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Speaker 1: the BFFs. That's Frank Staville. I am Greg sum when
Speaker 1: I'm about how's it going, happy, pumpy to Lots to
Speaker 1: talk about today, Greggy, some pretty gross pitching performances last night,
Speaker 1: some bounce back hitters as well. Before all that, how
Speaker 1: did you sleep last night? I slept pretty well, I'd say.
Speaker 1: I'm Judy keeps going to the bathroom and about five
Speaker 1: am specifically, and you always remember it's technically five fifteen,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like every because you know, I get up
Speaker 1: very quickly sleep. Yeah, so five the team. She gets
Speaker 1: in the beggars the bathroom last three nights. So that's
Speaker 1: not working out well for you. It's okay, I'm sleeping well,
Speaker 1: but I just know that she's gonna not go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom, and I know I don't lean over. You
Speaker 1: know exactly what time it is and the sun's coming up,
Speaker 1: and like, all right, it is what it is. You
Speaker 1: have windows in your bedroom, I have like a small one, okay,
Speaker 1: like a basement apartment kind of thing. Um, the last
Speaker 1: windows the better. How if you you know what I
Speaker 1: used to like when I moved to New York, what
Speaker 1: six seven years ago? Now? I Um, I demanded blackout shades,
Speaker 1: and then I realized, I think they're expensive. I don't
Speaker 1: want to pay for them, so I never got them. Um,
Speaker 1: put it on your wedding registry, Greg, that's fine now,
Speaker 1: I just used that, just like used to whatever. I
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm a pleasant person the morning. I rarely
Speaker 1: get off grouchy ever i'd say so I wake up,
Speaker 1: but I'm like over the day, whatever I've seen me Well,
Speaker 1: I watched, um watch a good amount of TV last night,
Speaker 1: which was good. I finished Barry season two, no, I
Speaker 1: watched the Yankees. I watched the Yankees, I watched the
Speaker 1: Bucks and Rafters, and I watched Barry, I watched Spencer Turnbull,
Speaker 1: Edwardo Rodriguez and Zach Wheeler, and I wish I hadn't
Speaker 1: My night sounds better, much better than you did. At
Speaker 1: some At some point, I was going back and forth
Speaker 1: with a few people on Twitter. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna shut my laptop down for the night because
Speaker 1: it's clear that this is not a good baseball night
Speaker 1: for me. So I'm just gonna close this and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna switch the game to the NBA playoffs. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what I did. Great. It was just not a
Speaker 1: lot going right for me last night from a fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball perspective. So very frustrating, very frustrating. Out I'm sorry, Frank,
Speaker 1: all right, it's not your fault. Where where would you
Speaker 1: like to begin? Wherever you want? What do you what
Speaker 1: do you think? What do? What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: I started the first game of the night, Trevort Bauer.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was part of the problem. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start there. You're asking me, he said, Well, I
Speaker 1: want to do I want to start, Frank by patting
Speaker 1: myself on the back. I'm not a decision maker, so
Speaker 1: you're the decision maker here. Yeah, I'm gonna start by
Speaker 1: patting myself on the bat, Frank, because that's what I
Speaker 1: like to do. What you do right in the best
Speaker 1: bets forever. I said, I like Matt Strong, and I
Speaker 1: like the San Diego Padres. Frank, you also said that
Speaker 1: you like Spencer Turnbull in Tigers. I said that was
Speaker 1: my If I had to pick another one, that was
Speaker 1: what it was. Yes, but I said I like that Strong,
Speaker 1: I like the Padres. And all they did was defeat
Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks three to two. Strong, six strong innings,
Speaker 1: two run ball, four hits, struck out two, didn't walk
Speaker 1: anybody well. Zachrik he also pretty well seven in four hits,
Speaker 1: three or in one's one walk, five strike hats. The
Speaker 1: big bombs against Zach Grinky, Eric Hosmer went deep, may
Speaker 1: have a chidle single holm, Eric Kindler and that amer
Speaker 1: Ian Kinsler and that was it. All the runs allowed
Speaker 1: by Grinky come in the sixth inning. A really nice
Speaker 1: picture performance by both of these starters. Curby Yates comes
Speaker 1: out on the ninth, gets his nineteenth save of the
Speaker 1: year by striking out the side on fifteen pitches. He
Speaker 1: loved Hey all you and Kurby Yates. He was your
Speaker 1: guy this year. Yeah, I love Curby Yates. I only
Speaker 1: ended up with I think one or two shares of him,
Speaker 1: but I wrote about him extensively on my patron obviously
Speaker 1: talked about him a lot here during these draft season.
Speaker 1: He was the one that I said, Uh, if there's
Speaker 1: anyone that can make that leap up into the Roberto
Speaker 1: O son of the Brad hand T hear of lead closers,
Speaker 1: that we don't have any question marks about Herby Ates
Speaker 1: was my guy. So if you drafted him, kudo see you.
Speaker 1: He's been awesome thus far. Matt Strom has been really
Speaker 1: good this year, but I do have some question marks,
Speaker 1: like he's not walking anyone, which is really good and
Speaker 1: is different than years past for match Strom, but he's
Speaker 1: also not getting a lot of strikeouts at all. Great
Speaker 1: he's at seven point three case per ninine. His swinging
Speaker 1: strike rate his down over three percent, and I realized
Speaker 1: transitioning from a reliever back to starting pitcher, like he
Speaker 1: was gonna lose some velocity. He was gonna lose some strikeouts,
Speaker 1: but for your swinging strike rate to go from twelve
Speaker 1: point six percent to nine point two percent, I do
Speaker 1: have some question marks when it comes to match Strown,
Speaker 1: But he's kind of in that tier that we were
Speaker 1: talking about yesterday with Mike Minor, where you kind of
Speaker 1: expect some regression, but what are you really gonna do
Speaker 1: with him? That's that's the question when it comes to
Speaker 1: match trom Like, no one's gonna be no one's gonna
Speaker 1: buy that Strom. You're not gonna be able to sell him.
Speaker 1: Kind of in the same camp as like a Jake
Speaker 1: Junas from last year. We all knew the regression was
Speaker 1: gonna come for Jake june Is, and as well as
Speaker 1: he was pitching, you could shop him, but you weren't
Speaker 1: gonna be able to trade Jake Tunas for anything. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I'm at with Matt Strom right now.
Speaker 1: I like him, I don't really love him. You got
Speaker 1: a three point zero six year, you got a four
Speaker 1: point five to xfit four to six Sierra, So I
Speaker 1: think there's some regression coming here from Matt Strom. Gregg
Speaker 1: probably so, probably so. And when we talked to the yesterday,
Speaker 1: some of these overachieving guys can't really do anything with them.
Speaker 1: You just put him in your lineup and you enjoy
Speaker 1: the Enjoy what you get and what has to be
Speaker 1: Matt strong. For now. You're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: trade away. Even the regression comes. You'll worry about that then,
Speaker 1: but right now, enjoy Mattron was giving you. How much
Speaker 1: do you think that you're fastball velocities to change when
Speaker 1: you go from the bullpen back to being a starting pitcher,
Speaker 1: Like how much should it drop off? Two miles per hour?
Speaker 1: Is that reasonable? Yeah? I think that makes sense. And
Speaker 1: last year Matt Stron was at nine point five miles
Speaker 1: proud of this year he's at nine point nine, so
Speaker 1: more a little bit more than probably hope for I
Speaker 1: thought we'd be about. That's that's what we're looking at.
Speaker 1: The slider vels down exactly too, using a slider a
Speaker 1: ton when slider usage last year thirty this year, So
Speaker 1: marry Patrick Corbin esque but not getting the Patrick Corbin
Speaker 1: like results when it comes to strikeout. So just keep
Speaker 1: that in mind if you have match from that. This
Speaker 1: might get a little rough as we go along when
Speaker 1: it comes to match from just be aware you could
Speaker 1: try training him, but it was likely you'll just enjoy
Speaker 1: what you get while you get it. I mentioned Eric
Speaker 1: Hollisbord going deep. I also want to mention edwardo Escobar
Speaker 1: went deep for Arizona. He's eleven home run of this season. Um, well,
Speaker 1: I just doesn't stop. He didn't stop, while John Ryan
Speaker 1: Murphy also went deep fourth time this year. I Jerry
Speaker 1: Murphy going deep. Why do the Diamondbacks hate Carson Kelly.
Speaker 1: I don't know the Carson Kelly like other players as well. Well,
Speaker 1: you like a player who's sitting one eight four, you
Speaker 1: I just I this has been one of the more
Speaker 1: baffling things. I was on Carson Kelly coming into the
Speaker 1: year because when we play in these rotal leagues and
Speaker 1: you need a second catcher, you can argue to death
Speaker 1: whether you should play with one catcher, two catchers, whether
Speaker 1: you should play with no catchers. But a lot of
Speaker 1: traditional rotal league still used two catchers. And I like
Speaker 1: John Ryan Murphy, not John Ryan Murphy. I like Carson
Speaker 1: Kelly as a sleeper second catcher greg because he had
Speaker 1: done some nice things in the minors. He was a
Speaker 1: top catching prospect for years. He just was never gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play behind YadA your Molina in St. Louis,
Speaker 1: and he realized that there was an interesting athletic article
Speaker 1: about him before the season that said, look, no matter
Speaker 1: what I didn't St. Louis, I was never going to
Speaker 1: get a shot. And I knew that. And this year,
Speaker 1: like some of the underlying bat ball date is actually
Speaker 1: pretty good for Carson Kelly, and for whatever reason, they're
Speaker 1: just not playing him. I don't know if it's you know,
Speaker 1: he's not a great catcher in terms of framing, or
Speaker 1: he's not on the same page as some of these
Speaker 1: starting pitchers of the Diamondbacks. But uh, it is frustrating overall.
Speaker 1: But yep, John Ryan murd Fee hits a home run
Speaker 1: last night, former Yankee great John Ryan Murphy. That is
Speaker 1: greg A Wuardo Escobar, though I mean you touched on it.
Speaker 1: It is eleventh home run, thirty two Ribbies to seventy
Speaker 1: four batting average O p s. Greg He got off
Speaker 1: to a really slow start. But you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about this guy maybe three weeks ago, a month ago,
Speaker 1: and we were I was banging the table telling everyone
Speaker 1: pick up at Wardo Escobar. The guys just a professional hitter.
Speaker 1: He's doing some nice things this year. He's hitting the
Speaker 1: ball harder, he's raised it a little bit more. H's
Speaker 1: in a good part of the lineup. Two, So the
Speaker 1: county stats are gonna be there, lots of like when
Speaker 1: it comes to Atuardo Escobar. I had someone asked me
Speaker 1: a day, would you rather own Max Munsey, C J.
Speaker 1: Crone or at Wardo Escobar, and I said Escobar, I
Speaker 1: would think it's for me, it's gonna be a Escobar
Speaker 1: or I think right now, I agree with you. Like
Speaker 1: Max Munsey, I looked into his numbers. Still, you know,
Speaker 1: forty plus percent hard hit rate, forty plus percent fly
Speaker 1: ball rate actually holds his own against lefties, like his
Speaker 1: batting average versus lefties and righties are nearly the same.
Speaker 1: But the Dodgers, for whatever reason, they love splits. And
Speaker 1: even when the numbers tell you you know, Max Munsey
Speaker 1: could play against left handed pitching, he still sits at times.
Speaker 1: So I find that a little bit frustrating. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: lineup is better than the Diamondbacks. But I know Eduardo
Speaker 1: Escobar is gonna play every day. Um, I don't have
Speaker 1: any concerns about that. And and he's performing well. So
Speaker 1: if I had to choose one of those guys Escobar, Crone, Monsey,
Speaker 1: I would take Escobar, not nothing against Caroline two because
Speaker 1: he's played well too already. Let's continue on from last night.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Trevor Bauer will go back there next. Last
Speaker 1: night it was Trevor Bauer Chris Bassett going at it.
Speaker 1: Neither picture very well. At least Bauer gave you the
Speaker 1: six things work four hits, four runs, walked four as
Speaker 1: well as not a force for him. He did strike
Speaker 1: out five. The big last he allowed was a Matt
Speaker 1: Chapman double as well as a more Canna hole run. Well,
Speaker 1: get to that in a moment. Why Mark Cana was
Speaker 1: in the game at all. Frank Bauer hasn't been his
Speaker 1: lights out as you. Hoby threw a hundred twenty three
Speaker 1: pitches last night. He was the ground three point nine
Speaker 1: five r A pending free agent, he's not. He has
Speaker 1: one year after this. I believe it's very interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they've really really been getting his pitch count
Speaker 1: up there, so they let him throw over a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty pitches last night and Greg over his last
Speaker 1: five starts. It all started with the Marlins. I remember
Speaker 1: that I used them on fandle of that night, and
Speaker 1: I was tweeting about it, and I was apologizing to
Speaker 1: everyone since that game that came on April against Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and so over his last five starts, Trevor Bauer has
Speaker 1: a six point six zero e r A a five
Speaker 1: point one zero x FIT. His strand rate is fifty
Speaker 1: six percent, his groundball rate is thirty five percent. We'll
Speaker 1: getting you a ton of strikeouts, ten point five k
Speaker 1: per nine, four point eight walks per nine. It's just
Speaker 1: been a really, really frustrating year for Trevor Bauer. Seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of that progress he made last year
Speaker 1: its terms of getting more swinging strikes, really honing in
Speaker 1: on his arsenal, and using the pitches that work best.
Speaker 1: His first pitch strike percentage was a career high last year. Um,
Speaker 1: he didn't allow as many home runs, He had the
Speaker 1: best command of his career, he wasn't walking anybody. All
Speaker 1: of those games that he made last year, Greg are gone. Yep.
Speaker 1: His swinging strike create is down almost two percents. This
Speaker 1: here his first pitch strike percentage, and you see this
Speaker 1: like he tries to nitpick a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: He tries to be so fine and everything that he does,
Speaker 1: and he puts a lot of working. You you hear
Speaker 1: about all the stuff he does in the off season
Speaker 1: where you know he's tracking his pitches with all these
Speaker 1: types of machines and he's he's really like analytical when
Speaker 1: it comes to his pitches and everything he puts in
Speaker 1: the work. But I think he just tries to be
Speaker 1: too fine. I think he tries to be too cute
Speaker 1: at times, and you see it with his command. He's
Speaker 1: not getting ahead and account right now. His first pitch
Speaker 1: strike percentage is down about eight percent this year, not
Speaker 1: getting opposing batters to chase pitches, which I think is
Speaker 1: just a league wide thing that he and I spoke
Speaker 1: about that a little bit. His hard hit rate last
Speaker 1: year thirty nine percent this year, walks per nine last
Speaker 1: year two point nine three, career best this year four
Speaker 1: point four six. It's just a lot of the gains
Speaker 1: that he made last year, Greg, he has not carried
Speaker 1: over to this year. And that's part of the reason
Speaker 1: why we're seeing this type of these types of issues
Speaker 1: when it comes to Trevor Bauer, and it's really really
Speaker 1: frustrating and to be honest, I don't really know how
Speaker 1: much better it's going to get, at least in the
Speaker 1: near future. So the obvious question becomes, are you selling
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer. My answer would be no, because this seems
Speaker 1: like a really odd time to try and sell him
Speaker 1: unless you can still sell him based off of his
Speaker 1: name value and you can get a starting pitcher who
Speaker 1: was maybe going a little bit later on, who's performing
Speaker 1: like really well this year. I like, I don't think
Speaker 1: you could turn him into a Luis Castillo, no chance,
Speaker 1: no chance, like a Jose Burrios. He's kind of tripped
Speaker 1: up his past couple of starts. It is like, what
Speaker 1: are you going to train him for? I think that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. We all are the guy
Speaker 1: that we always go to for trades is Jack Flaherty.
Speaker 1: But Jack Flaherty hasn't performed yet either. Rather have him
Speaker 1: to get better. I would rather have Jack Flaherty, I think,
Speaker 1: and Trevor Bauer. Look, you can make the argument for like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bad going on with Trevor Bower
Speaker 1: with his underlying numbers. They're not good. Last year a
Speaker 1: two point to one e r A. We weren't expecting
Speaker 1: that this year he had a three point one for
Speaker 1: x fit last year. This year he's at three five
Speaker 1: with a four four one x FIT. Well, why is
Speaker 1: that He's allowing a lot of hard contact, so much hardcore,
Speaker 1: more than ever before, I mean four hard hit rate.
Speaker 1: He's allowing more fly balls than since uh what year
Speaker 1: was that was the last time he allowed fly ball rate?
Speaker 1: So more fly balls, higher hard hit rate, walking more batters.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a recipe for disaster, Greg because
Speaker 1: you're walking these guys on base and you're giving a
Speaker 1: fly balls in the turning its home runs, and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, he's given up three run bombs, he's
Speaker 1: given up Grand Slams, two run homers, and it's just
Speaker 1: all stacking on top of each other. So I'm worried
Speaker 1: about Trevor Bauer, But realistically, I just I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna trade firm right now. Someone today said
Speaker 1: they were loaded at in their outfield and they sent
Speaker 1: their starting pitchers over to me, and they said, I
Speaker 1: got offered Trevor Bauer for my Starling Marte and it
Speaker 1: was a points league, and I said, well, you're loaded
Speaker 1: at the outfield, I would take I would take Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer and just hope that he turns it around. But
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers are not great right now. When it
Speaker 1: comes to Bauer, let me go over to Chris Bassett
Speaker 1: here on the other side. Bassett, who has been very,
Speaker 1: very good. He walked six guys yesterday, I let three runs,
Speaker 1: three hits, uh in under four innings of work. Did
Speaker 1: strike out six. Six of the one eleven outs that
Speaker 1: he got were by the strikeout, so that's super interesting.
Speaker 1: He allowed home runs to Carlos Santana and Francisco Lindor
Speaker 1: um Blake trying and picked up the save here in
Speaker 1: this one, his ninth of the season. Chris pass has
Speaker 1: been a name on a lot of Fantasy Owner of
Speaker 1: minds here um as he's been very very good for
Speaker 1: the most part this season. Would happened last night just
Speaker 1: the walks just had no control. Yeah, that's definitely it.
Speaker 1: Because you looked at his last five starts, he allowed
Speaker 1: two walks or less in each of those starts. Yesterday
Speaker 1: six walks. It's just not used to what we're seeing
Speaker 1: from Chris Bassett. Uh. I'm underwhelmed here, Greg, because against
Speaker 1: the Indians, it's a really good match up to still
Speaker 1: had the swinging strikes, still had the strikeouts, but hit
Speaker 1: by the home run and the walks as well, which
Speaker 1: we haven't normally seen from him this season. We'll give
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Speaker 1: couple of players coming and going for both the Athletics
Speaker 1: and the Indians. Last night, Chris Davis said won a
Speaker 1: bat and then left the game as his oblique and
Speaker 1: hip have been bothering him and he had an m
Speaker 1: R I or he's going to have an m R
Speaker 1: I and it looks like he's not going on the
Speaker 1: I L yet. Charis Davis hasn't been right for some time. Rank. No,
Speaker 1: he hasn't, And we spoke about it when it happened.
Speaker 1: He was just trying to make a running grab in
Speaker 1: the outfield. It might have been against the Pittsburgh Pirates
Speaker 1: where it was a National League park and they didn't
Speaker 1: have the d H and he had to play the field.
Speaker 1: And this is part of the risk with you know,
Speaker 1: the interleague play and players who are normally designated hitters
Speaker 1: when they have to play the field, Uh, they expose
Speaker 1: themselves a little bit more to injuries because they're doing
Speaker 1: things that they're not used to doing. So I remember
Speaker 1: that very vividly. He was he was trying to run
Speaker 1: down the ball down the sideline, ended up I think
Speaker 1: he caught it and then he ran into like the
Speaker 1: barricades of the wall and he ended up hurting his hip.
Speaker 1: And it seems like he hasn't necessarily been right since.
Speaker 1: And I know he had he's hit a few home
Speaker 1: runs that he might even even had a multi homer
Speaker 1: game like last week against the Mariners, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: looked right overall. His batting averages at two forty eight.
Speaker 1: So if we could get one more at bat and
Speaker 1: it out and then just shut him down for the season,
Speaker 1: that would be great, and he'll probably be a two
Speaker 1: forty seven right right, I would be great, But it
Speaker 1: does look like he's gonna land on the I L. So,
Speaker 1: in all seriousness, um, if you had him in your
Speaker 1: line up this week, it's unfortunate. If you play in
Speaker 1: the NFBC, you'll be able to take him out of
Speaker 1: your lineup for Friday over the weekend, But outside of that,
Speaker 1: I would start looking into someone to replace him, because
Speaker 1: it's more than likely he's gonna land on the I L.
Speaker 1: G Chris Davis for now not on the I L.
Speaker 1: More Canistonian d h for Cleveland today. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Carlos Gonzalez got pinch hit for the last night by
Speaker 1: Jordan Luplow, and he wanted to get pitch hit for
Speaker 1: again because he's no longer The team designated for assignment
Speaker 1: today was Carlos Carlos for the Indians, So it sounds
Speaker 1: like Frank, both veteran Indians that you wanted to have
Speaker 1: since been cut in Hanley Mirez and Carlos I didn't
Speaker 1: really want them. You play five outfielders, so you're just
Speaker 1: trying to find anyone who's breathing. Greg, So, uh, Carlos
Speaker 1: Gonzala is still breathing, but just not in the Indians uniform.
Speaker 1: So that's unfortunate. I feel like he was kind of
Speaker 1: coming around. Like I say that, I look at his
Speaker 1: two ten batting errors, like I guess he wasn't coming around.
Speaker 1: But yeah, in the month of May he was batting
Speaker 1: one sixty nine, So no, he was not coming around, Greg.
Speaker 1: And it looks like it might be the end of
Speaker 1: the line here for Carlos Gonzalez, similar to what we
Speaker 1: saw about Hanley Ramirez. It's been a really fun career
Speaker 1: for Carlos Gonzoz, all those years of playing Colorado former.
Speaker 1: Like I guess, first round pick at some point, right
Speaker 1: for Fantasy Baseball, he was up there. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: a really awesome career, But I think this might be
Speaker 1: the end. I just can't really see him latching on
Speaker 1: anywhere anywhere else. It's good news for astar Mercando because
Speaker 1: it looks like even a shoe he'll start every day
Speaker 1: now ran right, Yeah, I think so, and he's he's
Speaker 1: been playing too, so you know, everyone was freaking out
Speaker 1: about I need to get Willie Calhoun, who is now
Speaker 1: dealing with a quad contusion quad injury. Not in the
Speaker 1: lineup today, so we'll see what happens with that. But
Speaker 1: Willie Calhoun, Austin Riley, who has been as as advertised,
Speaker 1: and Nikki Lopez, and everyone was kind of forgetting about
Speaker 1: Oscar Mercado because he wasn't playing every single day Greg,
Speaker 1: but he's played like the last three days in a row,
Speaker 1: and they designate Parlis Gonzalez for assignment, and it seems
Speaker 1: like he's gonna play every day. And don't look now.
Speaker 1: I mean he hid an RBI double last night. He
Speaker 1: went one for four. He's hitting so he's not performing badly,
Speaker 1: and he has that interesting power speed combination, more so
Speaker 1: speed than power. But it looks like he's gonna play
Speaker 1: every day. So if you're one of those people who
Speaker 1: are he sneakily picked up Oscar Mercado while everyone else
Speaker 1: was picking up the other prospects, you might have something
Speaker 1: on your hands here. We'll find out, yes, we will.
Speaker 1: We'll find out also of Noe, And I know you
Speaker 1: wanted to ask about this person. I ask dr right
Speaker 1: about him tomorrow. That's Bradley Zimmer, who was a name
Speaker 1: that we have not heard. He's getting close to that.
Speaker 1: That's probably what factors into agree. So it's a name
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about in a while. Rotal World had
Speaker 1: an update on him from Mandy Bell today. He's going
Speaker 1: to begin a rehab assignment with Triple A Columbus next
Speaker 1: week potentially, and he's been out for almost a year.
Speaker 1: You got hurt running on the wall against the Yankees. Actually,
Speaker 1: Um hurt his shoulder and when he's healthy, he's just
Speaker 1: brought up to play. Bradley m six years old. He's ready.
Speaker 1: He finally got the opportunity last year. And I know
Speaker 1: you events are definitely higher on him coming into the
Speaker 1: year than I was. UM. But Bradley Zimmer looks to
Speaker 1: be on the way back and could be back as
Speaker 1: soon as sometime in the middle of next month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still only twenty six years old. Like, let's not forget.
Speaker 1: Before there was Willie Calhoun, on Oscar Mercado and Nicky Lopez,
Speaker 1: there was a Bradley Zimmer. This was one of the
Speaker 1: top hitting prospects in baseball. We were all so excited
Speaker 1: for him. He was the guy I think two years
Speaker 1: ago that we were spending all our fab money on
Speaker 1: was Bradley Zimmer, And you know, interesting prospect. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who never really hit for great batting average. Kind
Speaker 1: of actually reminds me a little bit of Oscar Mercado,
Speaker 1: a guy who has an interesting power speed combination. Back
Speaker 1: in ten, he hit fifteen home runs with thirty eight
Speaker 1: stolen bases across two different levels in the minor leagues. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then seventeen, the year he got called up, he
Speaker 1: had five homers, he had nine stolen bases. Batting average
Speaker 1: to sixty eight career hitter in the minors. So the
Speaker 1: hit tool is not extraordinary when it comes to Bradley Zimmer,
Speaker 1: but he does have some pop, he does have some speed.
Speaker 1: He can play center field. Right. Do you think this
Speaker 1: more so takes away playing time from Leone's Martin or
Speaker 1: do you think this might be the end of anything
Speaker 1: that we got out of Jordan Luplow, because Lupplo was
Speaker 1: actually performed better than Leone's Martin. I think it's probably
Speaker 1: the end of Leonis Martine. I think they like Jordan Luplow.
Speaker 1: I do. I think they like his power, they like
Speaker 1: his bat, I don't. You can see, say, a month
Speaker 1: from now, the everyday outfield being Jordan Lupplo, Bradley Zimmer
Speaker 1: and center, Oscar Mercado and Red that makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you're playing a deeper league, especially like one
Speaker 1: of these five outfielder leagues, you want to stash Bradley Zimmer.
Speaker 1: Now is the time to do it. Am I doing
Speaker 1: it in like all twelve team leagues? Probably not? Maybe
Speaker 1: in twelve team leagues with five maybe maybe maybe stash
Speaker 1: him there depends who you're dropping obviously, but fifteen teamers, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would be stating him right now. It's
Speaker 1: probably there. I'm gonna be looking into over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Greg the Red Sauce were bombed last night by the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jay's long. Normally I would be very excited
Speaker 1: about that. I am very excited about that. Why is
Speaker 1: that you don't have any Edwardo Rodriguez and right, you
Speaker 1: trade him to me? That's right? And I'm facing it. Right,
Speaker 1: you're beating me eight to one? Right? Well? Thanks? Uh
Speaker 1: and Wardo Rodriguez, that's you is gonna happen in the
Speaker 1: week we've played. It's like the way that these things were,
Speaker 1: they always work this way. Greg and I've talked about this.
Speaker 1: There are legitimately fantasy gods. I don't care what anyone says.
Speaker 1: There's such thing as fantasy karma. All the players that
Speaker 1: I basted coming into the season, Greg have owned me
Speaker 1: this year. The guys that like I talked crap about
Speaker 1: this week, they've owned me. They've owned me. And it
Speaker 1: just works out this way where if you trade with
Speaker 1: someone like I'm facing you. You traded me and Wardo Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: he sucks for me going against you. Now. I wish
Speaker 1: you know you still had the Vetta on your roster
Speaker 1: because you'd probably get called called up and throw a
Speaker 1: complete game shutout against me. That's probably what would happen.
Speaker 1: But these things exist, they do, Greg ed Wardo Rodriguez
Speaker 1: six hits, six runs, three walks, struck out five. He
Speaker 1: led three homers in his five and as of work
Speaker 1: to Rowdy tells Randall Green Chuck and another one to
Speaker 1: Rowdy tell us, Yeah, And I was watching the start.
Speaker 1: I had in Wardo and Turnbull on the laptop, and
Speaker 1: then I had Zach Wheeler on the big screen. I
Speaker 1: was like, let me watch all my pictures, and I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out last night, Greg, and and please feel
Speaker 1: free to disagree with me. When you watch your starting
Speaker 1: pictures in fantasy, they know they troll you. Man. It's like,
Speaker 1: whenever I watched one of my pictures in fantasy, they suck.
Speaker 1: It's I gotta stop doing it. And I tweeted it out.
Speaker 1: A bunch of people responded to me saying, you know,
Speaker 1: the same thing happens to me all the time. This
Speaker 1: guy said, well, I have Zach Wheel or my team.
Speaker 1: I turned on the channel. Boom. He gives up a
Speaker 1: two round homer to Brian Doser. It's like, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have turned the channel because they just know. Like when
Speaker 1: you flip to go watch your pictures pitch in fantasy,
Speaker 1: they know and they decide to suck. It's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: But for Eduardo Rodriguez, I think he has all the
Speaker 1: talent in the world, but he's just one of these
Speaker 1: guys Greg, where he's super inconsistent. I have him in
Speaker 1: two head to head leagues, and to be honest, I
Speaker 1: think that might be the worst format to own him
Speaker 1: in because he's one of these guys where he's gonna
Speaker 1: go out. His next started against Houston and he's probably
Speaker 1: going to be awesome. And if it were a one
Speaker 1: start week, I would have benched him against Houston. But
Speaker 1: that's the type of guy he is, where he can
Speaker 1: go out and on any given day he can dominate.
Speaker 1: He has the talent to do so, but he also
Speaker 1: has the talent or lack thereof, to get blown up
Speaker 1: against a team like Toronto. Greg Heading into last night,
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays were in Wolba against left handed pitching.
Speaker 1: This was a very good matchup for Eduardo Rodriguez and
Speaker 1: the and these two monster bombs that he gave up.
Speaker 1: We're against Rowdy to Lett that's lefty on lefty. It's
Speaker 1: just really really frustrating when it comes to with Wardo
Speaker 1: three walks, struggles with the walk to time, struggles with
Speaker 1: the home runs. I think he's a better picture for
Speaker 1: Rhoto because at the end of the season he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna have like a high three's e r A. But
Speaker 1: you're gonna have some really good performances in there. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have these blow ups. He's gonna give you probably
Speaker 1: a strikeout for ending and like a one two or
Speaker 1: one to five whip and it'll look all right by
Speaker 1: season's end. But week to week stats, Greg, it's just
Speaker 1: so frustrating with EDWARDO. Rodriguez. Sorry, Frank, Well, I traded him. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's okay, Yeah, I just I just gotta live. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: if you're one of these people who doesn't like living
Speaker 1: with the good and the bad and like maybe find
Speaker 1: a way to trade him. You can't trade him now,
Speaker 1: because can you. I'm not cutting him, cut him. I'm
Speaker 1: not cutting just the upside is too high. We saw
Speaker 1: it last year too. I can't come the last two
Speaker 1: starts he's a lot of eleven runs combined. Of course,
Speaker 1: two starts of sweet before that held one run combined.
Speaker 1: And that's Rodriguez. He's Eduardo Rodriguez in a nutshell. That's
Speaker 1: actually before last night, idly enough, the Red Sox had
Speaker 1: won one, two, three, four, or five seven consecutive decisions
Speaker 1: in games, some executive games in which Edward Rodriguet started like,
Speaker 1: how emotionally invested are you into your fantasy team? Because
Speaker 1: watching these pictures last night, I was like physically ill.
Speaker 1: I was so frustrated. EDWARDA. Rodrigue is cruising through like
Speaker 1: the first three or four innings, dominating Zach Wheeler, leaving
Speaker 1: him out there a little bit too long, thanks Mickey Callaway.
Speaker 1: And then I mean Spencer Turnbull. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: anytime a team struggles against the Marlins, I just want
Speaker 1: to rip my hair out, Like I was so frustrated.
Speaker 1: I I feel like I shouldn't let these things frustrate
Speaker 1: me as much as they do. Greg. What they do
Speaker 1: is that happen to you, I wouldn't say the same
Speaker 1: extent it happens to you as I said last night.
Speaker 1: I was real enjoying Barry, so that was great. I
Speaker 1: get frustrated and I make a wrong decision. I get
Speaker 1: frustrated when my players get hurt, and I get frustrated
Speaker 1: when my players get bombed, Like no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: It's like physically ill. It's certainly not now maybe like
Speaker 1: you know, I'm laying on my couch and I would
Speaker 1: just like turn over and just like bury my head
Speaker 1: into the couch and just I was so frustrated in
Speaker 1: a good mood last night. So I guess the Marlin,
Speaker 1: like the Turnbull thing against the Marlins, just like so frustrating.
Speaker 1: And again I just quit pause before you that I
Speaker 1: read you the numbers for it was a good matchup
Speaker 1: for Water Rodrigue is going up against them, Yes, it
Speaker 1: was a great matchup. What is it Water Rodriguez? So
Speaker 1: I guess I just gotta live with it. You gotta
Speaker 1: take the good with the bad. But based on what
Speaker 1: I've seen from him, I think he has talent to
Speaker 1: be much better than what he does. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's never really been able to put
Speaker 1: it all together. It's either the year he's starting to
Speaker 1: put it all together, last year he gets hurt, he
Speaker 1: always deals with injuries too, or just when you think
Speaker 1: he's about to break out this year. Look if you
Speaker 1: two really it starts in a row and then get
Speaker 1: two really bad starts in a row, especially against a
Speaker 1: team like Toronto which he's supposed to dominate. So just frustrated, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I need like a fantasy therapist or something.
Speaker 1: You want to be my guy, Gregg, there are something's
Speaker 1: going wrong with just like face time you when you
Speaker 1: calm me down, I feel like I already frank, but
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't really respond to many of my texts.
Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated. I don't want to text people back
Speaker 1: how much. I just don't want any contact with the
Speaker 1: world when these things are happening. Like, that's how frustrated
Speaker 1: I get. I would imagine it's it's probably the same
Speaker 1: way Gabe freaks out like on his get Off, Get
Speaker 1: Off My Lawn sticks when when like he loses a
Speaker 1: bet or has a bad beat. That's that's what I
Speaker 1: would imagine how I feel when I see Spencer Turnbull
Speaker 1: or Edward Rodrigue is getting roy I think I'm just
Speaker 1: more like exasperated. It's really the word for me, because
Speaker 1: there's a picture last night who's actually on your list
Speaker 1: on the pole that like exasperates the crap out of me.
Speaker 1: It's very, very frustrating. What I would like anger that
Speaker 1: throw anything. And I didn't have my head buried in
Speaker 1: the couch. I just I didn't throw anything. I'm not
Speaker 1: at that level yet. It's all this in the moment.
Speaker 1: Don't have talk about to that. Marcus Stroman s five hits,
Speaker 1: one run, walks six, strikeout four and and this is
Speaker 1: part of the issues with with Marcus Stroman too, and
Speaker 1: we've always said this Greg is that at times he
Speaker 1: walks too many batters, so for the lack of strikeouts
Speaker 1: he gets, he walks too many batters, like normally, you
Speaker 1: know a guy like Robbie Ray, like he walks the world,
Speaker 1: but he also strikes out the world, so he can
Speaker 1: kind of wiggle out of some of these problems. That's
Speaker 1: why you see, like Marcus Stroman has never really lived
Speaker 1: up to his fruition because he walks too many guys
Speaker 1: at times. And look, if you walk six batters against
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, you are so damn lucky. Tod only
Speaker 1: walk away allowing one run greg and and to be
Speaker 1: able to go six endings so only has four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is pretty much standard standard
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman. He did get nine groundball outs compared to
Speaker 1: one fly ball, so that helps at times like you
Speaker 1: can get double plays, but doesn't really have a great
Speaker 1: defense behind him there in Toronto. Still has a two
Speaker 1: point eight one year A. He's been one of the
Speaker 1: more pleasant surprises in fantasy this year, and I've always
Speaker 1: liked him. I think he has good stuff, but kind
Speaker 1: of similar to to Bower Nibbles a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: Uh goes down these rabbit holes where like you can't
Speaker 1: command his pitches and walk too many batters. So I
Speaker 1: like what I've seen thus far. I would imagine some
Speaker 1: regression is still gonna come on that two point eight
Speaker 1: one year probably close for like a mid three to
Speaker 1: hide three e r A. But he's been one of
Speaker 1: the more pleasant surprises among starting pitchers this yere in
Speaker 1: Fantasy base let's talk about more frustrating starting pitchers. And
Speaker 1: he kept saying his name, so we'll go there. It's
Speaker 1: fall Spencer Turnbull against Caleb Smith. Uh. You like the
Speaker 1: under in this game, and I had it, and I
Speaker 1: like the bull as well. The well lost as of
Speaker 1: the under. Yeah, so this was a four to two
Speaker 1: game actually heading into the ninth inning. By the way,
Speaker 1: we'll do the best best forever a little bit later on,
Speaker 1: as we always do. But one on the side that
Speaker 1: I also like, and I want to meagine because the
Speaker 1: games starts at one ten pm from time, it is
Speaker 1: the under in the Indians and Athletics game. Frankie Montas
Speaker 1: and ye Free Rodriguez. Nine and a half is the
Speaker 1: total here. Both those guys picture well enough that game.
Speaker 1: He's going under Chris Davids in the lineup as well.
Speaker 1: We like the under there, so make that bad if
Speaker 1: you can't. We're doing pretty well here, so under nine
Speaker 1: and a half in the A's and the Indians that
Speaker 1: game first pitch schedule over one ten. Yeah, technically combined,
Speaker 1: we're four and two over the past two days, but
Speaker 1: two and oh, well two and one. But yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: We're doing what we're we're doing well. We'll keep track
Speaker 1: of this and see what happens. But I do like
Speaker 1: that call as well. So heading into the ninth ending, Greg,
Speaker 1: the Marlins were up four to two and thanks to
Speaker 1: some over in the total was seven or seven a
Speaker 1: half and half, so they were they were room spare
Speaker 1: and Sergio Romo came in and thanks to some bad
Speaker 1: defense behind him a few walks there was a challenge.
Speaker 1: There was a fielder's choice error, like Miguel Cabrat hits
Speaker 1: an RBI single, makes it four to three, and at
Speaker 1: this point it's first and third and Ryan Rodriguez with
Speaker 1: one out, it's a sacrifice fly at four to four.
Speaker 1: So they look good at the underlook good heading into
Speaker 1: this ending, but look at Sergio Romo. So I actually
Speaker 1: should have factored that in a little bit more when
Speaker 1: I was talking about that, but overall watching Spencer Turnbull,
Speaker 1: I know, look, the numbers are still two point six
Speaker 1: eight e r A. That's fine. Like, and I included
Speaker 1: him in the poll and someone called me out and said, well,
Speaker 1: there was no expectation on Spencer Turnbull coming into the season.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be lumped in with all these other guys.
Speaker 1: I can understand that. That's fine. I was just kind
Speaker 1: of lumping together pictures who pitched last night because we
Speaker 1: were going to talk about them today obviously. But he
Speaker 1: just had nothing. He had nothing like the guy throws
Speaker 1: he's got pretty good like vertically breaking slider um and
Speaker 1: he just didn't have any like, he didn't have any command.
Speaker 1: There were so many like three ball accounts like he
Speaker 1: fell behind, and every time he would fall behind, the
Speaker 1: Marlins pitchers just knew that a fastball was coming, and
Speaker 1: Harold Ramirez hit a line drive homer off of them,
Speaker 1: and they were just hitting them all night. Seven hits
Speaker 1: and five innings, two walks, So nine hits and walks
Speaker 1: combined over five innings. The whip wasn't good. They didn't
Speaker 1: get a ton of swings and mrs either. You could
Speaker 1: tell the Marlins knew that they wanted to be patient
Speaker 1: against Turnbull here in this start, and it worked out
Speaker 1: well against him. It's really really good, frustrating. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. Who's the player
Speaker 1: that frustrated me more than anybody last night? We'll let
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Speaker 1: Frankie Staffle all hanging out here with you on a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and you got frustrated by the bull You were upset,
Speaker 1: You were grossly disappointed with what Edward or Rodriguez did yesterday.
Speaker 1: But for me, the most frustrating guy as he has
Speaker 1: been from much of this year and once again was yesterday.
Speaker 1: That was your boy, Chris Archer. Archer is not been
Speaker 1: the same since coming off the I L and really
Speaker 1: hasn't been all that good to begin with. He pitched
Speaker 1: five innings yesterday, a lot of six hits, four runs,
Speaker 1: only three of them were earned ninks to a Frankie
Speaker 1: Savelli er he walked to. He only struck out three,
Speaker 1: throwing ninety two pitches in his five innings. I recognized
Speaker 1: he faced the Rockies. With the Rockies away from corpse
Speaker 1: Field or an entirely different team than they are at home,
Speaker 1: Archer has been mind bogging, bogging Lee terrible for the
Speaker 1: most part this year. Frank is there any hope. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Well, honestly, I do have my concerns Greg,
Speaker 1: because I wanted to jump in on Archer. I've we've
Speaker 1: always thought that he's a talented pitcher. The past couple
Speaker 1: of years, I thought that he was being overvalued. He's
Speaker 1: had an ear ray over four for three straight seasons.
Speaker 1: This year he stands at five point five five. And
Speaker 1: I just like the discount that we were getting on
Speaker 1: him this year and the fact that he pitched in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and it's a pretty good ballpark to pitch in
Speaker 1: and he still gives you a strike out for ending,
Speaker 1: but the underlying numbers great. I mean, you might want
Speaker 1: to you might want to hold your ears. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to listen to this.
Speaker 1: Because a forty one point six percent hard hit rate
Speaker 1: against him the past two years, that's been thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent exactly, So he's got some Robbie Ray and him.
Speaker 1: He basically falls behind an account, has to throw the
Speaker 1: ball over the plate. It's no what's coming. Because he's
Speaker 1: basically a fastball slider pitcher doesn't really utilize his changeaball
Speaker 1: that much, and he becomes predictable, and they are squaring
Speaker 1: him up. They hit the ball hard against him. This year,
Speaker 1: uh much different than years past. Normally, this guy is
Speaker 1: a forty five percent groundball rate guy. This year it's
Speaker 1: thirty two percent. He's allowing fly balls forty seven percent
Speaker 1: of the time. You about that with the fact that
Speaker 1: he's giving up as much hard contact as he is
Speaker 1: and his walks per nine four point five four not good.
Speaker 1: So we talked about this being a recipe for disaster
Speaker 1: when it came to Trevor Bower. The guy is walking
Speaker 1: a ton of batters, giving up a ton of fly balls,
Speaker 1: and he's giving up hard contact. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: not a good combination of things going on right now
Speaker 1: for Chris Archer. And on top of all of that,
Speaker 1: Greg his fastball velocity is down. Last year it was
Speaker 1: four point seven point five last year nine point seven,
Speaker 1: this year nine point two. I wanted to take a
Speaker 1: bite at the apple that is Chris Archer. I've never
Speaker 1: owned him before. We had Nick Pollock on. He was
Speaker 1: basically begging me like, don't do it. I've done this before,
Speaker 1: don't do the Chris Archer thing. And now I'm learning
Speaker 1: firsthand why you don't do the Chris Archer thing. He's
Speaker 1: just so far from the picture he was early on
Speaker 1: in his career where he was so dominant. Greg. I
Speaker 1: think it's his inability to develop that changeup, develop a
Speaker 1: third pitch, change up, his arsenal um, being able to
Speaker 1: command his pitches. It's just a culmination of things, and
Speaker 1: he just ultimately doesn't look right right now. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: still dealing with an injury. But you can't start Chris
Speaker 1: Archer right now. You can't start him. He's got to
Speaker 1: be on your bench. I don't know that I would
Speaker 1: go as far as to say I would drop him.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't drop him, but you can't start him right now.
Speaker 1: He's got to be on your bench, Greig, who would
Speaker 1: you rather? Would you? Would you? Oh? What a Rodrigue
Speaker 1: is a Chris Archer? Oh gosh? Death is not an option, No, sir,
Speaker 1: I give you the bulls an option if you want it.
Speaker 1: No thanks. I would take a Ward Rodriguez, But who
Speaker 1: would you have warning signs with both? Who would you
Speaker 1: rather have Edrdar Rodriguez or not? Strump? Oh man, I
Speaker 1: would would still take it, Awardo. I would take match
Speaker 1: Strom well, Greggy, is this is this Josh Bell all
Speaker 1: over again. I could see that. I had to think
Speaker 1: about it for a second, because you're tak a couple
Speaker 1: of seconds there. I mean, you're you're dropping. You'd be
Speaker 1: choosing a guy who's inconsistent, who has upside over a
Speaker 1: guy who has performed thus far and Matt strong. But
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers say that there's gonna be some regression
Speaker 1: coming and he doesn't get that many strikeouts as well. Ah,
Speaker 1: it is close, it is close. I would I would
Speaker 1: still take a Wardo Rodriguez. I guess I'm like the
Speaker 1: Iran apologist. I don't I don't know how this became
Speaker 1: a thing. I you know, Florio hand me the mantle
Speaker 1: of being the Edwardo Rodriguez apologist. And that's where I
Speaker 1: am at. Right, what are you gonna do with Archer?
Speaker 1: Greg You're gonna drop him? I know you have them
Speaker 1: in a few spots. Do have them in a few spots.
Speaker 1: It's very frustrating. Um, I don't want to drop him. Well,
Speaker 1: it's the old question of fantasy. Is he going to
Speaker 1: be added right away? And the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 1: I try to sell him low, just try and get
Speaker 1: something for him. Because like, if you think this is
Speaker 1: going to get potentially worse, or this is just the
Speaker 1: picture that Archer is for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: then you might want to just try and sell him
Speaker 1: and get anything for him while you can. I understand
Speaker 1: your logic and doing that, But he's gotta get better
Speaker 1: than this canny, doesn't he unless he's dealing with some
Speaker 1: underlying issue that we had that and that that might
Speaker 1: be it. I mean that that could easily be enough.
Speaker 1: I remember when we spoke to dr he said, I
Speaker 1: mean this could very easily be something that lingers with
Speaker 1: Archer for the rest of the season. I mean it
Speaker 1: might be contributing to his drop in velocity, to an
Speaker 1: issue with your thumb. I mean, you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to grip the ball obviously. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: look at the past two stars since he came off
Speaker 1: the ive been awful, you know, just just just just
Speaker 1: awful of the start right before we heard himself. Do
Speaker 1: you think someone would give you Matt Strong for him
Speaker 1: right now? I can actually make that offer in a
Speaker 1: league obviously. Well, I mean you just say that you'd
Speaker 1: rather have from than EDWARDO. Would you rather have him
Speaker 1: over Archer? I think you could make make the case
Speaker 1: for it. Of course I could. It sucks because everything
Speaker 1: that Archer is doing and struggling with his real and
Speaker 1: you you lead out the numbers a few moments ago,
Speaker 1: there are no signs where he's gonna turn it around.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is three years of him not being good. Now, Greg, like,
Speaker 1: we have enough data. I'm staring at it. He's he's
Speaker 1: the reverse Marco Estrada, Marco Astrata, always someone who outpitched
Speaker 1: his peripherals. Every year you look at Chris Archer, he's
Speaker 1: got like the sub three five, you know, fhip and fit.
Speaker 1: You're expecting all these things to happen. But this year,
Speaker 1: I mean he's up over five. And the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: with him are also very, very bad. The walks are
Speaker 1: just ridiculous, and that might go back to him not
Speaker 1: being able to grip the ball. Greg, and he if
Speaker 1: he has any trouble gripping the ball. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is someone who never really had great man to begin with.
Speaker 1: He's always struggled with commanding his fastball and manning his
Speaker 1: breaking pitches and throwing his slider for strikes and being
Speaker 1: able to use a third pitch in his changeup, and
Speaker 1: if he's having trouble gripping the ball, imagine how much trouble,
Speaker 1: how much more trouble he's having commanding his pitches than
Speaker 1: he normally does someone who already struggles with command. I
Speaker 1: want to look into a few pictures here. Do you think, like,
Speaker 1: would you rather have one of these starting pitchers who
Speaker 1: have been waiver wire pickups this year? Greg? We're performing well,
Speaker 1: and do you think is it even realistic to make
Speaker 1: a trade like that? Like if you offered Chris Archer
Speaker 1: from Martin Perez right now? Do you think you can
Speaker 1: get Martin Perez? I do? I do? Yes, I think
Speaker 1: we can both much rather have Martine Perez right now
Speaker 1: than Chris Archer. Absolutely rather have Martine perezienters Archer. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like you have to send out some offers
Speaker 1: right now. Frankie Mantas, do you think you get Montas?
Speaker 1: I don't think you can. I think people who have
Speaker 1: Montas really like yeh, I'm scrolling down the list here.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't do it for Wade Miley, would you, Greg?
Speaker 1: I mean you're a Wade Miley guys, But do you
Speaker 1: think but like Wade Miley, there's no luster at all?
Speaker 1: Should you Brad Peacock? I mean, it's a good conversation
Speaker 1: at Peacock the numbers right now, he's not getting as
Speaker 1: many swinging strikes this year. You've got a three five
Speaker 1: nine ear a one point zero five whip. He's been
Speaker 1: pretty good. It just doesn't go deep into games. Do
Speaker 1: you play with quality starts in ear league? Well, you
Speaker 1: know Brad Peacocks very rarely. Well, neither neither. It's Chris
Speaker 1: Archer for that matter. I probably would rather have Brad
Speaker 1: Peacock than Chris Archer? Who else is in this range?
Speaker 1: Would you? Would you rather have gee Leto? Greg? Is
Speaker 1: that crazy? Is that too far down? Rean Gleedo is
Speaker 1: a three year rade right now and he's doing some
Speaker 1: nice things today. We talked about g Leto all the time. Now, now,
Speaker 1: are are you getting to the point where you're selling
Speaker 1: Chris Archer too low? We get the numbers for Gileto three,
Speaker 1: three five year, ray To seven xfit, but ten case
Speaker 1: per nine this year the career high swinging strike rade.
Speaker 1: You'd rather have Geleto? I think I think this is
Speaker 1: why I get this thumb issue. Might burn you name it?
Speaker 1: All these guys and I understand they're all own Mantas
Speaker 1: and Gedo and strong, right, I get it. I know
Speaker 1: exactly where you're going. They're all owned. Why aren't we
Speaker 1: dropping him? Why are we dropping him? And I know
Speaker 1: your answer was gonna be who are you dropping before? Right?
Speaker 1: So there's nothing out there I'm gonna tell you right
Speaker 1: now is the pictures of my waibor wire like we
Speaker 1: we had that, We had that stretch where it was
Speaker 1: every week we had pictures. We were enticed with Greg,
Speaker 1: it was Martine Perezi. It was turrible. We had all
Speaker 1: these guys, but they're owned now, agreed. So let me
Speaker 1: give you the guys are out there in my league
Speaker 1: the week I owned Chris, our turn to lead my
Speaker 1: whole league. I'll tell you the pictures that are out there.
Speaker 1: You let me know, ready, I got I got a
Speaker 1: good one for you, really good one ready, yep, Tyler Molly,
Speaker 1: Well you said you had a good one. It's a
Speaker 1: good one. That is that is a good one. And
Speaker 1: and all the underlying numbers for Tyler Mallley are look good.
Speaker 1: And he's he's doing things differently this year. I would
Speaker 1: I would do that. I would do it so hard
Speaker 1: I would, And you know, Tyler Mallley faces faces the
Speaker 1: Cubs this week, I wouldn't want to start him for that,
Speaker 1: But he gets the Pirates after that, and they's the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and shut out. I'm not scared of. The Cubs
Speaker 1: are really good against right handed pitching, though Greg Dodges.
Speaker 1: They have a three forty one wOBA the Cubs do
Speaker 1: against right handed pitching um and a really high walk
Speaker 1: rate as well, so they're just really patient. It's just
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare matchup going up against the Cubs. Even
Speaker 1: if I had Tyler Mallley on my team on my
Speaker 1: bench and he pitched well against the Cubs, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be mad at myself for benching him there. But next
Speaker 1: week I've already started looking into next week because in
Speaker 1: one of my home leagues, I'm getting destroyed, so it's
Speaker 1: onto the next week. I'm already looking at that. He
Speaker 1: faces the Pirates, and I like that matchup a lot.
Speaker 1: But is there more trade value for archer can archers
Speaker 1: for someone who's better than Malley? I like to but
Speaker 1: those pictures that I just brought up, are they better
Speaker 1: than Tyler Malley. I've been really good as well. I
Speaker 1: think they're all. I think he's in that mix. Is
Speaker 1: that reasonable? Yeah? Okay, the other name on here. That's
Speaker 1: what you can argue based on the numbers, that Tyler
Speaker 1: Mallley is better than I mean, they both pitch in
Speaker 1: not great ballparks. Chris Archer hasn't even faced the Brewers
Speaker 1: yet this year. I don't, and they play in the
Speaker 1: same division. This is not going to get much better.
Speaker 1: I gotta trade this guy. He's facing Louis Cincinnatia. But
Speaker 1: you're you just have to know that you're trading him
Speaker 1: low right now. I understand, But like, there's nothing that
Speaker 1: makes me things gonna turn around at all. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I have to agree with you. I think this thumb
Speaker 1: issue might be more than they're leading on. I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't really seen any updates or any pirates Beat
Speaker 1: reporters talking about this being an issue, but I think
Speaker 1: it might and and how can it be, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, your thumb is such a pivotal part of
Speaker 1: of pitching and being able to grip a baseball. How
Speaker 1: can it not be an issue at this point? Greg,
Speaker 1: I I would rather own Tyler mally I mean, at
Speaker 1: least for the short term future. I mean take a
Speaker 1: shot on everything that he's doing right now. Would you
Speaker 1: rather than Michael Panto or Chris Archer. I'm not No,
Speaker 1: that's not going there, not not going that far down. Um,
Speaker 1: Trevor Richards not a good picture. I'd rather own. I
Speaker 1: would rather own as a two star week next week
Speaker 1: against San Francisco and San Diego. It's good. I believe
Speaker 1: both are in Marlins Park and the rock Christ Archer
Speaker 1: for that, I don't think I would. I've already started
Speaker 1: looking into like two star pitchers for next week or
Speaker 1: projected one. Yeah, I'm getting crushed. Michael Waka not doing that,
Speaker 1: he sucks. The next man up that I was looking
Speaker 1: at was Trevor Richards at home versus San Francisco and
Speaker 1: at San Diego. So it's one at home and one
Speaker 1: on the road. Not really all that scared about those
Speaker 1: two matchups either. He's probably the guy like Jeffrey Rodriguez
Speaker 1: is out there. But one good match up against Chicago
Speaker 1: White Sox. One start against Boston, so I don't love that.
Speaker 1: How about Lance Lynn Greg pitching well Man? No? Really, well,
Speaker 1: actually we got the last three stars seven innings. I
Speaker 1: mean he's gone seven four out of his last five starts,
Speaker 1: Greg get eleven strikeouts. Yesterday, the ear A stands at
Speaker 1: four six seven because he had to start where he
Speaker 1: allowed eight earned runs. He had to start with he
Speaker 1: allowed seven heard runs. He hatt to start with he
Speaker 1: allowed five earned runs. I mean, lance Lynn has it
Speaker 1: Wardo Rodriguez written all over him, Like this is one
Speaker 1: of those guys where you'll throw him out there in
Speaker 1: the toughest matchup and he'll perform like look at three
Speaker 1: start to go at Houston, seven innings, three earned run,
Speaker 1: a trikes. That's really good against a good lineup in Houston.
Speaker 1: And then he's gonna have these, you know, at home
Speaker 1: against Toronto six innings, five earned runs, five walks. The
Speaker 1: lance Lynn, I mean, he has a lot of it
Speaker 1: Wardo Rodriguez, but he's also a two star pitcher. Next
Speaker 1: week Greg at Seattle, who he just dominated last night,
Speaker 1: and against Kansas City, who he also just dominated. What
Speaker 1: we said in the past is yeah, I mean, the
Speaker 1: more times you see a picture, the more time it
Speaker 1: favors the offense. So I mean, if you like, would
Speaker 1: you to have Trevor Richards in those good matches in
Speaker 1: the two star week grad greg Or lance Lynn at Seattle,
Speaker 1: which is a good park to pitching, and at home
Speaker 1: in Arlington against Kansas City. It's the last Lynn over
Speaker 1: Trevor Richards, I think, but neither make you feel no.
Speaker 1: Would you drop Chris Archer for Lancelin right now? But
Speaker 1: I should? I should, Like you're just never gonna feel
Speaker 1: good about putting Lancelin in your lineup. That's what it
Speaker 1: comes to. Never never got what more name for you
Speaker 1: before you move back on? Ronaldo Lopez dropped Chris Arger
Speaker 1: Ronald the lopus. It's also a good one. Ronaldo Lopez
Speaker 1: has been pitching pretty damn good his past couple of starts.
Speaker 1: You know, I say that, Gregor say he's pitching well.
Speaker 1: Still has a five point one four e ar a
Speaker 1: right now, but six of his last seven having quality starts. Frank,
Speaker 1: how is this a race so high? Then? I mean
Speaker 1: he really got yeah, six of his last seven stuff
Speaker 1: and walking fewer batters this last couple of starts. But also,
Speaker 1: you know, four of his last five starts in his
Speaker 1: face has been I mean, I mean go even further.
Speaker 1: Five of his last six starts Cleveland one against Toronto.
Speaker 1: So he's really he's a bottom feeder, right now, that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. I wouldn't I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: I probably I probably would feel better about Ronaldo Lopez
Speaker 1: in my lineup right now, and I would Chris Archer,
Speaker 1: but he's really just been feeding off some of these
Speaker 1: these bottom dwelling teams in baseball, So I wouldn't go
Speaker 1: that far. I think that's probably cut off. Tyler Mallley
Speaker 1: is probably cut off. Tyler Malley is the cut off
Speaker 1: for us. The question is are you going to do it?
Speaker 1: I'm considering. I would probably throw some trade offers out
Speaker 1: there first, but it's hardly if anyone. It's hard not
Speaker 1: by the weekend. I probably it's hard to do it
Speaker 1: for for hitting, for pitching. Straight up, I did it
Speaker 1: for a hitter. I probably have better chance to getting
Speaker 1: somebody because people are always chasing picture. But again, you
Speaker 1: can get one of those pictures who so maybe they're
Speaker 1: overperforming right now and people don't trust it kind of
Speaker 1: see the name value of like a Chris Archer might
Speaker 1: be able to pull it off. I think it obviously
Speaker 1: just depends on the owner that you do with. I
Speaker 1: was like a break. We'll go back into last night's
Speaker 1: baseball next