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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome back into another episode of the cycle.

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Speaker 1: Worm is finally gone. He's not going to make an

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Speaker 1: appearance in the show. It's just me and Kelly Kirby

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Speaker 1: and Kelly, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty well. I think that the week is

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Speaker 2: going so gone well so far. But you know, it's Thursday.

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Speaker 2: You can really tank this afternoon, so I'm pulling out hope.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a good point. We are recording this

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. Throughout the season, we've we've experimented with different

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Speaker 1: kinds of recording schedules and production publishing schedules. This week

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Speaker 1: we're going to be back to one video and so

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Speaker 1: we had some kind of production issues with getting the

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Speaker 1: shows out on time, and you know there will be

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Speaker 1: you know, stuff we record on Thursday morning not coming

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Speaker 1: out to Sunday afternoon. It was not a great look.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna try just one episode. It'll we're recording

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Speaker 1: like late Thursday afternoon. This will probably come out fridayday

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Speaker 1: night slash Saturday morning, and then be pinned to the

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Speaker 1: able to watch all of this in one episode. Throughout

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Speaker 1: the weekend. We're not really gonna cut anything from the

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Speaker 1: last show. We're going to keep the same show format,

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Speaker 1: put those two bad boys together and just try to

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Speaker 1: do one mega episode. Gonna try and keep this episode

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Speaker 1: in a timely manner, you know, not go ninety minutes,

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Speaker 1: but I'll do my best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're I mean, we're hoping for Kelsey Taylor Swift

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Speaker 2: numbers here, so you know, am Big I.

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Speaker 1: Already told CALLI, I want to name this episode New

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Speaker 1: Heights Podcast with Taylor Swift. Fantasy baseball waivers and streamers.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump into rounding the bases. And first up,

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Speaker 1: there were a ton of injuries, a ton of people

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Speaker 1: returning from injury. So let's just run through a bunch

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Speaker 1: of those names and what they could mean. Josh Hater

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Speaker 1: A Bray You maybe he might be the closer in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez is taking live batting practice. It feels like

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Speaker 1: he's been on the bench for the on the shelf,

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Speaker 1: I should say for the entire season. James and Tyona

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Speaker 1: and I want to talk about him a little bit later,

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Speaker 1: so we went back to that one. Aaron Nola could

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Speaker 1: be coming back. I just wrote Aaron Nola eyees emoji

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Speaker 1: going to be coming back. Not having a great year,

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Speaker 1: but did look very good in a recent rehab start.

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Speaker 1: So that's interesting. Sean McClanahan. It was not meant to be.

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Speaker 1: It looks like he is not coming back this season

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Speaker 1: for sure. That seemed to always kind of like be

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds before his you know, he looked like his

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Speaker 1: a little bit about that one. It's, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. He was really, really, really

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Speaker 1: like you're on an Aava has been on the shelf

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Speaker 1: and it sounds like no rehab assignment is needed. It

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Speaker 1: He's with the team on their road trip. We'll see

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Speaker 1: when he's back. But it is interesting no rehabit signment needed,

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Speaker 1: Eflin and Zach Eflin fans out there. He's out four

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Speaker 1: And I believe he's a free agent too, so not

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Speaker 1: great for him. Just a bummer news. Jackson Curio still

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Speaker 1: That's a hard one to say. It's we were talking

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Speaker 1: He was one of those like highly touted hitting prospects

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Speaker 1: So we'll see what he looks like when he's coming back.

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Speaker 1: So I threw a ton of injuries and returns out there.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about any of them? Any anyone

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think the first one is just

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Speaker 2: Like that's fascinating. So so yeah, if for some reason

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Speaker 4: But I can't imagine that a lot of people dropped him.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, with and with how things have gone with

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Speaker 3: We didn't realize that.

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Speaker 2: And especially with the Astros, who knows what we can

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Speaker 1: So also true, Yeah, the Aaron Nola one kind of

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Speaker 4: So I'm not buying into the rehab starts.

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Speaker 2: At least He's not someone I'm gonna put on my

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Speaker 1: It is an odd year for Aaron All he does

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited to see.

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Speaker 1: What that looks like, even though it probably means not

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Speaker 1: great thing for Chase Burns in that in that rotation,

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Speaker 1: now anything else before I move on. Okay, So now

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Speaker 1: we normally we go rounding the bases. Obviously there's four bases.

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Speaker 1: We usually go in order. We're going tea ball style.

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Speaker 1: Today we're going from first base straight over to third base.

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Speaker 1: to it because it ties in with a topic that

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Speaker 1: you edit for home plate, home base, whichever one you

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Speaker 1: third base where you wrote down on the sheet, Brewers, Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: of these situations. So why don't you take us through

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Speaker 1: what you want to talk about here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of picked.

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Speaker 2: I picked for them because you know, they're leading, they're

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Speaker 2: Hoskins is really close to returning, and so I think

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: most helpful.

436
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Speaker 4: Really, do you have anything you in it? Okay?

437
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Speaker 1: I do, I said, real quick, I do want to

438
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Speaker 1: bring up that trade because it's a really I'll pull

439
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Speaker 1: it up because like you said, there are there are

440
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Speaker 1: keeper ramifications here, and it's like a it's a salary

441
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Speaker 1: cap keeper situation, so we don't have to go into

442
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Speaker 1: all the details, but like the price of player matters,

443
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 1: and you can only keep them for so long, so

444
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,359
Speaker 1: every few years you need to you know, they have

445
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Speaker 1: to rotate back into the end of the draft pool

446
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,400
Speaker 1: and their price. You know, you basically you can keep

447
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Speaker 1: them at a certain price for a couple of years

448
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,000
Speaker 1: and then the price goes up and you either have

449
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Speaker 1: to like extend them or just throw them back into

450
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Speaker 1: the pool, and you know, the price goes up to

451
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Speaker 1: extend them. So that's important for a major trade like

452
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Speaker 1: this because if you just look at the surface, you're like, wow,

453
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Speaker 1: that is collusion. But then when you look at like

454
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Speaker 1: the keeper ramifications, it makes sense. So it was Kyle Hall, Stours,

455
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,760
Speaker 1: Addison Barger Andres Munoz, Aaron Judge, Josh Naylor and Max

456
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 1: Munsey the Dodgers, Max Munsey for Emmett Sheen, Calvin Fouchet,

457
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 1: Peek or Armstrong, Jackson, Cheerio, Jack Perkins and Jerkson Profar.

458
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Speaker 1: Wild enormous trade and it was made by friend of

459
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Speaker 1: the show Brendon Tuma. So what did you think about

460
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Speaker 1: that trade when it came across other than sending they

461
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Speaker 1: needed to send it to me.

462
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just you don't see twelve player

463
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Speaker 2: trades very often and uh yeah no, I mean with

464
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Speaker 2: with two, I'm always like, you know, some people love

465
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Speaker 2: prospects like a lot, and so yeah, and I think

466
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Speaker 2: the judge, for sure, I think is like on an

467
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Speaker 2: expiring or something or just at least just costs way

468
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 2: too much money for most people.

469
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Speaker 4: To keep him.

470
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Speaker 2: So it was like, right, like just that initial if

471
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Speaker 2: I sent, if you and I put this out like

472
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Speaker 2: on Twitter, and we're like, is this trade fair? Like

473
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 2: everyone on Earth is going to be like that's a collusion.

474
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 2: That's actually a problem like you were talking about last week.

475
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 2: But because yeah, because of the contract. So it took

476
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Speaker 2: me a minute to just sort of be like what

477
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Speaker 2: are we doing?

478
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Speaker 4: You know?

479
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 2: And then as like the last place team currently, I

480
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 2: was like, I wonder what twelve players I can unload

481
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 2: because all of them are terrible, So you know, yeah,

482
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 2: that's that's how I viewed it. But not knowing oh

483
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 2: my goodness, that would have just looked terrible.

484
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for a reference, and I want to swing

485
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Speaker 1: this over to Pek Armstrong in a second two because

486
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Speaker 1: he's a player I want to talk about because he's something.

487
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Speaker 1: But for for example, he's a nine dollars player in

488
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Speaker 1: this league. And I do want to say we got

489
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Speaker 1: really good feedback on our opening segment last week when

490
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Speaker 1: we talked about Worm's corrupt league. And I was a

491
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 1: little worried that we went a little too long talking

492
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Speaker 1: about our own league and that you know, people might

493
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Speaker 1: be put off by that, but people really enjoyed it,

494
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Speaker 1: and so I was glad to hear that. And I

495
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Speaker 1: was also really glad to see all of the people

496
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Speaker 1: in the comments who agreed with me. And now not

497
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Speaker 1: everyone did, but enough did for me to feel vindicated.

498
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Speaker 1: And so thank you for the comments and your support.

499
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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much for supporting him. He needs

500
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 2: all of it, right anyway, Yeah, okay, yeah.

501
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Speaker 1: So for reference, Peka Armstrong was in this trade, he

502
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Speaker 1: was acquired. He has a nine dollars salary in the

503
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Speaker 1: first year of his contract. If he I mean, we'll

504
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Speaker 1: get into his current slump and how he finishes the year,

505
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Speaker 1: but let's say he finishes the year fine, and you know,

506
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Speaker 1: he's if he's in the draft next year, He's a

507
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 1: forty dollars player, maybe more depending on how he finished.

508
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 1: It's like forty dollars is probably already accounting for the

509
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: current slump if he, you know, finishes like he started

510
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 1: fifty dollars or more. And so the point of this

511
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: trade is kind of getting him for nine dollars, which

512
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: and Jackson Churio is in the second year of his

513
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: deal is ten dollars, so incredible value. And so that's

514
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Speaker 1: why this trade was made the contending team. You know,

515
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Speaker 1: He's like I, you know, I'm trying to win this league.

516
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 1: I would love to keep Jackson Cherio, but also like,

517
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Speaker 1: I can't just wait three or four weeks for him

518
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: to come back. I'm a contender, and Tuma acquired to

519
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: young outfielders. But let's use that to transition. Wait, did

520
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Speaker 1: you already hit.

521
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Speaker 3: Your top your topics here a m I jump in

522
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Speaker 3: the gun.

523
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Speaker 2: Oh no, I say, I think we canet in transfer

524
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Speaker 2: to corrom Sean. That's okay. I can talk about strategies

525
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Speaker 2: as we go.

526
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Speaker 3: Okay, cool.

527
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Because I wanted to tie a lot of the

528
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Speaker 1: names I added to the sheet, I wanted to tie

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Speaker 1: into this segment, and so I thought they thought they

530
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Speaker 1: went well together.

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Speaker 3: But I do think think go ahead.

532
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Speaker 2: I think we're at the T ball stage where all

533
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 2: those videos where a player hits and then all nine

534
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 2: fielders just run towards the ball. I think that's the

535
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Speaker 2: cycle today. That's what we're doing.

536
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the bat was running after the ball too, sometimes, yes,

537
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: exactly everyone.

538
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the.

539
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: Ball's rolling around. We're just jumping around the show sheet

540
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: trying to find our parents. So I did like that

541
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Speaker 1: he wrote to have no mercy on underperforming players because

542
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Speaker 1: we are at the point of the season where name

543
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: value doesn't mean anything anymore. Like if this player, I

544
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Speaker 1: don't care what his name is, you know, he's been

545
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Speaker 1: an All Star for ten years in a row. If

546
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Speaker 1: he's underperforming, like it's mid August, like it's time to

547
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Speaker 1: move on. And so Pete Armstrong is not that. And

548
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Speaker 1: I don't think you're in any danger of, you know,

549
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,959
Speaker 1: kind of dropping him. But what do you make of

550
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: his recent struggles because he I'm guilty off season of

551
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Speaker 1: predicting regression for him and kind of saying like even

552
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Speaker 1: when he was like first breaking out, I was like,

553
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I buy all this, just because

554
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: like the hard hits data.

555
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 3: Is not there.

556
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Speaker 1: He's kind of just popping some of these balls over

557
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Speaker 1: the fence, and like, I don't know if it's gonna last,

558
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Speaker 1: and then like shame on me because it lasted for

559
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: three months now not doing so hot, And so do

560
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Speaker 1: you think this is him kind of regressing back down

561
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Speaker 1: to earth or this is just a temporary slump and

562
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be you know, he'll he'll bounce right back,

563
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: and it could be maybe a mixture of both.

564
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a mixture of both. That he's

565
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Speaker 2: not just bad. You know, I'm looking at the stads,

566
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Speaker 2: like in August, he's so far batting seventy three. He

567
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Speaker 2: has only hit two home runs since the All Star break,

568
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Speaker 2: Like his strikeouts are our way up.

569
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Speaker 4: He and he looks kind of lost at the plate.

570
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Speaker 2: And but so it's like I feel like that's just

571
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Speaker 2: it's not like I think that the people he's being

572
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 2: pitched differently too, though he maybe I would have to

573
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Speaker 2: dig into that a little bit further, but he had

574
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Speaker 2: all that figured out. My oh, he was hitting off

575
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Speaker 2: lefties like he had that. So I feel like this

576
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Speaker 2: is one of those kind of weird all of the

577
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 2: regression is coming at once, like just all of it

578
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: is just like we're gonna We're just gonna pile on,

579
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Speaker 2: and I would imagine like in September he will kind

580
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Speaker 2: of bunce back to where we think he should be,

581
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Speaker 2: which is not the fifty dollars possible guy. Next year,

582
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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be more of a thirty dollars

583
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 2: guy the rest of the season, where yeah, I still

584
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 2: think you're gonna get the pop and you're gonna get

585
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Speaker 2: some You're gonna get a lot out of it, but

586
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 2: you're not gonna get back in average. You're not gonna

587
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's I think he's going to continue to

588
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 2: strike out. His chase rate is awful. He's in the

589
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Speaker 2: first percent style, So yeah, this is And I'm a

590
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: Cubs fan and I have been time. I was all

591
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Speaker 2: over it. I was like, he's not to keep this up.

592
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 2: This is dumb, Like, don't even fall for it. And

593
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Speaker 2: then finally I was like fine, right, And then as

594
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Speaker 2: soon as I said fine, seventy three. So yeah, he's

595
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Speaker 2: not that bad.

596
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Speaker 3: But that's where I was too.

597
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Speaker 1: I was kind of like the whole first half of

598
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Speaker 1: the season, I was like, he's not this good.

599
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Speaker 3: He's not this good. He's not this good. Maybe he

600
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Speaker 3: is this good.

601
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Speaker 1: I mean everything, because there are players who just for

602
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: their career where I'll perform. You know, they're expected numbers.

603
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: So that's just the thing that happens. Like those those

604
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: expected numbers are not fact. They're at some point it

605
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: just doesn't matter. And you know there's certain players.

606
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 3: Like.

607
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: You know, like really fast players will always have a

608
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: pretty high babbit and like you can always say, like

609
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: you know this is going to come back down the earth.

610
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: Maybe it won't because sometimes he's just going to beat

611
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: out those grand balls and his babbit is just going

612
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: to be different, or just you know, kind of like

613
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: the nature of how certain players swing the bat, like

614
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: you'll see like they have like this guy has like

615
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: a career three forty babbit over ten years, and like

616
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: the numbers will tell you that should come down closer

617
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: to three hundred, but it just doesn't because you know,

618
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: they're not fact and they're not gospel. But I did

619
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: think some aggression was coming until maybe I didn't, and

620
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 1: then it was just like you I kind of bought

621
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Speaker 1: in and then you know, the bottom fell out and

622
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Speaker 1: you know.

623
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Speaker 3: He bad it.

624
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: He's batting o seventy three in August and eleven games.

625
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: He just batted three oh eight in July. So he

626
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: had his best batting month and then it immediately with

627
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: his worst betting month. And I do this is kind

628
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: of like old school, you know, kind of like thinking,

629
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: but like I do think there is some psychology around

630
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: the All Star Break and like it killing your momentum.

631
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: And I know some people say momentum is not a thing,

632
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: but we've seen it all the time. We're like, really

633
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: hot teams get into the All Star Break, you take

634
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: four or five days off, and then you're cold. And

635
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: the same thing happens with these hot starts for players

636
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: or you know, sometimes the All Star break is what

637
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: they need to you know, we're up to a cult start.

638
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: The All Star break is what they need to get

639
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: their head right. And I do think there is some

640
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: truth to that, And so I think he lost some

641
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: momentum in that All Star break, especially as someone who

642
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: was like in the All Star Game and didn't really

643
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: get a break. Yeah, that's kind of why we use

644
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: the All Star break as like the unofficial like midway point,

645
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: because there was very you all the time, see very

646
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: clear different halves of seasons on either half of that.

647
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Speaker 3: So what I originally wanted to call.

648
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Speaker 1: This segment because I didn't really have a better name

649
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,479
Speaker 1: for it, is just what's the deal with these guys?

650
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: Because like, like peak arm start, I think there's a

651
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: lot of interesting things about all of them. Max Freed

652
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: is an interesting one, and he's someone we've been talking

653
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: about almost every week for a lot over the last

654
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: month or so of the cycle, maybe since the All

655
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: Star break. He dealt with that blister, then another finger issue,

656
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: and right now five point seven to three era in

657
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: the second half, five point five four era in July,

658
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: seven point two zero era in August, And what's the

659
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: deal with Max Freed?

660
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 3: What do we do? Like, what do we do with this?

661
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm not I'm not really sure what

662
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: to what to do with him because it's still Max Freed.

663
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 2: He was also part of that team that I had

664
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: James Wood and the Insiders League where everyone just stopped

665
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: being good as soon as.

666
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 4: The playoffs started.

667
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 3: Perfect.

668
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, he's he's an odd He's an

669
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: odd choice just because the way his stats look out,

670
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 2: his stat cast, like, you know, he's not really doing

671
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 2: anything it's a whole lot different than everything he's ever done.

672
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 2: It's just the Yeah, his era was like below two

673
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: for a while, wasn't it. And his x era is

674
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 2: at three six five, So there was always gonna be

675
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: some regression for him. But like if you add in

676
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: the injuries or the blister, and that's that type of

677
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: thing that pictures just it just nags.

678
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: At them forever.

679
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,959
Speaker 2: Like it's like as soon as you have that, it's

680
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 2: like oblique issues like for batters, where you're just kind

681
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 2: of like, Okay, this is gonna this is just gonna

682
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: shift some microscopic things that make a really great picture

683
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: fall back to earth. But I don't think he's as

684
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: bad as these numbers, you know. I feel like he

685
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 2: will figure it out, but he's not going to be

686
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 2: the picture he was in the first half.

687
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was just looking at it kind of

688
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: his game lug. He's allowed at least four runs in one, two, three,

689
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: four five straight starts, six of the last seven starts.

690
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: Now a couple of those are unearned runs. So three

691
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: starts ago yet four earned, four runs allowed, only two

692
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: were earned, and another one was four runs three earned,

693
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: but that that one was only three innings against the Cups.

694
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what happened to that start, but

695
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: that was a short outing for Max Free. That might

696
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: have been one where he left with the injury. Yeah,

697
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: it's it's very clear that he's just not right right now,

698
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: dating back to like right around the All Star break,

699
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: like right around July first. It's just because like if

700
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: you look at like his GameLine before that, it's like

701
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: one run, two runs, three runs, zero runs, one run

702
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: two one one zero one six zero, and now it's

703
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: just like steady four three four six four four four,

704
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: and you know it counts sat there, not everything. But

705
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: he's also not striking out as many guys. And it's

706
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: just like when this blister first happened, wherem and I

707
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: talked about it and I said, blisters seem like a

708
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: very minor thing, but it is kind of the kind

709
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: of thing that if you get a blister in the

710
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: wrong spot, it derails a season. Some players, it almost

711
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: derailed careers. We've seen, especially with like the balls changing

712
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: all the time, like the surface of the balls. We've

713
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: seen a lot of pictures complaining about that, and they're

714
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: just like their hands get used to it. Yeah, Max

715
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 1: Fred I guess you just have to keep running him

716
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: out there. You're not gonna bench him, You're not gonna

717
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: drop him. It's just one of those unfortunate situations where

718
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: you're kind of stuck unless you have like really deep pitching, which,

719
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: as you already mentioned, you probably don't, you know, I

720
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: would The only kind of situation I would consider sitting

721
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: him is if it's kind of shallower roster and it's

722
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: head to head weekly and you don't like his matchup,

723
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: I would consider sitting him there. But other than that,

724
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: I think you just have to keep running him out there.

725
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: Is that what you're gonna do too?

726
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so, because I mean, you know, it's

727
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: like then he drops in the game that he had

728
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: against the Rays where he went something in two thirds

729
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 2: and struck out nine, you know, and it's really hard

730
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 2: and tricky to figure out. You don't want to miss

731
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 2: that start, and I think he's capable of those. It's

732
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: just you know, making sure. I mean, you're just going

733
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: to kind of have to ride out. I think once

734
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 2: again regression coming back. You know, now we're just on

735
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: both sides, and it's I think it's important because he's

736
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 2: going to come back to way more who he was.

737
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: I think if the blister is healed, if he's just

738
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 2: trying to pitch through it because he's on the Yankees

739
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: and they need pitching, then I don't know, but it'll

740
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: be difficult to tell.

741
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, trying to pick your spots and like start bench,

742
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: start bench. I call that the Taylor Ward game because

743
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: he has thirty home runs this year.

744
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 3: I think he's been.

745
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: On my bench for nineteen of them because he goes

746
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: ice cold and I'm like, I gotta sit the sky.

747
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: And then he hits like eight home runs that week,

748
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, all r, I'll put him back

749
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: in the line up ice cold, and I'm like, I

750
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: don't know what to do with this guy. Like if

751
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: I just if I just left him in my lineup,

752
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: I'd have thirty home runs from this year. But I've

753
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: been fighting him all season and I think I'm just

754
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: benching him out of fearst spite right now. So a

755
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: little bit different caliber player here. But what about Coulson

756
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: Montgomery who has ten home runs in twenty four games,

757
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: but his batting two twenty seven it seems like every

758
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: time highlight he's homering again. But also just badding to

759
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: twenty seven, So, like, is he awesome? I don't know, Like,

760
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: what do we make of close? What's the deal with

761
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: Colson Montgomery?

762
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 2: I really like this new uh, this new theory for you.

763
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 2: I you know, he's again we have the home run

764
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 2: call contest, and like he's perfect for that.

765
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 4: That's a great that's a great place to use him.

766
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 2: Pennholme runs in twenty four games is absurd, but right,

767
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: you're not getting a lot else. He still plays for

768
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 2: the White Sox. His on base persentage just two ninety nine,

769
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: so he's slugging the crap out of the ball. But

770
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: he's just you know, it's it's like what else that

771
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: what other value? What other He's gonna hurt your ratios,

772
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 2: He's gonna hurt everything in that in that realm.

773
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 4: So I like him. I mean, I.

774
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: Think again, it's okay to have him on your team,

775
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: but as an infielder with the power, but it's just

776
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 2: really tricky to you know, ride the rest of it

777
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 2: out and it's those home runs stop coming at this rate,

778
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 2: then you're gonna wanna you know, we're gonna want to

779
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 2: get rid of him the possible.

780
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, in thirty four games with the White Sox, he

781
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: has ten home runs, and he had eleven home runs

782
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: and sixty games in the miners, but also bat at

783
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: two fifteen in the miners and only batting two thirty

784
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: three in the majors, but with the two fifty three's

785
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: by the batting average. So yeah, I think relating to

786
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: kind of your streaming strategy advice and having no mercy

787
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: on underforming guys, I think this is also the kind

788
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: of year where like, if a guy's hot, start him,

789
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: and like if he's not the next week, benjam And

790
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: I know that sounds hypercritical because he just talked about

791
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: the tailor ward game, but also this is the time

792
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: of year to play the tailor word game and kind

793
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: of see if.

794
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 3: You can get it right, because.

795
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: You you have much more upside and trying to like

796
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: stream a guy while he's hot and then if he

797
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: gets called you just drop him, which is is the

798
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: perfect time of year to do that, whereas like earlier

799
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: in the year, you know, if it's like a you know,

800
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 1: a higher profile name, you might not want to drop

801
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: him because it's a really long season and chances, you know,

802
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: history have shown like he's probably gonna turn it around

803
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: if he's done in the past where it's like now,

804
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: like I can't.

805
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 3: Wait for you anymore.

806
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to drop MOOKI Bets for him

807
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: was a player we can talk about next, right, It's

808
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: he's kind of that, you know, like if he has

809
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: such a down season, you're like, all right, Like I

810
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: don't have any any.

811
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 3: Any longer to wait for you. Now, I'm not.

812
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: Dropping Mookie Bets, even though I wildly overpaid for him

813
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: in our Solar Cap league. It's one of the reasons

814
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: my team is no good in that league. But also

815
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 1: is he back because he has an eight game hitting

816
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: streak with five with and has multiple heads in five

817
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: of those games, and so it's only got one home

818
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: run in in that span. But I mean, I've been

819
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: kind of waiting for this all year. Is a little

820
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: bit too late for me. But also, you know, we

821
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: are in that keeper league and I can potentially trade

822
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: him if he stays hot, and I could use some

823
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: improved keepers heading in the next year. So what are

824
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: your what are your thoughts on Mookie Bets and kind

825
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: of the very weird season we've had and kind of like,

826
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: is this just a.

827
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 3: Weird year from him?

828
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: Is this kind of the beginning of a different like

829
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: era in his career? Is he in his I'm not

830
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: that good anymore era? Not to make a Taylor Swift reference,

831
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: but you know, this is a Taylor Swift episode, So uh, what.

832
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 3: Do you think?

833
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think that.

834
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 2: I think earlier in the year, remember when he like

835
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 2: lost all that weight and and there was this argument

836
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 2: like people, I don't I don't. I don't think it

837
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 2: was you necessarily, but there are people who were like

838
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 2: very cocky about it, like, oh, you lost weight, Like

839
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 2: what's the big deal.

840
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.

841
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 2: Well it's not that he started off poorly, but I mean,

842
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: for Mookie standards, he started off pretty bad and and

843
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 2: then he dropped like all the way down to two

844
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 2: well five, you had a two five in July, and

845
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: it's like, again, players of that caliber are very difficult

846
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: to know what to do with because you're not going

847
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: to drop them onto the wire. But you're also he's

848
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 2: just killing you. So yeah, I'm buying the rebound in August.

849
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 2: I think maybe he is starting to find something. And

850
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 2: also I think he's you know that Dodger's lineup is

851
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: not doing everything that they thought it was going to do.

852
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 2: And so there's a possibility that like he is kind

853
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,959
Speaker 2: of turning it around, trying to do less, like trying

854
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: to do more things, maybe like stop trying to hit

855
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 2: homers as much, worry about doubles and moving people around whatever.

856
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I'm fine with him right now,

857
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 2: but I am also glad I did not drift him

858
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: very many places, and certainly not in a salary league,

859
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 2: because he was everywhere he would have been overpriced.

860
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have to rub it in. We know,

861
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 3: we know I have him.

862
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: I paid a lot for him too, because I got

863
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: into biding war about him, and that did come up

864
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: when we were talking about it, is like are you

865
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: at all concerned about the weight loss? And I was like,

866
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: I mean, not really, but also like kind of like,

867
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm not not concerned about it, but

868
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that it's a nothing burger and then I

869
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: can get him. And I still paid a hefty price

870
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: for him. You know, we talked about what Pekron for

871
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: him might go for next year. I got him for

872
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: forty one dollars, which was probably an overpay, even even

873
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: expecting like, you know, a bounce back season for him,

874
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: because you know, he hit thirty nine home runs two

875
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: years ago and he only hit he hit nineteen one

876
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen games last year, and so I was

877
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: kind of hoping to get more of, like, you know,

878
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: full season production out of him, but like, not so much.

879
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: It's been a very weird down year. He's now thirty

880
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: two years old.

881
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 3: When is his birthday? When does he turned thirty three? October?

882
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: He turns thirty three in October, so he'll be thirty

883
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: three next season, and he's gonna be interesting one to

884
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: rank going into next season because it's like, do you

885
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: do you buy a bounce back? Or is he now

886
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: another year older? And uh, we'll have off season talk

887
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: about that, but I don't know what.

888
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 3: The answer is.

889
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't either.

890
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 3: Why don't you talk about Matt Shaw?

891
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: Because Matt Shaw has had a rollercoaster of a season

892
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: and I don't know what to make this guy. I

893
00:39:55,719 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: was very into him coming into the year, or I

894
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: was very interested in him coming in the year in

895
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: large part because you were interested in him coming in

896
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: the year, and you kind of hoodwinked me into thinking

897
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: it's awesome. No, I'm just kidding, but like, I don't know,

898
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: Matt Shaw, take it away what we got.

899
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'm like, you were interested in him,

900
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 2: and I was basically like the Cubs having no other

901
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 2: third basement, this is your guy, like have him, like

902
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 2: you might as well, You might as well put him

903
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 2: on your team and see what happens. And he rewarded

904
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 2: me by batting one seventy two in April, and then

905
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: from there it's really actually been kind of an up

906
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 2: and down month by month type of thing. But he

907
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: is one that maybe the off stripper break was helpful

908
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: because he's batted three twenty three with eight homers and

909
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 2: fourteen runs and sixteen harv eyes. And this is where

910
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 2: I mean the Cub's offense has really kind of dropped off.

911
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 2: I feel like they all hit regression at the same time,

912
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: or maybe they just started playing the Brewers more. I

913
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 2: have no idea, but I think that I'm this is

914
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 2: the Shaw that I was looking that when I was

915
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 2: telling people to get to draft him, because his numbers,

916
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 2: like his numbers in the minors, all of them were

917
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: like transferable. It wasn't this kind of all over the

918
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 2: map guy. It was like, no, he has good on

919
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: bitch signing. She has good average, and so yeah, I

920
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: mean this might be just his this is the I

921
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: figured it out portion of his rookie season. I don't

922
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: know he'll keep up what he's been doing, but I

923
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 2: think that he's a perfectly decent third basement I have

924
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 2: on your team, and I wouldn't have any problem keeping

925
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 2: him the rest of the season.

926
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: Cromulent is the word we like to use for that,

927
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: in this cromulent third basement. Yeah, he's one of those players.

928
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: He's like very exciting, and you can see all the

929
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: potential there and so now to finally kind of like

930
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 1: see it all coming together, you're hopeful that that it

931
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: that it sticks. I don't think he's gonna hit three

932
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: twenty three the rest of the year. I think that's

933
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: very unlikely. But we've seen flashes and obviously like the

934
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 1: power speed kindbo is tantalizing and so very excited and hopefully,

935
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: uh for fantasy managers and for you.

936
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 3: Cubs, he can keep it up.

937
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move over to Waivers Central, which is

938
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: normally this is when we kind of cut the first

939
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: video and we jumped to our second video. So now

940
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: let's just stay in the same video and keep calling.

941
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: So let's talk about some of our favorite hitters, our

942
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: favorite pictures to add and you know, kind of tying

943
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: it back to the strategy we just talked about. I've

944
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: always said this is kind of this is the kind of.

945
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 3: The portion of the year with waivers where I'm usually.

946
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: Streaming pictures and just finding someone with a good matchup,

947
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: or I'm taking an upside swing on someone I think

948
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: it helped me for multiple weeks or the rest of

949
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: the season. That being said, who's your hitter waiver target

950
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: of the week?

951
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,240
Speaker 2: Well, I looked up Blaise Alexander and he's only rostered

952
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: thirteen percent of leagues, And I feel like, I feel

953
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: like this is more likely to be just a hot

954
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 2: streak than anything else. But this is a hot, hot streak,

955
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 2: and so I have.

956
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: Wrote I'm hot somewhere else in the sheet.

957
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a difference between like he thought he's in

958
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: a blaze, I mean his names blaze for counting, but

959
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: I think that I want him again in that like

960
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 2: kind of middle infield spot and he's displaying power. He's

961
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 2: like the Diamondbacks are scoring some runs. And again, if

962
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: you have a struggling second base third base. Like that,

963
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 2: I start to go into the same streaming mode really,

964
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't just apply to pictures. If there's somebody

965
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 2: that I need to to dump and just ride hot hands,

966
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna go with Blaze at least for the

967
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 2: next week.

968
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 3: You think Blaze is his real name, I don't know.

969
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: I was just looking up while you're talking. It seems

970
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: like it is. It's not a nickname, which is sweet

971
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: middle name Cheney. That's a y at least I think

972
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: it's it's c H A N E E. That is

973
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: that Cheney Shane.

974
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.

975
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: I'll get back to come back, come back next week

976
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: when we learn more. Pronunciation.

977
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're normally I use like the pronunciation guy,

978
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: but that's only for U for his first name.

979
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 3: But it's you know, I don't know if that's like,

980
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 3: I don't know.

981
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: We'll go back to his nationality and the pronunciation of

982
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: that middle name. If you know in the comments, let

983
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: me know. So my favorite hitter target of the week

984
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: is someone I've been trying not to talk about all

985
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: episode because I knew I want to talk about him

986
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: in Waivers and is Jacob Marcy, who is just on

987
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: a historic start to his career. And he's one of

988
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: those players who like, he's so hot right now.

989
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 3: He's hot hot.

990
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: Right now, and this is not where I wrote it

991
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: in the sheet, but he's just.

992
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 3: It's the time of.

993
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: Year where like he's we don't know if it's real

994
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: or not, but it's really real production right now. And

995
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: so just like Adam stardom and see what happens, and

996
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: to give you give you some context there. Over his

997
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: first thirteen games, he's batting four thirty six with three

998
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: home runs and six tolen bases and an eighteen point

999
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: eight percent walk rate and eighteen point eight percent strike rate,

1000
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: so good strike out rate, really really good walk rate.

1001
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: And in the minors in tripa A this year, ninety

1002
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: eight games, still forty seven bases, and so he was

1003
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: already kind of on my radar because of the speed.

1004
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: But now I don't know, he looks like an MVP

1005
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: candidate out there. I don't think this is going to

1006
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: keep up, but also like very intriguing, like not a

1007
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: highly tauted prospect.

1008
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 3: He was in the Dragon blank.

1009
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: Was he in the Luis Arias trade? I think that's

1010
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: the trade. He was in with the Padres that the

1011
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: Marlins got him from.

1012
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was in the Luis Oriaz trade last May.

1013
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: He was in that really early big trade, and just like, yeah,

1014
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: it's fascinating to me, especially the fact that not a

1015
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: highly touted prospect, but it feels like he's not this good.

1016
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: He's not going to bet four thirty six. He's probably

1017
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: not going to bet three thirty six. He might not

1018
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: bet two fifty six.

1019
00:45:59,000 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1020
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: But what's really interesting about him is he gets on base,

1021
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: like incredible plate discipline and steals bases and so like,

1022
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: if you can get on base and steel bases, like

1023
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: you got a spot on my line up before sure.

1024
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: And I I was looking at his profile and trying

1025
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: to figure out, like, why is he not that good

1026
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: in the minors and like might be awesome in the majors,

1027
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: And the conspiracy theory theorist in me kind of came

1028
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: out a little bit, and I was wondering, and this,

1029
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: you know, there's like a zero point one percent chance

1030
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: this is this is was actually true, but I was.

1031
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 3: Just like thinking about it.

1032
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: And we talk about the difference between major league pitching

1033
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: and what we're seeing in the miners and how different

1034
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: it is, and then we see someone with elite plate

1035
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: discipline like this, What if now that he's in the

1036
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: major leagues, he's just seeing higher quality pitchers who are

1037
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: in the zone more often, and it's just matching up

1038
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: perfectly with his approach to the plate. Whereas in the

1039
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: miners he had this really good plate discipline, but like

1040
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: the pitchers are all over the place and he's kind

1041
00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: of just like taking his walks. But like the batting

1042
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: average is offering. Maybe if like he's the rare player

1043
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: where the proof pitching is kind of good for him

1044
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: because they're they're in and around the zone more often

1045
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: with matches with his batting eye and like, like I said,

1046
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: zero point zero one percent chance that's true.

1047
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 3: That's true.

1048
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: But like if I were a conspiracy theorist, which is

1049
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: not exactly what we're doing here, But like, I don't know,

1050
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 1: maybe he's awesome.

1051
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 3: What do you think?

1052
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I'm sure that he has a

1053
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 2: five nineteen Babbitt, so let's start there, so you know, yeah,

1054
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 2: he's got a great batters. I you know, in his

1055
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 2: his ISO is four thirty six, which is I mean,

1056
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: these are they're video game numbers.

1057
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 4: I don't play video games.

1058
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 2: I don't even know if you can actually achieve that

1059
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: in a video games well.

1060
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: Real, real quick, not to interrupt you, that like the

1061
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: video game comparison is like why I thought about this,

1062
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: because like I play will be the show sometimes and

1063
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: sometimes there were like really like I'm like a very

1064
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: impatient hitter, and sometimes there were like lousy pitchers who

1065
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: were just like missing their spots and like all the

1066
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: plays and like I struggle against them, whereas like the

1067
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: awesome guys who are like in they're in the zone

1068
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm like this this is easy, so like

1069
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: of extremely imperfect comparison, but that is one of the

1070
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: reasons I.

1071
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 2: Thought about Yeah, I mean, and I say, I see

1072
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: what you're saying, and I think, like you said, like

1073
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 2: if play discipline is his saying, the other thing about

1074
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 2: it is the nasty, nasty breaking stuff. He would just

1075
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 2: be like he might be better at like recognizing and

1076
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: laying off, or he might be closing his eyes and

1077
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:27,439
Speaker 2: swinging and getting really really lucky. So we're not we're

1078
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,959
Speaker 2: not really sure. A thirteen game sample size is really

1079
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: out there, but I think I'm with you with regard

1080
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 2: to you know that he's gonna steal bases if he

1081
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 2: gets on and it's Miami, he's gonna play, So you

1082
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 2: might as well pick him up if you need an outfielder,

1083
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: especially like five outfielder leagues. If he's out there, and

1084
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 2: again you have somebody that's just I don't care how

1085
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 2: big his name is. It's just tanking and not being

1086
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 2: like what you need him to be. Swap him out

1087
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: and see what happens.

1088
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a chance, sorry, there's a very real

1089
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: chance Jacob Jake Marcy turns back into a pumpkin in

1090
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: like four days. You already mentioned the bad bit is

1091
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: five nineteen home run to fly ball thirty three point

1092
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: three percent, the third of his his fly balls have

1093
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: gotten out of the park right now, sixty percent hard

1094
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: hit rate, three point eight percent swinging strike. It was

1095
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: seven point seven in the miners. Yeah, these are not

1096
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 1: real numbers. There's not gonna it's it's just small sample

1097
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: sized stuff. But it's extremely fun, small sample sized stuff

1098
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: right now. And what really excites me about him is

1099
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: we'll we just talked about the play discipline.

1100
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 3: He gets on bas and he steals faces. That tells

1101
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 3: me there's.

1102
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: A floor here, and it's not just someone like that,

1103
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to worry about cutting and I think

1104
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: the Marlins are more than happy to see what they

1105
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: have in him the rest of the season, So numbers

1106
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: are going to really come back down to earth.

1107
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 3: But also I think even when they do.

1108
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: I think we might have a valuable player in Fantasy

1109
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: here and then the bonus name. I'm not gonna spend

1110
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: a ton of time on him, but Ben Rice is

1111
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: still pretty widely available, and the biggest issue for him

1112
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: has kind of been playing time, and it sounds like

1113
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: Paul gould Schmid might go on the al As. By

1114
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: the time you listen to this, we'll probably know if

1115
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: he's going on the IL and if he does, more

1116
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: playing time for Ben Rice, which is very good in

1117
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium.

1118
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 3: Why don't you tell me about your favorite picture in

1119
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 3: the history of the world.

1120
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 2: I mean, and he is my favorite picture in the

1121
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 2: history of the world. So it's a difficult thing. But

1122
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 2: Clayton Krisha gets the Rockies this week, and I feel

1123
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 2: like the way he's been pitching of late, I would

1124
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 2: have no problems starting.

1125
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 4: Him, you know.

1126
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: He he kind of started off looking really weird, but

1127
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 2: now he's like really kind of come back to earth.

1128
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 2: He's not going to strike out everybody like he used to,

1129
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 2: but he he's I feel like he's entered the possible

1130
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 2: crafty old guy who's figuring out how to like do this.

1131
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 2: And I just don't think you have to be that

1132
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 2: crafty to get to the Rockies line up. So it's

1133
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 2: in Colorado, which but again, I don't know if that

1134
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 2: means anything anymore. So I have no problem. He's only

1135
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 2: rostered in thirty nine percent of the league, so I

1136
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 2: would no issue giving him a shot.

1137
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's fine.

1138
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: I would feel I feel a little bit better if

1139
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't as old and as you know, having to

1140
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: be as crafty. But you know this, this would be

1141
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: the kind of time where he would shine for the

1142
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers when they really need him. And uh yeah,

1143
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: thirty seven years. Thirty seven years, I actually would have

1144
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,439
Speaker 1: guess he was older than that. He feels like he's

1145
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: been around for like a millionaires three point one four

1146
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: e ra has he been doing recently. He's actually been

1147
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: pitching deeper into games that I expected. Two straight quality starts,

1148
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: six innings, one earned run over over twelve last twelve innings.

1149
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 3: It's not bad.

1150
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: I get down that one of them against the Blue Jays,

1151
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: all right, that's Grafty. I get down with that. My

1152
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 1: name is one that I'm very interested in because he

1153
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: just returned. So Christian Haavier just returned from Tommy Johnson.

1154
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: He faced the Red Sox in his first start, and

1155
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: it didn't get off through a great start, but then

1156
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: he settled in and he looked good and there were

1157
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: some interesting things. His velocity was up, which is big

1158
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: for him, and so the last time we saw a

1159
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: person in Javier, his fastball was sitting around ninety one

1160
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: point seven miles an hour. He was up nine to

1161
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: ninety three point five, so almost two full miles an

1162
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: hour on his fastball. The other thing, he added a

1163
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: sinker that he was throwing ninety three miles an hour,

1164
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: and he had never thrown a sinker before. He only

1165
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: threw twelve in the start, but that's twelve more than

1166
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: he's ever thrown in his life, and so that was interesting.

1167
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: His slider is now being classified as a sweeper, but

1168
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of always been a sweeper, just

1169
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: we didn't really talk about sweepers last time he was around, and.

1170
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1171
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: It was interesting enough where like I think, like there's

1172
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: a possibility that like he also turns back into a pumpkin,

1173
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: because he hasn't been good in a few years, but

1174
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: he used to be really good. And so I'm wondering, like,

1175
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: is this just like some short term velocity coming back

1176
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: for tomy john surgery or has he found two more ticks?

1177
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: And if he has, he might be interesting. And so

1178
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I'm very interested in

1179
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: adding him just to see. I might even add him

1180
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: and put him on my bench for a week and

1181
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: just like see what happens and see if this is

1182
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: this is this is not me doing what I said

1183
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: before and like streaming like pick up a guy, stream him,

1184
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: drop him. This is me like sayingly, this is interesting,

1185
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: Like let's see if this is the thing for the

1186
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: rest of the season. So I might I wonder who

1187
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: is he facing this week? I probably should have looked

1188
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: at that for it started talking about him.

1189
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 3: He has the Orioles, so.

1190
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that matchup. So I might start him

1191
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: against the Orioles just because it was interesting enough. And

1192
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: I also the organization matches up well for this because

1193
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: we talked about how bad they are with injuries with

1194
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: their hitters, but they're also very good at developing pictures

1195
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: and getting the most out of their pictures, and so

1196
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: it feels like if there was an organization to get

1197
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: the most out of Christian Javier, it's probably you know,

1198
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: the Astros are probably one of the top five teams.

1199
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: So any interest, I'll throw the other one. We already

1200
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: talked about him earlier in the video of Brian and Bray.

1201
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: Looks like he's gonna be the closer in Houston, at

1202
00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: least for the short term. So he's my bonus arm.

1203
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 1: But what do you think about Christian havevier, Yeah.

1204
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 4: I have about this.

1205
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 2: I'm kind of in the same intrigue boat where I'm

1206
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 2: again one hundred percent fine picking him up, seeing where

1207
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 2: it goes, seeing if it does stick. Like when they

1208
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 2: come back from Tommy John. Sometimes they throw harder and

1209
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 2: lose control. Sometimes they have only control and they lose

1210
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 2: their Velossie and he I just want to see where

1211
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 2: he falls in that because I loved him before he

1212
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 2: went down, like he was one of my favorite pictures

1213
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 2: to the Rosters. So yeah, I'm I'm willing and I'm

1214
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 2: the Oriolestal scare Metal.

1215
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 1: So m that sounds good. Some deep league targets before

1216
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: we move around to pitching streamers. Owen Casey from your Cubs,

1217
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: anything on Owen Casey. I put him as deep leagues.

1218
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna want him in standard retro leagues.

1219
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 2: No, No, these I think all four of these names

1220
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 2: are like fifteen teen league type of thing.

1221
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, there's the other name I wrote for hot

1222
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: hot Miguel Andhar's hot hot right now. But I think

1223
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: this is like a this is exactly what we're talking about.

1224
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: This is a short term he's hot. Pick them up,

1225
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: start him. If he shows any signs of cooling off,

1226
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: drop him, because he's going to turn back into Miguel Atahar.

1227
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: At some point, Nolan McLain calls up being called up

1228
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: for the Mets. He's an intriguing deep league arm if

1229
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 1: you just need innings. I'm in a couple of deep

1230
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: leagues where I'm mostly just streaming for innings and you know,

1231
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: kind of racking up some of the stats, trying to

1232
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 1: hope the law of large numbers works in my favor

1233
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: without killing my ratios. And then Evan Carter, another deep

1234
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: league name. Because of the adeles Garcia injury, he's back

1235
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: up a little bit of speed potential there and now

1236
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,600
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1237
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:33,880
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1238
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1239
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:36,960
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1240
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1241
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,279
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00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:47,520
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1243
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: final segment of our show pitching streamers and our two

1244
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: start pitching competition, which we'll get to, why don't you

1245
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: take me through the week of your starting pitcher streaming

1246
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: since you have so graciously taking this task from me.

1247
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 2: All right, So I use the I use the streaming

1248
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 2: tool every time I do this. It's and it's almost

1249
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 2: always the guy at the top the VVR wise, but

1250
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 2: you know, matchups really matters. And in this case, uh yeah,

1251
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 2: Michael Walker is actually one of the higher ranked vvrs

1252
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 2: and he's only thirty two percent rostered. Uh and he

1253
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 2: gets Texas at home. Texas has been a little bit better.

1254
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 2: But I am like his numbers. Waker's numbers were actually

1255
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 2: way better than I expected them to be. So I'm

1256
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 2: okay streaming him. We're gonna do We're gonna do some

1257
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 2: throwback Tuesday Wednesday, so.

1258
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 4: On on Tuesday.

1259
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 2: I've got sure's are going at Pittsburgh.

1260
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 3: All year. Refuses to acknowledge it.

1261
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not.

1262
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan. I mean, his ari is

1263
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 2: a little gross, but his whip is good. He's still

1264
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 2: striking out more than a batter Prayning and Pitts, and

1265
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 2: sometimes I think the Pittsburgh writers themselves strike out more

1266
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 2: than one time Perenning. So I feel like that's a

1267
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:05,240
Speaker 2: nice matchup for him. I'm looking at Sandy al Contra

1268
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 2: versus Saint Louis. I. It's a tough one, but that

1269
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 2: day was kind of ugly, so I think that's kind

1270
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 2: of that's where I fell. He was he was the

1271
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 2: highest VBR that met our roster criteria. I'm not starting

1272
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 2: landing groupe against San Diego. And we talked about Joey

1273
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 2: Cantio a little bit last week where that whip is

1274
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 2: just so awful. But then he went out and through

1275
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 2: like eight innings or something like that. But then he

1276
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 2: only struck out three, So you know, it's great when

1277
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 2: I talk about a player and say he's just going

1278
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 2: to give you strikeouts and instead he does the exact opposite.

1279
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 4: But it was a good start, so I'm I was.

1280
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 2: Gonna go there, but I thought, let's let's really dance

1281
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 2: with the double and go a contra at home, Lewis.

1282
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 2: We already talked about Kershaw on Thursday. He's got scheduled

1283
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 2: to face the Rockies. I'm good as that. On Friday,

1284
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 2: it was very interesting by a VBR that is Eddie

1285
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: Matthews was like he was like highly ranked here in

1286
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 2: terms of that day's streamers and he gets the White

1287
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 2: Sox at Chicago. He's not one that I'm super excited

1288
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: about in general, Like I think we talked about a

1289
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 2: little bit last week where yeah, he's he's a decent

1290
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 2: option I think to pick up, but don't be like

1291
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 2: he's not going to anchor your staff by any stretch.

1292
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 2: And the Twins are such a they're such a crapshoot

1293
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 2: right now as well, like whether he'd pick up a

1294
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 2: win there, but I think he will have a good outing,

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Speaker 2: or at least Fantasy pros thinks he will, so I'm

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Speaker 2: going with it. On Saturday, I picked Eric Lawer. He

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Speaker 2: is going to Miami kind of the same thing. He's

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Speaker 2: a ratio guy, but he's also struck out one batter

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Speaker 2: per inning and and Miami's, you know, kind of that

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Speaker 2: middle range of what are we facing. Will Marcy have

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Speaker 2: already cooled off by then, or will his five nineteen

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Speaker 2: babbitt continue against Flower like it's you know, you're getting

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Speaker 2: you're getting it down there, but he was one of

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Speaker 2: the higher ranks and I didn't mind it at that point.

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Speaker 2: And then yeah, to close it out, we've got Cad

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Speaker 2: Horton against the Angels on Sunday, and the Angels love

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Speaker 2: to strike out like that is one of their favorite activities.

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Speaker 2: And again we I don't want to turn into the

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Speaker 2: Cad Horton show, but I until he shows that she's

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Speaker 2: something that says, don't start him if he's not rostered

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Speaker 2: in too many leagues at all, So I would have

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Speaker 2: no problem picking him up for that.

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Speaker 1: Eric Lauer famously received some shade on on an internal

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Speaker 1: meeting call the other day where we were talking, you know,

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Speaker 1: not to unveil all the big news, but we have

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Speaker 1: a very fun new homepage or a home like a

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Speaker 1: home feed coming out on the familyspros dot com.

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Speaker 3: A homepage.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be coming out in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's really exciting. So we had a kind of a

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Speaker 1: demo call with the product team. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: when at this point, my brain doesn't work anymore. I

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00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: think it was earlier this week, maybe Monday, and they

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Speaker 1: were just kind of like going through the feed and

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Speaker 1: like showing us all the cool stuff, and there was,

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Speaker 1: you know, someone asked like, oh, should we be you know,

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Speaker 1: really showing this Eric Lawer news blurb like this highly

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Speaker 1: in the feed. I was like, whoa Eric Lower is

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Speaker 1: having a great year, Like, let's not let's not subscribe

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Speaker 1: to Eric Eric Lawer eraser here he's having a great year.

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Speaker 1: So I wrote down a couple of names. While you

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Speaker 1: were talking on Monday, Do you have any interest in

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Speaker 1: Nestor Cortez against the Giants now that Nestor Cartez is

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Speaker 1: back his first start was fine?

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Speaker 2: Any interest there, yes, because the Giants are atrocious and

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01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 2: slufties like they're terrible.

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Speaker 3: Fail devers factor.

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Speaker 4: That's what happened.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know if Cortez i don't. I don't

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Speaker 2: necessarily trust him, but yeah, i'll start any Lufty against

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Speaker 2: the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't trust him either. The other name, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be careful with this one. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: pronounce it wrong. Cam Schalettler. I'm gonna be careful pronouncing

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Speaker 1: that one. What day did I see him? He is

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Speaker 1: Wednesday against the Rays. Any interest in that one? It

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Speaker 1: is in Tampa, though, I guess it doesn't matter because

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Speaker 1: they have the same ballpark.

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Speaker 2: Exactly this not as much I that I in that ballpark.

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Speaker 2: It's I feel like it's a little too small, and

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Speaker 2: he's going up against Boil for the race. So I

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Speaker 2: I did look at him, but I'm not I stayed

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Speaker 2: away from it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been quietly solid his last few starts. Only

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Speaker 1: he's only gone five innues each of them, but only

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Speaker 1: one one in run, two in run, two in runs,

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Speaker 1: and then six strikeouts, three strikeouts, six strikeouts.

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Speaker 3: So he's done some things.

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Speaker 1: I think in deep deeper leagues I would have some

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Speaker 1: interest there. All right, let's get to the two star

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Speaker 1: pitcher competition to close things out, and we'll start with

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Speaker 1: last week's results, where I had Hayesus Lezardo and Worm

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Speaker 1: had Casey Mayes, and I collaborated him. I won even

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Speaker 1: You know, we use Worm likes to use his corrupt

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Speaker 1: league's points system, so I used that, and I was

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Speaker 1: gonna I was going to check it against another points

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Speaker 1: league that but it was far enough apart that I

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Speaker 1: didn't think I'd ever really needed to. Casus Walzardo got

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Speaker 1: thirty three point five points, Casey Meies got twenty six

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Speaker 1: point seven points. Lizardo twelve innings pitch twelve, hits four

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Speaker 1: and runs, one walk, eleven strikeouts, two quality starts. Myz

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Speaker 1: eleven innings pitch seven, hits five and runs, two walks,

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Speaker 1: nine strikeouts, one qualter start. Feels like not a domination,

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Speaker 1: but a pretty clear victory for me. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to take the win there unless you object. It did

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Speaker 1: not object perfect, So now that means the current standings

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Speaker 1: are seven, seven and two, so it is a tie.

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Speaker 1: So all the pressure is on you to close out

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Speaker 1: things strong. Week eighteen, George Kirby against Chris Paddock. Did

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Speaker 1: you pick Paddock or was that Worm's final pick?

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Speaker 2: I picked Paddock because he had already started everyone else.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so so mys was Worm's final pick, so we

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Speaker 1: left in a tie with Worm leaving the show. So

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Speaker 1: it is all up to you to see if you

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Speaker 1: can win. So week eighteen we have George Kirby against

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Speaker 1: Chris Paddock, and then this upcoming week we have Freddy

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Speaker 1: b I almost gave it away. I thought there was

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01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: another another list I was missing there, but I'm just

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01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,439
Speaker 1: looking at the current one. So why don't you tell

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Speaker 1: me who you're picking this week in the two star

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Speaker 1: pitcher competition? And I will say I almost picked it

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Speaker 1: as well, until I saw that you had already done it.

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Speaker 2: And that's the beauty of gain in the show sheet

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01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,439
Speaker 2: before you. But yeah, I was excited because he hadn't

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Speaker 2: picked him. So Yoshinobu, yeah is it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yamamoto, he gets he's going to Colorado, which we talked about.

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Speaker 2: He's going to San Diego after that. But I looked

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Speaker 2: up his splits and his numbers on the road are

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Speaker 2: actually seeing it feeling better than at home, so and

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01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 2: that that series against San Diego is going to be big,

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Speaker 2: So I think that I think he will be solid

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 1: I was actually considering once I saw that you already

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Speaker 1: picked Yamamoto.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna. I was gonna.

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Speaker 1: Message you in worm and Slack and say, is there

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01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: any rule against me also picking Yamamoto and just punting

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01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 1: the week as a tie. It's just like making sure

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Speaker 1: that you burn Yama, I burn Yamamoto, and I don't

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Speaker 1: have to go up against him this week. I thought

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Speaker 1: that might be a fun display of games and shit,

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01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: but I also figured the audience might not appreciate that.

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01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: So for the sake of the game, for the sake

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Speaker 1: of the audience, because we love you, I'm going with

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01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta at the Cubs, who have been que quieted

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Speaker 1: down on offense, as you mentioned, and then versus the Giants,

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01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: and Freddy Perralta has been hot, so I'm hoping that

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Speaker 1: he can take down Yamamoto. Even though I really wanted

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01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: to also start Yamamoto and just lock in a tie

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01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 1: for this week because I thought that would have been.

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Speaker 2: Hilarious, especially since we're tied. But then I'll I'm just

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01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 2: gonna do that the rest of this eason. You'll enter

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Speaker 2: your guy, I'll just enter the same guy.

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01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 4: We'll just end up tide. So yeah, yeah, I'm okay

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Speaker 4: with the tie, and we could do it.

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Speaker 1: All right, anything else where we close things out.

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Speaker 4: Nope, I think that that is all I have to

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01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 4: say about baseball.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well we did it. We packed a lot

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Speaker 1: into one show. We didn't go too long. I feel

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01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: like this was the perfect length. Again, thank you to

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Speaker 1: all the listeners. Feel free to hop in the comments.

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Speaker 1: the season, a lot of people are turning their attention

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Speaker 1: All right, let's close it out there before we get

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Speaker 1: too silly.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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