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Speaker 1: What's going on? Money, Greggy? What's happening? Happy Thursday to you?
Speaker 1: Happy to do it. Got a lot of injury notes
Speaker 1: to get into today. With inside injuries, canna be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, a lot of stuff to recap from yesterday.
Speaker 1: If you aces got banged up, Corey Kluber and Aaron Nola.
Speaker 1: On the opposite end, Jacob Graham was very good as
Speaker 1: expected against the Miami Marlins. The world very good. It's
Speaker 1: probably understanding. Yes. Before all that, Greg, I just sleep
Speaker 1: byst night, buddy, It's so great man? Uh did that?
Speaker 1: Did not wake up? But bad? Sixth thirty this morning
Speaker 1: being main boom me too. That sleep I've had in weeks.
Speaker 1: You laid the law down last night. No more cuddling
Speaker 1: you stop it, Na, I need to sleep. I think
Speaker 1: night tonight worked out very well. What's going on with you?
Speaker 1: So we obviousually have the NBA Fantasy I've come up
Speaker 1: a little bit later on the NBA will be here
Speaker 1: to watch the show. I believe we are announcing award winners. Right,
Speaker 1: do we have the the NBA Fantasy Awards. We will
Speaker 1: reveal the winners tonight on the NBA Fantasy Hour. Then
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the bar where I went
Speaker 1: last Thursday to watch marsh Madness. There's a big draft tonight.
Speaker 1: Big draft. The Baker's Draft. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not Baker's Draft of Thrones draft, Game of Thrones, deathpool draft.
Speaker 1: How does this work? We do it as simple as possible.
Speaker 1: Four players, snakes draft. All you gotta do is draft
Speaker 1: people that you think will be dead by the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the order
Speaker 1: that they die in or how many episodes they last.
Speaker 1: Just how long will they be a lie? How long
Speaker 1: will they be dead? Eight characters per team. I've just
Speaker 1: been informed I have the third pick out of four.
Speaker 1: So it's a four team league league and you have eight? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, people who you think die? Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: actually rewatching the last season right now. I watched good
Speaker 1: fourth episode season seven last to talk to me? Here?
Speaker 1: Where should I be going with the first two? You
Speaker 1: can't play the whole draft. I recognize that. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what my thing, You tell me what you're thinking. Alright,
Speaker 1: So I have a few locks in my mind, people
Speaker 1: who I think they're definitely gonna die? All right, right,
Speaker 1: so well give me my top my top three on
Speaker 1: my board. Number one the Night King. He's not living
Speaker 1: through this. Um, I don't know, guy, human number one
Speaker 1: on your board. It's like semantics, right, Because if they
Speaker 1: find a way to reverse white walkers back to humans.
Speaker 1: I think they can turn him back. Remember the footage
Speaker 1: from when the Children of the Forest first turned him
Speaker 1: into the Night King, Greg. I think there's a way
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and find a way to turn him
Speaker 1: back into a human. Really find out who he was.
Speaker 1: Cool you don't think, you know, we'll just find out
Speaker 1: that he counted him dying. I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm a clarification that right now because I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think he's gonna die. Actually great okay, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: uh that was my top spot number two. You're on
Speaker 1: great Joy, You're on the uncle m m m. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good one. I think gray worms will a
Speaker 1: lot to die. Gray Worms in my top five. I'd love.
Speaker 1: I'm begging to get gray Worm back. I don't want
Speaker 1: him to happen, but I think I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: beging to get him back on the comeback number three.
Speaker 1: And I feel the most strong about this, like I
Speaker 1: might move this guy up. Okay, I think Jamie lanisterre
Speaker 1: so dead, so dead. That's a good one. That's a
Speaker 1: good one for sure. As much as it pains me
Speaker 1: to say to I think Aria, I really I don't
Speaker 1: love I don't love that. Well. You remember early on
Speaker 1: in Game of Thrones they said only one pup will survive,
Speaker 1: right or something like that regarding the Stark family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sounds is gonna be like she's gonna live. She's a
Speaker 1: lot to live if you're doing like a survibra, like
Speaker 1: who survives is gonna live for sure? Yeah, like everyone
Speaker 1: wants her to die. It's it's not gonna happen. That's
Speaker 1: exactly why it's not gonna happen. Due this season is
Speaker 1: gonna be filled with like a bunch of things you
Speaker 1: don't want to have. I could see Terry and dying too.
Speaker 1: I was rewatching last night. Definitely die. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: rewatching last night. It was the scene where it was
Speaker 1: the battle where Denaries attacks all the Lanister troops and
Speaker 1: starts burning everyone, and uh Jamie starts running at her
Speaker 1: with the with with his horse and picks up the
Speaker 1: spear and he's about to uh lots to kill her,
Speaker 1: and then the dragon opens up its mouth and you know,
Speaker 1: a whole big thing, crazy scene. It was awesome. But
Speaker 1: Terrian's watching it from Afar and he's like, idiot, you idiot.
Speaker 1: There's somebody's gonna happen in this season where he has
Speaker 1: to decide between like Jamie and Denari Sarian, and I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna call him to die, okay, which would
Speaker 1: suck because he's awesome. Probably my two favorite characters. Johnson
Speaker 1: dies again, No, I don't think so right there anything else? Um,
Speaker 1: So we had a big debate this morning. We don't
Speaker 1: read spoil We don't. I don't read spoilers or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody wants to read game and throwing spoiler.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be spoiled, right, Like, walk a
Speaker 1: very fine line with this. You know that Greg try
Speaker 1: to like read stuff, but okay, I don't want So
Speaker 1: here's where I am. We have this death we have
Speaker 1: this death pool tonight, and I wanted to make a
Speaker 1: rule that you cannot draft a character that has not
Speaker 1: been in the show yet, because you know how this
Speaker 1: guy has been cast like the as like the head
Speaker 1: of the Golden Company. We know, we know Uron's bringing
Speaker 1: the Golden Company back to back to back to the North.
Speaker 1: We we know that. So one of the characters is
Speaker 1: that was cast as like the leader of the Golden Company.
Speaker 1: We all assume, we're people assume that this dude, it's
Speaker 1: not really a spoiler of any sort. Um. His name
Speaker 1: is his are Strickland in the book. Okay, okay, so
Speaker 1: people want to draft this guy, Harry Strickland, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that should be legal. We haven't met him.
Speaker 1: Yet like he's in the trailer. Theoretically, now you know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in it. I think he should be
Speaker 1: allowed to be drafted. So that's like drafting a prospect
Speaker 1: who've never played before, right, it should still be allowed
Speaker 1: to do it. That's okay, um, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 1: So basically it was decided that he can be drafted.
Speaker 1: But if you draft Harry Strickland, and for whatever reasons,
Speaker 1: in the show, his name is changed because, like you
Speaker 1: know how certain names are changed from the book to
Speaker 1: the show, if his name is John Smith, you do
Speaker 1: not get him in. Then, like you took the shot,
Speaker 1: you took the shot, you were wrong. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think that should be the case. It should be
Speaker 1: the case. I think it should be. It's like, no way,
Speaker 1: that's what we decided. Any all right, well, good luck
Speaker 1: to you great the other great joys, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make them. THEA had him
Speaker 1: my team last year and they survived. I can see
Speaker 1: theon dying for sure. Yeah, maybe I feel I feel
Speaker 1: more safe about theon dying than anyone else. Can you
Speaker 1: bet on all this stuff too? Probably? Can? I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can. Thean was my last season. Thean was my
Speaker 1: first overall, I had fourth pick, and they are and
Speaker 1: Theano my first two picks, and neither of them died.
Speaker 1: Job Greg, j G. I'm gonna guess you didn't finish
Speaker 1: very highly in that. Him in second on the season,
Speaker 1: all right, him in second? You must have? Are you
Speaker 1: hit on your sleeper death picks? There? Greg? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 1: What about baseball? Greg? It's baseball? You got anything there? Oh?
Speaker 1: What do they watch last night? No? I started watching
Speaker 1: a new show. Not a new show, but I started
Speaker 1: watching a show. So after the Yankees, I didn't really
Speaker 1: watch rich baseball last night, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: me neither. Yeah. I watched some of the Mets. I
Speaker 1: watch some of the Braves game. I watched some of
Speaker 1: Then I watched some of the Mets also, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I'm gonna watch the other show.
Speaker 1: It's called The Other Two on Comedy Central. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about it. Okay, yet Central I thought I
Speaker 1: had a shot. Yeah not today. Well, the biggest story,
Speaker 1: the biggest story once again, thankfully his injuries. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to Virginia dr a or I think it's
Speaker 1: dr Ay today we're talking to dr A coming up
Speaker 1: in about ten minutes from now, but just to talk
Speaker 1: about all these injuries, because obviously Troy to Luisky got hurt,
Speaker 1: Like that's not a surprise. I saw a great poll
Speaker 1: from a guy Neil Keith on Twitter. Ready, has Troy
Speaker 1: to Luizky played his last game with the Yankees? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or no? That's I guess a fair question, right, Probably not?
Speaker 1: I would lean no, say yes, just cut him if
Speaker 1: everyone else is kind of getting healthy, he just won't
Speaker 1: be back. He's just never gonna be He's like, hell,
Speaker 1: he's hurt, he was honestly back. He'll reinjure himself a time. Look,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have much value for fans anyway, probably own
Speaker 1: like Ale only picking up in a fifteen team league.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, the bigger story injury wise was Marcella
Speaker 1: Una getting hurt yesterday. Jake Lamb as well. Both of
Speaker 1: these guys get hurt. Both of these guys need out
Speaker 1: and need need Mr Eyes both not great well, Jake Lamb. Look,
Speaker 1: we're never rooting for injury. But Christian Walker opens up,
Speaker 1: could open some regular playing time up for Christian Walker.
Speaker 1: Christian Walker has been awesome to this point as well too.
Speaker 1: So I had a few fabrons last night in my
Speaker 1: home leagues and people were actually very aggressive with Christian Walker. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's it probably has something to do with this
Speaker 1: Jake Lamb injury. And rightfully so, Christian Walker has been awesome.
Speaker 1: He's been a quad a player as people like to
Speaker 1: call him, because he's dominated minor leagues, hasn't really had
Speaker 1: a fair shake at the major league level. Yet. We'll
Speaker 1: see if this opens it up. I would imagine it does.
Speaker 1: Regarding Marcelo Zuna was scratched yesterday randomly the Cardinals lineup
Speaker 1: and it comes out that it was due to a
Speaker 1: side right side tightness. So we'll we'll get more from that.
Speaker 1: Regarding that from infant injuries, Yeah, absolutely, dr a about
Speaker 1: that coming up in a little bit. Injuries the story
Speaker 1: thus far early on in the season. But the other
Speaker 1: big story last night, who mentioned the Mets their opening
Speaker 1: day begins in about forty five minutes from now. Uh
Speaker 1: has this clock game last night where Jacob Degram proved
Speaker 1: that last year no fluke Frank, Yeah, look it was
Speaker 1: against the Miami Marlins, but it was still ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: as we've been saying, early on in the season. Here,
Speaker 1: if you face bad teams, you're expected to dominate those teams.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Jacob Degram did. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was ridiculous. He was otherworldly. Again, um had everything working
Speaker 1: for him. I'm not surprised, Greg, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised by this. I think it's been what's the record now,
Speaker 1: it's like dirty straight quality starts and like that, Greg,
Speaker 1: do you know of the so I don't know what'll
Speaker 1: tell my head, but as a guy that owned the
Speaker 1: ground last year that watches him as a fan this year,
Speaker 1: he is utterly ridiculous. As long as he could stay
Speaker 1: healthy like he isn't as good. There is no There
Speaker 1: was no sign coming in the season he would slow down.
Speaker 1: That was the reason he was just second picture off
Speaker 1: the ward was all said and done. Sale too, I know,
Speaker 1: I know a few people who still had sale right there.
Speaker 1: I thought by the time it was all saidding done,
Speaker 1: I firmly had to Grandma ahead of Chrysale. There was
Speaker 1: just no sign of anything going wrong with swinging strikes
Speaker 1: sister Day on a hundred and fourteen pitches. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just ridiculous. It's the second start of the season,
Speaker 1: his average fastball velocity nineties seven point three miles per hour.
Speaker 1: Greg back down at ninety eight point eight miles per hour.
Speaker 1: A few times, I had at least six swinging strikes
Speaker 1: on three different pitches. A slider nine swinging strikes. There,
Speaker 1: change up nine swinging strikes. I mean it's slider, Greg,
Speaker 1: Think about this. Slider velocity was ninety three and a
Speaker 1: half miles per hour. That's faster than most guys fastballs.
Speaker 1: Chrysals fastball. Yeah about this? Uh, Jacob Graham's change up
Speaker 1: through fifteen times had nine swinging strikes eighty eight point
Speaker 1: nine miles per hour, the same as Chris Sales fastball velocity.
Speaker 1: All right, well we went over stale yesterday. We're not
Speaker 1: technically freaking out yet, but this just goes to show
Speaker 1: you how good, how dominant Jacob Gram was yesterday and
Speaker 1: how how great he has been. Jacobs Gram once again
Speaker 1: proving as I mentioned, that he is one of its,
Speaker 1: not the best pitcher in baseball at this point, with
Speaker 1: a dominating performance of fourteen strikeouts last night for the
Speaker 1: New York Metropolitans again will open up today City Field.
Speaker 1: I know our video over duser Martino, you're very excited
Speaker 1: for this opening day at home against the Nats. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more excited than you believe that some people
Speaker 1: should be. But that's not what I said. To look
Speaker 1: at Pete Alonzo's react, Dude, that's not what That's not
Speaker 1: what I said. I said, you have as a fan,
Speaker 1: you ever right to be excited, but you can you
Speaker 1: will care more than the majority of players. Well not
Speaker 1: that ef it's opening day. Opening day still means something.
Speaker 1: But because they're hype because it's the fiftieth anniversary of
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixteen the World reasons. I said that was
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why they could get hyped up.
Speaker 1: And I said, that's entirely irrelevant. That's where we stood. Yep,
Speaker 1: these guys were getting into a downstairs regarding Mets opening Day. Look, Greg,
Speaker 1: if Mets fans want to be excited about it, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I understood, totally understay. You're saying that the players don't
Speaker 1: really care that it's the fiftieth verse. Correct. You might
Speaker 1: be right about some players care about it all. Can
Speaker 1: you say all of them definitively care? No, you can't. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't say all of them cared I said it.
Speaker 1: I said, it's said, definitely a factor that could go
Speaker 1: into it, that they could get pumped up for that.
Speaker 1: There's only been two teams in the You wanna do
Speaker 1: you want to tell everybody downstairs when you're on the
Speaker 1: air and they could just stop talking, that'd be great,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, like yo, what yo? Yo? Did you see
Speaker 1: Moncada's home on last night screaming in the background while
Speaker 1: we're trying to talk to Martino here? All right? Anyway,
Speaker 1: this is what it is? All right? Thank you? Um? Anyway,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's opening dick awesome. Like I was pelting
Speaker 1: for opening Day for the Yankees, but sure Martino is
Speaker 1: for the Mats and understandably, so what I think fans
Speaker 1: are more excited? I really do. Yeah, Greg, how about this,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Mets, who might as well crap
Speaker 1: on our Yankees while don't you into anything else with
Speaker 1: the Mets restaur right now? Uh? Do you? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: don't care what the DS if I care about I
Speaker 1: care about Trevor Richards start. I think that's worth mentioned.
Speaker 1: It's pretty standard, okay, Yeah, six in five hits, three runs,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts. He threw nineties seven pitches, obviously he's in
Speaker 1: this mix with the Marlin starters. Frank, what did you
Speaker 1: think of his performance? It wasn't extremely dominant, obviously, but
Speaker 1: it was still a quality start. It wasn't his best,
Speaker 1: but look, still had seven strikeouts, had over a strikeout
Speaker 1: for any only serves up one homer. Uh. The swinging
Speaker 1: strikes were there from as well. I believe he had
Speaker 1: fifteen swing strikes. At fifteen against a good Meths lineup,
Speaker 1: he had seven strikeouts. Still records a quality start, So
Speaker 1: I thought it was a fair performance from from Trevor Richards.
Speaker 1: If you have him, I think it's kind of status quo. Still,
Speaker 1: if you added him, you you still feel good about him.
Speaker 1: It was in his best performance. It was still quality starts,
Speaker 1: so I think you'll take it. I agree it's Mets
Speaker 1: lineup has been very hot out of the gate. I
Speaker 1: thinks I find star from Trevor Ridgards. You pick him
Speaker 1: top en, you drafted him, You're you're ultimately okay with this,
Speaker 1: I think had I had a few people asking me
Speaker 1: about Brandon Nemo yesterday, Greg, what's going on with Brandon Nemo.
Speaker 1: I believe he has like twelve or thirteen strikeouts in
Speaker 1: his first nineteen at bats or something like that. You're
Speaker 1: cutting bait on Nemo or you you holding out Ran
Speaker 1: for now. He's still leading off today too. If this
Speaker 1: was happening in the middle of the season, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: even tell Night of course started the season. Absolutely if
Speaker 1: you draft Brandon Nemo in points leagues because of his
Speaker 1: O b P in Rhodo, do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: I'm not cutting bait yet. When we come back, dr
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Speaker 1: We're joined right now by Dr A from Inside Injuries
Speaker 1: here as we are each and every Thursday on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Best Friends Forever. What's going on? What's going on? Dr?
Speaker 1: Every thing as well? How are you guys? We're okay, man,
Speaker 1: We're okay. All frustrated by our team and the injuries,
Speaker 1: but okay overall. UM, let us start with the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees, and let us start with um. I think
Speaker 1: the one that we're probably most scared about it Frank,
Speaker 1: and that would be Miguel and do Are who has
Speaker 1: a tear and his rotator cough. From what we understand,
Speaker 1: he was just sliding back to the basic totally looked
Speaker 1: innocuous and finished the game after a today. My shoulders
Speaker 1: bothering me. He thought he had a bruiser, was a
Speaker 1: little sore. M R. I reveal a small tear. He
Speaker 1: thinks he could rehab it because they're still strengthened that shoulder.
Speaker 1: I obviously don't know what any of that means. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you can break it down for us. Yeah, So first
Speaker 1: of all, it's I think it's a small labor room,
Speaker 1: not a rotator cuffed tear um and so, which is
Speaker 1: actually uh not it's not good news that it's a
Speaker 1: labor in tear. If it was a rotator cuff tear,
Speaker 1: actually a better chances of healing. But a laborl tear
Speaker 1: is essentially you know, it's a very sensitive area. It's
Speaker 1: the cartilage between the humorous and how it articulates with
Speaker 1: the shoulder um. And it's basically torn and and you
Speaker 1: have that has to heal completely, especially for a third basement.
Speaker 1: It's just throwing shoulder. Uh. And you know this thing
Speaker 1: in one throw, if it's not healed properly, can recur
Speaker 1: um you know. And so it's a Greade three shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: which is usually reserved for laborl tear. And right now
Speaker 1: our HTR shows that he'll return on me the t
Speaker 1: so um, it's gotta we have with rehab and everything. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's usually about six weeks of healing, with about two
Speaker 1: weeks of slow rehab. So May twenty seven is what
Speaker 1: we're looking at all, Right, So if you had heard
Speaker 1: swords end of May, which sounds pretty reasonable, they're gonna
Speaker 1: shut them down for a couple of weeks and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna wrap them back off and maybe the end
Speaker 1: of its fine. What are you saying that he can theoretically,
Speaker 1: from your understanding, rehab rest and rehab this injury and
Speaker 1: not have surgery on it. That's correct. It depends on
Speaker 1: the size of the laborl tear. If it's a small
Speaker 1: laborl tear, uh, you know, usually these types of things
Speaker 1: can heal on their own, and uh, and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's all that needs to be done. If there if
Speaker 1: there's if it's a larger laborl tear, if a piece
Speaker 1: of a fragment has fallen off, if there's any other
Speaker 1: concomminant type injuries like uh, you know, some sort of
Speaker 1: um bone contusion or sort of cartilage other cartilage injury
Speaker 1: it's said ligament injury or anything like that, then obviously
Speaker 1: surgery would be needed. But um, from what we're hearing
Speaker 1: and what we have aggregated, this is something that they
Speaker 1: could probably rest and then re em riot and make
Speaker 1: sure that it heals and then you can go back
Speaker 1: into rehab. So there's a really good chance that he
Speaker 1: does not need certain are on May twenties seven, they'll
Speaker 1: be back right, So that is actually very good news
Speaker 1: from Dr A. Frank though I'm not used to it,
Speaker 1: but realistically, the eighties are trying this exactly what Doctor
Speaker 1: A suggesting. Let him rest for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: It's currently April fourth. We know he's gonna rest until
Speaker 1: the next m r I was exactly what Dr A said,
Speaker 1: and then ultimately ram him back up and if the
Speaker 1: m r I does show some healing in two weeks
Speaker 1: after they've rested him, and he will be back towards
Speaker 1: the end of May, which is great news for fantasy
Speaker 1: owners every the Inankees. Yeah, the end of May early June,
Speaker 1: that looks like the earliest we might be able to
Speaker 1: see Miguel and do har again. So obviously for fantasy
Speaker 1: owners to try and hold onto him for as long
Speaker 1: as you can. I know a lot of these injuries
Speaker 1: are piling up, but as we spoke about earlier on
Speaker 1: in the week, try and hold on to and hard
Speaker 1: the best you can, and then you know, if it
Speaker 1: comes out a month from now that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's trying to rehab and something else happens and he
Speaker 1: doesn't need surgery, then at that point we cut him.
Speaker 1: But again, try and hold and hard as long as
Speaker 1: you can. N His teammate, Jihan Carlo Stanton, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy, he likes to pump a lout of iron.
Speaker 1: He's he's got the big arms, got the big biceps.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how big they are, because he's strained them. Uh.
Speaker 1: He you know, he has a greade one strain of
Speaker 1: his left bicep tendon quote on a funky swing and
Speaker 1: he's been shut down for ten days. How long do
Speaker 1: you cause injuries tends a last? Is this something that
Speaker 1: can recur? When do you guys expect John carl sand
Speaker 1: to be back from this injury? Yeah? Grade one biceps
Speaker 1: strain is not that big of a deal. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: when you guys pump biceps and you work your biceps
Speaker 1: in the gym almost you know usually you know, usually
Speaker 1: your biceps are closer. You know, the the amount of
Speaker 1: edema that they develop is about a you know, point
Speaker 1: five to grade one anyway, So this is something, uh
Speaker 1: that um, you know, it will be about a week
Speaker 1: for him to recover. Doesn't really need anything. He'll take
Speaker 1: some you know, anti inflammatories and hydrate and just slowly
Speaker 1: start to make sure that you know, he can swing
Speaker 1: with the power that he needs. Don't be surprised in
Speaker 1: the first week he's trying to slap things towards the
Speaker 1: right side of the field just to make sure he
Speaker 1: gets back into the you know, thick of things. But
Speaker 1: I would say our hdr On, our algorithm is saying
Speaker 1: that he'll be back on April the eighth, So that's
Speaker 1: pretty good news as well. Regarding stating, it almost sounds like,
Speaker 1: you know, and I don't want to misquote you, Doctor A,
Speaker 1: that you're kind of calling Stanton a big pansy. I
Speaker 1: am not. Uh, you know, we want him to have
Speaker 1: zero strain and his biceps when he's swinging really hard
Speaker 1: to try to hit five foot home runs. But you know,
Speaker 1: let's not have him give him any pain, you know,
Speaker 1: especially the amount of money the Yankees are paying them.
Speaker 1: So I think Dr A won't call him, and I'll
Speaker 1: call him. I'll call Stanting the pansy. Listen, You're that's
Speaker 1: silly because you want him to be healthy. You want
Speaker 1: him to be ready to rock and a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: It sounds like according to Dr A Rush for the
Speaker 1: week he's I l and after that he should be back,
Speaker 1: which is we dealing hopefully mid to late April. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we get him by them, I think, and I think
Speaker 1: you will. I think Joe Carl Stanton with the first
Speaker 1: of the all of these things, we're two for two.
Speaker 1: Good news so far, Greg, good news with all with
Speaker 1: all the Yankees thus far, which is which is very
Speaker 1: very rare, so um having to obviously see it. Um.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get Aaron Hicks back soon enough as well.
Speaker 1: But he's still, by the way, has not done a
Speaker 1: single baseball activity. I love that we keep getting updates. Oh,
Speaker 1: Aaron makes is feeling so great. He's feeling so great.
Speaker 1: Hasn't done anything literally not what he feels great. I
Speaker 1: feel great when I say on my couch to Greg
Speaker 1: the same, I feel great, especially when I when I
Speaker 1: have chips next to me. Yeah, you know, right after
Speaker 1: you do your bicept curls. Exactly, they're exactly so. Speaking
Speaker 1: of New Yorkers or former New Yorkers, as Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: got hurt with a finger injury out of nowhere. That
Speaker 1: finger injury. I had him sit for a day and
Speaker 1: now potentially sit for a month. And what's up with
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy And how serious is his injury? Yeah, Usually
Speaker 1: when you have these index finger injuries, UM, they're typically
Speaker 1: what's called volar plate fractors. They're just small little evulsion
Speaker 1: fractors off of the base of the bone. UM. Usually
Speaker 1: that just requires healing and uh, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: really not that big of deal, especially for a first baseman. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. The only thing that that is of concern
Speaker 1: and that's what the m R is for. And I
Speaker 1: wish I had put my eyes on it. But there's
Speaker 1: tendon or ligament damage. Um Uh from what we've aggregated,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they are showing any concerns about
Speaker 1: any ligament or tend to damage. So you know, this
Speaker 1: is a typical four week recovery time. This is a
Speaker 1: very non displaced type of factor. Once that heals completely,
Speaker 1: he's fully healed. So April twenty nine is kind of
Speaker 1: what our HTR saying. So the end of the month
Speaker 1: may first as kind of what we're predicting that he
Speaker 1: should be good to go. All right, so pretty good news.
Speaker 1: But it was Daniel Murphy, who you know, it's been
Speaker 1: estimateings out for about a month. You're looking at like
Speaker 1: May first issue, and I think that's pretty good news
Speaker 1: once again three for three with Dr A. Speaking of injuries,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Adlerge just tweeted out via Troy to l Whiskey
Speaker 1: said he felt something wrong with this caf at the
Speaker 1: end of his final swing yesterday. Was sure if it
Speaker 1: was just a cramp or something, so he went out,
Speaker 1: laid some defense. He'll be down for a couple of
Speaker 1: days and be reevaluated. Alright, well par for the course
Speaker 1: when it comes to Troy to Law Whiskey, but obviously
Speaker 1: doesn't have as much fantasy relevance as the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys that we're talking about. I wanted to quickly
Speaker 1: follow up on what we were talking about with Daniel Murphy. Doc.
Speaker 1: I've seen this term thrown around mallet finger. What is
Speaker 1: that regarding Daniel Murphy and is that something that can
Speaker 1: kind of throw complications into uh his recovery. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: um and and I just and literally I should have said, Mallet,
Speaker 1: there's two types of the vulsion fractures of the finger.
Speaker 1: There's a volar plate that I just told you which
Speaker 1: is on the on the under surface of the finger,
Speaker 1: and then the mallet injury is on the opposite side.
Speaker 1: It's on the what we call the dorsal surface or
Speaker 1: you know if you if you keep your finger like that,
Speaker 1: it's actually on this side, not on this side. So um,
Speaker 1: it's like kind of a chip fracture off of the
Speaker 1: base of the bone. Um, but it's on this side,
Speaker 1: not on this side. And so it's basically the same
Speaker 1: type of healing pattern. UM. As long as there's no
Speaker 1: ligament or tendant injury. Four weeks is good enough for
Speaker 1: that thing to completely heal and to get back into
Speaker 1: rehab and you know, to start to throw again. So
Speaker 1: you know, we're looking at the end of April early May. Okay,
Speaker 1: good news there for for Daniel Murphy. Let's move over
Speaker 1: to another hitter who has a fracture in his right
Speaker 1: index finger that would trade Turner off to a really
Speaker 1: hot start head two home runs and four soon bases
Speaker 1: over the first weekend of the baseball season. We all
Speaker 1: saw it, uh two days ago when he tries to
Speaker 1: square up with the bunt, gets hidden right on his finger,
Speaker 1: and you can tell as soon as he goes down
Speaker 1: he was super frustrated. It turns out that he does
Speaker 1: have the fracture. How long is Trade Turner expected to
Speaker 1: be out? I think that this is no injuries good,
Speaker 1: but at least it's not something to his legs that
Speaker 1: can affect his ability to steal bases in the future.
Speaker 1: What's his timetable looking like? So this is a different
Speaker 1: type of fracture. This is a blunt force trauma fracture.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have a fastball or baseball that
Speaker 1: just hammers the finger dead on. Uh, and it's sitting
Speaker 1: on a bat. You know, it's got no relief for anything. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's probably what we call more complex the fracture as
Speaker 1: opposed to the other factors that we just talked about.
Speaker 1: So this one probably will require about a seven to
Speaker 1: eight week um optimal recovery time. And so our HTR
Speaker 1: for him is May the twenties, between May twenty one
Speaker 1: and May right now out. But it does heal completely, Um,
Speaker 1: it'll just you know, it just needs about you know,
Speaker 1: six to seven weeks to heal. Not the best, all right,
Speaker 1: So we're we're three for four here in terms of
Speaker 1: in terms of good news. But look for fantasy owners,
Speaker 1: you want trade turner to be on when when he returns,
Speaker 1: so that he can kind of pick up where he
Speaker 1: left off early on in the season. Here, Greg, Now,
Speaker 1: if they try to rush him back and get him
Speaker 1: back early to mid May, you know, that's something that
Speaker 1: would actually worry me as a trade turner. I'd rather
Speaker 1: him be when they bring him back. As you say,
Speaker 1: as we all noted, right, it's a finger injury, so
Speaker 1: that's not gonna affect his speed in anyway, nothing to
Speaker 1: his leg or his ankle or his calf. But he
Speaker 1: has to be a percent so they can grip the bat.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. But I'm glad that his speed is not
Speaker 1: is still going to be there so when he does
Speaker 1: come back, and very very hopeful that I'll pick up
Speaker 1: right where he left off, which is obviously the goal
Speaker 1: for fantasy owners. We're talking to dr a here of
Speaker 1: inside injuries. The story of Major League Baseball through the
Speaker 1: first two days of the season in Japan was harder strictland.
Speaker 1: Two days, two saves, came back blue one and the
Speaker 1: next day he's only sixty d d L. What is Yeah, so, uh,
Speaker 1: the biggest problem is is that a he's a you know,
Speaker 1: right handed pitcher. No, I'm sorry, he's a relief pitcher.
Speaker 1: And he's got a Greadte three latch strain and uh
Speaker 1: greade three means a partial tear of his lat and so,
Speaker 1: you know, especially because how sensitive the throwing extremity is
Speaker 1: for pictures. Uh, this is a real big problem, uh
Speaker 1: for the sort of throwing shoulder um and so um,
Speaker 1: you know, the optimal covery time for this type of injury,
Speaker 1: were actually uh saying it's about ten to twelve weeks. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean they're saying a sixty day I l but
Speaker 1: we're kind of downgrading him even further. Unfortunately, he's about
Speaker 1: a ten to twelve week So we're looking at uh
Speaker 1: more of a time frame um in early July or
Speaker 1: mid July to return. It looks like Anthony Zac my
Speaker 1: guy Greg will be the closer for the Mariners until then.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're gonna try and ship him out. They want
Speaker 1: to build up his trade value and hopefully for their sake,
Speaker 1: trade him around the deadline and maybe right around then
Speaker 1: Hunter Strickland comes back healthy and the second half of
Speaker 1: the season he's the closure again. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the most optimistic way of looking at things. And no,
Speaker 1: maybe you stash him in like an a L only
Speaker 1: on your I L, or or a fifteen team mixed
Speaker 1: if you have an I L. But if you need
Speaker 1: a roster spot. Of all the injury we've talked about,
Speaker 1: I think Hunter Trickland is probably the most drobable of
Speaker 1: all these games. If if he comes back off the
Speaker 1: sixty day d L right away, I would be very concerned.
Speaker 1: You know. I think he'll probably have thirty to forty
Speaker 1: days after that. I to make sure he gets back
Speaker 1: on it. So if he does come back and they're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: he's good to go in early June, I would not.
Speaker 1: I would stay away from him because our statistics and
Speaker 1: algorithms show that he still needs all the way to
Speaker 1: July for this type of injury. Okay, so even more
Speaker 1: so than Trade Turner, We're we're getting an update of
Speaker 1: Hunter Strickland here. Uh and DCOR is clearly very worried
Speaker 1: about him coming off that sixty day I L. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about Marcel Ozuna yesterday scratched in
Speaker 1: the lineup from the from the st from St. Louis Cardinals,
Speaker 1: he's dealing with a quote side injury. He had side tightness,
Speaker 1: so that's regarding the oblique. I'd imagine he's going for
Speaker 1: an m r I today. But I know that these
Speaker 1: things can tend to linger for hitters, especially someone who
Speaker 1: you know, swings as hard as they do, like like
Speaker 1: Marcelo Zuna. So what do you guys have on them
Speaker 1: as of now and and how long do these types
Speaker 1: of injuries typically take. Yeah, I love the body part
Speaker 1: called side, you know, because there's about seven muscles that
Speaker 1: it could be. You know, it could be an oblique,
Speaker 1: it could be a lad, it could be a serratus anterior,
Speaker 1: it could be like I mean, it's just there's a
Speaker 1: bazillion muscles that it could be. So honestly, um, you know, overall,
Speaker 1: if you get got soreness on his side, statistically speaking,
Speaker 1: you are correct, it's probably an oblique, but you know,
Speaker 1: there could be a complexity of multiple muscles is involved
Speaker 1: until he gets the m r I. The only thing
Speaker 1: I worry about, I'm not so much more worried about, um,
Speaker 1: you know, his hitting. I mean, obviously that is of
Speaker 1: concern because they do use a lot of these muscles
Speaker 1: also as an outfielder, you know, chasing balls and line drives,
Speaker 1: and you know in the beginning, uh, you know you've
Speaker 1: got you used your full body course, not just a
Speaker 1: lower extremity to initiate movement in terms of going after
Speaker 1: balls in the outfield. And so you know, I worry
Speaker 1: about him catching up to you know, hard hit line
Speaker 1: drives and you know these types of things as well.
Speaker 1: So you know when you talk about side soreness and
Speaker 1: oblique soreness, you feel pain no matter what, no matter
Speaker 1: what you do any type of movement, et cetera. And
Speaker 1: so right now, you know, uh, we don't really have
Speaker 1: a grade on it at this point. I mean we're
Speaker 1: we're predicting that it's going to be a grade one.
Speaker 1: But if the m R I comes back and it
Speaker 1: just shows a good amount of fluid within the oblique,
Speaker 1: then it could be a grade two and you can
Speaker 1: see him be out for eight weeks. Eight weeks is
Speaker 1: not what you're hoping for. Great, I have zero shares,
Speaker 1: but he will be good for our fantasy team potentially.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it could open up some plaining time here
Speaker 1: for the real deal. Tyler o'new right, absolutely, Tyler O'Neill
Speaker 1: potentially in lives and playing time. A true opportunity for
Speaker 1: him in Marzello's you know, is out those eight weeks
Speaker 1: that Dr A's suggesting he will be talking to dr
Speaker 1: Ay from inside injuries. One name we talked a lot
Speaker 1: with you about over the past month or so. It
Speaker 1: is Francisco Lindor who heard his calf, worked his way
Speaker 1: back very very quickly, then re injured his ankle so
Speaker 1: much so that he said he forgot about his calf.
Speaker 1: How serious is the ankle injury to Francisco Lindoor and
Speaker 1: how soon good fantasy owners expecting to back? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the life of a short stop. Basically, you know
Speaker 1: he's got there. There's there's a lot of these lower
Speaker 1: extremity grade one, two and three types of injuries. Calf, ankle, Uh,
Speaker 1: don't be surprised. A little hamstring here, a little quad.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of mobility that's required. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of running on the basis there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of ground that they have to cover. Um,
Speaker 1: this is a great two ankle um and that worries
Speaker 1: me because of the right calf strain again and um,
Speaker 1: these types of injuries tend to recur, sometimes in the
Speaker 1: exact same body part that the injured originally, or in
Speaker 1: a related body part, which is the you know, the
Speaker 1: opposite ankle. If there's any type of compensatory action, uh,
Speaker 1: that's given. And so that's why his injury risk was
Speaker 1: one in a quarter before this injury, and he got
Speaker 1: another injury. So now his injury risk is probably gonna
Speaker 1: be cent and so UM. You know, for this particular injury,
Speaker 1: it's a four week recovery time, and so from when
Speaker 1: he injured it two now we're right now looking at April. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, don't be surprised when he does come
Speaker 1: back on the field. Um. You know, you'll you'll continue
Speaker 1: to get these types of tiki tech uh, two week,
Speaker 1: three week, four week type of h you know, resting
Speaker 1: injuries in the lower extremity with Lindor, So Francisco, Lindor
Speaker 1: coming back. But we'll see how healthy he remains for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Doctor I said, it's gonna
Speaker 1: linger all year, and it kind of has, right, it has.
Speaker 1: I can't have injury optimism for Lindor, especially when we're
Speaker 1: depending on the steel bases. Doc, real real quick, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Jeffers sets to undergo a rehabitsignment tomorrow. When is
Speaker 1: he healthy to return? Yeah? Great to right shoulder, looks
Speaker 1: like it's rotator cuff. Three weeks, optal more covery times.
Speaker 1: So I mean April seven is probably right, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: right right kind of in in his sweet spot. Hopefully
Speaker 1: there's no secondary injuries. Um so right now, great to
Speaker 1: right shoulder, rotator cough three weeks. What it means Bradley
Speaker 1: zero will have to wait, Frank, oh, next week. Maybe
Speaker 1: we appreciate the time, sir, have a wonderful week and
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Speaker 1: during the break to Greg, I'm not used to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the moves there for Prince excepted of the Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: jaf Man allowed to be am. I not, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: should be very When does it actually return next week? Sunday?
Speaker 1: Next Sunday, we got WrestleMania this Sunday Game of Thrones, right,
Speaker 1: so we're stacked up as I told you. I told
Speaker 1: I told Judy that, um this week, I couldn't go
Speaker 1: home with wrestle any weekend, and I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be at our family's house. I don
Speaker 1: want to rush home. I want to be my seat
Speaker 1: ready to rock a weekend. You know that next Sunday
Speaker 1: said I have to be of my nine PM. No,
Speaker 1: there's no negotiation about that. Fair, she's no problem. Definitely
Speaker 1: fair Greig. Yeah, I just saw an update on Vladimir
Speaker 1: Garro Jr. On Twitter. He has been assigned to duned
Speaker 1: in dun I don't sure, Okay, whatever roster today. So
Speaker 1: that's where he'll begin his official rehab. We're shuffling off
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo by saying, so he's beginning his rehab. Excellent,
Speaker 1: excellent news Jr. Another update, So my meal last night,
Speaker 1: it wasn't as healthy as I thought. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: as good as that I hope, I would say. But
Speaker 1: she bought me this awesome pizza bread. It's like, did
Speaker 1: you did you eat that whole thing? Like yeah, it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: pizza bread. You didn't even share any with Judy. Now
Speaker 1: I needed it, man, needed it? Why did you need it?
Speaker 1: I told him me needs healthy this week. Well, my
Speaker 1: dad brought you lunch this week. Probably wasn't that healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a big bullet pasta get him on Monday. Fair enough. Look,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna have to explain yourself to me. Greg,
Speaker 1: your dad never eat healthy your dad. Your dad's lunch
Speaker 1: was very welcome. I was like thinking about I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I miss that. It's very nice. Uh. Today, let the
Speaker 1: over sandwich from the weekend not healthy. Good job buddy.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow I'll go back to the South. I have a
Speaker 1: regular sandwich today and no idea what's on. I never
Speaker 1: know what's on my sanding. No, it makes it fun.
Speaker 1: Um sure, I mean it's not really that fun for me.
Speaker 1: It's probably just gonna be turkey and cheese, pretty standard
Speaker 1: standard sandwich. Greig Good, Let's get back into some I
Speaker 1: don't know how to transition from this. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the pitching performances from last night, including
Speaker 1: the ones that stood out to meet the most, and
Speaker 1: that was Carlos Rodan six innings of one run ball.
Speaker 1: He struck out nine. Carlos Rodon, obviously, one of these
Speaker 1: four were top prospects who've been waiting, waiting, waiting for
Speaker 1: him to remain healthy and obviously remain effective. Last night,
Speaker 1: I guess yesterday afternoon, facing Corey Kluber, he was very,
Speaker 1: very good, only about two hits and then he walked
Speaker 1: one guy. He was awesome, real or fake? Frank M.
Speaker 1: I want to say really because I liked Rodan coming
Speaker 1: into the season as a as a sleeper here. But
Speaker 1: basically just throws his four seam fastball and his slider.
Speaker 1: Yesterday threw a hundred and three pitches and n eight
Speaker 1: of those we're four seam or slider. So he only
Speaker 1: threw five other pitches and those were changeups and he
Speaker 1: didn't get any swinging strikes on those. He had fourteen
Speaker 1: swinging strikes on his slider. The slider was very good.
Speaker 1: You know, I watched highlights of this performance. Um, he
Speaker 1: had people swinging and missing at the slider all day long. Again,
Speaker 1: it's the Cleveland Indians lineup stream while your starting pitchers
Speaker 1: against him. He had two swinging strikes on his fastball.
Speaker 1: His fastball that average ninety one. It is only only
Speaker 1: his second start. Um, you know, he could ramp up
Speaker 1: that velocity as the season goes on. But I want
Speaker 1: to see more, man, I want to see more velocity
Speaker 1: out of him, Like one is just it's not gonna
Speaker 1: get it done. Even last year when he struggled. His
Speaker 1: fastball velocity was you know, a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: when he was everyone's darling, sleeper darling sixteen seventeen all
Speaker 1: over ninety three miles per hour on his fastball velocity.
Speaker 1: So I gotta see that velocity jack up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily buying in yet on Carlos rodon I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of been a product of the teams
Speaker 1: he's faced. I believe he faced the Royals in his
Speaker 1: first start, and he faced the Indians yesterday. I'm not
Speaker 1: totally buying Carlos roddon either. Um. I like to walk
Speaker 1: to strikeout ratio for sure, that's great, But I want
Speaker 1: to see him if he can continue, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I know I did this a little bit yesterday. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, the competition was terrible, but as you
Speaker 1: pointed out here, fifteen strikeouts, two walks on the season.
Speaker 1: As you pointed out, though, you gotta win those games,
Speaker 1: and you gotta do well in those games, and you
Speaker 1: should do that, and that's exactly what Carlos Rodon has
Speaker 1: did has done rather and the fifte units you strike out,
Speaker 1: the walk ratio obviously a lot to absolutely love right there,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I was gonna wait to see approach.
Speaker 1: I'm not running picking up Carlos Rdan what I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I'm retreat. That's kind of where I am on him.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Corey Kluber three and the third
Speaker 1: six runs allowed, four earned three walks, gross out in
Speaker 1: my Corey Clober, I believe that makes two in a row.
Speaker 1: That was last night was actually fine his first start.
Speaker 1: He was un twins last night. Yesterday afternoon, did not
Speaker 1: have it against the White Sox. He didn't. And I
Speaker 1: tried to read a few articles regarding Corey Kluber's performance yesterday,
Speaker 1: and a lot of what I saw was just mechanically.
Speaker 1: He was off. He didn't have it. He was relying
Speaker 1: on his cutter a ton a pitch that he threw
Speaker 1: more than any other pitch yesterday through twenty seven times.
Speaker 1: Terry Francona basically said that the cutter was the only
Speaker 1: thing that was working for him, so he had to
Speaker 1: keep using it. Uh, he wasn't fooling anybody, this is worrisome. Look,
Speaker 1: he had ten swinging strikes on eighty three pitches. He
Speaker 1: got bombed a little bit yesterday. He was dealing with
Speaker 1: the mechanics issues. But we were kind of worried about
Speaker 1: Corey Kluber entering the season. And it's not like the
Speaker 1: White Sox lineup is okay. They're off to a good
Speaker 1: star at Mankada is obviously doing very well, Yana Alonzo,
Speaker 1: Jose Bray, you and Eloy that's like the core of
Speaker 1: their lineup. That's fine. I don't think it's you know,
Speaker 1: one of the ten best lineups in baseball. And he
Speaker 1: just didn't look good. So Corey Klueber someone you know,
Speaker 1: you have to pay attention to here over his next
Speaker 1: couple of starts, see if he bounces back. I believe
Speaker 1: in years past he has been a slow starter. Greg
Speaker 1: Um like the years that i've Corey Klueber like, he
Speaker 1: typically gets off to these slow starts. So hopefully that's
Speaker 1: that's just what's going on here with Klueber. But there
Speaker 1: were things that we worried about coming into the season
Speaker 1: with Klueber, and I don't have any shares of him.
Speaker 1: I'll go as far as to say I was actively
Speaker 1: avoiding him, Like, you know, if there was Bauer in
Speaker 1: the same range of where he was going, Syenador guard,
Speaker 1: if Snell was in his range, I was taking all
Speaker 1: of those players over Klueber. But let's just see if
Speaker 1: this is one of his normal early season struggles. But
Speaker 1: as of now, I don't feel great about Corey Klueber. No,
Speaker 1: I don't really feel good about Quick Cluber either. He
Speaker 1: was not target of mine either. We had asked Nick
Speaker 1: Pollock a lot about this um, and we didn't see
Speaker 1: the signs of Justin Berlander. We did see the signe
Speaker 1: of Corey Kluber. One of the reasons why we decided
Speaker 1: to be a little cautious with Cluber. I didn't fall
Speaker 1: into him anywhere. We certainly didn't actively target him anywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll see it's certainly it's like, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: at all that you keep hearing that the Indians are shopping,
Speaker 1: they're starting pitching. Right, there's either shopping Clueber or Bauer,
Speaker 1: one of these two guys. Could it be that you know,
Speaker 1: they have the same kind of concerns that we do
Speaker 1: over guy like Corey Kluber, and they're trying to sell
Speaker 1: him based off his name value. While they still can't,
Speaker 1: it's certainly possible. So I think so too, absolutely certain
Speaker 1: possible if anyone knows. Again, look, the Cleveland Indians are
Speaker 1: a great organization in terms of developing these starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: If anybody knows that a picture is starting to deteriorate
Speaker 1: inside of their rotation, it would be the Indians because
Speaker 1: they've seen Corey Klueber rise up, and you know, if
Speaker 1: they've seen something that concerns them regarding him, maybe I
Speaker 1: mean back down to Earth from where he's been the
Speaker 1: past couple of years. Maybe that's why they're shopping some
Speaker 1: of these guys, or specifically Clueber. Absolutely Bower is awesome,
Speaker 1: I said, I don't think we worry about anything with
Speaker 1: Bauer regarding the trade, but maybe maybe that is why
Speaker 1: they're trying to trade away Clober. Maybe. So other pitching
Speaker 1: performances from yesterday that we want to take note from,
Speaker 1: U let me get to Toronto next, because is the
Speaker 1: one I had the most questions about, and that's Matt Shoemaker.
Speaker 1: Matt Shoemaker facing off against the Orioles and unfortunately Jimmy
Speaker 1: alcabonus up a run yesterday setting up. But Matt Shoemaker
Speaker 1: never understand this love for Jimmy Jimmy alcabonus two hits
Speaker 1: for shoe each, strikeouts seven innings of zero shoe, Oh
Speaker 1: are you? You guys are boys? It's nickname Shoe. I
Speaker 1: think you used to used to call out the King
Speaker 1: for nicknaming his Mets players as if he were you know,
Speaker 1: why didn't call on a first name basis with him?
Speaker 1: Why didn't I'm not calling him that, I'm calling him
Speaker 1: Shoe the shoe, Matt Shoemaker, Boy the Shoe. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not like Jimmy Aca bonus level of being your boy,
Speaker 1: of course, not sh shoemakers me one of my guys
Speaker 1: for a long time, to be honestly, Yeah, he's bounced
Speaker 1: around a little bit. Honestly, I've really liked Matt Shoemaker
Speaker 1: and his first two starts identical, seven innings, two hits,
Speaker 1: no runs. First starty walked to the last. Yesterday he
Speaker 1: walked one. First started, struck out seven. Yesterday he strug
Speaker 1: out eight. He's got a fifteen to three shout out
Speaker 1: to walk ratio with the e r A of zero,
Speaker 1: Mat shoot Matt Shoemaker hasn't exactly faced the stippest competition
Speaker 1: facing off against the Tigers in the Orioles. But he's
Speaker 1: a talented guy. What do you think, Yeah, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to dominate obviously when you face these teams. We're gonna
Speaker 1: continue talking about that. And that's exactly what Shoemaker has
Speaker 1: done to this point. And yesterday throws ninety two pitches,
Speaker 1: eighteen swinging strikes obviously helped contribute to those. What do
Speaker 1: you have eight strikeouts yesterday overall? Um, you know his
Speaker 1: bread and butter is that split finger pitch that he throws.
Speaker 1: He tore her thirty nine times yesterday got another ten
Speaker 1: swinging strikes. I believe he faces off in Boston next week. Greg,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit tougher than what he's been faced with.
Speaker 1: He or Um, I'm encouraged by it. I think he
Speaker 1: can have some sleeper upside, Uh the end of your rotation,
Speaker 1: you know, your fifth six starting pitch or something like that,
Speaker 1: if you want to get him in there and the
Speaker 1: right matchups. Certainly, But at Boston, I know that they've
Speaker 1: struggled the past couple of games against the Oakland A's.
Speaker 1: I am not trusting Matto Shoemaker on that level yet
Speaker 1: enough to put him in my lineup at Boston. But
Speaker 1: I certainly do like what I've seen. I think he
Speaker 1: should be owned. I think he's earned that. Greg, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you see you're starting to see the ownership
Speaker 1: percentage jump up a little bit here. He's on in
Speaker 1: fifty percent of CBS sports leagues. On fact, Greg Glio
Speaker 1: sent me a trade off for yesterday in our home
Speaker 1: league regarding match shoemakers. Trying to get match Shoemaker off
Speaker 1: of me. He offered me c J Crone and Marco Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: He's trying to, you know, prey on my likeness here.
Speaker 1: He knows that I like Marco Gonzalez and Crone. Um,
Speaker 1: and I give up Carlos Santana and Matt Shoemaker, which
Speaker 1: I declined. I would not say yes to that trade, Frank,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either, just because it's a points league and
Speaker 1: we know how great Carlos Santana is in points leagues.
Speaker 1: And as much as I like c J. Chrome, he's
Speaker 1: been in and out of the lineup a little bit
Speaker 1: here for the Minnesota Twins, so that's been frustrating. Um.
Speaker 1: I just like Carl Santana more in points leagues. You know,
Speaker 1: the difference between Santana and Crone to me outweighs the
Speaker 1: difference between Gonzalez and Shoemaker. So I'll just hold on
Speaker 1: a Shoemaker, see what I have in him. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a bad trade offer, but I'm gonna hold on to
Speaker 1: my guys for now. The Shoemaker, the guy that today
Speaker 1: you're running and pick off the waiver wire. If he's there,
Speaker 1: mm hmm. If he had a better matchup next week,
Speaker 1: I would be right like, I'd want to get him
Speaker 1: in my lineup, someone that I'm rushing out there to
Speaker 1: pick up. I want to be able to put him
Speaker 1: my lineup with everybody leagues. Yeah, and he's on in
Speaker 1: fifty percent of CBS, so that tells you maybe his
Speaker 1: ownership percentag should be a little bit higher in Yahoo.
Speaker 1: I'm not running to Adam greg. I would like to
Speaker 1: add him if you have like a dead roster spot,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna drop someone that has value still
Speaker 1: for Shoemaker yet, just because he's facing Ballston next week
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna be able to get him in
Speaker 1: there for the Orioles. Nick Karen's was the opener with
Speaker 1: Jimmy yakobonus trying to get some innings there. Richard Blyer
Speaker 1: pitched the fifth and sixth year. Again there's no closer
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Over note Randall green Chuck to home runs
Speaker 1: after getting that contract extension, the probably the most surprising
Speaker 1: contract extension I've seen yet, the good Chick like five
Speaker 1: for fifty two, right, it was just like, why are
Speaker 1: we getting random green check fifty million dollars? I don't know.
Speaker 1: And and this is coming from someone who I've actually liked,
Speaker 1: grit Chock coach. I think he's been a little bit undervalued,
Speaker 1: but maybe he is. He doesn't necessarily put it together.
Speaker 1: Three home runs now on this early season, including two yesterday.
Speaker 1: Uh my man Boom boom with his third home run
Speaker 1: of the year and stop won't stop Boom boom Mancini.
Speaker 1: I got him in both leagues where I where I
Speaker 1: had bids in on him. What did I tell you?
Speaker 1: I said, whoever had a better day between boom boom
Speaker 1: Mancini and Ryan McMahon would be on my team. What
Speaker 1: on the squad? Boo booo man in a lat of today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely getting it done right now for the Baltimore Orios.
Speaker 1: I believe they place in games next week as well,
Speaker 1: so that's why I was pretty aggressive in adding him.
Speaker 1: I lost, Yes, they do play seven games, four against Oakland,
Speaker 1: three at Boston. And I was aggressive because I lost
Speaker 1: Giancarlo Stanton in one league. I lost Miguel and Hart
Speaker 1: in another league. So I'm picking him up to be
Speaker 1: my outfield in one, my utility in another. And you know,
Speaker 1: I spent three dollars out of a hundreds, so three
Speaker 1: is percent of of my budget here, and I think
Speaker 1: it's warranted. You know, I think he can hit closer
Speaker 1: to seventy with home runs this year in a good ballpark.
Speaker 1: It's not a good line up at all. But I
Speaker 1: think that's part of why he was devalued in draft
Speaker 1: season and was lurking around on waiver wires because he
Speaker 1: plays for the Orioles probably and and and listen, right now,
Speaker 1: Mancini is owned in dotyleague, so it's still fifty seven
Speaker 1: in CBS the fair ownership, right but right now, on
Speaker 1: the year, ten twenty four or three homers in an
Speaker 1: average of four seventeen Todd He's always been a pretty
Speaker 1: good player it's just can you lift the ball. That's
Speaker 1: a big question, that's it. And so far he's doing
Speaker 1: a better job of lifting the question. He is, all right.
Speaker 1: So let's see here, obviously very small sample size. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's actually wow, he's doing alright. So for his career
Speaker 1: coming into this season, twenty eight point six percent fly
Speaker 1: ball ratio so far on the year, it's appearances seven
Speaker 1: point four percent fly ball ratio. So clearly trying to
Speaker 1: make an effort at least. Yeah, So he's trying to
Speaker 1: lift the ball a little bit. And this is a
Speaker 1: guy who makes decent contact at his strikeout rate has
Speaker 1: been around so a little bit higher than the league
Speaker 1: average last year. The batting average regress it's forty two.
Speaker 1: He's better than that. It's hitter like he was probably
Speaker 1: not either, So meet somewhere in the middle seventy again,
Speaker 1: if he lifts the ball. He's hit twenty four home
Speaker 1: runs each of the past two years greg with that
Speaker 1: groundball rate. So if now he's lifting the ball, maybe
Speaker 1: he can get thirty home runs. Maybe he can exceed
Speaker 1: thirty home And this is cheap pop that we're getting
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire. I'm in on boom boom. I like,
Speaker 1: it had a really tough year last year, but why not?
Speaker 1: Why not? And and he's batting clean up, so the
Speaker 1: RBI opportunities are gonna be there as well. Look than
Speaker 1: a third in the lineup today, it's not tremendous, you know,
Speaker 1: RBI opportunities because look, it's Jonathan VR ahead of him,
Speaker 1: it's DWIGHTE. Smith. But and he's driving eighty getting in
Speaker 1: the middle of the line. I'm sure. Yeah, just Davis
Speaker 1: all the way down through seventh in the Orioles latup today, Lefty, Lefty,
Speaker 1: he's in there. Since they're regarding that one facing Jimmy Paxton, Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling there, Jimmy Paxton with Chris Davis
Speaker 1: in the line of Jonathan VR at the top leads
Speaker 1: off when Jonathan VR is betting third Cedric. Cedric Mollins
Speaker 1: has been brutal, very bad. But you know, he's not
Speaker 1: striking out. That's what I've noticed. He's not getting out.
Speaker 1: He's just getting out. You're right, like it's he's just
Speaker 1: not making good contact. But I would be a little
Speaker 1: bit more worried if he was just striking out all
Speaker 1: the time. At least he's making contact. What he's out
Speaker 1: of the lineup today. One more pitch performance. I wanted
Speaker 1: to get to you before we hit the break. He
Speaker 1: was yesterday afternoon between Luis Castillo and Freddy Peralta, and
Speaker 1: it was just a very very quick game. And it
Speaker 1: was just the gem for both of these guys. Not
Speaker 1: really the pitching uh masterpiece that you were expecting, right,
Speaker 1: not Brews in Cincinnati. Math doesn't matter where it is.
Speaker 1: Both these ballparks obviously extreme hitter friendly ballparks. Peralta eight innings,
Speaker 1: eleven ks, didn't walk a batter, allowed just two hits.
Speaker 1: Luis Castile almost just as good walk for guys. It
Speaker 1: wasn't great, but seven innings, one hit, one run, struck
Speaker 1: out nine. The only run scored in the second where
Speaker 1: many had a single and he used agular scored and
Speaker 1: that was that's all the offense in this game. Um,
Speaker 1: what did you think of both pitching performances? See Frank,
Speaker 1: absolutely masterful pitching performances by both guys. Here. I'll start
Speaker 1: with Freddy Peralta. He had twenty swinging strikes yesterday on
Speaker 1: a hundred pitches. That's amazing. Gregg. He threw his fastball,
Speaker 1: yes he threw a hundred pitches. How many of those
Speaker 1: were his fastball? Eighty four work eighty four fastballs, and
Speaker 1: he throws fourteen curveballs. He's a two pitch pitcher. I
Speaker 1: think a long term and I saw people talking about
Speaker 1: this on Twitter last night. He's set up to be
Speaker 1: a reliever. Maybe he becomes Josh Hayder this year for
Speaker 1: the Brewers. I think, you know, maybe you want to
Speaker 1: get Jimmy Nelson back, some of these other guys returned
Speaker 1: to the rotation. Someone has to to leave. He hasn't
Speaker 1: done anything to lose a starting rotation job here with
Speaker 1: Freddy praultagreg But I just don't know how long he
Speaker 1: can sustain this with only two pitches. We'll pick him up.
Speaker 1: I think you should, based on what he did here,
Speaker 1: more of these two starters and hold out more of
Speaker 1: them last night and today next