WEBVTT - Weekend Waiver Wire, McKay Called Up! | Fantasy BFFs, Ep. 456 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:12.360 You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Never Tech, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:41.760 didn't he? Now welcome your b your host Bye Gate 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:52.920 from Mane Spun your co host by Die Rob Sat, Francis, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:01:02.520 Frank stand Ball Lady, tell me your best and with 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.680 that we will get you inside Studio thirty four. This 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.160 is the BFS. That is Frank Standfell. I am Greg 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:14.000 Susman coming. Happy Friday to you, t G I F 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.959 happy Keston. Here a day to you, Greg, thank you, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.640 happy to be here. Happy Brendan McKay weekend to you. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.480 How about that It's gonna be a lot of fun 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.160 raised calling on prospects now for all that, Yes, I 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.920 just sleep last night. I slept great man. I played 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.400 two kickball games watching the debate and then pass that. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.440 Oh gosh, all right, well you know I'm not gonna 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.400 watch a debate, so um in thirty seconds or less, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.720 give me your spark notes. Yeah, spark notes. So night 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.440 one of them to be. Elizabeth Warren kind of did 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.759 her thing where she talked a lot of policy people 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.840 get excited. Last night was kind of more of the 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.800 heavy hitters. Kamala Harris like ripped the heart out of 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.520 poor Joe Biden. Uh, and that was really it, and 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.120 that's what you were rooting for. Maybe not to do 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.880 it to Joe Biden, but that's someone that you like. Yes, okay, yes, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.680 so let's good here. Yes. So so last night was 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.400 way more entertaining than that one. Uh and it's fair 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.760 to say, Greg, you know, I'm gonna switch gears here 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.640 hears and mirrors um John Carlos Stanton. I criticized him 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.280 a lot, Greg, I'm getting injured all the time. I 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:20.360 threw a dodgeball last night. I think I like, like 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.400 trained my triestep or something. So there you go. I 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.320 guess I'm in the same boat as Jihan Carlos Stanton. Greg, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.440 I can't even throw a dodgeball without you know, injury myself. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.359 You know what, you kind of deserve it it. Yeah, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.600 I guess so karma, huh, but you know what I'm 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.760 I'm not, but you don't like importantly, it's a little 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.399 more expected. I guess from me, you lost. I don't. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.520 I don't know if we want to lost. You told 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.440 me you lost. I think we lost. This dodgeball league 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.679 that I played it immediately last night was the first 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.560 time I played. They were very big on sportsmanship. So 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.240 it's like, yeah, like wins it, losses don't really matter. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.520 But in my mind, I'm like, yeah, they do so, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.119 but I'm pretty sure we lost. Try and get better, Greg, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.480 that's all we could do one day at a time. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.520 I'm sorry, Waiver Wire weekend, Greg four rio. He's too 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.200 busy for us in San Francisco. Right, it's where he is. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.400 I don't know what he's doing in San Francisco, and 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.720 he has like friends or family in town. He's going 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.480 to Cancoon next week. He's like, yeah, I'm gonna be 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.520 out the next two weeks, So I guess the week 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.000 after that we'll get him on for some football. Maybe. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.440 I think that's that's kind of the plan. Yeah right, 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.160 I mean next week, we're not gonna be here anyway. Right, Thursday, Friday, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.519 we're not here. Yeah. No, July four, no July five. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.200 It's pretty good stuff. Pretty good stuff. Also side note, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.760 if you're a fan of stranger things, they're transforming Coney 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.600 Island into a stranger things and things, and you're in 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.520 New York and you're in New York July fifth through seventh, 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.560 They're they're transforming Coney Island into a stranger things theme. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.920 So I'm probably gonna be there Friday night night looking 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.920 forward to that. Season three released on July four, Graig, Yes, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.600 I'm sure you'll be the only one that is there 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:02.040 next Friday night. That's probably not true, correct, it's going 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.560 to be beyond pact. Yeah, so I mean rightfully, So, 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.400 I mean it sounds awesome. Enjoy, Enjoy, my friend. I 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.040 will spend my JR life for that. Rob Sussman's I 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.200 still haven't got my invite, by the way, probably lost 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.799 in the mail somewhere. I must be lost in the mail, sorry, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.760 because the waiver wire. Sure the big news casting here 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.600 is coming back. If he's out there, go get him. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.920 He's gonna play second base every day. Trevis Shaw's option 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:27.960 the miners. But you already know that. What you don't 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.880 necessarily know, he's enough about Brendan McKay, Frank, Why don't 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.400 you everybody know who this guy is, how badly you 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.159 should want him, and how much you're gonna spend this weekend. Well, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.599 you might have to spend a large chunk of whatever 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.720 you have left, because for me, at least, there's not 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.719 a lot left. But um, if you were frugal throughout 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.800 the course of the fantasy baseball season, you've been saving 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.560 up for some of these prospects. He is probably the 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.400 top pitching prospect left that we're going to get throughout 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.160 the season here, and rightfully so. Third rank prospect in 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.720 the Tampa Bay Rays organization. A one point eight four 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.480 e r A in thirty eight minor league appearances, pitching 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.800 appearances thirty four starts in nineteen. He's six and oh 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.720 with a one point two to e r A, greg 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.320 a zero point eight zero whip eight strikeouts in sixties 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.560 six and two thirds endings. Pitched between Double A and 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:25.400 Triple A Sports Fastball. He has a cutter and a curveball, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.159 which are above average offerings as well. He's a left 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.440 handed pitcher. There's a lot of hype around this guy. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.520 Tampa Bay Rays have kind of, I'm not gonna say 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.040 fallen off, but they haven't performed as well in June 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:37.719 as they have an earlier months. So I think that 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.120 they need a boost to their pitching staff and it's 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.960 coming in Brendan McKay. If you want to pick him up, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.920 I'm gonna say it's probably gonna take fifteen tent in 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.479 your budget. Maybe on the UH on the more aggressive 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.159 end of things, if you have that much money left. Again, 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.279 in the leagues that I played in the fifteen teamers, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.960 I'm a hundred and fifty dollars or less in all 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.880 three of them, and that wasn't a one thousand dollar budget, Greg, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.520 So I'm probably not gonna be able to bid as 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.120 much as I need to to get Brendan McKay. But 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.840 if you want him, I think you're gonna have to 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.960 be as aggressive as fat budget. So do you think 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.640 that a lot of the hype is because he's a 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.960 dual threat player both a pitcher and a hitter, or 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.200 is he because he is that good of a prospect. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.000 I don't. He's not gonna contribute much as a hitter. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.400 I don't know if that that he's gonna hit at all. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.680 Really like he is a two way prospect, and people 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.240 have talked about that, and he was actually performing well, 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.400 you know, in terms of hitting at triple ate this 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.440 here forty nine at bats, really small sample size, but 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.440 to sixty four hundred five one triple slash, a four 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.240 BP in forty nine at bats is pretty good. Four 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.040 home runs, ten r B I's I think originally, Greg, yes, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.760 he was drafted as a hitting prospect but just took 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.160 off as a picture and he's performed so well over 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.520 the past couple of years that it's pitching upside has 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:03.039 far outpaid his hitting upside. So now maybe he gets 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.400 a few appearances as a designated hitter, But I I 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.640 have not read any reports of what the Tampa Bay 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.920 Rays plans are in terms of using him as a 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.840 hitter and pitcher, but I know for sure that they're 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.640 gonna use him as a picture. He will debut tomorrow 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.240 Saturday against the Texas Rangers. Yeah, Brendon McKay, I'm really 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.840 really excited about because, uh, it's it feels like it's 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.080 rare when the Rays call it prospects in the middle 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:26.840 of the year and they give an opportunity to shine. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.560 But he's gonna have it. And he's not calls an opener. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.920 He's not gonna have an opener. He's been brought up 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.280 because he's ready. Is there a chance, I know he 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.240 talked about the fab what you're gonna spend and how 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.000 much you'd like to spend. Is there as he stays 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.440 in the rotation? For example, Brandon McKay, is he up 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.440 to stay I would imagine so great. I mean, look, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.720 they've been rolling out you know, two opener starts per 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.120 week here. You know, we know they have Charlie Morton, 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.080 Blake Snell has struggled mightily. They have Yanni Turinos, who 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.760 has pitched much better recently as well. They have those 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.160 three starting pitchers. I don't think that there's any one 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.920 that I'm missing in terms of like on the I 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.240 l expected to return for this team. Brent honeywell, you 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.000 know he got shut down with an injury as well. Um. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.280 You know there's a few other like fringe e prospects 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.120 who are like on the men back from big injuries, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.200 like jose Dai Lyone, but you know, I haven't really 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.480 heard much about him recently. I think that they actually 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.120 need what Brendan McKay can offer to this team. But 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.960 you know that it's a dangerous territory when it comes 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.080 to prospects. Greg Like, just because I say I think 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.480 that Brendan McKay is gonna be up for the long haul, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.720 It's it's gonna come down to, you know, his performance 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.080 obviously first and foremost. Um Tampa Bay Ray's plans, like 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.360 do they wanna do they want to have him throw 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.520 this many endings and stick in the rotation the rest 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.319 of the season, or do they want to think more 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.520 long term when it comes to Brendon McKay, Like, there 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.360 are a lot of factors that go into this decision. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.599 I think personally, like we normally stay with these prospects. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.000 I think, if he performs well and he helps the 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.319 Tampa Bay Rays, you know, compete in the American League 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.680 East for that American League East title or at least 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.840 hold onto the top wild card spot, and I think 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.200 that he will remain in the rotation. But you know, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:05.800 we would have said the same thing about Kess and 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.800 Hira now we're talking about getting recalled, but he was 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.200 performing well and he still got sent down. So you know, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.240 there are a lot of like random baseball politics involved 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.120 when it comes to these prospects. So I don't know 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.920 that I could give you a definitive answer, but I 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.480 think that they need his arm in that rotation right now. Yeah, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.240 And I think the biggest thing probably for me, why 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.600 I think McKay is here to stay if he performs well. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.080 Of course, it's Tyler Glashness setback, Like that's the that's 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.760 the one thing where you could point out that, hey, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.679 they hope to get him back within the next month, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.680 and now that doesn't look like it's going to be 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.400 the case. He's going to be out for It was 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.440 like it was like a six week setback or something 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.719 that I read. Yeah, I mean maybe August we're looking at. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.839 Maybe he's he's a prize possession to And this is 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.840 an organization that the Tailor Bay Rays are really smart 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.560 in the way that they handle like the business side 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.839 of things, because obviously they're a small market team. They're 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.560 not gonna go out and sign a bunch of free agents. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.199 They need to make savvy trades, which obviously they've done. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.360 They get Tommy Fan, they get Austin Meadows, they get 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.720 Tyler Glass now. But they need these guys to be 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.440 healthy for the long term, so they can't really fool around. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.520 I understand that they want to compete this year and 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.680 for years to come, but Tyler Glass now is a huge, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.880 huge part of their future. And I think you're right 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.199 about that, Greg. The fact that he's had this setback 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.080 and maybe we don't see him until the end of 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.200 July early August. If that that's probably why they're calling 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.360 up Brendan McKay. So you know, look, this is probably 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.360 gonna be like a month audition for him, and if 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.040 he performs well, like once class now is ready to return, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.080 maybe they just leave him in the rotations. That would 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.800 be a great, like a great five man rotation. Charlie Morton, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.080 Blake's now Janni Turinos, Tyler Glass now Brendan McKay. That's 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.240 so far down the line, right Like when I'm trying 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.040 to figure out if Brendan McKay is gonna be up 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.680 for the long don't don't worry about that. I mean, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.800 you pick him up anywhere, and these things play themselves 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.679 out as we saw like with Cameron maybe and a 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.800 Yankee and a roster crunch with eggies like these play 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.720 those that played Its about three. And I'm not worrying 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.560 about Brendon McKay staying up in September at this point 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.960 in any of his limit may shut him down by then. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:08.040 So that five men rotation that you just named for 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.880 the Raise, I'm willing to bet we don't see that 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.440 this year. You will not see that five men rotation 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.559 this year. Not a chance in hell. Yeah, I mean, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.840 look I won't. I can't say I can't say so 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.160 with certainty that it's gonna happen. It will say on 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.360 paper it sounds pretty damn because so we'll see maybe 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.079 that's like the rotation of the future as well, and 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.400 maybe next year we see that or there are a 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.200 lot of things that can happen. But I agree with you, Greg, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.040 I would want to be aggressive on him because again, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:37.079 I think he's probably the the top pitching prospect now 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.560 that's left after Zack Gallant has been called up, and 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.839 the fact that Alex Reyes has been a not great 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.079 and be he's hurt, and Forest Whitley has not been 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.640 good so far this year in the minors as well. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.839 Brendan McKay I believe, is that next pitching prospect that 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.320 that we're gonna see called up. I mean, we're gonna 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.360 get Dylan Seas probably at some point with the White Sox, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.679 but Brendan McKay has more upsete. He's performed much better 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.520 at Triple A this year than Dylan Seize has. Speaking 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.719 prospects of the way and what you got not trying 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.800 to take a dig. It's gonna be a dig. I 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.080 know it's gonna sound Jared Kleinic and Justin Dunn, you 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.000 know who they are. Were those the guys that the 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.040 Mets traded away. They were both participating in the serious 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:20.000 ex m features tame this year for the Seattle Mariners, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.960 and that was part of the Edwin Diez and Robinson 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.280 can trade. It was the Mets can't get out of 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:33.000 their own way right now. I mean, when is enough enough? Craigs. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.000 I I feel bad. I feel bad at this point 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.840 for Mets fans. I mean, like this past week is 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.720 just like a microcosm of like the past I don't know, decade, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.679 the past twenty years for the New York Mets, and 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.880 like all the stuff going on in the locker room 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.960 yesterday and yesterday God Fraser the biggest whole runnies hit 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.440 of his career. That's what Mike Frances said Greg yesterday. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.840 It was bad. So they take the lead in the ninth, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.719 Edwin Dz comes in, he gives have a two run 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.719 home run to Michael Franco to tie the game in 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.040 the bottom of the ninth. Later on in the ending, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.120 Jean sag hits a three run home run. Mind you, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.960 former teammates Jean Sigur and Edwin Diaz, Jerry de Potos 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.559 just looking at both of these guys like, all right, 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.840 traded him away, one guy hitting home run off the 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.640 off the other and the Mexicana met man. That's I 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.200 don't know what else I can say about it, dude, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.800 has nothing to do with the waiver wire. Pretty hot, Yeah, yeah, 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:33.280 I mean pretty hot. You know. Shout out to Matt Modica. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.079 He he mentioned Todd Fraser on Monday, and I think 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.319 if he's still available in deeper leagues, I don't know 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.840 that he's like twelve team worthy of adding, but and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.880 he's been pretty hot. Anything deeper than that, you need 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.960 a corner infielder, you need, you need a you need 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.200 a third baseman. In the month of June, he's hitting 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.079 two sixty eight, seven home runs, twenty one RBIs. That's 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.679 pretty good. I mean, that's got to be among one 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.959 of the one of the best months for a third 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:05.000 basement in this season. Again, seven home runs, twenty one RBI, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.760 eight average p s. He's playing well. And you know 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.360 who else I'll throw in That makes greg dom Smith 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.600 absolutely if he's playing time was there every single day, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.160 He's worth than that. I think he's played four games 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.480 in a row and they basically, look, we know the 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.160 Mets don't care about defense, so they're basically putting out 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.600 their best offensive lineup that they possibly can. And I 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.520 saw this tweeted out by d J Short of Rhoda 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.520 World the other day. If you lower the qualification for 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.680 hitters to and played appearances on the season, Dom Smith 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.840 ranked six in baseball in ops. I mean, this is 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.080 a wild stat. The guys betting three thirty six will 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.160 a one thousand, twenty five ops on the season, seven 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.880 home runs, thirteen RBIs Greg. In the month of June alone, 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.040 he has five home runs. He's betting three oh nine. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.160 So if you just want to this is one of 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.000 those where you kind of just trust the skills right 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.800 now and you trust the pedigree. He the top prospect 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.240 for them, Greg. It didn't really get a fair shake. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.280 I mean really, I mean I felt like, I guess 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.320 he kind of played every day last year. You know what, 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.520 he was hurt, He was in his own way. There's 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.880 a lot of drama, as there always is surrounding the Mats, 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.800 and I felt like everybody you wanted him, they wanted 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.160 him to start, and then they wanted him replaced by 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.440 vite Alonso and it makes sense because you know, pretty good. Hum, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.680 But why can't both of these guys be good? I 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.040 mean Tom Smith plays in the outfield, and I mean, 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.320 is is he much worse than anything else? They're thrown 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.720 out there in left field? Whatever? JD. Davis, Jeff McNeil, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:39.720 who is telling us that yesternight Blake Blake Beeley yesterday? Right? 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.240 Good point? Um? A couple other notes, and before we 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.080 hit the break and go over some of the other 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:49.240 Waiver Wire guys, well Man Schooner's back, Scoot Scooter sto 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.280 just just in time to get traded? Is that what's 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.440 gonna happen here this year? Right? How is if he 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.160 if he plays though up until the trade deadline, let's 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.040 just say, for the next next month, how does he? 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:03.840 How does he fit ins everything that's going on with 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.440 Cincinnati right now? Though in terms of playing time? I 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.240 understand the question. Thank you, you know I had to 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.800 break it down for you. Uh, he probably does. Derek 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.280 Tetrich just go away. I feel like he's cool. Go away. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.800 We could see Paraza move around, as we've already seen. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.720 Scooters is gonna play because they want to trade him. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.080 So I think Scooter plays. I think so too. I 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.000 don't I don't think he's really out there available, a 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.040 lot of people probably stashing him. But it's worth noting 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.040 he's been activated, probably gonna be in the line up tonight. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.280 So so your intention to scoot your alba has got 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.520 hurt last night. That sucks. Yeah, they said it was precautionary. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.800 Let's hope he's all right. We'll see. We're way wire 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:51.680 talk coming here way next, back with you here on 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:56.320 the BFFs. Frank standfill, Greg Sussman hanging out on a 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.160 Friday edition of the program, Trying our best, Frank, That's 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.040 all we can do. That's all we can do, Greg speaking, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.280 trying our best. We'rena play FanDuel night and we'ren try 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.920 our best to beat the crab out of you, as 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.200 we've tried many times. Greg. It's worth mentioning that again. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.760 If you have been in the Fan Duel BFF Contest 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.240 two dollar entry, if you've been in it before, you're 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:18.760 already and it just click on the friends tab on 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.040 the top. Make sure to set your lineup before seven 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.280 pm Eastern time tonight. That's when the main slate will begin. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.800 And I've lowered the amount of people in the contest 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.680 of fifteen so that we can hopefully get enough people 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.240 into play for money. I'm gonna tell you this, Frank 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.520 is not around tonight, right, so I'll be all right, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:43.280 are you are you? You're you're busy. I'm I'm filming 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.399 a studio segment tonight, Craig. But it's really only like 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.200 ten or fifteen minutes. So what time is that you 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.200 got probably be out by you have to be there 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.360 at six, you're gonna be out. That's very quick. Yep, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:58.840 all efficiency, So hopefully your middle name. I'll try. I'll 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.640 check my lineup before already set like a foe line 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.400 up that I'm gonna update later on today. But I'm 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.040 sure i'll make my lineup right after the show probably 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.120 and then not look at it all right, So there's 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.200 also a chance that you'll have players in your lineup. No, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.359 not in a lineup now. I usually look at I 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.240 usually check my lineup again at like sixty five, I 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:16.760 see you guys are out, like, oh crap, and then 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.960 I switch it out. So again, if I am, I 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.960 have not been the problem. If you've been, if you've 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.879 been part of the BFF Avanduel contests, just make sure 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.520 to set your lineup tonight. Again, if your lineup is 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.400 if you're part of the contest but you haven't set 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.240 your lineup by let's say four or five pm tonight, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.680 probably just gonna kick you out and find to join 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.720 the contest because we would like this, want to run 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.920 for money. So please set your lineups. You you picking 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.960 at night? What? Who are you? Who are you picking? 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.720 I can't tell you that, Greig. We are competitors, we're friends. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.399 If you're playing in a you know, in a different contests, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.520 maybe i'd help you out. Are on a different day. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.040 It needs your help. I mean, best friends are supposed 0:18:56.040 --> 0:19:00.960 to you know. I hope each other nah break each 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:06.960 other's you know balls? Yeah? Sure, also breaking balls, were 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.760 also breaking hearts with our picks yesterday. Not so good, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.840 not great. Yeah, Spencer term got hurt. Not my fault. 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.160 We're combined four and seven on the week, Greig. Oh. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.720 And also I learned a very valuable lesson um same 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.240 way that you did in the Orioles and Rangers game 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.960 Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. Don't take the under in Rockies game. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.960 I tried to tell you that I wanted to. I 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.399 wanted to figure it out. On my own, Greg, you 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.000 wanted to be a massive, Yes, is what you wanted. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.160 You should see. I had faith in Walker. Dealer didn't 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.280 work out. No, no, Frank. When I checked the box 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.600 score late last night and I saw that the Dodgers 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.199 alone went over eleven and a half, which was the 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.080 game total, so they scored twelve runs and um, the 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.480 Rocky scored eight, so combine for twenty. Greg, I would say, 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.840 not great at math, but that that was over a 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:05.679 and a half. Sorry, Frank, Sorry, let's let's move. Want 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.960 to talk about he's teenage walker Buellers and that is 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.480 Chris Taylor. We've told you about him a lot. But 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.520 he's still playing every day, still getting done, Frankie. Yeah, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.040 I just still see him available in a lot of 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.600 twelve team leagues, and I just feel like that shouldn't 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.760 be a thing. He's performing really well. I feel like 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.600 you picked him up as well, Greg, And he's been 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.119 stealing a bunch of basses this week. And look in 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.240 the month of June alone, the guy is batting over 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.800 three hundred the past two months and maybe hit three 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.800 hundred and with a nine of four ops. And in 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.159 the month of June, Greg four home runs, nineteen ribbies, 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.040 three stolen bases, three thirteen batting average, nine fifty ops 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.480