Speaker 1: It's time for a little bit of leading off.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good afternoon, and maybe good night.
Speaker 1: To listen to the podcast version of it, I am
Speaker 1: your host today, Chris Welsh.
Speaker 2: It's a Chris Chris show.
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Speaker 1: stuff from podcasting to articles, to prospect coverage and more.
Speaker 1: You can get all that cool stuff with Chris and
Speaker 1: he's gonna be hanging with me today. We've got some debuts,
Speaker 1: we have some big performances and you know, funny thing,
Speaker 1: the very first comment in the chat made me chuckle
Speaker 1: behind the scenes here because dang wrote, I only had
Speaker 1: two guys playing yesterday and they both went over four.
Speaker 1: Those like those low output games always kind of kill
Speaker 1: me a little bit. You know, days where it's like
Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs, you're rocking, and like five teams
Speaker 1: play and you could might only have a handful of
Speaker 1: guys going on that day, especially when you have no
Speaker 1: starters going and all of your bad hitters are all
Speaker 1: your bad hitters are the ones going, not the good ones,
Speaker 1: and you're sitting here and you're just like, what am
Speaker 1: I supposed to do? Cleg, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2: That's tough.
Speaker 3: Yesterday kind of a tough day all around. So looking
Speaker 3: forward to a good Friday slate though. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: a good one, good weekend hopefully for all the listeners
Speaker 3: out there. I know it's playoff time for head to
Speaker 3: head leagues, kind of the finals treads for roto leagues
Speaker 3: hitting that peak time, and hey people, some people were
Speaker 3: checking out for fantasy football. So if you're still listening
Speaker 3: to this, props to you. I'm glad you're with us
Speaker 3: and looking forward to the show today.
Speaker 1: We're still rocking it TL. This week we were talking
Speaker 1: about some weekend streamers, which weekend streamers are kind of
Speaker 1: tough this weekend. If you're trying to put something out
Speaker 1: there's not a ton I'd say I think Heasley's going today.
Speaker 1: I kind of like him. He went eight last time
Speaker 1: he minutes against the Tigers, didn't strike out a whole bunch,
Speaker 1: but went eight. He's been pretty decent. Jordan Lyles is
Speaker 1: scheduled to go Sunday. He was set to be a
Speaker 1: two starter this week but he had that pushed. So
Speaker 1: there's a couple guys out there. There's not a whole
Speaker 1: bunch that you can put together, but it does seem
Speaker 1: like there are some decent two starters next week. If
Speaker 1: you're going really really deep, you know, guy like Cole
Speaker 1: Reagan's might be a guy. But there are a few
Speaker 1: that you can dig into. But let's talk about what
Speaker 1: went down yesterday. Yo Malcatta, now, Yo Mancatta out to
Speaker 1: I hit dow Homa, hit a couple of Tom Holmas.
Speaker 1: When I get like that, and whenever I said ya Ancotta,
Speaker 1: bagman pointed something out to me that I can be
Speaker 1: relatively articulate while also saying things really stupid. But there
Speaker 1: are a couple names that turn me into a different person.
Speaker 1: Cal Rally col Rally turns me into a different person
Speaker 1: when I say his name, And Yo Mancotta, Yo Mancotta, now,
Speaker 1: Yo Mancatta went five for six yesterday, hit two homers,
Speaker 1: five rbi as the White Sox beat the As fourteen
Speaker 1: to two. Dylan Seese was pretty good himself. Moncatta has
Speaker 1: been such a distant thought this year, almost a non factor.
Speaker 1: If Moncotta pick it up through the back end of
Speaker 1: this last month, do you think there'd be anything going
Speaker 1: into next week or next year for you?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I have him seen on the bench in a
Speaker 3: twenty team dynasty league and this where you can.
Speaker 1: Missed that yesterday. So that was happen in place of him?
Speaker 3: About that, because that's how I feel, Yeah, exactly, that's
Speaker 3: how bad he's been this year. Then a twenty team
Speaker 3: I'd even feel he was startable in a full roto lineup.
Speaker 2: Thats middle and corner and all that.
Speaker 3: Let me see, I don't know, he's just been so
Speaker 3: bad that it's kind of just been. I had Bregmann
Speaker 3: over him, but then in the middle infield is crazy enough.
Speaker 1: Sorry, corner and field, I had Keston g Heer over him.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, So that's the big key right there.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the point. Moncotta hit two eleven so
Speaker 1: far this year. That was more than twenty percent of
Speaker 1: his homer output in that single game, and it's closing
Speaker 1: in on over it's actually a little bit over ten
Speaker 1: percent of his RBI production. All happened in the one game.
Speaker 1: That's how bad he's been. He's just been trash on
Speaker 1: the year. Strike up presentage has been up, doesn't walk anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a good outlier, but it's not necessarily anything to
Speaker 1: get excited about. Wouldn't be surprised if he's out on
Speaker 1: the wire. Corvid Burns struck out fourteen while throwing eight
Speaker 1: innings of one run ball as they beat up on
Speaker 1: the Giants. It was part of a first on the doubleheader.
Speaker 1: You know, not to get Nutty into this, but Corvid
Speaker 1: Burns with those big outputs. Dylan Ceese has been solid.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's any consensus on what the top
Speaker 1: sp looks like for next year? Like number one, number two?
Speaker 1: Even if I gave you top one and two because
Speaker 1: McClanahan with the injury and the kind of little bit
Speaker 1: of a falloff to Gram has comeback, there's Verlander. Do
Speaker 1: you think there's any consensus of who belongs on the
Speaker 1: top two or do you think it might be a
Speaker 1: bigger clump of like five guys.
Speaker 2: It could be a big clump.
Speaker 3: But if de Gram stays healthy the rest of the
Speaker 3: season and pitches well, then I have a hard time
Speaker 3: seeing anybody but him at the top. But I mean
Speaker 3: you could like Burns is obviously going through a rough patch,
Speaker 3: but yesterday he looked the part again so he could
Speaker 3: find his way back up in there. But I think
Speaker 3: you're right. I think if de Grom's healthy, he's won.
Speaker 3: But then after that's kind of a clump of guys
Speaker 3: that could go any anywhere from like two to six
Speaker 3: to seven.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's I.
Speaker 1: Think it's going to be interesting. I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: be the guy that wants the end of a tier.
Speaker 1: If I'm going to be targeting, I probably don't want
Speaker 1: to start the tier of the pictures. But between Burns
Speaker 1: and you know, you can throw Cole in there, and
Speaker 1: McClanahan and maybe cease de Grom. You can even throw
Speaker 1: o who am I for? I mean, I said Verlander,
Speaker 1: Oh al Contra, even though he's been tapering back a
Speaker 1: little bit, like I'll probably want the back end of
Speaker 1: a tier and Spencer Strider him him on top of
Speaker 1: whatever the other guy is is, can it probably be
Speaker 1: my taste?
Speaker 2: kN rose Thal and Evandrelitcha.
Speaker 1: The Athletic had reported that there was some expectations of
Speaker 1: new rules, but Every Baseball Writer reported probably about ten
Speaker 1: minutes ago that the new rule changes have been enacted
Speaker 1: and they will take place in twenty and thirteen all
Speaker 1: the new rules are going to be no shifting. That's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest rule in here. There's there's gonna be
Speaker 1: versions of shifting, but not like we know it. There's
Speaker 1: got to be a believe two guys on the one
Speaker 1: side of second base, so it's really going to kind
Speaker 1: of take that away. There's also a pitch clock, which
Speaker 1: Chris and I have both experienced for quite a few
Speaker 1: years here with the minor leagues, and the AFAFL is
Speaker 1: actually the first time that they experimented with it a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and the Arison a fall league,
Speaker 1: we both know that. And then they are going to
Speaker 1: expand the base paths from fifteen to eighteen inches. So
Speaker 1: and he takes on the new rules and what I
Speaker 1: mean really it's this is probably just about the shift
Speaker 1: and what that's going to do to baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I started doing a little more analysis on
Speaker 3: shift last night and just looking at guys who have
Speaker 3: struggling babbitts against the shift. And you know, the top
Speaker 3: name that came up was Kyle Tucker running a two
Speaker 3: forty seven babbit against the shift and a four to
Speaker 3: fifty seven babbit against non shifted and he's only he
Speaker 3: gets shifted ninety one percent of the time.
Speaker 2: But another one that popped up that was interesting was
Speaker 2: m J. Melndez.
Speaker 3: He gets shifted about seventy five percent of the time
Speaker 3: two oh three Babbitt against four to eleven Babbo without
Speaker 3: the shifts. So there's some fun other fun names on
Speaker 3: this top of this list, like Cody Bellinger. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure you know what even to make of him at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 1: Was not very fun, but I know what you're saying here, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be kind of probably be the big thing, the
Speaker 1: big kind of buzzy article to write this offseason will
Speaker 1: be the players that will benefit from the lack of
Speaker 1: a shift, and you just kind of you gave us
Speaker 1: a tease to one him. J. Melndez might be one
Speaker 1: of those players that it's not going to show up
Speaker 1: on the statuet or anything like that, but they are
Speaker 1: going There are going to be players that are going
Speaker 1: to benefit from teams not being able to do these
Speaker 1: massive shifts and if the players can take part in it.
Speaker 1: So very interesting stuff, very interesting stuff. The base paths,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe for stealing. You know, it's the little
Speaker 1: quarter inch that's going to help a few guys out
Speaker 1: there and the clock. If anything, the clock is just
Speaker 1: for us to go to games. It just believe me,
Speaker 1: I know, I think I saw you tweet about it
Speaker 1: like it's just a good thing, like it speeds the
Speaker 1: games up. I got no issues with it. It is
Speaker 1: rough when you get pitchers that don't want to follow
Speaker 1: the rules and then they start getting thrown like you know,
Speaker 1: an extra strike and stuff like that, and they get pissy.
Speaker 1: I've definitely seen that as they've adjusted, but they just
Speaker 1: quick the games go quicker. It's not a bad thing, no,
Speaker 1: it's It's been highly enjoyable this year. A two hour
Speaker 1: minor league game is fantastic, like get in and out
Speaker 1: like and you still see the same amount of baseball.
Speaker 2: It's just a better pace of play.
Speaker 3: There's the lack of batter stepping out and adjusting his
Speaker 3: batting gloves every pitch, like you don't see that as
Speaker 3: much now. It's gonna be an adjustment for some Like
Speaker 3: I remember at the AFL last year, we were sitting
Speaker 3: there and Spencer Torklsen was he stepped out of the
Speaker 3: box I think it was, and they called him out
Speaker 3: it was a third strike. And I remember Hans Krause
Speaker 3: yelling at the umpire. Yeah, Hans Krause yelled at the umpire.
Speaker 2: Let him hit. This is what we're here to do.
Speaker 2: But they struck him out on it.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen any violations this year, but it could
Speaker 3: be an adjustment for at least some of the vets
Speaker 3: that have never experienced it before, so it could be interesting.
Speaker 1: I wish I could find it real quick. It's such
Speaker 1: a funny, interesting video. But if you guys want, go
Speaker 1: onto my Twitter. I think you go on like the
Speaker 1: mobile apps, you can do a search and if you
Speaker 1: go under mine, probably type in Hans Krause, because I
Speaker 1: don't think I've tweeted about Hans Krause since then. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pitching. I'm right dead center. I'm filming it and
Speaker 1: Torcosen steps out and they call him out and you
Speaker 1: can literally hear Kraus go just let him hit, just
Speaker 1: like like he didn't want the bat like they all
Speaker 1: did not like that. And those are the things that
Speaker 1: they need to kind of figure out. And those are
Speaker 1: potentially a few things you might see. It's gonna get
Speaker 1: a little bit more testy in the majors. Just pointing
Speaker 1: that out lastly, on the headline stuff. Josh Young is
Speaker 1: going to make his major league debut today, at least
Speaker 1: that is what is scheduled. Then I'm not gonna have
Speaker 1: any official lineups or anything like that, but I like
Speaker 1: to get your take on Josh Young. We've seen Tristicasis,
Speaker 1: we've seen totally not that Tristicassas is closer to Josh
Speaker 1: Young than totally as totally as a big power guy,
Speaker 1: Cosses can put up some batting average. Best of the
Speaker 1: contact hitters is Josh Young had a great power output
Speaker 1: for a short period of time in Triple A. I
Speaker 1: think he hit six in Triple A, has nine total
Speaker 1: in the minors. His batting average dipped pretty greatly though.
Speaker 1: He's only got about one hundred and twenty four at
Speaker 1: bats under his belt over the last year and a
Speaker 1: half due to injury, and he's already making his major
Speaker 1: league debut. So what's your take on Josh Young and
Speaker 1: the AGGRESSIVENESSUE would be? You know, if you were sitting
Speaker 1: out for people right now, I think.
Speaker 3: He's definitely worth an ad in a fifteen team for
Speaker 3: rest of season. He certainly looks the part. And I
Speaker 3: didn't really know what to expect with him coming back
Speaker 3: from a shoulder injury, especially this year. I mean long term,
Speaker 3: really didn't have any concerns about him, but he's come
Speaker 3: back and really looked the part he's hit for the power,
Speaker 3: which that was kind of the concern, like what kind
Speaker 3: of power output would he have post shoulder surgery. The
Speaker 3: field of hits always been there, good contact skills, and
Speaker 3: I think there's plus power in the tank as well. Obviously,
Speaker 3: it's kind of a mixed bag as to what you
Speaker 3: get every time a prospect comes up, so it's tough
Speaker 3: to say with young, especially coming back from injury, but
Speaker 3: I am willing to take a shot on him. He
Speaker 3: makes this Rangers lineup significantly better and he should play
Speaker 3: every single day. I can't imagine him not like who's
Speaker 3: blocking him at third base. So I'm definitely about adding
Speaker 3: him and seeing where it goes at this point. So
Speaker 3: there's definitely the upside for him to be a solid contributor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm trying to see if going over it.
Speaker 1: Look, he's projected to hit eight tonight. That's the projection
Speaker 1: that I'm seeing on the lineup this according to Fantasy Labs,
Speaker 1: and I pull it up they've got Simeon Seeger Lowe,
Speaker 1: adoles him, Tavares, Cole Young, and then Josh Young, so
Speaker 1: he and hitting, I mean, hitting between Cole Young and
Speaker 1: Bobba Thompson is not the worst thing in the world,
Speaker 1: you know. Lastly, just on that, I just point out
Speaker 1: like I was pretty impressed with how he looked athletically,
Speaker 1: because I've seen him a whole lot but mainly just
Speaker 1: walking around the backfield with a sling on his arm.
Speaker 1: Looked like he trimmed up. He was faster than I remember.
Speaker 1: He's got a really good path to the ball. It's
Speaker 1: just I personally think he's stuck between trying to become
Speaker 1: a power hitter and continuously being the contact hitter. And
Speaker 1: we'll see how that translates tonight. He's not the type
Speaker 1: of guy I would project like he's going to hit
Speaker 1: a homer in his first at bat. But I do
Speaker 1: think he's going to get a hit tonight. So if
Speaker 1: I would be tempted if there was like a prop
Speaker 1: out there, if it was like one, you know, a half,
Speaker 1: I would probably be tempted to take it. With Josh
Speaker 1: Young getting a hit tonight, but makes his major league debut,
Speaker 1: probably the last of the prospects that we're going to
Speaker 1: really care about getting a call up, and Alec Burlson
Speaker 1: got the call up. Actually didn't even look at see
Speaker 1: what his line was. But other than that, I'm not
Speaker 1: do you have any expectation of any other prospect that
Speaker 1: might be waiting in the wings we get a call
Speaker 1: up on or do you think this is it?
Speaker 3: It feels like this is it at this point, And
Speaker 3: you've seen most every major prospect that was MLB ready
Speaker 3: to get the call So I don't really foresee any
Speaker 3: other big names at this point unless something crazy were
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 2: But I feel like this is kind of it right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'd also point out teams, agents, and players are
Speaker 1: getting pretty set for the Arizona Fall League. I did
Speaker 1: an episode my prospect show, Prospect one, where I did
Speaker 1: the Arizona Fall League predictions, and you know, each team,
Speaker 1: each major league team since out like five to eight
Speaker 1: players to the Arizona Fall League, and I was predicting
Speaker 1: who those players are. I have some pretty incredible accuracy.
Speaker 1: Right now, I had only been forced, i'd only been
Speaker 1: given a couple players, and then ever since I've done
Speaker 1: that episode, I've had a ton more confirmed that I've
Speaker 1: seen probably about twenty to thirty percent of the AFL rosters.
Speaker 1: And my whole point of that is, though, is like
Speaker 1: they're all kind of planning and for some you know,
Speaker 1: teams are just not going to consider bringing up players
Speaker 1: so they can just you know, throw them to the.
Speaker 2: Arizona Fall League. I think some plans may have changed.
Speaker 1: And who knows. I thought Josh Young was gonna come
Speaker 1: to the foll League. Maybe he still will. We'll see,
Speaker 1: but that's probably about it. Go Cards also mentioned Burlson
Speaker 1: oh for four with the walk and a strikeout. For
Speaker 1: Burlson in his debut, he also had to run. Nothing exciting.
Speaker 1: I know Andrew was excited about him yesterday. Not me,
Speaker 1: not as much as I am. But you know, he's
Speaker 1: getting some playing time and that's good. So on the
Speaker 1: injury front, Eric Lower underwent an MRI on his strained
Speaker 1: left elbow on Thursday. He left his start against the
Speaker 1: Rockies on Wednesday. He only went two and two thirds.
Speaker 1: He was diagnosed with a left elbow strain and they
Speaker 1: said that they said that there was an encouragement on that.
Speaker 1: So whatever that means, if you're hoping, I've got lower
Speaker 1: available in a couple leagues that I've seen out on
Speaker 1: the wire and I haven't picked him up. So that's
Speaker 1: where that sits. The other injury stuff, Yankees vanager Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone told reporters that he's unsure if Stanton char Carlos
Speaker 1: Stanton is going.
Speaker 2: To play today.
Speaker 1: They said, we'll see, and he's not sure yet, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to wait for official lineups. That really
Speaker 1: sounds like not going to but we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at it. And then probably should have put the Brewers
Speaker 1: news together. Crek Council told reporters that Freddy Perrault has
Speaker 1: been placed on the IL so I think that's his
Speaker 1: twelve hundredth stent this year and it's been kind of
Speaker 1: a forgetable year. I think for Freddy PERRAULTA had some
Speaker 1: inconsistencies as he gets like to the second third time
Speaker 1: to the order, a couple injuries, probably needing to move on.
Speaker 1: This was fun. Wonky put this on. This is the
Speaker 1: other sporting news. I wish I could share this piece
Speaker 1: of art. We probably should. It's called the Angels team Leaders.
Speaker 1: Is just show hey Otani and I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're looking at this cleg. As far as batting goes
Speaker 1: Otani is the leader in batting average, home runs RBI,
Speaker 1: So he's a triple Crown Angels winner.
Speaker 2: OBP and hits.
Speaker 1: And as a pitcher he's the winner in wins, era
Speaker 1: in strikeouts. I mean, he is a triple Crown winner.
Speaker 1: Is a triple Crown winner on both sides of the
Speaker 1: fall here. But you know it's not the MVP leg Otani.
Speaker 1: He's kind of good, kind of a good.
Speaker 2: Right, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you want to start a good Twitter fight,
Speaker 3: just go post about Judge or Otani being the MVP
Speaker 3: and somebody will come around.
Speaker 1: I can't even do it anymore. I've talked about it
Speaker 1: so much and we brought it up so much that
Speaker 1: like eyes roll as soon as it happens. So this
Speaker 1: isn't an MVP conversation. I just thought that was interesting
Speaker 1: because you'll definitely have player I mean, who's the last
Speaker 1: player you think led their team in average Homer's RBI,
Speaker 1: OBP and hits alone.
Speaker 2: I mean that's not that often.
Speaker 1: That's usually a triple crown thing. What a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago for for Miguel Vladdie, maybe.
Speaker 2: Last year, right, Yeah, I would guess.
Speaker 1: So this is a fun fact, not a conversation piece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to know, just want to know. Yeah, there,
Speaker 1: what's thereon Judge? Now we won't do They're in Judge
Speaker 1: one this day in baseball nineteen seventy seven, in the
Speaker 1: second game of a doubleheader in Boston, Tiger's rookie Lou
Speaker 1: Whitaker and Alan Trammel debut together.
Speaker 2: They will hold down the second base and.
Speaker 1: Short short shortstop jobs in Detroit a record nineteen years.
Speaker 1: And then Taylor Trammel will follow with every person on
Speaker 1: the planet assuming his name is Trammel, and then he
Speaker 1: will have to correct them until he doesn't care anymore
Speaker 1: that it is Trommel. Let's go over to some stat heroes.
Speaker 1: Chris y'all Mancata, as we mentioned, five for six, two homers,
Speaker 1: five RBIs you know there was a trivia question. I
Speaker 1: decided not to put it on there, but it was
Speaker 1: about the last White Sox player.
Speaker 2: To have six hits.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they chose that because Moncotta had five,
Speaker 1: but assuming he goes six for six and not putting
Speaker 1: it on there, but it was Alex Rios who had
Speaker 1: six hits as the last player for the White Sox.
Speaker 1: So Moncatta's performance pretty good in White Sox lareas of recent.
Speaker 2: Alex call four for five with the homer.
Speaker 1: Remy Garcia had a homer, going four for five to
Speaker 1: the hits in Chicago unbelievable. Yatier had two bombs, Miguel
Speaker 1: anu Are had a homer, Seesar Hernandez three for four
Speaker 1: with three three rbi, two runs, Elvis Andres with the homer,
Speaker 1: two RBIs, Brandon Donovan three for three, says Azuki had
Speaker 1: a homer, and Alec Bohm two for four or two rbi.
Speaker 1: Alexandris really has been such a whirlwind of a pickup
Speaker 1: for a lot of teams. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: picked him up anywhere. I've been trying to tout him
Speaker 1: in a couple different spots. He is helping me out
Speaker 1: greatly across a couple leagues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. I really didn't pick him up anywhere.
Speaker 3: I didn't think he would be this relevant, but here
Speaker 3: we are, and he's just been extremely good since he
Speaker 3: came over to Chicago and looks like a different player.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure what happened or what flip switched
Speaker 3: in his head. But he's on it, man, he's been
Speaker 3: absolutely stellar. I was gonna look and see the numbers
Speaker 3: since he's come over two ninety one average, four home
Speaker 3: runs and most of that coming pretty recently over the
Speaker 3: last really since September, since the calendar turn, where he's
Speaker 3: just been really good. Yeah, three thirty three with the
Speaker 3: four home runs since August thirty first, So six nine.
Speaker 2: That's my big thing.
Speaker 1: That's my big thing leading off for the White Sox, Like,
Speaker 1: give me that all day. And there's a couple of
Speaker 1: pickups in there for you guys too. I mean Alex call,
Speaker 1: says Hernandez if he's available. Rennon Donovan continues to just
Speaker 1: like be sneaky across the board. The only other one
Speaker 1: on this I want to ask you about is Suzuki.
Speaker 1: What are your projections on him for next year? It's
Speaker 1: been a so so year. He had that incredible like
Speaker 1: contact rate at the beginning of the year, no chase
Speaker 1: outside the zone. That he got hurt then things kind
Speaker 1: of tempered a bit. Where do you think expected or
Speaker 1: where are expectations going to be for you with say Asuzuki,
Speaker 1: do you think it's just going to be a middle
Speaker 1: line outfielder or do you think he's going to be
Speaker 1: a good bye for next year?
Speaker 3: Well, I think he could be a decent buy And
Speaker 3: people just right off these kind of players so quick
Speaker 3: when the expectations are so high and then they underwhelm
Speaker 3: a bit. I mean, suzuki season's still been solid and
Speaker 3: still putting up good contact numbers and really good end
Speaker 3: zone contact, right and you saw how quickly and obviously
Speaker 3: you look at what Hassion Kim did last year and
Speaker 3: I would say it was not as good as Suzuki's season,
Speaker 3: but he was.
Speaker 2: Just completely written off.
Speaker 3: So when the expectations are high for a player making
Speaker 3: their major league day and they just kind of fall
Speaker 3: off a bit, then it creates a good buying opportunity.
Speaker 2: So Suzuki will be interesting next year. I have zero
Speaker 2: clue where he goes in drafts.
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna try to guess because it could
Speaker 3: be literally anywhere. But I would speculates a decent buy
Speaker 3: an opportunity.
Speaker 1: He's going to be around like the between the one
Speaker 1: twenties and one fifties. I think that's going to be
Speaker 1: the general sense of where he goes. But I think
Speaker 1: I kind of agree. I like the statement of like,
Speaker 1: you know, the high high thought process about a player,
Speaker 1: they struggle a little bit, creates buying opportunities. And I
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with Spencer Torcalsen this year at all.
Speaker 1: But there's that little part of me that's like if
Speaker 1: someone was in a keeper league dynasty, if someone just
Speaker 1: wanted to get out from under, I'd be tempted to
Speaker 1: re buy just to see if he can pick it
Speaker 1: back up, because the tools are there. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: the skill set is not applying any of those tools. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Over on the pitching heroes, Corbyn Burns, yes, he struck
Speaker 1: out fourteen and eight, but there were some others. Dylan
Speaker 1: c S went six, struck out nine, eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Was that under bet that they liked, did not? I
Speaker 1: would not bet against he got that. He got nine
Speaker 1: on there, only gave up three hits two walks two.
Speaker 1: Maintaining those walks is important to see him for his future.
Speaker 1: Luisesa had eight strikeouts and five and two thirds. Adrian
Speaker 1: Samson struck out only one but went six, gave up
Speaker 1: one earned run, five hits, and Freddy pearlt before getting hurt,
Speaker 1: did go two, struck out three gave up no hits
Speaker 1: before that injury. On the stat Zero's David Vr one
Speaker 1: for seven with five k's in the doubleheader, Bryce Harper,
Speaker 1: Joey Manesis, Glabor Torres, JD. Davis, and Steven Vote all
Speaker 1: over with three k's. Minesis. We just needed that one hit.
Speaker 1: That was that number one prop that betting pros really liked,
Speaker 1: and it was juiced to hell, but it did not
Speaker 1: work out. Over four with three strikeouts on the pitching
Speaker 1: side for the Zero's, JP Sears give up six earned
Speaker 1: runs with two k's, Josiah Gray four earned runs and
Speaker 1: three and one third and Kyle gibbson and four earned
Speaker 1: runs in five he only struck out two. JP Sears
Speaker 1: had a little thing going there for a tiny bit.
Speaker 1: Still might get a rotation spot next year. Those rookie pitchers,
Speaker 1: they've been kind of difficult, especially those out of nowhere guys.
Speaker 1: But the Sears of the world, the the was new
Speaker 1: Skis the I'm got him forgetting Walda Chuck Walder Chuck
Speaker 1: with them. Yeah, the A's have put a couple of
Speaker 1: guys out to out there. Are you interested in any
Speaker 1: of those streamable A's pitchers? And when do just keep.
Speaker 2: By the ways with the Cubs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Walda, Chuck's interesting. He actually pitched well last time
Speaker 3: he's the Braves. He allowed a couple of long balls.
Speaker 3: He can leave the fastball, you know, over the heart
Speaker 3: of the plate some, but overall his arsenal's pretty good,
Speaker 3: so he's interesting in the right matchup.
Speaker 2: Like obviously, I wouldn't have streamed him against the Braves.
Speaker 3: Hayden was an esky obviously non in a as you said,
Speaker 3: but he's I think he's got good stuff too and
Speaker 3: kind of underrated. So I would prefer both those sears
Speaker 3: down the stretch. But Sears could be interesting in the
Speaker 3: right matchup too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not this last one A while to Chuck is
Speaker 1: someone that I really dig I loved him with the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and I love the idea that he has the potential
Speaker 1: to get into the starting rotation. Someone I might try
Speaker 1: to buy really really dirt cheap in Dynasty next year
Speaker 1: for people, just because that's a guy that if he
Speaker 1: were able to start out in the rotation next season,
Speaker 1: He's a guy I think that could put up some
Speaker 1: sneaky sneaky numbers. Good strikeout option go to arsenal of
Speaker 1: pitches A's are not a great team, but that's just
Speaker 1: one of those guys I would take a look at.
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Speaker 1: If there was a board yesterday, I would share that
Speaker 1: because the top did not change whatsoever. They're literally nothing.
Speaker 1: Nobody hit anything. You still have de bluming Catflock Fox
Speaker 1: in the lead. At forty nine. They both had some
Speaker 1: Cardinals guys Eronado and Schmidt. He has a gold Shmate Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: cards at forty seven. It's a tight, tight race. You
Speaker 1: guys got to get some homers. Joey p still on there,
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer's still on there. So home run contest getting
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Speaker 1: do them. I'm going to give you two strikeout, give
Speaker 1: you two hitters. One's the top play with juice. One
Speaker 1: is the plus play, and the two pitching ones. We've
Speaker 1: got Jason Alexander Seinfeld Cincinnati at Milwaukee two and a
Speaker 1: half strikeouts. Projection is four. It's minus one seventy five
Speaker 1: on DK, so it is lots of juice, but you
Speaker 1: only need three strikeouts. The plus play for K's is
Speaker 1: Lucas Giolito today. It's at five and a half. He's
Speaker 1: projected at six point seven. It's against the A's. That's
Speaker 1: plus money one ten fan duel for the hitting side.
Speaker 1: Dermous Garcia is back and guess what. Dermous Garcia yesterday
Speaker 1: was plus money to get one hit and it cashed.
Speaker 1: He got it. It's minus one twenty today on DK,
Speaker 1: but you only need one total base and then Christian
Speaker 1: Walker is your plus money play. It's at Sugar House
Speaker 1: plus one oh five for two total bases against Colorado
Speaker 1: in Colorado, so I kind of can dig that.
Speaker 2: So gleg, what do you dig here?
Speaker 1: You got Jason Alexander three strikeouts, Giulito six, you've got
Speaker 1: dermos Garcia for essentially one hit, or Christian Walker with
Speaker 1: two total bases that could be his one homer.
Speaker 3: Any of these you like or multiple? I like both
Speaker 3: the plus bets. I like Giolito to get six k's
Speaker 3: or more. He's been pretty bad. There's not much other
Speaker 3: way to put it. But against Oakland, I do like
Speaker 3: the matchup, and I could see him easily breaking six.
Speaker 3: I like Walker as well. I feel good about Walker's
Speaker 3: chances to get two backs, whether it be two hits
Speaker 3: or a double home run, whatever it be. I mean,
Speaker 3: Walker's been swinging an extremely hot bat and Ethilm in
Speaker 3: course field. There's not much better matchup there. So I
Speaker 3: like both those bets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't blame anybody that got into that
Speaker 1: space of dropping Gilido. It's so shocking how bad it's been.
Speaker 1: But this is a pretty good matchup. He's not lighting
Speaker 1: it up on strikeouts, but he's got a pretty weird
Speaker 1: like almost every other of five to seven strikeouts, there's
Speaker 1: one anomaly in there, but it's like the second of August, seventh,
Speaker 1: the seventh, fifth, the thirteenth, seventh, the eighteenth, five, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the thirtieth seven five. We're up to the seventh,
Speaker 1: so this is a good marker. I kind of like
Speaker 1: the strikeouts if you want to play that game. Lucas
Speaker 1: Gilido been just like a massive, massive disappointment. Jim's got
Speaker 1: a couple for us too, liking VA three and a
Speaker 1: half strikeouts. I very much like that one and Brandon Bayo.
Speaker 1: I have every went on the Bio one, but I
Speaker 1: like the Vatha is actually kind of think sneaky a
Speaker 1: little bit today, And remember these the ones I'm giving
Speaker 1: you here. This is from bettingpros dot com the mlbprop
Speaker 1: cheat sheet. This isn't necessarily me picking apart a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of them, but giving you what the top of
Speaker 1: their algorithm says and then what the plus money is.
Speaker 1: But it is a really cool tool that you guys
Speaker 1: can go and check out to see what the algorithms
Speaker 1: bits out and then maybe you guys can figure out
Speaker 1: some of your decisions as far as those go. On
Speaker 1: the DFS side, Miles Michaelis is at ten on fandle
Speaker 1: Lance mccollers eight eight, Lucas Gilido is eight to two,
Speaker 1: and Austin Vatha even put on there is six six
Speaker 1: if you guys want to get crazy. Even though that's
Speaker 1: a single pitcher platform DK DK, you're gonna have two.
Speaker 1: The prices really aren't out there, but I can tell
Speaker 1: you Michaelis was like eight eight I think over there,
Speaker 1: so that's a pretty big difference. Implied run totals. Arizona
Speaker 1: and Colorado both projected over five, as is Philly, So
Speaker 1: if you want to build some lineups around those guys,
Speaker 1: I think Colorado is a good Colorado and Arizona's a
Speaker 1: good shot. Her Man Marquez play well at home, so
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. But both of those would be
Speaker 1: relatively solid bets if you want to do it. And finally,
Speaker 1: it takes us to the home run call, Chris Clegg,
Speaker 1: who do you think is dropping a big fly today?
Speaker 3: You know, it seems to be the common choice, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Aaron Judge. I think he's just
Speaker 3: he's due again, He's chasing the record, so I feel
Speaker 3: good about Judge's chances tonight facing Drew Rasmussen. I like
Speaker 3: to pick there with Judge. So maybe a popular one,
Speaker 3: but that's my call for that.
Speaker 2: I am yeah, do you think it's popular in Clegg.
Speaker 2: Do you think Aaron Judge by a popular one?
Speaker 1: Maybe? I mean just possibly you and Joey Well funny enough,
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor's got Rhez Hoskins. And that was my first
Speaker 1: one that I was gonna go to. And then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll just move off. And then I went to Bobachett
Speaker 1: and I saw Wonky at Bobachett and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I can't every guy that I have my gut call on,
Speaker 1: I can't just move off of because they have it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ride with Wonky. I'm riding with Wonky
Speaker 1: or you for this Friday. I'm going with Bobaschett. Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer's got Rehys Hoskins. And as he points out, even
Speaker 1: though Patrick Corbin is super good now, Mike Mayers sent
Speaker 1: us that horrifically terrifying tweet of how good Corbyn's been.
Speaker 2: Over three starts.
Speaker 1: Nope, Big Old Jordan Peel, Nope, I will not do it.
Speaker 1: I don't even care if he's good or not. I
Speaker 1: will still bet against him. I'm not doing that thing
Speaker 1: with Patrick Corbin. No chance, no way, new way. Chris
Speaker 1: clig on Twitter at Rode o'klegg. What's going down for
Speaker 1: you right now?
Speaker 2: I much just grinding out the end of the season.
Speaker 3: You know, high minor league balls ending this week, so
Speaker 3: be out a couple of games this weekend, get some
Speaker 3: final looks before sadly the minor league season ends, and
Speaker 3: just grinding the regular season content for fantasy and you
Speaker 3: can find that over at Fantasy Pros or fan tracks
Speaker 3: and the tool Shed podcast as well. So a lot
Speaker 3: of prospect dynasty coverage quick grades will be out if
Speaker 3: they're not out already by tomorrow morning for next week
Speaker 3: for hitters. So that's uh, that's what's kind of on
Speaker 3: the docket.
Speaker 1: Man, Just go. It's hard doing the thing. Wonky said,
Speaker 1: she's got a sidecar for me. I really should have
Speaker 1: like matched See this is how much better does this look?
Speaker 2: The color? This is the matching color.
Speaker 1: Wonky said, it's okay that I'm riding. She's got a
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Speaker 2: However, Tierra required, Well.
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