place.
Speaker 1: He's trying to he's trying to set up his head's
Speaker 1: insane microphone. This was just absolutely I think it was you.
Speaker 1: I have no idea you're the last person in that seat,
Speaker 1: was I wi. Yeah, I guess dude, this is insane.
Speaker 1: So what are you doing? You're right, I got it. Great.
Speaker 1: We really got to jump into some baseball though, because
Speaker 1: we only have so much time talking base I was
Speaker 1: too busy. Alex just said his league and what he does.
Speaker 1: Alex has recapped what his league is. It's if you're
Speaker 1: if you appear in an episode and you survived that episode,
Speaker 1: you get points. And it's obviously you want your guys
Speaker 1: to survive a surviving So if we see somebody in
Speaker 1: an episode making through it and then they see him
Speaker 1: in the beginning and they make it to the end
Speaker 1: of episode, we get a point. All right, Well, Alex's
Speaker 1: recapping it again for you guys, and time is not
Speaker 1: a charge. We'll be doing a Game of Thrones draft,
Speaker 1: which Chris will be the commissioner of. Yeah, you were
Speaker 1: very excited about setting this up, so you will be
Speaker 1: the commissioner, and then that will be it. We'll have
Speaker 1: a little Game of Thrones draft and uh, that's it.
Speaker 1: We're wrapping up the conversation game. We'll we'll make it
Speaker 1: simple to like you know every day that again here
Speaker 1: advances he gets a point, Like so if a guy survives.
Speaker 1: After the first episode, he gets a point. Episode two
Speaker 1: he gets another point. How so, how many people are
Speaker 1: we doing in this stuff? Maybe ten? Ten, five guys?
Speaker 1: Whatever the commissioner wants. There's there's just not good. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be to have a big roster. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: drafting people you don't know. That's fine. I'll take uh,
Speaker 1: I only know, like I'll take no problem, no problem.
Speaker 1: You don't get points. You don't get points, even in
Speaker 1: the finals, not in the season. You don't get points
Speaker 1: for that. What if he he doesn't appear and he
Speaker 1: survives all those episodes though he does not bad. If
Speaker 1: he does not appear in this season, you're not getting
Speaker 1: But if he appears at the very last episode, but
Speaker 1: he and he's been allowed to hold you, then you
Speaker 1: get you only you only get points and episodes of
Speaker 1: which they appear. Okay, so we're doing the Alex Way. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's Alex Way. Who knew? Yeah, only everyone here except
Speaker 1: you correct the right. Let's get let's get into baseball.
Speaker 1: Let's do it in the baseball Trevor Bauer last night, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: and we only have fifty minutes to do all this
Speaker 1: for the most part. Obviously can bleed over if he
Speaker 1: really needs to. But I want to try to go
Speaker 1: through as much of what impressed me the most from
Speaker 1: last night, and they really getting on into the waiver
Speaker 1: wire and they've done a nice job. Frankie Chrish going
Speaker 1: over the waiver wire all week long was just only
Speaker 1: when we've talked about these guys. A lot of Reddy
Speaker 1: only want to do today is kind of prioritize it
Speaker 1: and think that's what we have to do. But let
Speaker 1: me start with one impressed me from last night. Of
Speaker 1: course the first Trevor Bauer who had seven no hit innings,
Speaker 1: walk six guys but struck out eight Bouer uh told
Speaker 1: the Mede after the game, Francona did the right thing,
Speaker 1: pulling the right there. That's what he should have done.
Speaker 1: Uh Brad Hand blows the no hitter in the ninth
Speaker 1: Indians when Bauer very impressive. Frank Yeah, he was awesome,
Speaker 1: basically picking up where he left off last year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: worry about the walks here six I had six walks.
Speaker 1: You know last year he really cut down the walks
Speaker 1: and that's what made him so effective. He obviously limited
Speaker 1: the home runs to uh so in conjunction together. That's
Speaker 1: why he was able to have such a great year
Speaker 1: as he did last year with two point to one
Speaker 1: e r A. You know, cut the walks down to
Speaker 1: a career below two point nine three walks for nine.
Speaker 1: Um so if he's reverting back to his old way
Speaker 1: is where he's still gonna get a lot of strikeouts.
Speaker 1: We're gonna walk a lot of guys. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I want to see better command. Obviously, he was lights out,
Speaker 1: he was awesome. Um So I'm not gonna take anything
Speaker 1: away from him. I just want to I want to
Speaker 1: see a better command overall. And this is basically a
Speaker 1: daily watch with If you're streaming, you're starting pictures against
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. They've been no hit through the like first
Speaker 1: five innings of a game, like five days in a row.
Speaker 1: They're very bad, So streaming your pictures against Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: The line up yesterday was absolutely brutal. They were They
Speaker 1: basically started their bench to Bruto was playing right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's really bad. That that's the worst Socrates,
Speaker 1: Brito batting, second, grit Chuk, Croudy to Les, Jansen, Jansen, McKinney,
Speaker 1: Billy McKinney, Laurdes Guriel, Freddy Galvi's and Alan Hansen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously smokes missing from that lineup because up the Nick injury.
Speaker 1: Right now, Look, it'll get better with Vlad but and eventually,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know when we're gonna see him
Speaker 1: call up, but they'll get better with Lad, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But that's not how much better they're actually gonna get though.
Speaker 1: This is why I'm not that impressed by Bower, like
Speaker 1: I'm impressed by ballot performance. We expect a lot from
Speaker 1: him though at this point, and he's playing the Blue Jay.
Speaker 1: So he didn't give up a hit, Okay, fine, but
Speaker 1: six walks he did get out of a situation where
Speaker 1: he had bases loaded. That was that was really nice
Speaker 1: to get out of that spot because that could have
Speaker 1: been a disaster, which he calls himself. Yeah, he called
Speaker 1: himself because he walked everybody but um. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, if that was a better team, could have
Speaker 1: been a whole different story that and he could have
Speaker 1: blew up and his you know, it could have been
Speaker 1: a terrible stock easily from that one ending. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's playing the Blue Jays and he got himself out
Speaker 1: of it, So I don't know. I'm like six walks
Speaker 1: is a lot. That's a lot in one game. Bower
Speaker 1: was talking about in spring training about how he was
Speaker 1: working on a new changeup that has been pretty good
Speaker 1: for him so far, and he's throwing it about eighteen
Speaker 1: percent of the time on the season through two starts.
Speaker 1: Obviously small sample size, but um coming into this this
Speaker 1: year he hadn't he was throwing at eight point four
Speaker 1: percent of the time. So he's basically up his percentage,
Speaker 1: his changeup percentage ten percent this year, and he's just
Speaker 1: he's going with a different arsenal. He's throwing his curveball less.
Speaker 1: But he has a four seamer, he has a cut fastball,
Speaker 1: he has a changeup, he has a slider, and he
Speaker 1: has a curveball. And this is part of what you've
Speaker 1: heard about Bauer for years now is he has so
Speaker 1: many pitches it's kind of hard for him to decide
Speaker 1: which wants to use. Like his repertoire is so vast,
Speaker 1: but he's got a hone in and really kind of
Speaker 1: just master the pitches that he wants to use, like
Speaker 1: the four or five pitches. Okay, that's fine, you want
Speaker 1: to use those, master those and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1: It seems like he's still kind of working some things
Speaker 1: out because he's walking a lot of guys, still getting
Speaker 1: a lot of strikeouts. So obviously last night was awesome
Speaker 1: for him, But I really want to see better command
Speaker 1: and him hone in on just the pitches he wants
Speaker 1: to use. Most of course, you need to see the
Speaker 1: better command, and I agree with that. And again it's
Speaker 1: early on. You're trying to get a feel for your pitches.
Speaker 1: I don't want to I'm trying to do better at
Speaker 1: this discount what he did because of the lineup that
Speaker 1: he did it against. You have to beat this team.
Speaker 1: You need to do well against these teams, and you're
Speaker 1: going to face a lot more terrible teams during the season,
Speaker 1: and you are really great teams. And we discussed especially
Speaker 1: pitching in the a ES Central correct and we discussed
Speaker 1: this a lot when like, oh, it's the Yankees right now,
Speaker 1: or it's the Orioles, or it's the Tigers. We can't
Speaker 1: be too impressed by this, it's the Rays, whatever you face.
Speaker 1: It seemed all the time, right like, so I don't
Speaker 1: think we should discount that's as much as as I
Speaker 1: thought you did, Chris like he was good, like you
Speaker 1: want to you want to limit the world Walks. I
Speaker 1: understand you want to narrow the pitch selection a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's really good performance. It was. Yeah, still still great
Speaker 1: performance obviously for our fantasy baseball team. Frank, I'm not
Speaker 1: on set by the performance here, No, absolutely not. You
Speaker 1: love it. It's great still quite Frankly, the a L
Speaker 1: is a lot worse than the n L right now.
Speaker 1: Like the a L lineups are bad. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of oreos. Uh, the Tigers the Royals are actually better
Speaker 1: than those, but still not great. Um, White Sox are
Speaker 1: getting better. But then nothing's crazy. You know. Oakland's alright.
Speaker 1: You know the Yankees. You can stream against the Yankees
Speaker 1: right now. Even Alex Cobb was yeah, absolutely Um. Also
Speaker 1: impressing me last night, man, Max Freed. I tried telling
Speaker 1: you guys that this guy Accordion Freddie Freeman at the
Speaker 1: most talent of any picture on the Atlanta Nave staff.
Speaker 1: Last night. We saw it, Frank, Yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway for Max Freed last night was the
Speaker 1: fact that he didn't walk anybody. He was He was
Speaker 1: perfect through entering the sixth enning. That's when I turned
Speaker 1: the game on. He he allowed a hit the center field.
Speaker 1: I believe it was to Zigoonists, the guy that they've
Speaker 1: been streaming against left handed pitching instead of using Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 1: So there you go again, Joe Madden, smartest guy in
Speaker 1: the room. But yeah, Max Freed looked very good. UM
Speaker 1: six innings, one run, zero walks. I love the zero walks,
Speaker 1: only five strikeouts. He didn't have a ton of swinging strikes,
Speaker 1: so that's one takeaway from me or Greg. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did let him throw eighty eight pitches in the start,
Speaker 1: but only seven swinging strikes. But mile per hour fastball
Speaker 1: for him seventy five mile pur curve, which he threw
Speaker 1: twenty seven times. So he's predominantly fastball curveball pitcher. But
Speaker 1: the difference between his fastball losit and his curveball velocity
Speaker 1: is twenty miles. So I do really like that he
Speaker 1: threw a change up only five times, through a slider
Speaker 1: four times. So we talked about this a lot with
Speaker 1: young starting pitchers. They normally have two pitches that they
Speaker 1: really like that they go to a lot and then
Speaker 1: they try to work work in a third and sometimes
Speaker 1: a fourth, so I'm sure he's working on those things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was impressed by what he did here
Speaker 1: and against the clubs lineup that is no slouch. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a good club's lineup, So I thought it
Speaker 1: was a great job by Max Freed. I don't he
Speaker 1: did it perfectly. I was just gonna say that, Um,
Speaker 1: Joe Madden does have a problem with his pitching though,
Speaker 1: darbish getting shelled again. Absolutely, you can't have you can't
Speaker 1: have Darvish in your lineup. I have him in my
Speaker 1: home league, points league, especially where you want volume, you
Speaker 1: want guys that are gonna go deep into games and
Speaker 1: give you quality starts. He's just walking the world right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he had six swalks in his first start
Speaker 1: against the Rangers. He had four walks yesterday and only
Speaker 1: four endings pitched. You can't start, you do you think
Speaker 1: he's washed? Something's wrong. Look, he's always had command issues,
Speaker 1: but not to this one. I mean his first start,
Speaker 1: what was it three plus ending six walks and then
Speaker 1: yesterday I walked per ending pitched And he's always had
Speaker 1: command issues. But it's not even like he's missing a
Speaker 1: lot of bats now and he's getting hit two strikeouts
Speaker 1: in four ending. That's the thing. Usually he would dominate
Speaker 1: the wolks wouldn't hurt him that much because he k
Speaker 1: everybody or you know, giving good stuff. Now he's getting shelled,
Speaker 1: so something's wrong with him again. That's a free just
Speaker 1: for one second. The only question I have is if
Speaker 1: he'll stay in that rotation as Faulty comes back, um,
Speaker 1: as as Kevin Galishman comes back. That's that's what you
Speaker 1: have to worry about. He's talented, he has the stuff. Again,
Speaker 1: if he pitches like last night, they can't pull him
Speaker 1: in the rotation. I think who That's my only hesitation.
Speaker 1: Who do you think? I think he's a deeper league guy.
Speaker 1: I would add only obviously, but twelve teams. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it. I don't think you can. He faces Colorado
Speaker 1: next week in Colorado. Exactly, you're not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: That was the only thing um I want to say.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to do you Darvish, you can't
Speaker 1: start him right now. You absolutely cannot start him right.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't drop alright because paid for On the other side,
Speaker 1: we also have a no hitter or alert in this
Speaker 1: Mets Nationals game for a while. Like both know us
Speaker 1: Syndergarden and Steven Stotsberg were pitching as as well as
Speaker 1: they should. Uh, Stephen Shotsburg, guy, you were not on
Speaker 1: It's pretty well here yesterday. Health is the important thing
Speaker 1: with Strassburg. We'll come back. We hit on Aaron Sanchez,
Speaker 1: Tyler Malley, I Spencer Turnbull as well as the ground.
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Speaker 1: on the Fantasy It Spoards or Radio Network. Frank Stampa,
Speaker 1: the Closer, Chris Ventra and I Greg Susman here rocking
Speaker 1: and roll with you on a Friday where chilling having
Speaker 1: some fun. Baseball. Let's continue on quickly here um with
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that we noticed yesterday, so we
Speaker 1: can continue on and push through over our number one
Speaker 1: you've had. You've always spent your turnbull and ten strikeouts yesterday, Frank,
Speaker 1: I'm interested. Are you for real in deeper leagues? I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to do it in twelve team leagues.
Speaker 1: He does have a he has an interesting arsenal. Man.
Speaker 1: It looked ten strikeouts yesterday against the Kansas City Royals. Normally, look,
Speaker 1: I know they have Mondescy, but outside of him, this
Speaker 1: is the lineup that actually makes a lot of contact.
Speaker 1: I looked into this the other day and they were
Speaker 1: you know, I've been the top five in the league
Speaker 1: in contact rates to start the season, so they don't
Speaker 1: strike out a lot. And Spencer Terminal comes in here
Speaker 1: and he has ten strikeouts, he has fifteen swinging strikes.
Speaker 1: Put together a quality start here, six innings, two earned runs.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who you know, made some noise
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues for for the Tigers as well.
Speaker 1: Kind of joked about him before the season, But he
Speaker 1: has my attention in deeper leagues as of right now.
Speaker 1: Fourteen fifteen. Team leagues are deeper obviously only just because
Speaker 1: he has a rotation spot well team leads. Greg, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not ready to do it there yet. Um,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have my my attention in deeper league.
Speaker 1: Me too. I looked into him a little deeper and um,
Speaker 1: you know, his minor leagues pretty good. As he went
Speaker 1: through the minors, he got better. I feel like, Uh, so,
Speaker 1: I hope the cape per nine thing is is the truth,
Speaker 1: and then I'll buy in if he could keep that
Speaker 1: kper nine up. Okay, look at this last year. Last year,
Speaker 1: across four different levels. Think about this, he progressed from
Speaker 1: rookie ball to high A to Double A to Triple
Speaker 1: A and he had uh he had a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty three strikeouts and a hundred nineteen and one third
Speaker 1: any spitch. So he's a guy that has some swinging
Speaker 1: miss ability. Is he gonna be a strikeout per any
Speaker 1: necessarily every start at the major problem? Maybe not, but
Speaker 1: maybe he's between eight and nine case per nine and no,
Speaker 1: hopefully could keep the walks down as well. There's some
Speaker 1: interest there, sure, I think I think I just want
Speaker 1: to see who's just showing up? Uh, that's obviously huge.
Speaker 1: Who who does he face next week? And the answer
Speaker 1: is as the term, but will be facing dream guys
Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians. That's another American League team, terrible lineup, Ventura.
Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of interested in that, alright, Leagues like
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to stream him against the Cleveland Indians.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, there you go, Spencer the Bull against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians next week potentially. So my man, Aaron
Speaker 1: Sanchez was on the other side of the Trimmer Bower
Speaker 1: game last night. Six innings, two run ball, five kids,
Speaker 1: walked a couple of guys. Um, not a bad start
Speaker 1: from Aaron Sanchez. I know he faced Indians, so we're
Speaker 1: not a great lineup, and Josian Mirres left this one hurt. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm okay with this venture from Aaron Sanchez. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Not not a bad start. I mean, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he's still ramping up, right, but it's not. It's a
Speaker 1: good sign. I guess. You know, he was able to go,
Speaker 1: you know, deeper into the game and pitch a pretty
Speaker 1: good game right there. Quality start, I'll take it. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't really have him anywhere, and
Speaker 1: he's owned pretty much everywhere. So it's not a guy
Speaker 1: you're really picking up, right, This isn't a waiver wire guy. No,
Speaker 1: he's on. I'm just actually owning fort of CBS leagues.
Speaker 1: So the ownership percentage is not as high as you
Speaker 1: guys think. I was pretty aggressive on him coming into
Speaker 1: the year. It all just comes down to health first.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness in yellohoo. So he's out there. He's
Speaker 1: definitely out there. All right, So where's Aaron sanchs fall
Speaker 1: with all the other guys who talks about a week? Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk through all the names that we mentioned,
Speaker 1: because it's it's a lot hard to remember all of
Speaker 1: this a lot. You know, it's Frankie Mantas, It's Jordan's Zimmerman,
Speaker 1: it's the Marlins guy. Yeah, okay, so the Marlins guys
Speaker 1: are probably ahead of him. I don't know about Caleb Smith,
Speaker 1: like I might own Aaron Sanchez over Caleb Smith. But um,
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Aaron Sanchez, Um, I'd rather I'd rather
Speaker 1: have Jordans zimmer next week, just for the two star
Speaker 1: a week, Well, I think long term, I would rather
Speaker 1: have Aaron s montas Is closes for me because I
Speaker 1: really like Mantas. I like mont Is also, I'm really
Speaker 1: interested in seeing today mont is a start against Houston.
Speaker 1: I have not picked a tough one. I haven't picked
Speaker 1: him up because of that. I didn't want to pull
Speaker 1: the triggers in Houston. I did it, you did it.
Speaker 1: I did it. Yeah, I pulled the trigger in the
Speaker 1: fancy pit leage. I'm start him against Houston. I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna go with him on on DFS today, um, because
Speaker 1: he's cheaper than the good options, which is Bieber and
Speaker 1: Pavetta today. Speaking of uh, well, speaking of two things
Speaker 1: right there, DFS, which is of course on fand Live
Speaker 1: VF League. We're back today. Two bucks the enterf League left. Frank, No,
Speaker 1: I'll get in. If you want to join in, send
Speaker 1: me your fandel user name on Twitter uh at Rhodo Underscore. Frank,
Speaker 1: I'll try and get you in there. And again, if
Speaker 1: you were in the contest last week, you're already automatically
Speaker 1: in this week's contest. You just have to set your lineup.
Speaker 1: And again, if you don't set your line up by
Speaker 1: four or five ishpm today East Stern time, UM, the
Speaker 1: slate does start at seven. So if if you don't
Speaker 1: set your line up, then I'm gonna, unfortunately have to
Speaker 1: boot some people and try and get some other people,
Speaker 1: because if we don't fill it up to a certain amount,
Speaker 1: like get at least fifteen sixteen, and the contest is
Speaker 1: not gonna run. So I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: it runs, and you canna have some we can have
Speaker 1: some fun nts before was later and also you mentioned
Speaker 1: that the two of the best pictures on tonight's slate
Speaker 1: Vendra are Shane Bieber and Nick Pavetta. Nick Pavetta was
Speaker 1: just acquired in a trade. Oh yeah, I love this
Speaker 1: trade for Greg. It's not officially I didn't send it.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't just because I said, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I'm still gonna do it. I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: haven't said send it as this said there right now.
Speaker 1: Well during the break, maybe he's very I don't understand
Speaker 1: we made I was in the winness. Your hands on it,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's true. You gonna pull you gonna actually
Speaker 1: pull this right now? Hands on it? Yet? Well, Oh,
Speaker 1: how bad do you want Nick Pavetta? Now, Greg, I
Speaker 1: don't want it that badly. I just wanted to start
Speaker 1: for today. But you're gonna start him like it's a
Speaker 1: twins in Philadelphia. I started everybody's head to head man,
Speaker 1: you don't dad, okay right now? And he's on the
Speaker 1: bench right really, Well, it's a mistake you don't have
Speaker 1: I'll take him. Well, I'm pretty sure. I'm all right.
Speaker 1: Let's let's the anti here. What do you want offer
Speaker 1: me for provetta, I'm wanting tend to one. By the way,
Speaker 1: So for saying that I don't know how to play
Speaker 1: head to head, you are I would say that you're wrong.
Speaker 1: He is in first Let's see big timers team sucks
Speaker 1: and they say, well that's not that's not nice big timers. Listen,
Speaker 1: he's a watcher. Actually an awesome weeks. Well, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have awesome weeks every week because weeks I have. I
Speaker 1: have a great team. It's team fat Boys. Much a
Speaker 1: much better week. You're you're winning too that I purposely
Speaker 1: punted stolen basis and I don't have a single sole
Speaker 1: on base on the week. So I'm very proud of
Speaker 1: my team. They're feeling exactly what pen saves and holds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I have really good relievers. Greg should have annoyed
Speaker 1: you didn't I just have hand in column me and
Speaker 1: then I have Pressley, Joe Jimenez and Lu Trevino has
Speaker 1: four saves on the four holes in the year, so
Speaker 1: you have five always on my line up every day.
Speaker 1: But Frank, how to play it to head? Categories you're
Speaker 1: putting you're putting stolen basis. You don't know how to
Speaker 1: play last because I took all fat guys because I
Speaker 1: want home runs, RBI's average and ops. Greig dominate categories.
Speaker 1: Have a good week? Alright, Venture, who's on your team?
Speaker 1: You want to make a trade? We've made a trade, Frank.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it looked you want a picture obviously, right,
Speaker 1: Christmas Party has proposed a trade to you. Christmas. Let's
Speaker 1: let's let's see what the trade is. Greg, what's your
Speaker 1: team name? Venture? All the closure stable? You see what
Speaker 1: you got? Four? Right before I pull this trigger, I
Speaker 1: got Charlie Morten's a little interesting, Frank would be you
Speaker 1: want Frank? How do you categories to having this thing?
Speaker 1: How about Freeland? Frank, I don't want Frankly I don't
Speaker 1: really like your pictures. Mentum, I'm sorry, all right, no problem,
Speaker 1: it might work out for you, Freeland. I'll do that. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not so how this story went by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there, get rid of the shower. Franks there,
Speaker 1: I'll change you. Nick Pavett freed water Rodriguez, Like, is
Speaker 1: Nick better hurt? Yes? No, he said okay, because the
Speaker 1: water Rodriguez is a good bye lower. So I literally
Speaker 1: said okay, deal, deal, and he said okay, deal, and
Speaker 1: he's a deal. And now I've proposed the trade. It's
Speaker 1: one of those trades that you just kind of throw
Speaker 1: out there and you don't expect him to say yes
Speaker 1: for right away. He has to think about, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not dude, I'll do one of Rodriguez is a good
Speaker 1: bye low. Right now, I'll give you Marco Gonzalez ninety
Speaker 1: one nine miles per hour. Greg, you proposed, I accepted.
Speaker 1: That's true. Now I still wanted Wardo. I'm gonna accept
Speaker 1: right now. There you go. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: have to get sucks h only like Frank accepted. We
Speaker 1: first traded the first trade of the year trade Nick
Speaker 1: covetted to Greg for Eduardo Rodriguez. It's that She's like,
Speaker 1: are you serious, Frank when he said that down stairs.
Speaker 1: I don't know why why does Why do you think that? No,
Speaker 1: he Pavetta kind of got rocked in his first start.
Speaker 1: But I just think Pavetta has like much bigger upside
Speaker 1: at this point, and based on his youth, what he
Speaker 1: did last year, his peripherals, the k rate go into
Speaker 1: five years old. But here's the thing he's last year,
Speaker 1: he's been the same for like the last few years.
Speaker 1: Is he's a he's a little he gets shells at times,
Speaker 1: he's a little wild at times, he's rocky, he's very shaky.
Speaker 1: He's been like that for a while now. Pavetta only
Speaker 1: really had one truthful season under his belt. Wasn't the
Speaker 1: greatest season. But he's you know, he's developing, and I
Speaker 1: think he's a guy that can make a big jump
Speaker 1: this year. Whereas Rodriguez we've been waiting for a couple
Speaker 1: of years to make that big jump, still hasn't. He
Speaker 1: also gets hurt a lot at what so, you know,
Speaker 1: I just think Pavetta is a safer bet to hit
Speaker 1: his upside this year. That's fair definitely tougher division for
Speaker 1: Pavetta to pitch in because at least Irad is gonna
Speaker 1: get to face the Blue Jays and the Oreos quite consistently.
Speaker 1: So you know, he faces the blue Jays next week.
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna leave him in my line up for
Speaker 1: that start because just how bad the blue Jays have been.
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying about about provetted To. I
Speaker 1: liked it. I had these guys ranked back to back.
Speaker 1: I had had Irod ranked one spot higher coming into
Speaker 1: the season, and yeah, it's uh. I still I think
Speaker 1: I think Irad has I could take another step as well.
Speaker 1: You're right about he's been. He's been injury prone, but
Speaker 1: I don't really like the home ballpark for for provetta
Speaker 1: to pitching and the insistence banking. During the draft, Greg
Speaker 1: actually took Irod the round that I wanted to say him.
Speaker 1: And once he took Irod, I took Provetta. So they
Speaker 1: went in the same round. They went like four picks,
Speaker 1: Part one, D, that's your target, he wrote, Rot to
Speaker 1: my guy and stand listen, it's close between them. See
Speaker 1: what happens, Greg's close? Anything else from from last night
Speaker 1: we were talking about Aaron Sanchez. Yeah, so all right,
Speaker 1: here's the here the weekend waivers starting pitchers that I
Speaker 1: have listed. Oh where, Yeah, I'm trying to figure out, like,
Speaker 1: where does Aaron Sanchez ranking this mix? So Matt Shoemaker,
Speaker 1: Matt Boyd, everyone's hot on those guys right now. I
Speaker 1: have Sandy Alkantar, but we already we've already mentioned the
Speaker 1: Marlins starting pitchers, Frankie Mantaz, Domingo Hormon, Yanni Charinos. So
Speaker 1: Aaron Sanchez get started this season against the Tigers and
Speaker 1: then yesterday against the Indians, so they're good matchups obviously.
Speaker 1: I like that for him though. I think he needed
Speaker 1: to get off to a good start and kind of
Speaker 1: build up confidence where he's been in years past. So
Speaker 1: it's a good start for Aaron Sanchez. He's only allowed
Speaker 1: to earn the runs over his first eleven endings. Pitch
Speaker 1: got the quality start yesterday. Um, I would rank sho
Speaker 1: Make he has had good starts as well, but he's
Speaker 1: also gone deeper into games. They pitch on the same team.
Speaker 1: It's close to him, man, I think Matthew definitely higher
Speaker 1: strike out upside. I would take Boyd ahead of Aaron Sanchez.
Speaker 1: I would I would take Mantas ahead of Aaron Sanchez
Speaker 1: as well, but I like Aaron sanch Is a lot too.
Speaker 1: She we just have a little Aaron Aaron Sanche is
Speaker 1: fatigue here definitely. But the thing is, I've never owned him,
Speaker 1: so that's why I'm more likely to be in on him.
Speaker 1: He's I mean, he's twenty six, is venture you like say,
Speaker 1: that's prime in your career right now. And maybe the
Speaker 1: upside things in this high as a guy like Frankie
Speaker 1: Mantas and maybe not that boyd either. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta stay Actually, yeah, I think the thing that
Speaker 1: I worry but the most of him is that he
Speaker 1: always has blister issues and always but like that's a
Speaker 1: problem and I hate to be this guy because it always.
Speaker 1: But the year that he stayed healthy, I mean, look
Speaker 1: at that him. Ye, yeah, I know, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: get a ton of strikeout. He's a guy who has
Speaker 1: a lot of movement on his pitches and he relies
Speaker 1: a lot on groundballs off contact. I've I've heard some
Speaker 1: people say this about the Blue Jay starting pitchers, is
Speaker 1: you can't really rely on them because a lot of
Speaker 1: them are groundball pitchers and it's the way that the
Speaker 1: ball skips on the turf in Toronto. It makes it
Speaker 1: tougher for their fielders. And not only that they have
Speaker 1: a really bad defense, like Lorda's Gouriel at second base
Speaker 1: is not a good not a good defender. Freddy Galvis
Speaker 1: Obviously they signed for defense. He's a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but like Brandon Jury and then Vladimir Guerrero's, he's not
Speaker 1: going to be good defense. It's not good. Justin smoke
Speaker 1: is fine, but you know, these guys rely a lot
Speaker 1: on their infield defense and they just don't have the strongest.
Speaker 1: They got rid of They got rid of one of
Speaker 1: the better defensive players and Kevin Uh also true. Also true.
Speaker 1: So if I'm just doing this right now to meet,
Speaker 1: Shoemaker and Aaron Sanchez are kind of on the same
Speaker 1: level because I drafted Aaron Sanchez more than I did Shoemaker. Like,
Speaker 1: if I'm designing between and two, I'd probably just hold
Speaker 1: onto Aaron Sanchez. I think they're kind of similar. But
Speaker 1: I would rank Boyd ahead of him. I rank on
Speaker 1: Tops ahead of him. I would rank Domingo Harman and
Speaker 1: Yanni Turinos behind Aaron Sanchez. That's just my opinion. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if that's I'm with you, Yanni
Speaker 1: behind him. I like Domingo. You would take Domingo ahead
Speaker 1: of Aaron Sanchez. I think I trust Sanchez to go
Speaker 1: deeper into games and I do Domingo Harmon. You're probably
Speaker 1: right doing Herman definitely has more strikeout ability for Shure
Speaker 1: in terms of swinging strikes. What he's gonna do, like
Speaker 1: he might go five innings and give you seven eight
Speaker 1: strikeouts every time he pitches. But I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna go deep into games. The strikeouts will
Speaker 1: be better will pitch morning, But if Santez can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: I would imagine the e arra and the whip would
Speaker 1: be better than Domingo Herman. What do you think, Greg?
Speaker 1: Where do you have Aaron changes? So I have aon'sch
Speaker 1: is probably a little bit higher. Maybe it's because I
Speaker 1: I don't know, I still will, I still believe in
Speaker 1: what he can do, like he should Matt Boy to
Speaker 1: be higher than I don't. I don't know I strike
Speaker 1: out that strike out upside is just it's tantalized saying yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't wish you could face his own team. Thought
Speaker 1: her moan like her mom is not the movement. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to frustrate you with walks more than
Speaker 1: well I think the whipple will just be higher for
Speaker 1: her mom. That seems that seems to be the one
Speaker 1: that's the toughest one for me. And I would take Mantas.
Speaker 1: I get it like so in my in my holy
Speaker 1: Mantas is out there. I own Aaron Sanchez. Am I
Speaker 1: dropping Sanchez from Mantas? I would maybe, I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: high on Mantas. I wouldn't count what I'm saying because
Speaker 1: I'm I got him ahead of every all these guys,
Speaker 1: said Boyd. I think Boyd is the only guy I
Speaker 1: had actually agree with you, though I have, I have
Speaker 1: Mantas ahead of Aaron Sanchez. To again, I like Sanchez coming, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like him. You want to hold your guy, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that I do. And so honestly,
Speaker 1: I said, mat is out there. I'd like to pick
Speaker 1: Mantas up. But I'm kind of waiting to start coach
Speaker 1: next week faces As in Boston. Yeah, I'm starting for
Speaker 1: that one. Would you drop him for Jordan's iimmans to
Speaker 1: start a week Graig, I'm not. I'm not doing yet that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. You would just stash
Speaker 1: Aaron Sanchez, not not use him. I believe Manta's faces
Speaker 1: the Orioles. So that's much better, much better. That's your week.
Speaker 1: And I think Boyd faces the Indians. If Turnbot faces
Speaker 1: the Indians, and Tigers are probably so. So Boyd's facing
Speaker 1: the Union. Did you love the Detroit Tigers? I saw
Speaker 1: Modia with this randomly, I think I would. You're facing
Speaker 1: the Indians. I love you basically, you get this tweet
Speaker 1: out there this morning, all the Tigers versus march rotation?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have the Tigers and the Marlins? To me,
Speaker 1: that wasn't close though, Like, people love the Marlins right now?
Speaker 1: Hear what? People love? You just named four tigers that
Speaker 1: you like? Who were the four? Turn People love the Marlins,
Speaker 1: and I'm asking people asking you, I would take the
Speaker 1: Marlins guys for sure. Yeah, no, there's just there's just
Speaker 1: more as good as Matt Boyd has been. Um, the
Speaker 1: whole of the Marlins pitching staff has higher strike out
Speaker 1: upside and swinging miss upside rather than just what boy
Speaker 1: is gonna give you. Because I don't expect Jordans they're
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of breakouts. Steinbole might be able to,
Speaker 1: but jury's kind of still out on him. He's young
Speaker 1: starting pitchers. We'll see what happened. We're back more waiver
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Speaker 1: This has Franks dample guns written all over it. Again
Speaker 1: he's dead. Oh my god, he's broken in hand. Do
Speaker 1: you give? Do you give? King of the Guns? Uh?
Speaker 1: If I'm really drunk, I'm sure I'll do whatever I
Speaker 1: like to dance like I do crazy stuff guns. You're
Speaker 1: a big dancer when you drink. Not really Ventra Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Venture doesn't drink all that much. Multiple times obviously Current
Speaker 1: Holiday party a couple of years ago, Chris Party, twenties.
Speaker 1: Venture drinks. He's drinks heavy. Yeah, I don't stop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah you're not someone like did you have a beer? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing that. I'm kind of the same. I rather
Speaker 1: have like a nice tea, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: something that like it's good to me. It's like a snowball,
Speaker 1: not one of those. I don't think any alcohol days good.
Speaker 1: Really wine maybe red wine. I like red wine, that's
Speaker 1: about it. Like wine. Yeah, that gets you more sleepy
Speaker 1: than anything. I'm actually not I'm not a wine guy
Speaker 1: at all, not a Yeah moscato, but is that even
Speaker 1: really wine? I don't know. Yeah, that's just super sweet,
Speaker 1: you know, big on wine. He has been on apothing
Speaker 1: red that's her, that's her things. She likes bitter beverages.
Speaker 1: I just ye, I'm I'm looking at you because I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You very bitter? The wrench?
Speaker 1: That's great here if you had it? What wrench? That side? No,
Speaker 1: you always see my beer like I feel it looks good.
Speaker 1: I feel like it. No, Yeah, we were drinking a
Speaker 1: few beers here yesterday. I drank Perroni. I like Perroni
Speaker 1: and that hits too hard to perni Hi Alcohol contexts
Speaker 1: Italian beer brewed in Italia is one of the best.
Speaker 1: All right for the waiver wire guys for this week,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Alex Gordon as a hitter that you're interested in.
Speaker 1: Definitely not a sexy name, but play some seven games
Speaker 1: next week, So even if you just want to stream
Speaker 1: of for that, I think it's fine. I thought about
Speaker 1: picking him up in a twelve team league. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would do it in twelve team is
Speaker 1: anything deeper. I've actually seen him available in a few
Speaker 1: of my in a few of my fifteen team leagues.
Speaker 1: I think Alex Gordon should be on in fifteen team leagues,
Speaker 1: especially where you need five outfielders. Yeah, I I think
Speaker 1: it's I think it's reasonable. I actually mentioned Alex Gordon
Speaker 1: to you a while ago and you just laughed at man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was actually yesterday, you know that saw
Speaker 1: a lot of people tweeting about it too, laughing at
Speaker 1: Alex Gordon. But I think the circumstances are different this year,
Speaker 1: and that's what you have to remember, is Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every year there's like a two week stretch where we
Speaker 1: pick up Alex Gordon and it's fine, and then we
Speaker 1: dropped him a few weeks later. Okay, that's fine, But
Speaker 1: in years past he didn't have Witt Maryfield and Adlbert
Speaker 1: Homond is he hitting from him, but he had Hosmer
Speaker 1: and he had Mustakis at times. But I mean there's
Speaker 1: been like a two or three year kind of labor
Speaker 1: here where it's like the Royals lineup was not good,
Speaker 1: and I still don't think they're great. But when you
Speaker 1: have Witt mary Field and Adalberts Honesty sitting a table
Speaker 1: for you, it's a little bit more interesting. And he's
Speaker 1: batting third, and you know, I believe he had a
Speaker 1: home run off of Lefty already to plain Hardy yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was two for two. Yes to play every single day,
Speaker 1: and Jory Slayer is hot behind him too, So I'd
Speaker 1: rather have I agree with you for sure. The thing
Speaker 1: I think people worry about what Gordon is his injuries,
Speaker 1: because his career has been littered with injury. Again, it's
Speaker 1: not it's not a sexy pick. Yeah, how about this,
Speaker 1: Greig in a fifteen team, would you rather take a
Speaker 1: shot on Alex Gordon or Christian Walker with the injury
Speaker 1: to Jake Plant I'm interested in Christian Walker, man, and
Speaker 1: you kind of sold me on him for a while.
Speaker 1: I think the upside, I don't want to say he's tantalizing.
Speaker 1: With the upside, He's very interesting when it comes to
Speaker 1: Walker getting opportunity to play every day. And he's hitting
Speaker 1: right now. And you mentioned a lot on this show
Speaker 1: that he's hitting not lefties right. He's th real runs
Speaker 1: against right anders this week. Christian Walker can hit right.
Speaker 1: He's he's gonna stay in the lineup, and with Jay
Speaker 1: Lamb hurt, he's definitely gonna be in there for a while.
Speaker 1: How bad is this Lamb thing. I haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen an update either. I know it was
Speaker 1: a quad issue that I believe he left with. He's
Speaker 1: probably going for tests and I don't know that we've
Speaker 1: gotten any information on those yet. Let's see here. Dimonbacks
Speaker 1: manager Torrey Lavula told reporters that Jake Lamb was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with a left quad train after leaving Wednesday's game against
Speaker 1: the Padres. Do do do um. We should know more
Speaker 1: after testing. So we don't have anything yet, but left
Speaker 1: quad strain. Surprise of the lands on the I l
Speaker 1: little ten days, whatever, two week stint, whatever it is
Speaker 1: for Jake Lamb. But this is this is great for
Speaker 1: Christian Walker. I agree with you, Greg, if I'm deciding
Speaker 1: between the two, and Christian Walker has more upside than
Speaker 1: Alis Gordon. I think he's gonna play every day as
Speaker 1: long as Jake Lamb is hurt too, So he just
Speaker 1: needs a spot. I said this about Walker reminded me
Speaker 1: a little bit of hays A last year early on,
Speaker 1: because you have all the bad ball data. He hits
Speaker 1: the ball hard, he hits it in the air, he
Speaker 1: hits home runs, but he just needs a spot to play.
Speaker 1: The same thing was said for Hayes's aglar early last season.
Speaker 1: Is it necessarily going to be the same situation. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't think anyone knows for sure. But
Speaker 1: if he gets an opportunity to play in the battle
Speaker 1: ball data looks really good so far, I'll take a shot.
Speaker 1: He just he just needs a He just needs a
Speaker 1: playing time, and I think he's gonna get it. Will Yeah,
Speaker 1: for at least for a little I would take him
Speaker 1: over Gordon. I like Christian Walker as well. What other hitters, Frank,
Speaker 1: are you highlighting here as people that are someone that
Speaker 1: players can pick up. Yeah, A lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of middle infield names here. Greg, you know, if you
Speaker 1: lost Daniel Murphy or if you lost Trade Turner. Adam
Speaker 1: Fraser has stolen bases and back to back games. I
Speaker 1: like Brandon Lott as well. I think he has an
Speaker 1: interesting home run uh power speed combination, home run stolen
Speaker 1: based combination. I think he's gonna be in the lineup
Speaker 1: most of the time. They're Nico Goodrum favorite of Steve
Speaker 1: down in the pit downstairs. If you play on Yahoo,
Speaker 1: Nico Goodrum has over the place. He's off to a
Speaker 1: hot start as well, and I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: play most of the time too. So in Starling Castro,
Speaker 1: Starlin Castro's in that mix. So you've got four middle
Speaker 1: infielders there to try and help you, try and help
Speaker 1: you with the losses of Daniel Murphy and Trey Turner. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for speed, maybe Fraser is your guy.
Speaker 1: I would rank Kettle Marte ahead of all these players,
Speaker 1: but he's already been added in a lot of places. UM.
Speaker 1: But if you're just looking for all around play, I
Speaker 1: think Brandon Lowe is probably my next up favorite, UM,
Speaker 1: and then Nico Goodrum at Starling Cash rows towards the
Speaker 1: bottom from me just because he plays in Marlins Park,
Speaker 1: Greg he might just be hot early. Yeah, probably so um.
Speaker 1: I got this question today Starling Cash for Yandy Diaz.
Speaker 1: So I find it interesting that we kind of jumped
Speaker 1: off Dydas, but like, given that he was hurt, he
Speaker 1: was hurt, we missed the game, I'm not jumping off him.
Speaker 1: And then there was just saying be like out of
Speaker 1: the news for a couple of days. Much, I'm much Das. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm really intrigued by Yani Diaz. He's been leading off
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching. He's got power off scrappy So
Speaker 1: I like Andy Das over Starling Casher. I think Andy
Speaker 1: Das is worth an ad too, and he has first
Speaker 1: and third base elige. But what do you what do
Speaker 1: you think between you and Das and Strong and cashtrow venture,
Speaker 1: I would roll Diaz. I think there's more upside down.
Speaker 1: We know what Castro has been his whole career, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And plus, like you said, the lineup is not the
Speaker 1: Tim Bay's lamp is a little better or maybe a
Speaker 1: lot better. And I don't I just don't think Castro
Speaker 1: is gonna will last very long hitting at that type
Speaker 1: of face. Hitting hitting on right now. It's only been
Speaker 1: a like five six games, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: he's not He's not gonna do that throughout the whole season. Greg,
Speaker 1: Everyone's favorite catcher, someone that you've toyed with picking up
Speaker 1: is William's asked to deal. Been getting a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about him. I'll go with some far as to say,
Speaker 1: I think he's a top twelve catcher. Even though he
Speaker 1: doesn't play every day, he's still gonna see some games
Speaker 1: at third base. He's gonna be the backup catcher for
Speaker 1: this team. He's gonna get random play like pinch it
Speaker 1: appearances as well. He doesn't strike out, he doesn't walk.
Speaker 1: So in O b P Points leagues maybe not, but
Speaker 1: in your standard if you play head to head categories
Speaker 1: with average or you're playing a Roado league, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he should be young. So my mantra when it
Speaker 1: came to catcher was why would drive to Francisco made everywhere?
Speaker 1: Was its quality, grid sign quantity? It didn't matter. It
Speaker 1: didn't matter to me how much they played. It was
Speaker 1: just that they were successful when they got in there.
Speaker 1: Francis gonna be He is starting his third game out
Speaker 1: of eight today for the San Diego Padres a studio
Speaker 1: played a little bit more. And he just constantly just
Speaker 1: gets on base, that's the thing. And while he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be there every day at catcher or third base,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play a lot, and he's just so good
Speaker 1: at making contact, and he's so strong at the ball,
Speaker 1: seemingly always finds a landing spot. The reason I didn't
Speaker 1: pick up a studio everywhere yet is because this weekend
Speaker 1: and there's different one your waivers around Sunday. This weekend,
Speaker 1: they're in Philly. They do not have a d H.
Speaker 1: Does that mean Nelson Cruz goes in the outfield and
Speaker 1: some things change? Maybe I was worried about a studios
Speaker 1: playing time this weekend. After that, I agree, Frank, I
Speaker 1: think he's a top twelve catcher. I'm interested. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: already picked him up in one league, so I'm definitely interested. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm right here with you. I know, I kind of
Speaker 1: pooh pooed the idea you maybe because I'm salty. I
Speaker 1: didn't end up with him anywhere. He's the folk hero
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He's he's the hero we deserve. Williams sudo
Speaker 1: saw I'm running the first base. Losing his helmet yesterday
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of Bartolo cologne, So I think
Speaker 1: for that reason alone at Williams Sudio, Greg the only
Speaker 1: thing I worry about is that, you know, if he
Speaker 1: does get into a slump, he doesn't walk, so that
Speaker 1: kind of hurts. But because he doesnt that's the thing.
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike out, so he's going to get hit.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get into big slumps, so I think
Speaker 1: you're okay with that. He's just so good at making contact. Yep.
Speaker 1: I'll throw another first base slash outfielder in this mix
Speaker 1: for you with Christian Walker, Alex Gordon, Jorges Layer. It's
Speaker 1: Jay Bruce and the Mariners play seven games next week.
Speaker 1: He's off to a decent start. He's you know, he's
Speaker 1: got some pop. He's gonna hit a few home runs too.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Mariners are gonna be in the market
Speaker 1: to try and trade him around the trade deadline, but
Speaker 1: for the time being, he's gonna play every single day,
Speaker 1: even against left handed pitching. He's been in the middle
Speaker 1: of that lineup and Karnacion has been banged up, so
Speaker 1: that even further um, you know, adds to Jay Bruce
Speaker 1: is playing time like you have nothing to worry about,
Speaker 1: and he plays seven games next week. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think about Jay Bruce is like
Speaker 1: more than Horror Soler. Do you like him more than
Speaker 1: Alex Gordon? Um? The thing with J Bruce has always
Speaker 1: been he's hot. He's hot, right, he's over three days
Speaker 1: in a row, earlier last week or is earlier this week,
Speaker 1: days ago. Um, you know I think the seven games,
Speaker 1: I'll take a shot or I'm sure I'm interested there over.
Speaker 1: I picked him up in my home leap over the
Speaker 1: other guys because they have seven games. I could buy
Speaker 1: into that. Chris, Yeah, Um, I would take him over,
Speaker 1: probably the only one I wouldn't take him over. So
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that. I would take him
Speaker 1: over Gordon and all those other guys. You know he's
Speaker 1: hot right now, you know he has power. I think
Speaker 1: Walker might have more upside than J Bruce, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, So I'd rather Walker than because I'm excited
Speaker 1: about Walker at the possibility of what he could become. Jabrius,
Speaker 1: you know what you're getting. This is wrong with that,
Speaker 1: but you know you're getting. Yeah, Well, the thing with
Speaker 1: Bruce two is that you know, he has really bad
Speaker 1: years sometimes and then he has he's really good years.
Speaker 1: This could be one of those really good years. And
Speaker 1: when it is one of those good years, he's he's
Speaker 1: very you know, fantasy relevant. He's actually productive, so you
Speaker 1: might get one of those years out of Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: worth he's what he does when he when he's productive,
Speaker 1: he's worth the waive of wide. You know what, guys,
Speaker 1: it feels like he's been around forever, right, how old
Speaker 1: would you say? Jay Bruce is thirty two, thirty one
Speaker 1: something like that, that's what you think he is. He's
Speaker 1: twenty nine. He actually is thirty two. I thought I
Speaker 1: would think the average person might think Jay Brus like
Speaker 1: thirty five years old. Right, it's because he's been around forever,
Speaker 1: and to we have twelve years of experience and he's
Speaker 1: thirty two. So we came up when he was twenty.
Speaker 1: He came up young. He was a young dude, and
Speaker 1: he came up and he was just mashing right away.
Speaker 1: He was hitting bombs right away. So almost take it
Speaker 1: for granted. It feels like he's been up forever, but
Speaker 1: still kind in his prime. I mean, he's got milege
Speaker 1: i mean for a power here. Look you can you
Speaker 1: can hit bombs until you're whatever, thirty six, Yeah one
Speaker 1: doing it when he's healthy once at Nelson Crum not
Speaker 1: in the lineup today, Yeah, and I saw that still
Speaker 1: as a hand in Juran. Do you name a name?
Speaker 1: I do you want to mention and you're gonna laugh, Frank,
Speaker 1: But I think it's only fair we do it. Royal
Speaker 1: Loriano has to be mentioned at this point. He's got
Speaker 1: two home runs this week. He also stole a base,
Speaker 1: which is what you want him for. He I think
Speaker 1: he's already owned in at six percent of Yahoo leagues. Alright,
Speaker 1: that's more than I thought. It should be. Higher than that,
Speaker 1: you should be owned in. I agree. That's why the power,
Speaker 1: speed combinations, that's why I'm bringing him up. I understand
Speaker 1: the average isn't exactly great, but now once they got
Speaker 1: back from Japan, it's been a little bit better. He
Speaker 1: doesn't he has no multi hit games, which is annoying,
Speaker 1: but he has scored a run in three of his
Speaker 1: last four games. He's homer in two of his last
Speaker 1: four games, stole a base last time out. He has
Speaker 1: that combination. So as a fifth outfielder or as a
Speaker 1: utility player right now. I think there's lots of like
Speaker 1: he's in Houston and Baltimore this week. I don't like
Speaker 1: the fact that he that's eight, But you know he's
Speaker 1: gonna be in the lineup every day because of his defense.
Speaker 1: He talked about that throw when he you know, gunned
Speaker 1: down Sander Bogart's at third base. He's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the line up every day because of his defense against
Speaker 1: right ease, against left ease, it doesn't matter. So you
Speaker 1: got two the runs already, he's got a stolen base,
Speaker 1: struggles a little bit with strikeouts, but it's a good
Speaker 1: lineup still too. It's a it's a deep line up
Speaker 1: in Oakland A's line up, not a great environment to hidden,
Speaker 1: but you know he might be able to go fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty homers and fifteen twenty stolen base is something
Speaker 1: like that. A h got to fifty batting average. That
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me with with Romo and Loriana, So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of something similar to what we're
Speaker 1: expecting from Austin Meadows right I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: Loria Loriano should be fifty old. What do you think
Speaker 1: venture I'm not in as much as you guys, Loriana.
Speaker 1: Yet you know I would wait a while before, you know,
Speaker 1: I pick up romote Ariana. But the thing is, like,
Speaker 1: it depends on what you need. If you're desperate for
Speaker 1: an outfield, you've got like Cedric Mullins in your outfiel
Speaker 1: or something, then you know, brutal, you know, go for it.
Speaker 1: But like I think most of the most leagues that
Speaker 1: I've been looking at, like the outfield is pretty set.
Speaker 1: I like Solair better still, I like Bruce better. I
Speaker 1: like you know, guys like that better Still, I would
Speaker 1: wait a little while. But if you need steals to
Speaker 1: categories leagues, that's another thing. You know, He's valuable in
Speaker 1: that sense. So I'm half in, half in. It's better.
Speaker 1: It's it's neutral. It's better than being full out right,
Speaker 1: I'm not fully out, No, gret, you want to go
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper here. I got some names on
Speaker 1: the rundown, Dwight Smith, Dansby Swanson, Clint Frasier, Wilmer Dafoe,
Speaker 1: Lucas Giolito, and Spencer Turnbull, who we talked about a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier on in the show. And of those names, Greg,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna be setting our waivers for our fifteen
Speaker 1: team leagues on Sunday, White Smith, Dansby, Swanson, Clint Frasier,
Speaker 1: Wilmer Dafoe, Gelto Turnbull. Who excites you the most? Probably
Speaker 1: the pictures in Giulio in Turnbull, I think the upside.
Speaker 1: We obviously know the upside of Gilto. You've spoken earlier
Speaker 1: today about Turnbull. Um, given the matchups Terbill has next
Speaker 1: week Cleveland, I like that the most. Then probably the leader.
Speaker 1: The pictures by far excite me the most out of
Speaker 1: those guys. I don't think any of the hitters that
Speaker 1: you mentioned are long term adds um So, I say
Speaker 1: the two pictures by far, but I had to pick
Speaker 1: a hitter. Read to me what wars on White Smith,
Speaker 1: dans By, Swanson, Clint Fraser, and Wilmer Dafoe. One word Dafoe,
Speaker 1: we hadn't last year. He got hot, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not like the love of that album. Venture the
Speaker 1: same question to you in Deeper Leagues, Dwight Smith, dans By, Swanson,
Speaker 1: Clint Fraser, Wilmer dafoein Fraser, the up side is gonna
Speaker 1: play with the Yankees lineup right now. I mean who
Speaker 1: when would he be replaced, Like, who's the guy that
Speaker 1: could come back first? The soonest and they kind of
Speaker 1: expect him to come back, you know, two weeks from now,
Speaker 1: in the middle to end of April or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. So it's a more short term and
Speaker 1: I like him. See that's the thing. I like him
Speaker 1: more of a long term guy because I think he
Speaker 1: could be a good pleasure if you got the opportunity
Speaker 1: that the thing is are you're gonna add him for
Speaker 1: a short term, I don't think so. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people as it would actually be. DWIGHTE. Smith. He's
Speaker 1: been he's been playing well, playing every day. He's he's
Speaker 1: in the lineup every single day. He's back second in
Speaker 1: every game that he's played against right he's against lefties.
Speaker 1: He actually has a hit in every single game to
Speaker 1: start the year. He has a run in every game
Speaker 1: but one to start the year. And you know, I
Speaker 1: know the Orioles are also a hot hot start here
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna be great, but he has a
Speaker 1: stolen base. He had like decent power speed combination in
Speaker 1: the minors in the year's past. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna hit towards the top of the lineup.
Speaker 1: He's kind of doing what we expected Cedric Mullins to
Speaker 1: do to start to you, and you know he's only
Speaker 1: four percent on it. And again this is deeper. Obviously
Speaker 1: only he should be owned ready because he plays every day.
Speaker 1: But fifteen teamers, if you lost a couple of outfielders,
Speaker 1: you're looking for a fifth. You don't really like any
Speaker 1: of that's out there. White Smith is gonna play every day.
Speaker 1: Dwight Smith. As Frank he had mentioned top of the
Speaker 1: lot up. We saw him close a lot. He has Yankees.
Speaker 1: So I will add that people should keep an eye
Speaker 1: on Alex verdugot you both like, it's all about playing time.
Speaker 1: It's all about playing time with him, that's all it is.
Speaker 1: So you keep your eye on him. I get the
Speaker 1: guy to wait on if you miss out on these guys. First,
Speaker 1: we appreciate the time with my friend. But I appreciate
Speaker 1: the time. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, WrestleMania time.
Speaker 1: Happy Labor Day, labors yesterday. I hope you're right. I
Speaker 1: hope you don't. We'll see you later on tonight. Oh,
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