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Speaker 1: the Closer, what's up, guys? How you doing? It's your
Speaker 1: boy Chris Venture the Closer here and uh, I'm ready
Speaker 1: for week three of baseball. Week three or that's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to three and a half three? Week three?
Speaker 1: What did you? What do you think of Thrones? Last night?
Speaker 1: I was advertising it as week four on my Thrones,
Speaker 1: so I thought it was good, but like, um, I
Speaker 1: feel like they could do more, you know what I
Speaker 1: mean there's only six episodes and they're an hour long.
Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna be an hour and a
Speaker 1: half long each one. The first two are last night's
Speaker 1: was fifty three, next week is fifty eight, and then
Speaker 1: each one after that is at least eighty minutes long.
Speaker 1: So the final four, well, one of them might be
Speaker 1: like seventy eight, Like one of them is eighty one
Speaker 1: of them seventy eight. One of them is closer to
Speaker 1: ninety minutes. But the final four are definitely right around
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty minutes or an hour and twenty
Speaker 1: minutes rather Yeah, because you know, I'm saying someone said
Speaker 1: I forgot who it was, Um might have been on
Speaker 1: our show. I was watching that. Most of the season
Speaker 1: is like war last night. It wasn't last night, zero war,
Speaker 1: zero war last night. I'm thinking episode two will be
Speaker 1: like the same. Maybe it'll start at the end, probably
Speaker 1: not like I'm saying, it won't be a war. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, they got it. I agree with you, though,
Speaker 1: there's so there's so so much going to in this
Speaker 1: final season that they got to start to pick it
Speaker 1: up a little bit and then they will. I agree
Speaker 1: with Greg that this was mostly a set up episode.
Speaker 1: I love the line from from Brand at the end,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for an old friend. You're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: is he talking about Sam? You know Sam shows up
Speaker 1: and he wasn't. No, he's waiting for his I wasn't
Speaker 1: actually shoot you know why. I don't know why. It
Speaker 1: didn't hit me exactly he was waiting for immediately. It
Speaker 1: didn't hit me either right away. But like you knew
Speaker 1: Jamie was going there. He just I forgot what well,
Speaker 1: because that was always solve in the entire episode. It's
Speaker 1: not like we saw him traveling well. He saw in
Speaker 1: the in the final, in the in the Coming Attractions, yeah,
Speaker 1: last season, previously, the previously on as well, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna go to trial. It looks like, well, I mean
Speaker 1: they're not. He's not just walking a winner fell and
Speaker 1: the like, hey everybody are you here? They're not gonna
Speaker 1: be like actually, because he like killed the Narist Gargarian's father, right,
Speaker 1: it was crazy and Tyrian's gonna back him up on
Speaker 1: that one and say that he was crazy and he
Speaker 1: saved a ton of people's lives because of that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's Brianno's gonna speak up for Yeah, It's very interesting
Speaker 1: back and forth here because who don't like him, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who will also defend him
Speaker 1: that and he's just gonna be like he listen, He'll
Speaker 1: probably just be like, listen, you can kill the afterwards.
Speaker 1: Weut here to fight. I'm here to help your side. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He'll end up getting through the trial obviously, of course,
Speaker 1: and then he'll wonder he'll kill him. I wonder if
Speaker 1: he'll even die. He's my first pick, so he'd better die.
Speaker 1: Why do you think he'll die? He's gonna die. Why
Speaker 1: he's there's no reason to live. I'm sure he does. Why.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very emotion I was gonna say he's
Speaker 1: probably the best fighter on the planet, but he's not
Speaker 1: anymore with his golden hand. Um, very bad. What he
Speaker 1: like mediocre? Now, yeah, you know what it's You know,
Speaker 1: it's really pumps about last night, by the way, he's
Speaker 1: like that, after that, after that scene with Cerstial, but good,
Speaker 1: after that scene with Cercy, like, now I know Bron's
Speaker 1: gonna die. So that was good. That was helpful, and
Speaker 1: you know, like she sent him off to go kill
Speaker 1: now I know he's gonna die. He might not even
Speaker 1: do it. He might not decide to go kill them.
Speaker 1: Well he'll he'll die in the matter. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: just like go off behavy. You have him right now.
Speaker 1: Oh nice that we did a pool last night in
Speaker 1: my house. Nice where there was like twenty names. You
Speaker 1: have to choose whether or not they by the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Are they alive, are they dead? Or
Speaker 1: do they turn into a white walker. I had two
Speaker 1: picks to turn into a white walker. Um. I felt
Speaker 1: really good about it last night. I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna happen right then and there. I had tormented turning
Speaker 1: into a white walker. White walker. Yeah, but the blue
Speaker 1: h was funny. I thought this afterwards, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: really make a lot of sense, But I chose the
Speaker 1: mountains somehow toose guys that are more in the north,
Speaker 1: like gray Worm, Like maybe there's a chance he turns.
Speaker 1: But I just felt like if the night King ends
Speaker 1: up killing people in King's Landing, if he gets that far,
Speaker 1: he might be like, oh, I see this big guy,
Speaker 1: let me turn him into a white walker. Kind of
Speaker 1: That's why I'd be sick. He's calling white worm white worm.
Speaker 1: Really no worm. If you know what I'm saying, wow,
Speaker 1: atom great worms. Great worm has a girlfriend. Can't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. Yeah, they just to cuddle with each other.
Speaker 1: It's a good time for her. I guess not so
Speaker 1: much for him. It would be you know, he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They rubbed each other, that's what they do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The conversation, the conversations in Various and Interior was nice.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Yeah, that was great. That was cool.
Speaker 1: And Dovos getting in the mix. That was seaworth in
Speaker 1: the mix. Yeah. I like that everybody's getting together. Man like.
Speaker 1: He always has the funniest moments of Tyrian Wore always
Speaker 1: had the funniest moments man like. The blue eyes thing
Speaker 1: was great. I've always had blue eyes. That was great
Speaker 1: last season. Any dialogue that he has with the Stone
Speaker 1: was just gold. It's gold, it is. That's awesome. And
Speaker 1: that he loves Brianne. He does love Brianne months. Let's
Speaker 1: look at your boy. Let's start there, Chris. Are we
Speaker 1: talking about your boy? Your boy? I have a lot
Speaker 1: of boys. Your boy from yesterday by the main boy.
Speaker 1: This is the guy, the ripping, ripping. I'm from from
Speaker 1: the Mound, Chris Oh from the Mound, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: I got you ready now, yeah, I'm ready, all right.
Speaker 1: Harmon Marquez was ridiculous, would have been perfect for a
Speaker 1: while if it wasn't for a hit batter had a
Speaker 1: no hitter for a while. But he was amazing facing
Speaker 1: the Giants, which is again what enjoy what I have?
Speaker 1: It is Harmon Marquez. And I ask you, Chris, because
Speaker 1: you're the Marquees guy, the perfect sell high candidate. Right now,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Um, I don't know if i'd
Speaker 1: sell him. Oh, it depends on what I would get,
Speaker 1: right so you know, if I'm getting like a possibly
Speaker 1: elite pitcher, yes, but otherwise no, I think he's somewhat
Speaker 1: for real. You know, obviously it's against the Giants, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have his downs, but I think for the most part,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a good start out of him, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, three out of four games, you'll get a
Speaker 1: good start. I think obviously, like he's someone for real.
Speaker 1: We've seen it last year. We've seen enough like what
Speaker 1: we're seeing is is true. But Franky, given the three
Speaker 1: of the store four stars, four stars, excuse me, or
Speaker 1: against the Giants, given he plays a course field for
Speaker 1: the majority of his games. Theoretically, isn't this the perfect
Speaker 1: opportunity you can get for her mom Marquez? Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: But I feel like a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 1: be onto it, like they're gonna know what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do. Obviously, look we're not hiding it. Nine shutout,
Speaker 1: any sisterday he goes to complete game, shutout, one hit
Speaker 1: you mentioned it hit better, nine strikeouts. He was awesome.
Speaker 1: The underlying numbers also really really good for her Man
Speaker 1: Marquees and I've been very critical of him, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to continue to be critical of him. And it's
Speaker 1: not because of him, it's because of where he pitches
Speaker 1: in Coors Field in Colorado. Three out of four of
Speaker 1: it starts have been on the road. He's had some
Speaker 1: good matchups already. He faced the Giants, he faced Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: which was okay, but the swinging strike Cree is abovely
Speaker 1: gaverage first pitch strike percentage. I love that he's getting
Speaker 1: people to chase pitches out of his strike zone thirty
Speaker 1: three point seven percent at a time. That's up three
Speaker 1: percent from last year. There's a lot to like. I
Speaker 1: think he's probably closer to his peripheral numbers, Greg the
Speaker 1: fit has met three point six three the x fit
Speaker 1: hast point four or nine. But if you can get
Speaker 1: a three six, three five or three six e r
Speaker 1: a out of her man marquees for from where he
Speaker 1: was going as your you know your sp three strike
Speaker 1: out her ending picture like that with you know a
Speaker 1: decent wit, maybe you know one point to something a
Speaker 1: little bit lower than that. I think you would take that,
Speaker 1: you would take the problem is you're gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot of good with a lot of bad. Be hard
Speaker 1: to trust him in Colorado, but yesterday he dominates the giants.
Speaker 1: That game was in San Francisco. I have a question. Okay,
Speaker 1: all we overraging is Colorado think because let's think about
Speaker 1: the past, right, No Colorado before the fet think about this, Okay,
Speaker 1: her mama has Kyle Freeland and John Gray, especially Marks
Speaker 1: and Freeland haven't been there very long before that, before
Speaker 1: these three guys came. Who were there pictures? Aaron Cook, uh,
Speaker 1: Mike Hampton. These are the best pictures ever first times?
Speaker 1: Yeah he did that? Was it because he was a
Speaker 1: big time K picture at the time. I think you've
Speaker 1: gotta be a K picture to survive there or a
Speaker 1: groundball pictures like Aaron Cook. Yeah, I love how you do.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Cook is Aaron Cook was actually a good
Speaker 1: one of the best pictures Colorado in the past before
Speaker 1: this era, was one of their best pictures in the past,
Speaker 1: like fifteen years. Think about it. Colorado never has good
Speaker 1: pictures never. I think maybe then, But I think they
Speaker 1: have good pictures because it's a possible pitch there. I
Speaker 1: think it's more that the product of the talent that's
Speaker 1: come through there hasn't been great, and now it's better.
Speaker 1: Looks awful. He's had a couple of decent years talking
Speaker 1: about but I understand he was their ace, like three
Speaker 1: marcz has he has eight case per nine so far
Speaker 1: this year. He's got near groundball rate. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you on that. But the one start that he
Speaker 1: pitched in corps Field, you didn't do well. So it's
Speaker 1: and there's people there's people on Twitter doing Victory's labs.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, look, look how good her Marquez is.
Speaker 1: Of course they are like, okay, was there a chance
Speaker 1: to start have been on the road, Like, let's be
Speaker 1: serious with ourselves here, guys and giants, would you trade
Speaker 1: here we go right now? Would you trade her mom
Speaker 1: Marquez for Zach Wheeler, I would. Well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: very high on Zach. I'm looking at my starting pitcher
Speaker 1: rankings coming into the year I had him. I had
Speaker 1: Wheeler sp four teams. I understand it means nothing to
Speaker 1: me now. But he pitched really well that last which
Speaker 1: was important, Okay, I was which really well? Which five
Speaker 1: walked a bunch of guys who they playing in UM Bravos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, good, pretty line up. Yeah, he's fine.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. I worry about him this
Speaker 1: week too, And I spoke to this, I spoke to
Speaker 1: Greg about this downstairs. He's going up against the Phillies
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. There are a few spots that to me
Speaker 1: are almost near you have to bench this guy, and
Speaker 1: in Corps and in Philadelphia I think are pretty much
Speaker 1: too as as close to UM must bench as possible.
Speaker 1: And he's been walking a lot of guys, and Phillies
Speaker 1: have a ton of guys who love to walk to
Speaker 1: and are very patient. So I will say that I
Speaker 1: would be Zach Wheeler this week overall. If I could
Speaker 1: trade Marquez for Wheeler, I would Fast forward. Three days later,
Speaker 1: he started Zach Wheeler. I ben worry about it, like
Speaker 1: I did it very hesitantly. Yeah, I mean, well, if
Speaker 1: you obviously don't have a much better option or two
Speaker 1: start guy. Now, I got a lot of two star
Speaker 1: guys this week. That's why I'm benching him. But um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I do that trade.
Speaker 1: The thing I think is gonna keep Marquez relevant no
Speaker 1: matter what is the case, He's always gonna have I
Speaker 1: think hi k rate. So I think that's just gonna
Speaker 1: keep him, you know, as a guy that gets you
Speaker 1: a lot of points, especially in points leagues. You know,
Speaker 1: points leagues that means a lot. Pitching deep into games
Speaker 1: means a lot. So I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I trade him for a Wheeler. I'm on the
Speaker 1: fence about that. That's a a good question. So I
Speaker 1: would say, I don't know right now. But I mean
Speaker 1: he is definitely a great sell high guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's run down the list a little bit more here, Greedy,
Speaker 1: would you do it for Jack Flaherty? Absolutely? I do.
Speaker 1: I want Jack Flaherty. I want I want the Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty side. Venture. Yeah, maybe I'd be on the Flaherty
Speaker 1: side for that. What about Jamison Tyowne. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: dominant by any means to start to you, I don't
Speaker 1: know I would I would rather have I have Tywne.
Speaker 1: I agree pitching in Pittsburgh I looked at and A
Speaker 1: Central is no cake walk, but they're safe and argue
Speaker 1: that pitching in Pittsburgh is much better than course. I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think like Tyrone and Um and
Speaker 1: Flaherty are safer being more consistent, Like Marquez, Mike is
Speaker 1: gonna get shelled once in a while. It's gonna happen
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Strossburg, Marquez or Strossberg. I think I think
Speaker 1: i'd still I would trade him for for Strousberg. I
Speaker 1: think I would take Strousberg, Marqueza, Strassburg. That's very close
Speaker 1: for me, very close for me, Eleen Mark Kez. Really
Speaker 1: that's very close. Yeah, I agree with you that it
Speaker 1: is very very close. I just there's injury concerned obviously
Speaker 1: with Strossberg. Yeah, it is close. I think I'm with you, though,
Speaker 1: I think I would take Marquez too. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of good from mar kids is gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of bad. M Yeah, Like that's the range
Speaker 1: that we're in, so he's he's the top twenty five
Speaker 1: starting picture Greg basically like the way we're talking about him,
Speaker 1: he which I think makes sense. Right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's you know again, that's right around where I had
Speaker 1: him rank coming year. I had him twenty second starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of players who were drafted in
Speaker 1: that range who are not performing very well to start
Speaker 1: the year. Miles Mikoloss has not been great. Tanaka was
Speaker 1: great until yesterday kind of got killed by a wall
Speaker 1: scraping Grand Slam, which was very annoying. It very bad.
Speaker 1: Luis Castieler, I'd rather have cast you obviously than than Marquez.
Speaker 1: But I see some parallels there, and you know what,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pigeon that hasn't been good. Greg.
Speaker 1: How about this? How about Mustax? More amazing? I'd rather
Speaker 1: have Marquez. Yeah, like I think there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more upside. Yeah, Muscrop has been awesome, has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: Paxston has been real bad. Oh my god, it's been
Speaker 1: so awful. So that's a guy, would you I would
Speaker 1: rather have Marks? Yeah? At this point? Is that crazy?
Speaker 1: It's a little reaction, very much reaction at but I
Speaker 1: mean what I would rather have. What has Paxston really
Speaker 1: proven so besides what he did last year, you know
Speaker 1: what the year before that it was really good too.
Speaker 1: I mean we have a sample now of the past
Speaker 1: two or three years of Paxson of him being an
Speaker 1: elite strikeout picture strikeout talking like eleven twelve case per nine.
Speaker 1: That's even better than Marquees, a lot better than Markets.
Speaker 1: Markets is still the strikeout stuff there with the strikeouts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is, But I mean as good as he is,
Speaker 1: Paxson is better. Paxson is better. So but I would
Speaker 1: think Marks goes deeper into games. He had a tough
Speaker 1: start against the Astros. The Astros are you know, gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough start for everyone, And they were talking
Speaker 1: about him yesterday on the Yankees broadcast that he was
Speaker 1: tipping pitches in his last started. That's something that he's
Speaker 1: working on to to try and remedy that. So I
Speaker 1: think better days are coming for Paxson. Yeah. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people weren't on packs and coming into
Speaker 1: the year because they're worried about the home runs in
Speaker 1: in Yankee Stadium. But you worry mostly about lefties, lefty
Speaker 1: batters and Yankee Stadium and the fact that he's a
Speaker 1: lefty pitcher. Obviously, you know, mitigates that somewhat, so I
Speaker 1: would I would still take Packson. I don't want to
Speaker 1: react too much. M hm okay, I would take markets.
Speaker 1: That's just don't take Marques too. We're gonna be a reaction.
Speaker 1: He's faced the Giants three times. I'm the guy want
Speaker 1: I'm the guy you want right now some of my response,
Speaker 1: I'm greg like I did. He faced the Giant tree times.
Speaker 1: But also, don's gonna make a trade. You're gonna trade
Speaker 1: for his I still want right, let's see that right now.
Speaker 1: We've got to do it over the week. What we
Speaker 1: gotta do it now? All right? Who Dotta, I'll give
Speaker 1: you Pavetta start you start picture this week. You want him? Know,
Speaker 1: you gotta get him him? Okay, I have to look
Speaker 1: things up over real quick. I mean I don't even
Speaker 1: know who's on your team again. Yeah, we tried to
Speaker 1: do this the other day. I remember frank remember Marco Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: Frankie Mantas, Charlie Morton, Mingo Harman, Steven Matt Jameson tyone.
Speaker 1: We we just oh no, that was I was not
Speaker 1: saying you're not getting jameson Tywne for Provetta. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that right now. About Carrasco, he's been craped to
Speaker 1: start the year. I know you're not gonna do it
Speaker 1: for Betta, but he's just been terrible. It starts. I
Speaker 1: think I should I was gonna do it for two
Speaker 1: out of three, right of Mats Marco, Frankie Mantas right,
Speaker 1: Domingo Harman was in that mix too, right right, right,
Speaker 1: right right right? Okay? Is that what's still happening? And
Speaker 1: uh and he wanted to ask the deal from you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't, said, as long as he Frankie catch you
Speaker 1: get Frankie. Yeah, that's fine. Also make the chair with you,
Speaker 1: so you give him a studio and pavetta and you
Speaker 1: give him from belly. I'm starting Pitchers correct to the
Speaker 1: whole time, out of Matt Marco, mont scene, Paveta not
Speaker 1: to me. You can pick the two. How's that leave two?
Speaker 1: All right? I'll think about it. It's fair two starting
Speaker 1: Pitchers is still valuable. You can pick the two that
Speaker 1: you want, Okay, I start trying to make it well.
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Speaker 1: been beating this drum forever about the home plate umpire.
Speaker 1: I think they are a little absolutely turned what they
Speaker 1: you know, the K zone Quest, they only shows it
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Speaker 1: to Saturday and Sunday eleven A. M. E. Stern on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Network in Popular podcast Providers, we are
Speaker 1: back on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. On the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Ringing Network, Frank Chris Greg going over some of
Speaker 1: the big performances from this weekend. We hit on a
Speaker 1: lot on Harmon Marquez right there, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: get in on some of these other pictures from yesterday,
Speaker 1: in particular my guy Vinnie V. So I started, obviously
Speaker 1: zach eflan on Saturday, which is disaster and nervous. Any
Speaker 1: nerves now about zach eflon Za, brother? I know, No,
Speaker 1: there's still start to like and even even after the start,
Speaker 1: I mean, the strike out rate is has been massive,
Speaker 1: the swinging strike rate. Um, he we knew he wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be a sub two week again. Obviously, it's surprises
Speaker 1: that happened against the Marlins, especially the fact that you
Speaker 1: know he pitches in the NLE, so he's gonna have
Speaker 1: some tougher matchups to come. Obviously going up against the Nationals,
Speaker 1: who he did have a nice start against to start
Speaker 1: the year, and against the Mets. You know that's not
Speaker 1: an easy line up to face. So, um, he's a
Speaker 1: back end of your rotation. Guy. You stream him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think most of the time you'll be You'll be
Speaker 1: streaming Flynn. No, I'm not. I'm not just jumping ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't drop him, but his teammate the day after
Speaker 1: Vinny Alasquez twelve. It's pretty well face the Marlins in Miami,
Speaker 1: I get it. The thing that's actually kind of concerning
Speaker 1: me about Alasquez, Yeah, isn't checking anybody out anymore? Four
Speaker 1: strikeouts yesterday. You're used to when the Alaska's goes he
Speaker 1: tries to double the strikeout. This season has been the case.
Speaker 1: He's trying to stay longer in the game, trying to
Speaker 1: pitch the contact a little bit more. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I like that, Chris, Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I do either. I don't know if I'm looking for
Speaker 1: Case or Vinnie. And yeah, that's what you want fromm right.
Speaker 1: But also when he came people, he also he's still walking.
Speaker 1: He's still walking still. He's not striking him out, he's
Speaker 1: not checking him out. But he used to walk a
Speaker 1: lot of people. We really are at it get hit.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a mess um may. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is a better way to have him, though I don't
Speaker 1: know yet, you know what I mean. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: better at Vince Velasqua's. Maybe he's a picture not just
Speaker 1: a thrower. Well, we're gonna find out. We're gonna find
Speaker 1: out based on the way he's been pitching. The swinging
Speaker 1: strike rate has been abysmal, it's under six percent. First
Speaker 1: pitch strike percentage has been also terrible. Man, Greg, I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of smoking mirrors here with with
Speaker 1: Vince Velaska's and and the fact that he pitches in
Speaker 1: Citizens Bank and he's always had home run issues as well.
Speaker 1: The strand rate is super high. The bat it is
Speaker 1: super low unless he starts to get swings and misses again,
Speaker 1: like normally we say, we say this about guys who
Speaker 1: walk a lot of batters, is that if you have
Speaker 1: strikeouts at least, it's somewhat cancels out, but you can
Speaker 1: wiggle your way out of jams. Um, if you strike
Speaker 1: people out and you're and you're getting guys in bass,
Speaker 1: but walk guys and you give up home runs, it's
Speaker 1: just a recipe for disaster. I think I think we've
Speaker 1: seen some smoking mirrors here at Yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to stream him once in a while when a good start,
Speaker 1: well you're not holding here. Gonna trust him at home
Speaker 1: Insitizens Bank against the Mets, oh chance. And I wouldn't
Speaker 1: hold him in like a weekly league even in the
Speaker 1: back end. Yeah, there's better options Okay, one of those
Speaker 1: better options is raw striplings who Stripling who went eight innings,
Speaker 1: three k's, allowed one run. We said that Stripling or
Speaker 1: Arias was the two most likely to bass from the rotation.
Speaker 1: At some point, we'll see we're all Stripling making his case. Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly what he wanted to do here,
Speaker 1: is remind you how good he can be, and that's
Speaker 1: exactly what he did. The strikeouts weren't there, which I
Speaker 1: find interesting. The strikeouts are actually down overall this year
Speaker 1: for Rass Strippling. The swinging strike rate also down, but
Speaker 1: getting opposing batters to chase his pitches at a you know,
Speaker 1: thirty five percent clip the averages around, so that's up
Speaker 1: for him this season. Still pounding the strike zone, getting
Speaker 1: ahead early in counts. Uh. But I'm I'm a little
Speaker 1: surprised that we haven't seen as many strikeouts. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of groundballs, groundball rate. I think this was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a reminder to the Dodgers into fantasy owners, like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to stay in the rotation. I guess there's
Speaker 1: a chance that the Dodgers can go with a six
Speaker 1: man rotation. Kershaw is returning today, it looks like he
Speaker 1: will have a two start week unless they do go
Speaker 1: with that six man rotation. Looks like rich Hill is
Speaker 1: coming back sooner rather than later. You know, maybe a
Speaker 1: corresponding move is like a phantom aisle stint for Walker
Speaker 1: Bueller for him to get right. But I think as
Speaker 1: of now, if they had to boot someone from the rotation,
Speaker 1: I think it would not Stripling m And I think
Speaker 1: that's what fantasy owners want to hit here obviously too.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been lights out this year him. You know,
Speaker 1: he's had a few starts, you know, three couple earned
Speaker 1: runs for lost stripling, but yesterday was very dominant. He
Speaker 1: got hit by the Giant to give three ear into
Speaker 1: Giants St. Louis. He gave a four, but he pitched
Speaker 1: well yesterday. Yes, I think that's pretty much what you're
Speaker 1: getting with strippling all year, you know, up and down.
Speaker 1: I'm no one really drafted him to be a top
Speaker 1: guy anyway, Um what was I gonna say? But someone
Speaker 1: else came to my interests, um verdugo threef was he
Speaker 1: to four yesterday? Three abbis? What's the what's the situation
Speaker 1: with this? So the thing with Alex Verdugo and we
Speaker 1: said this a lot. He's awesome. Yeah, Matt Motique has
Speaker 1: been on him for years at this point, he's great.
Speaker 1: I love alex Ford too. Doesn't play every day exactly.
Speaker 1: That's very frustrating, very very frustrating. And I think in
Speaker 1: the daily league maybe you can handle and put him
Speaker 1: in put him out, But in the weekly league here's
Speaker 1: nothing you could do and that. But can you have
Speaker 1: the foresight to see that this guy's gonna start soon? Um,
Speaker 1: he's got three homers, nine r bis, already, a triple too, doubles,
Speaker 1: he's been three forty three. Like, this guy is gonna
Speaker 1: break into the lineup and start every day soon. I
Speaker 1: can't see how how he wouldn't. Is there somebody that
Speaker 1: we could just check out the outfield right now? Dodges camp.
Speaker 1: My problem with Verdugo is if the Dodgers trusted him
Speaker 1: and wanted him to be an everyday player, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have signed Aj Pollock. Why did they sign Aj Pollock?
Speaker 1: And he's a you know, thirty plus year old outfielder
Speaker 1: who has been injury prone. If there was ever a
Speaker 1: time to hand it over to Alex Rodouga and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you to play every single day. We trust
Speaker 1: you it would have been now and this off season.
Speaker 1: But they go and sign a guy like Pollock. Now
Speaker 1: that's also a double edged sword because like is very
Speaker 1: injury prone, as I mentioned. So, I mean, we're one
Speaker 1: injury away from Alex Verdugo being the top waiver wire
Speaker 1: ad and the guy that you're spending like, you know,
Speaker 1: or two hundred dollars of your fab budget on, you know,
Speaker 1: if something were to happen to Pollock. But I just
Speaker 1: don't know how much faith the Dodgers having him yet.
Speaker 1: And they do this with their with their young players.
Speaker 1: They take time developing them and it kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of Harvey Baias and Joe Madden in
Speaker 1: the Cubs, and for years we wanted them to just
Speaker 1: hand it over to Bias play him every single day.
Speaker 1: Well it happened last year and it paid off major
Speaker 1: for both the clubs and for fantasy owners. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's all a part of the processes. You bring these
Speaker 1: guys along slowly and they can develop at their own
Speaker 1: pace and they don't have high expectations, and then eventually
Speaker 1: one year they're gonna take off. It's probably gonna happen
Speaker 1: for Verdugo. Is it gonna happen this year? I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: You know what they should do. They should trade Jack Peterson,
Speaker 1: and he had chances because the White Sox were very
Speaker 1: interested in the off season, and again they didn't do it.
Speaker 1: They had opportunities to hand this over to Verdugo, and
Speaker 1: they didn't do it because he because he could replace
Speaker 1: Peterson easily. Peterson's a lefty who only plays well versu righties.
Speaker 1: You could just replace him with Verdugo, who's just a
Speaker 1: better hitter and could face lefties end right. And there's
Speaker 1: a chance you can see Jock or Verdugo traded at
Speaker 1: some point this year. Um, given whatever help, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: could find themselves needing around the deadline. Obviously Dodgers have pieces,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm surprised they got Machado last year without
Speaker 1: giving Verdugo up. And a lot of people are excited
Speaker 1: about using the l d as, but Verdugo has more
Speaker 1: upside in my opinion, you know, just him versus using
Speaker 1: me out yet, so I was surprised that they were able.
Speaker 1: I was not impressed with that Hall last year, that
Speaker 1: the Orioles got back from a child, I thought if
Speaker 1: anything was gonna happen, it was gonna be, you know,
Speaker 1: either Urious or or Verdugo ending up in Baltimore. It
Speaker 1: didn't happen. It wouldn't surprise me again if one of
Speaker 1: those guys get traded. Um. I think Verdugo obviously has
Speaker 1: a lot more shine. He's a couple of years younger
Speaker 1: than Jack Peterson. I agree that if he had a
Speaker 1: chance to play every single day, he was one of
Speaker 1: the top waiver options. People would blow money on him,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. But it's not happening right now. That's
Speaker 1: why it's not happening right And that's why if you
Speaker 1: have some sort of good, like if you could see
Speaker 1: it coming, grab him as soon as you can, because
Speaker 1: you'll get him from much cheaper. You know, you'll get
Speaker 1: him under the radar before everybody else does. Because once
Speaker 1: that happens, you know, like you said, he's gonna cost
Speaker 1: the fortune, and what Modeco was saying to regarding me, right,
Speaker 1: you try to a couple of weeks earlier rather than
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks later, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: spend all this money. So if you play the perfect
Speaker 1: format to have Verdugo is if you play in a
Speaker 1: deeper league and you have deeper bench spots and you
Speaker 1: don't have to rely on starting these guys every day,
Speaker 1: and you just want to stash a few guys. I know,
Speaker 1: it's harder with all the injuries. That's where you want
Speaker 1: to stash. For Dugo again, he's one injury away to
Speaker 1: a Pollock or god forbid, Cody Bounder or Jock Peterson.
Speaker 1: He's one injury away. And uh, this is what we
Speaker 1: were talking about with Garrett Hampson. Unfortunately Hampson hasn't taken off,
Speaker 1: but there was multiple injuries that happened, you know, in
Speaker 1: a week for the Rock. Hampson starting to heat up
Speaker 1: a little bit, and they half full for him. Listen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Hampson hasn't had any power, he
Speaker 1: has had no speed, but he's only walked one time
Speaker 1: on season. He's hit in five straight games. He's getting
Speaker 1: there very modest, trying to get that average. Ups. They're
Speaker 1: both they're they're both glass half full for Garrett Hanson
Speaker 1: right now. And I get it. You want to be
Speaker 1: excited about him. And they haven't played a lot of
Speaker 1: games at Corps. They just had four games in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: which is the opposite of course field. Basically, he's trying.
Speaker 1: But he's got a five game hit streak. He has
Speaker 1: one game with multiple hits in that span. He doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out much. He's got a five times in the
Speaker 1: last three years, did he really including one game where
Speaker 1: he struck out three times. He's not supposed to strike
Speaker 1: out much. Well, you know what, the major's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different beast that he's growing. He I
Speaker 1: think he'll get there. I think it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot longer than most, and most also gonna like they
Speaker 1: play left field in fifteen games. Yeah, he's basically their
Speaker 1: utility guy. He can bounce around. In fifteen games. He
Speaker 1: has fourteen strikeouts. The one walk all right, A look
Speaker 1: get better. Yeah, he's not gonna walk a lot right away.
Speaker 1: I would say this based on his minor league profile.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't strike out this much. You know, he was
Speaker 1: last year in Triple A he had three fourteen with
Speaker 1: a seventeen percent strikeout rate. So normally strikeout rate raises,
Speaker 1: you know, five six percent in the majors, so he's
Speaker 1: probably more of like percent strikeout rate. It shouldn't be
Speaker 1: twenty eight percent where he's at right now. So I
Speaker 1: agree he's to get better and he's just adjusting. Modest
Speaker 1: five game hit story going on for the for the
Speaker 1: Rockies right now. But he's gonna play every day, and
Speaker 1: I like that. The Rockies about at him second yesterday,
Speaker 1: get a little confidence in him. He's a bad at
Speaker 1: second that second. Each of the last three days beautiful.
Speaker 1: For the Colorado Rockies were in San Diego for a
Speaker 1: little two games set and then they head home to
Speaker 1: face Philly. It's a four game series, I believe in Colorado.
Speaker 1: For it's against Philly. You're saying against Philly four game
Speaker 1: series in Colorado? That is is that it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be. We have our d best
Speaker 1: contest on Friday, and it's gonna be all Phillies and
Speaker 1: Rockies basically. I mean, if you can afford them, the
Speaker 1: prices are going to be. The Rockies haven't really been
Speaker 1: hitting though, I mean, but again, they haven't been home.
Speaker 1: So we'll see you later on in the week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will. Um, what do I want to mention here next?
Speaker 1: What do I want to go next? I wanted to
Speaker 1: go to Yeah, Corey Kluber. So, Corey Kluber once again,
Speaker 1: Frank doesn't get the job done for Cleveland. I know
Speaker 1: you were often you have those shares with him, you
Speaker 1: didn't want him. But now we talked about her mom
Speaker 1: marquees and selling and meeting reactionary certain boards, certain points.
Speaker 1: How reactionary you being right now, Cuba. This is an
Speaker 1: interesting one because look, if you're a believer that he's
Speaker 1: going to bounce back, then this is there's no better
Speaker 1: time to buy low on Corey Klueber. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got an ear ray over six. His whip is one
Speaker 1: point eight four. Often garbage yesterday against the Royals. I
Speaker 1: mean you'd expect that to be a solid start. I
Speaker 1: know the wind was blowing out this weekend in Kansas
Speaker 1: City and Charls Carrasco his team also gets bombed on Friday.
Speaker 1: UM talk about the DFS contest. He was the he
Speaker 1: was the highest price starting pitcher on Friday night. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you gotta give and my my buddy
Speaker 1: Bib finished in second place, so we didn't he he
Speaker 1: had Auston Meadows. Basically, if you had any of the
Speaker 1: double Donk and diis Eloy Austin Medos, then you probably
Speaker 1: had a good night. But act this. For a second,
Speaker 1: I thought I was done a really good night too,
Speaker 1: but a lot of points, I thought, Yeah, I even seventh.
Speaker 1: I had a hundred and fifty three points, right, that
Speaker 1: was what did? What did Mike Florida? Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: had one nineties the week before when it wasn't for money,
Speaker 1: second to last place this time around. By the way,
Speaker 1: so when Frank when it counts, when for months Frank
Speaker 1: doesn't bother even checking his team, you know, Greg, Greg's
Speaker 1: trying to call me out here. First of all, it
Speaker 1: was it was my the anniversary of the day that
Speaker 1: I met my fiance. So we're out to dinner. I
Speaker 1: set my line up and I come back and see
Speaker 1: that rugeneddo door did not play. So I was super
Speaker 1: pit and I was like five minutes late talking about
Speaker 1: and Fandel pull my phone out and I see, uh,
Speaker 1: rugeneddo door scratched, and then of course he lames on
Speaker 1: the il. So that was crap. Everyone else in my
Speaker 1: line of played, Greg, they just well it was basically
Speaker 1: that was half of that was my half of my
Speaker 1: text to you. The other half was not only did
Speaker 1: you start rooting at a door. He started Greg Birth, Well,
Speaker 1: you super cheap. That's like an automatic zero. You know,
Speaker 1: I made terrible lineup. Don't tinker too much. It's daily.
Speaker 1: It's daily in my room. You know. He probably cheap
Speaker 1: made a line up in the morning just to kind
Speaker 1: of like set it up, and then I was gonna
Speaker 1: come back and change it later on, which is what
Speaker 1: I did earlier on in the day. I had Juli
Speaker 1: Gurriel in my lineup. He has a grand slam. I
Speaker 1: take him out for Greg Bird, who puts to zero.
Speaker 1: I had Eloy Jimenez in my line I did take
Speaker 1: him out, and I think I put him like Mark
Speaker 1: Hanna or someone garbage like you. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: take it there. That's that's a huge swing like I
Speaker 1: only had really had over thir so. I had Julie
Speaker 1: my lineup. Had Elvis Andrews in my lineup. Must be crap. No,
Speaker 1: the paddock. He's didn't get the winning. It's great, but
Speaker 1: he didn't get the quality start either. One guys that
Speaker 1: go deep into and I think I had a Wardo
Speaker 1: Rodriguez at night. He was very chalky, but I had
Speaker 1: Wheeler which worked, but he gave he because he was
Speaker 1: kind of cheap. Yeah, and you're right though. My first lineup,
Speaker 1: I had Eloy in there. I had because he was
Speaker 1: so cheap. It was two thous. I had someone else.
Speaker 1: I think I had Meadows in there, and then I
Speaker 1: took them all out and refabricated my lineup. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't tinker too much, That's what I But that's why
Speaker 1: I don't like the daily because it's like, you never
Speaker 1: know who's gonna hit a home run or two home
Speaker 1: runs and in one game, so much variance in baseball. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very hard to project baseball on a
Speaker 1: nightly basis. On a weekly basis is a little easier,
Speaker 1: you know. That's why I think, you know, most of
Speaker 1: the time, like even if guys are cheaper. So that's
Speaker 1: what I like. I I did is I took hose
Speaker 1: Heir in mirrors because he was third cheap. Like so
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, well, you know he's gonna for his talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I put him into So just try and get talented
Speaker 1: guys into your lineup. And you know, Elo Jimenez hadn't
Speaker 1: shown up yet, but we know the talent is there.
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows has shown up all year and the talent
Speaker 1: was also there on Friday, So I think, ultimately, just
Speaker 1: try and get talented guys into your line up. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about, you know, lefty versus righting matchup too much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I stacked that Rangers and A's
Speaker 1: game because it was in Exis and it seemed like
Speaker 1: it was a good environment and it was Smiley against
Speaker 1: Mike Fires, So I wanted to get a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys and ultimately it just it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: I went with the matchups more than I did just
Speaker 1: trusting talented players. That's why I got burnt. But it's
Speaker 1: a hard balance. Yeah, it definitely is. Regarding Corey Kluber,
Speaker 1: I'll tall you this, Greig, and the two starts that
Speaker 1: he's gotten shelled this year were ones where he struggled
Speaker 1: with command yesterday. That's that's not like Corey Kluber and
Speaker 1: the two starts that he gave you a quality start,
Speaker 1: he was one walk in both of those, and then
Speaker 1: against the White Sox where he got bombed and just
Speaker 1: didn't have anything. It was three walks. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was looking at pitching leaderboards yesterday, Greg and there
Speaker 1: was a name that kept popping up on all of
Speaker 1: them for good reasons, and it was Corey Kluber. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to paint this picture as it's all bad,
Speaker 1: because the swinging strike rate the season has been really good,
Speaker 1: and the first pitch strike percentage has been really good,
Speaker 1: and the chase rate has been really good. So there
Speaker 1: are underlying skills that's still look good with Klueber. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, it's hard hit rate. When he's
Speaker 1: pitching in his own and people are seeing the ball
Speaker 1: well against him, they're mashing. So I mean, if you
Speaker 1: couple like the games where he just doesn't have it
Speaker 1: and he's walking guys and people are also squaring him
Speaker 1: up because they have a forty hard hit rate against him,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you have a theory about a
Speaker 1: juice ball or not. If you're starting pitcher that's giving
Speaker 1: up hard hit rate, you're gonna get bombed at time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's what's happening with with Corey Kluber. He's just
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna bounce back down, not necessarily fooling people.
Speaker 1: He's gonna bounce back in this like I would trade
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Speaker 1: I guess, seriously, are you close to the side of
Speaker 1: of buying low on Corey Kluber or just I want
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it because this might be he
Speaker 1: just falls off a cliff. I think I'm more. I'm
Speaker 1: more on the side off He's gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: We've seen clues. We've seen slow starts from Corey Cluber before.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know it's been this bad, but
Speaker 1: we've seen slow starts from Cluber before, and I depending
Speaker 1: on how low you can go, I'm interested, and I'm interested.
Speaker 1: You take the shot here trade Luise kiss Club, I
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd do that. Yes, so bylow so high? Right,
Speaker 1: so we're talking about yeah, I mean it is your trade.
Speaker 1: Would you trade Jamison town again him? No? I would
Speaker 1: you would trade wheel to get him? Definitely not. I'm
Speaker 1: further away from this away, I'll tell you this though.
Speaker 1: I'm more on the side of I don't really want
Speaker 1: anything to do with it. Right is going to bounce
Speaker 1: back somewhat because his babbit right now is it's the
Speaker 1: fourth worst in the league. Like he's getting squared up
Speaker 1: right now, right right now, he is, But that'll go
Speaker 1: down and his fIF is four four oh five and
Speaker 1: his e R area now six on six. So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, regression to the mean, which would
Speaker 1: be a positive over six. I agree with that totally.
Speaker 1: But you know, even let's say he gets it down
Speaker 1: to by season's end, he's he's below four year A,
Speaker 1: which you can easily do it. Look, you put together
Speaker 1: a few h six seven inning shutout games and the
Speaker 1: EARRA will already be under four. That's fine, but you know,
Speaker 1: people who drafted him in the second third round, we're
Speaker 1: expecting a lights out low three z r A, maybe
Speaker 1: a sub three e R a. I just don't know
Speaker 1: if that's gonna happen anymore. There's those warning signs for me.
Speaker 1: He's an enigma. He's a hard one to figure out
Speaker 1: because again I spoke about the skills, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot to like here, but the fastball velocity is down
Speaker 1: and the hard hit rate is up, and he's the
Speaker 1: groundball rate is down, so he's giving up more fly
Speaker 1: balls and people are hitting the ball harder off of him,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna give up more home runs and he's
Speaker 1: walking more people, so there's more people on base when
Speaker 1: he's giving up these home runs and he's giving up
Speaker 1: these hard hits. So, right, he's a hard one to
Speaker 1: figure out. And the fact that he where he's at
Speaker 1: in terms of his age, he's thirty three years old.
Speaker 1: He's no spring chicken. It's two are more in straight.
Speaker 1: But I'm a little bit closer to you know, Look,
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, he's been a two point
Speaker 1: eight nine year, a two point to five, three point
Speaker 1: one four. I don't think he's gonna I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be around there anymore. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably closer to so probably like a
Speaker 1: three five three six arra and that's not what you
Speaker 1: drafted him for. Yeah, I mean I just think that
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with he throws
Speaker 1: kind of like he has a sinker, right, So I
Speaker 1: think if that's not actually on point, you know how,
Speaker 1: like sinkle bowl pictures chim Ming Wong in the past,
Speaker 1: um Aaron Cook, any sinker bowlers right that don't have
Speaker 1: it that day get shelled. Usually chim Ming Wong used
Speaker 1: to happen to all the time. So if you have
Speaker 1: a sinker, if you're not type a picture and you're
Speaker 1: not on and your sinker is not sinking right, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get shelled. I think that's something you could just
Speaker 1: figure it out too, which is exactly what would lead
Speaker 1: to him getting shell and him getting it hit hard
Speaker 1: and giving up more flyballs is not if you're a
Speaker 1: sinker at picture, you want to pitch down on the
Speaker 1: zone and get ground balls, either groundballs or strikeouts. So
Speaker 1: in his career he's been all right sinking like he's
Speaker 1: never had a good fastball. Obviously, you have to use
Speaker 1: your fastball. It's a sinking fastball you have to be
Speaker 1: able to use at that times. But he plays off
Speaker 1: of using a really good cutter in a really good slider. Now,
Speaker 1: even if those pictures are really good and he's leaving
Speaker 1: the sinker of and it's getting crushed, it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna matter how good you're breaking stuff is.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about him. I'm a little bit more worried
Speaker 1: about and then you should be worried. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't um panic yet. There's a few aces that you know,
Speaker 1: we've got some problems. Corey Kluber no to an extent,
Speaker 1: hasn't been himself this year, all right. I mean, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: you know we're three four starts into the season. Carrasco,
Speaker 1: I gotta turn this around a little bit. Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it will for most of them. And uh,
Speaker 1: while we were talking about that, Chris Davis, Chris Davis
Speaker 1: wouldn't see I found in the main event to run
Speaker 1: ding ding. How do you feel that? You gotta feel awesome?
Speaker 1: You know what I was. I was watching the at
Speaker 1: bat and then I stopped to uh to look in
Speaker 1: the the Corey Cluber numbers. I missed the home run,
Speaker 1: so that sucks. My question is, why did you pick
Speaker 1: up Chris Davis fifteen team main event. I had bids
Speaker 1: in on Dan Vogelboch, I had bids in on Hunter Dozer,
Speaker 1: and I had a Milky Cabrera as my utility. And
Speaker 1: he only plays five games this week. So Chris David
Speaker 1: at least evan Um, he's gonna be that Mber he
Speaker 1: spent again. It was like eight bucks on him of whatever.
Speaker 1: So he gets off the schneide. He gets two hits
Speaker 1: over the weekend. He asked for the ball back, which
Speaker 1: I thought was hilarious. He's not gonna hit one, right,
Speaker 1: So if we if we see you're not gonna hit
Speaker 1: under a hundred, if we see a regression to the
Speaker 1: mean for Chris Saves. Even if he only hits two
Speaker 1: hundred for the rest of the season, that means for
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, maybe he'll you know, he's
Speaker 1: gotta get to two hundred. He's under a hunter right now,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna someone turn it around, right. I think
Speaker 1: I don't know what the power is anyone. You just
Speaker 1: hit a home runs? What did your boy buying anything
Speaker 1: of that? Start starting? Chris Davis. I'm we haven't really
Speaker 1: been in contacts so far alright, Look, I mean the
Speaker 1: week's already fine. He gave me a home run, like whatever,
Speaker 1: and you could you could change the line up on
Speaker 1: Fridays in the main event, So if he sucks for
Speaker 1: the next couple of games, that's nice. You can do that.
Speaker 1: You know who is ripping Josh Bell? Absolutely raking. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have dropped him. I should have picked him up.
Speaker 1: I should have paid more. Did somebody pick him up?
Speaker 1: I would hope somebody picked him up. Yeah? Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe he's owned by one of the listeners for
Speaker 1: the program. That's good. It even a little uh just
Speaker 1: drop the bat. He knew what was gone immediately. Good
Speaker 1: for you know, he deserves it. Let's go Chris Davis.
Speaker 1: I'm just root for him, well partially because Nando wrote
Speaker 1: an article about him and guy like chewed out by everyone.
Speaker 1: So I want Chris Davis and just mash for you,
Speaker 1: nan noo, He'll do it for you. Chris. Absolutely, Okay, Um, well,
Speaker 1: what else do you want to talk about from over
Speaker 1: the weekend? What else did that we measure? You know,
Speaker 1: it's about the Texas Rangers because Ruvett Odor hits a
Speaker 1: d L and he's gonna be like shut down for
Speaker 1: two weeks before ramming ramming him back up. At least
Speaker 1: he would cry too, he's been bad. Is this a really? No,
Speaker 1: it's real because he was scratched on Friday night, as
Speaker 1: I was joking about with Frank. You had him this lineup,
Speaker 1: scratched on Friday night and then put on the d
Speaker 1: L on Saturday, not picking up a ball, like I said,
Speaker 1: for two weeks, and there's no guarantee after that he'll
Speaker 1: be ready to rock. If you're an Odor owner, can
Speaker 1: you drop him? Yes? I wouldn't you know. I was
Speaker 1: higher on him than most community. I was too. Actually,
Speaker 1: see this, as you get him for dirt cheap, right cheap,
Speaker 1: you might be able to just pick him. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I'm not someone who's gonna stash try and
Speaker 1: trade for Odor. If I have a bunch of other
Speaker 1: injuries like I do, like if I have Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: injuries and and now hard and stand and you can't
Speaker 1: afford to do that, right, But if you've been one
Speaker 1: of the more fortunate owners who hasn't been bit with
Speaker 1: the injury bug, and I would actively go out and
Speaker 1: try and well, you know, maybe wait a week, maybe
Speaker 1: they drop out Door and then I picked him with
Speaker 1: someone dropped him last year in a fifteen team league, Greg,
Speaker 1: and we pounced on him and we spent like you know,
Speaker 1: of our budget to pick up out door h And
Speaker 1: he was walking a lot this year. The strikeouts were up,
Speaker 1: you know, he's always struggled with strikeouts. But I was
Speaker 1: very high on Odor and I'm not giving up on him.
Speaker 1: You know, a couple of games, a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: into the season. He also has tried to steal three
Speaker 1: bases already this year. He's only been you know, one
Speaker 1: for three, but at least he's trying. You know, the
Speaker 1: stolen bases is about intent, So he's had the intent
Speaker 1: of running. Well, you said trust, so I would buy
Speaker 1: he could still be a fifteen fifteen guy. Is what
Speaker 1: you wanted, right, pretty much looking for I wanted like
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen stolen bases and close to home runs. That
Speaker 1: was bullish on him, right, But you have to understand
Speaker 1: that Odor, this is kind of what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: from most. Like I said before, he's streaky, you know,
Speaker 1: better for road. He's not a contact coming yet. I
Speaker 1: didn't want him as a points league player. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: I wanted him as a roto player, right, and I
Speaker 1: would still buy him for dirt is the power and
Speaker 1: speak combo maybe that you could get and listen. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit for a low average, Like that's just
Speaker 1: what you're getting with him, you know. He he's been
Speaker 1: all over the map with the batting average. So like
Speaker 1: one year he had two or four, but the year
Speaker 1: before that he had two seventy one. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 1: who's the real odor? I think that's that's the real
Speaker 1: If he's two fifty two sixty, he's not hurting your
Speaker 1: batting average, No, but he coun also have two thirty two.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a wide range of outcomes for for
Speaker 1: Old Door, but I really liked the gains that he
Speaker 1: made from it. Was like June on last year, he
Speaker 1: made significant gains, especially in terms of walking, and I
Speaker 1: like that the walk rate has stayed this year too.
Speaker 1: Last year an eight percent walk rate, whereas in his career,
Speaker 1: who's five percent, and so far this year he's eight
Speaker 1: and a half percent walk rates. Again, the walk rates
Speaker 1: have if he lost ring at old or who is
Speaker 1: or a couple of second days where you could pick
Speaker 1: up in this place. I think in twelve team leagues,
Speaker 1: if Brandon Law is out there, he's only owning like yahooly,
Speaker 1: so you might actually be out there if you just
Speaker 1: need a middle infielder in general and deeper league Freddy
Speaker 1: Galvis and another one yesterday, he's hot, Danji Swan. Again. Look,
Speaker 1: if he was out there anywhere, he should be owned already.
Speaker 1: But those are a few a few middle infielders that
Speaker 1: come to mind if you play in you know, a
Speaker 1: L only or fifteen team mixed. How about the guy
Speaker 1: who's just gonna replace him? Well, is he gonna play
Speaker 1: most of the time or is it gonna be Logan
Speaker 1: Forsy what? I'm not sure? I think I think it's
Speaker 1: for what yea the most added second baseman on Yahoo
Speaker 1: and then the top one and Jeff McNeil and deeper
Speaker 1: leagues Chad Pinder. Fine, he's played well, Caar Hernandez. Maybe
Speaker 1: if he was dropped, I don't think that he would
Speaker 1: have been. How about this Greg? I picked this guy
Speaker 1: up in the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitation in deeper leagues
Speaker 1: it's a fifteen team mixed Rhodo. Yeah, I look, I
Speaker 1: was just looking at how he can starting over. Brian Doeser.
Speaker 1: Dozer sucks man, So he started two days in a
Speaker 1: row spot in that in that two hole at second base,
Speaker 1: hit a home rung with two or five yesterday. I mean,
Speaker 1: looking to his game, rock man, it's great. Always been
Speaker 1: doing his hitting and that's what he's playing. Will you
Speaker 1: continue to players a question? Bryan Doer has been bad
Speaker 1: and I didn't draft him anywhere because, like, he's always
Speaker 1: been super streaky. But I don't know, man, Like he
Speaker 1: just fell off the face of the planet last year.
Speaker 1: And he's always been a guy who has a lot
Speaker 1: of infield fly balls and strikes out a lot average.
Speaker 1: Just fell off the face of the planet last year.
Speaker 1: So I didn't want anything to do with him. I
Speaker 1: had him ranked pretty low. Actually at this point you
Speaker 1: could almost drop him, you know. So in in a
Speaker 1: deeper league, I took a shot on Howie Kendrick. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe he steals Brian Doser's drop when he's playing. He's
Speaker 1: bad second. I mean, if you're batting between Adam Eaton
Speaker 1: and then ahead of of all these other guys in
Speaker 1: the middle of the lone Anthony re So, I mean
Speaker 1: that's he's not gonna play every day. Yet I think
Speaker 1: a better guy is maybe Jeff McNeil. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: really agree with that. He's really hot and he's hitting
Speaker 1: multi hit like this guy could hit man. He's had
Speaker 1: three multi hit games in a row. He's got He's
Speaker 1: got multi hits in four of his last five games.
Speaker 1: This is Jeff McNeil. You know he's gonna hit for
Speaker 1: batting average. So at the least he's sitting three three
Speaker 1: right now with nine ribbies, doesn't have a homer, doesn't
Speaker 1: have a stolen base. But it's basically who Jeff McNeil is. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, regarding how Kendrick that was. Just again this
Speaker 1: is kind of one of the Mattmodica things. Again, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll pick him up a week early and see if
Speaker 1: it's sticks, See if he kind of steals Brian Doser's
Speaker 1: job and he's bad. If you're batting second in the
Speaker 1: in the National's lineup, that spot that you want. I
Speaker 1: got a guy too that I just picked up actually
Speaker 1: in the pit league. Um, he's not second base eligible
Speaker 1: in uh Espan leagues, but you know who he is.
Speaker 1: Second base shorts up. William Domas of the Tava Bay
Speaker 1: Rays absolutely raking like absolutely raking right now. He's actually
Speaker 1: got a hitting streak going on and multiple multi hit games. Um,
Speaker 1: but he bats late in the lineup, which kind of stinks.
Speaker 1: So but I think he'll move up. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy's hitting too good at this point now. And this
Speaker 1: was a guy who was a top prospect. Uh and
Speaker 1: people I don't think realize realized that. Right now, I
Speaker 1: think it's a guy you could pick up and replace
Speaker 1: an odor or a Lordi's Goriel who just got sent down.
Speaker 1: Has eight consecutive games with a hit. He has won two,
Speaker 1: three or four six consecutive games with a run scored
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, this guy you could pick up. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a good call. And this just tells you how
Speaker 1: slow of a start he got off to, even with
Speaker 1: all the hits on batting two fifties, so he got
Speaker 1: off to a super slow start, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people might have dropped him because of that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good call if he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's probably more likely in twelve team weeks than fifteen teams.
Speaker 1: You know, we gave you a few deeper options as well.
Speaker 1: Ye how this Greg Jason Kitness expected to return to
Speaker 1: short He's BA and outfield eligibility activated off the i
Speaker 1: L As Brad Miller was cut, he wasn't very happy
Speaker 1: bout that. But Kidney is coming. Sorry Brad Miller. He's
Speaker 1: really upset. Guy just lost his job. Not just said
Speaker 1: of the minors he was should have cut and he
Speaker 1: was like, he's one of the guys actually hitting on
Speaker 1: the team. He was just like, I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: He was really not trying to win. Can you even
Speaker 1: send Brad Miller down to the mine and just at
Speaker 1: this point they just cut him. I don't think you.
Speaker 1: I don't think they actually him. Is you asked him
Speaker 1: if he wants to get sent down to miners. If
Speaker 1: he declines it, then you just can't. They didn't. They
Speaker 1: didn't do that. Um, then hipness is coming back. Uh
Speaker 1: and his teenate Francisco Lindoor has been cleared to start
Speaker 1: a rehab assignment. And you know, Carlos Gonzalez makes his
Speaker 1: debut yesterday. Not that I'm expecting the world from Carlos Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Also watched that game yesterday. Very weird not seeing him
Speaker 1: in black and purple anymore. It was his odd seeing
Speaker 1: him in blue and red for the Cleveland Indians, but
Speaker 1: again in deeper leagues, regarding Carlos Gonzalez, he thinks of
Speaker 1: Hanley Mayor, of this guy, he's Betty third, Betty third, right,
Speaker 1: So you know it's just behind Jose Ramirez and Leone's Martine.
Speaker 1: Leone's Martine another one red hot right now had a
Speaker 1: great week last week. He like gree Homers, he stole
Speaker 1: a base. You're like five ribbis and five runs scored,
Speaker 1: and so I likely only's Martine. You know, in four
Speaker 1: or five outfielders leagues, I would have picked him up.
Speaker 1: But I think in deeper ones, Hitness coming around. We'll
Speaker 1: see if we can never talk to dr about Bradley Zimmer,
Speaker 1: but Lindoor Hitness and then at some point Bradley Zimmer
Speaker 1: and Leon Spartan and Jose ramiresnd has to get its
Speaker 1: going to turn around. Hot to hell. On Jose Ramires
Speaker 1: You're you're telling me that having those guys in the
Speaker 1: lineup isn't gonna help him. Absolutely, you know we help.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna hurt. I agree, that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for us here, all the fantasy best friends forever. I
Speaker 1: want to thank our guest, Matt Modica want to thank
Speaker 1: Chris Sean and Alex down stairs, Chris vent Shaw, Frank Stafell,
Speaker 1: I am Greg Sousman. We'll be back tomorrow to break
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