Speaker 1: It's leading off right here on Fantasy Pros MLB. I
Speaker 1: am Chris Welsh, that is Joe Rico, and we got
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Speaker 1: Ben Noah's Ark of homers. It's just two by two.
Speaker 1: Everybody had two homers over the weekend, these big two
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Speaker 2: Oh, I made plenty of bad choices. Had to take
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Speaker 1: the same vein of making bad decisions, did the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox make a bad decision this week? And I
Speaker 1: have to we have to talk about this. I was
Speaker 1: in shock. And I know this isn't like a blockbuster
Speaker 1: trade or anything like that, but this trade was so
Speaker 1: like to me my jaw dropped because the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 1: this is you guys all know at this point, but
Speaker 1: they traded kindly early for Curtis mead to the Washington
Speaker 1: Nationals and Conley Early was being talked about. It's like
Speaker 1: a centerpiece trade for like kateel Marte. There were some
Speaker 1: in that he might be untouchable. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be dismissive of Curtis Mead because I have been
Speaker 1: a Curtis Mead guy. You know, he's been a really
Speaker 1: good waiver wire ad. He's done a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: But like Curtis mean for conn Le Early did not
Speaker 1: make sense. I think everybody kind of genuinely agreed with that.
Speaker 1: Conlee Early's injured right now. They said he's going to
Speaker 1: begin to rehab Sigmon on August third. Curtis Mead is
Speaker 1: going to end up playing second base, that was the word.
Speaker 1: A long term maybe third base, but currently second base
Speaker 1: while they make the adjustments, probably be putting like a
Speaker 1: really good opportunity. But this was a wow trade. This
Speaker 1: is a trade the Dynasty owners, if it were done,
Speaker 1: might have had to talk about some vetos here because
Speaker 1: there's just so much staying power with Conlee Early and
Speaker 1: he had really been good before the injury. To trade
Speaker 1: that part of a rotation piece for again, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to be super dismissive of Curtis Mead to
Speaker 1: be like, he's kind of this rental thing, but dude
Speaker 1: didn't make the White Sox roster and it just doesn't
Speaker 1: add up. It was such a weird trade this weekend,
Speaker 1: and it does have some pretty interesting fantasy implications. So
Speaker 1: were you as jaw dropped as I was, or did
Speaker 1: this I don't know make a tiny bit more sense.
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to work my way through it all,
Speaker 2: but I think it does generally make sense, especially from
Speaker 2: the Nationals perspective. The Nationals this is a real life
Speaker 2: Cell High type of trade with her. Now, like you mentioned,
Speaker 2: Curtis Mead was defaed by the White Sox in March,
Speaker 2: and now he's traded for a guy in early who
Speaker 2: I mean coming into the season. I think you and
Speaker 2: I were both early over. Totally correct me if I'm
Speaker 2: wrong there, But like this is that we really really
Speaker 2: liked coming into the season. It hasn't gone as perfectly
Speaker 2: as I would have hoped after seeing the early returns
Speaker 2: from Connolly. Early he has the three forty five RA
Speaker 2: but a lot of the expected numbers are not great.
Speaker 2: He's given up a lot of homers, a lot of
Speaker 2: walks this season, the strikeout upside hasn't been what we've
Speaker 2: seen in the minors, swing strike rate fairly pedestrian ten percent,
Speaker 2: So he hasn't quite lived up expectations. But that being said,
Speaker 2: it's twenty four years old. This is a perfect trade
Speaker 2: for a Washington team which ranks thirtieth in Major League
Speaker 2: pitching war even if he doesn't help them so much
Speaker 2: for this season, because I have heard it, you know,
Speaker 2: gone back and forth. Maybe he pitches this year again,
Speaker 2: maybe he doesn't. He probably will at the end of
Speaker 2: the season, but this is a good long term move
Speaker 2: for a Nationals team that will be desperate for pitching
Speaker 2: going forward.
Speaker 1: And everybody's everybody's pitching for a desperate for young pitching.
Speaker 1: And that's like the thing that I guess it, even
Speaker 1: if you take the player out of it for a second,
Speaker 1: it's like a young control ROLLI bull left arm, left
Speaker 1: handed pitcher. That's that's already been in the rotation. That
Speaker 1: I agree some of it's like pedestrian and what he's done.
Speaker 1: But you know, you got to twenty four percent K percentage.
Speaker 1: You hit a three four to four ERA on this
Speaker 1: season in those ninety whatever innings whip a little bit inflated.
Speaker 1: Expected was in the fours and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: obviously there's some room to grow, but like, we just
Speaker 1: don't see the cost ever look like this unless there
Speaker 1: is something far beyond what we all put on Curtis
Speaker 1: Meat and Curtis Meads value, who, by the way, sitting
Speaker 1: two fifty four in the air, does have seventeen homers,
Speaker 1: does have six stolen bases. And frankly, like if this
Speaker 1: was the old Curtis Mead, you know, the raised prospect
Speaker 1: Curtis with what I didn't I interviewed Curtis Meat. It's
Speaker 1: probably my worst interview like that I ever. I've talked
Speaker 1: about this on my Prospect show. Of the interviews I've conducted.
Speaker 1: It's the worst job I ever did of an interview.
Speaker 1: And I almost didn't erit. It was so bad and
Speaker 1: he was so kind and gracious, but that was like
Speaker 1: a top prospect Curtis Meat. He looks like he's kind
Speaker 1: of living up to that, but there's still you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like this is fine. It feels a little
Speaker 1: wrintally in that, but this is not usually what we
Speaker 1: see add up. So that I was just I was
Speaker 1: kind of blown away by what this trade looked like. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, we obviously see the structure. You know, they
Speaker 1: traded from a position of depth in Conley Early. I'm
Speaker 1: shocked that it cost Early to get Curtis Mead. But
Speaker 1: Curtis Mead, obviously, in their mind, fills that gap of
Speaker 1: a guy who's not only been successful this year, but
Speaker 1: he is going to probably continuously succeed. He's more than
Speaker 1: doubled his barrel percentage, his strikeout rates gone down, his
Speaker 1: XBA is supportive, it's actually better than his current batting average,
Speaker 1: and like, maybe he's going to be like a twenty
Speaker 1: five to ten guy and they can hit him in
Speaker 1: the middle of the lineup. Just doesn't feel like it
Speaker 1: should cost Early.
Speaker 2: No, And the more I look at it too. The
Speaker 2: Red Sox, yes, they have a lot of lefties, but
Speaker 2: Sunny Gray is going to be thirty seven Rangers. Suarez
Speaker 2: is a guy that the fantasy community, the baseball community
Speaker 2: generally agrees is probably not going to age very well
Speaker 2: once his starts to dip below ninety, which it seems
Speaker 2: like it's coming. He's at ninety one seven this year.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how successful he's gonna be Garret Crochet
Speaker 2: will be fine eventually. By Patrick Sandoval, I mean, Jake
Speaker 2: Bennett looks really good, but this is not a position
Speaker 2: of depth to the point where I think they should
Speaker 2: have done this trade. The more I think about it,
Speaker 2: the more I think it is a loss of a
Speaker 2: trade for the Red Sox. We'll see how it ends
Speaker 2: up happening. But Curtis meat it's a good season, but
Speaker 2: it's kind of an out of left field good eighty
Speaker 2: five games where his bat speed is worse than it
Speaker 2: was last season, and it has actually been going down
Speaker 2: for the last couple seasons from seventy four to seventy
Speaker 2: three point three to seventy two point six. It's a
Speaker 2: metric I look at a lot. Maybe it's not as
Speaker 2: important as I'm giving it credit for, but I think
Speaker 2: this is more a really good half season for Curtis
Speaker 2: Mead than oh, he's just gonna be a nine hundred
Speaker 2: ops guy going forward. The more I think about it,
Speaker 2: the more I think the Red Sox probably don't come
Speaker 2: out looking great here.
Speaker 1: And that's been the Bresla thing that just mean bad
Speaker 1: trade after bad trade. We'll see if this one works
Speaker 1: up works out. I kind of thought like they were
Speaker 1: given the grace of how good they've been, how ridiculous
Speaker 1: they've been, that they could go and potentially make a
Speaker 1: couple moves that people could put some eyes on. I
Speaker 1: just didn't think it would look like this. This was
Speaker 1: kind of a shocker to me, So Conley early the
Speaker 1: first kind of domino in the Curtis Me trade. First
Speaker 1: domino as the trade deadline is looming and teams really
Speaker 1: have not no one has a bent, you know, or broken.
Speaker 1: Really if you know, you know, they're bending until they break,
Speaker 1: Like we haven't seen the flood of trades happen. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're going to be happening soon. We got a week
Speaker 1: before it. In what continues to look like maybe the
Speaker 1: best pitcher we have seen and god knows how long,
Speaker 1: especially if it can hold. Jacob Zarowski continues to dominate
Speaker 1: and continues to be absolutely incredible this week, and he
Speaker 1: went five innings, twelve strikeouts. It wasn't eighty three pitches.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that we don't like. But we have
Speaker 1: definitely discussed like, hey, should you have your concerns of
Speaker 1: the management, should you consider maybe consolidating. It's a really,
Speaker 1: really tough question. We've openly done that, but he continues
Speaker 1: to defy odds, where he struck out the first seven batters.
Speaker 1: He ended up giving up a homer to cole kerrig
Speaker 1: By the way, which was just like, I mean, it
Speaker 1: just threw so hard a character, just put the bat
Speaker 1: out and it went opposite field. But he struck out
Speaker 1: twelve of the first thirteen Colorado batters, And I mean,
Speaker 1: the stats continued to roll. One of my favorites on this.
Speaker 1: As you can see the Sarah Lang's over on the
Speaker 1: on the right hand, if you're looking at the visual screen,
Speaker 1: put together so many of these really interesting stats. The
Speaker 1: two that really jumped out to me was sixty six
Speaker 1: fastballs he threw. They were all one hundred miles per
Speaker 1: hour more, which is an absolutely Banana's number. And the
Speaker 1: other one I really like is thirty three of those
Speaker 1: pitches were one hundred and three miles per hour. And
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's continuously like record after record
Speaker 1: after record of what he does, and despite even having
Speaker 1: this stupid management thing, which whatever it looks like, he
Speaker 1: continues to just clearly be the number one fantasy pitcher
Speaker 1: in baseball. So the question is is like, obviously this
Speaker 1: performance is amazing. You're welcome to say whatever you want
Speaker 1: on it. But where do you stand in that conversation
Speaker 1: that we've all been kind of having of like, do
Speaker 1: you is the management enough of a concern going down
Speaker 1: the stretch here? Should we have any concern about it?
Speaker 1: It's impossible sometimes to trade the best players, but is
Speaker 1: that of any concern when you see what he was
Speaker 1: able to do this weekend in eighty three pitches anymore?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't think you can really trade him
Speaker 2: unless you get blown away, and somebody might be willing
Speaker 2: to blow you away with an offer for him. But
Speaker 2: I think people generally are going to have that same
Speaker 2: kind of thought of maybe he's gonna throw four innings,
Speaker 2: maybe it'll be five innings. He's gonna get the Garrett
Speaker 2: Crochet type of treatment. So I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: gonna get top dollar just because people have that in
Speaker 2: the back of their minds. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 2: more valuable to the person who has him in most
Speaker 2: cases than the offer you're gonna receive back would be.
Speaker 2: That's kind of where I'm at, unless you're getting off for, like,
Speaker 2: you know, another top five or seven pitcher and a
Speaker 2: second piece as well, Like if somebody's giving you cam
Speaker 2: Schlitler and a bat from Mizrawski, sure or.
Speaker 1: Deal, Yeah, no one's doing that.
Speaker 3: But no one's doing that right, so yeah, well what
Speaker 3: does a.
Speaker 1: Cease one look like? Then? I think Schlitler was the
Speaker 1: wrong name for you to use, because I think it
Speaker 1: has to look more like a you know, like a
Speaker 1: sea sore. I mean, I don't know how where you
Speaker 1: feel in like rasp Musen if you feel he's kind
Speaker 1: of in that that world, but like, let me look here,
Speaker 1: like I want you to expand who is the cease
Speaker 1: hitter plus that you would do it, because I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get to the space and I said this last week.
Speaker 1: It's just like I don't really even know if I
Speaker 1: have the stomach to move him in whatever this deal
Speaker 1: is going to look like. It's got to be something
Speaker 1: where I feel, I mean, not me, but this is
Speaker 1: like the more macro perspective rhetorical where I'd be like
Speaker 1: if I were you guys, and I looked at this
Speaker 1: trade and I was like, I gotta get on leading
Speaker 1: off and ask uh Rico and Welsh if this is
Speaker 1: a trade, Like if you have that feeling then that
Speaker 1: trade is probably worth it.
Speaker 3: I would have to.
Speaker 1: Have something that looks so stupid that I would really
Speaker 1: want to pull the trigger because he is just so
Speaker 1: good despite So what is cease and what makes Misroowski
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 2: Let's say it's Dylan Ces or any top ten pitcher
Speaker 2: there if you'd prefer like a Wheeler, or you'd prefer
Speaker 2: you know, Christopher Sanchez Rasmussen, and then you add and
Speaker 2: then you add on maybe a Matt Olsen type or
Speaker 2: a Bryce Terrang or a Miguel Vargas or a top
Speaker 2: twenty five type of hitter. Okay, that might be asking
Speaker 2: too much, but miss that's a point. I think that's
Speaker 2: the point though. Yeah, you ask for too much and
Speaker 2: maybe you get the world from somebody. But what Miserowski's
Speaker 2: doing like this is this is the best pitching season
Speaker 2: since one of the peak de Gram years. I think,
Speaker 2: like this is just unbelievable stuff that he's doing. And
Speaker 2: I just don't know if you're going to get that back.
Speaker 2: You might, but you probably won't.
Speaker 1: Next year, will you have Miserowski as sp one like
Speaker 1: the sp One? Ooh your hes really?
Speaker 2: I mean from a talent perspective, yes, but I really
Speaker 2: worry about the injury stuff with him. And I know
Speaker 2: we're horrible at predicting injuries, but like you mentioned, he
Speaker 2: through sixty six fastballs that are all over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Most pitchers are going to require some kind of surgery
Speaker 2: at some point. It's gonna happen for Miserowski, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if I want to be the one hold
Speaker 2: in the bag the year he does inevitably need Tommy
Speaker 2: John So I'll probably rank him number one or number two.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll actually draft him there though
Speaker 2: that might make me a hypocrite, But I do worry
Speaker 2: a little bit about being the guy to draft Miserowski
Speaker 2: the year that he does eventually, you know, reach for
Speaker 2: the arm after that pitch and go, oh man, here
Speaker 2: we go. He's gonna have surgery, and it could happen
Speaker 2: at any moment. He might last sixty years before he
Speaker 2: needs it.
Speaker 3: It might happen tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But I just don't know if I want to be
Speaker 2: the one who is rostering Miserowski, especially he's gonna be
Speaker 2: a first round pick next season, top five pick.
Speaker 3: Probably. Yeah, it's a lot for a guy who throws
Speaker 3: so hard. It's such an injury risk.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I was going to ask you, is like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've already answered it in that you don't
Speaker 1: want him, but like he's going to be a first
Speaker 1: round pick. He probably takes a place for Schooble where
Speaker 1: he was going this year, which is somewhere between like
Speaker 1: eight and ten, you know roughly in leagues. Maybe he
Speaker 1: pushes up a little bit. But I think there's the
Speaker 1: two different discussions are A, do you invest in a
Speaker 1: pitcher in the first round? And b is Jacob Mizerowski
Speaker 1: so far and beyond the number one pitcher? And I
Speaker 1: think the only one that's a question right now is
Speaker 1: if you draft the guy in the first round like
Speaker 1: Miserowski and what this, what this looks like. My concern
Speaker 1: always was like he was gonna be old school Dylan Cees.
Speaker 1: You'd have one of these games and then you have
Speaker 1: a game where he walks like five and then and
Speaker 1: it's not happening. Miserroowski's got the best era in baseball,
Speaker 1: he's got the best expected era in baseball, the most strikeouts. Dude,
Speaker 1: looks like he could strike out three hundred this year.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, especially if you're going to take
Speaker 1: the training wheels off next year. And there's no any
Speaker 1: management stuff as well, Like, I just don't know how
Speaker 1: we have a discussion where he's not the number one guy,
Speaker 1: but the discussion of like where do you want to
Speaker 1: invest in the first round? And also there are so
Speaker 1: many valuable pitchers, like Mirowski is gonna be tailed behind Scooble,
Speaker 1: and then it's gonna be Cressanchez, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Paul Skeens, and then they're Schlitler and it's just like
Speaker 1: cool taken miz you know, in the ninth overall pick,
Speaker 1: but you could take like a hitter in the next pitcher,
Speaker 1: or frankly, you might be able to take two hitters
Speaker 1: in the third round. You might get a Schlitzler come
Speaker 1: back to you. I don't know if they'll really truly
Speaker 1: be a clump. It's gonna be great offseason discussion. Miserroowski
Speaker 1: continues to roll. He is absolutely ridiculous though, And I
Speaker 1: don't like the management, but I wonder if the management
Speaker 1: is starting to move itself out a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I think one way they could really fix that is
Speaker 1: going to be aggressive in the trademarket. Go get yourself
Speaker 1: a Terrek Scooble. Have some protection out there, Get other
Speaker 1: starting pitchers that can go deeper into games, that protects
Speaker 1: your bullpen and that continuously protects a guy like Jacob
Speaker 1: Mizerowski and just ridiculous numbers. Also in the ridiculous numbers
Speaker 1: department is the Washington Nationals, particularly James Wood and C.
Speaker 1: J Abrams, maybe the sickest duo out there right now.
Speaker 1: Both this weekend with double dongs. As mentioned it was
Speaker 1: the Noah's Ark weekend of homers. Is they were going
Speaker 1: two by two. Wood was two for four, two homers,
Speaker 1: three RBI. Cj Abrams three for five, two homers, three
Speaker 1: RBI and they both look absolutely berzerko. As you can
Speaker 1: see on this they're the only team with two players
Speaker 1: in the top ten in homers this season. They have
Speaker 1: two guys in there. Six is James Wood and cj
Speaker 1: Abrams is eight, which is just crazy. Season long totals.
Speaker 1: James Wood is hitting two seventy one thirty homers, fifteen
Speaker 1: stolen bases, with ninety six runs comical and seventy two RBI.
Speaker 1: But cj Abrams doesn't get enough of that love where
Speaker 1: he should be next And I said this last week
Speaker 1: when you weren't a round Dude, you and I screwed
Speaker 1: up in our two round mock, even though it was
Speaker 1: a ten team because cj. Abrams belonged to be there,
Speaker 1: and frankly, he belonged to I think me. In the
Speaker 1: first round. C. J. Abrams is hitting two ninety seven
Speaker 1: twenty seven homers, which, by the way, is the most
Speaker 1: by a shortstop, a national shortstop in history, passing Ian Desmon.
Speaker 1: Seventeen stolen bases, sixty six runs, and eighty two RBI.
Speaker 1: That's as good as what James Wood is doing, if
Speaker 1: not maybe even more impressive. It's more stolen bases, better
Speaker 1: batting average, more RBI. He really tails in the run department,
Speaker 1: but I mean he is in tow there. These are
Speaker 1: both first round picks. I know we're talking very macro
Speaker 1: level of baseball right now, but they just had a
Speaker 1: ridiculous weekend. All of that being said, do you think
Speaker 1: there is an actual, realistic way C. James Abrams could
Speaker 1: get traded and would that have any effect theoretically, Maybe
Speaker 1: on the value if he goes to a worse environment,
Speaker 1: maybe just changing environments. I mean, this offense is one
Speaker 1: of the best offenses in baseball, and it's due to
Speaker 1: the collective group. What do you think does Abrams get
Speaker 1: traded and does it hurt any type of fantasy value
Speaker 1: in your mind?
Speaker 2: I honestly hadn't heard much of Abrams being traded rumor.
Speaker 2: I don't think it would make a ton of sense
Speaker 2: for them to do that. I mean, they struck gold
Speaker 2: with him, Well, why would they trade him, you know,
Speaker 2: unless you because crazy offer back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the rumor is is because he's a free agent
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight that this team, how it's constructed,
Speaker 1: they may not feel. This is the rumor that's going
Speaker 1: out there, is that they may feel that they are
Speaker 1: not competitive into next year. So the problem is is,
Speaker 1: if you're not competitive until twenty twenty eight, truly, and
Speaker 1: you've got a guy who becomes a free agent in
Speaker 1: that year, can you afford to resign him? Will he
Speaker 1: want to resign? So it's one of those situations where
Speaker 1: they could get a king's rant and at this point
Speaker 1: they can get a king's ransom for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the you look at any of the
Speaker 1: costs on what the trade market's putting out there. If
Speaker 1: you've got a year and a half of production for
Speaker 1: what is the best shortstop? I mean this right here,
Speaker 1: what is this guy's twitter ham Look, I need to
Speaker 1: look here again. This is Baseball WRLD Underscore put out
Speaker 1: some good tweets where it shows right here he's number
Speaker 1: one in WRC plus shortstop by a wide margin. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's one fifty WRC plus. The next closest is Atto
Speaker 1: Lopez in the one thirties. Like it's going to cost
Speaker 1: everything and be a massive, massive trade. So I agree.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it makes sense, but they're coming
Speaker 1: from this of being like they don't know if they
Speaker 1: can resign him, they can bring him back and just
Speaker 1: imagine what I mean, They could probably get a haul
Speaker 1: that looks similar to what they got for one Soto.
Speaker 1: I think it would look in the general ballpark of
Speaker 1: being the same.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's hard for me to believe that they
Speaker 2: could get that kind of hall, but maybe they could.
Speaker 3: If it's out there, then they should take.
Speaker 1: Well why not. It's like a tip is the best
Speaker 1: shortstop in baseball from a WRC plus standpoint, he's one
Speaker 1: of the best top fifteen players in baseball, and he's
Speaker 1: got a year and a half of control, why would
Speaker 1: he get less than three like great prospects well Soto.
Speaker 2: In my mind, Soto, especially at the time of that trade,
Speaker 2: is just in a different world of baseball player than C. J. Abrams,
Speaker 2: And maybe that's a little bit more. For sure, he's
Speaker 2: a better player, you know, Abrams. The offensive stuff has
Speaker 2: been unbelievable this year. But I think teams will have
Speaker 2: to figure out whether or not they think this is
Speaker 2: the real version of C. J. Abrams moving forward, or
Speaker 2: if he's more than twenty four to twenty five version Offensively.
Speaker 2: I think he's a good player either way, but is
Speaker 2: he an MVP level hitter every year going forward? I'm
Speaker 2: not sure the ceiling is quite that high on a
Speaker 2: year in a year out basis. And also defensively he's
Speaker 2: not good. He is really like I think he's a
Speaker 2: second baseman in the long run as opposed to a
Speaker 2: shortstop negative eight fielding run value negative eleven. Not it's
Speaker 2: above average, so that might hurt a little bit of
Speaker 2: the trade return as well. If I'm Washington this guy,
Speaker 2: I'm probably trying to lock up in the long term.
Speaker 2: I think that with him, and would you have such
Speaker 2: an amazing offensive duo there I would want to keep
Speaker 2: them together and let them have their primes together. For
Speaker 2: this team, it's a new regime in the front office
Speaker 2: this season, and I would imagine they'd be smarter than
Speaker 2: the previous one, which is a pretty low bard across.
Speaker 2: But if I'm the Nationals, unless I get a stupid
Speaker 2: bit offer, I think C. J. Abrams is staying in Washington.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, like I'm not saying one for one,
Speaker 1: it's the exact same on soda, Like Soda definitely had
Speaker 1: a presence. It's a bit higher, but I'm saying the
Speaker 1: general space, we're also a couple of years out, price
Speaker 1: of the brick gets bigger, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like it's good, look at what Conley look at, like
Speaker 1: the Curtis Mead cost. Now put that on what is
Speaker 1: one of the better players in baseball. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: the trade is going to look big, but I don't
Speaker 1: know what that trade looks like. And frankly, I feel
Speaker 1: like every team is just trying to kind of press
Speaker 1: themselves into being like, well, we don't really need that.
Speaker 1: No one wants to spend. The Red Sox want to spend,
Speaker 1: and some in the Red Sox in that world, still
Speaker 1: believe that the cj Abrams to Boston could be an
Speaker 1: option as well, but you know it's it's a hefty
Speaker 1: price and just really quickly on your cj Abrams. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, what has changed has he be? His barrel
Speaker 1: rate has almost doubled, it's eleven percent barrel rate. His
Speaker 1: hard hit rates the best of his career. He's getting
Speaker 1: the ball in the air more than he's ever done.
Speaker 1: He's pulled air percentage is at a career high end.
Speaker 1: His pulled aired hard hit percentage is up like over
Speaker 1: I think over ten percent, I think from the fifties
Speaker 1: to the sixties. So like, he has made some very
Speaker 1: very significant significant changes in his game that I don't
Speaker 1: think is like relative to like the guys around him,
Speaker 1: or the ballpark or anything like that. So I think
Speaker 1: if you take that all a surface level, he's taken
Speaker 1: another step up and there is still some more control.
Speaker 1: It's just can they get him. I think it is
Speaker 1: going to be really hard for any team to trade him.
Speaker 1: It will be a blockbuster trade if it happens. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now it will be. I think it
Speaker 1: would be. It's going to be a surprising name if
Speaker 1: it happens, but I kind of don't think it does,
Speaker 1: because I think at this point the Nationals might behoove
Speaker 1: themselves to just build around some of these young guys.
Speaker 1: But we'll see C. J Abrams and James would though
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous seasons, and C. J Abrams is going to
Speaker 1: be a back in first round pick next year unless
Speaker 1: things completely fall apart. I just don't even think that's
Speaker 1: in question. A couple other notes out here, I'm going
Speaker 1: to Takamarakami win three for five, three runs, and you
Speaker 1: guessed it, Dubam Homer's are back. He had six RBI
Speaker 1: by the way against the Astros, so we had we
Speaker 1: had Murakami back Drew Rasmus in seven innings, one hit,
Speaker 1: nine strackouts. Is how freaking good is ras music? Is
Speaker 1: he one of the most underrated pitchers in I mean
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball, let me do that instead of actual baseball.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's just so criminally underrated from his
Speaker 1: production out there to like just I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: you did put him in the like top ten of
Speaker 1: SPS when you were talking about that trade, but I
Speaker 1: just feel like most people don't even have him in
Speaker 1: that general Ballpark.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it over the last couple
Speaker 2: of years comes down to the really over his whole career,
Speaker 2: it just comes down to volume, which is why I
Speaker 2: think people kind of have thrown him away a little bit.
Speaker 2: Seventy six innings in twenty twenty one, one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty six, forty four, twenty eight. Last year he threw
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty. But I don't think people are
Speaker 2: quite used to seeing Drew Rasmussen go out there for
Speaker 2: a full season and dominate. But his entire career, outside
Speaker 2: of the twelve relief innings that he threw in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: he has been a god in every season. He's a
Speaker 2: two to ninety three career ERA and a one zero
Speaker 2: four whip over five hundred and seventy two innings. This year,
Speaker 2: his ERA is three oh seven. It's the worst that
Speaker 2: he's had, Like, he is just so good. He's so underrated.
Speaker 2: Even at the Trump this year, which is playing more
Speaker 2: hit or friendly than we've ever seen, it's still been
Speaker 2: so so damn good. And I think next year maybe
Speaker 2: the market catches up, maybe it doesn't, but he, for me,
Speaker 2: I think is one of the ten best pitchers in
Speaker 2: real life or fantasy. Maybe top fifteen. Maybe ten's a
Speaker 2: little bit high because there's just so much talent there,
Speaker 2: But he's an sp one for me for sure right now.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things you would love to see.
Speaker 1: Whenever we talk about trades and the Rays, I just
Speaker 1: got no idea what they would do, Like they get
Speaker 1: rumored with people, and I'm just like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like they ever really want to trade
Speaker 1: for anything big, and they're like the I thought I
Speaker 1: saw Bogman in the chat. To me, they're like the
Speaker 1: Steelers of the of Major League Baseball, where they're just
Speaker 1: always in it. They're always competitive. They don't ever want
Speaker 1: to make commitments on guys with contracts. Then they don't
Speaker 1: ever really want to give anything like they're just weird
Speaker 1: about that. So I just don't understand. It'd be great
Speaker 1: for them to put something around Drew rass music a
Speaker 1: little bit more like Griffin Jackson has had his moments
Speaker 1: and stuff, but you know, go and get an ace
Speaker 1: and just you know, give more protection out there. The
Speaker 1: other note, just hilariously, the Brewers after their trade designated
Speaker 1: Lance McCullers for assignment. He's gone many thought Colton Gordon
Speaker 1: was probably what they were trying to trade. They didn't
Speaker 1: give up much, but bye bye Lance McCullers. Is he's
Speaker 1: out on the street. He ain't doing nothing, So there
Speaker 1: you go. I mean, we knew he wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: a fix for any of their rotation, but proven more
Speaker 1: so that a week out and I think he had
Speaker 1: two relief appearances, right, I.
Speaker 3: Think, so yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, in my head with the Brewers, I heard
Speaker 2: that they're acquiring him, it's like, Okay, if there's any
Speaker 2: franchise that could fix him, it's probably the Brewers. And
Speaker 2: then after like two weeks they're like, nah, we can't
Speaker 2: fix them. Nobody can fix them. So I feel bad
Speaker 2: for Lance McCullers. Like the talent coming up, I thought
Speaker 2: he was gonna be a great pitcher, but just the injuries,
Speaker 2: it's been a tough career for him for sure.
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Speaker 1: not around for you. Hey, a couple questions from the audience,
Speaker 1: by the way, Sergio, Hey, guys, should I trade Gavin
Speaker 1: Williams for Dingler and Jacks if I don't have much
Speaker 1: pitching and just got Shay Lngleers, which we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about here in a little bit Shae lng Leiers
Speaker 1: on the IL. Or should I just take Ryan Jeffers
Speaker 1: off of Waivers? Ooh, that's really interesting. Jeffers is a
Speaker 1: total good replacement. But I don't know, Like I like
Speaker 1: Gavin Williams and everything, but Williams for Jacks could actually
Speaker 1: be closer than you think, and you're getting a pretty
Speaker 1: good fantasy Cait, what would you do? It's essentially Gavin
Speaker 1: Williams and Jeffers or Dingler and Jacks. Which one do
Speaker 1: you want?
Speaker 2: I think I'm taking that trade if Gavin will or
Speaker 2: not Williams, Griffin Jacks had that awful performance a week
Speaker 2: or so ago at Fenway seven earned runs, and everybody
Speaker 2: was kind of like, all right, should we rop Griffin Jacks.
Speaker 2: But really it was one bad start against a team
Speaker 2: that was on a fifteen game win streak, and other
Speaker 2: than that, he's been nails. Five six inning starts and
Speaker 2: one or two earned runs. He had the ten strakeout
Speaker 2: game against the Yankees, seven strikeouts against the Royals.
Speaker 3: He's been really, really good.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's that much of a downgrade
Speaker 2: from Gavin Williams and Dylan Dingler is like a top
Speaker 2: three catcher in fantasy this year, top five catcher at worse,
Speaker 2: and now with lank clears out, maybe even higher. I
Speaker 2: think I'm taking the trade. I like both options really
Speaker 2: because Ryan Jeffers a freebie on Ryan Jeffers is pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: But I think I'm taking the trade honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm good with that too, and I
Speaker 1: trusting one of the rest of the season. Jeffers is interesting.
Speaker 1: Though he gets traded, he goes into a really good spot,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think there's also an opportunity that
Speaker 1: he can go to a spot where he's just a
Speaker 1: part of a really good rotation of catchers, and he's
Speaker 1: not guaranteed anything.
Speaker 2: So the Twins are just so weird about their Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're doing at any given time.
Speaker 2: Last year, they traded Duran, they traded Louis Varland. I
Speaker 2: thought that they were going to start to tear things down,
Speaker 2: and I saw a report this morning. Oh no, they're
Speaker 2: going to add pieces and go for it. They're like
Speaker 2: they're a game under five hundred. But that's the expanded
Speaker 2: wild card. That's the era we live in. Every single
Speaker 2: team thinks to have a chance. So I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. But it doesn't look like Joe Ryan's
Speaker 2: getting traded. Buxton, no, Jeff Jeffer's no. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're gonna do, but I think they should sell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I completely agree with you on that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why they're like so committed. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know why they're committed to make a run for it,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I'd like to the Twins. Also
Speaker 1: don't know what the Twins are doing now. One hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Waukee knows. Wonky would know better than anybody. Would you
Speaker 1: take Dansby Pratt or Nunya's this week at shortstop Dan's Bay.
Speaker 1: I think for me.
Speaker 2: It's probably Dansby unless you're really looking for some speed.
Speaker 2: But Nae Dounia is been awesome for a while now.
Speaker 1: Then they score lots of runs Sounia. I don't have
Speaker 1: no problem with Junia's, but I think, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's more built around, like if I'm going for stolen bases,
Speaker 1: would you drop to activate a Kunya who Ronald Kunya
Speaker 1: is activated off the IL today? Finally they said they're
Speaker 1: going to do this weekend, but that didn't happen. Would
Speaker 1: you drop Ewing Simpson or Braiden Montgomery for activating a Cooney?
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be Braiden.
Speaker 2: I think it's got to be Braiden. I don't have
Speaker 2: any shares of him, so I just need to check
Speaker 2: how he's been doing. It's not been too bad, but
Speaker 2: I think he's still He's probably the drop there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do we think the Royals are going to trade
Speaker 1: either of their faces with or Salvey? Absolutely not there is.
Speaker 1: I mean Salvey could be, but I don't think so.
Speaker 2: If Bobby wit Junior gets traded, we'll do an emergency stream,
Speaker 2: I'll make it.
Speaker 3: It's not happening, that's how yeh yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Get like this. Sometimes there are things that will just
Speaker 1: never happen, and that's one of them that will just
Speaker 1: never happen.
Speaker 2: There's like a not a life ession if there's a
Speaker 2: real life draft for the next ten years of like,
Speaker 2: which player would you start your franchise with? Bobby Wit
Speaker 2: Junior's probably number one for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean he and like you we were
Speaker 1: saying with ce j Abrams, as good as he is offensively,
Speaker 1: he's negative defensive wise, Bobby Wait Junior. The reason he's
Speaker 1: up there is he is so good defensively, so good
Speaker 1: offensive Like, I completely agree. He is top two to
Speaker 1: three in players you would start a franchise with for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll continue kind of taking a look at
Speaker 1: some of your questions. Want to get you guys involved
Speaker 1: in here. But fun fact, the Marlins have lost twelve
Speaker 1: straight games. How fun is this? It's franchise record. They
Speaker 1: are now three games out of the Wildcard, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, I just wanted to point out that's actually
Speaker 1: impressive that they've lost twelve straight and they're only three
Speaker 1: games out of the wild card. But what I bring
Speaker 1: to you is is this enough that the Marlins would
Speaker 1: consider selling now? And does this put sandal Contra on
Speaker 1: a new team? Could that move be positive or negative?
Speaker 1: By the way they are in a weird spot. I
Speaker 1: think if they were to lose like two more and
Speaker 1: continue this kind of route, they would have to sell out.
Speaker 1: But this also team they need to stare at themselves
Speaker 1: after this horrifically bad run. Here do you think Sandie
Speaker 1: Contra is going to be on the move after a
Speaker 1: franchise record losing straight? It's a very fun fact. Le
Speaker 1: It's also under our deep dives in here, but I
Speaker 1: thought it'd be better put out as a fun fact.
Speaker 1: So what do you think is Sandy gonna be on
Speaker 1: his way out if the Marlins start to move? And
Speaker 1: do you think they do?
Speaker 2: Uh? It's it's depressing. The Marlins have had such a
Speaker 2: terrible run for so long, and then they looked great
Speaker 2: earlier in the year and then it all just totally
Speaker 2: fell apart. But I think, based on what you said
Speaker 2: and based on what I said earlier, teams have a
Speaker 2: better chance of making the playoffs than they previously would have,
Speaker 2: just based on the amount of spots available, and I
Speaker 2: think the Marlins still do have a chance trading Sandy.
Speaker 2: You have pretty much no chance if you look at
Speaker 2: that rotation and what would be left without Sandy, Ryan Gusto, Jansen, Junk,
Speaker 2: Tyler Phillips. Hoping that Uri Perez can keep it together
Speaker 2: like it's rough Man. Maybe Brax and Garrett comes up
Speaker 2: and helps them, But I don't think that they can
Speaker 2: trade him right now unless they're gonna do a full
Speaker 2: blown cell.
Speaker 1: And if do you think, you think that's off the
Speaker 1: table then.
Speaker 2: And I and I don't think unless we see them
Speaker 2: lose like every game from now into the deadline, I
Speaker 2: don't think that they can do that to themselves and
Speaker 2: their fans. And I wonder how they're going to reconcile
Speaker 2: the business aspect versus, you know, the fans and selling
Speaker 2: tickets part. But like a team that looks really solid
Speaker 2: this year, Auto Lopez been great, I love Herroberto Hernandez,
Speaker 2: Liam Hicks has been an awesome story. And I think
Speaker 2: if you sell Sandy and you start to sell off,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of the fan base will really
Speaker 2: turn away from them.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean the five hundred fans will go to
Speaker 1: three hundred that show up.
Speaker 2: And that's a good point. And that is a good point,
Speaker 2: and maybe it's not somebody they'll consider so much. But
Speaker 2: I just think the momentum you had earlier in the
Speaker 2: year as a team, if you sell Sandy, I think
Speaker 2: that you sell everybody at that point.
Speaker 1: And I think Sandy's gone. I think he's gone. There
Speaker 1: are only three games out of the wildcards. Should totally
Speaker 1: understand the ten and a half games of the division.
Speaker 1: They're fourth in the division, and despite being three games back,
Speaker 1: they are I have four teams in front of them
Speaker 1: that have a wild card spot. They have a losing
Speaker 1: under five hundred record, and maybe more importantly, Sandio Contra
Speaker 1: only has one more year left on his contract. It's
Speaker 1: an option. It's a club option for twenty twenty seven
Speaker 1: at one million dollars. That's fine, they can trade him
Speaker 1: in the off season. But the return for trading him
Speaker 1: in season to help this year and get a year
Speaker 1: and a half of him versus trading him in the
Speaker 1: off season for one I think the return definitely does change.
Speaker 1: You got teams on their back. I think the Marlins
Speaker 1: do do it. I think they consider it, and I
Speaker 1: think they get a little bit further out as this
Speaker 1: goes on, but oh and ten in the last ten.
Speaker 1: Twelve straight losses is a brutal blow. But this wild
Speaker 1: card thing makes it all finicky, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: annoying when you want some guys to be traded in
Speaker 1: the rookie lookie department. As Merlin Valdes two for three
Speaker 1: with a homer, a walk to RBIs, couple more runs,
Speaker 1: he continues to roll with his fourteenth home run, which
Speaker 1: is absolutely ridiculous. His strikeout rates still up there, but
Speaker 1: as Merlin continues to the magic Man, the Magician continues
Speaker 1: to roll. Actually just got that like a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes ago, the Merlin as Merlin. That's why it did
Speaker 1: not click to me until then, that all. But my
Speaker 1: brain doesn't work like that. An other pirate on the
Speaker 1: opposite end Racks and Ashcraft struggled. There's another struggle outing
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Four earned runs, seven hits, a couple walks
Speaker 1: in six innings. Then we talked about this last week,
Speaker 1: didn't we that you did have some concerns about Ashcraft,
Speaker 1: and I think you felt like maybe it was going
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. So this probably fed that fire
Speaker 1: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny, Well, because you and I did the
Speaker 2: thing a few weeks ago about like Bras and Ashcraft
Speaker 2: or Paul Skiing. Since since I said to Ashcraft, he's
Speaker 2: been awful. Now, Skeens hasn't been great either. I think
Speaker 2: Skeen's had five and runs on his ledger on the weekend.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think a lot of it does seem
Speaker 2: fairly unlucky. Like if you look at the game where
Speaker 2: he allowed five and runs against Philly, it was still
Speaker 2: eight strikeouts in one walk. The other day was five strikeouts,
Speaker 2: two walks, Like that's generally what I'll still defer to
Speaker 2: when a pitcher is going through a bit of a
Speaker 2: rough phase. The babups in those games where he's had
Speaker 2: the bad outings three sixty eight, four sixty seven, three
Speaker 2: eighty five, three eighty five. So I'm still a believer.
Speaker 2: I'm still a believer in Brax and Ashcraft. I think
Speaker 2: if you wanted to bench him right now while things
Speaker 2: are a little rough, I wouldn't really hold it against you.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna pull up the schedule and see it
Speaker 2: looks like the Cubs he has next. I think I'm
Speaker 2: still just starting him. Honestly, I think I would just
Speaker 2: keep rolling him out there. Apologies, Actually it's at Cincinnati next.
Speaker 3: It's not the Cubs. Cubs was the previous one.
Speaker 2: I think I'm still rolling him out there. I believe
Speaker 2: in the talent, and I think this has been more
Speaker 2: just a rough few starts than anything that we should
Speaker 2: take super seriously with Brax and Ashcraft.
Speaker 3: It might just be me.
Speaker 2: I might be overly optimistic because I've been a fan
Speaker 2: of him going back to the preseason, so I might
Speaker 2: be a little bit colored with bias there. But I
Speaker 2: think the skills are still intact. The strikeout to walk
Speaker 2: rate's still twenty percent, a lot of stuff to still
Speaker 2: like here.
Speaker 1: CCD interesting he said, if we can't trade Ashcraft, do
Speaker 1: we hold guy like Brandon Young is on the wires?
Speaker 1: So do you like Ashcraft significantly over Brandon Young?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, I take him over Brandon Young.
Speaker 2: I do like Brandon Young, but Brandon Young's also gonna
Speaker 2: be hurting the whip a little bit too. The Rara
Speaker 2: has been good, but the Whip's still one twenties one
Speaker 2: to thirties range, and I think the upside of Ashcraft
Speaker 2: is still just significantly.
Speaker 1: Higher any innings limit concerns. I think it's a possibility,
Speaker 1: definitely down the wild. I think there's a short lease
Speaker 1: with Braxton Ashcraft. I think the next three start. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think once you get to the end of August
Speaker 1: you might start having them pressing some different starts and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I'm watching this like hawkeyed if
Speaker 1: there's another bad starter too, like how much time do
Speaker 1: you have to make adjustments off of? But he has
Speaker 1: been so good on the season, he does deserve a
Speaker 1: little bit more fantasy grace if you will. A couple
Speaker 1: other rookies or prospects, at least Joshua Baiez. I know,
Speaker 1: I saw that in the chat earlier. When will he
Speaker 1: be up? Nobody knows because he went two for four
Speaker 1: of the double in his thirty first home run. He
Speaker 1: continues to roll big strikeout stuff. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You flip a coin, get a magic eight ball,
Speaker 1: and let's see Twins prospect Kaitlyn Culpepper went one for
Speaker 1: three with a double and a couple of runs scored. Well,
Speaker 1: that's important. He had been out for I want to say,
Speaker 1: like a month or so, so he is back and
Speaker 1: he could be up very soon with the twins and
Speaker 1: not quite a proper or rookie really anymore. But I
Speaker 1: just want to throw this out there. Christian Campbell two
Speaker 1: for three with a couple doubles on Sunday in Triple A.
Speaker 1: What's interesting about this is Christian Campbell in the month
Speaker 1: of July is hitting three sixty four, couple homers, couple steals,
Speaker 1: more walks than strikeouts. He has had a piss poor
Speaker 1: season and after the contract. But you just got a
Speaker 1: wonder could things be starting to turn around? Could the
Speaker 1: boss of Red Sox be sending him out? He would
Speaker 1: be one of those guys I would see in any
Speaker 1: type of big trade that could get sold out. But
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell maybe a dynasty like cheap pickup. If he's
Speaker 1: floating out there this month, things are starting to pick
Speaker 1: back up. On the three up and three down, three up,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, Mike Trout, four for four, You got you
Speaker 1: love to see that's been a while since we've gotten that.
Speaker 1: Bryson Scott three for four game a triple A short
Speaker 1: of the cycle, and he had five RBI. The big
Speaker 1: Yankees output, which the bottom of the lineup did a
Speaker 1: whole bunch and Jeremy Pania doing his two by two
Speaker 1: two for four with two home on the down you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Paul Skens gave up five runs in five
Speaker 1: and one third took the loss on Saturday. I believe
Speaker 1: he is still nine to nine. We're doing this thing again.
Speaker 1: He's going to go into August without double digit wins.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Hunter Green might just not be okay this year.
Speaker 1: Surrendered seven runs, six earned in five and one third.
Speaker 1: There have been trade rumors about him. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we can do with him. And
Speaker 1: then Will Warren three innings, six earned runs against the Phillies,
Speaker 1: bottom of the rotation. Maybe they want to, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they want to try to fix that in the
Speaker 1: trade market. On the injury front, we mentioned Ronald Acune
Speaker 1: was activated from the IL this morning, so he's me
Speaker 1: playing this week. But how about the Mets. The Mets
Speaker 1: placed Juan Soto on the ale with left calf strain,
Speaker 1: expecting him to be out at least three weeks. The
Speaker 1: Mets continue to met Joe Rico and really bad run
Speaker 1: here for Sodo with the injury stuff. I mean so
Speaker 1: happy for him. He was able to film his m
Speaker 1: Stone movie this weekend, but he's got more time to
Speaker 1: do more scenes because he ain't playing baseball.
Speaker 2: It's tough because when he's been out on the field
Speaker 2: this year, he's been awesome. And I want to just
Speaker 2: pull this up to see if it's still correct. What
Speaker 2: I was looking at the other day was the National
Speaker 2: League ops leaders for the season, and the top three
Speaker 2: were Soto, Abrams, and Wood. And I think it might
Speaker 2: have changed a little bit by now, but all guys
Speaker 2: who are involved in that same trade just probably should
Speaker 2: have put it in the fun fact section.
Speaker 3: But pretty cool.
Speaker 2: You don't usually see trades work out like that. But
Speaker 2: I guess it didn't work out for San Diego looking at things,
Speaker 2: but things worked out for the players involved, so it
Speaker 2: was still great.
Speaker 1: But it's just the disastrous season comes to a close.
Speaker 1: They also like Freddy Freeman had like a decent start
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he talked about this might be his
Speaker 1: final start and how he failed the Mets and the
Speaker 1: Lindor stuff floats around. I'm fascet. I actually think, like
Speaker 1: there's so many cool things that are going on, this
Speaker 1: might be the one that is just like I'm corner
Speaker 1: eyeing and I really want to see if anything does
Speaker 1: happen like they've got from Luis Robert to Lindoor to
Speaker 1: some of the younger he's just like, what are the
Speaker 1: Mets do or do they screw it up and just
Speaker 1: not do anything? So watch them over the next week.
Speaker 1: It's going to be really fascinating. But unfortunately you're gonna
Speaker 1: be without Soto for a couple of weeks. Also on
Speaker 1: the injury, Shaele Angliers has mentioned I did have this
Speaker 1: at the top of the show to talk about. I'm
Speaker 1: really not sure what there is to talk about. Necessarily,
Speaker 1: he's got a torn meniscus, she Lenglier does. He's likely
Speaker 1: to miss the rest of the season. Also likely to
Speaker 1: not get traded. Now it's a brutal blow because that
Speaker 1: was a top three or four fantasy catcher. So Ryan
Speaker 1: Jeffers is probably going to be one of the top
Speaker 1: guys to go and pick up off the wire if available.
Speaker 1: Maybe I kind of like Francisco Aavarez or he's in
Speaker 1: trade rumors as well, so those would be my replacements
Speaker 1: for Shaye Lengliers. Any additions you want to throw out there.
Speaker 2: No, I think those are probably the main ones. I mean,
Speaker 2: Jeffers I'm kind of surprised that he's out there, but
Speaker 2: I think it just goes to the depth of catchers
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: There are just so many good ones.
Speaker 2: I'd imagine that even in the fairly shallow leagues you
Speaker 2: could find maybe adult and rushing shown him has been
Speaker 2: pretty solid. Alvarez, like you mentioned, like there are just
Speaker 2: so many options at catcher it's crazy.
Speaker 3: But Jonaheim too bad this year.
Speaker 2: It's weird, like a Catchers just have had this resurgence
Speaker 2: over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: But that's why me and Bubba you always yell at
Speaker 1: each other because he's such a defender of catchers, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, well, dude, you get I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I actually think it's more risk to have early early
Speaker 1: investment on catchers for what they have to return, versus
Speaker 1: the guys that you can get that are going to
Speaker 1: just bounce up and get like like obviously like Ben
Speaker 1: I mean Ben Rice will not have that eligibility. But
Speaker 1: he was like at the tippy top for for me
Speaker 1: this year, and that was a guy worth investing. But
Speaker 1: even like William Contreras, and there's just too much weird volatility.
Speaker 1: I think guy's a Goodman and lingle ears. I think
Speaker 1: I've had a couple of years or they've really established themselves,
Speaker 1: but it's just so much, so much more fun taking
Speaker 1: the catchers later. I enjoy it exceptionally more.
Speaker 3: I see. This is the thing with me.
Speaker 2: I know I'm going to be different from a lot
Speaker 2: of our audience because I play in a lot of
Speaker 2: two catcher leagues, and I think most of the audience
Speaker 2: is probably not in those two catcher leagues. I prioritize
Speaker 2: catcher played appearances. The guys at the top that you
Speaker 2: think can get six hundred plus played appearances from behind
Speaker 2: the plate, there's not too.
Speaker 3: Many of them.
Speaker 2: But I think filling that spot in those leagues with
Speaker 2: a guy that you think can get the five hundred
Speaker 2: six hundred played appearances versus waiting and taking a guy
Speaker 2: who's in the three to four hundred range, I just
Speaker 2: think it does give you a little bit of an advantage.
Speaker 3: I see a lot of like the.
Speaker 2: High stakes successful players, they'll double tap catchers in the
Speaker 2: first six or seven rounds, and it used to be
Speaker 2: something I hated doing, and if it misses it, it
Speaker 2: feels awful like it does with every other position. But
Speaker 2: if you hit on. If you drafted Ben Rice and
Speaker 2: Drake Baldwin this year, you're laughing, You're doing great. If
Speaker 2: you drafted cal Rawley, You're like, why would I ever
Speaker 2: take an early catcher? But I think, like most strategies,
Speaker 2: it just comes down to the specific names that you
Speaker 2: ended up landing on. You know, oh, I'm not taking
Speaker 2: relievers early? Well, what if you took Mason Miller? You know,
Speaker 2: like every strategy work.
Speaker 1: Well, nothing is black and white people talking. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: so many people that talk in exacts, and there's no
Speaker 1: exacts in any of this stuff, where, hey, I don't
Speaker 1: invest in early except you know, there's a couple amazing
Speaker 1: guys or you know it. I completely agree. It's just
Speaker 1: an overarching thing that cal Rowley failed you, where Drake
Speaker 1: Baldwin didn't fail you, you know, or you know, going
Speaker 1: in and being like I'm gonna take alle Hundre Kirk
Speaker 1: later that failed you to your late catcher versus the
Speaker 1: Dylan Dingler. So obviously I don't speak in exacts. You
Speaker 1: don't speak in exacts. I know there's plenty of people
Speaker 1: do that do lots of shows and stuff that ain't
Speaker 1: happening here. The other injuries. Yankees placed Cody Bellinger on
Speaker 1: the tinda il that's not good hamstring strain, and Spencer
Speaker 1: Jones was called up. Corey Seeger is taking some live
Speaker 1: VP for the first time since that back injury that
Speaker 1: happened I believe you yesterday. Matt Chapman is making a
Speaker 1: progress in his rehab on the abdomen injury and could
Speaker 1: be activated on the Giant's next homestand Daniel Blindsay is
Speaker 1: on track for a rehab assignment the week of August third.
Speaker 1: Maybe clos are coming back, and Blake Snell's make another
Speaker 1: rehab start on Wednesday and then will likely only need
Speaker 1: a couple they're saying a couple more before his activation.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe even a little bit sooner. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Those are the injuries. That is all
Speaker 1: the stuff and things, and that is going to take
Speaker 1: us to some home run calls. Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at the home run board where High Cubby sits high
Speaker 1: a top high atop his minions. His people below is
Speaker 1: as Hello, the king of the home runs with forty six,
Speaker 1: League Goldman with forty one, we still only have two
Speaker 1: people in the forties. There's quite an interesting gap. Going
Speaker 1: on there, whips and soflow is out there. I couldn't
Speaker 1: even tell you where I'm at. I don't even remember
Speaker 1: who I had because I was out Thursday Friday. I
Speaker 1: know I was getting close last time, but I'm still
Speaker 1: I think, pretty far from the board. Thirty is the
Speaker 1: low marker here, So home run board right there for
Speaker 1: you making those calls in the discord. The Wan Soto
Speaker 1: Jersey is going to be up for play. High Cubbies
Speaker 1: is running away with it. So let's talk about our
Speaker 1: home run calls here. Who do you got for your
Speaker 1: home run? Best bet? Yours actually is the one I
Speaker 1: almost did, but then I was like, he can't continuously
Speaker 1: just keep hitting homers, can he?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 2: But you see, when it's forty two year old Max
Speaker 2: Scherzer on the mound against James Wood, I think he
Speaker 2: could probably go for a home run hat trick. I
Speaker 2: don't know why Max Scherzer is still pitching at this
Speaker 2: point in time. It's his forty second birthday. Happy birthday, Max,
Speaker 2: You've had a great career. It's time to go sit
Speaker 2: on the rocking poor on the rock and share on
Speaker 2: the porch. He has a ten to twenty three era.
Speaker 2: He is a one to seventy three whip. He has
Speaker 2: allowed nine homers in twenty two innings. That's a three
Speaker 2: point six to eight homer nine, two point zero one
Speaker 2: last year, one point four to five the year before.
Speaker 3: Late career.
Speaker 2: Max Schurzer is a pitching machine when it comes to
Speaker 2: allowing homers. James Wood, cj Abrams, Luis Garcia, anybody on
Speaker 2: the Nationals I'll take today. But like I sold Bubba
Speaker 2: on Friday, I'm not playing it cute anymore. Id Jordan
Speaker 2: Alvarez over the weekend. I'm going with James Wood today.
Speaker 1: Don't blame you. I'm a little bit cute. I'm going
Speaker 1: with William Bray. You going up against Jack Perkins with
Speaker 1: the A's. Perkins give up five homers over his last
Speaker 1: three outings Boston. I think it's time to roll. They
Speaker 1: continue to roll. This is also in Sacramento, so I
Speaker 1: really like, will You're in this spot, so go on
Speaker 1: my bullet? Will you ar Bray you for the home
Speaker 1: run call. Also want to remind you, guys I talked
Speaker 1: about on the last show I was on, and something
Speaker 1: we'll do a little bit more regularly. But let's pull
Speaker 1: this up over on Betting Pros. This is something you
Speaker 1: guys can take advantage of, whether you're betting or making
Speaker 1: home run calls, and something I'm actually in I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw this out here I might start experimenting with.
Speaker 1: Is the amount I feel like this hits on doubles.
Speaker 1: You know, like home run calls are tough to make
Speaker 1: in general, That's why they're big odds. You could, you know,
Speaker 1: bet a home run every single week, get four of
Speaker 1: the five wrong, you get one, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're back in positive ROI. But also the
Speaker 1: amount that this hits on the over one point five
Speaker 1: total basis is something I think is interesting. But on
Speaker 1: Betting Pros, we've got the best home run bets model
Speaker 1: page bettingpros dot Com slash homers that you guys can
Speaker 1: go and check out. If you sign up with Betting Pros,
Speaker 1: you can check all of the bets, but right here
Speaker 1: you can see some of the best bets for home
Speaker 1: run calls, which we have I believe CJ Abrams, EOHANNEO
Speaker 1: Suarez and my cameras right in the way but hit
Speaker 1: probability and then as Merlin the Magician is out there
Speaker 1: with home run probability cj Abrams at thirty point three percent,
Speaker 1: So that is your Max Scherzer love right there. It
Speaker 1: also talks about what they've done over the last ten
Speaker 1: He has the highest edge of any hitter today at
Speaker 1: eight point one percent according to the model. And then
Speaker 1: you guys can look through it. But your three home
Speaker 1: run calls here Eohaneo Swarez, CJ Abrams and as Merlin
Speaker 1: Valdez on the MLB Best home run Bets. It changes daily.
Speaker 1: It's got lots of information you can click and you
Speaker 1: can see variables like the you know, the weather and
Speaker 1: the pitching matchup what boosts it positively. But go check
Speaker 1: it out today. Betting pros dot com slash homers that
Speaker 1: is the vanity url. Bettingpros dot com slash homers. Those
Speaker 1: are the system plays and we'll track and see how
Speaker 1: that goes today. See if any of those picked up. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: as Merlin Valdez was number one and he dropped that,
Speaker 1: so that was a good win for the model. All right,
Speaker 1: best bets, let's take a look at the hard rock
Speaker 1: best bets of the day. Maybe there were some home
Speaker 1: runs you could do in there. We're not playing them.
Speaker 1: What are you rolling with You got some games game
Speaker 1: action going for your hard rock best bet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is Orioles and Tigers under eight and
Speaker 2: a half runs. It's Kyle Bradish versus Kyder Montero. I
Speaker 2: think people would be surprised with how good kider Montero
Speaker 2: has been this year. Whip is one of my favorite
Speaker 2: stats to look at. I think it's more predictive, tells
Speaker 2: you more about a pitcher than ERA does, And if
Speaker 2: you look at the Whip leader boards this year, Jacob
Speaker 2: Mazerowski won, Yam Mooto two, Cam Schlitzler three, Drew Rasmussen four,
Speaker 2: Kider Montero coming in at number five with a point
Speaker 2: nine to six WHIP. On the season, he has a
Speaker 2: three to fourteen ERA. He's been awesome whenever he's been
Speaker 2: given a chance to start, going up against the Ools
Speaker 2: and Kyle Bradish, who was a bit of a punchline
Speaker 2: for the first couple months of the season two ninety
Speaker 2: six ERA point eighty six whip over the last month.
Speaker 2: So targeting two really good starting pitchers who are on
Speaker 2: a roll under eight and a half runs at minus
Speaker 2: one ten.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the in the strikeout market, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Peyton Toley who's up here. Peyton
Speaker 1: totally at six strikeouts plus twenty six percent k percentage
Speaker 1: going up against the Athletics who are eighth worst in
Speaker 1: strikeouts per nine, averaging around eight and a half per
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Speaker 1: There you go, friends. That is the episode the over
Speaker 1: fifty minutes cashed if you played that. I actually thought
Speaker 1: we were pacing really well and then it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to happen. Me and or Eco got too much to
Speaker 1: talk about. We got too many things that are going
Speaker 1: down there. Notes Tomorrow, Prospecting with the Welsh will not
Speaker 1: be on the show because I am not on the show,
Speaker 1: but the video will be here. It'll be on the channel,
Speaker 1: so I will be record it's solo action and then
Speaker 1: it'll be posted up on the YouTube. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for Prospecting, it's going to be still be there.
Speaker 1: It'll just be a little bit different. So make sure
Speaker 1: you were locked into that. I have absolutely I think
Speaker 1: it's Bubba in a rico tomorrow. Does that sound correct?
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know, but we'll say yeah, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: a sure, I think that's.
Speaker 3: What it is. What I told the people on Friday
Speaker 3: is that you tune in. It might be me, and
Speaker 3: you might be me, and Bubba might be you, and
Speaker 3: Boggs Bloomfield could show up.
Speaker 2: Who knows, anybody could show up at some point here,
Speaker 2: So a little bit of a surprise every day at
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