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Speaker 1: Today's episode, it's gonna be very trade centric, just for
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Speaker 1: much earlier. It's later. So we're a little over twenty
Speaker 1: four hours to the trade deadline. And the weekend got nuts.
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Speaker 1: very trade centric. A couple trade rumors are out there,
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the big trade. The first big one
Speaker 1: and the first two are going to be from the
Speaker 1: same team. The Rangers went out and got Max Scherzer.
Speaker 1: Rangers acquired Max Scherzer. They sent Luis on hell Akunya
Speaker 1: off to the Mets. There was a bunch of money
Speaker 1: that was exchange hands. I've actually got some funny stories
Speaker 1: with this. But Bubba, what's your take on Max going
Speaker 1: to Texas. Some people think he's washed, some people think
Speaker 1: this is a great run. Texas is going all in.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Max with the Rangers.
Speaker 3: I think it's great for Texas going all in. You know,
Speaker 3: you get the Mets to pay for part of the money.
Speaker 3: Obviously you'll talk prospect in a minute. There's a big
Speaker 3: piece to that. But sures you're still fine. The strikeouts
Speaker 3: are there. It's the thing we saw a few years back.
Speaker 3: He still with the home runs in bunches, and that's
Speaker 3: the issue. Assureser but he can still dominate at the
Speaker 3: best times, and you need a rotate. Their rotation needs help.
Speaker 3: In Texas, they have one of the best offenses in
Speaker 3: all baseball. So it's a great move to go all in.
Speaker 3: Why not strike while the irons hot?
Speaker 1: I love this. I think it's a great move too,
Speaker 1: because if you're thinking like long term, the what the
Speaker 1: rotation is going to look like, you know, next year,
Speaker 1: the year and after that. I mean, what Max has
Speaker 1: done this trade? Max covers de Grom because Dagram is
Speaker 1: going to be out to what like most likely all
Speaker 1: of next year or I think maybe we discussed maybe year,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, And the there was a little sticky thing
Speaker 1: that happened that maybe the Max trade got like halted
Speaker 1: for a second because he needed to agree to pick
Speaker 1: up the option, which is forty three million dollars.
Speaker 3: Did did you hear how that whole thing went down?
Speaker 3: Like after his start early he was mad about the
Speaker 3: trades the Mets are already making, so he won't to
Speaker 3: talk to the front office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, after Robertson was like, can you believe, by the way,
Speaker 1: David Robertson is the reason Max is range.
Speaker 3: The straw that broke the Campbell's back, like really, David Robertson.
Speaker 1: Like like the Rangers were like's the metsro on the phone?
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, you get rid of David. The David
Speaker 1: Robertson move got Max pissed, and then then the whole
Speaker 1: thing happened. But like, yeah, this covers that it's a
Speaker 1: ton of money. This is what that is Luisan Helicunya,
Speaker 1: which I'll probably talk about this on ITL but there's
Speaker 1: a funny thing about the whole Luisa on Helicunya thing
Speaker 1: because I heard it. I was also on the Rangers
Speaker 1: backfield that morning, Bubba. I was on there and the
Speaker 1: first rumored guy was Sebastian Walcott, who's one of their
Speaker 1: top international prospects. I was there watching Walcott and White Langford,
Speaker 1: who they took for overall play, and then I ended
Speaker 1: up going and seeing Barbie. I went and saw the
Speaker 1: Barbie movie. I come out of Barbie and then I
Speaker 1: look at my phone and it's like Sebashia Walcott's getting traded.
Speaker 1: And it was such a weird experience. But Luisan Helicuna
Speaker 1: is a great return. Forty two stolen bases so far
Speaker 1: this year, seven homers hitting over three hundred, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'll just say I've always been a Luis on Helicunia guy.
Speaker 1: There were so many in the prospect industry that were like,
Speaker 1: he's a nothing burger, he's a gimmick, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Back when he wasn't even into like full season ball,
Speaker 1: this team was hitting him three in their lineups. He's
Speaker 1: got great bat speed, good athleticism. I mean, his brother
Speaker 1: obviously touts him up. Big stolen bases through the wazoo.
Speaker 1: He can make a ton of contact. In this era
Speaker 1: of baseball, this is a dude that can. I mean,
Speaker 1: he could easily be fifteen thirty. I don't see a
Speaker 1: reason why he can't. He could be a number two hitter.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if he's a number three hitter.
Speaker 1: It's pretty great return. I mean the team. But the team,
Speaker 1: though paid a boatload of money. I think they paid,
Speaker 1: Like was it the Rangers are only paying twenty two
Speaker 1: million dollars total?
Speaker 3: Or I believe they they they sent twenty two I
Speaker 3: could be totally wrong either way.
Speaker 2: They basically covered half of it.
Speaker 3: They split the difference in order to get a But
Speaker 3: you know, if they didn't spend send any money. They
Speaker 3: probably got like a third rate, like third basement out
Speaker 3: of High A or something, so they had to get something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like so akun you can get a
Speaker 1: little long in the swing. But I'm telling you it's
Speaker 1: like crazy big bat speed and you've seen the maturation
Speaker 1: this year, and you know he's going wild for stolen bases.
Speaker 1: So you know, you guys that are in here, you
Speaker 1: know this is a kind of wild comp But you
Speaker 1: know what, it's not off. It's not crazy off. The
Speaker 1: Albi's is a good comp to Acunya. Yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: still in the same game. Because Acuna can get into
Speaker 1: bad streaks, he can get kind of strikeouty, batting average
Speaker 1: can go down. I think Acunya is more stolen base
Speaker 1: over power like where Albi's is a little bit more
Speaker 1: power over stolen base. But this is huge. This is
Speaker 1: a huge trade for them. They paid a boatload of money,
Speaker 1: but they're going to you know, push those chips in
Speaker 1: with him, and this is a big trade. Now, the
Speaker 1: Rangers also were not done. They went out acquired Jordan
Speaker 1: Montgomery and Chris Stratton as a bullpen piece from the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: who they then traded Thomas Sagacy to Cole Roby and
Speaker 1: John King. And another funny story to Coole Roby was
Speaker 1: throwing a bullpen session when I walked on the field
Speaker 1: on Saturday. He wasn't at a minor league affiliate, and
Speaker 1: we and I was with a couple of people, and
Speaker 1: we saw a whole bunch of dudes. We saw a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of guys, and we were wondering what this
Speaker 1: was about. And then we figured out, oh, this must
Speaker 1: have been some scouts that were out watching that session,
Speaker 1: watching that throwing session, because there were a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there. So Jordan Montgomery goes to help fill
Speaker 1: out this rotation which now looks like Max Montgomery, Evaldi
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, Haney, and Dane Dunning. So Montgomery, do
Speaker 1: you view how big of an upgrade do you view
Speaker 1: this with the Rangers for him?
Speaker 3: I think it's tremendous. I've always been a Jordan Montgomery fans.
Speaker 3: I might be biased on this scenario, but you look
Speaker 3: for a guy that's going to give you quality start
Speaker 3: after quality started for quality start, which with that's all
Speaker 3: that offense needs, and he can do that. Strikeouts have
Speaker 3: been up since he's joined the Cardinals, at least over
Speaker 3: the last year or so. So I'm a big, big
Speaker 3: fan of Jomo going to Texas, Like I almost in
Speaker 3: the grand scheme of things, he might be better overall
Speaker 3: than Sure there sure has got the big game. I
Speaker 3: can dominate, but can also get shelled, where Joemo is
Speaker 3: just that consistent arm you can throw out there every
Speaker 3: fifth day and you know it's gonna He's gonna go
Speaker 3: six maybe seven, which helps her bullpen, and he's gonna
Speaker 3: give you a chance to win eighty percent of the time.
Speaker 2: So I'm a big fan of that move.
Speaker 1: I was looking for this. Bizizikis has said, well, she
Speaker 1: disappointed the Dbacks have been quiet. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to hear that on the next time.
Speaker 2: I can tell you. Did you really have to ask
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 1: Is like, Well, one of the reasons I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: it up is like this was a solid return for
Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery. Thomas Agacy who got traded. Uh, he actually
Speaker 1: leads minor league baseball and hits. He is the most
Speaker 1: hits in the minor leagues. I'm not the biggest Thomas
Speaker 1: Agacy guy. Uh, there's fringy power, speed whatever. I think
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of contact. He might be one
Speaker 1: of those points league like, you know, doesn't strike out,
Speaker 1: maybe he hits at the top of an order. I
Speaker 1: saw somebody, I want to say, maybe it was Jesse
Speaker 1: Roach from baseball perspectives, I'm not one hundred percent sure,
Speaker 1: but someone had thrown out this comp of maybe like
Speaker 1: a Brendan Donovan, and I was like, Oh, that's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. He's a little bit skinnier, but that might
Speaker 1: be sagacy. But I looked at the Jordan Montgomery trade
Speaker 1: and I was like, Diebacks couldn't like they didn't offer that,
Speaker 1: they didn't put that out in actually.
Speaker 3: That I said the same thing about the Giants, like
Speaker 3: I want to get a starting pictured. Montgomery's the top
Speaker 3: of my list, and that seemed very doable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was pretty I'm and I'm very disappointed. I'm
Speaker 1: like super disappointed that the Diamonbacks haven't done anything because
Speaker 1: all you have are the Rangers and the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: these teams making these moves and they're just sitting there
Speaker 1: because I think this Montgomery move is a solid push up,
Speaker 1: you know. And the Cardinals, I don't know why they
Speaker 1: wanted Segasey when they got Mason Winn and they've got
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmond and Nolan Gorman. But it's just more depth,
Speaker 1: and this is a he is a little bit different
Speaker 1: than a decent amount of the crew that they have
Speaker 1: and a lot of big power guys and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Mason Winn is more defense over offense. Sagacy's got a
Speaker 1: little bit more offense. But this was just, you know, again,
Speaker 1: a solid, solid trade and we can talk about Fred
Speaker 1: was talking about one of the back rooms. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about overall rumors here in just a second. So
Speaker 1: other trade later yesterday Angels acquired CJ. Krohn and Randall
Speaker 1: Gritchick and cash considerations from the Rockies for Jake Madden
Speaker 1: and Mason Albright. So the only thing to really focus
Speaker 1: on here is kron and Gritchik are both going to
Speaker 1: go into that Angels lineup. Who's absolutely committed to go
Speaker 1: all in. I mean, they are just chips in final table.
Speaker 1: Any positive boost that I think getting these guys out
Speaker 1: of Colorado makes me like them a little bit less.
Speaker 1: But if you want to talk about the lineup that
Speaker 1: they're built around, there's a lot of RBI potentials. So
Speaker 1: is this a wash? Is this a plus? Is this
Speaker 1: a negative for Krawn and Gritchick.
Speaker 3: I think it's a plus actually, Honestly, getting out of
Speaker 3: the Cours hangovers in and out of the Colorado, which
Speaker 3: we've seen happen for those guys and just the overall
Speaker 3: team around them, like it's gonna be a big boost,
Speaker 3: especially for guy like Gritchick who was starting to heat
Speaker 3: up too.
Speaker 2: So I like that move with Taylor Ward going out
Speaker 2: for the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I think I'm really indifferent on Kron. I
Speaker 1: think they both might be just washes instead.
Speaker 2: Of Yeah, Krawn, I'm not too is what he is
Speaker 2: to write about now.
Speaker 1: To me, But like you, maybe like Gritchick went from
Speaker 1: maybe like fringy sitting on the wire type of guy
Speaker 1: to like, oh, let's pick him up. Obviously, Taylor Ward
Speaker 1: got injured. We're going to talk about an injuries, but
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward looks like he'll be out for the year
Speaker 1: after getting hit in the face, and that's going to
Speaker 1: take him out, and Gritchick is going to be that guy.
Speaker 1: So Gritchick kind of moves from probably fringy to yeah,
Speaker 1: let's pick him up in a in a five outfielder,
Speaker 1: twelve team league, so, like Richard just asked this question,
Speaker 1: this is easily new bar, he said, Nutbar versus Ritchick.
Speaker 1: It's like easily new bar to me. But Gritchick is
Speaker 1: in like the next tier.
Speaker 2: I think he's close, but a new bar for sure.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nudy's been.
Speaker 3: Nudy's like he's actually playing really really well at least
Speaker 3: quote unquote healthy. Shocker how that works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this will be one of those annoying ones. I
Speaker 1: just get annoyed with people. It's mainly in fantasy football
Speaker 1: where they're like, this is my guy, and then the
Speaker 1: guy doesn't play for five weeks and then you have
Speaker 1: to think about dropping him, but then they're good the
Speaker 1: final ten and then they're like I told you I won. Like,
Speaker 1: that'll be kind of my new bar one because I
Speaker 1: was like the big new bar guy and it's been
Speaker 1: kind of a disappointment and some people dropped him. I
Speaker 1: never did, and now he's really uh, he's picking it
Speaker 1: back up. That's the interesting question. Eric said, Well, is
Speaker 1: Trade Turner the worst performing first round pick this year?
Speaker 2: It's close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's not, it's close, But I'd say yes,
Speaker 3: I'd have to go look at ADP.
Speaker 1: But yes, yeah, I mean, I'm just going through the
Speaker 1: names in my head. I think that's.
Speaker 3: Really pretty acurate because I took him top three. You
Speaker 3: took him top three, so it's not even just his
Speaker 3: first round pick. You're talking people had one. Some people
Speaker 3: had him one. Dude over imagine that one not mine?
Speaker 1: All right? Other trades. The Cardinals also made another trade.
Speaker 1: They trade They got Adam Cloffenstein and uh, sem is
Speaker 1: it sem rovers wrote ROBERSI ROBERSI relief picture not even me,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But they got Jordan Hicks Toronto did,
Speaker 1: and what that ended up doing was kind of decimating
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks's closer ability except for the short term because
Speaker 1: Jordan Moano's on the I L so he'll be able
Speaker 1: to theoretically get thrown in and get some saves right now,
Speaker 1: but that takes him out of the market once Romano
Speaker 1: comes back. So this is like the fear with all
Speaker 1: the relief pictures is he's now kind of done with that,
Speaker 1: and then it, you know, opens up the cardinal situation,
Speaker 1: which who are you betting on on the cardinal situation
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: I've always been a huge Geevanni Diegos fan but he
Speaker 3: pitch two innings in Sunday's game, Jojo Romero got to save,
Speaker 3: so that kind of surprised me. I'm still a Givanni guy,
Speaker 3: but you got to at least keep an eye on Jojo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a decent one. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit disappointed about the the Hicks one, except in the
Speaker 1: short term. Again, but like count straight.
Speaker 3: Maybe Remand's backs worse than we thought. He's been dealing
Speaker 3: with this for a bit, so you never know.
Speaker 1: Maybe. Also you had the Royals who made a small
Speaker 1: little trade with the Braves. Braves got Nicky Lopez for
Speaker 1: some infield depth and they acquired Taylor Hearn. I would
Speaker 1: just also throw out how damning is that for von Grissom.
Speaker 1: How damning is that that they went and acquired Nicki Lopez.
Speaker 1: I know, like Orlando Arci and stuff, but they have
Speaker 1: so little trust in him to be able to come
Speaker 1: back up in that backo that they went and traded
Speaker 1: for Nicky Lopez.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a great point. I didn't even think
Speaker 3: about that initially. I was just like, why you get
Speaker 3: nick then you throw that into the mix, it's even worse.
Speaker 1: Vomit, dude, A couple of trade rumors that are floating out.
Speaker 1: Jesse Rodgers of ESPN reports at the Cubs are telling
Speaker 1: teams that Cody Bellinger will not be traded, that the
Speaker 1: Cubs are gonna stick around, They're gonna fight it out
Speaker 1: a little bit, and no Stroman and no Bellinger. So
Speaker 1: I guess that's a relative.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that a boost in your mind to his value
Speaker 1: to stay and be able to hit in Chicago, where
Speaker 1: he's made a lot of these adjustments. I kind of
Speaker 1: saw that, like, Eh, it would have been nice if
Speaker 1: he was in a new place like an Angel's or
Speaker 1: something and hitting in a lineup around like super superstars.
Speaker 1: Is it a plus for you for Bellinger's value rest
Speaker 1: a season to not have to make the big move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's comfortable right now, and so I'm pretty happy
Speaker 3: with him staying in Chicago. He's playing way better and
Speaker 3: I even thought he could possibly play, So I'm happy
Speaker 3: with him staying there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wanted to look here, and I'm gonna assume they
Speaker 1: didn't say it. Jessee Rodgers didn't say in the same report,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna assume that has to probably go with
Speaker 1: Stroman as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw a different report that Stroman's staying too.
Speaker 3: The Cubs are basically staying put. They might make a
Speaker 3: couple of small moves. I think a lot of that
Speaker 3: has to do with watching the Cardinals throw the white
Speaker 3: flag out there and going, Okay, it's one last team
Speaker 3: you gotta worry about.
Speaker 1: Well. Also, I mean, I think you're having a multi
Speaker 1: teams that are doing the Diamondbacks I think are in
Speaker 1: this play. They might surprise us in the next twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, but it seems like they're losing games at
Speaker 1: a pretty rapid clip and they're realizing, oh, we just
Speaker 1: have to do something small. Cubs are probably in the
Speaker 1: same boat of doing something small. Bellinger is. Someone just
Speaker 1: said this, Yeah, Walkee was saying Bellinger's x stats are
Speaker 1: so so, so bad. He's one of the anomaly guys,
Speaker 1: and I wish I'd been tracking him away.
Speaker 2: Short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's like there's been like four or five
Speaker 1: guys that are so different from what their savant pages show.
Speaker 1: I wish I had been tracking who all these players are,
Speaker 1: because you look at bellinger stats, fifteen homers, twelve stolen
Speaker 1: bases in under three hundred at bats, hitting three hundred,
Speaker 1: almost fifty run fifty rbi if you want to combo
Speaker 1: them up, those are great numbers, especially with where the
Speaker 1: trajectory is going. This could be a twenty twenty guy.
Speaker 1: But then you go and look, he is bottom nineteen
Speaker 1: percentile in average ECXI velocity, bottom forty percent allen max.
Speaker 1: Hard hit is trash explob Yeah, it's garbage. XBA is
Speaker 1: two sixty six, which is not the word you would
Speaker 1: take a two sixty six Bellinger, except it's fifty points
Speaker 1: lower than where he's at right now. So he's a
Speaker 1: little bit of like an anomaly, and like what side
Speaker 1: do you buy of him? But I guess maybe staying
Speaker 1: is like a good thing. The other one is uh
Speaker 1: Andy Martino of sny dot tv reports of the Mets
Speaker 1: are not in deep talks with any team regarding a
Speaker 1: potential Justin Verlander trade, because I had saw.
Speaker 2: Some I've seen the opposite reports too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well yesterday there was something like he
Speaker 1: was going to get scratched and blah blah blah. You
Speaker 1: have to assume they're going to move.
Speaker 3: They said Houston the Dodgers, and I saw one of
Speaker 3: their team were in deep discussions with the Mets. I
Speaker 3: saw it this morning, So but that's the Mets guy
Speaker 3: trying to probably play the game.
Speaker 2: That's what that is right there.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Dodgers are going to come in
Speaker 1: because the Astros were asked about this apparently, and the
Speaker 1: Astros ended up saying that they weren't currently in the
Speaker 1: He makes the most sense. Wonky's right, Verlander makes the
Speaker 1: most sense in Houston to have that reunion. But I
Speaker 1: believe they were asked about it and they just said
Speaker 1: they unless something changes, they weren't really in the market
Speaker 1: to make any type of move like this. The Dodgers, though,
Speaker 1: I do feel like they ought.
Speaker 2: I feel like a.
Speaker 1: Dodgers team could go in drop a prospect, you know,
Speaker 1: pay some money or whatever. In the inverse, Mets pay
Speaker 1: some money. They've already set the precedent where they pay money,
Speaker 1: So maybe they pay a portion, a decent portion of
Speaker 1: Verlanders get a top end prospect, just like they did
Speaker 1: with a Kunya, and they're setting the stage for that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, what were the odds you're
Speaker 1: going to put on Verlander getting moved at the deadline?
Speaker 3: I got it like seventy five percent. He's going to
Speaker 3: seventy five, the Mets are blowing it all up. That's
Speaker 3: it's over. It's over, Johnny, just finish it.
Speaker 1: I I tweeted out this weekend, there's a part of me,
Speaker 1: and like people pointed out, obviously the Mets paid like
Speaker 1: a jillion dollars for sures, you're to go away, But like,
Speaker 1: if they're clearing all that money, it just makes more
Speaker 1: sense that Otani, like even more sense that they're going
Speaker 1: to just go balls to the walls.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's why the Mets around the real quick.
Speaker 3: I hate break, but I want to get before we
Speaker 3: move on from the Dodgers. The reason I don't think
Speaker 3: the Dodgers get him is the reason why the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are out on a couple other of the big guys.
Speaker 3: They want to stay under the luxury text for a
Speaker 3: Twani mixture, And unless the Mets sent all kinds of
Speaker 3: money like they do for sures, then they got to
Speaker 3: give up a better prospect. So that makes their deal
Speaker 3: a little more complicated than say, go to Houston, and
Speaker 3: Houston just kind of takes care of it.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, I guess. I was just thinking
Speaker 1: about some of the struggles and injuries, like Arius has
Speaker 1: been injured.
Speaker 2: Lynn, What are you talking about. We're kidding Lence Lynn.
Speaker 1: They we're all happy about Lennce Lynn. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's like sixty percent Verlander right now. I
Speaker 1: think there's a possibility that they don't want to move
Speaker 1: Verlander for the reason you just said about the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and maybe they're like, hey, we want to have pieces
Speaker 1: to want someone to come here. Verlander is a good
Speaker 1: reason for a pitcher to want to be there. Same
Speaker 1: thing on, you know, having like lind Or, you don't
Speaker 1: want all the pieces to go away, blow this thing
Speaker 1: up and be like, hey, come on down Otani, and
Speaker 1: Otani's like, what the hell is this? So? Uh, what
Speaker 1: did Joe say just in the chat? Joe, come on
Speaker 1: the show if you're gonna all day, come on, buddy.
Speaker 1: Does keeping Verlander Mako Tani run more conceivable? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: exactly Okay, I didn't even see what you said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Like, I think keeping Verlander is, hey,
Speaker 1: we are still a heavy competing team for next season,
Speaker 1: so we can get him here. If they blow this
Speaker 1: thing up, I think it's a much harder sell, regardless
Speaker 1: of money, because either way you might be right about
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are saving money so they don't go back
Speaker 1: over the luxury tax and stuff. But like at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, everyone is dropping every dollar they
Speaker 1: have for oton. No, you can't hold back, you can't
Speaker 1: be cheap. Everyone's got a throw and I think the
Speaker 1: Mets are gonna be the team that throws the most dollars.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if that's gonna mean they're gonna
Speaker 1: get him and he's gonna sign. I think the Dodgers
Speaker 1: might be one of the more likely situations. That was
Speaker 1: a lot on trades. It's a little bit more than
Speaker 1: different guys. But you know, this is what's going down
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow and Wednesday will be very heavy trade talk. Injuries.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be plomming through some of this stuff. The Angels,
Speaker 1: like we talked about, they transferred or are planning to
Speaker 1: transfer Taylor Ward to the sixty day injured list with
Speaker 1: that hit to the face. Potters manager Bob Melvin told
Speaker 1: reporters on Sunday that Hassan Kim is considered day today.
Speaker 1: Who has been freaking phenomenal Hassan Kim this whole year,
Speaker 1: but looks like he might be out today. I think
Speaker 1: they played later today Jady Martinez undergoing an MRI on
Speaker 1: his left hamstring, So watch that again. In that Dodgers run,
Speaker 1: Reds plays Jonathan India on the ten day il with
Speaker 1: left foot planter fasciitis, and that might be the death
Speaker 1: of the whole trade rumors of Jonathan India going because
Speaker 1: do you remember a last time we saw a team
Speaker 1: trade a guy who was on the injured list? Does
Speaker 1: that happen? I mean, has that that's happened before, hasn't it?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, because some team just wants to dump stuff
Speaker 3: basically you'll see it in that regard.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I just don't think he's gonna get moved now that
Speaker 1: he's put on I think this kind of.
Speaker 3: Makes it way more complicated, yes, because I even Dylan
Speaker 3: Jerry up there in Seattle said this kind of ended
Speaker 3: that chance for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think the Reds might be one
Speaker 1: of those weird teams also that just stands put. They
Speaker 1: just kind of go with their guy. It would have
Speaker 1: been great if they would have went out and been
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive and got some rotation help.
Speaker 1: But maybe they're just gonna say, like, hey, We're a
Speaker 1: fun trade. We're a fun team. We're just gonna put
Speaker 1: them out there, and I think that kind of kills
Speaker 1: whatever whatever move they would have ended up actually doing
Speaker 1: Rangers after they acquired the two starting pitcher pieces. Nathan
Speaker 1: Valde they placed on the fifteen day with a right
Speaker 1: forearm strain. So that's no point, Oh, Diamondbacks, let's sit
Speaker 1: back and make no moves while we put Tommy Henry
Speaker 1: on the fifteen day il left elbow inflammation. That's not good.
Speaker 1: They also lost Drey Jamison, not good. So I think
Speaker 1: this might be I'm gonna throw out to people, this
Speaker 1: might be my Bryce Jarvis, So watch out for Bryce
Speaker 1: Jarvis coming up. I've been talking about him for last
Speaker 1: three weeks. This could be one of the movie. They
Speaker 1: brought up Cole Sulser in relief, but you're gonna need
Speaker 1: more rotation help because you have Brandon fought up. So
Speaker 1: Bryce Jarvis may be an option. And Dimback's also plays
Speaker 1: seven Long Gorey on the tin day il and Alex
Speaker 1: Kilov placed on the ten day with right shoulder strain.
Speaker 1: But but here's a fun little piece I just pulled
Speaker 1: real quick. Ronaldcunya went three for four with a two
Speaker 1: run homer and his fiftieth base of the season on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and pulled this from Rotal World or in whatever they're
Speaker 1: called today. I pulled this from them. He is the
Speaker 1: twentieth player ever with twenty homers and fifty stolen bases
Speaker 1: in a season, and no one had done it since
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Two players did it in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Maybe you saw the report and it'll
Speaker 1: ruin here. Oh, you're probably looking at the show.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the sheet yet, Ah, you bastard.
Speaker 1: I should have told you not to look at the shows.
Speaker 2: You never. I never would have guessed these.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have either those two players, by the way,
Speaker 1: Hanley Ramirez who went twenty nine and fifty one and
Speaker 1: Eric Burns twenty one and fifty.
Speaker 3: You could give me one hundred guesses. I'd never would have,
Speaker 3: said Eric Burns in the face.
Speaker 1: Said Eric Burns. I might have gone it. I wouldn't have, actually,
Speaker 1: said Eric Burns, also to point out he's done it
Speaker 1: on July thirty. He did a July thirtieth. Those guys
Speaker 1: did it over the season, so no big deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm making a new segment there was Joe's tough guys.
Speaker 1: I'm calling them Welsh's just kens. He's kinoff if you've
Speaker 1: watched Barbie, So these are Welsh's just kens. Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: returned and went three for five with a two run
Speaker 1: homer to leave the Yankees past the Orioles eight to three.
Speaker 1: So he's a tough guy, but he's a Ken. He's
Speaker 1: not just a Joe's tough guy. He's a Welsh's just ken.
Speaker 1: Did you see the movie, by.
Speaker 2: The way, No, I saw Oppenheimer over the weekend, but
Speaker 2: I've not seen Barbie yet.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Florence Peugh, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, So those that's my just ken, all right?
Speaker 1: Three up, three down. Matt Olsen went two for four,
Speaker 1: two homers, five RBI. Jose Ramirez went two for four
Speaker 1: with two homers three RBI and had back to back
Speaker 1: two homer days over the weekend. So any of you guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Wonky if you I didn't get an
Speaker 1: updated thing, but if you have a home run update
Speaker 1: for me, I'll look at the bottom of the sheet too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. If you had home Jose Ramirez this weekend,
Speaker 1: you did awesome and c. J Abrams two for three
Speaker 1: on Sunday with stolen bases. Maybe, dude, c J Abrams
Speaker 1: one of the steals of the back half of this year.
Speaker 1: I got him in an Otano league for practically nothing,
Speaker 1: and everyone's trying to get him off me. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not trading him. Ce James has been awesome, dude.
Speaker 3: Yep, he's been amazing. I was all in on him
Speaker 3: to start the season. Obviously didn't start out great, but
Speaker 3: he's been amazing the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: He's been amazing. Three down, Louis Severino done or we're
Speaker 1: done with Louis Severino.
Speaker 2: He is cooked.
Speaker 1: Three and one third ten hits, nine earned runs. Yankees
Speaker 1: couldn't even move him. I don't think at this point
Speaker 1: if they wanted to. Speaking of cooked, Anthony Rizzo ozer
Speaker 1: for five with five strikeouts, there you go, and Michael
Speaker 1: Groove went six, struck out ten. I gave up eight
Speaker 1: earned runs, So I don't even know how you can
Speaker 1: get I don't even know how you put How do
Speaker 1: you do that? How do you give up eight earned
Speaker 1: runs and still strike out twelve? How is that possible?
Speaker 3: That's just a gift And called the Dodgers had no bullpen.
Speaker 3: They needed innings. Just go out there, go out there
Speaker 3: and get it done.
Speaker 1: Kid, I don't even know how you do it. All right,
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Speaker 2: Oh obligated. I'll do my best here.
Speaker 3: Corbyn Burns over six strikeouts going up against the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 3: The catch here at Nationals don't strike out a ton,
Speaker 3: but Burns has been locked in since basically a month
Speaker 3: of July, since the also break.
Speaker 2: Especially, You're going to see a trend here in some
Speaker 2: picks coming up here with thor on the mound target
Speaker 2: target target, So you'red on Alvarez over eight fantasy points
Speaker 2: and then Chas McCormick over one and a half hits,
Speaker 2: runs and RBIs.
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be a lot of offense
Speaker 3: for the Houston Astros this evening.
Speaker 1: Yes, I actually am also playing the Yord on points.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a big play of mine today. He's
Speaker 1: my big target because I am not about that no
Speaker 1: centerguard Life. I don't care what oh, nope, nope, whatever
Speaker 1: the things you started saying, Nope the Guardian, I don't care.
Speaker 1: It was the dumbest trade on the planet. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get lit. I'm gonna go with Andrew Abbott fantasy score
Speaker 1: thirty two and a half because Abbot is the real deals,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go with Christian Yelich. I believe they're
Speaker 1: going up against the Nationals, and I believe it is
Speaker 1: Jake Irvin who gives up a two eighty batting average
Speaker 1: against on lefties versus two thirty on righties, and also
Speaker 1: a decent amount of homers as well. So I kind
Speaker 1: of like Christian Yelich on a homer call as well,
Speaker 1: but his fantasy points are higher than Ordon, and I'm
Speaker 1: taking it for a reason eight and a half long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be jumping on that best bets. I've got
Speaker 1: two for you that I have honed in on, and
Speaker 1: we'll get Bubba's. I'm going with the Milwaukee Brewers first five,
Speaker 1: up by a run and it was minus one forty
Speaker 1: last night. I'm actually not sure where it is right now.
Speaker 1: Tried to find different angle, couldn't find the one I like,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I guess be against the team total run
Speaker 1: over for the Brewers or runs given up by you know,
Speaker 1: I was just trying to play around them. I just
Speaker 1: ended up settled, not trying to get too cute that.
Speaker 1: Let's go with the Brewers being up by one with
Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns on the Mounta. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: shut him down, and I think that offense can hit
Speaker 1: on him and the Angels Atlanta over through the first
Speaker 1: five at five and a half, So five and a
Speaker 1: half over first five. Those are my two plays, Bubba,
Speaker 1: what do you got on the bets trend?
Speaker 3: Houston team total over four and a half, it's minus
Speaker 3: one forty eighth the juice, and then I'm going to
Speaker 3: parlay two first five Houston first five minus a half
Speaker 3: Milwaukee first five minus a half like you had. If
Speaker 3: you parlay, it comes up to plus one ninety eight.
Speaker 3: So I'll take years sensing the trend. We're on the
Speaker 3: same page tonight, Well show Houston and Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Go go, go.
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Speaker 1: can be the greatest DFS is in play Bubba. This
Speaker 1: is this is where you shine. My friend, What do
Speaker 1: you got on the DFS slate for us?
Speaker 2: We're looking at draft Kings.
Speaker 3: You got Tyler Glass on that top priced guy at
Speaker 3: ten to five Yankees judges back.
Speaker 2: He has still a lot of strikeouts, a lot of
Speaker 2: upside for Glass.
Speaker 3: Now in the Bronx, Corbyn burns one hundred percent and
Speaker 3: play at ten to two against the Nats. But a
Speaker 3: couple of contrarian angles here Andrew Rabbit at ten thousand
Speaker 3: against the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Most will pay for burns or glass.
Speaker 3: Now, so you got Abbot who's been striking out the
Speaker 3: world and continues to prove me wrong. We'll looking at
Speaker 3: his deep, deep numbers. I like him against the Cubs.
Speaker 3: And then if you want some value, Nick Pavetta going
Speaker 3: into Seattle. He's actually going to start, apparently not come
Speaker 3: out after the opener, and Seattle strikes out nearly twenty
Speaker 3: nine percent of the time ers righties over last month.
Speaker 3: So Paveta comes in in a big way. They're stacking
Speaker 3: things up. You got Houston verstore shocker. If you start
Speaker 3: got Milwaukee versus Washington, and then I think you're you're
Speaker 3: kind of unique one. Tampa Bay against Dimingo Hermon. I've
Speaker 3: never been a Herman guy, so I think Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: wakes up tonight. Value not a ton of great value
Speaker 3: and a lot of a lot of two K guys
Speaker 3: on the slate. Carlos Santana, who's been swinging it well
Speaker 3: over the month of July, already swinging it well for
Speaker 3: the Brew Crew. He's three point six three against Irvin
Speaker 3: and then Wilmer Flores is thirty four hundred bucks for
Speaker 3: Ryan Nelson and Flores is hitting like three point fifty
Speaker 3: since coming off the IL. I like both those guys
Speaker 3: as potential value, sadly on the same position, but it's
Speaker 3: a weird slate with not a ton of values.
Speaker 1: Over cry Baby, Wilmur Flora is a crib. You gotta
Speaker 1: love him, you know, I'd like today too. Getting back
Speaker 1: to the picking on center guard is Chess McCormick. He's
Speaker 1: just been such a mon.
Speaker 2: He was my I had him as a prize pick.
Speaker 2: So yes, I'm on board with you there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Picking back up here on just
Speaker 1: a few things I didn't It's just true. Richard Silla said,
Speaker 1: first time Rizzo had five strikeouts in a game, I
Speaker 1: saw that.
Speaker 2: That's pretty It doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3: Actually, with his OBP skills, it'd be tough for him
Speaker 3: to strike out five times in a game.
Speaker 2: He's been so just booty. That's all about say the nice,
Speaker 2: nice way I can say. It's been bad.
Speaker 1: It's been not good, you know. Interesting Uncle ped had
Speaker 1: mentioned Luis Robert. There are more rumors out there, I
Speaker 1: guess I blew by them earlier. You know the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: have been linked with bed Nar and Mitch Keller. You've
Speaker 1: got the White Sox now potentially saying that they might
Speaker 1: consider trading any of their players in Dylan ce Is.
Speaker 1: The next twenty four to twenty eight twenty nine hours
Speaker 1: should be pretty exciting. There should be a whole lot
Speaker 1: of names that are out there. If you guys have
Speaker 1: got some potential trade stuff, throw him in the chat
Speaker 1: and think about it. Tomorrow you can throw in the chat.
Speaker 1: We could do some guesses on some of those trades.
Speaker 1: Home run call I said, I do not think I
Speaker 1: have an updated board. I have absolutely no idea. This
Speaker 1: is the last one where we were at. That's where
Speaker 1: Razor Ramon was at thirty eight, So I have absolutely
Speaker 1: no idea. I'll have to check back in with our
Speaker 1: art team, Wonkey. I don't know if you have any
Speaker 1: updates if you're here. But whoever had Ozer Ramirez had
Speaker 1: a whole bunch, Bubba, I believe you're joining me in
Speaker 1: the home run barrage of your Don Alvarez that our play.
Speaker 2: Today, right, Yes, yes, it's gonna be your dong season.
Speaker 1: Your Dong. You're dong. It'll be your dongs for everybody,
Speaker 1: your dogs. Also, like I said, I kind of simmy,
Speaker 1: I almost took Yelich. I kind of like Yelich, but
Speaker 1: I ended up going with your don as my home
Speaker 1: run call. And like I said, if you guys just
Speaker 1: throw out, oh, I completely forgot about that. Fred, You're right.
Speaker 1: We're not even live tomorrow on the trade deadline. Ooh,
Speaker 1: We're back on Wednesday, so I guess we'll be breaking it.
Speaker 2: Out all kinds of news to break down for you
Speaker 2: on Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm completely like thrown off by not doing it five
Speaker 1: days a week. I'm telling you, with where my brain is,
Speaker 1: I might have just shown up. I might have just
Speaker 1: shown up tomorrow and just been like, hey, guys, what's up,
Speaker 1: and just you know, not had anything planned and do
Speaker 1: with the trades. But we will be breaking down all
Speaker 1: the trades on Wednesday. That'll be the thing. If you
Speaker 1: guys want in the comments, I would be curious if
Speaker 1: you're watching late or whatever, drop any potential trade rumors
Speaker 1: or guesses in your mind, because maybe we can go
Speaker 1: back through on Wednesday and we can see if anyone
Speaker 1: nailed an awesome one, you know, like if you think
Speaker 1: Luis Robert's going to get traded, drop that in the comments.
Speaker 1: If you think Dylan ces especially not the crazy ones.
Speaker 1: I think Verlinder would be good. But we might have
Speaker 1: gone through all the people we expect do some trade options,
Speaker 1: and then I'll go back and look through the comments
Speaker 1: before Wednesday and we'll see if any of you guys
Speaker 1: absolutely nailed some and we'll give you guys credit. So Bubba,
Speaker 1: that's it. You got through the first one in what
Speaker 1: was almost a year because you were on our rotation
Speaker 1: last year. But now you're a boy the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, my friend.
Speaker 2: Look looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: I always enjoyed you, Like I said talking to you,
Speaker 3: the show's always great up keeping up the data on
Speaker 3: what's going on around baseball.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to final couple months this season.
Speaker 1: That's right. Well, hopefully you guys continue hanging out with us.
Speaker 1: We are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, so it is even messing
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Speaker 1: will be rocking all of it. I'm excited to talk
Speaker 1: about all the trades and the breakdowns, and then Bubba
Speaker 1: and I will just have you covered for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, and then we can all wonder, like,
Speaker 1: what's Joe doing? Like, what's Joe doing sitting in the comments,
Speaker 1: just not being here? Does he love us anymore?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Sure, it's a superfice snuker off the
Speaker 2: top rope, That's what I'm picturing Joe doing. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't this.
Speaker 1: Did you see this?
Speaker 2: This was Joe? This was Joe.
Speaker 1: Last week it was Fidds Barewell, Bidd's farewell to all of.
Speaker 2: You, because it's good to know his acting classes are
Speaker 2: still paying off.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. Well again, it's just important to also
Speaker 1: know who loves you.
Speaker 2: Yep, I love you. Yeah, you didn't quit.
Speaker 1: I didn't quit. Bubba loves you right over there. Joe
Speaker 1: kind of loves you, yeah, kind of. It's right let's
Speaker 1: spread the love. On Wednesday, we'll be back. We'll do
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Thank you guys so much for hanging out.
Speaker 1: Me and Bubba are excited to finish out the season
Speaker 1: for you. So until next time, my friends. We'll talk
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