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Speaker 1: welcome up Baby Happy, your host, Fiday from Mine, your
Speaker 1: five guy, Rob, Sat, Francis, Frank stand ball ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: thirty four. This is the BFFs alongside Frank Stample. I
Speaker 1: am Greg sauceman, Franky, what's happening? But okay, what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: Happy hump day here on a Wednesday. More importantly, Gregg,
Speaker 1: this is a huge day. You know what today is.
Speaker 1: I do know what today is. It is Happy birthday,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Nelson. Happy Jimmy Nelson Day. It's his birthday, returns third.
Speaker 1: Today he's making raising debut, first start since seventeen we
Speaker 1: are absolutely pumped. Let's just hope that it doesn't end
Speaker 1: the same way it did for Chase Anderson last night,
Speaker 1: and you realized there was his birthday too, and he
Speaker 1: makes his debut. I ken, he's thirty here ready. I
Speaker 1: know it feels like he's just a prospect. I know, well,
Speaker 1: people forget he had so many years of being a
Speaker 1: failed prospect. Last week saw him seen not a failed prospect.
Speaker 1: He went through Let's say the Lucas Geelito turn around
Speaker 1: in seventeen. Greg, Let's see if he if he can
Speaker 1: pick up some of that night against the Morlins. I
Speaker 1: know you're very excited about the prospects, and everybody out
Speaker 1: there are also very excited about the prospects of big
Speaker 1: time Jimmy Nelson returning finally for the burs and getting
Speaker 1: into it the day show you the Best Bets Forever.
Speaker 1: Coming up a little bit later on, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of news and notes to get to you, a
Speaker 1: lot of game stuff we want to uh talk about,
Speaker 1: as well as giving you some betting and fantasy advice. Frankie,
Speaker 1: let's begin with the latest out of Philadelphia, and that
Speaker 1: means Andrew McCutcheon is out for the season with a
Speaker 1: torn a c L. He got caught in a rundown,
Speaker 1: made a turn, didn't go well, and he is now
Speaker 1: out for the rest of the season with the torn
Speaker 1: a c L. He hopes to be back and ready
Speaker 1: for spring training. Brutal lost affilities, brutal loss for fantasy owners. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if people realize this, but Andrew McCutcheon,
Speaker 1: he wasn't having the best year. He was showing signs
Speaker 1: of coming around over the past two weeks. He was
Speaker 1: betting three hundred with four home runs. But he had
Speaker 1: forty five runs scored this season, which was among the
Speaker 1: leaders in all baseball. I think he was like tied
Speaker 1: for fifth or six in the league with Christian Yellot.
Speaker 1: So he's scoring a lot of runs. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to replace that in your lineup. You know, to
Speaker 1: fifty five to sixty batting average gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit of pop. Had ten home runs as well. We
Speaker 1: were about a third of the way through the season,
Speaker 1: so Andrew McCutcheon was on pace four, you know, between
Speaker 1: twenty and thirty home runs, well over a hundred runs scored.
Speaker 1: I wasn't running as much. I think that's part of
Speaker 1: the philosophy of the Philadelphia Phillies. You know, Gabe Kapita
Speaker 1: doesn't like to send these guys all that much. But ultimately, Greg,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be the easiest thing to replace
Speaker 1: those the decent pop and those runs scored for Andrew McCutcheon.
Speaker 1: But we'll try her best. I put out a poll.
Speaker 1: Put out a poll, Greg, because I own Andrew McCutcheon
Speaker 1: in one of my twelve team leagues. We own him
Speaker 1: together in a fifteen team league as well, where we
Speaker 1: will have to figure this out. But I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the names that we've been getting questions about
Speaker 1: how do I replace McCutcheon, Derek Cooper, j Bruce, Visa Garcia,
Speaker 1: Scott Kingery, I think they're all pretty good options. I
Speaker 1: don't know that there's a wrong answer here, Greg, There's
Speaker 1: there's definitely a wrong one there. There's definitely a wrong answer,
Speaker 1: because only one of them is going to sustain to me,
Speaker 1: you know where Eileen Frank, I'm surprised you're you're even
Speaker 1: questioning were what I'm thinking. I actually have no idea. Really,
Speaker 1: My guests would be that you like Ei Garcia correct
Speaker 1: to tell you might be. Of course, I like Garcia.
Speaker 1: He's my guy. He gets on base, he has power
Speaker 1: at to the top of the raised lineup. Well, you
Speaker 1: want to talk about sustainability, he has six stolen bases, Greg,
Speaker 1: You're not going to sustain that. More power than that, though,
Speaker 1: as long as he's in the line of every day
Speaker 1: I don't really had good great pop though he's always
Speaker 1: been known for his bat to baby batting average, does everything. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be baby Miggie. Well maybe last
Speaker 1: night you want to be again, Yeah, right, of course
Speaker 1: against Blake Snell of all. How you know with Garrett Cooper, Greggy,
Speaker 1: what he did last night and what he's doing recently
Speaker 1: or for for a home run three runs scored last night,
Speaker 1: And you know, I was tweeting this out drink that
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins are not the same team that you've
Speaker 1: just been able to stream any starting pitcher against in
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes because with Garrett Cooper and Harold mrs Have
Speaker 1: brought to the table for the Miami Marlins, it has
Speaker 1: turned their offense around. They don't strike out as much,
Speaker 1: they make a lot of contact, they make hard contact
Speaker 1: as well. You know, maybe they're not prominent home run hitters.
Speaker 1: I mean, you wouldn't be able to know it based
Speaker 1: on what Garrett Cooper is doing recently. But what Cooper
Speaker 1: and Harold Mrez have brought to the Miami Marlins, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you could just stream every starting
Speaker 1: pitcher against them anymore. So, honestly, I don't really know
Speaker 1: that there's a wrong answer. If I had to, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you there's a wrong answer. I would rank Scott
Speaker 1: can Ree last out of this punge. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do, sure, And I would rank
Speaker 1: at the moment Ja Bruce third at this bunch. Would
Speaker 1: you really, dude, Jay Bruce is one good game? 're
Speaker 1: freaking out? Yeah, but he's a good game also in
Speaker 1: a much better line up now, Greg, shouldna be in
Speaker 1: a much better hitters ballpark, even if we don't expect
Speaker 1: batting average from him. Right, if we get a Bruce
Speaker 1: doesn't back two hundred, what Ja Bruce at time doesn't
Speaker 1: back two hundred? He is streaky a f Yeah he is? Well,
Speaker 1: that might make him better for rohdo then and head
Speaker 1: to head points. But you know, even if he's a
Speaker 1: two forty two fifty hit, the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: He showed you his upside again last night, three hits
Speaker 1: to I didn't need brands him do it left. We know,
Speaker 1: we know what the upside is like. Did you need
Speaker 1: to see that to know? Well? I mean, people see
Speaker 1: the batting average and they automatically assume, well, all right,
Speaker 1: Jay Bruce at this point in his career, just pop,
Speaker 1: he's gonna hurt your batting average. And look, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna help your batting average by any means. But he's
Speaker 1: only two years older than Jimmy Nelson. Is he a
Speaker 1: two twelve hitter? Is he a two twenty hitter? He's
Speaker 1: probably better than that. But his pop, I don't know
Speaker 1: who that he is. You can't argue this, Greg, his
Speaker 1: pop is the best of this group. There's no argument.
Speaker 1: I guess it comes down to what you need. There's
Speaker 1: no argument that his pop is by far the best
Speaker 1: of this group. But if they think, when you're trying
Speaker 1: to replace an Agema Cutching, you want the person who's
Speaker 1: gonna do a little bit of everything, have a solid average,
Speaker 1: give you runs scored, have a little bit of pop,
Speaker 1: get some more eyes. Cooper does that too, he does.
Speaker 1: I think you want somebody's gonna be more well rounded
Speaker 1: than Jay Bruce. That's what brings me exactly for the
Speaker 1: biggest cutching with giving youth, and I think Cooper and
Speaker 1: Evis Garcia are probably the correct and that's exactly where
Speaker 1: my head's at as well. A right, So if you
Speaker 1: if you just want a close skill set to Andrew McCutchen,
Speaker 1: I wrote about some of my Patreon as well. I
Speaker 1: also mentioned, you know, a short term fix. I think
Speaker 1: Derek Fisher offers something similar. Potentially Andrew McCutcheon can give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of power, a little bit of
Speaker 1: speed leading off for the Astros, but that's more of
Speaker 1: a short term answer, whereas I think Garret Cooper and
Speaker 1: Evisio Garcia might be able to help you more long term.
Speaker 1: This year, and I saw a lot of people throwing
Speaker 1: out Adam Hazley, the prospect that was called for the Phillies.
Speaker 1: To me, he's he's an and it will only add
Speaker 1: right now, nothing more than that fifteen teamers. You know,
Speaker 1: I looked at the minor league numbers. Is the best
Speaker 1: tool is his hit tool, and even that isn't great.
Speaker 1: He's been you know, between two seventy and three batting
Speaker 1: average in the minors, doesn't really have a lot of pop,
Speaker 1: doesn't really have a lot of speed. Again, like it's
Speaker 1: chief exposure to the Phillies. But I don't really have
Speaker 1: high hopes from Greg so not even in like fifteen
Speaker 1: team Mixed. I'm really desperate for an now Fieler. But
Speaker 1: to me, he's just really and only for now. We've
Speaker 1: spoken about players getting hurt, like Andrew McCutcheon. Now le's
Speaker 1: talk about players coming back. Mike cleving He is going
Speaker 1: to start He's triple a rehab assignment here this weekend.
Speaker 1: Great news for cleub owners. Let's say he you know,
Speaker 1: has a few rehab starts, he's gonna be back, right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be back for the All Star raak just
Speaker 1: fantastically so last before they All Star break. So great
Speaker 1: news for my Clevinger owners. That's awesome, especially because Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Rodriguez just hit the eye out for Cleveland, who had
Speaker 1: just been battered around and beaten in that starting rotation.
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis Jr. He starts his rehab assignment. Finally, what's
Speaker 1: supposed to keep him out ten days, It's been more,
Speaker 1: which is annoying, but Tatis looks healthier now and looks
Speaker 1: to be coming back. And zach Eflin, I know he's
Speaker 1: not on the level of the Tatis and not on
Speaker 1: the level of the Clevinger, but zach Eflin was kind
Speaker 1: of out of nowhere put on the i L last week.
Speaker 1: He's returning off the IL without a rehab start on Friday,
Speaker 1: making he's returning for the Phillies. Yeah, I think specifically,
Speaker 1: I did want to touch on Fernando Tatis has a
Speaker 1: hit in each one of his rehab games. He returned
Speaker 1: on Monday, and he already has a stolen base as well,
Speaker 1: So that's good to see considering that he was dealing
Speaker 1: with a leg injury, so has hits in both of
Speaker 1: his rehab starts, has a stolen base already as well,
Speaker 1: So you know, it's been a long time coming for Tatis.
Speaker 1: I actually respect the Padres for what they're doing here,
Speaker 1: taking their time with him. You know, top prospect, you
Speaker 1: don't want to rush him back and then risk can
Speaker 1: re injuring himself. You know, we always say this when
Speaker 1: it comes to prominent players who can make a major
Speaker 1: impact for Fantasy. We just want the teams to take
Speaker 1: their time do not rust these guys back because we'd
Speaker 1: rather you take the time and have them come back healthy.
Speaker 1: We have them for the long term, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to Tatis. You know, the last we saw him
Speaker 1: was he was stealing a ton of bases and he's
Speaker 1: got a little bit of pop as well. So we
Speaker 1: need him back fully, and I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 1: Another added element to the San Diego Padre's lineup. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he can give them a little bit of a jolt
Speaker 1: because a lot of underperforming so far. Uh Manny Machado
Speaker 1: hasn't lived up to it. Frand Milrays continuing to do
Speaker 1: what he does hit home runs, but overall I think
Speaker 1: the San Diego Padre's lineup has been inconsistent, so hopefully
Speaker 1: he can help out there great. By the way, I
Speaker 1: also do what I men came Andrew becussion of his
Speaker 1: tweeting back and forth Florida about this that one of
Speaker 1: the biggest benefactors here. It says that Hernandez, who now
Speaker 1: goes from hitting seventh in this lineup every day, batting
Speaker 1: leadoff potentially every day. Now things could change. Scott Kingary
Speaker 1: could wind up there, Jean Segura could flip flop, a bit,
Speaker 1: but yesterday says that Hernande is back to the top
Speaker 1: of the lineup, which gives him a ton more opportunities
Speaker 1: to score some runs, maybe steal some bags. Really really
Speaker 1: uh like, says, hernand is leading off, very very good
Speaker 1: news for his fantasy owners. Yeah, and he just has
Speaker 1: a better skill set than what Scott Knary offers for
Speaker 1: a leadoff man, because you look at the walk rate
Speaker 1: and he's a Hernandez career at ten point four percent
Speaker 1: walk rate that is down this year to six point
Speaker 1: nine percent. Last year he was up at thirteen percent.
Speaker 1: And I've actually said this on the show before. I think,
Speaker 1: what's he's a Hernandez was doing this here was conscious,
Speaker 1: It's something that he wanted to do because he was
Speaker 1: batting more so in the middle to lower end of
Speaker 1: the lineup. I think he was taking a more aggressive approach,
Speaker 1: trying to drive more runs in. And I think now
Speaker 1: that we'll see him at the top of the lineup again,
Speaker 1: you'll see that more patient approach again and see him
Speaker 1: start to draw more walks and score more runs. So
Speaker 1: the guy is absolutely awesome for O B P leagues.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really hurt you anywhere in Rhodo, but not
Speaker 1: really a standout anywhere either. Really really good for points
Speaker 1: seeds because thirteen percent strikeout rate, gonna get on base,
Speaker 1: gonna score a lot of runs. How about this yesterday, Greg,
Speaker 1: I thought this was really interesting for the Phillies lineup.
Speaker 1: Rice Harper was betting second, Jean's the girl was betting third.
Speaker 1: Did we just get capitlerd I think it's a verb
Speaker 1: that just made it. I mean, I get you kapler
Speaker 1: As at his finest to be hold on. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't mind, don't blame, don't don't blame Capitaler for this. Well,
Speaker 1: in the Yankees earlier in the year, remember that right,
Speaker 1: Remember they had they had Great Gardner batting third. I
Speaker 1: didn't like that either. So I mean, I'm not gonna defend,
Speaker 1: but there's a there's clearly I don't know the answer,
Speaker 1: but there's clearly a method behind that. Matnet Well, I
Speaker 1: think the reason why the Yankees did at the time,
Speaker 1: what I thought was they were trying to break up
Speaker 1: all their right ees. They didn't want to have too
Speaker 1: many rights in row, and they didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of lefties. I think it was just you know, Brett
Speaker 1: Gardner at the time, and I think they were trying
Speaker 1: to slot him into the middle of the order to
Speaker 1: break up the right ees here for the Phillies. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess the question would be, if you don't bat
Speaker 1: Jean Sigura third, if you like Brett Bryce Harper batting second,
Speaker 1: where do you move Jean Sigura too? Because not really
Speaker 1: a prototypical leadoff hitter. Yes he has speed, but he's
Speaker 1: more of an aggressive swinger, doesn't walk as much as
Speaker 1: a guy like sees O Hernandez. So where would you
Speaker 1: put Jean Sigura then? I mean, I guess the only
Speaker 1: other spot I see would be six. You would probably
Speaker 1: put a guy like maybe you put Bryce Harper second,
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins third, Jay Bruce four, Rio Muto fifth, and
Speaker 1: then Jean Sigura six. I don't I'm just talking this
Speaker 1: side in my head right now. They're trying to find
Speaker 1: ways to get it. Is Harper going? I understand it.
Speaker 1: And we see this with a lot of batters in baseball,
Speaker 1: even a lot of teams best hitters, right, if they're
Speaker 1: really good, uh in terms of plate discipline and and
Speaker 1: and have a good eye, and they walk a lot,
Speaker 1: they'll bat second. We've seen it with Aaron Judge with
Speaker 1: the Yankees, so I can't knock them for wanting to
Speaker 1: do that with Bryce Harper. A little bit of a
Speaker 1: little bit of the moneyball effect here, Greg. They just
Speaker 1: want to get guys on base and keep things. But
Speaker 1: I just thought it was really weird and interesting that
Speaker 1: Jane Sigara was batting third for the Phillies yesterday. So
Speaker 1: see what happens today. We'll absolutely get the lineup as
Speaker 1: soon as we get it at three forty, so we
Speaker 1: might get if we make a show before the show ends.
Speaker 1: I look at it right now, make sure I don't
Speaker 1: have it yet. We don't have it yet, all right.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure they're we'll have to
Speaker 1: talk about we do. It's a couple of lineups today,
Speaker 1: one of them being the Washington Nationals who lost Brian
Speaker 1: Doser do a hit by the pitch, which gives how
Speaker 1: He Kendrick an opportunity to play every day at second base.
Speaker 1: He's been a fifth in the lineup at second and Frank,
Speaker 1: you've been on how He Kendrick for a while now,
Speaker 1: and you say he deserves his playing time. Can I
Speaker 1: get the camera over here? Can I get like a
Speaker 1: we'll see these little red these little red dots if
Speaker 1: we can zoom in a little bit here this is
Speaker 1: This is the Baseball Savants stat cast page for Howie Kendrick. Basically,
Speaker 1: the more red you see when it's going all that way,
Speaker 1: that's really really good. Like, Howie Kendrick is up there
Speaker 1: with some of the best hitters in baseball right now
Speaker 1: in terms of his exit velocity, hard hit percentage, expected WHOABA,
Speaker 1: expected batting average, expected slogging percentage. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the guy is doing right now, Greg, but it is working.
Speaker 1: Howie Kendrick is seeing the ball well. The eggs of
Speaker 1: velocity way up this year launch angle up has expected
Speaker 1: batting average Greg three thirty two. He's in the nine
Speaker 1: nine percent. I don't know what Repents and Howie Kendrick
Speaker 1: car doing, but it is working because we're seeing a renaissance.
Speaker 1: And if Brian Dojer misses you know, any extended time here,
Speaker 1: I know you know. I've been at the forefront of
Speaker 1: the Carter Key boom bandwagon. We need Carter Key boom back.
Speaker 1: Brian Doser sucks, but Howie Kendrick is pretty damn good too.
Speaker 1: So if Brian Doser is gonna miss any time here,
Speaker 1: and Howie Kendrick gets consistent playing time. I don't understand
Speaker 1: why he hasn't had consistent playing time already, Like David Martinez.
Speaker 1: This is the problem. We're trying to figure out why
Speaker 1: the Nationals suck. Why don't you just play the players
Speaker 1: who are performing the best. Howie Kendrick is performing like
Speaker 1: one of your best hitters so far this season. So
Speaker 1: play the guy, whether it's at first base or second base,
Speaker 1: or use him at one of the corner outfield positions.
Speaker 1: The guy has been a godsend for the team. He
Speaker 1: has ten home runs, he's betting three thirty one, he's
Speaker 1: got thirty five r b I s as a part
Speaker 1: time player. Play Howie Kendrick, and if that happens, you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to add him in. All the twelve team
Speaker 1: leagues are deep. Howie Kendrick somebody roll worth adding right now.
Speaker 1: According to our own Frank stand will get in. He's
Speaker 1: not just an old gross veteran. He's somebody very well
Speaker 1: worth picking up. We have a lot to get to,
Speaker 1: Frank from last night, specifically pitching performances with Kendrick and
Speaker 1: Rye making his case for the site up his floor.
Speaker 1: He was tweeting out, Pablo Lopez is just out of
Speaker 1: nowhere in Milwaukee, which was studying aurage of the numbers
Speaker 1: yesterday what he did? Who does away from Miami's and
Speaker 1: this kind of came out of nowhere. Frankie Mantas Mickey
Speaker 1: Callowie making idiotic mistakes. Been a lot to talk about,
Speaker 1: not a lot of time to do it. Four minutes ago.
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Speaker 1: with you on the b f f's Frankie standplled Greg
Speaker 1: Susman hanging out with you and Frankie. Let's get right
Speaker 1: into this pitching performances because John jan ryou is the
Speaker 1: best picture in baseball in en week after week, start
Speaker 1: after start a picture ever, No, the dude just puts
Speaker 1: up zeros and last night, once again, he was absolutely
Speaker 1: ridiculous for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Um as this lying
Speaker 1: you read it out loud. It's seven innings, three hits,
Speaker 1: no runs, two k's, hundred pitches over seven innings of work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not one of these guys that you're expecting him
Speaker 1: to get a turn point three five r. Does he
Speaker 1: need it though, Like does he need swinging strikes. It's
Speaker 1: just he's a master of commanding the zone. Right now.
Speaker 1: If you look at his walks per nine, there's zero
Speaker 1: point five six On the season. He has five walks
Speaker 1: in eighty innings pitch. That is why he hungine Ryu
Speaker 1: is able to do what he's doing right now. And
Speaker 1: you can read me off the peripheral numbers on two
Speaker 1: point five four five x five Sierra. That's all. That's
Speaker 1: all good and fine. I mean, no one's expecting hingine
Speaker 1: Ryu to pitch to a one three five e r
Speaker 1: A for the rest of the season. Started to rup
Speaker 1: Cork Rosenthal. The Chicago Cubs are pushing hard right now
Speaker 1: for Craig Kimberl. So should we address that now or
Speaker 1: keep going with right? Do right? We'll get into that
Speaker 1: a second, because I know where you're going with that, alright,
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, with hing and Ryou. Look there there's
Speaker 1: a bunch alike so far this season. It's the first
Speaker 1: pitch strike percentage up to sixty four percent, previous career
Speaker 1: high sixty one point seven. So he's establishing the strike
Speaker 1: zone early on in counts thirty six point three percent.
Speaker 1: Oh swing, that's chase rate. How often is he getting
Speaker 1: opposing batters to chase pitches outside the strike zone thirty
Speaker 1: six point three percent his previous career high thirty one
Speaker 1: point six percent, So that is up five percent from
Speaker 1: his previous career hi and just looking into his arsenal.
Speaker 1: What he's doing a little bit differently is he's throwing
Speaker 1: a sinker more this season. He throws three different iterations
Speaker 1: of a fastball. He has a four steamer, he has
Speaker 1: a cutter, he has a sinker that he throws this
Speaker 1: season twelve percent of the time, up from five point four.
Speaker 1: And I think that makes sense in conjunction with everything
Speaker 1: that's going on, keeping the ball down in the zone,
Speaker 1: getting a lot of groundballs already nine point eight percent
Speaker 1: groundball rate. He's not gonna pitch to a sub one
Speaker 1: point five ear A for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be starts where he gives up to three
Speaker 1: runs and that that raises his e r A. But
Speaker 1: this is a guy who has a two point nine
Speaker 1: six ERA in his career. He's a really good picture.
Speaker 1: There was never any doubt when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people are gonna raise the question
Speaker 1: right away, Oh, well, we gotta we gotta sell engine, ride,
Speaker 1: we gotta send sell engine right before he gets hurt.
Speaker 1: My question is, for what, seriously, rest of season, he's
Speaker 1: a top twenty starting pitcher, top fifteen starting pitcher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, like the obvious names. You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: a Mixtures there for him. We know that you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get Justin Verland, or you're not gonna get a
Speaker 1: Blake Snell for this guy. And he isn't even any
Speaker 1: of those pictures. But my question, Greg, is if everyone's saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know he's he's performing out of his mind now,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna keep this up, or he's gonna get hurt,
Speaker 1: I gotta sell him now. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are gonna have a similar mindset. They're gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: I know what you're trying to do. You're clearly trying
Speaker 1: to sell hingin Rye for someone that you can trust
Speaker 1: more for the rest of the season that's not gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt. I know what you're trying to do. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna bite Greg, So I'm just me personally. Look,
Speaker 1: if you can flip him for a top fifteen starting
Speaker 1: pitcher you trust to stay healthy the rest of the way, Sure,
Speaker 1: but I would imagine in most cases fantasy owners are
Speaker 1: too savvy to fall for that. Would you trade Rye
Speaker 1: for Clayton Kershaw? No, Because Clayton Kershaw is also an
Speaker 1: injury risk, and right now Ryu is pitching better than Kershaw.
Speaker 1: That was the one name that Hent lights tim it here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you can look at classic you know, sell
Speaker 1: high by low scenarios. Carrasco, a Noah synder Guard. Is
Speaker 1: that what you want to do right now? Greg, you
Speaker 1: want to give up a guy with a one three
Speaker 1: five e R A Carlos Carrasco or North Syndergard. No, No, Look,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's gonna be some people that and make
Speaker 1: the argument for it. You know, Ry's probably you drafted
Speaker 1: him as your SP four SP five, maybe even later
Speaker 1: than that, so you know, if you could turn him
Speaker 1: into one of these bylows like a synder Guard or
Speaker 1: Carrasco like, yeah, of course they're upside for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, is probably better and we've seen them
Speaker 1: do it before. But we'll get to this a little
Speaker 1: bit later on too. Something is just not right with
Speaker 1: Syndergard this year, and and then with Carrasco. He's typically
Speaker 1: a really slow starter in the first half of seasons.
Speaker 1: You look at it his for his career, he's got
Speaker 1: an ear A over four in the first half, and
Speaker 1: then he has a three three seven EARRA in the
Speaker 1: second half. So for whatever reason, he's just always a
Speaker 1: slow starter. He's gonna get better. The underlying numbers for
Speaker 1: Carrasco are awesome, but I would I would want to
Speaker 1: hold on to Ryo you unless I can get a
Speaker 1: legitimate top fifteen starting pitcher rest of the way that
Speaker 1: I don't have injury concerns about. Okay, fair enough. I
Speaker 1: want to move on now. Given news from Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 1: that he Cubbies are trying hard on Craig Kimberal. Last night,
Speaker 1: patro stroke came back and gotta save here, Frank for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs, you're waiting to see what would happen
Speaker 1: in that bullpen. Well, they got up against the Colorado
Speaker 1: Rockies and it was Steve Schack pitching the eight padre
Speaker 1: Stroke pitching the ninth for his fifth save of the year.
Speaker 1: Ten strikeouts last night for Kyle hendricks Well, Jeff Hoppman
Speaker 1: got bombed predictably. So uh in this one page of
Speaker 1: strikes out there is they must add, Well, it's interesting
Speaker 1: because we have this Kimberal news that we have to
Speaker 1: deal with now, and it look, it doesn't surprise me. Greg.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really good point that you
Speaker 1: made yesterday that you know, Ben's obrist is dealing with
Speaker 1: this ugly divorce situation. He's been placed on like an
Speaker 1: administrative leave where the Cubs don't have to pay him,
Speaker 1: so they actually have more money to go around. And
Speaker 1: the Cubs always have money anyway, so it's not like
Speaker 1: we even needed that. But if we want to throw more,
Speaker 1: you know, fuel on the fire as to why they
Speaker 1: might want Craig Kimberll, they have more money to go around,
Speaker 1: so they have eleven blown saves as a team on
Speaker 1: the season, that's tied for the third most in all
Speaker 1: of baseball. I think it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if I played in a Roado
Speaker 1: league or a head to head categories league, yes, I'll
Speaker 1: be trying to add Pedro Strope right now because if
Speaker 1: they don't end up with Kimberall, if he ends up
Speaker 1: going to a team like the Twins or the Rais
Speaker 1: or the Brave instead, then I do think stroke is
Speaker 1: the closer, or now they could be in the market
Speaker 1: for and Alex Column a trade another reliever. In those formats,
Speaker 1: I would try and add Strope now. And I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty safe to say you can drops everywhere, third
Speaker 1: or second in line. You could be third in line
Speaker 1: by the time this show goes up on the podcast
Speaker 1: and you're listening to us there, it could all be over.
Speaker 1: So let's keep a eye out and ear is open
Speaker 1: when it comes to Craig Kimber, Steve probably you now
Speaker 1: can be dropped. Um let's see Mark Mark Curry just
Speaker 1: reported I was talking had this Craig kimberal to the
Speaker 1: cause of the ballpark last night. Obviously Kimber would improve
Speaker 1: every team, every team, and I still don believe the
Speaker 1: place he had the most impact on is with the Twins.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like for kimberal it could be Twins
Speaker 1: or the Cups. What about the Braves? What happened to
Speaker 1: the Braves? Are they falling out of this thing? Great?
Speaker 1: I haven't see think they're going harder after Kaiko haven't
Speaker 1: seen it all? Right? Well, yeah, look, I think it
Speaker 1: makes sense for the Twins to their bullpen has been
Speaker 1: peace together so far using Blake Parker and Taylor Rogers
Speaker 1: and Trevor May and his setup role. But look, they
Speaker 1: want a lockdown closer if they want to cement themselves
Speaker 1: as a legitimate contender. This year. Then, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense for the Twins to
Speaker 1: go out and and be interested in Kimberal. It might
Speaker 1: actually make more sense for them to be in on
Speaker 1: Kichael because I don't know how many starting pitchers they
Speaker 1: have in their rotation that you know they can actually
Speaker 1: trust in a three or four man rotation when it
Speaker 1: comes to the postseason. But that's just me. I think
Speaker 1: the Braves should be going really hard to let's see
Speaker 1: what happen. Definitely now as we continue on around the
Speaker 1: major leagues, the biggest score that stands out Sea last
Speaker 1: night was in Miller Park, and it wasn't that it
Speaker 1: was a sixty nothing victory. It was that it was
Speaker 1: a sixty nothing victory where the Brewers lost lost to
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez. And what about the revenge game for Christian Yell.
Speaker 1: It seems like it didn't matter. Frank did. Chase Anderson
Speaker 1: pitched poorly, but Corbyn Burns pitched worse, and Taylor Williams
Speaker 1: pitched the worst in this game. Of the Brewers who
Speaker 1: seemingly never had a shot. Even her now in Perez
Speaker 1: pitched better than these guys. My man here not Perez
Speaker 1: were not not a shock that they see him pitching well. Um,
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez goes six shut out in the last just
Speaker 1: three hits and a walk while striking out seven, finally
Speaker 1: getting done on the road. Great start here from Pabolito. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this. I thought this was a
Speaker 1: big moment for Pablo Lopez to go into Milwaukee. Had
Speaker 1: terrible numbers on the road this season. Uh, and we've
Speaker 1: been clamoring for Pablo Lopez. I think we all. I
Speaker 1: think he's a talented starting pitcher. He hasn't necessarily put
Speaker 1: it all together yet. I think he's kind of learning
Speaker 1: on the fly at the major league level. But you're
Speaker 1: starting to see it now a little bit. Some glimpses
Speaker 1: here from Pablo Lopez. Doesn't completely overpower you. Fastball ninety
Speaker 1: three and a half miles per hour on average last night,
Speaker 1: but works in a curveball that he threw seventeen times,
Speaker 1: a changeup that he threw five times. So he has
Speaker 1: your classic three pitch makes. He has a fastball, curveball, changeup.
Speaker 1: You know, load of mid nineties fastball. He maxed out
Speaker 1: at ninety five at times yesterday, ten swinging strikes on
Speaker 1: ninety two pitches. UM, really really good performance. I mean
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts against this Milwaukee Brewers team they are prone
Speaker 1: to striking out at times. Really really like only one
Speaker 1: walk for him. You know, we've we've all been on
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez at some point this year, and I've held
Speaker 1: onto in in fifteen teamers. In fact, in the main event,
Speaker 1: I benched him this week. That's how scared it was
Speaker 1: of this start in Miller Park. But I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at myself because it's something hopefully that he can build
Speaker 1: off moving forward and continue to be maybe that SP
Speaker 1: five maybe SP four that we all thought that he
Speaker 1: could be. So I thought this was a really really
Speaker 1: encouraging performance to build off for Pablo Lopez. Great Pavo
Speaker 1: Lopez was absolutely fantastic. Hopefully this leads to even more
Speaker 1: good things. But the story when he put up sixteen
Speaker 1: runs is of course Garrett Cooper who he went four
Speaker 1: for five with four runs, score, a couple r v
Speaker 1: i's and a walk, as well as Harold Ermier is
Speaker 1: going for two for six here. Uh, he's worth mentioning
Speaker 1: as well. He's mentioned before, UM, Garrett Cooper, how good
Speaker 1: he's been held AMR is also worth talking about yeah.
Speaker 1: For Garrett Cooper right over the past two weeks, three
Speaker 1: fifty seven batting average, five home runs, thirteen RB. I
Speaker 1: shout out to Craig Mish. You can hear live on
Speaker 1: fmcs Y Radio right now from twelve to two pm.
Speaker 1: He's been talking to Garret Cooper for a long time.
Speaker 1: He's really really close to the Miami Marlins organization. Again
Speaker 1: over those last two weeks and ops over a thousand,
Speaker 1: I want to see the launch angle pick up a
Speaker 1: little bit, but I think we're starting to see that again.
Speaker 1: Five home runs during that span makes a lot of contact,
Speaker 1: makes a lot of hard contact. Um. I like Grek
Speaker 1: Cooper a lot. If I had to choose one between
Speaker 1: him and Harold Ramirez, I do like Cooper more, and
Speaker 1: we spoke about it at the top of the show.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for an Andrew mc cutcheon replacement, there
Speaker 1: might not be a better guy than Garrett Cooper right now.
Speaker 1: Greg A question I kept getting last night was, and
Speaker 1: it's something I'm actually struggling with myself, would you drop
Speaker 1: Gregory Polanco for Garrett Cooper? And the the answer I
Speaker 1: kept giving people was I don't want to drop Gregory Polanco.
Speaker 1: Because it last year, hey, and then he took off.
Speaker 1: We know what his upside can be. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that can be streaky at times and he can go
Speaker 1: on these big runs. Plus he's coming back from a
Speaker 1: major shoulder injury. I cautioned everybody that he could get
Speaker 1: off to a slow start when he comes back, and
Speaker 1: he didn't necessarily do that. I think we're starting to
Speaker 1: see some of that now. Infordo went through the same
Speaker 1: thing last year and it had a monster second half.
Speaker 1: That could be what we're looking at when it comes
Speaker 1: to Gregory Polanco. So I understand, you know you only
Speaker 1: had limited roster spot. I would try my best suit
Speaker 1: to keep Gregory Planco on my bench. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: doing right now. It's a twelve team, head to head
Speaker 1: points league, it's a four outfielder league. I got him
Speaker 1: super late and he's gonna have keeper value. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying my best to hold onto Gregory Polanco. But I
Speaker 1: understand the frustration. I would just keep him on the
Speaker 1: bench right now. Greg I agree for someone who didn't
Speaker 1: drop Gregory Polanco was got see what he got. Don't
Speaker 1: give up on Gregory. Don't give up on Gregory. Uh
Speaker 1: yet give him another opportunity, give him a chance to
Speaker 1: come out of this funk. We've seen what he can
Speaker 1: do now, cople of other pitching performances, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get you, my man. Frankie Montas against the Angels pitched
Speaker 1: really really well until the sixth inn He hadn't allowed
Speaker 1: anything until that six anywhere. Hyotani got to him to
Speaker 1: go deep and that was all that he allowed. Oakland
Speaker 1: won this one for to two Lopez or Manta rather
Speaker 1: for it. Hits, two runs, a walk, and three strike
Speaker 1: aspen four. Oakland was very, very good. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Griffin Kenny allowed runs on his six ins of work,
Speaker 1: seven hits, eight strikeouts, a walk. Uh. The big last
Speaker 1: for him Ramone Loreto with a two run shot in
Speaker 1: that sixth inning. Yeah, I'll start off with Frankie Mantas here,
Speaker 1: really really nice bounce back performance against the same team
Speaker 1: that he just got rocked. So I love to see that. Right,
Speaker 1: just got rocked against the Angels his last time out,
Speaker 1: struggled with walks, had five walks in that game, four
Speaker 1: earned runs. Comes back here six ending pitts, only two
Speaker 1: earned runs, only one walk. I love to see that
Speaker 1: from Frankie Mantas that ability to bounce back against the
Speaker 1: team in the Los Angeles Angels that doesn't strike out
Speaker 1: a lot. He only had four swinging strikes, he only
Speaker 1: had three strikeouts. I understand that. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a detriment against Frankie Mantas. I think that just speaks
Speaker 1: for how much contact the Los Angeles Angels make and
Speaker 1: have made so far to this season. So really really
Speaker 1: nice bounce back here for Frankie Mantas, I would say
Speaker 1: that he's firmly entrenched himself as a you know, top
Speaker 1: forty starting pitcher moving forward. And for Griffin Canning, you
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily get the results. He ran into some trouble
Speaker 1: at times here, but he was able to piece together
Speaker 1: a serviceable outing here or earned runs six and he's
Speaker 1: only one walk eight strikeouts. He also had eighteen swinging
Speaker 1: strikes here. So Griffin Canning has some nasty stuff. But
Speaker 1: you know, as we've seen with other young starting pitchers
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock, they're not always going to be great. You know,
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna they're gonna run, they're gonna be some
Speaker 1: ups and some downs. So overall, I still do really
Speaker 1: like Griffin Canning a lot moving forward, Griffin Canning somebody
Speaker 1: that expected bounce back next time out of course him
Speaker 1: much like Mantas based the same team twice in a row.
Speaker 1: We saw both these guys can in the opposite direction
Speaker 1: last night. I'm so confident in Griffin Canning uh to
Speaker 1: you know, listen, a lot of two runs shot in
Speaker 1: the six otherwise he would have a quality start and
Speaker 1: basically the same exact line of Franky Matas. So I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about start out to your best bet for
Speaker 1: every yesterday, Greggy, Hey, buddy, six runs combined that that
Speaker 1: would be uh, if my math is correct, would be
Speaker 1: eight and a half total runs. Now, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ignore your best at forever, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about all the other ones that we talked about, except
Speaker 1: for the Orioles. We'll ignore that as well. We'll talk
Speaker 1: let's handle Chris Paddock versus JAREDI Cough from yesterday, because
Speaker 1: this is the one that we both liked over. We
Speaker 1: thought it was a sucker plays about the under here
Speaker 1: and it was going over was the move as Paddock
Speaker 1: facing a tougher Phillies lineup, It's rocked four and a third,
Speaker 1: eight hits, six runs, five of them were earned, struck
Speaker 1: out four allowing to home runs. Jared I Cough in
Speaker 1: the equality start didn't walk anybody. That was the key there,
Speaker 1: allowing three runs on four hits, striking out five. He
Speaker 1: allowed just a home run do Fran mill Rays who
Speaker 1: he too on the night. Um. We talked about j
Speaker 1: Bruce before, who were twice, including the grand slam of
Speaker 1: Paddock in the fifth. Scott King Ray had a huge
Speaker 1: game too. A lot going on in this one, Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was There was a lot to happen in this
Speaker 1: game between the Podres and the Phillies. But it's now
Speaker 1: you know three of his last four starts for Chris
Speaker 1: Paddock where he's allowed four earned runs or more. And
Speaker 1: shout out to Matt Modika who was tweeting this out
Speaker 1: just a couple of hours ago. During that span last
Speaker 1: four starts for Chris Paddock five point eight five e
Speaker 1: r A four point three zero x fift three point
Speaker 1: nine one. Sierra. As good as a pitching prospect as
Speaker 1: you are, You're going to run into some trouble at
Speaker 1: some point at the major league level. Every starting pitcher
Speaker 1: goes through this. I mean, Max Scherzer got off to
Speaker 1: a slow start this year, for God's sake, So let's
Speaker 1: not just freak out about Chris Paddock right away. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I need to sell him. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I need to sell him. His next start is going
Speaker 1: to come against San Francisco. So if there's ever a
Speaker 1: time that you maybe you wanted to shop him, it
Speaker 1: would be after that start, because I think that he
Speaker 1: would bounce back. But I was reading a little bit
Speaker 1: his quotes on you know, last night's performance, and he
Speaker 1: has admitted himself he's hitting a wall right now. And
Speaker 1: it all starts with the command of his of his
Speaker 1: change up. So he said he just didn't necessarily have it.
Speaker 1: He normally he's able to pinpoint wherever he wants to
Speaker 1: put that pitch within the zone. He wasn't able to
Speaker 1: do that last night. He's going to run into these issues. Also,
Speaker 1: velocity a little bit down last night, the home run
Speaker 1: that he gave up to King Reyer fastball he's normally
Speaker 1: been nineties. So I mean to pay attention to here
Speaker 1: or Chris Paddock. I'm not just completely freaking out and
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Speaker 1: Still from last night here meeting to Mickey Callaway and
Speaker 1: no Ah Syndergard. So no, no, I was just like
Speaker 1: it was at at Mickey Callaway and so that's what
Speaker 1: that was. Because you want to do a time. They've
Speaker 1: been quite frustrating, all right. So um so last night
Speaker 1: Synderguard stroll a bit early to get it going and
Speaker 1: then retired ten of twelve batters, one of which reached
Speaker 1: on an error and the other one just just reached.
Speaker 1: Micky Callaway comes takes him out because he's afraid of
Speaker 1: Mike Yastremski stealing a base on Noah synder Guard and
Speaker 1: those Cynda guards just like, are you eving kidding me?
Speaker 1: He pulls them. Next thing you know, Seth Lugo allowed
Speaker 1: was massive Brandon Belt double game is ti Evan Lagoy
Speaker 1: gets thrown out at home plate. They put up a
Speaker 1: billion runs in the tenth Mets lose, Frank, what do
Speaker 1: you do with notice inderguard? It's still been a frustrating
Speaker 1: year for Noah Syndergard. I mean, this is a spot
Speaker 1: that he you're expecting him to dominate in. I don't
Speaker 1: care that Mike yes Stromsky is in the lineup, grandson
Speaker 1: of Carl Yastremski. But six point two winnings, five hits,
Speaker 1: three on runs. I realized one of those runs came
Speaker 1: after he left the game. Three walks, only four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Now a four point eight three e r A for
Speaker 1: Noah's synder Guard. All the underlying numbers for him are
Speaker 1: much better. Three points six zero five three point eight
Speaker 1: nine x fIF three point nine six ERA. Strand rate
Speaker 1: is got awful at sixty four and a half percent
Speaker 1: is bad as high, but as bad up has always
Speaker 1: been high. It's being strike right down this year. Strikeouts
Speaker 1: are down this year. I don't. I don't own him anywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy that I don't. He's he's throwing his
Speaker 1: slider less this year. Last year twenty point nine percent
Speaker 1: slider usage this year eleven point nine, So that's down
Speaker 1: nine percent. But the velocity on that slider is also
Speaker 1: down four percent this year. So because hann Has hasn't
Speaker 1: had the same level of effectiveness, I've seen people complaining
Speaker 1: about this on Twitter, using his change up more as well.
Speaker 1: It seems like location within the zone is that like
Speaker 1: just leaves a lot of pitches up and people are
Speaker 1: squaring up. You know, the harder you throw, no, the
Speaker 1: the higher you know, the bat up against you. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be if you live in the zone and you
Speaker 1: throw hard. No ask Nathan of Aaldi all those years.
Speaker 1: You know you live in the zone, you don't walk anyone.
Speaker 1: You throw hard, you're gonna get hit hard. So we've
Speaker 1: continuously said this about Synderguard. Seems like he's more of
Speaker 1: a thrower than a picture. What I mean by that,
Speaker 1: it's just doesn't understand the sequencing or you know, pitching
Speaker 1: up and down and moving in and out. He doesn't
Speaker 1: understand how to be a picture. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it's going to take. Like if he hasn't figured it
Speaker 1: out at this point, six hundred endings into his major
Speaker 1: league career, I just don't know when it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you do with Syndergard? Greg? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't think that I would even try buying low
Speaker 1: on him. I think most fantasy owners that own him
Speaker 1: are like, I know what you're trying to do. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna fall for this. And if you try and
Speaker 1: trade him away, you're gonna get what fifty of what
Speaker 1: his value was expected to be coming into the year. So, um,
Speaker 1: you're in what I like to call fantasy purgatory right now.
Speaker 1: You're stuck. You're stuck. If you own him, you can't
Speaker 1: really trade him away. You're not going to drop him.
Speaker 1: And if I'm an owner in the league, and I
Speaker 1: don't you know, if I if I'm just another in
Speaker 1: gonna try and trade for him. I try to trade
Speaker 1: for him, but there's no way I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: what you you believe because he was a you know,
Speaker 1: third round, second pick, second round pick, third round pick,
Speaker 1: greg and you know you're gonna try and throw Let
Speaker 1: me try and uh sell high on a Frankie Mantas
Speaker 1: something like that, and then you know no one's gonna
Speaker 1: trick take Frankie Mantas for no one's Syndergarden, rightfully. So,
Speaker 1: so I think this is a sergard I mean I'd
Speaker 1: rather have gileto right now would you would you would
Speaker 1: not trade overy? No underguard? No, I mean it's working
Speaker 1: for Lea. I understand that. I mean I don't see
Speaker 1: any signs of him falling off. That's cool. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it. It was awesome. Would you trade oh, I
Speaker 1: mean we spoke about earlier. Would you trade trade ry
Speaker 1: you for lead us? No? I would not lead us.
Speaker 1: Phip is writeing loud with the ear is extually specifically higher.
Speaker 1: But he's famous right there, man, there's a home and
Speaker 1: a fly ball racers six. Yeah, and look the weather's
Speaker 1: gonna heat up. He's gonna give up a few home runs,
Speaker 1: especially pitching in Chicago, but was doing phenomenal things this year.
Speaker 1: Swinging shrike rate is better than Noah Cydergards. I mean
Speaker 1: even his underlying numbers, his three point six six x
Speaker 1: fit and his three point six once a year. This
Speaker 1: is Lucas Gilto significantly better than Noah Syndergard would why
Speaker 1: would I make that deal? Right now? I'm keeping Gileto, okay.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into the Nationals. From yesterday, the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals UH defeated Lucas Gilto's team, rand Ronaldo Lopez
Speaker 1: and the White Sox are Ducks got it wrong, um,
Speaker 1: and that's one nine to five. Straspeck wasn't good. You
Speaker 1: almost gotta have pitched by Lopez, but he didn't, and
Speaker 1: then the White Sox bullpen failed and ultimately Nationals one,
Speaker 1: nine to five. But what I want to take away
Speaker 1: from this game is what Victor Roblas did in this one.
Speaker 1: He went too or four with the run score, a
Speaker 1: couple of r V eyes and he also had his
Speaker 1: ninth home run of the year roblast betting two or
Speaker 1: three o b P. He's got those nine home runs
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, to do alone with nine stolen bases. Frank,
Speaker 1: you are a Victor Roebliss owner. Are you satisfied? Victor Roblos,
Speaker 1: for me is one of the hardest hitters to figure out.
Speaker 1: I actually wanted to have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: back and forth here and and find out what you
Speaker 1: think about him, Greg, because by all accounts, back and
Speaker 1: forth sounds. Can we get a camera, Greggy, what is
Speaker 1: he doing right now? Well, I'm back and forth, camera, Gregy.
Speaker 1: That's back and forth all right? Well, by all accounts
Speaker 1: and measurements that you can use to figure out whether
Speaker 1: a hitter is a good hitter or not, Greg, Yes,
Speaker 1: Victor Roblost is below average and all of those seems.
Speaker 1: He has a nineties six weighted runs created plus one
Speaker 1: is average. He has a seven fifty four OPS. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna get it done yet. He has
Speaker 1: nine home runs and nine steals, so he's basically on
Speaker 1: pace for season. He's on pace four over five runs scored.
Speaker 1: But he's a two forty hitter with a strikeout rate
Speaker 1: and a six percent walk rate. If I own him
Speaker 1: in Rodo, I think I'm I'm fine, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: really care that you're batting average sucks. Yeah, it should
Speaker 1: come up a little bit. That have been is a
Speaker 1: little bit low. But his hard hit rate, Greg is,
Speaker 1: it's twenty two in an arrow where I mean the
Speaker 1: average hard hit rates serees like tht seven percent. He's
Speaker 1: a twenty two percent hard hit rates. So, like to me,
Speaker 1: Victor Roeblates is just one of the hardest guys to
Speaker 1: figure out. It still has an interesting power speed combination.
Speaker 1: So in Rhodo, I think I'm all right. But like
Speaker 1: a points league, So is he a good hitter? Greg?
Speaker 1: I guess that's the question. I don't know the I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that. If he just really athletic,
Speaker 1: is how what it comes down to. Yeah, he's fantasy wise,
Speaker 1: he's fine from my rod perspective, as you said, because
Speaker 1: never's gonna be there like you're looking. You were looking
Speaker 1: trying guy out of Victor Roblez hopefully, and he's kind
Speaker 1: of talking about like starlely Marte. Right, but that's without
Speaker 1: the batting average. That's what we had, And I am
Speaker 1: concerned a bit that that batting profile is terrible, but
Speaker 1: the numbers are gonna be there ultimately, so you're all
Speaker 1: right with it, I guess. So, Yeah, we're gonna points league.
Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit harder because at least in
Speaker 1: the points leaus I play and you lose a half
Speaker 1: point for a strikeout, so he strikes out a quarter
Speaker 1: of the time, doesn't walk all that much. Um, I
Speaker 1: think the batting average will be better. The fan Graphs
Speaker 1: projections have him for a two fifty five batting average
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. Derrick Cardi actually the bat
Speaker 1: has him met for two seventy five, So some lofty
Speaker 1: expectations there. With twelve home runs in thirteen stolen bases,
Speaker 1: the rest of the way that would give him, that
Speaker 1: would give him a any one home run when he
Speaker 1: two stolen base season, I'd be pretty good. I mean
Speaker 1: you you signed up for that. We came just wanted
Speaker 1: to get that batting average. I agree. Okay, what else
Speaker 1: we want to get to? We have actually know what
Speaker 1: we gotta get to our best bets forever. And we
Speaker 1: got signed off YouTube because at the window is coming
Speaker 1: up next. We don't because I'm doing this thing first,
Speaker 1: So I don't really have to sign off YouTube. Don't wenna,
Speaker 1: stay on YouTube. We're gonna stay on you way to
Speaker 1: stay on you. You go way to talk it out.
Speaker 1: I just realized if we didn't have to you, so
Speaker 1: we'll stay on YouTube, We'll get the best bets. We'll
Speaker 1: continue on UM. Austin Riley Greater signed Vladdie d Vladieto Jr.
Speaker 1: Ied the Junior want to see Lado, So I'll try
Speaker 1: this again. Austin Riley Greater sign of Vladdie Jr. That's
Speaker 1: fair question. Everyone's waiting for the wheels to fall off
Speaker 1: when it comes to Austin Riley because he has a
Speaker 1: thirty two point nine percent strike out rate and just
Speaker 1: a five percent walk great, but he also hits the
Speaker 1: ball hard fifty two percent at the time, puts the
Speaker 1: ball in the air forty three for ten of the time,
Speaker 1: a thirty percent line drive rate. I think in the
Speaker 1: future of Vladi mcgaro Junr. Will be a better well
Speaker 1: rounded hitter than Austin Riley. If you can pull that
Speaker 1: off in a dynasty or a keeper league, that's probably
Speaker 1: something I would look into doing. Selling Austin Riley to
Speaker 1: get lad Jr. This year in Redraft, I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, Craig. I think I'm just gonna write
Speaker 1: it out. I mean, Austin Riley, the guy who's played
Speaker 1: eighteen games. He has twenty five RBIs that is this massive,
Speaker 1: and he has nine home runs, so I understand the
Speaker 1: plate discipline. You have some question marks when it comes
Speaker 1: to Austin Riley, but battball data supports a lot, if
Speaker 1: not all, of what he's doing. So again, Redraft, I'm
Speaker 1: probably just holding on to Austin Riley your thinging long term.
Speaker 1: I think Vladim mcgarero Jr. Long term will be the
Speaker 1: better player. Fair enough for right now, Austin Riley clearly
Speaker 1: getting it done. No signs of slowing down for the
Speaker 1: big man from Atlanta who does not seem to be
Speaker 1: in the mix for Craig Kimbrell, as you would call him.
Speaker 1: I would never do that to you. I'm not that's
Speaker 1: exactly right, you know, you know, want to continue my mock.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Rockies before I forgot to mention Danny
Speaker 1: Murphy with a bomb. Well, you can't mock me. I
Speaker 1: got him on my teams. I'm excited, happy started. He's back.
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy. He's back. And I mentioned this either last
Speaker 1: week or the week before. He's either learning how to
Speaker 1: play through this, you know, finger fracture thing that he
Speaker 1: had going on earlier on the season, or he's just
Speaker 1: getting healthier. So it's whichever one it is. I'm perfectly
Speaker 1: fine with it. So Daniel Murphy is coming around, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited about it. And he does that in
Speaker 1: the revenge game against the Cubs, very slight revenge game
Speaker 1: only played about half a year last year with the Cubs.
Speaker 1: That one doesn't even count, but it still counts. Greg
Speaker 1: over the past. Let's see here, what measurement do you
Speaker 1: want to go by? Because all of them are good.
Speaker 1: Last fifteen days, last thirty days. Let's go with last
Speaker 1: two weeks for Daniel Murphy re sixty batting average to
Speaker 1: home runs sixteen r b i s and ops over
Speaker 1: a thousand. So Daniel Murphy's coming around. You had your
Speaker 1: opportunity to buy low, and now it's gone. Happy about
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy. You wanted to drop the dude, well, because
Speaker 1: I'm losing in my leagues and I need the guy
Speaker 1: to play, and he wasn't playing. He was sitting out
Speaker 1: against lefties. It doesn't seem like that's the case anymore.
Speaker 1: It's actually better than here against lefties and his righties.
Speaker 1: But Black, let's get the best bets forever here on
Speaker 1: the bf S b F f's What are you going, Frank?
Speaker 1: What are you looking at? Kevin Gosman? Probably? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't like Kevin Gosman. That is well documented, the gas
Speaker 1: man they call him. Um. There's nothing that really stands
Speaker 1: out to me today Greg that I love. But if
Speaker 1: I had to choose one thing that I would throw
Speaker 1: a few shekels down on, it is the Pittsburgh Pirates
Speaker 1: money line with Joe Musgrove. I realized Musgrove hasn't been
Speaker 1: great either as well. The velocity down this year or
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove, but I still think he's a better pitcher
Speaker 1: than Kevin Goalsman overall. And the Pirates lineup has been
Speaker 1: a little bit inconsistent, but I think they could get
Speaker 1: to Gasman. Here you're getting the Pittsburgh Pirates and Joe
Speaker 1: Musgrove at plus one twelve. They are underdogs at home
Speaker 1: tonight with the money line. So I am going with
Speaker 1: Big Joe, going start, Joe muscob start well, Joe must
Speaker 1: betty on Joe Musgrove. It's not I haven't even loked
Speaker 1: at the totals. Totals usually my jam, but I haven't
Speaker 1: looks at the totals tonight. There's one that stands out.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna like with my pick tonight at all.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, you're not gonna like it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing it really stands out, like Carrasco Martine Perez
Speaker 1: eight and a half. Rasco hasn't been good. Martine Perez
Speaker 1: has been bombed as past couple of starts. The Twins
Speaker 1: can get home hit home runs and bunches. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of talking to myself into the over
Speaker 1: and neck Indians and twins over eight and a half. Craig,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I don't love it. I don't
Speaker 1: love it alright, I'm going to total because the total
Speaker 1: has been my jam. Like I said, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: like this at all. I mentioned I mentioned one of
Speaker 1: them downstairs. I have my head bun in here. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna You're not gonna like it. You'd be mad
Speaker 1: at me. I'm going over up. We're going over nine
Speaker 1: in Jimny Nelson's return, over nine in the Marlins and
Speaker 1: the Brewers and Bruers got shut out last night, sixteen nothing.
Speaker 1: You know they're putting up runs, Jimmy Nelson. How deep
Speaker 1: is this dude going in the games? Everyone just thinks
Speaker 1: the Marlins are gonna get shut out or something because
Speaker 1: they put up sixteen runs last night. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: We're going over nine in the Word Crew in the Marlins.
Speaker 1: His birthday, Greg, same on you. Maybe he'll win. It's
Speaker 1: his birth some runs, Frank, I will say, there's some
Speaker 1: value in the Marlins. Money like to like Jimmy. It
Speaker 1: started seventeen. He's the minus two seventy favorite. Come on, guys,
Speaker 1: we don't even know what the guys gonna we don't
Speaker 1: know how many it's he's gonna throws two seventy. Really,
Speaker 1: I know, Sandy all Katara has been because the total
Speaker 1: that I did want to mention Greg was the Cubs
Speaker 1: and the Rockies. It's total. There's seven. It's Darvish against
Speaker 1: her Man Marquez. Marques has been a sudden I realized that.
Speaker 1: But Cubs have a really good line. I know he
Speaker 1: pitches better away from cors Field. You Darvish has been
Speaker 1: better recently. What can still be prone to getting blown up?
Speaker 1: That total at seven is really really low. It's low.
Speaker 1: It's low. I like that, Frank, I like where your
Speaker 1: head's at. I think while we're just mentioning the Cubs
Speaker 1: real quick, Greg, I did want to get to this
Speaker 1: today on the show. Kyle Hendrix has been awesome recently.
Speaker 1: You know me, not Kyle Hendricks guy admittedly seven innings, pitched,
Speaker 1: six hits, three earned runs, one walk, ten strikeouts last
Speaker 1: night over twenties swinging strikes against the Colorado Rockies. How
Speaker 1: Hendricks greggy since the start of May seven starts two
Speaker 1: point zero nine e r A or seven strikeouts, the
Speaker 1: six walks in fifty one and two thirds and he's pitched.
Speaker 1: He's at one point zero five walks per nine. Would
Speaker 1: you sell high on Kyle Hendrix right now? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, yes, yes, and we get Do you think
Speaker 1: you can get corre Asco, Flaherty or Zach Wheeler for
Speaker 1: Kyle Hendricks No, No, I think you might be able to.
Speaker 1: I would throw if I own Kyle Hendry. I'm throwing
Speaker 1: an all for out for each one of those pictures
Speaker 1: right now. Give us like five minutes at the window
Speaker 1: with Shawn Watstavakia is coming your way next, Frank Stample
Speaker 1: and Gregg Sousman. We'll do it all go tomorrow, we
Speaker 1: hope