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Speaker 1: here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Staffell.
Speaker 1: I am Greg Gregy reunited and it feels so good.
Speaker 1: It feels like we haven't started a show together forever
Speaker 1: at least like a week at least. You're busy, man.
Speaker 1: I don't really like it though. I don't either, That's
Speaker 1: why I'm bringing it up. Alright, I much I much
Speaker 1: preferred not to be busy and just doing this and
Speaker 1: hang out all day. All right, Well, we got it today,
Speaker 1: so let's enjoy all we have and great, how are you, man?
Speaker 1: How did you sleep? How did I sleep? Uh? Not great? Man?
Speaker 1: This uh this Yankees West Coast trip. I mentioned this
Speaker 1: around this week. It's gonna kill me. Yeah, I've I've
Speaker 1: stayed up late. I wasn't up to watch the end
Speaker 1: of the game, and I was watching the Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: last second shot. I turned on that game with like
Speaker 1: five minutes left. I watched him in the first half
Speaker 1: of it. And there's a crazy night in sports. I
Speaker 1: didn't watch hockey, but I kind of saw like Twitter
Speaker 1: was reacting everything that was going on. And my condolences
Speaker 1: to anyone who was hurt last night regarding what happened
Speaker 1: in hockey. But I personally did not watch. But I
Speaker 1: was watching some NBA, Dame Lillard, lots of baseball last night.
Speaker 1: It was just a crazy night overall. How do you sleep, Greg,
Speaker 1: how's your night? I felt right. I went to bed
Speaker 1: a little bit later because I was watching the basketball game. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought we were blowing up your phone and you
Speaker 1: were gonna wake up in the morning and say, guys,
Speaker 1: stop texting me. Because Floria and I were just going
Speaker 1: back and forth. We were talking about a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: We actually took over first place in GSC, which is fine.
Speaker 1: That re fund this morning to that or responded last
Speaker 1: night to that. I don't know, Oh my god, I did.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I saw all these text messages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot. We were just we were going
Speaker 1: at I did see these. I did see these. I
Speaker 1: don't remember it was this morning or last night I
Speaker 1: saw them. But um, I have you this shadow. Do
Speaker 1: not disturb because we talk a lot, and that's true.
Speaker 1: I have this chat on and do not disturb, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't so I wouldn't wake up. I did wake up.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if you were one of those people
Speaker 1: that has like your phone right next to year bed
Speaker 1: thinking on and it vibrates constantly. That's why has chats
Speaker 1: dude on this. Yeah, so I don't have any vibration
Speaker 1: feature on my phone. It's just silent all the time.
Speaker 1: So if you call me, I'm most likely not answering.
Speaker 1: Do you know what? You know? What text woke me up?
Speaker 1: It was the twelve fortween you and Sandro about Mike Ford.
Speaker 1: That's what woke me up last Mike Ford, Like, what
Speaker 1: are these guys texting you out at a quarter to
Speaker 1: one in the morning like the Yankees. Oh gosh, Mike Ford,
Speaker 1: Sterling call you like that, Greg for the Yankee, Just
Speaker 1: a Ford in your future. Mike is Ford tough. It's
Speaker 1: better than Attachman, Talkman and Stockman. The funniest part about
Speaker 1: that was so Michael Kaye is getting the report from
Speaker 1: Meredith regarding what the call is for Mike Ford, and
Speaker 1: they start joking on Sterling and like, well, it's better
Speaker 1: than Talkman the Sockman, that's for sure. I want. I
Speaker 1: watched that. I watched yep um anyway, did they could
Speaker 1: be the return of Daniel Murphy. Potentially we're winning on
Speaker 1: news with that with Colorado, so we'll get you that.
Speaker 1: And I said this last night or this morning again,
Speaker 1: when it gimes to the v F chat, I think
Speaker 1: Garret Hamson gets it down when where he was back
Speaker 1: Now they couldn't certainly just option Jeff Hoffman. But that's
Speaker 1: gonna depend on Kyle Freeland's availability going forward. We'll see.
Speaker 1: But Garrett Hamson last night against Left, he didn't even start.
Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon and Mark Reynolds both started in that spot.
Speaker 1: Ryan McMann went to for four. Hampson didn't see the
Speaker 1: field and that's even with David Donald not playing. I'm very,
Speaker 1: very worried when Garret Hampson on right now. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you have to be. I would imagine they would
Speaker 1: keep Garrett Hampson around just because he's a super utility player.
Speaker 1: And we're seeing now in baseball that versatility is key
Speaker 1: when it comes to your bench. A lot of teams
Speaker 1: are only keeping you know, three maybe four bats. Most
Speaker 1: of the time it's been three bats on their bench,
Speaker 1: and they do that because they have players who can
Speaker 1: play all over the field, and Garrett Hampson gives them
Speaker 1: that versatility. But regardless, you're right that we should be
Speaker 1: worried about him from a fantasy and perspective, because even
Speaker 1: last night against the lefty and Patrick Corbin, he wasn't
Speaker 1: in the lineup and Ryan McMahon was and he performed well.
Speaker 1: So that would lead me to believe Ryan nick Mann
Speaker 1: is going to continue to see the bulk of the
Speaker 1: playing time now, especially against lefties two. So I do
Speaker 1: worry about Garrett Hampson from a fantasy perspective, greg and
Speaker 1: there's a chance he gets sent down, but ultimately I
Speaker 1: think that he'll stick around just because of his versatility.
Speaker 1: But he's likely just a super utility bench player. That's
Speaker 1: the question, is he is he a super utility bench
Speaker 1: player or is he a utility bench player. I think
Speaker 1: that's the question because well, they're they're not making a
Speaker 1: concerted effort to get him in the lineup right now.
Speaker 1: So I would imagine Ryan nick Man has to be
Speaker 1: slightly older, and that's probably why they like him. Rockies
Speaker 1: just hate young players. Yeah, oh, the actually the same
Speaker 1: as I mean, uh, look at that. Ryan McMahon is
Speaker 1: actually two months younger. See they love young players. Oh man,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? This is so weird. The Rockies
Speaker 1: love young players, Frank. But to be fair, Greg, you know,
Speaker 1: they gave Garrett Hampson a shot this year and it's
Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't been great. Twenty six point seven
Speaker 1: percent ray, two point seven percent walk rady, he was hitting.
Speaker 1: He's been terrible. He's been bad. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: forgot hasn't been great. He's been terrible. Like we had
Speaker 1: that one breakout game where I think he hit a homer,
Speaker 1: you might have stole a base like all in the
Speaker 1: same game and he only has one homer and he
Speaker 1: always has one stolen pace. So it was really just
Speaker 1: that one game last night in Colorado, the Nationals were
Speaker 1: able to defeat the Rockies six to three. As Patrick
Speaker 1: Corbyn went into course Field, it's pretty well six innings,
Speaker 1: oh to earn run ball, a lot of three runs, total,
Speaker 1: shrugout six, only walked one. I know you're taking you
Speaker 1: already feel like you're taking the Ellen Patrick Corbyn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, I can't. I can't really dispute that
Speaker 1: I did take Zach Wheeler over Patrick Corban in the
Speaker 1: main event, which we'll get into Latron obviously. But Patrick
Speaker 1: Corbyn has been great. He's been great to to start
Speaker 1: the year. To go into coors Field, you know, I
Speaker 1: did have my concerns. I haven't been one league. It's
Speaker 1: a home league, it's a head to head points league.
Speaker 1: Definitely had my concerns regarding Patrick Corbin. But goes in
Speaker 1: there eleven swinging shrikes on a hundred pitches, two earned
Speaker 1: runs against a Rockies lineup that had been coming around
Speaker 1: in coors Field. Obviously a strikeout for ending. I think
Speaker 1: if you drafted Patrick Corbyn the two point four eight
Speaker 1: e ar a, you feel great about it right now.
Speaker 1: I I he was not an active target of mind,
Speaker 1: we went over that. You know, I would have I
Speaker 1: would have personally went with guys like Wheeler. I would
Speaker 1: have went with James Paxton over him. Jack Flaherty, I
Speaker 1: would have went over him as well, And I think
Speaker 1: better days are coming for Flaherty. But uh, for the
Speaker 1: most part, you know that Tier has has been pretty
Speaker 1: good or at least had some signs of coming around.
Speaker 1: Corban has probably been the most consistent to start the season,
Speaker 1: but obviously were with our huge game. Paxton back to
Speaker 1: back huge games. Jack Flaherty has been a little bit
Speaker 1: up and down, but you know the Brewers lineups he's
Speaker 1: been facing. And then Jamison Tyne has been okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's been okay. Sean Doolittle probably know what was consistent
Speaker 1: he has, and he's been He's been really really good.
Speaker 1: Sean Doolittle picks up his third save, stuck strikes at three,
Speaker 1: got four outs for the saves. A nice job there
Speaker 1: by Doolittle. Uh, you had a second stolen base of
Speaker 1: this season, I'm sorry, the fifth, fourth and fifth stolen
Speaker 1: basis of the season for Victor Roeblason this one. So
Speaker 1: it's nice to see him running. It's also nice to
Speaker 1: see him continue to back at the top of the order.
Speaker 1: He was in the second hole here um eight on
Speaker 1: the year for our guy, Victor Robles. Adam Eating By
Speaker 1: the way, we haven't talking about Adam Eating at all.
Speaker 1: He's been over three hundred no b P at three
Speaker 1: eight six. What do we need to know about Adam Eating?
Speaker 1: I realized that this is obviously in Colorado yesterday, but
Speaker 1: it's just a name that we haven't talked about because
Speaker 1: that we weren't on him. Do you start off the
Speaker 1: season which fan as the players know about Adam Eaton?
Speaker 1: Is what he's doing real or is this somebody that
Speaker 1: you don't believe in? Long term, it's real for Adam
Speaker 1: eat and it's just how long can he stay healthy
Speaker 1: to continue doing this, Greg, Because we've never doubted that
Speaker 1: Adam Eating is a good player, but last year games played,
Speaker 1: the year before that, twenty three games played. This guy's
Speaker 1: barely been able to stay on the field as a
Speaker 1: member of the Washington Nationals. Now he has done so
Speaker 1: so far this season. Gregg. He's hitting three nineteen, He's
Speaker 1: got around an eight percent walk great, the three six
Speaker 1: O b P, all of those things are great. He's
Speaker 1: got sixteen runs scored four sole on basis, this is
Speaker 1: exactly what you want Adam eating for batting average, solid
Speaker 1: run scored, already has sixteen, already has four bases. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what you want, eating four and I think
Speaker 1: he can continue to provide that as long as he's healthy.
Speaker 1: The problem is how long will he stay healthy? That's
Speaker 1: the question regarding Adamy. But I think as long as
Speaker 1: he's on the field, especially leading off for this National's lineup,
Speaker 1: it's a great lineup. And you know that's even without
Speaker 1: Anthony wren Don in there yesterday, and Tray Turner has
Speaker 1: been banged up as well. We know that he's out.
Speaker 1: Adam Eaton has been doing his job and I think
Speaker 1: as long as he plays well, he's going to continue
Speaker 1: to lead off. I worry about once Trade Turner is back.
Speaker 1: Is Victor Roeblis is all the way back down to
Speaker 1: batting ninth's and I don't see how he doesn't. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, how do you how do you
Speaker 1: think people feel about Victor Roeblas overall to start the season, Greg,
Speaker 1: do you think that they How do you feel like
Speaker 1: you got? How do you feel I want to see
Speaker 1: I think over roll. He's been fine. You know, he's
Speaker 1: been two. He's betting two seventy eight. He's got three homers,
Speaker 1: fifteen runs scored, ten or ten RB, i's five stolen basis.
Speaker 1: He's giving you production across the board. You know, I
Speaker 1: want to see him cut down on the strikeouts. Obviously
Speaker 1: near thirty two strikeout rate last year in twenty one games,
Speaker 1: with the National's only eighteen percent strikeout right in the
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, you know, triple A last year,
Speaker 1: fourteen percent strikeout rate. In seventeen at double A thirteen
Speaker 1: point nine percent strikeout rate. So I want to see
Speaker 1: the strikeouts come down. Regarding Victor Roe was you know,
Speaker 1: right around thirty two. But if he cuts down on
Speaker 1: the strike out, he's already batting two seventy eight. This
Speaker 1: is a guy who if he brings it down to
Speaker 1: or even below Greg this might be a guy that
Speaker 1: flirts with a three D batting average. He's giving you
Speaker 1: across the board production. The hard hit rate is not
Speaker 1: great to start the year, but I mean, with that
Speaker 1: being said hard hit rate, he still has three home runs.
Speaker 1: You know, he still has ten RBIs, So overall, I
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's been great. I think the
Speaker 1: stole the two Stoon bases last night help his overall line.
Speaker 1: I saw his one and fifty game pace last night
Speaker 1: just from bat Flip Crazy on Twitter. Follow him on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He puts out great stuff. Six hundred played appearent pace
Speaker 1: late appearance pace for Victor Roeblis on five runs, scored,
Speaker 1: one one homers, seventy one RBIs thirty five stone bases
Speaker 1: and he's hitting two seventy eight. Remember the comp that
Speaker 1: we made for Victor Roeboys Starley Marte. That sounds a
Speaker 1: lot like Stoley Marte, and you were getting him around
Speaker 1: three four rounds later Starley Marte. And at least Victor
Speaker 1: Roeblays is healthy right now, so I think over all
Speaker 1: he's been He's been pretty damn good. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: a lot about him, so I did want to hit
Speaker 1: on Victor roeblast a little bit today. I'm I'm happy
Speaker 1: that we're able to do. Sure. The Brewers lost last
Speaker 1: night in St. Louis four to three. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I'm going here next rather than Zach Wheeler whatnot,
Speaker 1: He's because the latest news from Milwaukee, and that is
Speaker 1: the fact that this team has signed Geo Gonzalez uh
Speaker 1: to a two million dollar major league contracts, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna be right in that rotation. I think, is there
Speaker 1: any interest in picking up Digital Gonzalez? Not really. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a fan of Geo Gonzalez the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: and I know it was either I believe it was
Speaker 1: two years ago. He definitely made me look bad, but
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers were not good. Yeah, it was seen
Speaker 1: where he had a two point nine six ear a.
Speaker 1: That was sandwich between two years where in he had
Speaker 1: a four or five seven ear a, and then last
Speaker 1: year he had a four to one ear a. The
Speaker 1: strikeouts came down last year, the walks went up. Listen
Speaker 1: to this, Greg, I mean seven point seven nine case
Speaker 1: per nine, four point to one walks per nine. It's
Speaker 1: just not going to get the job done. And he's
Speaker 1: going to a hitter's ballpark. Obviously in Miller Park, he's
Speaker 1: gonna face tough lineups with the Cardinals and the Cubs nationally,
Speaker 1: only sure because he has a spot in the rotation,
Speaker 1: but even in fifteen team mixed, Greg me, personally, I
Speaker 1: don't have any interest in Geo gonzalz all right, fair enough,
Speaker 1: are you anything not? Probably not? Probably not the bullpencoo
Speaker 1: early for for me to be interested in Geo Gonzalez
Speaker 1: here we get to booted from the rotation. Is it
Speaker 1: is it Zach Davies who's even in his rotation right now?
Speaker 1: The other day was you know, Doobie Howser was They're
Speaker 1: trying to find anyone they can get right now, there's
Speaker 1: any bodies to pitch um Chess Anderson is terrible. This
Speaker 1: is always the bug a boo with the Brewers. That's
Speaker 1: why they signed Gonzalas. Yeah, they're pitching always sucks. But
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a believer greg that you should build
Speaker 1: the strength of your team around your home ballpark. Right so,
Speaker 1: they know that their home ballpark as a hitter's park.
Speaker 1: And what do they do. They put together one of
Speaker 1: the best lineups in baseball. I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's top three in baseball right now. And you know
Speaker 1: they have one of the best players overall right now,
Speaker 1: Christian Yellows too, so they continue to add to the lineup.
Speaker 1: They knew what they were doing when they signed Mike Mustakis,
Speaker 1: who is now out for the third straight game. We'll
Speaker 1: get some updates tomorrow from Dr A regarding Mike Mustakis.
Speaker 1: But they know what they were doing. They sign Mustakis
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play second base, so they're sacrificing defense.
Speaker 1: They know they don't have good pitching. They just want
Speaker 1: to score more runs in the opposing team. And that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's basically been the mantra for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 1: And also for today, he's us out of the lineup again, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's the third straight day. It's it was Eric Thames
Speaker 1: on Monday who started Jazz Monty Grandall last night, and
Speaker 1: then it was Eric Thames again today starting that game
Speaker 1: kicks off at one o'clock. But he's looks like they're
Speaker 1: giving him a mental break, Greg, pretty long mental break here.
Speaker 1: Three games in a row for for Aggie that he's
Speaker 1: on the bench. The Brewers last night wound up in St. Louis,
Speaker 1: falling to Upon State Leone four to three as Danny
Speaker 1: Poston won five things too. It's one run, he walked three,
Speaker 1: he struck out seven in the spot start. Jordan Hicks
Speaker 1: a lot of run picked up his sixth save of
Speaker 1: the season. A lot of homers in this one, including
Speaker 1: once again Travis Shaw going deep in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1: Paul the Young has been been unbelievable man this year.
Speaker 1: That was one of two Shaw home runs on his
Speaker 1: I one mentioned six and the ninth inning for him,
Speaker 1: Paul the has been incredible this year. Everyone that wanted
Speaker 1: to be things for him, you've gotten it over the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks to start off the season, He's
Speaker 1: fifth home run. Now batting up, fatting average is up
Speaker 1: to three thirty seven o BP is close to four hundred.
Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic start for Paul de Young. Colton Loong over
Speaker 1: three again, frank fatting average out of two seventy eight
Speaker 1: by the o B p U still being over four
Speaker 1: hundred or then north Cia also hit his fourth home
Speaker 1: run of the season in this one. Or Sea spending
Speaker 1: too eighteen. Yeah, it's been a couple of years here
Speaker 1: for Orlando Arcia. Want to be the next Franciscodor Yes,
Speaker 1: I did. I not me. I was, I was too.
Speaker 1: I looked at the minor league numbers. I thought they
Speaker 1: were similar. You know, they were regarded more so as
Speaker 1: defensive first players coming up, and you know they had
Speaker 1: similar numbers, and I thought Orlando or Cia can can
Speaker 1: make that jump last year. Maybe he could be a
Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen or even a player, but I just completely
Speaker 1: bottomed out last year. And at least this season, you know,
Speaker 1: the power has come back a little bit. He's got
Speaker 1: four home runs. He he had only three home runs
Speaker 1: all of last year, so that's a good sign. But
Speaker 1: the batting average has been brutal here for or Orlando Orcia.
Speaker 1: There's a lot actually going on in this game. Travis
Speaker 1: Shaw with the two home runs, obviously you need to
Speaker 1: see that as an owner, and I think better days
Speaker 1: are coming. I said that yesterday. Don't give up on
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw. We come back, Greg. I do want to
Speaker 1: hit on Daniel Ponst a little bit because he's great
Speaker 1: minor league numbers. It's just are the Cardinals ever going
Speaker 1: to be able to give him a shot. They have
Speaker 1: a run of players like this that a shuffle in
Speaker 1: and out of the rotation between the majors and the miners,
Speaker 1: and they're all really good players. But I think pompsde
Speaker 1: Leone is a little bit better than some of you.
Speaker 1: We'll find out what I gets to say that and
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Speaker 1: to dive into Danny Pones daey On a little more.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty interesting start last night against obviously
Speaker 1: a really good Brewer's lineup and five innings, just one
Speaker 1: earned run, two hits. Sometimes can struggle with the walks.
Speaker 1: You see that in the minors a little bit. Seven
Speaker 1: strikeouts and he had fourteen swinging strikes on just ninety pitches. Uh,
Speaker 1: twelve swinging strikes on his fastball alone. Just really impressive.
Speaker 1: Maxed out at ninety five miles per hour a few
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Speaker 1: league numbers of the past couple of years, last year
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Speaker 1: year in the p c L a two point to
Speaker 1: four e r A strikeouts in ninety six and the
Speaker 1: third d he's pitched one point to four whip again,
Speaker 1: struggles with wall box at times. UH the year before
Speaker 1: two point one seven e r A only six starts,
Speaker 1: small sample size, but at the PCL. You know, this
Speaker 1: season at three point to four e r A in
Speaker 1: the PCL, I think there's something here with with Ponce
Speaker 1: Daily on over the past couple of seasons, he's you know,
Speaker 1: average over a strikeout per ending. You know, among the
Speaker 1: group of him and and Gomber and Dakota Hudson, I
Speaker 1: think he might have the highest upside greg and the
Speaker 1: most staining power if something were to happen and they
Speaker 1: actually need another guy in the rotation. So I have
Speaker 1: modest interest and a guy like Ponce Daily On. I
Speaker 1: think he's better than some of those other fifth starters
Speaker 1: that the Cardinals have been trying out. So remember the name,
Speaker 1: remember the name. Put him on put It's very hard
Speaker 1: to not remember the name. Sounds like an artist, do
Speaker 1: you know. Leon is Frank Okay, very famous name by
Speaker 1: the way, Like that he said, sounds like an artist.
Speaker 1: That was awesome, And you had absolutely no idea why
Speaker 1: that mattered. So you're looking it up? Yes, I am
Speaker 1: looking it up. Is this something I'm supposed to know? Yes?
Speaker 1: Is one of those things? Yeah? Explore and conquistador for
Speaker 1: leading the first official European expedition to Florida. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the first governor of Puerto Rico. Yeah, how about that
Speaker 1: he found in Florida and Puerto Rico. He found it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've learned it at some point in my life. Greg.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, things get flushed in and out
Speaker 1: of this brain. Man, It's like it only retained so
Speaker 1: much information. He's like Christopher. He's like Christopher Columbus. Dude,
Speaker 1: he yeah, I know Christopher Columbus. Wait year to Christopher Columbus, like,
Speaker 1: come on, you don't need to know this? Of course
Speaker 1: you do. I don't need to know this. Oh my god, Alex,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what your Chris Columbus sailed the
Speaker 1: Ocean Blue. I don't it rhymes correct, That's why I
Speaker 1: said it like that. It was at sixty two sail
Speaker 1: the Ocean Blue fifteen sixty two and rhymes Greg. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is this is the worst one
Speaker 1: we've had. This is the worst one we've had, obviously,
Speaker 1: and know who he is. I don't know what year
Speaker 1: it happened. Oh my god, this is the chat killing
Speaker 1: you right now? Many chance, I think they should. They'll
Speaker 1: give me the answer, saying Christopher Columbus sail the Ocean
Speaker 1: Blue in two. All right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: I don't know it. Oh god, Look, if you if
Speaker 1: there's ever a trivia night's specifically history politics, don't bring that, don't.
Speaker 1: I won't. But that's just like a base question. Sorry man.
Speaker 1: Kindergarteners know that, you know what else? They know that
Speaker 1: Levi on Bells on the Jets, Alex, So how about
Speaker 1: that Antonio Brown is on the Raiders? How about that?
Speaker 1: I love it. Kindergarteners know that, yes they do, and
Speaker 1: they know the drama is out of Pittsburgh. They also
Speaker 1: know that you're You could have just called you a
Speaker 1: Jets fan, dude, that's what you're. That's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk throw back at Alex. Yeah, well, you know when
Speaker 1: when Steelers finished third in a division this year, I
Speaker 1: think when the Jets fans sucks back. You know, it's
Speaker 1: draft season with the Jets fans talk smacks anybody but
Speaker 1: the Pats and anybody but the Pats. True but Alex
Speaker 1: season O. There's like fifty different scenarios that can play
Speaker 1: off for the Jets. It's insane. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. That's kind of how it works. They'll
Speaker 1: probably just take a quinnin Williams. Like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there is really intriguing draft is overall. I know there's
Speaker 1: not necessarily a franchise quarterback. Yeah, maybe you think Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is that guy, but this really intriguing draft overall.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what Jets are gonna do. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the Mets and the Phils. Mets took
Speaker 1: this one nine to nothing. As Zach Wheeler, you took
Speaker 1: him as your third starting pitcher when you're second. If
Speaker 1: you're Frank, you're feeling pretty good. Feeling pretty good as
Speaker 1: he faced the Phillies last night and went seven innings
Speaker 1: a loud five hits, didn't walk anybody, and struck out eleven.
Speaker 1: That's started the season by far for Zach Wheeler. Leave
Speaker 1: it as the second, maybe third time in his career
Speaker 1: he strugg out at least eleven batters. On the other side,
Speaker 1: my guy, Zack Eflyn, pitch count was up, then got pinched,
Speaker 1: hit four, and then well then it got broken open.
Speaker 1: He went four innings a lot of four hits, four runs,
Speaker 1: three of them earned. The unearned run came when Caesar
Speaker 1: Hernanags just booted a ball that was embarrassed only struck
Speaker 1: out of three he walked one, and of course reactionary
Speaker 1: Greg immediately said the text patches the Frank saying, can
Speaker 1: I drop Zach? Can I drop Zach Efflyn? He said,
Speaker 1: depends for who always the answer Greg, But my question
Speaker 1: would be, like I have Lester coming off the d'El tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Can I just drop Zack Efflyn? Oh gosh, exact, Efflen
Speaker 1: has more upside than not, so they don't. So the
Speaker 1: answer is no, I'm not gonna drop Zac effn because
Speaker 1: he faces Miami on Sunday. I hope, yeah, well what
Speaker 1: happened last time, effly face. I understand that. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what the Alaska's does today. It gets to start
Speaker 1: for me. You're starting VideA Blaska's. Why not? Man, you're
Speaker 1: one of those guys video guy. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm normally in on start anybody at any point, But
Speaker 1: in our pit league yesterday, I benched the bull against
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and I benched my open yate against
Speaker 1: the Astros. I just I didn't feel good about either
Speaker 1: of those starts. You benched the bull turn turned out
Speaker 1: to be regarding Zach Wheeler, though obviously awesome performance here
Speaker 1: better at the better the plantant he was on the mound,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that double on a home
Speaker 1: run pretty good. It is pretty good. I saw someone
Speaker 1: say last night that it was he was the first
Speaker 1: member of the one hundred club this season, Greg who
Speaker 1: hit a home run with an with an exit hundred hour,
Speaker 1: and then also was like the first Pitture to throw
Speaker 1: a hundreds. So do those two things in the same season.
Speaker 1: And I also saw someone say that it was his
Speaker 1: one hundred start, which it wouldn't really interesting if it
Speaker 1: actually was just like al right, so that's really interesting.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest takeaway from me here, Greg is
Speaker 1: zero walks. Zero walks for Zach Wheeler. I was talking
Speaker 1: about this yesterday with Nick Pollock, the gains that he
Speaker 1: made in the control department last year, finally lowering the
Speaker 1: walks to under three per nine. That was the biggest
Speaker 1: key for Zach Wheeler, especially down to stretch. I mean,
Speaker 1: he really really had good command last year over those
Speaker 1: final love eleven twelve starts where he was just stellar.
Speaker 1: And we saw that again last night eleven strikeouts, he
Speaker 1: had fifteen swinging strikes. He has it all, you know.
Speaker 1: We talked about Jacob Graham and Synder Guard what they
Speaker 1: can do, you know, throwing touching a hundred miles per
Speaker 1: hour and they have, you know, the ninety mile per
Speaker 1: hour slider. Zach Wheeler has all of that as well.
Speaker 1: He averaged ninety eight miles per hour on his fastball
Speaker 1: last night. He maxed out at he had a slider
Speaker 1: that average ninety one. He has just as much talent
Speaker 1: as the rest of the guys in the rotation. That's
Speaker 1: part of the reason why I was as high on
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler as I was entering the short It's just
Speaker 1: his command and control is not at the same level
Speaker 1: obviously as a guy like to Gram and it's probably
Speaker 1: not even as good as synder Guard, even though Syndergard
Speaker 1: has struggled to start the season. But if he can
Speaker 1: continue to build off this zero walk performance, he now
Speaker 1: has three quality starts in a row. This is back
Speaker 1: to back games where he's gone at least an endings pitched.
Speaker 1: It seems like Mickey Callaway is giving Wheeler free rain
Speaker 1: this year, letting him go over on pitches. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like they trust him. And as long as
Speaker 1: he continues to show up like this against the Phillies
Speaker 1: two games in a row, now where you know he
Speaker 1: he won this start. He didn't. He didn't win the
Speaker 1: one before, but he this is two times in a row. Now,
Speaker 1: I got the Phillies where he's looked pretty good. He
Speaker 1: faced the Washington Nationals twice, he faced the Phillies twice,
Speaker 1: he faced the Braves. We're just gonna have some starts
Speaker 1: coming against the Miami Marlins, like he hasn't had an
Speaker 1: easy schedule to start the season. Greg, I just really
Speaker 1: like what I saw last night overall striking out seven
Speaker 1: batters in a row at some point and just no walks.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest key for Zach Wheeler in my opinion.
Speaker 1: All right, Zach Wheeler, somebody has to limit the walks,
Speaker 1: as Frankie in order to be successful. The Todd Father
Speaker 1: is even the story. Actually before I get in The
Speaker 1: tod Father. So last night I'm watching this game because
Speaker 1: I have effeln and be there right So, so I
Speaker 1: have the game on and Judy gets home at like
Speaker 1: eight o'clock and now is known whatever. So I'm watching
Speaker 1: the game and I was talking to her. I had
Speaker 1: the game out of the background at this point. I
Speaker 1: was talking to her and all of a sudden, I say, hey,
Speaker 1: I hear Hey, I'm Maria Marino. Like, h that's awesome.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to take like a little video and
Speaker 1: sent it to Maria said hey, this is so cool
Speaker 1: watching you just randomly popping up one S and why
Speaker 1: Like that was cool, you know, and we know she's
Speaker 1: been an s y for a while, but just kind
Speaker 1: of seeing and the action was cool. So after like
Speaker 1: han and fifteen minutes, talking to Judy. I went back
Speaker 1: rewound it took the video Maria impress play, went back
Speaker 1: to hanging out with Judy. So at that point, Frank
Speaker 1: I like forgot that I was like a half hour behind.
Speaker 1: Now just let it play. So all these things that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing are happening. I have a half hour ago,
Speaker 1: and I had totally totally forgot until the BFFs lit
Speaker 1: up my chat saying they're not todd Father, the todd Father.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's like, he's not like for like another
Speaker 1: eight guys. This is confusing. I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: beast boarded like eatings Worth like I thought Zack Afflin
Speaker 1: was pitching really well, like mowing them down. Things are
Speaker 1: going great, and he had a rude awakening. I'm sorry, Greg,
Speaker 1: right now, they find that interesting that No, normally I
Speaker 1: noticed when it's behind. Normally I stream, so I use
Speaker 1: like MLB TV, I use so I'm always like, you know,
Speaker 1: five minutes behind anyway, right right, because it's just you know,
Speaker 1: that's what comes with streaming services or whatever. But normally,
Speaker 1: if I posited or something that I remember too, I
Speaker 1: tend to remember. Also, for whatever reason, this time, I
Speaker 1: didn't any interesting Todd Fraser. No, he had a Grand
Speaker 1: Slam this night. He stole a base the day before
Speaker 1: great last year and nine stolen bases in fifteen games.
Speaker 1: He what is with you? I was talking about bad medies. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, I cannot wait to get a Homer Valley.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be awesome. That's a great conversation. That's gonna
Speaker 1: have a right after this. But no, no interest. Todd Fraser,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm done, okay, looking forward. I went to before.
Speaker 1: Good to see him get back on track with the bat.
Speaker 1: That was helpful deep mixed leagues, I would look at
Speaker 1: Todd Fraser. The other big story from this game from
Speaker 1: the mess perspective, Brandon Nima left this one with a
Speaker 1: strained oblique. They said it's precautionary. Mets are nothing at
Speaker 1: the time, but he grabbed the side. You know, there's
Speaker 1: an m r R R today. I'm very, very nervous. No,
Speaker 1: Brandon Nimo, of your Nimo owner, and the last New
Speaker 1: York player to leave with an oblique was a There
Speaker 1: was a severe It was a severe oblique and it's
Speaker 1: obviously because he lives too many weights, Greg and baseball
Speaker 1: players shouldn't do that. I do want to note in
Speaker 1: these game, given the injuries the Jeans, Cigar and Scott King,
Speaker 1: the girl Franco hitting fifth now for the Philadelphia happened
Speaker 1: the past, we have a we have a notity yet
Speaker 1: that so Franco all the way up to fifth in
Speaker 1: this order? Good news, two more kids, he's I would
Speaker 1: love for this to stick around because I have a
Speaker 1: few shares of of Michael Franco. Took a shot on him. Greg,
Speaker 1: what else? You what else did you forget to mention
Speaker 1: on the Mets side? Huh? What else? If you get
Speaker 1: to mention, it's gonna call me out. You've been bashing
Speaker 1: me for for Robbie Canopy. Hey, he gets two hits.
Speaker 1: He's on the board here, Greg. If anything happens with
Speaker 1: with Brandon Nimoy, is there anyone that interests you here?
Speaker 1: The Mets who overcentage owned is Jeff McNeil. I'll look
Speaker 1: it up. He had the second highest batting average in baseball,
Speaker 1: right fifty two. Now he talked for us yesterday. That's
Speaker 1: the guy in least he's not owning the hesket picked up.
Speaker 1: There was someone out, yes, yes he did? What a cannon?
Speaker 1: Then a second third base after the eligibility and like
Speaker 1: that's the answer easily. Yeah, but he's gonna play most
Speaker 1: of the time anyway, right, all right, so then if
Speaker 1: you want me, they're probably just gonna mix and match
Speaker 1: a ton because they have a lot of think most likely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: get some key On Roxon. You'll get some long with
Speaker 1: Garrison there, all right, you know, I just I'll always
Speaker 1: go back to you know, if key On Roxton gets
Speaker 1: playing time. He still has an interesting power. All right,
Speaker 1: I was grasping at. J. D. Davis is an interesting
Speaker 1: name too. I like j D. D The battle buball
Speaker 1: data has been really good this year. The average jax
Speaker 1: of velocity has been awesome for J. D. Davis. He
Speaker 1: was one of the leaders in his expected batting average,
Speaker 1: much higher than his actual batting average. I think there's
Speaker 1: a little something there with J. D. Davis. But now
Speaker 1: with Todd Frasier coming back, and obviously Pete Alonzo playing
Speaker 1: first base every day, I just don't know how J. D.
Speaker 1: Davis is gonna get in there often unless they, you know,
Speaker 1: start sticking him in the outfield, But then what are
Speaker 1: they Conforto and center field doesn't work. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen very often. Okay, so the you'
Speaker 1: that were barely conversation, let's just do it. Just drop him.
Speaker 1: He sucks, I was wrong, It's fine, you're right. I look, no,
Speaker 1: did you pick him up? I picked him up in
Speaker 1: the Great Fantasy Basble limitation. My team's crap anyway, I
Speaker 1: think I'm in thirteenth out of fifteen. We sat here
Speaker 1: with Chris and we said, don't make the Jordansferman mistake again.
Speaker 1: This is what Holmer Bailey is. That's what he was.
Speaker 1: I know. I asked you and you told me not to.
Speaker 1: I know. And he only did it in one spot. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: I could have done it more eight. Thankfully he went.
Speaker 1: He made it to the second h and the immedily
Speaker 1: immediately left. He sucks. What do you want he say? Greg,
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. It's not tweeted at me. Last night.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I was saying, you know what he
Speaker 1: you know that happens from time to time, not very often,
Speaker 1: but from time to time. Great, What do you want
Speaker 1: me to say? Bailey? I shouldn't have trusted it normally.
Speaker 1: This is what I said regarding Bailey, and I'll stick
Speaker 1: by it to a certain extent for and it's probably
Speaker 1: more useful for younger starting pitchers, guys that haven't you know,
Speaker 1: had an earray over six for the past three seasons.
Speaker 1: When a picture or any player in baseball is doing
Speaker 1: something different and they're having success while doing it, it's
Speaker 1: gonna intriguing me. You know, he was throwing the splitter more,
Speaker 1: he's going to cut her more, he's using more breaking pitches.
Speaker 1: I was buying into it. And you know what, I
Speaker 1: wasn't the only one because there was a lot. I
Speaker 1: didn't say you were the only one. And I've just
Speaker 1: said that those people were mistaken. I'm just look, when
Speaker 1: it comes to people, you know, players who are doing
Speaker 1: things differently, I'm gonna at least be intrigued and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pay attention to it. So and I thought Homer
Speaker 1: Bailey was gonna have a double star, which I don't
Speaker 1: even think he has a double star anymore now, and
Speaker 1: it's probably for the best. So look, if you picked
Speaker 1: up Homer Bailey, give yourself a big l on the forehead,
Speaker 1: because that's what I'm doing, and go ahead and drop him.
Speaker 1: We're all idiots. You heard it here first Emilio Pagan
Speaker 1: got his second save in two days for this raised
Speaker 1: team is once again. Diego Castillo and Jose Alvarado had
Speaker 1: the day all So, was that planned? Was that pre planned?
Speaker 1: Likes to imagine it was right? It has to be normally.
Speaker 1: Do guys get two days off in a row? Greg?
Speaker 1: It seems a little weird to me. You know, you
Speaker 1: hear of are you one guy will get a day off?
Speaker 1: All right? They gave both guys a day off. You're
Speaker 1: telling me both Alvarado and Castile weren't available last night.
Speaker 1: This seems weird to me. Pick up anyone who could
Speaker 1: get saves in these deeper leagues. You know, we're playing
Speaker 1: a few fifteen team mixed rohto and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are starved or relief pitchers. And you know I
Speaker 1: saw earlier in the chat people are talking about what
Speaker 1: can I drop Michael Gibbons If we're dropping to Anthony Domingus,
Speaker 1: can I drop Michael Gibbons? Sure, that's fine. You know,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what's going on with the Orioles
Speaker 1: right now, and they haven't been in a position to
Speaker 1: have a game saved in like two weeks now about it?
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're trying to find someone in
Speaker 1: a row, like, all right, if you have a reliever
Speaker 1: on your team, you're not giving you any saves or
Speaker 1: holes at all. At least this guy's converted two in
Speaker 1: a row something. It seems weird that they eat both
Speaker 1: of these guys two days off. It's all right, let's
Speaker 1: take a break, we'll come back. I want to get
Speaker 1: into Luke Weaver. We'll do that next. The Fantasy Sports
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Speaker 1: gregg Susman. Daniel Murphy has been activated for the Colorado
Speaker 1: Rockies in the lineup and is in the lineup third
Speaker 1: third and playing first base for the Rockies. According to
Speaker 1: our own Frank Staff and Ryan Meekmahen, it's Ryan McMahon
Speaker 1: adding sixth playing second base. Now, what is the corresponding move, Greg,
Speaker 1: That is a million dollar question right now, and once
Speaker 1: we have the answer, we will let everyone know. But
Speaker 1: once again, no E Desmond in this lineup as Ryan
Speaker 1: mel Toppi is playing center with Dolin left Lackman in right.
Speaker 1: He has been hot at least homeward in three straight
Speaker 1: games for the Rockies. Yeah, he homeward lefty on left
Speaker 1: yesterday too, which is huge for him. And he actually
Speaker 1: made a diving catch falling into the stands last night too.
Speaker 1: So also once again, great game for Rymel Tapia. Then
Speaker 1: in the Nationals lineup, sorry interrupting, you know Anthony Rendolin
Speaker 1: once again? Yeah, that sucks too because this is what
Speaker 1: probably their only trip to Colorado this year, or one
Speaker 1: of maybe two, probably the probably the only trip, and
Speaker 1: so you miss out on Anthony rendone games here in
Speaker 1: coors Field. Um. I saw this as a topic of
Speaker 1: conversation on Twitter the other day too, because an NFBC
Speaker 1: you can actually set your hitter lineups on Monday and Friday,
Speaker 1: so it kind of goes based on series. You start
Speaker 1: your hitters based on, you know, whatever series you want
Speaker 1: to get them in for, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: were talking about, you know, do you take the chance
Speaker 1: on putting Anthony Rendon in your lineup just because he's
Speaker 1: playing in corps Field, And a lot of people said yes,
Speaker 1: And ultimately he hasn't appeared in any of these games.
Speaker 1: Another player similar to Mike m stockins that will get
Speaker 1: an update from dr tomorrow regarding their injuries. I did
Speaker 1: put him on the list, right, I believe you did. Greg, alright,
Speaker 1: just make it sure, um, even down, you just made
Speaker 1: the list beautiful, beautiful. I mentioned Luke Weaver before the break.
Speaker 1: Let's break it down. It was Luke Weaver versus Trevor
Speaker 1: Williams last night. Both pitch really well as Luke Weaver
Speaker 1: went six and a third, allowed seven, allowed one run,
Speaker 1: six hits, walked one, struck out seven. Trevor Williams also
Speaker 1: pitched well, but he went seven innings, four hits, two runs,
Speaker 1: he walked one as well, and he struck out just four.
Speaker 1: I know he keep waiting for this bottom to fall
Speaker 1: out for Trevor Williams and Luke Weaver. It hasn't. It
Speaker 1: has not. And Luke Weaver interested me a little bit
Speaker 1: more is because there's some prospect pedigree and at least
Speaker 1: he gets you strikeouts. But I don't want to downplay
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams too much, and I'll get into that. But
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver, now, this is three starts in a row.
Speaker 1: Greg and I tweeted this out last night. Drink seventeen
Speaker 1: and two thirds innings pitched over his past three starts,
Speaker 1: fifteen hits, only two walks. It's a huge key for
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver. Just two walks over his last three starts
Speaker 1: twenty four strikeouts over his last three in seventeen and
Speaker 1: two thirds endings pitched during that span a one seven
Speaker 1: e R A a one zero or whip. He's been spectacular, man.
Speaker 1: And he started working in the curve and the cutter
Speaker 1: a little bit more last night. The curveball through the
Speaker 1: season high twelve times. I know that's something that we
Speaker 1: were interested in in the off season when we read
Speaker 1: the Athletic article regarding Luke Weaver. So he throws the
Speaker 1: curve a season high twelve times, also had a season
Speaker 1: high six called strikes on said curveball, So he's mixing
Speaker 1: it into his pitch repertoire. He's he's clearly throwing it
Speaker 1: um in counts when hitters aren't expecting and kind of
Speaker 1: keeping them thrown off. If he's getting six called strikes
Speaker 1: on these curveballs and he's throwing them for strikes, that's
Speaker 1: what I like to see regarding these breaking pitches. So
Speaker 1: these are lots of like here with Luke Weavery at
Speaker 1: twelve swing strikes one pitches. I'm buying in, man, I'm
Speaker 1: buying in on both of these guys, specifically Luke Weaver.
Speaker 1: If you're able to pick him up, um, you know
Speaker 1: he got off to a slow start to the season.
Speaker 1: I know one of those starts was against the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: but overall, I feel very good about Luke Weaver. This
Speaker 1: is a guy that was being drafted the top thirty
Speaker 1: starting pitcher last year. I wasn't you know, Matt Gregor.
Speaker 1: I thought he was overvalued last year, but this season great.
Speaker 1: During drafts it went too far the other way. So
Speaker 1: last year it was and he's drafted too early. This
Speaker 1: year he was going. He was just going too late
Speaker 1: based on the pedigree that he provides. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's starting to show up a little bit here at
Speaker 1: the major league level. And that first story is the
Speaker 1: Dodgers alloted five runs to earn and the second story
Speaker 1: against in Since then two zero and one, he's been
Speaker 1: really good. Hasn't got all that deep, just no longer
Speaker 1: than six and a third. We'll take that from Luke
Speaker 1: Weaver at the moment. What about Trevor Williams, Franks, Trevor Williams,
Speaker 1: You know what, this reminds me a lot of greg
Speaker 1: Exactly Yeah, it's exactly right, because Marco Astrada, that he
Speaker 1: was a guy for years would outperform his periphic r.
Speaker 1: He was. Basically he was the anti John Gray. He was.
Speaker 1: He would pitch to mid three z r A and
Speaker 1: his exit would be near five. Trevor Williams. Now, we
Speaker 1: have data almost a full seasons where the data we
Speaker 1: have over two pitched of data. Now with Trevor Williams,
Speaker 1: he picks one and to third, seventy and two thirds
Speaker 1: endings pitched last year, thirty one in the third this season,
Speaker 1: Greg and over the past few years. Last season at
Speaker 1: three eleven ear A this year a to five nine
Speaker 1: ear A last season. His ex fit four point this
Speaker 1: season is x fit four point five two. And he's
Speaker 1: just severely out pitching the peripherals here, Like he doesn't
Speaker 1: get a ton of strikeouts. He didn't get a ton
Speaker 1: of swinging strikes last night either. Overall on the season,
Speaker 1: his swinging strike rate is actually up. He's at ten
Speaker 1: point two percent this year. Last year he was at
Speaker 1: he was below eight percent per nine is down though
Speaker 1: from six point and I said this last week regarding
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams, So the swinging strike rate overalls up, but
Speaker 1: the strikeouts are down. That tells me there should be
Speaker 1: some positive regression coming. I'm not saying he's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: start striking everyone out, but you know he probably struggles,
Speaker 1: you know with two strikes, being able to put put
Speaker 1: batters away with with swings and misses. But still you know,
Speaker 1: gets a decent amount of groundballs. He he induces um,
Speaker 1: he induces soft contact hard hit rate. This year it's
Speaker 1: the low league average. Last year it was nine percent
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent first pitch strike percentage, getting hitters to
Speaker 1: chase more often this year by seven percent, eight percent
Speaker 1: oh swing percentage. So there's lots of like with Trevor Williams.
Speaker 1: I know the peripherals say that he's going to regress
Speaker 1: at some point, and he probably will. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: pitch to a two five nine r A. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. But and he pitched too in e ar
Speaker 1: A mid threes to high threes with a good whip.
Speaker 1: Because he hasn't walked at me guys, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think he might be able to pull that off.
Speaker 1: Greg The Sevor Williams is he's never going to be
Speaker 1: a sexy fantasy baseball pick because he doesn't striking enough
Speaker 1: guys out. I think he's a fine player, especially leaves
Speaker 1: where you're you're getting the quality starts. He's just gonna
Speaker 1: go deep in the games and he's just kinda gonna
Speaker 1: do his thing. I don't see him getting bombed. I
Speaker 1: given you a quality start every start the season, five
Speaker 1: quality start machine, like I like I mentioned, he's gone
Speaker 1: at least six. He went seven yesterday, which was the
Speaker 1: further this. He's gone into a game the first four
Speaker 1: all six and he and he's done it. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's done it against Washington in Washington, how was this?
Speaker 1: Holid starts six and a third innings pitch only two
Speaker 1: earned runs yesterday against the d Backs. They're the best lineup,
Speaker 1: but to start the year, they've they've been solid offensively
Speaker 1: the other three starts against Detroit, in two against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So all right, he's supposed to perform well in those,
Speaker 1: but I think against Arizona against Washington, those are two
Speaker 1: the top half offenses so far this lead this year,
Speaker 1: he's performed well. You know, most people might say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: do we try and sell Trevor Williams. The thing is,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna get? You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to look at him and say, this
Speaker 1: is similar to Jacob Junas last year, remember Jacob Junas,
Speaker 1: he had a great e r A the first half
Speaker 1: of the season, but the peripherals kept saying, all right,
Speaker 1: he's gonna regrests, he's gonna regrets, and he did. But
Speaker 1: for Trevor Williams, now it's two seasons in a row
Speaker 1: and it's over two an pitch now that he's outperforming
Speaker 1: his peripherals. So he's not a He's not gonna pitch
Speaker 1: to a two five nine year ray. But can he
Speaker 1: pitch to a sub four e r A and be
Speaker 1: solid and give you a good whip because he doesn't
Speaker 1: walk a lot of guys, are you leaned towards Yes,
Speaker 1: you can try and trade him if someone else in
Speaker 1: your league is willing to buy in. But personally, I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people are going to give
Speaker 1: you much for Trevor Williams, so I just ride it
Speaker 1: out with him. Gregory Planca once again two for four yesterday,
Speaker 1: in the second consecutive game that he had that line.
Speaker 1: He had cold Tucker once again batting uh eighth in
Speaker 1: this lineup, he went over three. They got pinched hit
Speaker 1: four by jung O Gong. Other than that first game,
Speaker 1: could Tucker hasn't done all that much as he continues
Speaker 1: to bat eighth in this lineup. Four Arizona Edwardo Escobar
Speaker 1: once again three for four, average up to seventy. You did,
Speaker 1: he's getting hot, man, He's getting hot if he's still
Speaker 1: available as a free agent um, especially with his versatility
Speaker 1: shortstop in third base. He give you middle infield, corner infield.
Speaker 1: He's not a guy that's gonna hit, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: home runs, but if he's twenty five home runs, he
Speaker 1: hits a lot of double so he's good for points leagues,
Speaker 1: and he's batting in a good spot in this lineup.
Speaker 1: He's batting second, just ahead of David Parulta, Adam Jones,
Speaker 1: Christian Walker. He's gonna score a decent amount of runs too.
Speaker 1: He's a solid player. He's fine, and he's starting to
Speaker 1: come around. So I think you should pick him up
Speaker 1: and he's gonna he's gonna continue to perform similar to this.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's got the batting average all the
Speaker 1: way up to two seventy. On the other side, right uh,
Speaker 1: you know, second game in a row, Gregory Planco two
Speaker 1: hits and so far he's made me look bad because
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna get off to a slow start,
Speaker 1: more so in the power department. So you know, maybe
Speaker 1: we see some solid batting average from Gregory Planco here.
Speaker 1: I still think it's gonna take some time for the
Speaker 1: power to come around for him, though perhaps bearing lead
Speaker 1: as we tend to do. As Carlos Carrasco left last
Speaker 1: night's game early with an injury, had an m R.
Speaker 1: I things are Okay's expects to make his next start.
Speaker 1: We'll see. You know, his teams are very cautious with
Speaker 1: their pictures of Pablo Lopez and another side. Well, he
Speaker 1: did his thing. It was a great pitching matchup between
Speaker 1: Lopez and Carrasco. Krasco only lasted four innings, allowing two hits,
Speaker 1: struck out four and walk anybody or allowed any runs.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Pablo Lopez went into Cleveland and
Speaker 1: pitched six and the third only allowed one run. It
Speaker 1: was not earned. Uh, just on two hits, walked too,
Speaker 1: struck out six only through EIGHTI six pitches. This is
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez. I think fantasy youngers were waiting for absolutely
Speaker 1: greg and I I never wavered. I haven't given up
Speaker 1: on Pablo Lopez because you look at the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: and the skills and they were still there. He was
Speaker 1: you know, he's getting a lot of swinging strikes. Um,
Speaker 1: he has good command. There's a lot to like with
Speaker 1: with Pablo Lopez here, and his best start of the
Speaker 1: season comes against an Indian lineup that included Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 1: This isn't you know, the same lineup that we were
Speaker 1: talking about a week ago. They had Hanley Ramirez and
Speaker 1: Tyler and Nay Quinn batting third. This lineup is getting better.
Speaker 1: Jason Kitness is now a part of it, and Francisco
Speaker 1: Lindora is part of it. And we gotta see Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez start to pick things up. But overall, Pabo Lopez
Speaker 1: was facing a an improved Indians lineup and had his
Speaker 1: best start of the season. Six and the third endings
Speaker 1: pitch greg only two hits, allowed one run it was unearned.
Speaker 1: He had six strikeouts, thirteen swinging strikes on eighties six pitches.
Speaker 1: He threw a season high thirties seven two seamers. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay attention to the pitch usage here and
Speaker 1: see if he continues to build off this. Yet three
Speaker 1: swinging strikes on that two seamer and nine cold strikes.
Speaker 1: I think Pavo Lopez is a talented picture. But what
Speaker 1: I've seen from him is from start to start, he's
Speaker 1: kind of changed up what pitches he uses often, and
Speaker 1: I think he's still trying to figure out what works
Speaker 1: best for him. So that's why you see Pablo Lopez
Speaker 1: a little bit of up and down here, but every
Speaker 1: start that goes on and he starts to figure it
Speaker 1: out a little bit more here, a little bit more,
Speaker 1: a little bit more. He's gonna start to put everything
Speaker 1: together and figure out what pitches he wants to use
Speaker 1: and in what order he wants to use them, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of learning how to pitch on
Speaker 1: the fly here. I think I think there's some good
Speaker 1: days coming ahead for Pablo Lopez. And I've said that
Speaker 1: for him even when his arra was you know, up
Speaker 1: far six and he was struggling. The skills are there.
Speaker 1: I'm buying it on Pablo Lopez absolutely, And we've said
Speaker 1: it for a while now. Why you can hang out
Speaker 1: with with Pablo Lopez, Wait, why you can pick up
Speaker 1: like tay out Faulo Lopez and that that would be awesome. Um,
Speaker 1: hitting wise, who's al Faro had his fourth hole run
Speaker 1: over the season? What do you want a far? So
Speaker 1: if you he was your late round catcher, pretty pretty
Speaker 1: good about that? Pretty good man? I was. I was
Speaker 1: out on Jorge al Faro because he had a chance
Speaker 1: to play last year in a good ballpark and Citizens bang,
Speaker 1: and you know he was a right. He gives you power.
Speaker 1: He hits the ball hard, but the strikeout percentage has
Speaker 1: been unreal in his career. You know, he's around thirty,
Speaker 1: so he strikes out a lot. And I still think
Speaker 1: that he can be an okay offensive catcher for fantasy.
Speaker 1: Is your catcher too? Maybe a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: in his prime approaches twenty home runs, albeit not with
Speaker 1: a good batting average. But right now he's been great.
Speaker 1: You know, if you have him as your second catchers
Speaker 1: hit his fourth home run yesterday and that comes with
Speaker 1: his home ballpark as Marlins Park, So um, he might
Speaker 1: be a guy that has enough power to the point
Speaker 1: where it doesn't matter that his home ballpark is Marlins Park.
Speaker 1: Reg but has your second casher, he's been great and uh,
Speaker 1: you know he has the prospect pedigree. I've been wrong
Speaker 1: regarding Horey Farrow the story you have, Um, I wanted
Speaker 1: to know. It doesn't really matter, but as a gallowe
Speaker 1: he did still a second base here. He's had an
Speaker 1: eighth for this team in super deep leagues. Speak guy,
Speaker 1: you know we talked about Terrence Gore. Is it worth
Speaker 1: mentioning as a Galloway at the same time of reason
Speaker 1: and only leagues like that? Definitely? And Only and mixed.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought about putting in a few bids
Speaker 1: on Isaac Galloway. I actually thought he was younger than
Speaker 1: he was. I thought he was a prospect, a kind
Speaker 1: of like lower down prospect in the organization. But actually
Speaker 1: he's one of these Quad A players. He's been around
Speaker 1: a wild like twenty nine years old. He's been in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues for a long time. But you know
Speaker 1: last year he hit nine home runs, he had twenty
Speaker 1: stolen bases. You're right. I mean, he provides a little
Speaker 1: bit of a little bit of speed here, and he's
Speaker 1: shown some batting average of times in the minor leagues
Speaker 1: this season he had to seven. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be great, but again, if you're looking for speed
Speaker 1: and and Only and fifteen team mixed, I think at
Speaker 1: the least, Greg, He's going to play often for the Marlins,
Speaker 1: and they need to find ways to generate offense. And
Speaker 1: if it comes with Galloway stealing bases and doing so successfully,
Speaker 1: I think they'll let him continue to run. No reason
Speaker 1: not to. They had They had to take a page
Speaker 1: out of the Royals book here. They have to start
Speaker 1: to let these guys run. Lewis Brinson is Lewis prison
Speaker 1: heard or something? Greg like, why hasn't even playing the past?
Speaker 1: Because is that It's not like a good enough answer
Speaker 1: for you? Maybe maybe, but I mean he was. This
Speaker 1: was the main piece that they got back. For reminder,
Speaker 1: Christian Yellis, you know this is the main piece that
Speaker 1: they got back, or Christian Yellows And I know they
Speaker 1: have Monty Harrison in the minor leagues who an interesting
Speaker 1: power speed combination. He has all the athletic tools, but
Speaker 1: he strikes out a lot. They'll probably be up at
Speaker 1: some point for the Marlins, just because you know, they
Speaker 1: want to see what they have in him. Obviously came
Speaker 1: over in that trade as well. He san Diez another name.
Speaker 1: He was a lower level prospect that they got in
Speaker 1: that trade. But to this point, since he's joined the Marlins.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done anything at the minor league level, and
Speaker 1: Lewis Brinson has just been brutal. But they gotta let
Speaker 1: him try and figure it out. And you know, playing
Speaker 1: guys like Martin p Greg what does that do for them?
Speaker 1: Curtis Granderson? What does that do for the Marlins? Nothing? Actually,
Speaker 1: let the kids play, you know, let Louis Brenton play.
Speaker 1: When he gets on base, let him run. I was
Speaker 1: going to generate off. What's the worst gonna happen? They
Speaker 1: lose again? They're terrible anyway. It's just very odd the
Speaker 1: way that things are going with the Marlins. And similar
Speaker 1: to the Orioles. You know, one of the words gonna
Speaker 1: start calling up some of these kids, Greg, what is
Speaker 1: the reason too? Right now? Right? But they've they've passed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the time right where where they can call prospects up
Speaker 1: and they have the extra year. It depends on when
Speaker 1: players like start their minorly career. But Ryan Mountcastle performing
Speaker 1: well in the minors right now and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are excited about him. You should be up sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later. For the Orioles, and that's a name
Speaker 1: to remember when it comes up. You're looking at a
Speaker 1: team that doesn't want to compete this year. That matters,
Speaker 1: But you I get what you're saying. It's a catch
Speaker 1: twenty two because you want them to be able to
Speaker 1: play every day and develop. I understand that. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you want you want some of these
Speaker 1: young players, Greg to develop at the major league level.
Speaker 1: You want to see what they could do, how they
Speaker 1: handle major league pitching, so on and so forth. And
Speaker 1: I know Austin Hayes was hurt to start the minor
Speaker 1: league seasons, so with him, it's probably a little bit different,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll be up at some point. But
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes, Uh, Cedric Mullins, I know they just sent
Speaker 1: him down because he was performing terribly, So I understand that.
Speaker 1: But at some point he's got to be back up.
Speaker 1: Ryan Nowcastle. For the Orioles, these young teams that are
Speaker 1: not going to compete this year, Greg, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be up at some point. I understand that. But right now,
Speaker 1: it's just what is Martine proto? What is you know,
Speaker 1: whatever other schlove the other the Orioles are throwing out
Speaker 1: in the outfield, What does that do for you to
Speaker 1: I just want to see some of these, Uh, younger
Speaker 1: prosperous to get the changes, he will, listen, Let's take
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