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Speaker 1: in the fantasy baseball season. Here at Leading Off, Joel
Speaker 1: Rico joining you. Reunited with Casey Bubba after we had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a break on Monday. We had
Speaker 1: Welshie back on the show, but Bubba getting the old
Speaker 1: gang back together for this one. My friend, how you
Speaker 1: doing today?
Speaker 2: Doing great? My friend? Good to be back. Nice. Had
Speaker 2: to take a little break on Monday for some stuff.
Speaker 2: Welsh filled in beautifully or I guess he kept his gig.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's good to be back in
Speaker 2: action and talking some more baseball with you. For sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're the ones filling in beautifully. He's the one
Speaker 1: who's gone off and done football stuff. It was great
Speaker 1: to talk with Welch again. But we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1: I think today Friday, and then I guess next Wednesdays.
Speaker 1: So I think it's three more shows with us. We'll
Speaker 1: see if maybe we pop onto that final show at
Speaker 1: Joan Welsh, But only a couple shows left here in
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Speaker 1: here down the stretch. But we are going to be
Speaker 1: talking about some headlines breaking down all the injuries. There's
Speaker 1: a ton of injuries to go through. But let's start
Speaker 1: off with some positive news, and that's Blake Snell continuing
Speaker 1: to look like one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Speaker 1: Dominated the Orioles yesterday six innings of one run ball
Speaker 1: with twelve strikeouts. He has a three eight ERA and
Speaker 1: a one zero eight whip. And the thing that's kind
Speaker 1: of crazy with Blake Snell is that he won the
Speaker 1: Cy Young last season. But if you dig below the
Speaker 1: surface and you look at some of the expected numbers,
Speaker 1: the ERA estimators, the barrel raids, literally everything is better
Speaker 1: this season than last year. This is probably the best
Speaker 1: version of Blake Snell that we've ever seen. Really, Bubba,
Speaker 1: are we gonna do the same thing again next year?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna stink in the first half and come
Speaker 1: out in the second. I guess you can't really answer
Speaker 1: that question. But going into drafts next season, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're picking Blake Snell as you're starting pitcher two, one, three,
Speaker 1: wherever he ends up going, you're gonna have to probably
Speaker 1: deal with a lot of bad outings. Is that going
Speaker 1: to impact where you want to take him or is
Speaker 1: it just we start the season, we hope that he
Speaker 1: gets running out of the gate and hope of the best.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, hope, you hope for the best. I'll keep
Speaker 2: it's simple with that. But you're gonna take him at
Speaker 2: a high ADP if you want him, because that's where
Speaker 2: he's going to go. I think Pablo Lopez he had
Speaker 2: the same situation this year. You know, a head to
Speaker 2: head leagues, it could be a frustrating situation. In a
Speaker 2: roto league. Hey, you just want the end stat line,
Speaker 2: that's all you care about. And if you just keep
Speaker 2: plugging him in there, he's been amazing for you and
Speaker 2: he's helping you win championships probably at this point in time.
Speaker 2: So I'm cool with Snell. And the other thing is
Speaker 2: he's he's gonna sign much earlier this year because Boris
Speaker 2: He's not gonna let bores. I think he left Bors Actually,
Speaker 2: that issue is not going to be there Snell, and
Speaker 2: I know I saw your quote tweet by mister Knight,
Speaker 2: and there were plenty of offers. Last year. Boris played
Speaker 2: his game and lost. That won't happen this year. Snell
Speaker 2: will be ready for spring training. Snell will be ready
Speaker 2: to rock and roll barring injury, and I don't think
Speaker 2: we'll be worrying about the same situation, at least not
Speaker 2: to this magnitude.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand Nightingale. The way he phrased it. It
Speaker 1: was like he might have sucked last year, but this
Speaker 1: year he's going to be great and he's not. He's
Speaker 1: not going to lose out on offers like he won
Speaker 1: the Cy Young it didn't sign until spring training. I
Speaker 1: think it did have more to do with Boris and
Speaker 1: whatever went on. I know Jordan Montgomery fired him. Blake
Speaker 1: Snell might have as well. I think these guys are
Speaker 1: just kind of or not kind of just done with
Speaker 1: the games. I think, like, just get me on a team.
Speaker 1: I want to be ready for spring training and hopefully
Speaker 1: just fire off a full season because we've seen it impact.
Speaker 1: I mean, Snell's obviously picked things up, but Jordan Montgomery
Speaker 1: as a side know like he's been awful. I think
Speaker 1: he had a good start yesterday or the day before.
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday yesterday pretty solid, but I
Speaker 1: mean that really did impact him. I don't expect Blake
Speaker 1: Snell to go unsign the entire offseason, but this version
Speaker 1: of him right nowatistically might be the best Blake Snell
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. He's not gonna win the cy Young
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but just a really fantastic turnaround
Speaker 1: after a lot of people probably dropped him earlier on
Speaker 1: in the season, He's been fantastic as of late. Shane Boz,
Speaker 1: let's talk about him. I mean he's settled into a
Speaker 1: really great groove. Seven innings yesterday against the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: picked up the victory, just tour and run six strikeouts
Speaker 1: over the past month, a two zero three ERA and
Speaker 1: a point seven to four whip. Obviously, it was a
Speaker 1: little shaky at first, but that was kinda to be expected.
Speaker 1: I've always believed in the talent of Shane Boz. I
Speaker 1: feel like he's probably somewhere in that SP two range.
Speaker 1: For next season, but it wouldn't surprise me if he
Speaker 1: finished closer to kind of an SP one. But I'm wondering, bub,
Speaker 1: what do you think about, excuse me, Shane Boz's potential
Speaker 1: draft price and where you evaluate him heading into next season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's pitching great, as you mentioned right now, it's
Speaker 2: just going to keep increasing his draft value or price
Speaker 2: tag as we get going. He's still an SP two
Speaker 2: for me just because we haven't seen the workload. So
Speaker 2: there's a lot of questions for me to be an
Speaker 2: ACE on my fantasy team. But I think he's got
Speaker 2: the potential to be an ACE at some point in time.
Speaker 2: But we got to see the health, we got to
Speaker 2: see a full season a lot of those type of questions.
Speaker 2: So he's an SP two for me, But he's moving
Speaker 2: up the ladder, that's for Darren. Sure. He's been very,
Speaker 2: very impressive.
Speaker 1: The just raw stuff numbers the talent that he had
Speaker 1: before the injury. I'm very excited. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people were kind of fed up with him this season.
Speaker 1: I guess similarly similarly to Blake Snell, not to the
Speaker 1: same extent, but people might have cut bait on him
Speaker 1: after a couple of rough outings, but if you've used
Speaker 1: him the last month, he's been fantastic, and I feel
Speaker 1: like heading in the next year, he might get pushed
Speaker 1: down a little bit more than he should, just because
Speaker 1: there's not a huge sample size this season. Maybe in
Speaker 1: the more casual league he can be an SP three,
Speaker 1: SP four, but I think in those NFBC leagues, some
Speaker 1: of them he's going to be. He's going to be
Speaker 1: a top HUNTERD pick. I think pretty universally in most formats.
Speaker 1: It might not be every single one, but I've been
Speaker 1: very impressed with Shane Boz. Somebody that have not been
Speaker 1: very impressed with just wanted to mention that he has
Speaker 1: still broken. It's Bobby Miller. He lasted just two innings yesterday,
Speaker 1: seven hits, four earned runs, just two strikeouts. I think
Speaker 1: it was forty pitches until he actually had a whiff.
Speaker 1: Only fifty eight percent of his pitches were strikes. Is
Speaker 1: this Rick and Keel, Alec Manoa, Matt Harvey coming at
Speaker 1: us again? Because I was saying it last night. I
Speaker 1: was like, this Helox as broken as anybody I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and Everybody's like, no, there's a lot more options of
Speaker 1: broken guys. But we're talking about like an eight six
Speaker 1: era over sixty innings. He's about his broken as could possibly.
Speaker 2: Be Bubba, He's very broken. The Manoa comp could be interesting. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go that far with Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: just yet. He's had a lot some injury concerns this
Speaker 2: year and some other situations. I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: just back to being Bobby Miller yet. But where do
Speaker 2: you trust him? Is the question I've aread heard a
Speaker 2: lot of the smart people are smart people going I'm
Speaker 2: gonna buy the dip. I'm gonna buy the dip, And
Speaker 2: I get it, that's a strategy to be had in fantasy.
Speaker 2: But what if this is Manoa? What if this is Harvey.
Speaker 2: That's a situation as well. So he has broken, he
Speaker 2: cannot be rostered right now. I know some people are
Speaker 2: some very smart people are I get it. You need
Speaker 2: to move on from Bobby Miller and just you know,
Speaker 2: start planning for twenty twenty five. And I think the
Speaker 2: doctors might be two.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how they can roll him out
Speaker 1: in a playoff game. I don't think they can. No,
Speaker 1: they're not exactly flush for options right now. So it
Speaker 1: might come to a point where they need to, but
Speaker 1: I don't think they can trust him. The thing that's
Speaker 1: crazy is that, like, while his stuff numbers are down,
Speaker 1: they're still like one thirteen stuff plus, still well above
Speaker 1: average in that regard. But it just hasn't translated to
Speaker 1: success this season. It's been very disappointing. But I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, if he's going pick where, I mean where
Speaker 1: every start is knocking the price down a little bit,
Speaker 1: if he's going at like three hundred and beyond, any
Speaker 1: interest you'd have there and like a late flyer on him.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I see the appeal of the late flyer.
Speaker 2: I get it, and I'd be all about that because
Speaker 2: when you're doing a draft, that's an easy drop. Like
Speaker 2: most of those guys, you draft him past pick two
Speaker 2: fifty even you're dropping at some point in the season.
Speaker 2: So I'm fine taking a flyer on Bobby Miller late.
Speaker 2: It's just some of the talk I've already heard is
Speaker 2: I don't know for any get him that late is
Speaker 2: the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know how people can push
Speaker 1: him up so much. But I mean that's like I said,
Speaker 1: the stuff is still there. We know there's a good
Speaker 1: talent track record of you know, minor league play and
Speaker 1: everything like that, so it's going to be a tough one.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if he's even going to get
Speaker 1: another start this year. Like they should just probably shut
Speaker 1: him down. I don't know that they're doing much good
Speaker 1: rolling him out there and getting destroyed every single time out.
Speaker 1: The body language is bad, the command is but everything
Speaker 1: is bad right now for Bobby Miller. Let's talk Bobachett
Speaker 1: return to the Blue Jays lineup yesterday after being out
Speaker 1: since late July with a calf strain. He bat his
Speaker 1: second went two for five with an RBI. It's like
Speaker 1: my worst fears come true here because I wanted to
Speaker 1: get Bobaschett at a disgustingly low price outside of the
Speaker 1: top one hundred picks. He has a hot couple of
Speaker 1: weeks here. You can kind of probably forget about those
Speaker 1: discounts because that's what'll stick in people's minds. Boba sheet
Speaker 1: ended on a ten for twenty streak or something. What
Speaker 1: do you think about bobachhet Baba? What's your interest level
Speaker 1: for next year if you're seeing him available, let's say,
Speaker 1: even in a shallow League right now? Are you starting him?
Speaker 1: What's your analysis?
Speaker 2: Tell you? Yep, I'd pick up. Talked with Ryan on
Speaker 2: Tuesday Night's Bubba and the Blue and this has kind
Speaker 2: of been a like a beer bit I had Bashett
Speaker 2: versus Neil Cruz and I'm losing that one. But I've
Speaker 2: always been a Basheck guy. I'm a believer. It's been
Speaker 2: a bad year, that's the nice way to put it
Speaker 2: when it comes to Boba Sheet. But I'm with you.
Speaker 2: He goes two for five last night, I started laughing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, he's gonna have a great finish similar to
Speaker 2: what you're saying, and it's going to sting for us
Speaker 2: that dropped them this year, saving for the idea of
Speaker 2: picking him next year. So I'm a believer. And if
Speaker 2: he's on your waiver wire, like we talked Trevor story recently,
Speaker 2: Boba Sheet meets that that what you're looking for for
Speaker 2: the final stretch run. And there's other middle infield options
Speaker 2: out there right now, like Luisa and Hilcunya and some others.
Speaker 2: But I am a fan of what we got from
Speaker 2: Boba Schett.
Speaker 1: I'm just still gonna be a believer based on what
Speaker 1: we've seen the last three plus seasons. This year was
Speaker 1: a tough year. Of course, he's missed half of it
Speaker 1: with injuries. Below the surface, nothing is really like that
Speaker 1: that different. The barrel Raiate is the one that really
Speaker 1: stands out has been cut in half. But it seems
Speaker 1: like he's just really gotten in his own head. The
Speaker 1: team stunk. There was just a lot of bad situations.
Speaker 1: I know that there was some stuff with his dad too,
Speaker 1: and something with his brother, and there was some kind
Speaker 1: of controversy, So I don't know how much those kind
Speaker 1: of things factor into it. But the long and short
Speaker 1: of it is that if Boba Scheed is going outside
Speaker 1: of the first seven or so rounds next year, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be hitting draft every single time. And if you're
Speaker 1: still see him out there on waiver wires at this
Speaker 1: point in time, even in shallow leagues, I think that
Speaker 1: he should be added pretty much everywhere. Pete Alonzo, let's
Speaker 1: talk about him. He had a big day yesterday three
Speaker 1: for five with a homer, two runs and five ribbies.
Speaker 1: It's been a down year as a whole for him,
Speaker 1: but still eighty seven runs, eighty six ribbies, thirty three
Speaker 1: homers in a two forty six batting average. I guess
Speaker 1: where he ends up going this offseason will probably impact
Speaker 1: draft prices some extent. What's your interest level in pee Alonzo?
Speaker 1: Is he's still a top five first baseman for you, Bubba?
Speaker 1: What's your interest?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's close to top five, like he should be.
Speaker 2: If you start penciling it out, he probably will be
Speaker 2: like there's there's Vladdie, there's Olsen. First base stinks like
Speaker 2: Christian Walker's there. So Alonso probably sits there around top
Speaker 2: five just for the potential of forty plus bombs alone.
Speaker 2: That comes in a big, big way. But he's not
Speaker 2: that guaranteed, you know, top two round lock that he
Speaker 2: once was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think the location will matter to
Speaker 1: some extent. If he goes to a poorer team, then
Speaker 1: maybe you can shave off a few runs in RBI.
Speaker 1: You're not getting steals, you're not getting batting average. I
Speaker 1: feel like he's a little bit of a risky investment
Speaker 1: in the first couple of rounds. I'd probably want to
Speaker 1: have him in the third or the fourth if he's
Speaker 1: going to get there. I'm not sure if he gets there,
Speaker 1: But if that's the case, then I just won't have
Speaker 1: any shares. I think that, you know, I can speculate
Speaker 1: on some later first baseman, whether it's you know, Pasmentino
Speaker 1: or you know, even my mount Castle, like, there's certain
Speaker 1: names later on that I would probably rather spend up
Speaker 1: or spend down on. I should say, then spend up
Speaker 1: on up Peet Alonso in the second or third. But
Speaker 1: it hasn't been a bad year for him. He's still
Speaker 1: been like a top sixty seventy player, just probably not
Speaker 1: exactly what you expecting on draft day. I want to
Speaker 1: mention somebody who's a little more niche, and that's Jesu Sanchez.
Speaker 1: I have loved Haezesu Sanchez for really forever. But yesterday
Speaker 1: just a massive day, five for five and a bit
Speaker 1: of a surprising win over the Dodgers, although maybe not
Speaker 1: that surprising with Bobby Miller on the bump. He scored twice,
Speaker 1: he drove in three. He's been really solid this season.
Speaker 1: He has fifty two runs, which is the stinky number
Speaker 1: here playing for the Marlins. You're not gonna you're not
Speaker 1: gonna do a ton in that department. But seventeen homers,
Speaker 1: sixty two ribbies, fourteen steals in a two to fifty
Speaker 1: two batting average that goes along with a twelve and
Speaker 1: a half percent barrel rate which is the eighty fifth percentile,
Speaker 1: and a fifty two point one percent hard hit rate
Speaker 1: that's ninety fifth percentile. I feel like Hazu Sanchez is
Speaker 1: a change of scenery away from being a top one
Speaker 1: hundred type of player. Bubba, what's your thoughts on him
Speaker 1: rest of season, which is not a lot of time
Speaker 1: left here obviously, and then next year, what's your interest
Speaker 1: level going to be for Jesus?
Speaker 2: Yeah, big a sus fammin and rostering him a ton.
Speaker 2: It's nice he's facing lefties now as well, he's not
Speaker 2: platooning and in the middle of the order. Four steals
Speaker 2: over the last ten games, which has been great to
Speaker 2: see from Sanchez. I think he can still be okay
Speaker 2: in Miami. Obviously a better ballpark would help, but I
Speaker 2: love him for the rest of the season. The Marlins
Speaker 2: face all right handed Pigionablyeve next week, which'll bode really well. First,
Speaker 2: like I said, he still plays for lefties, but we
Speaker 2: want him versus righty's. Let's just be real with the situation. Yet,
Speaker 2: six righties next week and three out of the next four.
Speaker 2: Finished this week at righty, so he's got nine righties
Speaker 2: over his last ten games, which is pretty good. And
Speaker 2: I like him a loco in the next year. He's
Speaker 2: got that Brian Dayly Cruz vibe that we were looking
Speaker 2: for during the draft season. And I think Sanchez is
Speaker 2: even better than Day of the Cruise, so big hey,
Speaker 2: sue Sanchez fan.
Speaker 1: I hope he gets traded somewhere. I hope he goes
Speaker 1: to a somewhat competent lineup. I don't know that I'm
Speaker 1: expecting it, but in Miami, I don't know that anything
Speaker 1: is really nailed down over there. It could happen. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping for it. I was thinking maybe Philadelphia at the deadline.
Speaker 1: That's what I would have really wanted to happen.
Speaker 2: It would have been pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, anywhere but Miami would be preferable. But even
Speaker 1: in Miami it hasn't been so so bad. So somebody
Speaker 1: that's probably not going to get a lot out of
Speaker 1: helium next year, not really hurting you in any category necessarily.
Speaker 1: He's somebody that I think can be a big target
Speaker 1: in those specifically slightly deeper five outfielder leagues. Just for fun,
Speaker 1: Bobby Witch Junior unbelievable stuff. Man. He's the first shortstop
Speaker 1: in major league history to record multiple thirty thirty seasons.
Speaker 1: He is twenty four years old. Alex Rodriguez never did this. Now,
Speaker 1: granted he did switch over to third base mid career,
Speaker 1: but this is unbelievable. Like, Bobby wid Junior is on
Speaker 1: a full blown Hall of Fame trajectory at this point.
Speaker 1: I think the sky's the limit for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. This is a forty to forty guy.
Speaker 2: So the fact that it's only been thirty thirty so
Speaker 2: far says a lot. Now, the batting average through the
Speaker 2: roof this year, the babyb took a massive jump, so
Speaker 2: we could see regression there. But still, the power is legit,
Speaker 2: the speed is legit. He's awesome. He's that guy. There's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot else besides just giving him his flowers,
Speaker 2: because yeah, dude, the dude's great. He's young, and it's
Speaker 2: one of those like we have a bunch of these
Speaker 2: good young players. It's like, just please stay healthy, like
Speaker 2: we want to see for like fifteen more years. Just
Speaker 2: stay healthy and we'll be good to go. So I'm
Speaker 2: with you on that one.
Speaker 1: I'm more so just put him on the sheet just
Speaker 1: to give him his flowers. There's no start, sit decisions
Speaker 1: or pickups and drops obviously here with Bobby Witt, he
Speaker 1: is unbelievable and it's crazy that he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: ten win plus season and he's not gonna win the MVP.
Speaker 1: Might be the best non MVP season ever or certainly
Speaker 1: on a short list Pistol who's always active in our
Speaker 1: chats here, Sanchez or Buxton. I think I'm probably going
Speaker 1: Hazu Sanchez. I just don't really trust Buckston.
Speaker 2: It is Heyesue Sanchez for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ian Happ still in the just for fun section.
Speaker 1: Couple homers yesterday, but the really notable one came off
Speaker 1: of Mason Miller. It was one hundred and three point
Speaker 1: two miles an hour, and it was the fastest pitch
Speaker 1: hit for a home run in the pitch tracking era,
Speaker 1: which goes back sixteen years. Ian Happ, I mean, part
Speaker 1: of the reason why I put this on here is
Speaker 1: because it's just a really impressive accomplishment. But Ian Happ
Speaker 1: is also putting together a career year twenty five homers,
Speaker 1: thirteen steals, eighty six runs, eighty five Ribbies. I feel
Speaker 1: like he's just always somebody that's sitting there pick one hundred,
Speaker 1: one ifty. Nobody really wants to push him up, but
Speaker 1: he always kind of gives you these type of seasons.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit better than what we've been
Speaker 1: used to, but it's kind of the same general Ian
Speaker 1: Half type of season that I feel like people aren't
Speaker 1: appreciating enough.
Speaker 2: No. One hundred percent. And the biggest conundrum with Half
Speaker 2: in recent years, it's like every of the year's either
Speaker 2: he hits for average or gets for power. He hasn't
Speaker 2: put it all together in a full season, but we
Speaker 2: know the skill set is very good. He's putting it
Speaker 2: together pretty well. Here. He's sitting for an okay average,
Speaker 2: he's not crushing you an average, but all the other
Speaker 2: stats are great. So he's a good five category contributor.
Speaker 2: And that's just who he is. He's a really good
Speaker 2: ballplayer in a good Cubbies lineup, and he's finally having
Speaker 2: that big, big season.
Speaker 1: I think that he's going to be somebody where I
Speaker 1: mean probably, I'm just I'm starting to speculate on where
Speaker 1: guys are going to go and drafts a lot more,
Speaker 1: and I just don't see him moving up from where
Speaker 1: he was last year. I don't see people push him
Speaker 1: into the top of a hunter. They'll worry about what
Speaker 1: the Cubs will look like or whatever, and you're getting
Speaker 1: that twenty five to fifteen guy discounted again, probably heading
Speaker 1: into next season. I want to mention why at Langford
Speaker 1: In shout out to our buddy Frank Stanfle who tweeted
Speaker 1: this one out yesterday. Over the last thirty five games,
Speaker 1: he's hitting two eighty nine with twenty seven runs, twenty
Speaker 1: two ribies, six homers, and six dolen bases. Where do
Speaker 1: we see that? Why at Langford Price going next to year, Bubba,
Speaker 1: Because I feel like at this point he's rostered. He
Speaker 1: started pretty much everywhere. There's no real pickups to make
Speaker 1: you're starting him, But if you're looking ahead to next season,
Speaker 1: I feel like this price is just moving upward every
Speaker 1: single day at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be fun because in that too
Speaker 2: early draft, you know you had Jackson Cherio, Jackson Merrill
Speaker 2: in the second and third rounds and then why at
Speaker 2: Langford dropped down to like round nine. That gap is
Speaker 2: not going to exist, folks, Like that is a gift
Speaker 2: of a pick. I think we talked about it on
Speaker 2: my show last week that that's quite the the come
Speaker 2: up and he should be going third round. I think
Speaker 2: when all things are setting down and people kind of
Speaker 2: take a step back from the roughness that was part
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four and realize the skills are very
Speaker 2: very real. He's very very young, and he's finishing strong,
Speaker 2: like why can't he take the next step? So he's
Speaker 2: probably that worst fifth round pick, but I think he's
Speaker 2: going to fit fit in that third round come like
Speaker 2: big times draft season in March.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting when I'm putting together outfield rankings where
Speaker 1: I put him in relation to Meryllwood and Churio and
Speaker 1: if I'm tempted to put him above or at least
Speaker 1: like right in that same range. Maybe not quite above,
Speaker 1: but if one of them is ranked fifteen, the other
Speaker 1: one will be ranked sixteen type of thing, like they'll
Speaker 1: be all right in that same kind of range. Really
Speaker 1: interesting stuff with why at Langford he's picked it up
Speaker 1: and it's kind of what we were expecting. But I mean,
Speaker 1: look at what Jackson Holiday's done. Jackson holidays first cup
Speaker 1: of coffee was crap. The second one has been crap,
Speaker 1: so you never really know. But it's good to see
Speaker 1: why at Langford really pick up the pace here down
Speaker 1: the stretch. Let's go to the three up in the
Speaker 1: three down, Shay Langliers a couple of home runs, drove
Speaker 1: in three really slow key nice season that he's put
Speaker 1: together out in your neck of the woods. But but
Speaker 1: Grant McCrae, somebody that I don't think we've mentioned on
Speaker 1: this show this year. He reached base four times yesterday,
Speaker 1: scored three runs and also had two stolen bases, And
Speaker 1: I just want to mention on his front only eighty
Speaker 1: eight at bats with five homers and five stone bases.
Speaker 1: That's pretty pretty nice for fantasy. And then Zach Wheeler
Speaker 1: seven innings of one run ball with four hits and
Speaker 1: six strikeouts and picking up the win. Status quo over
Speaker 1: there for him. But any thoughts on Langaliers, McCray or Wheeler, Baba.
Speaker 2: I'll just give bullet points. Langoliers love him. Batting average
Speaker 2: is a drain, but when you're hitting bombs like that,
Speaker 2: you can offset things. Then with McCrae, the skill set
Speaker 2: is very good, but a lot of swing and miss,
Speaker 2: a lot of wild out of the zone swinging. He's young,
Speaker 2: so if he can bring that in, the talent is
Speaker 2: really good. And the Giants want to give him plenty
Speaker 2: of run this year and hopefully as a starting outfielder
Speaker 2: next year. So someone to keep on the back of
Speaker 2: your radar for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those power speed guys, even when there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of swinging miss, they tend to pop a little
Speaker 1: bit more. You see those stle bases, you see the
Speaker 1: home runs. It's kind of like Tyler Fitzgerald light, like
Speaker 1: another version of him in a certain way. That is
Speaker 1: that a fair comparison.
Speaker 2: That's fair because when Fitzgerald started out, it was power
Speaker 2: speed with a lot of swinging miss as well, and
Speaker 2: there's still somebody's brought that down a lot more than
Speaker 2: when he started. So that's a very fair, fair comparison.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the three down. Some ugly pitching performances,
Speaker 1: starting with Brian wu He was due for a stinker
Speaker 1: after how pure he'd been running this year, but tough
Speaker 1: time for it to come. Seven earned runs, nine hits.
Speaker 1: He did give you seven strikeouts, but that's not really
Speaker 1: going to cut it. Four and two third against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: Nathany Eavaldi as well, seven earned runs, eleven hits, a
Speaker 1: couple of walks, and four strikeouts and then JT Real
Speaker 1: Muto while the Golden Sombrero. Just a really tough season
Speaker 1: for Real Muto. But any thoughts on that trio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just wraps up a couple things, like every
Speaker 2: pitcher is going to have at least one or two
Speaker 2: bad starts so year, no matter how good they are.
Speaker 2: So Wu's just came up the wrong time of the year,
Speaker 2: is what that one comes down to. And Real Muto
Speaker 2: just like that's just the icing on the horrific twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four cake.
Speaker 1: Wu Is.
Speaker 2: I know he's been okay, I say horrific compared to
Speaker 2: expectations for Real Muto.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think you can. I think, especially
Speaker 1: because you took him for steals and he has like
Speaker 1: think two steals, Like I think horrific and can qualify
Speaker 1: there With Brian Wu. It's weird because he he's had
Speaker 1: so much success, but it's come with this massively reduced
Speaker 1: strikeout rate. He's had a few injury scares this year.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's somebody I don't really want anything
Speaker 1: to do with next season. I feel like he is
Speaker 1: I mean everybody's always one pitch away, but I feel
Speaker 1: like he is like half a pitch away at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his injuries have been weird. It's like elbow issue. Oh,
Speaker 2: he's not going to miss a start. This is like
Speaker 2: it's been little. Like you said, it's this close to
Speaker 2: just falling over the edge. And you know, maybe that's
Speaker 2: just who he is. He's gonna be one of those weird,
Speaker 2: fluky pitchers and it is what it is. But yeah,
Speaker 2: every pitcher is a pitch away. He seems like he's
Speaker 2: a half a pitch so very very tough to take
Speaker 2: on draft Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially with where the price is probably gonna go.
Speaker 1: People are gonna look even with this start, You're gonna
Speaker 1: look at the eras and Mariner's pitching, good park and everything.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's gonna be a little bit out
Speaker 1: of my price range heading in the next year, but
Speaker 1: we'll have to see. Let's talk about some injury updates,
Speaker 1: starting with Francisco Lindor remain out of the Mets lineup
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, although according to Carlos Mendoza, he is improving,
Speaker 1: so probably get him back in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Ozzie Albi's had a home run in his first Triple
Speaker 1: A rehab game, likely to come off of the injured
Speaker 1: list on Friday, and Stephen Kwan went on the injured
Speaker 1: list with back inflammation, so his season comes to an end.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's even ten days. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: there's like one or two days at the end of that,
Speaker 1: but I think you can pretty much say his seasons done.
Speaker 2: Bubba. Yeah, it's retroactive, so in theory, he could come
Speaker 2: back like middle of next week. Still only a couple
Speaker 2: of days. They want on one for the postseason. That's
Speaker 2: why they put him on the IL instead of trying
Speaker 2: the day to day thing, so he might get a
Speaker 2: couple of the bats towards the end. I just don't
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be full go. They
Speaker 2: want him ready.
Speaker 1: For October, and he'd been low key terrible over the
Speaker 1: last month fourteen for his last eighty three, hitting up
Speaker 1: bucks sixty nine over the last thirty days with no
Speaker 1: home runs in three stolen bases. Even if he did
Speaker 1: come back, I feel like in shallow formats, you may
Speaker 1: not even put him into the lineup, honestly, depending on
Speaker 1: what your needs are going to be. Jordan Westberg took
Speaker 1: batting practice on Tuesday, getting closer to appearing in games
Speaker 1: and is expected back before at the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season. You're picking him up here, Bubba and hoping
Speaker 1: that you can get a couple games of Jordan Westburg.
Speaker 2: I think I'm good unless you're really really desperate for
Speaker 2: a corner infielder. There's plenty of middle endfield options out
Speaker 2: there these days, so it's more if you need a
Speaker 2: third basement for some reason. Like I saw jose Tenna's
Speaker 2: name in the chat quite a bit, Give me Jose
Speaker 2: Tena all day long, but I'm probably wait until twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five for Westburg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's probably correct. The Orioles as a whole,
Speaker 1: I've just I think somebody mentioned that in the chat earlier,
Speaker 1: and I saw somebody tweet it out earlier. They were
Speaker 1: on like one hundred and eight win pace and then
Speaker 1: went to one hundred and three and one hundred and
Speaker 1: two and ninety four, and now they're like on a
Speaker 1: ninety win pace. The second half has been pretty bad
Speaker 1: overall for Baltimore. Taking it back to my neck of
Speaker 1: the woods in Toronto, Dalton var Show is going to
Speaker 1: undergo rotator cuff surgery. His season is done, but it
Speaker 1: also I've heard that could impact his availability for spring
Speaker 1: training after a dreadful season for Dalton Varshow where there
Speaker 1: has been a little bit of fantasy juice. But Matt, really,
Speaker 1: we're talking eighteen homers, ten stolen bases now, he's going
Speaker 1: to come into the spring training probably injured. He's probably
Speaker 1: a full avoid for me, Bubba, especially considering the state
Speaker 1: of the Blue Jays lineup heading into next year.
Speaker 2: Yep, he'll be a noe for me lest some massive
Speaker 2: things change. Like he had a couple of weeks where
Speaker 2: he was awesome this year, like all of a suddenly, hey,
Speaker 2: it looks like he's gonna Dalton Varshow after all. And
Speaker 2: then it disappeared again and maybe it was shoulder related.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's more banged up than we thought. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll need to see like a year removed from surgery
Speaker 2: before I get back on that train.
Speaker 1: He started off looking really good, but yeah, two fourteen
Speaker 1: average fifty eight revies, Like, there's a lot to not
Speaker 1: like here, and he's a definite drop. I still see
Speaker 1: he's on thirty eight percent of Yahoo rosters. I feel
Speaker 1: like that'll probably pick up a little bit today with
Speaker 1: the drops, but make sure that you're not starting Dalton
Speaker 1: VARs Show anywhere. It's kind of a surprise here. We
Speaker 1: had talked about Justin Steele Bubba last week or maybe
Speaker 1: the week before. We were both thinking that his season
Speaker 1: was likely done. But he's gonna start today against the Athletics.
Speaker 1: He had elbow tendonitis, has missed the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Any interest in daily leagues and starting him here.
Speaker 2: No, I'll pass. I just don't know how deep he's
Speaker 2: gonna go. I think I just want to kind of
Speaker 2: get some innings towards the end. Now, if he looks good,
Speaker 2: he's set up to face Philadelphia and Cincinnati next week,
Speaker 2: so you get a two step from Justin Steel. Tough matchups, yes,
Speaker 2: but two starts from a near ace. If he's back
Speaker 2: to normal, that's pretty nice. Soe that keep an eye
Speaker 2: on next. I know a lot of people did drop him.
Speaker 2: I know I dropped him because I didn't think we'd
Speaker 2: see much out of him. I'd wait and see how
Speaker 2: this start Vers's goes, though, because the A's aren't a pushover.
Speaker 2: So I'll wait and see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he looks good, if he gives you, you know,
Speaker 1: six innings of one or two run ball or something.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's getting slotted into most lineups next week,
Speaker 1: especially with the two step. I didn't realize he had
Speaker 1: a two step. But I also will say this time
Speaker 1: of year, be very careful about two steps because things
Speaker 1: changed on a time. But yeah, as of right now,
Speaker 1: it looks like he is scheduled for that two step
Speaker 1: or one more piece of injury news and also just
Speaker 1: a wacky one. Victor Robla is removed after being hit
Speaker 1: by a pitch in the first inning and then being
Speaker 1: caught in one of the more bone headed plays I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, attempting to steal home in the first inning.
Speaker 1: It was bases loaded, two outs on a three to
Speaker 1: zero count, and Victor Robluss thought that was the time
Speaker 1: to steal home. I don't know what the hell he
Speaker 1: was thinking, Bubba.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was an odd one. I know he was
Speaker 2: trying to get the NDErs on the board. But timing
Speaker 2: is everything, folks, in life and in baseball, and that
Speaker 2: was bad timing.
Speaker 1: It was awful, okay, Bubba. Let's move into the Best
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Speaker 1: where are you looking today on your betting sheet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, some tough overall numbers out there, but we'll start
Speaker 2: with Auto Lopez. He's been swinging it really well, went
Speaker 2: deep on Tuesday night. Landon Knack has taking the bump
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Plus a depleted bullpen which is already
Speaker 2: one of the worst bullpens in baseball, top it off.
Speaker 2: So give me Auto Lopez over one and a half
Speaker 2: total bases at plus one fifty five. We'll have some
Speaker 2: fun with that. Pete Crow Armstrong early game, I've been
Speaker 2: having fun with this one. It's hitting like feels like
Speaker 2: seventy percent is give a take, and the odds are great.
Speaker 2: So Pete Crow over as over a half a run
Speaker 2: scored at plus one eight. I'll take the massive plus
Speaker 2: number on that. And then last but not least, we
Speaker 2: got to get some great American small park action here.
Speaker 2: Wi Maryfield has been good, not great, but good. Jacob
Speaker 2: Junis stinks, so let's just be real about it. So
Speaker 2: whip Maryfield over one and a half hits, runs or RBIs,
Speaker 2: so this is not like he could do it in
Speaker 2: one at bat if all things work out well at
Speaker 2: a wopping plus one twenty five. So I'll take my
Speaker 2: chances with that one.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it, and not many people
Speaker 1: are thinking about with Maryfield this time of year. But
Speaker 1: he actually hasn't been that bad like he really, especially
Speaker 1: since he's come over to Atlanta. I know things in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia weren't so so great, but I like that one.
Speaker 1: I really do like that one for wit Maryfield. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Tarik's schouble today to start over six and
Speaker 1: a half strikeouts. The thing that does make me a
Speaker 1: little bit nervous is that it is Kansas City and
Speaker 1: they don't strike out a ton. But it was hard
Speaker 1: to pass up the cy young winner at plus money
Speaker 1: for six and a half strikeouts, a number that he
Speaker 1: has pretty consistently hit this year. So I'll take that
Speaker 1: at plus one oh five, and also take a look
Speaker 1: at nessor Cortes targeting those Mariners who strikeout more than
Speaker 1: I think any team at least in modern history, twenty
Speaker 1: seven and a half percent strikeout right taking nasty Nestor
Speaker 1: who is coming off of a very good start where
Speaker 1: he struck out nine Boston Red Sox, and as a
Speaker 1: whole he has been pretty solid. You know, there was
Speaker 1: that one stinker against Saint Louis, but really it's been
Speaker 1: a good couple months for Nestra Cortez. So I'm thinking
Speaker 1: he can get the five and a half today against
Speaker 1: the Mariners and then a little bit of a cheeky
Speaker 1: one here San Diego and Houston. The first five under
Speaker 1: three and a half runs. I'm taking this based on
Speaker 1: the strength of the starting pitching matchup. We have Dylan
Speaker 1: Ceesen Framber Valdez going head to head there. Don't really
Speaker 1: want to put too much faith in the bullpins, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm not going I'm not that the pens
Speaker 1: are bad or anything, but I'd rather just rely on
Speaker 1: the starter. So that's why we are taking the first
Speaker 1: five under three and a half runs. So, just to
Speaker 1: recap for Baba Auto Lopez over one and a half
Speaker 1: total basis Peekrow Armstrong over point five runs and wit
Speaker 1: Meryfield over one and a half hits runs In RBI,
Speaker 1: I got to Reik Schooble over six and a half
Speaker 1: strikeouts nessor Cortes over five and a half in the
Speaker 1: Padres in the Astros first five under three and a
Speaker 1: half runs. One last thing to do today, Bubba, and
Speaker 1: that is declare a home run call for the night.
Speaker 1: Who are you leaning with today?
Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna go to coors Field. Is this guy
Speaker 2: named Austin Gomber pitching for the Colorado Rockies. There's a
Speaker 2: guy in the Diamondbacks lineup that huh loves facing lefties.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go aohanel Swarez going deep on Wednesday versus
Speaker 2: the Colorado Rockies is in their last game at coors Field.
Speaker 1: Somebody mentioned in the chat about Jacob Junas. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Jacob Junas, So I am taking Matt Olson here at
Speaker 1: Great American small Park. He hit a home run yesterday.
Speaker 1: His odds, depending on where you look, are like plus
Speaker 1: one ninety plus two hundred for a home run, which
Speaker 1: is very very low for a single game home run.
Speaker 1: I think that the books expected to happen. I expected
Speaker 1: to happen. So let's see Matt Olson take Jacob Junas
Speaker 1: for a ride tonight. But guys, Bubba, that will do it.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate all you guys, who continue to be
Speaker 1: in the live chat here. The Penis and Cracker Jacks
Speaker 1: are still strong in the middle of September, so that
Speaker 1: is very much appreciated, Bubba. Any final words before we
Speaker 1: sign up today.
Speaker 2: Keep grinding, folks. We got about ten more days of
Speaker 2: baseball to go, and a lot of you guys are
Speaker 2: in your championship weeks and head to heads and you
Speaker 2: got roto competitions coming down to the wire. So keep
Speaker 2: trucking and if you've got questions, hit us up. We'll
Speaker 2: help you out.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. We're gonna be back here on Friday at the
Speaker 1: same time, same place. Make sure you are here because
Speaker 1: we are going to be talking about some things for
Speaker 1: next week. And I'll be honest, you're crazy if you're
Speaker 1: head to head week. Our head to head league goes
Speaker 1: into next week. But there are those of you out there,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about some strategies for next week,
Speaker 1: some players to pick up, maybe a couple of two
Speaker 1: star pitchers, and we'll do all that again on Friday.
Speaker 1: But until then, everybody, take care, have yourselves a great night. Cheers.
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