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Speaker 1: Susman coming. Happy Friday to you, t G I F
Speaker 1: happy Keston. Here a day to you, Greg, thank you,
Speaker 1: happy to be here. Happy Brendan McKay weekend to you.
Speaker 1: How about that It's gonna be a lot of fun
Speaker 1: raised calling on prospects now for all that, Yes, I
Speaker 1: just sleep last night. I slept great man. I played
Speaker 1: two kickball games watching the debate and then pass that.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, all right, well you know I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: watch a debate, so um in thirty seconds or less,
Speaker 1: give me your spark notes. Yeah, spark notes. So night
Speaker 1: one of them to be. Elizabeth Warren kind of did
Speaker 1: her thing where she talked a lot of policy people
Speaker 1: get excited. Last night was kind of more of the
Speaker 1: heavy hitters. Kamala Harris like ripped the heart out of
Speaker 1: poor Joe Biden. Uh, and that was really it, and
Speaker 1: that's what you were rooting for. Maybe not to do
Speaker 1: it to Joe Biden, but that's someone that you like. Yes, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: so let's good here. Yes. So so last night was
Speaker 1: way more entertaining than that one. Uh and it's fair
Speaker 1: to say, Greg, you know, I'm gonna switch gears here
Speaker 1: hears and mirrors um John Carlos Stanton. I criticized him
Speaker 1: a lot, Greg, I'm getting injured all the time. I
Speaker 1: threw a dodgeball last night. I think I like, like
Speaker 1: trained my triestep or something. So there you go. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm in the same boat as Jihan Carlos Stanton. Greg,
Speaker 1: I can't even throw a dodgeball without you know, injury myself.
Speaker 1: You know what, you kind of deserve it it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so karma, huh, but you know what I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not, but you don't like importantly, it's a little
Speaker 1: more expected. I guess from me, you lost. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we want to lost. You told
Speaker 1: me you lost. I think we lost. This dodgeball league
Speaker 1: that I played it immediately last night was the first
Speaker 1: time I played. They were very big on sportsmanship. So
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, like wins it, losses don't really matter.
Speaker 1: But in my mind, I'm like, yeah, they do so,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure we lost. Try and get better, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's all we could do one day at a time.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Waiver Wire weekend, Greg four rio. He's too
Speaker 1: busy for us in San Francisco. Right, it's where he is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: he has like friends or family in town. He's going
Speaker 1: to Cancoon next week. He's like, yeah, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: out the next two weeks, So I guess the week
Speaker 1: after that we'll get him on for some football. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's kind of the plan. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I mean next week, we're not gonna be here anyway. Right, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: we're not here. Yeah. No, July four, no July five.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good stuff. Pretty good stuff. Also side note,
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of stranger things, they're transforming Coney
Speaker 1: Island into a stranger things and things, and you're in
Speaker 1: New York and you're in New York July fifth through seventh,
Speaker 1: They're they're transforming Coney Island into a stranger things theme.
Speaker 1: So I'm probably gonna be there Friday night night looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. Season three released on July four, Graig, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll be the only one that is there
Speaker 1: next Friday night. That's probably not true, correct, it's going
Speaker 1: to be beyond pact. Yeah, so I mean rightfully, So,
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds awesome. Enjoy, Enjoy, my friend. I
Speaker 1: will spend my JR life for that. Rob Sussman's I
Speaker 1: still haven't got my invite, by the way, probably lost
Speaker 1: in the mail somewhere. I must be lost in the mail, sorry,
Speaker 1: because the waiver wire. Sure the big news casting here
Speaker 1: is coming back. If he's out there, go get him.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play second base every day. Trevis Shaw's option
Speaker 1: the miners. But you already know that. What you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know, he's enough about Brendan McKay, Frank, Why don't
Speaker 1: you everybody know who this guy is, how badly you
Speaker 1: should want him, and how much you're gonna spend this weekend. Well,
Speaker 1: you might have to spend a large chunk of whatever
Speaker 1: you have left, because for me, at least, there's not
Speaker 1: a lot left. But um, if you were frugal throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the fantasy baseball season, you've been saving
Speaker 1: up for some of these prospects. He is probably the
Speaker 1: top pitching prospect left that we're going to get throughout
Speaker 1: the season here, and rightfully so. Third rank prospect in
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays organization. A one point eight four
Speaker 1: e r A in thirty eight minor league appearances, pitching
Speaker 1: appearances thirty four starts in nineteen. He's six and oh
Speaker 1: with a one point two to e r A, greg
Speaker 1: a zero point eight zero whip eight strikeouts in sixties
Speaker 1: six and two thirds endings. Pitched between Double A and
Speaker 1: Triple A Sports Fastball. He has a cutter and a curveball,
Speaker 1: which are above average offerings as well. He's a left
Speaker 1: handed pitcher. There's a lot of hype around this guy.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays have kind of, I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: fallen off, but they haven't performed as well in June
Speaker 1: as they have an earlier months. So I think that
Speaker 1: they need a boost to their pitching staff and it's
Speaker 1: coming in Brendan McKay. If you want to pick him up,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's probably gonna take fifteen tent in
Speaker 1: your budget. Maybe on the UH on the more aggressive
Speaker 1: end of things, if you have that much money left. Again,
Speaker 1: in the leagues that I played in the fifteen teamers,
Speaker 1: I'm a hundred and fifty dollars or less in all
Speaker 1: three of them, and that wasn't a one thousand dollar budget, Greg,
Speaker 1: So I'm probably not gonna be able to bid as
Speaker 1: much as I need to to get Brendan McKay. But
Speaker 1: if you want him, I think you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be as aggressive as fat budget. So do you think
Speaker 1: that a lot of the hype is because he's a
Speaker 1: dual threat player both a pitcher and a hitter, or
Speaker 1: is he because he is that good of a prospect.
Speaker 1: I don't. He's not gonna contribute much as a hitter.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that that he's gonna hit at all.
Speaker 1: Really like he is a two way prospect, and people
Speaker 1: have talked about that, and he was actually performing well,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of hitting at triple ate this
Speaker 1: here forty nine at bats, really small sample size, but
Speaker 1: to sixty four hundred five one triple slash, a four
Speaker 1: BP in forty nine at bats is pretty good. Four
Speaker 1: home runs, ten r B I's I think originally, Greg, yes,
Speaker 1: he was drafted as a hitting prospect but just took
Speaker 1: off as a picture and he's performed so well over
Speaker 1: the past couple of years that it's pitching upside has
Speaker 1: far outpaid his hitting upside. So now maybe he gets
Speaker 1: a few appearances as a designated hitter, But I I
Speaker 1: have not read any reports of what the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Rays plans are in terms of using him as a
Speaker 1: hitter and pitcher, but I know for sure that they're
Speaker 1: gonna use him as a picture. He will debut tomorrow
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Texas Rangers. Yeah, Brendon McKay, I'm really
Speaker 1: really excited about because, uh, it's it feels like it's
Speaker 1: rare when the Rays call it prospects in the middle
Speaker 1: of the year and they give an opportunity to shine.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna have it. And he's not calls an opener.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have an opener. He's been brought up
Speaker 1: because he's ready. Is there a chance, I know he
Speaker 1: talked about the fab what you're gonna spend and how
Speaker 1: much you'd like to spend. Is there as he stays
Speaker 1: in the rotation? For example, Brandon McKay, is he up
Speaker 1: to stay I would imagine so great. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: they've been rolling out you know, two opener starts per
Speaker 1: week here. You know, we know they have Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: Blake Snell has struggled mightily. They have Yanni Turinos, who
Speaker 1: has pitched much better recently as well. They have those
Speaker 1: three starting pitchers. I don't think that there's any one
Speaker 1: that I'm missing in terms of like on the I
Speaker 1: l expected to return for this team. Brent honeywell, you
Speaker 1: know he got shut down with an injury as well. Um.
Speaker 1: You know there's a few other like fringe e prospects
Speaker 1: who are like on the men back from big injuries,
Speaker 1: like jose Dai Lyone, but you know, I haven't really
Speaker 1: heard much about him recently. I think that they actually
Speaker 1: need what Brendan McKay can offer to this team. But
Speaker 1: you know that it's a dangerous territory when it comes
Speaker 1: to prospects. Greg Like, just because I say I think
Speaker 1: that Brendan McKay is gonna be up for the long haul,
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna come down to, you know, his performance
Speaker 1: obviously first and foremost. Um Tampa Bay Ray's plans, like
Speaker 1: do they wanna do they want to have him throw
Speaker 1: this many endings and stick in the rotation the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, or do they want to think more
Speaker 1: long term when it comes to Brendon McKay, Like, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of factors that go into this decision.
Speaker 1: I think personally, like we normally stay with these prospects.
Speaker 1: I think, if he performs well and he helps the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays, you know, compete in the American League
Speaker 1: East for that American League East title or at least
Speaker 1: hold onto the top wild card spot, and I think
Speaker 1: that he will remain in the rotation. But you know,
Speaker 1: we would have said the same thing about Kess and
Speaker 1: Hira now we're talking about getting recalled, but he was
Speaker 1: performing well and he still got sent down. So you know,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of like random baseball politics involved
Speaker 1: when it comes to these prospects. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that I could give you a definitive answer, but I
Speaker 1: think that they need his arm in that rotation right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing probably for me, why
Speaker 1: I think McKay is here to stay if he performs well.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's Tyler Glashness setback, Like that's the that's
Speaker 1: the one thing where you could point out that, hey,
Speaker 1: they hope to get him back within the next month,
Speaker 1: and now that doesn't look like it's going to be
Speaker 1: the case. He's going to be out for It was
Speaker 1: like it was like a six week setback or something
Speaker 1: that I read. Yeah, I mean maybe August we're looking at.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's he's a prize possession to And this is
Speaker 1: an organization that the Tailor Bay Rays are really smart
Speaker 1: in the way that they handle like the business side
Speaker 1: of things, because obviously they're a small market team. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna go out and sign a bunch of free agents.
Speaker 1: They need to make savvy trades, which obviously they've done.
Speaker 1: They get Tommy Fan, they get Austin Meadows, they get
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now. But they need these guys to be
Speaker 1: healthy for the long term, so they can't really fool around.
Speaker 1: I understand that they want to compete this year and
Speaker 1: for years to come, but Tyler Glass now is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge part of their future. And I think you're right
Speaker 1: about that, Greg. The fact that he's had this setback
Speaker 1: and maybe we don't see him until the end of
Speaker 1: July early August. If that that's probably why they're calling
Speaker 1: up Brendan McKay. So you know, look, this is probably
Speaker 1: gonna be like a month audition for him, and if
Speaker 1: he performs well, like once class now is ready to return,
Speaker 1: maybe they just leave him in the rotations. That would
Speaker 1: be a great, like a great five man rotation. Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: Blake's now Janni Turinos, Tyler Glass now Brendan McKay. That's
Speaker 1: so far down the line, right Like when I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out if Brendan McKay is gonna be up
Speaker 1: for the long don't don't worry about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you pick him up anywhere, and these things play themselves
Speaker 1: out as we saw like with Cameron maybe and a
Speaker 1: Yankee and a roster crunch with eggies like these play
Speaker 1: those that played Its about three. And I'm not worrying
Speaker 1: about Brendon McKay staying up in September at this point
Speaker 1: in any of his limit may shut him down by then.
Speaker 1: So that five men rotation that you just named for
Speaker 1: the Raise, I'm willing to bet we don't see that
Speaker 1: this year. You will not see that five men rotation
Speaker 1: this year. Not a chance in hell. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: look I won't. I can't say I can't say so
Speaker 1: with certainty that it's gonna happen. It will say on
Speaker 1: paper it sounds pretty damn because so we'll see maybe
Speaker 1: that's like the rotation of the future as well, and
Speaker 1: maybe next year we see that or there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that can happen. But I agree with you, Greg,
Speaker 1: I would want to be aggressive on him because again,
Speaker 1: I think he's probably the the top pitching prospect now
Speaker 1: that's left after Zack Gallant has been called up, and
Speaker 1: the fact that Alex Reyes has been a not great
Speaker 1: and be he's hurt, and Forest Whitley has not been
Speaker 1: good so far this year in the minors as well.
Speaker 1: Brendan McKay I believe, is that next pitching prospect that
Speaker 1: that we're gonna see called up. I mean, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get Dylan Seas probably at some point with the White Sox,
Speaker 1: but Brendan McKay has more upsete. He's performed much better
Speaker 1: at Triple A this year than Dylan Seize has. Speaking
Speaker 1: prospects of the way and what you got not trying
Speaker 1: to take a dig. It's gonna be a dig. I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna sound Jared Kleinic and Justin Dunn, you
Speaker 1: know who they are. Were those the guys that the
Speaker 1: Mets traded away. They were both participating in the serious
Speaker 1: ex m features tame this year for the Seattle Mariners,
Speaker 1: and that was part of the Edwin Diez and Robinson
Speaker 1: can trade. It was the Mets can't get out of
Speaker 1: their own way right now. I mean, when is enough enough? Craigs.
Speaker 1: I I feel bad. I feel bad at this point
Speaker 1: for Mets fans. I mean, like this past week is
Speaker 1: just like a microcosm of like the past I don't know, decade,
Speaker 1: the past twenty years for the New York Mets, and
Speaker 1: like all the stuff going on in the locker room
Speaker 1: yesterday and yesterday God Fraser the biggest whole runnies hit
Speaker 1: of his career. That's what Mike Frances said Greg yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was bad. So they take the lead in the ninth,
Speaker 1: Edwin Dz comes in, he gives have a two run
Speaker 1: home run to Michael Franco to tie the game in
Speaker 1: the bottom of the ninth. Later on in the ending,
Speaker 1: Jean sag hits a three run home run. Mind you,
Speaker 1: former teammates Jean Sigur and Edwin Diaz, Jerry de Potos
Speaker 1: just looking at both of these guys like, all right,
Speaker 1: traded him away, one guy hitting home run off the
Speaker 1: off the other and the Mexicana met man. That's I
Speaker 1: don't know what else I can say about it, dude,
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the waiver wire. Pretty hot, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean pretty hot. You know. Shout out to Matt Modica.
Speaker 1: He he mentioned Todd Fraser on Monday, and I think
Speaker 1: if he's still available in deeper leagues, I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's like twelve team worthy of adding, but and
Speaker 1: he's been pretty hot. Anything deeper than that, you need
Speaker 1: a corner infielder, you need, you need a you need
Speaker 1: a third baseman. In the month of June, he's hitting
Speaker 1: two sixty eight, seven home runs, twenty one RBIs. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean, that's got to be among one
Speaker 1: of the one of the best months for a third
Speaker 1: basement in this season. Again, seven home runs, twenty one RBI,
Speaker 1: eight average p s. He's playing well. And you know
Speaker 1: who else I'll throw in That makes greg dom Smith
Speaker 1: absolutely if he's playing time was there every single day,
Speaker 1: He's worth than that. I think he's played four games
Speaker 1: in a row and they basically, look, we know the
Speaker 1: Mets don't care about defense, so they're basically putting out
Speaker 1: their best offensive lineup that they possibly can. And I
Speaker 1: saw this tweeted out by d J Short of Rhoda
Speaker 1: World the other day. If you lower the qualification for
Speaker 1: hitters to and played appearances on the season, Dom Smith
Speaker 1: ranked six in baseball in ops. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a wild stat. The guys betting three thirty six will
Speaker 1: a one thousand, twenty five ops on the season, seven
Speaker 1: home runs, thirteen RBIs Greg. In the month of June alone,
Speaker 1: he has five home runs. He's betting three oh nine.
Speaker 1: So if you just want to this is one of
Speaker 1: those where you kind of just trust the skills right
Speaker 1: now and you trust the pedigree. He the top prospect
Speaker 1: for them, Greg. It didn't really get a fair shake.
Speaker 1: I mean really, I mean I felt like, I guess
Speaker 1: he kind of played every day last year. You know what,
Speaker 1: he was hurt, He was in his own way. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of drama, as there always is surrounding the Mats,
Speaker 1: and I felt like everybody you wanted him, they wanted
Speaker 1: him to start, and then they wanted him replaced by
Speaker 1: vite Alonso and it makes sense because you know, pretty good. Hum,
Speaker 1: But why can't both of these guys be good? I
Speaker 1: mean Tom Smith plays in the outfield, and I mean,
Speaker 1: is is he much worse than anything else? They're thrown
Speaker 1: out there in left field? Whatever? JD. Davis, Jeff McNeil,
Speaker 1: who is telling us that yesternight Blake Blake Beeley yesterday? Right?
Speaker 1: Good point? Um? A couple other notes, and before we
Speaker 1: hit the break and go over some of the other
Speaker 1: Waiver Wire guys, well Man Schooner's back, Scoot Scooter sto
Speaker 1: just just in time to get traded? Is that what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen here this year? Right? How is if he
Speaker 1: if he plays though up until the trade deadline, let's
Speaker 1: just say, for the next next month, how does he?
Speaker 1: How does he fit ins everything that's going on with
Speaker 1: Cincinnati right now? Though in terms of playing time? I
Speaker 1: understand the question. Thank you, you know I had to
Speaker 1: break it down for you. Uh, he probably does. Derek
Speaker 1: Tetrich just go away. I feel like he's cool. Go away.
Speaker 1: We could see Paraza move around, as we've already seen.
Speaker 1: Scooters is gonna play because they want to trade him.
Speaker 1: So I think Scooter plays. I think so too. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think he's really out there available, a
Speaker 1: lot of people probably stashing him. But it's worth noting
Speaker 1: he's been activated, probably gonna be in the line up tonight.
Speaker 1: So so your intention to scoot your alba has got
Speaker 1: hurt last night. That sucks. Yeah, they said it was precautionary.
Speaker 1: Let's hope he's all right. We'll see. We're way wire
Speaker 1: talk coming here way next, back with you here on
Speaker 1: the BFFs. Frank standfill, Greg Sussman hanging out on a
Speaker 1: Friday edition of the program, Trying our best, Frank, That's
Speaker 1: all we can do. That's all we can do, Greg speaking,
Speaker 1: trying our best. We'rena play FanDuel night and we'ren try
Speaker 1: our best to beat the crab out of you, as
Speaker 1: we've tried many times. Greg. It's worth mentioning that again.
Speaker 1: If you have been in the Fan Duel BFF Contest
Speaker 1: two dollar entry, if you've been in it before, you're
Speaker 1: already and it just click on the friends tab on
Speaker 1: the top. Make sure to set your lineup before seven
Speaker 1: pm Eastern time tonight. That's when the main slate will begin.
Speaker 1: And I've lowered the amount of people in the contest
Speaker 1: of fifteen so that we can hopefully get enough people
Speaker 1: into play for money. I'm gonna tell you this, Frank
Speaker 1: is not around tonight, right, so I'll be all right,
Speaker 1: are you are you? You're you're busy. I'm I'm filming
Speaker 1: a studio segment tonight, Craig. But it's really only like
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen minutes. So what time is that you
Speaker 1: got probably be out by you have to be there
Speaker 1: at six, you're gonna be out. That's very quick. Yep,
Speaker 1: all efficiency, So hopefully your middle name. I'll try. I'll
Speaker 1: check my lineup before already set like a foe line
Speaker 1: up that I'm gonna update later on today. But I'm
Speaker 1: sure i'll make my lineup right after the show probably
Speaker 1: and then not look at it all right, So there's
Speaker 1: also a chance that you'll have players in your lineup. No,
Speaker 1: not in a lineup now. I usually look at I
Speaker 1: usually check my lineup again at like sixty five, I
Speaker 1: see you guys are out, like, oh crap, and then
Speaker 1: I switch it out. So again, if I am, I
Speaker 1: have not been the problem. If you've been, if you've
Speaker 1: been part of the BFF Avanduel contests, just make sure
Speaker 1: to set your lineup tonight. Again, if your lineup is
Speaker 1: if you're part of the contest but you haven't set
Speaker 1: your lineup by let's say four or five pm tonight,
Speaker 1: probably just gonna kick you out and find to join
Speaker 1: the contest because we would like this, want to run
Speaker 1: for money. So please set your lineups. You you picking
Speaker 1: at night? What? Who are you? Who are you picking?
Speaker 1: I can't tell you that, Greig. We are competitors, we're friends.
Speaker 1: If you're playing in a you know, in a different contests,
Speaker 1: maybe i'd help you out. Are on a different day.
Speaker 1: It needs your help. I mean, best friends are supposed
Speaker 1: to you know. I hope each other nah break each
Speaker 1: other's you know balls? Yeah? Sure, also breaking balls, were
Speaker 1: also breaking hearts with our picks yesterday. Not so good,
Speaker 1: not great. Yeah, Spencer term got hurt. Not my fault.
Speaker 1: We're combined four and seven on the week, Greig. Oh.
Speaker 1: And also I learned a very valuable lesson um same
Speaker 1: way that you did in the Orioles and Rangers game
Speaker 1: Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. Don't take the under in Rockies game.
Speaker 1: I tried to tell you that I wanted to. I
Speaker 1: wanted to figure it out. On my own, Greg, you
Speaker 1: wanted to be a massive, Yes, is what you wanted.
Speaker 1: You should see. I had faith in Walker. Dealer didn't
Speaker 1: work out. No, no, Frank. When I checked the box
Speaker 1: score late last night and I saw that the Dodgers
Speaker 1: alone went over eleven and a half, which was the
Speaker 1: game total, so they scored twelve runs and um, the
Speaker 1: Rocky scored eight, so combine for twenty. Greg, I would say,
Speaker 1: not great at math, but that that was over a
Speaker 1: and a half. Sorry, Frank, Sorry, let's let's move. Want
Speaker 1: to talk about he's teenage walker Buellers and that is
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor. We've told you about him a lot. But
Speaker 1: he's still playing every day, still getting done, Frankie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just still see him available in a lot of
Speaker 1: twelve team leagues, and I just feel like that shouldn't
Speaker 1: be a thing. He's performing really well. I feel like
Speaker 1: you picked him up as well, Greg, And he's been
Speaker 1: stealing a bunch of basses this week. And look in
Speaker 1: the month of June alone, the guy is batting over
Speaker 1: three hundred the past two months and maybe hit three
Speaker 1: hundred and with a nine of four ops. And in
Speaker 1: the month of June, Greg four home runs, nineteen ribbies,
Speaker 1: three stolen bases, three thirteen batting average, nine fifty ops
Speaker 1: for Chris Taylor, and it got off to a really
Speaker 1: slow started hit one in the month of April. But
Speaker 1: this is really really cheap exposure to an awesome lineup
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's playing every day at
Speaker 1: least until Chris Taylor is back. I will mention that
Speaker 1: this is potentially a short term acquisition because once, uh,
Speaker 1: once Corey Seeger is back, he might lose some every
Speaker 1: day at bats Chris Taylor, that is. But you know,
Speaker 1: for the time being, I feel like you should be
Speaker 1: owned in more leagues than he is. Greg, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. I picked up Chris Taylor in the pit
Speaker 1: League couple of days ago and feeling good about it,
Speaker 1: So that was a good selection. Also, I want to know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Dodgers raw stripling, probably well
Speaker 1: worth picking up if he's out there, Frank, is he
Speaker 1: gonna remain in the rotation? Why wouldn't he? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: just I always just I worry about the Dodgers starting pitchers,
Speaker 1: So I think, are they gonna let him go the
Speaker 1: full workload? Right? So I think that's a fair question.
Speaker 1: I think you could see just him in urias Um
Speaker 1: piggyback off each other. I think that's possible. But I
Speaker 1: think Strippling is the guy right now. So he made
Speaker 1: his last start came a couple of days ago again Diamondbacks,
Speaker 1: and the only let him go three innings and then
Speaker 1: you asked for the next three. So maybe he's just
Speaker 1: building a barberstright. How many pitches he throughout? I threw
Speaker 1: sixty pitches? Okay, so's billing a barberstraight. Next time the
Speaker 1: be able to throw eighty pitches. I hope you're right. Look,
Speaker 1: look it's at least worth a gamble. I agree with
Speaker 1: you on that. So you pick him up. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: drop anything of value. I guess that's what I'm getting at,
Speaker 1: because by the time he gets stretched out like something
Speaker 1: else is gonna happen, and it's like, is he gonna
Speaker 1: have his his spot in the rotation? And just feel
Speaker 1: like the Dodgers always fanagal things. It seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: rich Hill, and the diagnosis that we got yesterday from
Speaker 1: Virginia Zaka is that rich Hill is gonna be out
Speaker 1: you know, for quite some time. He's got that so
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying when it comes to row stripling.
Speaker 1: But I just I always have my reservations when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Dodgers. I have the trip question to day.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. We'll get well, well, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: lead off the next second. Um, I was just excited,
Speaker 1: I said, I saw it. Oh yeah, I forgot about this.
Speaker 1: I always been excited about it. You want to talk
Speaker 1: like Kevin Evan Newman? Are you kidding me? Well, how
Speaker 1: about we get Steve on the line downstairs too. He
Speaker 1: loves Kevin Newman, and rightfully so, Greg. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: like Chris Taylor. Kevin Newman's just not owned in enough league.
Speaker 1: Like I said that, I said, it's like a month ago.
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, look, we're it seems like we're
Speaker 1: regurgitating things. We are, but people aren't listening enough. Exactly.
Speaker 1: He's only owned nineteen percent of leagues and and now
Speaker 1: on the season, he's betting three thirty three with four homers,
Speaker 1: twenty seven RBIs and five stolen basis and he's leading
Speaker 1: off every day for the Pittsburgh Pirates. So what we
Speaker 1: said about him was he's like another one of these
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil, David Fletcher types. It makes a lot of contact,
Speaker 1: doesn't strike out. He's gonna hit for good batting average,
Speaker 1: not gonna blow you away in terms of his power,
Speaker 1: but he actually has a little bit more speed than
Speaker 1: some of those guys too. He has five stolen bases
Speaker 1: on the season, and he was a top ten ranked
Speaker 1: prospect for the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's just second base shortstop
Speaker 1: eligibility on yeahoo, I just once again, I'll just strow
Speaker 1: the name out there. You're playing a twelve team league.
Speaker 1: You lost Trevor Story. It's gonna keep throwing these names
Speaker 1: out there. Man. It's just not owned in enough leagues,
Speaker 1: ninetent it's just not enough. It's not enough because he's
Speaker 1: been two good Sin's getting called back up. But we
Speaker 1: try explaining that a couple of weeks back. He needs
Speaker 1: to be owned. Certainly is a middle infield in both
Speaker 1: team leagu Absolutely, I agree. And that's why you know
Speaker 1: a lot of these names that we'll talk about. I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll get to some of the if you want to
Speaker 1: get into some of the deeper names that I have
Speaker 1: on here, Greg Well, I'll throw out JP Crawford, who
Speaker 1: you know not gonna hit for a lot of power,
Speaker 1: has a little bit of speed, but he's hitting for
Speaker 1: a lot of batting average right now. And the way
Speaker 1: that the Seattle Mariners are structured, you know, I think
Speaker 1: they have an eye on the future. I think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna let Jp Crawford play every single day twelve
Speaker 1: team leagues and I'm not really doing it there, but
Speaker 1: anything deeper, you need a middle infielder, a short stop
Speaker 1: in fifteen teamers and ale only David Crawford's playing every
Speaker 1: day's providing batting average, and he's probably gonna score runs,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe from here on out he'll give
Speaker 1: you like six to eight homers, six to eight steals,
Speaker 1: something like that. So I thought it was worth mentioning Greg.
Speaker 1: How about Corey Dickerson. It seems like there's a spot
Speaker 1: righterson to me. Yesterday Blanca went on the I L
Speaker 1: and Brian Reynolds is like a little bit banged up,
Speaker 1: and Corey Dickerson four for four game. You know what
Speaker 1: he's capable of when he when he's in the lineup, Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has certainly has power. That's real. I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised for who he get traded though. I think
Speaker 1: Corey dick is always one of these guys that would
Speaker 1: help him to maybe because then he I mean, I
Speaker 1: assume he would go somewhere where he plays every day.
Speaker 1: He should be a d H somewhere, correct. I don't
Speaker 1: know that he'll find that playing time elsewhere. About how
Speaker 1: about bat Tampa Bay? They like him, you know, they
Speaker 1: traded him for what That was just a weird trade,
Speaker 1: wasn't it. Yeah? It was, didn't it? Just like DFM
Speaker 1: or something, and we were all shocked. Everyone was touting
Speaker 1: him as a sleeper and then they cut him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was performing well though. I feel like that was
Speaker 1: the weirdest thing the past couple of years. Coorey Dickerson
Speaker 1: gona sacrifice his power for batting average. He's actually hitting
Speaker 1: more for batting average. So since he's returned this month,
Speaker 1: he's patting three eight one. He only has one home run.
Speaker 1: It's forty two at bats. He has eight doubles as well,
Speaker 1: So maybe if you're playing points leagues, he's a little
Speaker 1: bit better there. He's gonna hit some bubles, but he's
Speaker 1: really sacrificed some of the home run power in recent
Speaker 1: years to provide more batting average. So that's where we're
Speaker 1: at with Corey Dickerson. Um, if he remains on the
Speaker 1: Pirates when everyone's healthy, there could be a potential log
Speaker 1: jam and the Pirates out field, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of talent there right now, Starli Marte once, Gregory Polanco's back,
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds has performed well for them. Milky Cabrera has
Speaker 1: randomly performed well for them too. But I could see
Speaker 1: them trying to flip him at the trade deadline. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But but Corey Dickerson, you're playing
Speaker 1: five outfit of the leagues. It's like anyone who has
Speaker 1: a pulse and is somewhat performing okay, is gonna be
Speaker 1: on your radar. And that's what Corey Dickerson is doing
Speaker 1: right now. Let me give you another name as well
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues. That's Garrett Hampson, who were all on
Speaker 1: coming into this season. He really struggled. Even when Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy and David dhal Um and so many members and
Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon gets hurt for Colorado. He played every day
Speaker 1: and he just didn't get enough hits. He got sent
Speaker 1: back down, he got passed in the pecking order by
Speaker 1: Brendan Rodgers. Well, we're at it again with Brendan Rodgers, hurt.
Speaker 1: Whichever's story hurt. Garrett Hampson is going in an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play at short stop with the Colorado Rockies every
Speaker 1: single day. Maybe it will be different this time. Maybe
Speaker 1: he can take what he learned on the farm and
Speaker 1: come up and help fantasy leagues. I think in deeper
Speaker 1: leagues it is absolutely worth a shot to go up
Speaker 1: and pick out Garrett Hampson, I agree with you. And
Speaker 1: another shout out to Matt Modica who mentioned two names
Speaker 1: on Monday that have really stuck out to me. Todd Fraser,
Speaker 1: we already went over and he said he picked up
Speaker 1: a few shares of Garrett Hampson with the news that
Speaker 1: was going on with Trevor story, and yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: small sample size, but the past two games he has
Speaker 1: his multi hit games, and both of them he has
Speaker 1: you know, he had two hits. Last night, he had
Speaker 1: a run scored, he had a he had a triple.
Speaker 1: And in the night before that he had two hits,
Speaker 1: he had two run scored, he had a double, and
Speaker 1: he had a stolen base. So all throughout the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson was someone who hit for batting average, and
Speaker 1: he has legitimate speed. He has like thirty forty stolen
Speaker 1: base upside, or at least that's what he did in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues. Makes a lot of contact. That's why
Speaker 1: it was so weird when he came up this year
Speaker 1: and he was striking out all over the place. These
Speaker 1: things always they don't directly translate all the time. I
Speaker 1: realized that, you know, there could be guys that come
Speaker 1: up who were great contact hitters in the minors and
Speaker 1: it just can't handle major league pitching and they strike
Speaker 1: out a lot. But his track record says that he
Speaker 1: was a really good contact hitter in the miners, really
Speaker 1: good speed, and he's gonna have the opportunity, at least
Speaker 1: in the short term right now to play every day
Speaker 1: for the Colorado Rocky. So shout out to Modica. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a really good job as well. Multi
Speaker 1: hit games back to back for Garrett Hampson. Greg absolutely
Speaker 1: another name you have listed here, and I'm really glad
Speaker 1: you wrote him because I've been trying to talk about
Speaker 1: him actually the last couple of days. That's Matt Beatye
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, who's getting who's gotten some ample playing
Speaker 1: time as of late, and all he's done is hit.
Speaker 1: Over the past week, he has had some power. We
Speaker 1: have seen that to home runs here on the season.
Speaker 1: In June, he's been playing a lot in the month
Speaker 1: of June. Do we think it continues at least in
Speaker 1: the short term. Again, that's the case that we've been
Speaker 1: talking about with a lot of these players, especially in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues. And you know something that we've talked about
Speaker 1: in the past is a lot of people ask us
Speaker 1: rest of Sea in questions, Greg r Os, who would
Speaker 1: you rather have this guy? This guy? And when it
Speaker 1: comes to at least in rodo leagues and looking head
Speaker 1: to head league suit, I mean their weekly leagues. You
Speaker 1: want to you want to win your matchup you got
Speaker 1: you have to look at the season as a I
Speaker 1: need to win this week. And you know, if if
Speaker 1: Matt Beatie sticks around, then sure, that's fine. But I
Speaker 1: think at least if you go on a week to
Speaker 1: week basis. He's playing right now for the Dodgers again,
Speaker 1: extremely cheap exposure to a really good lineup, and in
Speaker 1: the month of June he's batting well over three batting average.
Speaker 1: He has two home runs, he has six ribbies. You
Speaker 1: look at his minor league numbers, he was someone who
Speaker 1: makes a lot of contact, doesn't necessarily hit for a
Speaker 1: lot of power. But if he makes a lot of
Speaker 1: contact hitting in his Dodgers lineup, we'll probably have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to drive in some r b I s. If
Speaker 1: he's on base, you know, really good hitters behind him,
Speaker 1: gonna be able to score some runs. He can do
Speaker 1: some things. He's like a lower ranked prospect in the
Speaker 1: Dodgers organization. He's already twenty six years old, so he
Speaker 1: doesn't have tremendous subside. He's not someone that we're expecting
Speaker 1: to take off and you know, like the world on fire,
Speaker 1: but you want to win week by week, and right
Speaker 1: now Matt Beatie is playing for the Dodgers, so I
Speaker 1: thought he was worth mentioning, especially in deeper leagues. Totally agree,
Speaker 1: and especially this weekended. You can pick him up. They're
Speaker 1: in Colorado. They're in Colorado this weekend. Yeah, pick hi up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pick him up right now, playing tonight the next couple
Speaker 1: of days, might be able to grab a few home runs.
Speaker 1: I know. I just said that he's not necessarily a
Speaker 1: big power hitter. But these balls, just the balls are
Speaker 1: flying out like crazy this year, and especially in corsefield.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just you can't dispute that, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, no doubt about it. Anybody else that's worth
Speaker 1: deep league pick ups? Anybody else you want to note
Speaker 1: Before we get over to this closure conversation, I'll just
Speaker 1: once again circle back to Jason Kittness. A lot of
Speaker 1: these names we mentioned lady this week. Um, it seems
Speaker 1: like there's a glut of middle infielders, from Kevin Newman
Speaker 1: to Chris Taylor to JP Crawford to Jason Kittness. But
Speaker 1: I've actually seen him floating around out there in a
Speaker 1: few fifteen team mixed leagues and he's hot right now.
Speaker 1: So again, the Indians lineup is actually coming around with Marca,
Speaker 1: know who we talked about yesterday, Greg and Lindoor has
Speaker 1: been really good and dare I say over the past
Speaker 1: seven days, Zairamirez making a little bit of noise, so
Speaker 1: let's see if h let's see if that could stick.
Speaker 1: But the Indians lineup is playing really well. Um and
Speaker 1: Jason Kidness again, some cheap exposure there all right, before
Speaker 1: all of these set of men cost you a billion
Speaker 1: dollars of your fab on the waiver wire. You want
Speaker 1: to do it early. We've kind of suggested this to you.
Speaker 1: We want to reiterate it again right now. Guys like
Speaker 1: Shane Green, Guys like Will Smith, Alex colom A, they
Speaker 1: very well could be traded within the next month. When
Speaker 1: they do, the members of your legal are going to
Speaker 1: flock to the waiver wire and first come, first serve,
Speaker 1: and on Sunday when your waivers go through. If it's not,
Speaker 1: they're going to spend way too much money on mediocre relievers.
Speaker 1: You look at guys like Shane Green, We're pretty comment
Speaker 1: that Joehanmennaz is going to be the closer there. You
Speaker 1: look for the White Sox. If Alex Colons traded and
Speaker 1: Kelvin Herrera is not, kind of makes sense there. But
Speaker 1: the Giants, well, they don't really win all that much anyway,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter. But the point is Will Smith,
Speaker 1: Shane Green, Alice Colen. Even if Felipe Vascas we've heard
Speaker 1: rumors of him to the Dodgers this week, Kyle Krik
Speaker 1: seems like the guy that could step up for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: There there's a lot of options. You've gotta pay attention
Speaker 1: and do it now if you have the roster space. Yeah, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think it's imperative right now to at least pay attention.
Speaker 1: And this is more so for deeper leagues. Again, if
Speaker 1: you play in twelve team roto, you want to have
Speaker 1: these guys on your radar. As we get closer to
Speaker 1: the deadline, you know, maybe just handcuff your players. You know,
Speaker 1: if you own a Felipe Vascas, pick up a Kyle Craig.
Speaker 1: Especially if Felippe A Vascas were to go to the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers. He's not closing there, so that would
Speaker 1: ask that would absolutely sink you. So you're gonna need
Speaker 1: some saves in his absence. So pay attention to these situations. Greg.
Speaker 1: I wrote about this on Patreon earlier this week. Ding
Speaker 1: to get a head start. I ranked these in order
Speaker 1: the relievers I believe who are most likely to be traded,
Speaker 1: and I ranked it Will Smith, Shane Green, Alex Colum A,
Speaker 1: Phelippe A Vasquez, and then I'll throw in Ken Giles
Speaker 1: of the Toronto Blue Jays and Sergio Romo. Again, if
Speaker 1: these guys are traded, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're
Speaker 1: going to land in spots where they will be the closes. Well,
Speaker 1: they probably won't. For the for the probably will not.
Speaker 1: I think there are a few competitive teams that are
Speaker 1: gonna be in the market for closers, Greg, like Boston
Speaker 1: obviously stands out. They could be in the market for
Speaker 1: like a Vasquez or Ken Giles. I think that would
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. But you're right that some
Speaker 1: of these guys could land instead of situations, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to pick up those saves that are left
Speaker 1: behind moving forward. So with the Giants, I think I
Speaker 1: feel like the Giants are are probably one of the
Speaker 1: toughest situations to figure out, Greg, because if they trade
Speaker 1: away Will Smith and I'll ask you your opinion. Tony Watson,
Speaker 1: Sam Dyson and Mark Lanson. You have three guy so
Speaker 1: it's like, who are they gonna go to? Tony Watson
Speaker 1: has been the best of the bunch off. He's the
Speaker 1: lefty I meant, so, I mean personally, I feel like
Speaker 1: it would be Tony Watson. How do you feel I
Speaker 1: agree it will be Tony Watson. I feel like we've
Speaker 1: seen this before. I I don't think they go back
Speaker 1: to Mark Ladson. I think that's some cost at that point.
Speaker 1: At this point, actually have no idea what's doing this.
Speaker 1: It's like he hasn't he hasn't done well. You know?
Speaker 1: Is that one of the worst reliever contracts in previous
Speaker 1: years history history? What was it was like four or
Speaker 1: six years? Yeah, I mean it's ridiculous, and from year
Speaker 1: one it was disaster. I shalk about his aging. Ye
Speaker 1: got a lot of money there and he performed really
Speaker 1: well in the past but has not worked out with
Speaker 1: the Giants. Was a break. We'll give you the Jason
Speaker 1: start trim your question of the day, We'll go over
Speaker 1: some two star pitchers for next week, and we'll wrap
Speaker 1: things up. So this week here I'm on BFFs. His
Speaker 1: day three now, still still walking. It's a really long walk.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a long walk. Maybe Monday we won't
Speaker 1: have it right. We're just the BFFs man. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't rank very high on the pecking order any down.
Speaker 1: We don't paying attention to music. I don't even I
Speaker 1: never even care about music. I just want different means.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could have got like anything. It's Friday, Friday,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, right, or like the little pump a
Speaker 1: little pop, you know, get us pumped up for the weekend. Greg,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, yeah, we used to
Speaker 1: do that. I don't know back when we are on
Speaker 1: the radio. We've gotten souls. They are all right, we tried.
Speaker 1: That's all we can do. Well, what's what's what's your
Speaker 1: trivia question? Greg? It's not like with shriving questions, question
Speaker 1: of the week? It works? Are you ready? So almost
Speaker 1: on the almost all the answer? Oh boy, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Mike Trout is three stolen bases away
Speaker 1: from joining the two hundred two hundred club doo hundred
Speaker 1: home runs, two hundred stolen bases, right, he needed two
Speaker 1: players already in the two hundred two hundred club who
Speaker 1: are currently on a big league roster. Two hundred home runs?
Speaker 1: Do you under steals? Ryan Ron's gonna be one, right,
Speaker 1: you have two hundred steals? Probably Ryan bros. The first
Speaker 1: thing that comes to mind makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, I don't know, if I don't know,
Speaker 1: if he has the steels, they might not have the
Speaker 1: home runs either. It doesn't really have a lot of longevity.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, Carlos Gonzalez. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: Greig are on a major league roster? Is he on
Speaker 1: the cups on their bench? Right? That was a name
Speaker 1: that came to my mind. I like that one, Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: I like that one. Well, these older guys that I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of don't really steal basis. No pool holes. I
Speaker 1: mean pools used to like steal like ten nothing crazy
Speaker 1: gold sh never did enough. That's not that's not terrible.
Speaker 1: It's not a terrible guess. It probably doesn't have two hundred,
Speaker 1: probably not, probably like in the low one hundreds range.
Speaker 1: I like Ryan Run Carlos Gonzalez. If we want to
Speaker 1: stick with that, just locking those two. You want more
Speaker 1: time to think about it, It's fine, that's fine, big yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, and the answer are Ryan Braun is correct,
Speaker 1: Carlos Gonzalez is not. Cargo does not have enough stolen basis.
Speaker 1: So sorry, okay, well you know the other answer. I
Speaker 1: now know the other answer. Yes, hit me, do I
Speaker 1: tell you don't want to guess anymore. Caros Gonzalez, for
Speaker 1: the record, has one two steels in his career. So sorry,
Speaker 1: I'll give you some players who are not right theyven'll
Speaker 1: help you. Andrew McCutcheon did not have enough stolen basis.
Speaker 1: Curtis Granderson not enough stolen basis. Poule gold Street that
Speaker 1: not enough stolen basis. Justin Upton does not have enough
Speaker 1: stolen basis. I don't know. Under Pence does not have
Speaker 1: enough stolen basis. That's a that's a good guess to
Speaker 1: Adam Jones does not have enough stolen basis. Jail Tubi
Speaker 1: does not have enough home runs. Carlos Goldman does not
Speaker 1: have enough home runs. Right, Gardeners don't have enough home runs.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything. I don't have anything good. What
Speaker 1: we're looking for? Ian Kindler? Oh, that's that makes sense.
Speaker 1: We're looking for Ian Kingsley. I forgot about the old Kindler. Really,
Speaker 1: I guess does he play with the potterish? He does?
Speaker 1: But does he actually like play play? And I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's the question. Greg, we haven't really spoke about Kessing
Speaker 1: here today. Is there anything much more to say about him?
Speaker 1: Let's go or hype that he's back? What do you
Speaker 1: want us to say? I put out a poll before
Speaker 1: the show, just asking people in a vacuum if both
Speaker 1: of these players are available who would you rather have
Speaker 1: this weekend? In fab it's actually really close seventy eight
Speaker 1: votes in Who is the Choices? It's Kessing here versus
Speaker 1: Brendan McKay Kessing here, it's I mean, it's it's really close,
Speaker 1: though it shouldn't be very close. I think it should.
Speaker 1: It's the top hitting prospect who's recalled versus the top
Speaker 1: pitching prospect who just got called up. Oh, we've ever
Speaker 1: seen Brendon mcca in the majors before using here and
Speaker 1: already had major success in the majors. That's fair, But
Speaker 1: I mean everyone's looking for pitching though, no doubt, but
Speaker 1: like Brandy McKenney, more pitching now than hitting. Brenda McCay
Speaker 1: could go back to the minors on Sunday. I mean
Speaker 1: we've seen that, We've seen the Brewers do it before
Speaker 1: here again, but this time they optioned Travis Shaw, like
Speaker 1: the guy that Keston Hero replaced. I would say it's Kessing.
Speaker 1: Hero's job is much more concrete. You're right about I
Speaker 1: much rather have Kesting here. It's Kesting here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know people are people are people are excited about
Speaker 1: Brenda McKay man. Let me throw this out of you, Frankie,
Speaker 1: what do you you know? Desperate? We all over pitching.
Speaker 1: We went over it throughout the week. Eleven of the
Speaker 1: top twenty starting pitchers did not bust, so nine busted.
Speaker 1: That's correct. If you have the first overall pick, and
Speaker 1: fantasy you take Mike shot you don't think about it, right? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: What are you number two? Would you do this all
Speaker 1: again and just take Max Scherzer? No? Really, people are
Speaker 1: always years that yell and Bellinger having. It's just can
Speaker 1: you really forego that upside that well over three batting
Speaker 1: average and that the combination of power and speed. I
Speaker 1: think once you get into pick four, yeah, you're in
Speaker 1: the discussion there for Max Scherzer. But I think as
Speaker 1: of right now, the way things are going, I think
Speaker 1: the top three for next year is cemented in some order.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna be first and who's gonna
Speaker 1: be third. I mean, and Yellows might go first overall.
Speaker 1: I mean, we might see Mike Trout get get unseated
Speaker 1: as the first overall pick. It really might happen, like
Speaker 1: the first time in a decade. Yeah, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be crazy. But I think as of
Speaker 1: right now, the top three picks for next year our Trout, Yellows,
Speaker 1: and Bellinger, and then once we get into that fourth pick,
Speaker 1: you have a bunch of people in that discussion. Max
Speaker 1: Scherz er like, I'm just thinking about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: like Tom's probably not in that category, but I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking about it again. Because Mike Keeber league that number
Speaker 1: one overall this year and Yelling was captain and Trout
Speaker 1: was kept and Bellinger was kept. Actually, so the top
Speaker 1: hit her on the board was Mookie Bats. And last
Speaker 1: time I had first pick overall was a few years
Speaker 1: ago and I wound up taking Cleaning Kershaw at one
Speaker 1: that year, and I don't think I made the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to. I felt like I could
Speaker 1: find the hitting and pitching. We're always des for pitching,
Speaker 1: and I took Kershaw. This time I got one overall,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think about it again. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I'm taking Mookie Bats and hometown. Heller was like, I
Speaker 1: think you should take Suzer, And I'm pretty sure I
Speaker 1: brought that up to you as well when we were talking.
Speaker 1: You did because you probably consider because we were talking
Speaker 1: about your league and your dad had this option of
Speaker 1: trout versus Suzer, right, and in points leagues, pitching is prevalent.
Speaker 1: You need pitching and correct and he wound up taking trout, yes,
Speaker 1: and I got sus at three. Right. I'm and I
Speaker 1: know it's this year with this how little pitching there is,
Speaker 1: but I'm just wondering yet again, and I'm doing it now.
Speaker 1: At the end of June. We shouldn't discount pitching anymore.
Speaker 1: As not that we in particular discount pitching. Is we
Speaker 1: like pitching, but like, just do it, man. But it's
Speaker 1: so tough to say, though, Greg, because so many guys
Speaker 1: like outside of Scherzer, who is going to be a
Speaker 1: lock every year until he's not. He's getting up there
Speaker 1: in age. He has so many endings on that arm.
Speaker 1: I love Max Chers. I love watching him pitch the
Speaker 1: whole black eye Mad Max, two different colored eyes, phenomenal picture.
Speaker 1: I mean, the pitch makes is outstanding. He's going to
Speaker 1: be Max Scherzer. He's gonna be the Iron Man until
Speaker 1: he's not. I mean, the same thing happened to Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: So look, I'm not rooting for it to happen. I
Speaker 1: want Max Scherzer to be the first pitture drafted for
Speaker 1: years to come. But there's gonna be that one year
Speaker 1: where he's taking fifth six overall, Greg, and he lets
Speaker 1: a lot of people down. So it's just so hard
Speaker 1: to say you want to use your first round pick
Speaker 1: on pitching, because, as we just went over earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, nine of the top twenty starting pitchers have
Speaker 1: been busts, and a lot of those guys were drafted
Speaker 1: in the second round. To Greg, I mean Blake's now,
Speaker 1: it was wrapped in the second round, and what he's
Speaker 1: giving you thus far has been a bust. Aaron Nola,
Speaker 1: who we thought, we at least felt, even if he
Speaker 1: didn't have the biggest upside, he had a safe floor
Speaker 1: coming into the year, Greg, I think that was fair
Speaker 1: to say about Aaronola. He hasn't had a safe floor. Now.
Speaker 1: It looked pretty good against the Mets yesterday, so hopefully
Speaker 1: you can build for the most part. I mean, a
Speaker 1: lot of these early round pitchers haven't panned out. So
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's as easy as just saying
Speaker 1: you need to invest in pitching early on, because a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys let you down. To It's I
Speaker 1: don't want to go as far as say like it's
Speaker 1: a guessing game, but it's it's hard. It's hard to
Speaker 1: dodge bullets. Like the top five seem like they're they're
Speaker 1: pretty safe Ensureserd gram Sale, Verlander, Cole, and I know
Speaker 1: that that was like the a lot of people's top five.
Speaker 1: So if that's the top five again going into next year,
Speaker 1: I can see like wanting to spend a mid to
Speaker 1: late first round on one of those guys. They seem
Speaker 1: pretty damn safe, right, But it's like, yeah, once you
Speaker 1: get into like the second third round, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's if it's as easy as just saying, hey, you
Speaker 1: need to invest in pitching in your second and third
Speaker 1: round picks because a lot of these guys haven't worked out.
Speaker 1: We're in a weird climate of pitching right now, very
Speaker 1: much our speaking of pitching, who's in two star pitchers
Speaker 1: that you're looking at next week? I think the Padres
Speaker 1: guys stand out to me first and foremost. Greg I'll
Speaker 1: throw Logan Allen out there, uh and Matt Strom. I
Speaker 1: looked into the San Francisco Giants, not that you need to.
Speaker 1: You can just look down at their lineup and see
Speaker 1: that it's not good. But they have the lowest team
Speaker 1: OPS against left handed pitching so far this year, and
Speaker 1: both of their two star weeks come against the Giants,
Speaker 1: which is awesome, and then the Dodgers, which is not
Speaker 1: awesome because in that same category team OPS the Digers
Speaker 1: ranked tenth, and we know that they are they are
Speaker 1: very tough lineup. So I'm just hoping with both Logan
Speaker 1: Allen and mats Strom that what they do against the
Speaker 1: Giants is so good that even if they're just okay
Speaker 1: and don't completely get blown up against the Dodgers, they'll
Speaker 1: give you a successful to start a week. Greg. So
Speaker 1: those are probably two of the two of the top guys.
Speaker 1: You know. I threw Dylan Bundy, Chase Anderson, Tyler Mallley
Speaker 1: on the list. I don't really love any of those guys.
Speaker 1: Like the matchups are not great. Dylan Bundy at Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay at Toronto, that's fine. Toronto is gonna strike out
Speaker 1: a lot, exactly, Like that's that's the issue. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to look at it on the year,
Speaker 1: Toronto is a team that you have been able to
Speaker 1: stream against. They get they strike out a lot um
Speaker 1: and then with Tampa Bay, they've been cold in the
Speaker 1: month of June. So if you want to take a risk,
Speaker 1: I guess Dylan Bundy there, Like at least he's not
Speaker 1: in Camden Yards, which is like a really tough place
Speaker 1: to pitch, you know. I'm just I'm grasping at straws
Speaker 1: here for Dylan Bundy. Greg, It's just there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of great to start pictures. Who are waiver wire
Speaker 1: additions for next week. It's Chase Anderson at Since and
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh. He's not very good. Uh, Pittsburgh, you know,
Speaker 1: their offense has performed better lately as well. Tyler Malley
Speaker 1: has been up and down this year. I mean we
Speaker 1: were excited about him earlier on and then he went
Speaker 1: through a stretch where he pitched not so well. Um,
Speaker 1: and he faces the Brewers and Cleveland. The Brewers are
Speaker 1: a little bit colder right now. Um. But but on
Speaker 1: the opposite end of the spectrum, the Indians are not.
Speaker 1: So it's not really a great to star week. I'll
Speaker 1: throw out a few single start streams that you can
Speaker 1: add for next week, Greig. That's Dakota Hudson at the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. Dakota Hudson I think it's like smoking
Speaker 1: mirrors right now, Like the underlying numbers say that he's
Speaker 1: going to regress at some point, but it's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen against the Giants, especially in Oracle Parks. So I
Speaker 1: like that. And then too to Atlanta Braves pitchers and
Speaker 1: Annibal Sanchez and Julio Tehran facing off against the Miami Marlins. Craig, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Anibal Animal Sanchez, um nationals your animals, Animal Sanchez. He
Speaker 1: was on the Atlanta Braves last year. He was staking
Speaker 1: animal Sanche. Of course, uh faces off against the Marlins
Speaker 1: next Thursday, on July four, which is tonight tonight as
Speaker 1: well against right, we'll see how Anaval Sanchez. I'm streaming
Speaker 1: him there, and it's a revenge game. Friendibal Santez, Greg,
Speaker 1: let's go. It seems like every team Annibal Sanchez faces
Speaker 1: at this point probably gonna be a revenge game. My
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins are also revenged double revengeing animals. Ancere has
Speaker 1: been around a long time, he really has. He's pitching
Speaker 1: better lately. To man, yeah, totally. I picked him up
Speaker 1: this week because I wanted to stream against the Tigers.
Speaker 1: Like that's another the top three teams to stream against
Speaker 1: other Tigers, the Giants and the Miami Marlins. We know
Speaker 1: that to be true at this point, so I picked
Speaker 1: him up for this week to face the Tigers, and
Speaker 1: I get the old double dip because next week I
Speaker 1: get the Marlins. Animal Santra is actually traded by the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, originally back in the day by the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and the Hanley Ramirez deal that brought the Marlins.
Speaker 1: Hanley Ramirez, Wow, traded Sanchez Hanley Ramirez. He's used Delgado,
Speaker 1: Harvey Garcia for Josh Beckett, Gianimal Mota and Mike Lowell.
Speaker 1: I like the way you said that name, Greg Jim
Speaker 1: sanas Gania. I didn't say it all right. I'm next
Speaker 1: out the window, Sean Glostamakia. As you covered here on
Speaker 1: a Friday, Uh, it should be fun. Should be fun.
Speaker 1: As it continues touring around the a f C East,
Speaker 1: it's Shawn Glashtamakia out the window and they come your
Speaker 1: way next. For the final five minutes of the program,
Speaker 1: Let's do our best bets? Were ever fright? We're four
Speaker 1: and seven on a week. That's that's bad, not great,
Speaker 1: not our best week. It's okay. Hopefully we turn it around.
Speaker 1: Let's make it get a nice little pictures dual tonight
Speaker 1: between Mike Saroka and Jacob deGrom. Could be let's make
Speaker 1: a let's make a three picks today so we can
Speaker 1: at least try to get back to five. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're four and seven. All right, you start, Craig, I
Speaker 1: am not starting here. Starts how it works, Merrill Kelly
Speaker 1: against Well, let's let's gonna do this. Let's just kind
Speaker 1: of go down. Let's go down the matchups here. We
Speaker 1: love against John means it's in Baltimore. Over under is
Speaker 1: nine down. Every matchup is what you're about to do. Admittedly,
Speaker 1: I don't really have my best bets ready, Greg, so
Speaker 1: I've just kind of given up on the best bets.
Speaker 1: There pretty much are worst bets. I guess here. I'll
Speaker 1: do it plus one sixteen the night I'll start us
Speaker 1: off plus one sixteen. The Rangers are in Taba lands
Speaker 1: Lands on the Mound. We discussed a lot how he's
Speaker 1: pitched better over under eight, so we spent a bit
Speaker 1: of a pictures duel here. It's Joni Turinos versus lands
Speaker 1: Lend given the Rangers their underdogs to night in table.
Speaker 1: I like that. I'll think lands Let plus one sixteen.
Speaker 1: I really do like that, Sarka and the ground pitching matchup, Greg,
Speaker 1: it's going for it, man like it's a really low number,
Speaker 1: and I understand like most of the time, and you
Speaker 1: were right about this the other day with the Marlins,
Speaker 1: but those are like different pictures on the mound. You know,
Speaker 1: it was like it was Zac Gallen against I don't
Speaker 1: know whoever was pitching for the Cardinals that day. Like
Speaker 1: it wasn't a great pitching matchup by any means, so
Speaker 1: that made sense. But the ground versus is the Gnats.
Speaker 1: It's Patrick Corman versus Zach Gallen. Was yeah, exactly, So
Speaker 1: it's like, al right, it wasn't like the greatest pitching matchup,
Speaker 1: like it was very obvious. I think the ground verse
Speaker 1: Sarrocca is a little bit better in terms of pitching
Speaker 1: match up here. I like the under here, and you
Speaker 1: know it's a low number, but I like the undergo.
Speaker 1: I needed no brainer over too, all right, what he got.
Speaker 1: And at least it's Lisa Hernandez against Vine Malasquez, my man,
Speaker 1: Vinnie Alasquez. The over unders eight Ni Cloudy. We love
Speaker 1: this guy for dead. We literally undertaker in him. He's back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the over unders eight like it did soccer bed Frank,
Speaker 1: the thing is Elicia or Hernan? Is that actually pitched
Speaker 1: pretty well? All right? Facing the Phillies though I know
Speaker 1: it's in my auntie, but it makes sense. It makes sense.
Speaker 1: So those of the three were locking in. That's what
Speaker 1: I want to lock in Miami and the Philadelphia Phillies
Speaker 1: over eight, the Medicine Brads under seven and a half
Speaker 1: and the Rangers the underdogs. Lance Lane going up against
Speaker 1: Yanni Cherinos in Tampa Bay. St. Pete is this game
Speaker 1: in St. Peter and Montreal. Greg is in St. Petersburg.
Speaker 1: I don't say that around game Rancy. He'll rip whatever
Speaker 1: hair he has left out. He doesn't rip his chest
Speaker 1: hair out. Good Frank. We have about a minute to
Speaker 1: go here in the program. What are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 1: What am I doing this weekend? Greg? That's a that's
Speaker 1: a good question. Oh, tomorrow is the celebration of my
Speaker 1: niece's second birthday. The other day was her official birthday.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, we are going to my aunt's house out
Speaker 1: in Long Island. She has a huge pool. I'm crossing
Speaker 1: the fingers hoping that you know the rain that's in
Speaker 1: the forecast for tomorrow. Yeah, I mean that's what it
Speaker 1: says on the little Apple weather app you got you
Speaker 1: have a little thunderstorm emoji there. It could be like
Speaker 1: a summer shower. So I'm hoping we don't get rained
Speaker 1: because supposed to be very hot tomorrow. Jump in the pool,
Speaker 1: celebrate my niece's second birthday. Um, should be a lot
Speaker 1: of good. What do you got going on? We're good,
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's sunny all that. What do you got this week?
Speaker 1: I got my I'm also to Long Island tomorrow, actually
Speaker 1: to my aunt's. Well, let's meet up. We going Franklin Square.
Speaker 1: I'm going to East Northport. I couldn't tell you where
Speaker 1: this is if you drop me off there, I couldn't
Speaker 1: find my way home. Supposed to be high nineties. Never
Speaker 1: ending with this? What is this? This isn't our aunt's marching?
Speaker 1: Who were doing? Yeah? I Greg? Admittedly it is not like.
Speaker 1: If there's one thing you can't change on the show,
Speaker 1: it's the intro, it's the outro. What do you what
Speaker 1: do you got? Greg? H that's it, man, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's Frank Staffel. I'm Greg Susman. We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: There's down stairs. I can't promise it, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I have a great week and everybody, let's see on Monday.
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