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This is leading 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.360 off Lives, the Joey P joe P Zapia and with me, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.479 of course is the Welsh and it's all of you 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.120 hanging out here, the Peanuts and the Crackerjacks talking baseball. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.040 We've got another injury in the Phillies rotation we're gonna 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.080 get to today. Yikes, that's not good. And of course 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.199 it wouldn't be a baseball season without a Corey Seeger injury. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.400 But Welsh, I think we got to start at the top, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.400 which is the Padres, Michael Calli's padres, the class of 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.000 baseball at the tippy top of the West. And Nick 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.920 Pavetta argue the best guy in the rotation? Are we 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:02.840 in the upside down? 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.319 Well, I mean Michael King is still there. But to 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.520 your point, well, you know, actually more to your credit, 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.120 Nick Pivetta, I looked at some of the early CYM 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.280 stuff that's going out there. Nick Pavetta is in that 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.479 top three I think for Siung Awards in the NL 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.679 still crazy crazy early, but total total benefit later in 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.759 fantasy drafts that you got big strikeouts, ERA is super low, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.360 expected ERA is under three. He looks phenomenal. What good 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.000 one two punch of Michael King and him and Paveta. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.880 It's kind of a question though, is Pavetta is in 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.840 that trade market? He falls under the lines for me 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.920 of one of those dudes, It's like, what would you 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.480 get that's worth trading him instead of holding on? So, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.600 I don't know where do you feel about that? 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.640 Well, I don't think it's Rick Porcello. I don't think 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.600 we're there. So Rick Porcello was had a lot of issues, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.640 the low K rate, all of those things. Actually, Walsh, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.160 I'm looking on FANDLE right now and Paveta is plus 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.400 thirty four hundred for NLCIM So. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.280 I just saw, you know what it was. I don't 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.560 think it was the betting market. I think it was 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.120 like the actual market of early cy young favorites, and 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.040 Nick Pavetta is in that like top five in the 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.440 NL right now, which is very skew. You know, that 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.679 whole market is shute when you look at real baseball. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.079 But Paveta, I think it's a long run. I'm personally 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.000 probably not betting it, but from a fantasy perspective, he's great. So, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.120 like I said, what's the where are you at on that? 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.440 Do you think the juice is worth the squeeze or 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:27.639 you just hold for Paveta? 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.800 Look, is he going to have a one to two 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.240 zero era the rest of season? Probably not. He gave 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.880 up just a pair of singles over seven innings. Shutout 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.399 innings by the way against the Tigers, He's four and one. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.519 Strikeout rate's been good. Everything's been great for Paveta. I 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.400 think this is one of those instances where you drafted 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.800 him late. He is such a win for you. You 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.800 just ride the wave because probably nobody's going to overpay, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.040 nobody's going to give crazy value to you. So he's 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.600 most valuable to the team that took a shot on 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.960 him late. And now it's it's something where we might 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.519 look back and say, Nick that it could be a 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.840 league winner. Also, the League winner. Whoever is our one 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.600 hundredth sub today, because we are very close to number 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.720 one hundred, so now is the time subscribe. We just 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.680 need one more. We're here on twitch dot tv slash 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.600 Fantasy Pros every single day, Monday through Friday. At noon 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.640 today you get bonus on our YouTube channel. 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Here, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.000 let's talk about some bounce back, some guys that are 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.320 showing some signs of life and patients might just be rewarded. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.800 Dylan CRU's third home run on Tuesday off Dean Kremer, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.160 because well, the Orioles pitching staff sucks. Now, we still 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.200 hitting a buck ninety eight. But if you look at 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.320 the savon page, Welsh too eighty seven expected batting average 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.240 a four to ninety five expected slug. I know some 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.960 of these numbers came recently. He started to uptick against 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.080 the Rockies. But still it looks like a good upward 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:05.800 trajectory for Dylan Cruz right now. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.480 Yeah, I think actually you might have undersold him a 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.880 little bit. So two eighty five expected batting average unless 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.160 you said that and I just misheard it. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.880 But five I said to eighty seven, So oh did jockey. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.520 I'm well, I've just told him. Yeah, yeah, I'm picking 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.720 then a little bit. But yeah, great barrel percentage. He's 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:21.640 hitting the ball harder than. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.200 He did last. Tony, hold on, hold on number one hundred. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.800 We got it, Stony, way to go, Thanks Tony. There 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.880 you go go ahead. Now you can talk about Dylan Cruz. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.960 Our boy Stony in there and then our boy leafer 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.760 giving out leaf for the leader of the packing gifted 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.640 sub shout out to you guys for doing that hitting 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.839 one hundred. Bam bam, thank you. Getting back to whoever. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.600 Oh yeah, Dylan Cruz, great barrel, hitting the ball hard. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.560 Expected batting average is way up. He's lowered the strikeout rate, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.120 which was key. All this is just coming back to 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.680 is like a testament to rookies and how long they 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.039 can sometimes take. It's also investment stuff, you know, like 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.200 we got to the point a week ago where it's 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.159 like a ten man league, maybe you could move off, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.800 but it's like the talent kind of battles through and 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.719 he's going to get those leadoff opportunities. It would be 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.880 really we're seeing the stolen bases go up. It's going 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.080 to be nice if that continues to go. We're kind 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.839 of back into that draft capital where I was putting 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.640 him on that pedestal of like, hey, listen, you got 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.320 to draft him. He's a great outfielder three or four. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.479 But you got to have some patience with your fantasy players, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.800 or you've got to figure out how you can do 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.640 roster construction where if you invested a top one hundred 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.960 ish pick on a player, that you can give them 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.919 roughly three weeks. And that's what you needed to do 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.120 with Dylan Cruz if you you can. I think ten 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.400 man leagues are the ones that probably would have kind 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.000 of suffered from it at the end of the day. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.440 Well, it's funny you say the ten man because okay, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.599 in our fantasy pros ten man league, ten person league, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.680 because we've got our female employees in there as well. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.880 Ten person league. We have Dylan Cruz on the waiver 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.400 wire and gets to pick him up this morning. This guy, oh, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.000 he was available, He was available in the waiver wire, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.440 and I said, you know what, let's pick up Dylan 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.520 Cruz and see where it goes from here. So in 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.840 those shallower leagues, guys might be available. Also. Tristan Cassas, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.320 he had a good day yesterday, three run homer for 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.200 him against the Mariners. Gotta love those Mariners. One of 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.080 the Mariners ever are gonna be consistently good. I feel 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.920 bad for the Mariner fans. I feel like they've been 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.159 teased over the years with these little sporadic moments where 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.120 it's like, Okay, maybe the Mariners can do it. Maybe 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.320 this is the year. I don't know, man, it's tough 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.400 to be a Mariner fan. A Tanner Biby held the 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.240 Yankees down to two runs over six innings. Now, yesterday 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.640 we're talking about being afraid to start him. If you 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.400 started him, you got rewarded the fastball. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.320 You were afraid to start him. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.440 I was afraid. I was. I was terrified at first. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.240 I was afraid. I was. I was petrified, but you 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.960 had your tander Biby, Yeah, I did. I had you 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.640 by my side. So it worked out Fastball mile per 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.840 hour was up though ninety five point five. I was 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.720 up by almost a full mile per hour. That's also 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.640 a good sign for Bibby. So you're buying in now 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.400 that people can stop panicking about Tanner Bobby. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.000 Yeah, I mean, I think the panic like still exists, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.800 but it was a really good performance. He's giving up 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.600 way way too much contact thirteen percent of r right, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.520 that's one of the worst out there. Low strikeouts expected 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.400 era came down a tiny bit. That was a good 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.960 start to it. So if he's available in ten man leagues, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.760 which I know some people were cutting, you could definitely 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.600 pick him up. I'm not sure if he's still like 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.840 a buye for me. You know, Ober and Bailey Biby 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.520 weren't like my guys and they've had like early struggles on. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.840 But if people are completely out there might not be 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.080 like a horrible opportunity. And by the way, shout out 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.000 to our boy mctunda. Five gifted subs were over one hundred. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.640 Just you guys, hanging out and following us on Twitch. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.360 You can get those free gifted subs by these guys. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.320 And now mctundah is at the tippy top of the 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.600 board for our gifted So shout out to this awesome 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:42.200 Twitch crew. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.680 Mctnda's good people. We talked to him on our discord 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.720 all the time. Let's get to Magnum's question. Hey, if 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.440 he's longtime listener, first time liver, that's what we love. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.720 We love the first time livers. Here ten team head 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.920 to head obpcats, I drafted Vlad, picked up Ronda, Manzarto 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.840 and Kurtz, but need a shortstop. Should I deal Vlad 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.040 for a premium shore stop or try to deal with 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.760 someone else as a package. I think what you do here, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.840 to be honest with you, I would keep Vlad because 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.400 that's the proven asset. I think Manzardo has some interesting 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.640 trade value, and I think Kurtz's value is very high 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.559 right now, and you don't need Kurts if you have Lad. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.200 It's not that I don't like Kurts, a big Kurtz fan, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:18.880 but we don't know what he's going to do at 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.800 the major league level right now. Today it's Nick Kurt's day. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.120 Everybody so happy. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:24.360 He didn't do it on the birthday. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.320 I I didn't do it on the birthday. It was 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.040 kind of lame, But I think that's I think you 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.360 can get more for the expectations and the projectability of 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.600 Nick Kurtz, and then you might realize that's the route 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:35.520 I would take first. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.360 Well, I would agree with I would agree with that. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.200 The only thing is I don't think. I don't agree 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.760 that com Menzardo has good trade value r And I 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.120 think he's the lowest of all of them. I think 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.920 Roanda has incredible trade value, but I keep being like, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.720 I want to trade Ronda, and then I look at 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.160 his profile and I'm like, good lord, I don't know 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.400 if you can, but Kurtz's trade value in that situation 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.800 would probably be the best. Can I put in a question. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.600 I wanted to do this with Cruz, but you just 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.280 went right past it. Someone had said, I thought this 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.760 was a really good question by Laser and Blazer Luis 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.160 Roberts or Dylan Cruz at this point, because we're still 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.240 both in the Pilo territory. But Cruz is the one 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.400 that's pulling around. I don't know if it's Sally, you 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.000 guys can pull it up. But Laser's question, Roberts or Cruise. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.840 You know, maybe I'm just a sucker here, but I 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.959 still say Robert. But I feel I'm getting I'm worried 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.880 about that. And we had another Robert question here. Someone 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.760 dropped Louise Robert in my league? Do I pick him up? 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.719 I already have Butler, Casti, Janos, Cherio, Judge Woods. You 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.640 don't need him until he spot as Schwarber, so there's 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.920 no room at the D. But as an asset, I'd 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.480 want to add him. I think you look at it 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.240 this way. I think Robert. I still think he finds 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.679 his way back there. He just have no line of 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.600 protection there at all. That's that's a huge problem, and 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.360 well it's going to get suffering. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:48.480 I would rather have Robert. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.520 I would rather have so. But would you rather have 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.040 Robert or Cruz? You'd rather have Cruz. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.920 I think I would rather have Cruse right now, because 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.679 one of the big boosts of Robert is that he's 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.040 going to some stolen bases and blah blah blah. But 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.080 Dylan Cruz I think can hit for a higher average, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.080 and he's showing that, and he's expected. It's in the 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.240 two eighties. He's stealing bases, he's hitting homers, he's gonna 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.880 score runs. The pendulum might swing a little bit. If 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.000 Robert were to be traded to like a Braves team 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.600 and we're like, oh my god, he's at you know 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.880 five for the Braves and there's all these guys or 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.640 you know whatever it is, the Dodgers, I would just 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.920 want both of those guys. Like it's just it's too early. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.760 Cruise is a good like litmus test of it's a 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.200 little too early to just completely cut bait here, and 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.199 I think cutting bait on Robert is not my bag. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.880 I would find a way to get him on the bench. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.600 So if he's available, I'm picking him up. I'm not 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.000 trying to trade him away for nothing, and I would 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.720 love to buy him for absolutely nothing. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.400 Stoney's ad Gavin Williams was dropped into twelve team Pro League. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.559 Why should I let Tyler Anderson pitch tomorrow then dropping 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.160 for Gavin Williams. No, I would just go pick up 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.640 Gavin Williams now wellf for someone else? Does I? Wayton? 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.079 I ain't waiting. Besides some of those signs of life. Also, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.839 Marcus Simeon two for three with a homer. Four Rabies 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.560 got dropped in the orders in a five spot and 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.000 it worked. Jake Berger hit a home run. Signs of 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.680 live that, you know. The antidote, well is just get 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.240 to the Sacramento Ballpark. Yeah, just get the Sacramento whya 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.679 at Langford return three for four, good day for him 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.280 as well. So all of a sudden signs of life 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:13.400 for that Ranger line up. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.640 And shout out to the plus money first five play 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.800 of the Texas Rangers yesterday backing Patrick Corbin I had 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.960 and all these dudes just started bang, bang bang going. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.960 And this is a little test or testament to, you know, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.520 some of those underlying metrics that we're looking at and 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.480 then expected stats and combining those and being like, hey, listen, 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.920 you know Doulas Garcia early on was a by Marcus 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.199 sim and Jake Berger starting to kind of come back. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.960 Both of those guys were pretty like easy clear bys 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.040 and they're just starting. Burger's a little rougher around the 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.960 edges right now, but there they're starting to get going. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.400 Chris Bubich at a royal pain because he was awesome yesterday. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.400 Tough luck, no decision against the Rockies Tuesday night. He 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.600 had six strikeouts, seven innings, zero runs is he raised 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.920 out one four five, which is of course not sustainable 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.839 with the one oh six whip, thirty three strikeouts, just 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.840 nine walks over thirty one innings. Bot Carlos Stevez blew 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.160 the second save of the season, So keep an eye 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.560 on that situation. Also keep an eye on those New 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.360 York Mets who just beat the Phillies again. Somebody's in 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.040 your kitchen, Philadelphia. Somebody's gonna have to go to huah 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.040 wah and get some iced tea and some Hogies and 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.839 cry a little bit and get over this, because all 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.160 of a sudden, the Mets just kind of own the 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.800 Phillies lately after the playoffs. I don't know, man, they 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.839 look kind of shook. It's crazy. Griffin Canning, good star 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.760 for him, he's el Rai's down to three to one 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.680 two on the year. He's three and one on the season. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:38.000 Also in bullpen news, now, Kate Smith pitched yesterday again 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.920 in a same situation. Now, I understand class threw a 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.480 lot of pitches, but this is now two in a row. Well, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.680 you surprised we got two Kate Smith appearances in that 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.880 closer role or is it just still well he threw 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.160 thirty pitches, we're getting him a couple days off. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.920 Well, I mean, I know you're the very antie. I 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.679 got some I got some texts about that song, like 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.719 Joey was very like, hey, it's April twenty second? Is 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.880 not good? Should we be waking out? 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.160 Absolutely say, I never said that. I just am like 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.800 Roddy Piper. I asked the questions here on Piper's pit. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.040 That's all I do. Everybody else can fill in the 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:12.920 blanks however they want. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.679 They said, he just want They wanted to give him 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.640 back to back days off. It just so happened to 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.920 be that there were save opportunities in both of those. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.199 It's a little banged up, there's a little shoulder discomfort. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.679 None of that's great. So but again, like, what's the 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.120 application is it to go and trade Class A right now? 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.360 And no, no, no, no no no. But I think 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.000 if you are in a fifteen team league and Kate 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.040 Smith is on the waiver wire, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.760 because that shoulder issue. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.720 Speculative save market, you should have made an investment on 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.240 Vest and will Vest who just got a couple saves. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.480 You should be looking at Lucas Erseg after Carlos Estevez. Yeah, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.720 you should be like heavy in the market of who 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.880 got a save and who's on the precipice and is 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.520 anyone else struggling. Kate Smith a hundred percent would belong 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.560 to that, but it's like who are you? Who are 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.040 you throwing out? Who you're getting thinking? 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.880 I'm so proud of our penis and crackerjacks because the 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.240 YouTube comments were full of Simpson's references yesterday, So thank 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.200 you for supporting the show. We love you very much. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.280 You know this isn't on the show sheet, but I 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:08.640 was just reading about this. I don't know if you 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.439 saw this because we didn't mention it yesterday, but the 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.360 whole rond Akunya snicker stuff, you know how that's kind 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:15.680 of in a bass. But did you see the Frank 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.360 Corer comments? Did you see those? No? 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.400 I only saw the tweet from. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.560 So Jeff. Frank Corr said, well, you know, I'm paraphrasing, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.240 semi quoting, but basically was, well, you know, we won 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.080 a World Series without Ronald Acunya, so it's not like 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.720 you need Ronald of Cooni to win. And I just 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.520 went yikes. I don't know if that's what I want 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.800 coming out of my mouth right now. I don't think 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.600 that's a smart thing to say on that team. I 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.880 want to say Freddy Freeman was still on that team though, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.000 and a few other guys that aren't there, Max Freed. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:49.720 Those guys are all gone now. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.920 I don't say, but that's a player thing, that's a 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.280 super player thing, like players get sick of players that 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.800 want to suck up all this space. Like that doesn't 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.560 actually really surprise me. He would say something. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.720 Well. I think Ronal Cooney's point is if I did 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.280 what Keilna did, I would go I would have gotten benched. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.080 And I think he's right. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:06.840 I don't disagree. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:07.480 I don't think he's right. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.640 Jeffrank Cor probably doesn't have a relationship at all with 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.000 a Kunya, and when that happens, these guys are very 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.640 comfortable trashing and breaking down and tearing down any of 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.200 the players that they might perceive as being different than 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.280 how they would approach the game. So, Jeff frank core right. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.280 Here's a question here, Van Rod trade Burns for sale? 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.680 Straight up? You want to make this move? What do 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:28.520 you want rest of the season? 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.320 Yeah, I did too. I like Burns, and I kind 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.080 of think buying Burns is a good opportunity. But if 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.480 Burns will get you saleed. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:38.680 Do it. Yeah. Else here I got off for the 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:43.200 trade Skeens, and I assume James Wood not James Woods. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.800 Is that you're talking? Why why do. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.560 We do Candy Pisa. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.960 For Gore and Jordan Alvarez? Which side of this do 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:51.840 you want? 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.360 This is at so easily want the Skeens and James 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.040 wood side or James Woods. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.560 Well, just James Wood. You don't want the James Wood sign. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.680 I would say this too. I've got more questions the 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.520 last twenty four hours about your Alvarez than anybody really, like, 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:09.440 just people peppering me, which means he should be somebody 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:10.640 you're kicking the tires on right now. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.520 People are it's all panic, like everyone's just like losing 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.400 their mind because he's hitting two thirteen. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.200 Complete and utter panic, which brings us, of course to 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.760 a moment to where we remind you not to panic, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.440 because we're here to help you with all the tools 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.240 at Fantasy Pros and if you want to manage all 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.280 your faceball, baseball or fak lineups from Fantasy and dumb 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.280 It or your faceball, or your Twitter book, or your 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.560 your Insta tac, any of those things. 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There's there's 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.159 two pieces of information we got out of this. A 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.680 they said they didn't want to plan because they wanted 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.080 him to get acclimated. So they wanted him to be 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.440 in the majors. They wanted him to acclimate to the team, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.360 acclimate to the atmosphere. But people were like, but it's 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.600 a lefty. But here's what they said. They said he 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.720 will not be a platoon player. They already told us 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.240 he will be in everything. They said that, But it. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:26.840 Had nothing to do with it. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:28.480 I know, Patrick Corby's a superhllod. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.240 It literally had to do with this acclamation of you 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.200 brought up. He was drafted less than a year ago. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.320