Speaker 1: Leading off starts right now. What's up, friends, We're on
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros and it's me the Welsh, joined today by
Speaker 1: the Mendy David Mendelssohn from Triple Play Fantasy. We are
Speaker 1: gonna talk about, oh, I don't know, a pretty incredible
Speaker 1: rookie debut yesterday, actually so much so. It was a
Speaker 1: record breaking one, something had never been done at least
Speaker 1: at his age.
Speaker 2: Mister David mendlssoon. What's up, buddy?
Speaker 3: Hey man, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Man? I get to podcast with you three times in
Speaker 4: like a week. This is freaking awesome, My buddy the
Speaker 4: Welsh get to talk some baseball.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Let's go.
Speaker 1: Mendy is out of the same mold as myself, hustler,
Speaker 1: doing lots of stuff big into just like good new
Speaker 1: technology and with podcasting. And one of the things you've
Speaker 1: always been really great about, which almost a disappointment we
Speaker 1: should have had you do here is the ridiculous guests
Speaker 1: that you get across the board.
Speaker 2: You've had insane guests.
Speaker 1: I mean even recently Austin Eckler on the football side.
Speaker 1: We should have had you bring somebody that should be
Speaker 1: like your token.
Speaker 2: Now, did you have any big baby did. What was
Speaker 2: the last baseball guy that you interviewed?
Speaker 4: I interviewed Dinard's Span, like two three months ago. That
Speaker 4: was the last one man that was my guy as
Speaker 4: my favorite baseball player of all time. So I was
Speaker 4: one of the few times I was actually nervous to
Speaker 4: interview him. So I told him that before we started,
Speaker 4: so he knew it. But it was really cool that I.
Speaker 2: Love Dinard Span.
Speaker 1: You know, now I have to do the quick look here,
Speaker 1: Denard Span, Let's see seventy one career homers, one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty five career stolen bases. God, I would have
Speaker 1: thought that would have been just a ton more. That's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that just imprinted in your brain
Speaker 1: that they were putting up just big old numbies back
Speaker 1: in the day.
Speaker 2: Best season probably.
Speaker 1: His second year actually, now that I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: He hit three eleven with eight homers, twenty three stolen bases.
Speaker 1: He did have a thirty one stolen base season, hit
Speaker 1: three h two, So maybe that's another one. With Washington
Speaker 1: in two thousand and what was that two thousand and fourteen,
Speaker 1: spent time with Minnesota, Washington, the Giants, and then back
Speaker 1: with the Blue Jays are actually just ending with the
Speaker 1: Blue Oh, ending with the Seattle. Actually so good career. Uh,
Speaker 1: Denard Span just like to go back to it. You
Speaker 1: always do a really good job about that. So go
Speaker 1: and follow him over at d Mindy on Twitter. I'm
Speaker 1: make sure you check out all those awesome shows and
Speaker 1: get some awesome baseball interviews. Maybe you in the very
Speaker 1: near future can get von Grisham, who became the youngest
Speaker 1: player in the history of baseball to homer and steal
Speaker 1: a base in his major league debut. Now you know,
Speaker 1: Joe's game is to come on here and be like
Speaker 1: I told you so, I told you what did we
Speaker 1: tell you?
Speaker 2: I don't always do that. I try to think. I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit less agree.
Speaker 1: But shout out to the Wonkey of the Penguins who've
Speaker 1: always given some Denard Spam love. Wonky was on with
Speaker 1: us yesterday and gave me some love on Twitter because, uh,
Speaker 1: it played out Span play not didnar Span von Grisham
Speaker 1: That Denard's fans incepted my brain. Now von Grisham played
Speaker 1: out just like we were hoping and talking about. Was
Speaker 1: he the perfect type of fantasy player?
Speaker 2: Yes? Is it gonna get extended time, We don't really know.
Speaker 2: Should you have picked him.
Speaker 1: Up, yes, because he was at even if you only
Speaker 1: get two weeks absolute turn on that ball, crushing it
Speaker 1: on the monster with the stolen base, von Grisham looked
Speaker 1: mighty mighty good. Mindy, how aggressive on the pickup? He's
Speaker 1: still out there. He was only eight percent own at
Speaker 1: like midnight last night.
Speaker 2: I know that had to change.
Speaker 1: Yahoo picked up seventeen hundred pickups just yesterday. How aggressive
Speaker 1: would you be on von Grisham if you assume he
Speaker 1: is not going to stay up when our returns from injury.
Speaker 4: I've still be pretty aggressive with him on this point
Speaker 4: in the season. We just got about, you know, under
Speaker 4: two months left of the year. I got that stole
Speaker 4: twenty seven bases in ninety six games in the minor league.
Speaker 4: If he can give you, you know, five to ten
Speaker 4: steals before he you know, if he gets demoted, then
Speaker 4: that those could be very valuable. Now there's also the scenario,
Speaker 4: you know we talk about with our cia Ozzi Albi's
Speaker 4: is potentially going to return. They see you in the
Speaker 4: next couple of weeks here, but if he's hitting, I
Speaker 4: find it really difficult that they're not going to keep
Speaker 4: him up based off I mean, if you're hitting well.
Speaker 4: I mean, keep in mind, this is a guy yesterday
Speaker 4: two for four, home run in a stolen base, one
Speaker 4: hundred and four point seven exit velocity off his bat
Speaker 4: yesterday on his home run, one of the two hard
Speaker 4: hit balls in that game, four hundred and twelve feet
Speaker 4: on that home run. I know this man is swaggy.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna call him swaggy V. I feel like he's
Speaker 4: just destined to stick. I mean, we saw Michael Harris
Speaker 4: do the same type of deal where we didn't think
Speaker 4: he was gonna stick around, and sure enough, he's been
Speaker 4: there ever since because he's continued to produce. So just
Speaker 4: the speck that he could be around for a little bit,
Speaker 4: give you a few steals which you might need, and
Speaker 4: then if he continues to hit, he could be a
Speaker 4: good stolen base source for you for the rest of
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's gonna be interesting to see where he's at.
Speaker 1: Like go guards mentioned all leagues he's owned, same as mine,
Speaker 1: But we play in a lot of dynasties as he
Speaker 1: does and I do. But there's gonna be some shorter
Speaker 1: leagues where he's out there.
Speaker 2: And that bomb.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, go back and watch it
Speaker 1: on Twitter. It's just one of those just beautiful, beautiful swings.
Speaker 1: It's actually one oh one at least according to Baseball
Speaker 1: Savant right under it.
Speaker 2: Michael Harris had a single.
Speaker 1: By the way that he hit one oh four yesterday,
Speaker 1: but at least the stat cat or Baseball Savant marker
Speaker 1: was one oh one point seven on the homer with
Speaker 1: a thirty thirty two degree launch angle, which is just
Speaker 1: an absolute freaking bomb. He turned on it and go
Speaker 1: and pick up and speculate and hopefully it works out.
Speaker 2: This is one of those really top top.
Speaker 1: Guys that I really think, a they're kind of defunct
Speaker 1: and how much are we going to get them the
Speaker 1: rest of this year?
Speaker 2: But if all of this is.
Speaker 1: Going to play out, like I was thinking, like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of manipulation and these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna get a little bit of run, then you know,
Speaker 1: Gunner and Corbyn would come up. Grissom was just never
Speaker 1: one that we really assumed and he looked great and
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to monitor how he does over the
Speaker 1: next week or so, and I hope we actually get
Speaker 1: to have the conversation should they send him down the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They didn't care.
Speaker 1: They just sent Miguel Vargus as good as he was.
Speaker 2: They just heart immediately. Don Yeah, I hurt my heart
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: Literally made this big old case of the podcast. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: Michael Vargus, but with the von Grishams, I hope we're
Speaker 1: having that conversation at least that it goes really well,
Speaker 1: because this would be a fantastic fantasy value the rest
Speaker 1: of the season going into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But you know it wouldn't have been. I don't know
Speaker 2: how well it would have worked.
Speaker 1: Also, Gokards that thing mentioned this yesterday we had the
Speaker 1: Wonky Wednesday home run extra.
Speaker 2: If everyone remembers.
Speaker 1: Where Kelly had said, if you get a homer that
Speaker 1: no one else calls, you got double and go cards
Speaker 1: literally said hey, what about von Grisham, And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that would be kind of fun.
Speaker 2: I knew I couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I want to know in Monkey or anybody if you
Speaker 1: did anybody call von Grisham yesterday and did they get
Speaker 1: the extra points? Because what a great fun call that
Speaker 1: would have been, especially on rookies, and you know, making
Speaker 1: that nice big young young history at twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: Jose Offerman was the last to do a homer in
Speaker 1: a stolen base. By the way, if he didn't see
Speaker 1: about eighty days sixty to eighty days older back in
Speaker 1: the nineties, was the last one to homer and get
Speaker 1: a stolen base at that age. Some other stuff here,
Speaker 1: Dodgers win their tenth straight Joey gallow with a pinch
Speaker 1: hit home run. I am not a Joey Gallo guy.
Speaker 1: I know there's a few in here that were into it. Mindy,
Speaker 1: Can Joey Gallo be someone on a return from the
Speaker 1: Dodgers With the Dodgers now, I mean he's kind of
Speaker 1: relegated a little bit, But are you a Joey Gallo
Speaker 1: guy at all? And especially seeing him hit just a tiny,
Speaker 1: tiny bit, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, a pinch hit, a three run home run.
Speaker 4: It's encouraging getting him away from Yankee Stadium and everything
Speaker 4: he was dealing with in New York, which if you
Speaker 4: haven't seen it, it just him talking about just not
Speaker 4: wanting to even show his face on the streets.
Speaker 3: I do believe there's something to be.
Speaker 4: Said in the change of scenery, and sometimes that just
Speaker 4: maybe mentally him being able to not realize he's under
Speaker 4: that same type of pressure.
Speaker 3: He could be good.
Speaker 4: I just think if you're going to rely on him
Speaker 4: for consistent fantas see production, you're going to be disappointed.
Speaker 4: He could be somebody in a deeper league if you
Speaker 4: need some power you're lacking in home runs, that you
Speaker 4: could maybe take a spec on. I just wouldn't expect
Speaker 4: peak Joey Gallo towards the end of the season. Again,
Speaker 4: maybe he's better than he is in New York, which
Speaker 4: isn't hard to do, But I don't think you're getting
Speaker 4: the old Joey Gallo.
Speaker 2: Since joining the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Joey Galla is actually hitting two sixty seven small sample
Speaker 1: size six games, but he is hitting two sixty seven
Speaker 1: with an over five hundred slug and he has more
Speaker 1: singles actually has the same amount or no, yeah, he
Speaker 1: has more singles than homers. It feels like the first
Speaker 1: time in forever that that's actually happened. He has four
Speaker 1: hits at least, so two sixty seven since returning to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Maybe something to monitor with all of those.
Speaker 1: And Wonky was the one that was kind of into
Speaker 1: uh Gallows so maybe it's going to be working out.
Speaker 2: Brandon Drury, I have a question for you.
Speaker 1: Brand Drey hit a homer last night four RBIs, but
Speaker 1: since coming over to the Padres in that trade, Drury
Speaker 1: is only hitting one point eighty five. He's got a
Speaker 1: two fifty eight OBP. He has a bunch of RBI
Speaker 1: which has been really nice. He's struck out a bit,
Speaker 1: but he's got five hits in that time. Batting average
Speaker 1: is really struggled. And what as nice is he has
Speaker 1: gotten plenty of game time. I was taking a look
Speaker 1: at his game log. Here looks like he has started
Speaker 1: every single game. Yeah, I'm going through the days. He's
Speaker 1: started every single game since he has been acquired. But
Speaker 1: he only has hits in four of those games, and
Speaker 1: last night was a big multi hit game.
Speaker 2: So here's my question.
Speaker 1: Is there anything to worry about with Brandon Drury for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Even though he has been solid,
Speaker 1: he struggled a bit in the transition. Tatusa is looming.
Speaker 1: Looks like next weekend Tatisa is going to be coming back.
Speaker 1: We know that they've got the flexibility. Kim, your big
Speaker 1: defensive guy in the middle. We talked to I think
Speaker 1: with me and Kelly about defensive replacements. You've got Crony
Speaker 1: in there, You've you know, they've got some other pieces.
Speaker 2: That are kind of flying around.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's anything that could bring Brandon jury
Speaker 1: down with his struggles and Tatis coming back and maybe
Speaker 1: more platoony, Like, I don't think his value is gone,
Speaker 1: you don't. There's no scenario unless he just absolutely tanks completely.
Speaker 1: But is there a scenario you foresee that he is
Speaker 1: going to start losing some time and becoming more of
Speaker 1: a lefty split type of guy, and that's gonna hurt
Speaker 1: him moving forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you kind of touched on it.
Speaker 4: The Padres have arguably the most talent on their roster,
Speaker 4: them and the Dodgers, and just like you said, they
Speaker 4: don't have to play him every day. If he's struggling,
Speaker 4: they can platoon him. I mean, cronin Worth has shown
Speaker 4: that he should get consistent playing time. Manna Machado and
Speaker 4: Trenched at third base. You know, we don't know where
Speaker 4: Fernando Tatis is gonna play. Are they gonna stick him
Speaker 4: in left field? Are they gonna dh him a lot?
Speaker 4: Or are they going to put him at shortstop? We
Speaker 4: don't know yet, you know, maybe they move him around
Speaker 4: a little bit. But at the same time, like Drury's
Speaker 4: a luxury for them. It's like the car that you
Speaker 4: have in the garage. It's like I've got four other
Speaker 4: nice cars.
Speaker 3: I have this one.
Speaker 4: I'll drive it every once in a while, but it's
Speaker 4: like my fifth option. And that's kind of how I
Speaker 4: feel like when everybody's back in the fold for the pot,
Speaker 4: he's going to kind of get the short end of
Speaker 4: the stick, especially with how he's been playing. Now again,
Speaker 4: if he starts heating up and he plays better, he could,
Speaker 4: you know, start putting in some more playing time. But
Speaker 4: I mean, he struggled versus lefties against small sample size
Speaker 4: fourteen at bats so far with the Padres, a one
Speaker 4: forty three average so far against lefties. With the Cincinnati
Speaker 4: Reds against lefties he was hitting three h nine, So
Speaker 4: maybe that corrects itself over time. But the I mean,
Speaker 4: the Padres could be looking at that this type of
Speaker 4: platoon splits in just putting their best foot forward with
Speaker 4: the match they want to play. If I have Drury,
Speaker 4: I'm definitely concerned that he's somebody that goes from playing
Speaker 4: you know, six or seven games a week like he
Speaker 4: was with the Reds to maybe he's someone that's playing
Speaker 4: like three or four days a week when everybody's healthy.
Speaker 1: With the Padres, you can't have this question, but I
Speaker 1: can just speculate and throw it out there, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: if von Grisham were to stay with the Braves the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, who would be more valuable. It's
Speaker 1: easy to say Drury on the year, but I've never
Speaker 1: been Maybe it's the dynasty minded me. I've never been
Speaker 1: the big Brandon Drury guy as far as like how
Speaker 1: it clicked that it was going to keep going what
Speaker 1: he was doing against you know, there could be some
Speaker 1: ballpark factors in there. Actually, you know, I didn't even
Speaker 1: think to look at his home splits, which is gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit nutty because there's a couple of
Speaker 1: games in there. But let's see, he was hitting da
Speaker 1: da da da dah yeah, two ninety yeah.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: This is what I was speculating on, is talk about
Speaker 1: the ballpark. He was hitting two ninety one at home,
Speaker 1: only two thirty four on the road.
Speaker 2: This season.
Speaker 1: Fourteen homers came at home, So now you're putting him
Speaker 1: into a little bit of a worse ballpark, a little
Speaker 1: bit more crowded. Yes, he's playing DH right now. As
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the depth chart, you could argue that
Speaker 1: there's maybe not a ton of guys that are going
Speaker 1: to come in. If they wanted to just drop Kim
Speaker 1: and put him into the on the bench, you could
Speaker 1: just make that case and then guess what, Dury's your
Speaker 1: DH and you just go. But if they want that
Speaker 1: more defensive side, Tatisa is gonna play short and outfield,
Speaker 1: and if they go and put him in, let's say
Speaker 1: over bro Profar, Profar, but they might want a DH
Speaker 1: that I don't know at the answer. I don't know
Speaker 1: if less at bats are going to be good and
Speaker 1: try to make it more efficient, But it does look
Speaker 1: like he's struggling just a tiny bit, and maybe just
Speaker 1: maybe monitor it before you get into your playoffs, because
Speaker 1: if these struggles continue as fun as it is when
Speaker 1: he come and drops a bomb and has four RBI,
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit more short lived in
Speaker 1: this new destination and that team doesn't they don't owe
Speaker 1: him anything as far as what there's traded that they need.
Speaker 1: They need to play him every single day and if
Speaker 1: those splits fix Maybe that's just what they do.
Speaker 2: So I was interested on the struggle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've talked, I mean before.
Speaker 4: It's just like you see other hitters when they leave
Speaker 4: Cincinnati and you see people like who Henneo Suarez whose
Speaker 4: home runs have gone down dramatically. You see guys like
Speaker 4: Jesse Winker who's struggled over in Seattle, and even Nick
Speaker 4: Castianos is obviously not hitting as much power as he
Speaker 4: was with the Reds too. There is a lot to
Speaker 4: be said about hitting in that ballpark, which has been
Speaker 4: now proven to be like along with Corsfield, the best
Speaker 4: ballparks hidden for hitters. Yeah, and then going to a
Speaker 4: whole new environment and kind of seeing, hey, like, what
Speaker 4: is this player outside of this ballpark? And the short
Speaker 4: sample size so far has not been great for Dury.
Speaker 1: No, it's really I'm outside of like the big, impactful
Speaker 1: at bats and just it'll be fun. Even though Jury's
Speaker 1: got a lot of flexibility, It'll be interesting to monitor
Speaker 1: and Wonky. It made me laugh when you said Jury
Speaker 1: the guy that a bunch of people thought was a
Speaker 1: rookie friend of Jury because he was a part of
Speaker 1: a diamondback one of the big diamondback trades. I think
Speaker 1: it was the Justin Upton one. And I see him,
Speaker 1: you know, doing good stuff otherwise, and I'm like rebel.
Speaker 1: The other big headline, Aaron Judge hit his forty fifth
Speaker 1: homer in New York's one hundred and twelfth game. He
Speaker 1: needs just eighteen to beat Roger Merris's American League home
Speaker 1: run record. Check this out too, WONK you put this together.
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 1: Here's a couple of fun facts about Aaron judges homers.
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium is not the most home run friendly ballpark
Speaker 1: to right handed hitters. It's fourth, behind American Family Field,
Speaker 1: Roger Century, and Angel Stadium.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: Also, according to stat cast, Judge this is probably the
Speaker 1: best one. Actually, Mindy brought this up before we got
Speaker 1: we went live.
Speaker 2: Judge would have.
Speaker 1: Fifty three homers right now if he played all games
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, which would put him exactly on pace with
Speaker 1: Barry Bonds in two thousand and one. That's a wild
Speaker 1: and we're just talking about Brandon Drury and the numbers
Speaker 1: that are going on in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Take him out.
Speaker 1: If Judge was there, he would be on pace with
Speaker 1: the single season record of Barry Bonds. Presumably not you know,
Speaker 1: not cheating, not doing any of the bad stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's incredible. I got a question for you.
Speaker 4: Well, so Aaron Judge has been putting together a contract
Speaker 4: year unlike many we've ever seen. If he had sixty
Speaker 4: home runs, he's thirty years old. Are you gonna give
Speaker 4: him the half a billion dollar contract that he's seeking
Speaker 4: if you're the Yankees and he's your franchise icon, or
Speaker 4: you're gonna let him walk.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to especially losing out on like
Speaker 1: a Soda. I mean that's a tough one because like
Speaker 1: Soto is so much easier listen to us, Soda so
Speaker 1: much easier to give a half a billion dollars too.
Speaker 1: Judge is older thirty I think right now, thirty thirty one.
Speaker 1: So giving him one of those like big old crazy ones,
Speaker 1: I think that's good.
Speaker 2: This is where the problem is going to happen.
Speaker 1: The big numbered contracts are sometimes what these guys want,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking like totality. They want to be the
Speaker 1: guy that got five hundred million dollars. The Yankees I
Speaker 1: don't think can do that. I don't think they can
Speaker 1: give him a ten year. You got to give him
Speaker 1: like six seven, and that's going to make the annual
Speaker 1: go up.
Speaker 2: So I think he gets paid.
Speaker 1: Because the Yankees also, they're gonna spend their money somewhere.
Speaker 2: What is free agency going to be for them?
Speaker 1: Especially if the Padres lockup Soto?
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think he gets paid.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's gonna be half a
Speaker 1: million dollars or half a billion, but I do think
Speaker 1: the average annual is going to be pretty up there.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: A couple injuries. Max Munsey diagnosed with a right hand contusion.
Speaker 2: He was unable to.
Speaker 1: Grip a bat after so Joey Gallo or Miguel Vargas.
Speaker 1: I would be going to speculate on a little Migul
Speaker 1: Vargus right now, just to see if he comes back up,
Speaker 1: because Max Munsey, that could could not be great.
Speaker 2: And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: And Shane Boz is going to be limited to pliometric
Speaker 1: exercises only for the next twoks. What is a pliometric exercise?
Speaker 1: You would be the guy Mindy is absolutely Jack, this
Speaker 1: is a weight room guy. What is a pliometric exercise?
Speaker 4: It's usually like just jump training or like a bunch
Speaker 4: of that type of moving around. It's usually not too many,
Speaker 4: too much weights, more like body weight exercises.
Speaker 1: Clearly, I know, clearly I could act. You know what
Speaker 1: I might need to do the Shane bazz I might
Speaker 1: need to limit myself to plometric exercises for any exercise
Speaker 1: for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm I'm gonna attempt to do.
Speaker 1: Some stat heroes, let's look at the stats. Tuoky de
Speaker 1: sant five innings. A fun fact about two Ki de
Speaker 1: Son if you remember, the Diamondbacks literally threw him in
Speaker 1: with Bronson Arroyo to the Braves to say, make a
Speaker 1: royal goal away. If everyone forgets about that, Demick's got
Speaker 1: nothing back. They just said, we'll give you Bronson a
Speaker 1: roy in his contract and will also give you Tuky
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 2: And the Braves said, okay. He was a former Diamondback.
Speaker 1: Five innings, six strikeouts, Nester cortestruck out ten, did not
Speaker 1: go into a win. Brandon Woodruff struck out five, Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray six and one third seven strikeouts, Jeffrey Springs five
Speaker 1: with eight strikeouts. He's been a really good k for
Speaker 1: nine guy and Kyle Wright had to strike out. There
Speaker 1: was a question in the chat that came up from
Speaker 1: Smalls and it had to do with Robbie Ray. Would
Speaker 1: you trade Let's just do this straight up. Would you
Speaker 1: trade Robbie Ray for Kyle Schwarber right now?
Speaker 4: Mendy Well, I also saw he said in a points
Speaker 4: league too, which Kyle Schorverer does get a lot of walks,
Speaker 4: he does strike out a lot too.
Speaker 1: Right it is a points league, Yeah, points league, so
Speaker 1: big bat with some strikeouts, and trading a pitcher in
Speaker 1: a points league is always a little yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know it's the cop out answer. Depends
Speaker 4: on your pitching depth. If Robbie Ray is one it
Speaker 4: is like your first or second starter, I wouldn't make
Speaker 4: the trade.
Speaker 3: You need good starting pitchers.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Robby Ray's going to give you innings,
Speaker 4: He's going to give you strikeouts, and his blow up
Speaker 4: starts are far few in between. So I personally, unless
Speaker 4: Robbie Ray is like your fifth starter, you need that
Speaker 4: type the workhorse three your rotation, so I might hold
Speaker 4: on that personally.
Speaker 1: You want to know a fun little thing, bug and
Speaker 1: I just did over on the end of This League
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball podcast, which released today. We dissected thirteen first
Speaker 1: place teams and all the stuff that we do, and
Speaker 1: we took all the common denominator players and we looked
Speaker 1: at the highest shares of first place teams in what
Speaker 1: players they had, and that was a fun one and spoiler,
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber was one of the highest owned players across
Speaker 1: I think it was four of the thirteen leagues he
Speaker 1: was owned in. And then I also threw in tout
Speaker 1: which I'm in, which Frank Stanfele has. So we had
Speaker 1: five of fourteen teams owning Kyle Schwarber and they were
Speaker 1: at the top. IF just a fun little experiment we were
Speaker 1: putting together on the hitter side, Albert poolholes Albert poolholes
Speaker 1: one homer, two runs, two RBI, four for five. AJ
Speaker 1: Melndez had a homer, Nolan Arnatto had a home run.
Speaker 1: Leoti Taveres had to double a triple five RBI just
Speaker 1: when everybody was ready to drop him. Monday, we did
Speaker 1: an ITL episode where Leodie tiv is the number one
Speaker 1: drop player on ESPN and on CBS Sports, and Leodi
Speaker 1: Tavarrus comes in with five RBI.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 1: Davis with a homer and large newtbar, two triples, two RBI,
Speaker 1: two stolen bases. Wow, a very very interesting performance. James
Speaker 1: Anderson and I were chatting the other day and he
Speaker 1: brought up this interesting thing.
Speaker 2: This is kind of a side note.
Speaker 1: But everybody gets excited about prospects. Francisco Alvarez with the Mets, big,
Speaker 1: big time hit tool prospect that everybody loves, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna come up. But we were talking about and comparing
Speaker 1: with Gabrielle Moreno and just how a lot of these
Speaker 1: catchers the pool is much bigger and the eliteness brings
Speaker 1: everything up, and everybody, I think over values every single prospect,
Speaker 1: especially catching prospects. And the whole point to this was
Speaker 1: to say, I loved his point that imagine if Francisco Alvarez.
Speaker 2: Came up and he hit like im J. Melndez, how
Speaker 2: disappointed people would be.
Speaker 1: And that's crazy talk because it is such a crazy
Speaker 1: compt because in the end.
Speaker 2: Of the day, you should be excited. You would put
Speaker 2: that up because m J.
Speaker 1: Melndez has been a fantastic catcher two in any two
Speaker 1: catcher format and really has been like a low end
Speaker 1: solid catcher that you've got for free.
Speaker 2: And he continues to get run, continues to get hits.
Speaker 1: Bating average isn't quite up there, but he has been
Speaker 1: a pretty big plus, And I would say MJ. Melndez
Speaker 1: is probably a very good comp to what you would
Speaker 1: get if Alvarez comes up. Maybe a little bit uptick
Speaker 1: on the batting average, but that's probably about the comp
Speaker 1: that you would get on album.
Speaker 2: Are You big? Are you a speculative Francisco Alvarez guy?
Speaker 4: I mean, I obviously one of the best prospects in baseball.
Speaker 4: A lot of power there, great hit tool, like you've mentioned.
Speaker 4: I love how you've talked about comparing him to MJ.
Speaker 4: Melendez and saying that people be disappointed. But like, looking
Speaker 4: at the numbers in under three hundred at bats, fourteen homers,
Speaker 4: forty RBIs a two thirty seven average, Like isn't the best,
Speaker 4: But this is a guy that's playing in the outfield now.
Speaker 4: He's like outfield eligibility in some leagues post All Star Break,
Speaker 4: He's been pretty decent as well. I mean, he's hitting
Speaker 4: two ninety three post All Star break right now again,
Speaker 4: and that's in seventy five at bats. But I just
Speaker 4: I think you have to to like you have to
Speaker 4: keep your like expectations somewhat in check for catching prospects,
Speaker 4: because even Adlie Rutchman somewhat struggled, right, I mean he
Speaker 4: had no power pretty much.
Speaker 3: I don't remember it was like his first few weeks
Speaker 3: before he at home run.
Speaker 4: So like you have to like and he was considered
Speaker 4: the best prospect in the last decade, So using him,
Speaker 4: you have to realize when Alvarez does get called up,
Speaker 4: like he is going to be an asset for this
Speaker 4: mess team that has a lot of hitting, But you
Speaker 4: can't expect that he's going to be a game changer
Speaker 4: for your fantasy team because most catchers aren't.
Speaker 3: So yeah, like you said, just keep it your expectations
Speaker 3: in check.
Speaker 1: And he hasn't been called out, but he will be.
Speaker 1: He'll I think he will come up at some point
Speaker 1: in the season, probably in that same vein of the
Speaker 1: Carrols and the Hendersons and manipulating some time where they can.
Speaker 1: He'd probably be a good He's a good secondary catcher
Speaker 1: that they can potentially dage. But you know, everyone focuses
Speaker 1: on like let me get that guy. If Melindas were
Speaker 1: still floating around. I just think it's been really solid
Speaker 1: over on the stat zero side. TJ Zoisch six earned runs,
Speaker 1: two walks, four strikeouts and four innings. Jacob Jonas or
Speaker 1: yakup yon This as I'd like to call him yac
Speaker 1: up yon this two and one third six earned runs,
Speaker 1: seven hits, walked to struck out three. Kyle Freelan four
Speaker 1: and one third also gave up six earned run.
Speaker 2: Ten hits in the double.
Speaker 1: And you know what we can say is, thank god
Speaker 1: that wasn't the Cardinals side. Yay, it wasn't Kintana giving
Speaker 1: up the fourteen hits in the tender and runs. It
Speaker 1: was Colorado side. Katana actually worked out on every front.
Speaker 1: By the way hit the strikeout prop looked.
Speaker 2: Good, picked up the win.
Speaker 1: He's just a to me, Kintana is just a total
Speaker 1: league winning pick up on the back half of the year.
Speaker 1: If he had been sitting out there, goes to the
Speaker 1: Cardinals already picked up like, I'm just a big, big
Speaker 1: Kintana guy. So I don't assume he's floating out there.
Speaker 1: But there are some formats where it might potentially be happening.
Speaker 1: Home run calls abound, my friends, and we we have
Speaker 1: got the home run leader board. Would you look at
Speaker 1: this high. Cubbies and d Blum both in the forties.
Speaker 1: We've got Go Cards and Terry who have jumped up.
Speaker 1: I think Terry might have been there, but Go Cards
Speaker 1: jumped up with Mike Mayer night King of the North
Speaker 1: dropping down a little bit. We had six people receive
Speaker 1: the Wonky bonus, which was calling a player that no
Speaker 1: one else called and them hitting a homer. And I
Speaker 1: believe de Blum hit it, and that's why he's there,
Speaker 1: because he had Marcelo Zuna and that jumped him up
Speaker 1: to forty. We also had a home run calls of
Speaker 1: Judge and Nolan Aronado. I did not hit mine. I
Speaker 1: think I had Vladdie yesterday that did not hit. And God,
Speaker 1: I don't even remember who what Wonky? Who did you have?
Speaker 1: I don't remember who Wonky had. I don't think either
Speaker 1: one of us hit unfortunately. So that is what the
Speaker 1: home run board looks like, and we can jump back
Speaker 1: on it today we can get some more homers. But
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Speaker 1: I did it a little bit different today, and I'm
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of juice involved today, a lot
Speaker 1: of big minus money. So I found the two one
Speaker 1: total base in, one strikeout plus money. So these are
Speaker 1: the top plus money plays on these for the day.
Speaker 1: And number one we're going back to the Cardinals and
Speaker 1: we're going into Colorado. Except it's not a player that
Speaker 1: you think, Paul the Young. Paul the Young is just
Speaker 1: over plus money plus one oh five for the total
Speaker 1: basis which is at one oh five. His projection is
Speaker 1: two point six and he has been hitting pretty well.
Speaker 1: And it's in Colorado again and the pitcher Framber Valdez
Speaker 1: under strikeouts plus one ten, he's projected at six. The
Speaker 1: number six and a half he's going up against Texas.
Speaker 1: That one is on FanDuel Mindy. If you had to
Speaker 1: make one bet Paul de Young total bases, you need
Speaker 1: two or Framber Valdez to not strike out seven?
Speaker 2: Which one you rocking.
Speaker 4: Frambervaldez is going to get some k's today, so I
Speaker 4: think he's going to get over that. So I'd have
Speaker 4: to go to the young side just for the Framburg
Speaker 4: side real quick. If you look just at his last
Speaker 4: few starts, in three of his last four starts, he's
Speaker 4: had six or more k's and he's playing against the
Speaker 4: Texas Rangers, who, over the last two weeks against lefties
Speaker 4: have been striking out over twenty nine percent of the time.
Speaker 4: So that has me hesitant about going under on his k's.
Speaker 4: The the young side, he's coming in hot. This is
Speaker 4: a guy that has I believe eleven hits or yeah.
Speaker 4: He's been eleven games back, four home runs, getting eight
Speaker 4: sixty five ops and triple A and had a twenty
Speaker 4: four percent k raid over that time. Just about right
Speaker 4: around there, he's in Coors Field, this Cardinals offense is hot.
Speaker 4: I'm definitely going the Deyong side. I think he's gonna
Speaker 4: get the over there.
Speaker 2: Here's a fun thing.
Speaker 1: Since August fourth, that is six straight games he has
Speaker 1: had two or more total bases and five of the
Speaker 1: last six five of the last six, and two of
Speaker 1: those were multi hit games, so he's had doubles and
Speaker 1: homers in those non games. So I like that one
Speaker 1: as well. I'd actually fade the Valdez one and maybe
Speaker 1: go with the over. It's probably gonna not be great
Speaker 1: money on that, but that's what I would do.
Speaker 2: A couple DFS things.
Speaker 1: If you want to play on DK, Framber, who were
Speaker 1: talking about, I think you and I are both fading
Speaker 1: that projection.
Speaker 2: He's nine to eight on DK.
Speaker 1: I think that's a play, and I think Meryl Kelly
Speaker 1: Merle is a play today on DK he's a better
Speaker 1: priced nine to one, where he is over ten on
Speaker 1: Fandle he's ten to one. Framber's ten to four, and
Speaker 1: I think Valdez is now a better cost Nick Ldolo
Speaker 1: though more expensive than both of them at ten to five.
Speaker 1: Those are some guys who can take a look at
Speaker 1: Stacks Houston, Colorado, Boston and those are all five runs
Speaker 1: implied or more. Here's another fun thing. Colorado and Saint
Speaker 1: Louis are both implied to be over six today over
Speaker 1: six and that's where it is, and you guys want
Speaker 1: to play those so Houston, I actually liked the Colorado
Speaker 1: on like Jose Glacias would be someone he's hitting two
Speaker 1: in the lineup. I think today that might be a
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Speaker 2: I tried to.
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Speaker 2: I don't have a crown, but.
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Speaker 1: some Tiara action. Let's end this bad boy with a
Speaker 1: home run call. Mindy, guests, I've been doing pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1: What do you got into a little smaller slate of
Speaker 1: games here? Give us our home run call for today
Speaker 1: on your side?
Speaker 4: Well, I looked at the show sheet and you have
Speaker 4: the guy I was going to pick originally, Paul Goldschmid
Speaker 4: four home runs in his career against Herman Marquez, who
Speaker 4: the same Hermon Marquez that at home this season has
Speaker 4: been absolutely just awful his home games. He's got a
Speaker 4: six to eleven ERA compared to a four oh seven
Speaker 4: on the road.
Speaker 3: Not surprising.
Speaker 4: He is somebody that can blow up at any start,
Speaker 4: and it's in course field. Goldsmid with the four home
Speaker 4: runs was definitely my first call. But I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pivot and we're gonna go to the guy
Speaker 4: we talked about for the betting side, Paul the young again,
Speaker 4: somebody that has four home runs in the eleven games,
Speaker 4: and he's hot, and you want to pick players that
Speaker 4: are producing. I picked up Paul de Young in probably
Speaker 4: four or five of the league's I'm inn so I'm
Speaker 4: all in on him.
Speaker 3: Let's go Paul de Young at least one home run today.
Speaker 2: That's a good one too.
Speaker 1: If we were if we had the Wonky bonus, I
Speaker 1: think that would have a decent chance. Yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: think it's a very BVP day as well. I've got
Speaker 1: Paul Goldschmidt. He's probably the best home run VVP. It's
Speaker 1: still Colorado. Love the matchup. Like you said, he's got
Speaker 1: a three eighty two lifetime average versus Mark Hez And
Speaker 1: you know, anytime I can pick Goldie the second best
Speaker 1: as far as homers go, that's where Wonky is with
Speaker 1: AIRTIEDI Zechino, which that would be another one that no
Speaker 1: one's calling. There's a big play one Airstida Zecchino for Wonky.
Speaker 1: You've got Paul de Young. Those are some home run calls.
Speaker 2: Friends. You guys still want to take part, you want
Speaker 2: to check it out? Oh, you know what I forgot?
Speaker 1: This is one of the things I was going to
Speaker 1: tell you, guys, this is why it's so cool is
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Speaker 1: in and be involved in all this stuff. So yesterday
Speaker 1: I had Vlad and he got rained out and I
Speaker 1: didn't catch it right in time. So I went up
Speaker 1: and I was like, ah, crap, you know, how do
Speaker 1: I make this official? They're only two games left, and
Speaker 1: just before it, I went into the home run room
Speaker 1: typed in Christian Walker. I didn't get it, but I
Speaker 1: was able to change my home run call even though
Speaker 1: it was a rain out.
Speaker 2: So go and check it out.
Speaker 1: Really cool community and we can do the homer calls.
Speaker 1: Mindy that is it, my friend at d Mindy zero
Speaker 1: two on Twitter give the plug for triple play. What
Speaker 1: do you guys got going on a triple play? I
Speaker 1: just did your prospect show the call up. But you
Speaker 1: guys have got a gajillion great thing. So what should
Speaker 1: the baseball people here need to know?
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Speaker 3: Call up our Prospects show.
Speaker 4: We do it every week talking about players just in
Speaker 4: the low miners that are producing well, who we think
Speaker 4: is going to be called up next. It's a great
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