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Speaker 1: I am Greg sum Frank. That's come on. How's it
Speaker 1: going here? Happy Tuesday to your bud. A lot going
Speaker 1: on in all sports, really basketball, crazy night last night,
Speaker 1: A lot to talk about fantasy baseball as well. Before
Speaker 1: all that, I'd sleep, Buddy, I slept well. I was late.
Speaker 1: I was very tired. During the fourth quarter last night,
Speaker 1: I was I was, I was fading, but I pushed
Speaker 1: through it made the end of the game, and then
Speaker 1: it sleeps up. Well, I don't snooze, as you know,
Speaker 1: I don't presus snooze button. I'm up with the first alarm,
Speaker 1: but laidhi bed a little bit longer than normal today.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you, buddy. I stayed up late because
Speaker 1: I wanted to watch all these press conferences and stuff.
Speaker 1: Bob Meyer's come into the podium. Once I hear Bob
Speaker 1: Bob Meyers comes to put it, I'm like, well, first off,
Speaker 1: gms don't normally talk after playoff games, so this is
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty crazy. So I had to stay up
Speaker 1: and watch it, which I did. I couldn't. I couldn't
Speaker 1: do that. I was I was way to die yesterday.
Speaker 1: What do you think about everything that's going on? Typical
Speaker 1: for the friend next to be Honestly, that's when my
Speaker 1: first thoughts go, really yeah, I'm like, oh, I feel
Speaker 1: bad for the rent. No, I feel bad. The next
Speaker 1: there's a joke every time he wasn't gonna come anyway,
Speaker 1: it'd just be happy that you didn't get set up
Speaker 1: for disaster. No, they are. They're still gonna sign him.
Speaker 1: No they're not. Yeah, they are from his perspective, Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't he opt into next year? One year thirty one mills,
Speaker 1: sit out, make your money, and then next year you
Speaker 1: sign another. So I will tell you the answer that question.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the answer that question. What what's that
Speaker 1: he doesn't trust the Warriors anymore? Isn't trust the Warriors
Speaker 1: medical staff anymore? I thought about that as well. But
Speaker 1: I also thought that everything that they said and did
Speaker 1: last night was calculated, like Bob Meyer's going to the
Speaker 1: podium and doing this whole sob story. Somebody get this
Speaker 1: guy an oscar, you know, m hm. I felt that
Speaker 1: was that was all like pandering to long term wanting
Speaker 1: Katie to be there. When Clay Thompson was talking, he
Speaker 1: was saying, you know, obviously Durant's the best player in
Speaker 1: the world, something like that. They never admitted before before
Speaker 1: this game. Greg. The report that we had the other
Speaker 1: day was the Warriors believe that Kevin Durant can play,
Speaker 1: and then once he plays and goes down and tears
Speaker 1: his achilles, everyone loves the guy now. Really, I mean,
Speaker 1: all everything that they're doing right now is calculated because
Speaker 1: they want him to come back. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: agree with that I think. I think that Bob Myers
Speaker 1: LEGI really felt bad. And I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was he felt bad because the Warriors pressured him to play.
Speaker 1: He felt bad because Kevin Durant pushed himself to play.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to say it was an Academy
Speaker 1: Award style. I mean, this dude was emotional for real.
Speaker 1: I I really don't believe. I'm sure there was some
Speaker 1: raw emotion, but like the whole sniffling, like he didn't
Speaker 1: shed a single tear. Yes he didn't. He didn't, I
Speaker 1: mean I think he did. Sure he was sad, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's sounded pretty sad man. Well, I mean it's just
Speaker 1: a terrible job all around. Like if you're if you're
Speaker 1: climb and watching why that game? Is it a terrible
Speaker 1: job all around? I don't think that's fair because you
Speaker 1: let your client play that game. Is he wants to
Speaker 1: win a championship? Is none of this is all about
Speaker 1: two days ago we killed what about getting paid for
Speaker 1: what about getting your max contract? Two days ago we
Speaker 1: killed him for not pushing through. Clay Thompson play is
Speaker 1: playing an eighty percent on his Hamstreet. But we held him.
Speaker 1: We never doubted that he was actually injured. We doubted that.
Speaker 1: Why he couldn't just push the play, he couldn't just
Speaker 1: show up well, for this exact reason, we knew that
Speaker 1: it was more than likely that he was going to
Speaker 1: reinjure himself if he played on this, and we heard
Speaker 1: dr Ay talk about it. We didn't care. We didn't care.
Speaker 1: We wanted to see that. That's that's what his agent
Speaker 1: is supposed to care about. That's what the organization is
Speaker 1: supposed to care about. You don't know, No, certainly not
Speaker 1: long term of the organization. The organizations try to win
Speaker 1: a championship. Yeah, but at the he may not be
Speaker 1: back in this organization. They don't care it. But but
Speaker 1: at the expense of yes, a superstar player, yes, and
Speaker 1: try to win a championship. I don't know. It's me
Speaker 1: up agreed. They won championships without it. And for all
Speaker 1: you know, we have no idea. Rich Kleinman may have said,
Speaker 1: It's true, we have no idea. You should sit out,
Speaker 1: and Durant may say, f that I want to play,
Speaker 1: knowing the risk. Now, Steve Kerr has said that he
Speaker 1: was told that Durant was not at risk of re
Speaker 1: injuring himself. That it was pain tolerance, and he said
Speaker 1: the decision to play was left up to I mean,
Speaker 1: everything from every sports doctor last night was like, this
Speaker 1: was obviously gonna happen if you took one wrong step,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what he did. And if you if
Speaker 1: you watch the replay, it's actually one of the most
Speaker 1: gross things that I've ever seen, because if you've seen
Speaker 1: any of the replays of like past up on his half,
Speaker 1: really slow it down, you actually see something pop up
Speaker 1: his leg. We've like seen torn achilles happened before, we've
Speaker 1: never actually seen it. You saw it. You saw something
Speaker 1: in his calf pop upwards. It was disgusting to watch.
Speaker 1: You watched it pop. You hear about like hearing a
Speaker 1: pop and athletes hear it. And we thought Kim Durrette
Speaker 1: heard the first time. We thought Carl Anthony Talons earlier
Speaker 1: this year heard a pop and he came back a
Speaker 1: couple of days later. You saw the pop this time
Speaker 1: last night, and it was it's add As I said,
Speaker 1: as a Nick fan, it's a joke how this continues
Speaker 1: to happen to the next He was never gonna come here.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. The injury last night saved us heartache
Speaker 1: of waiting until July one just to see Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: signs with the Brooklyn Nets, so that he signed to
Speaker 1: the next Still that he signed the next now maybe
Speaker 1: next year. Like we said, he's gonna opt into that
Speaker 1: one year deal. Why wouldn't he? It paid thirty one
Speaker 1: million dollars to get it. Yeah, I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at de Marcus Cousins. I'm trying to think that the
Speaker 1: most recent player to have an Achilles injury Marcus Cousins. Right,
Speaker 1: he's still kind of working his way back. I don't
Speaker 1: know where he was way back from that anymore, but
Speaker 1: it took him about a year. Well, like, doesn't he
Speaker 1: not look as mobile as he once was? But I
Speaker 1: wonder how much is that related to his latest injury.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, um, but he got injured around
Speaker 1: February of Rant's older than Cousins. He's gonna be thirty
Speaker 1: two when he returns. Colby was never the same? Is
Speaker 1: that true after the Achilles? I mean he's still jacked
Speaker 1: up forty shot tonight. So in terms of mentality, he
Speaker 1: was fine. So I was talking to Doc Jock about
Speaker 1: this last night. We were texting and earlier this morning,
Speaker 1: So Durant could turned thirty one in September this year
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, we won't see him play again until
Speaker 1: he's thirty two, so it's not a doc joke about this.
Speaker 1: And he actually had a really good um Marcus Cousins eight,
Speaker 1: So I mean I think two or three years might matter.
Speaker 1: He basically said, Um, where is his text? Uh? He
Speaker 1: said that ultimately Durant will be able to still shoot
Speaker 1: the crap out of the ball. He'll still be able
Speaker 1: to score because he's Durant, but he won't be nearly explosive.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, but he's not really someone of course
Speaker 1: it helps to have explosiveness, but he's not someone that
Speaker 1: relies on it though, Greg, I mean, he's a finesse player.
Speaker 1: He could shoot over anybody. Let me take the obvious
Speaker 1: comparison with this injury. Does he become Karmalo Anthony? But
Speaker 1: him at his peak, He him and his peak had
Speaker 1: a better jump shot than Carmelo Anthony. So like he
Speaker 1: can age well with this injury. I believe that, like
Speaker 1: he'll still be able to shoot over people. He's still
Speaker 1: a seven footter who shouldn't be able to move the
Speaker 1: way that he does shoot the way that he does,
Speaker 1: He's just bigger than anyone. He could shoot over anybody.
Speaker 1: He'll still be able to spot up, shoot threes, mid
Speaker 1: range fadeaways. He'll be fine. Like, is he gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: be out and running on fast breaks doing like crazy
Speaker 1: dunks or anything anymore. Probably not. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: never really a huge part of his game anyway. But
Speaker 1: I think that if there's anyone that can age well
Speaker 1: from an injury like this, it would be Kevin duran
Speaker 1: based on how great of a shooter he is. Let
Speaker 1: me throw this out at you as a Nick fan,
Speaker 1: Frank Durrett opts out, would you offering a max contract
Speaker 1: knowing he's not playing the next year? Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think you know, I've already had people hit me up
Speaker 1: today say, oh, the Nicks are gonna be this stupid
Speaker 1: organization to offer Kevin Durant a four year max deal
Speaker 1: and he's gonna miss one of one of those years.
Speaker 1: The Mix won't be the only team that's gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now. If he opts out
Speaker 1: of this deal, the Mix will not be the only
Speaker 1: team to offer him a max contract. See, I could
Speaker 1: see the Brooklyn Nets doing it. I could see the
Speaker 1: Clippers still doing it. The Mix would not be the
Speaker 1: only team to do that. Greg, That's that's personally what
Speaker 1: I feel. What do you think? I agree with you?
Speaker 1: I agree with you last night's NBA Finals game when
Speaker 1: I said it in the recap, the range of emotions
Speaker 1: all night long for fans of both teams, I thought
Speaker 1: it was really remarkable. I thought that the Warriors get
Speaker 1: up early with the ramp. They look like a totally
Speaker 1: different team, and they were hitting everything in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: UM and the Warriors around high, but you kind of
Speaker 1: just felt the Rappers were coming and pushing and pushing
Speaker 1: and pushing, and at some point they we get over
Speaker 1: the edge. While Leonard was awful in the third quarter
Speaker 1: and the fourth quarter, light bulb turns on and he
Speaker 1: was unstoppable for that two minute stretch we had ten
Speaker 1: points and he was he was unbelievable. Where I was
Speaker 1: most impressed about with Kawhi Leonard last night, it was
Speaker 1: both following his misses and his teammates mrs. I felt
Speaker 1: like he had every rebound on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the board, ball like his abrillion offensive rebound. The basketball
Speaker 1: was so impressive to me last night. And when he
Speaker 1: goes on this run and they get up six, I
Speaker 1: texted my group, it's over. It's done. They lost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. And then Nick Nurse calls the
Speaker 1: time out. The double time out is what it was.
Speaker 1: And he has come out since and said I was
Speaker 1: trying to get our team refreshed for the break for
Speaker 1: the final three, and Jamond Green is like, thank you,
Speaker 1: because we needed it. We were on our heels. We
Speaker 1: needed that time out. And this isn't to say a
Speaker 1: lot of people are pointing that time out because they
Speaker 1: took away the dagger, and that's true. The Warriors tried
Speaker 1: giving this game away to their afters with the offensive
Speaker 1: foul and Booge Cousins, the backcourt violation on Draymond Green.
Speaker 1: They tried giving it to the Raptors. They've been trying
Speaker 1: to give them the entire series, and the Warriors defense
Speaker 1: they wound up clawing down what I did there, clawing
Speaker 1: down on Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors on crucial possessions.
Speaker 1: The Splash Brothers hit monster three pointers, as they tend
Speaker 1: to do, and yet as the pendulum swung the other
Speaker 1: way with fifteen seconds to go and a chance to
Speaker 1: win the NBA Championship. Raptors had the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: kill Nick Nurse for not calling a time out there,
Speaker 1: especially because Kawai had the ball in his hands. He
Speaker 1: had it now, I don't disagree with the decision to
Speaker 1: pass it off. You had a wide open Kyle Lowry
Speaker 1: in the corner. Draymond Green made an awesome play to
Speaker 1: get a hand on it and change the direction of
Speaker 1: the ball and ultimately saved the series for Golden State.
Speaker 1: It was an evan flow game all night long. We
Speaker 1: go back to Oracle Arena for Game six. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine being a fan of either one of those teams,
Speaker 1: Like if the Knicks were in the spot either way
Speaker 1: on either like if they're the Raptors, so the Warriors here,
Speaker 1: I'm I probably have no hair left on my head today, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm probably ripping my hair out. So if you're especially
Speaker 1: if you're a Raptors fan, I mean, with the opportunity
Speaker 1: to win your first NBA Championship at home, up six,
Speaker 1: with that little time left, I mean, it was crazy.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. It was definitely up and down game
Speaker 1: wide range of emotions as you mentioned it was an
Speaker 1: awesome game to watch. That That's why personally I wanted
Speaker 1: the Warriors to win, just so that we could see
Speaker 1: more basketball. It's been. It's been a great series so far.
Speaker 1: I still feel like the Raptors have vastly outplayed the
Speaker 1: Warriors throughout the series. I felt like they outplayed them
Speaker 1: last night too. It's like, the Warriors made so many
Speaker 1: threes last night, Greig, and they still only one by
Speaker 1: one point. So it's like if they are not making
Speaker 1: all those threes again in Game six, like they might
Speaker 1: get smashed. And still I sit here and tell you
Speaker 1: it defies all logic. The Raptors are the better basketball
Speaker 1: team right now and playing better basketball. The Warriors are
Speaker 1: gonna win Game six. I I don't know that as
Speaker 1: good as that I hear what you're saying, because everything
Speaker 1: inside of me right now, all logic, everything that you
Speaker 1: see basketball lives on the court. Said that the Raptors
Speaker 1: should win this next game, Greg, But are the Warriors
Speaker 1: really gonna lose three games in Oracle in one series
Speaker 1: final game at Oracle? It just seems like there's so
Speaker 1: much drama and so much in terms of storyline that's
Speaker 1: like going their way. We're gonna play this one for
Speaker 1: dray We're gonna win for Deray. I get it. And
Speaker 1: it just seems like they're gonna win, even though all
Speaker 1: basketball logic says that they shouldn't find out Thursday. You will, you'll, you'll, we'll, we'll,
Speaker 1: we'll find out Thursday, game number six of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: Surprised it's here. I'm surprised it's here. I'm surprised. We
Speaker 1: we we made it there, but yet here we are.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, It was absolutely awesome. It's been a
Speaker 1: great series. Uh, Steve Kerr and show us on twe
Speaker 1: I don't remember who really looks like he's aged ten
Speaker 1: years over the last ten days. That's fair. I mean
Speaker 1: you kind of brought some of this upon yourself signing
Speaker 1: another superstar like Kevin Durant, right Like, you kind of
Speaker 1: bring all this this pressure and drama upon yourself when
Speaker 1: you have all these injuries going on and you signed
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins to like again, Steve Kerr in the Warriors.
Speaker 1: You kind of brought this spart yourself. You had a
Speaker 1: really really good core of three awesome players and Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson, and Steph Curry, and you used to have
Speaker 1: a better bench because you didn't have to pay for
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins and Kevin Durant. I can't really fault them
Speaker 1: for wanting to sign superstar players, but if those players
Speaker 1: go down, then you don't nearly have as much depth
Speaker 1: as you normally have. And uh, that's that's partially been
Speaker 1: why we're seeing Steve Kurry age the way that he is.
Speaker 1: It's been kind of brought upon themselves. What did you
Speaker 1: think that Nick nurse time out? I I understand why
Speaker 1: everyone's bashing him for it, because it's like, in hindsight,
Speaker 1: you ended losing right after that because the Warriors go
Speaker 1: on and run. But you know, if the Raptors come
Speaker 1: out of that time out and they go and they
Speaker 1: go on like a six hil run themselves and they
Speaker 1: just win the championship, then everyone's praising him for it too.
Speaker 1: So I think it's like revisionist history, like everyone sees
Speaker 1: what happened after the fact, and they're killing him now
Speaker 1: for it. So I could see both sides of it.
Speaker 1: I guess, like I still I still don't love it,
Speaker 1: and it's Quia Leonard said, right, Leonard said that if
Speaker 1: we win, it's talking about it at all. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: there were people on Twitter at least at the moment
Speaker 1: it was like this is not you deserve the criticism though,
Speaker 1: because you lost. Like, yeah, you're gonna see criticism for
Speaker 1: you deserve it, no question about it. Okay, anything else
Speaker 1: on Game five or Game six. Now, I think we
Speaker 1: pretty much, uh, pretty much through it out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: like Kevon Looney is playing with like one arm basically
Speaker 1: seems like he's gonna give it another go. He's gonna play.
Speaker 1: They're saying, you know he can't, he can't further injure himself.
Speaker 1: Is that even true at this point? And true he
Speaker 1: couldn't let his arm over over his head? Crazy? I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, lots of lots of props to uh Kevon
Speaker 1: Looney for for fighting through it. You can see use
Speaker 1: a lot of pain. I think I think we're going seven.
Speaker 1: I think we get uh. I think we get basketball
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Speaker 1: talk getting started right now here on the BFFs. A
Speaker 1: lot of people want to talk some baseball. Let's do
Speaker 1: it right. Let's give people they want. So the first
Speaker 1: thing I saw to give you baseball last night was
Speaker 1: the increase ju list decision here Yankees. Horrible job by them,
Speaker 1: Like beyond what about the Yankees? Greig they didn't play
Speaker 1: last night. Correct? You opened the gates for people, you
Speaker 1: say legitimately at five o'clock gates shopping when it was
Speaker 1: raining all day. You and I talked about the day
Speaker 1: and you we looked at the schedule and we're like,
Speaker 1: all right, what's up? And rain, rain, rain, rain, And
Speaker 1: then you decide, all right, at six, we're gonna cancel
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, people already inside seen him. That's disgusting.
Speaker 1: The only thing that came out of that positively is
Speaker 1: if you started Zach Wheeler, he now has a two
Speaker 1: star week. So I benched Zach Wheeler because he was
Speaker 1: projected to have one start in Yankee Stadium, which was
Speaker 1: supposed to be tonight's night game. Once it got put
Speaker 1: to a double header. He's now starting the first game,
Speaker 1: which is coming up at one o'clock PM Easter Time
Speaker 1: and about thirty minutes from now. And because he's pitching
Speaker 1: that first game, Greg, he's gonna have a two star
Speaker 1: week now on my bench in multiple locations. Are we
Speaker 1: sure about that? It's not a guarantee? Why bargain? I mean,
Speaker 1: who do I play? Who do they play this weekend?
Speaker 1: The Cardinals? Who do they play on Monday, next Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what I mean, if it's like
Speaker 1: a division matcher they want, they want Wheeler for that
Speaker 1: rather than the Cardinals. Yeah, but from what I've seen
Speaker 1: projected on CBS, is because he's pitching this early game.
Speaker 1: I mean, they could still just go, like, they could
Speaker 1: still go in the same order if they want, Like
Speaker 1: Vargas might still have the two star week. But they're
Speaker 1: projecting now that Zactly look gonna have a tow star.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if that's fair because he's
Speaker 1: pitching in the early game. Yeah, that was a terrible
Speaker 1: call anyway, Greg, he plays. Yeah, they're in Atlanta next Monday.
Speaker 1: Like I think they hold Wheeler back for that. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope so. Because I felt terrible last night that
Speaker 1: I lost it on a two star week, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make you feel better. Thanks, Greg, You're welcome. Frank,
Speaker 1: did you see the Joe must Grove and Josh Jonaldon ejections?
Speaker 1: I did so. I saw I saw a pitch by Musgrove.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about gaining a two start week,
Speaker 1: how about losing a two star week? Greg? From Joe Musgrove,
Speaker 1: that seemed really culous, ridiculous from the umpires. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Jameson Tyane was sweeting about it. He's like,
Speaker 1: he tweeted at the MLB, you have to clean this
Speaker 1: up because it's basically just, you know, I'm flexing their muscles.
Speaker 1: Nothing happened, the benches cleared, like Donaldson tried to push
Speaker 1: the catcher out of the way. It lies, Diez. Why
Speaker 1: did Joe must go through his house? Like was they
Speaker 1: were ready to scrap but nothing happened? Was their history
Speaker 1: there and Joe? Well, when I was watching MLB Network,
Speaker 1: that's what they were trying to ask. They were like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Joe must Groves hit Donaldson in the past.
Speaker 1: They have some kind of history. And they ended up
Speaker 1: saying no, I mean our researchers saying there's nothing they
Speaker 1: could find regarding these two guys. So that was terrible.
Speaker 1: I wrote that down in the rundown, but with more
Speaker 1: with more colorful language. Screwed up your bet, it did?
Speaker 1: I mean, because because Kevin Galsman still sucked, but whoever
Speaker 1: came in after Joe must Grove also sucked. Greg So sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, buddy. Yeah. Um so we lost we lost
Speaker 1: two star Joe Muskroven in two leagues last night, Greg,
Speaker 1: we did so great job, so he will start. He
Speaker 1: is now starting on Thursday. I saw it makes you
Speaker 1: feel better? Not really? All right? Where's the picture again?
Speaker 1: Us on Thursday? Does it matter? Maybe? Need it will be.
Speaker 1: It's a better start for us potentially, um, because it
Speaker 1: was Braves Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Braves. Yeah, four game series,
Speaker 1: still Braves. So he's probably gonna hit and then he's
Speaker 1: gonna get kicked out of the game. Yeah, you might
Speaker 1: as well. Hey, why can't they just push him back
Speaker 1: to Friday because he faces uh in Miami? Why can't
Speaker 1: have a win? Why can't we do that? You know? Um?
Speaker 1: Yet even as well hit Donaldson, you didn't do it
Speaker 1: the first time. And then they hit Austin Riley later
Speaker 1: on in the game too. I'm surprised there wasn't a
Speaker 1: brawl because of that, right, all right? Um? I wanted
Speaker 1: to hit on animal Sanchez because you have questions about
Speaker 1: what he did last night, Frank, because he only threw
Speaker 1: what sick the nine or so pitches in six innings,
Speaker 1: and I believe it was the third consecutive start that
Speaker 1: Sanchez allowed just one run is a two start week
Speaker 1: for Annibal Sanchez. Pitch very well against the White Sox
Speaker 1: last night and get you a quality store anivitoris he
Speaker 1: picked about for the double start? Good first doubting for him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great first sounding. I just found it
Speaker 1: weird that he had such a quick that's a quick
Speaker 1: trigger when it came to Anibal Sanchez last night. I
Speaker 1: understand stand he gave up, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: hits to start the start the seventh any but he's
Speaker 1: had sixty nine pitches and he had been pitching pretty well,
Speaker 1: only one strike, only one strikeout, He only had two
Speaker 1: swinging strikes. But you know, he was he was getting
Speaker 1: the job done. He was getting a job done. So look,
Speaker 1: I think he can't get too greaty when it comes
Speaker 1: to Annibal Sanchez, if you started him in a two
Speaker 1: start week, you obviously still like what you got here.
Speaker 1: I mean, six sendings, pitched, four hits, one and run,
Speaker 1: one walk, one strikeout against the White Sox. He was
Speaker 1: in a good spot against the White Sox, gonna be
Speaker 1: in a solid spot against the Diving Backs later on
Speaker 1: in the week, so hopefully he can perform there as well.
Speaker 1: But I think if you picked him up in a
Speaker 1: two star week, Um, this was someone that had like
Speaker 1: a breakout year randomly last year in the second half.
Speaker 1: He throws like a million different pitches right now, I've
Speaker 1: been looking into his uh, his pitching repertoires for so
Speaker 1: many different pitches. But I think that's because his fastballs
Speaker 1: ninety hour. So he just tries to keep hitters off
Speaker 1: balance by throwing as many different things as he possibly can.
Speaker 1: But now this is three starts in a row since
Speaker 1: coming off the I l that he's allowed one er
Speaker 1: and runner less. He's pitched well. I know, it's like
Speaker 1: a veteran. It's kind of a gross situation. Might not
Speaker 1: have the most upside. But if he could deliver you
Speaker 1: quality starts and he's on the Nationals, he should get
Speaker 1: solid run support. He should put you in position to
Speaker 1: get some wins. He's limiting opposing batters. Toweet twenty nine
Speaker 1: point six percent hard hit rate in a year where
Speaker 1: hard hit rate is up to about thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: on average. He's pitching pretty well. He's putting well, Gregg,
Speaker 1: so he uses a let's see there a four steam
Speaker 1: or eight percent of the time A cutter twenty seven
Speaker 1: per cent, a sinker nine percent, a change up, a
Speaker 1: slider four percent occurred about six point seven percent. So
Speaker 1: he basically throws three different iterations of a fastball, uh
Speaker 1: and a changeup that he uses quite often, and then
Speaker 1: barely mixes in some breaking pitches. But it's working out
Speaker 1: for him well. So I think if you started him,
Speaker 1: even though he only went sixty nine pitches, Greg feel
Speaker 1: great about it. I feel good too, Man, I feel
Speaker 1: good too. He's pitched Wellson's the second half of last year.
Speaker 1: As you as you explained, he's you're right under fool
Speaker 1: right now. You're you're feeling good about Animal Sanchez. The
Speaker 1: Nationals once again about twelve spot here. They got home
Speaker 1: runs from Trade Turner and kurtz Zuki Audam eating and
Speaker 1: Trade Turner bull stool basis ninth steel of the season
Speaker 1: for Turner, fifth home run, Turner batting to eighty four.
Speaker 1: He's in pretty good. It's coming off the I l
Speaker 1: what you expected when you drafted him in the top five.
Speaker 1: Howie Kendrick was the d H last night, Frank, and
Speaker 1: he started a bunch of games in the row. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not started five of the last six games and
Speaker 1: the Nationals are four and two during that span. I
Speaker 1: was aunty about how he Kendrick last week. Why doesn't
Speaker 1: this guy just play every day? I realized it might
Speaker 1: seem a little bit flukey. He has never really been
Speaker 1: a guy who hits for power, but his hard contact
Speaker 1: is up this year. There's a guy that's always made
Speaker 1: good contact. He's been over three batting average for three
Speaker 1: years in a row. He has eleven home runs and
Speaker 1: forty r b i s as a part time player.
Speaker 1: So he was a d H yesterday with the White Sox.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll d H the next two days or so.
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't continue to play after they're out
Speaker 1: of an American League ballpark. The next part of the
Speaker 1: reason why Davy Martinez is fired or should be rather,
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta you gotta be able to realize
Speaker 1: that put your best players on the field. Howie Kendrick
Speaker 1: is one of their best players right now. So definitely,
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues should be owned. I would ride the
Speaker 1: hot hand. I mean, this is the great Sutan theory.
Speaker 1: Ride hot players while they're hot. He's been hot all season.
Speaker 1: Do that in twelve teamers. Definitely in daily leagues where
Speaker 1: you can put him in the line up. When he
Speaker 1: is in the Nationals lineup. He's performing really well. I
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say about him. He's batting
Speaker 1: well over three eleven homers, forty ribbies, has expected stats.
Speaker 1: His stack cast numbers also really good. Lots of like
Speaker 1: about Howie Kendrick and their four and two in their
Speaker 1: last six games. So go, Nats, go, continue to play
Speaker 1: how He kend Go, Nats Go. On the side of
Speaker 1: the White Sox, only run was Leory Garcia homer. That
Speaker 1: was it only run scored by the White Sox all
Speaker 1: night long. But if you wanted offense, you need to
Speaker 1: talk about Arizona in Philadelphia, where there was a ton
Speaker 1: of offense in the form of ten home runs hit
Speaker 1: last night by ten different players. Sorry, nine different players,
Speaker 1: have that right, Frank eight? I think there's eight eight
Speaker 1: different players because Scott Knary hit two and Waterway Score
Speaker 1: hit two. The only guy took Vargas. Yeah, in tomorrow Vargus.
Speaker 1: So they just hit a bunch of day years, A
Speaker 1: lot of home run guys, A lot of home runs
Speaker 1: are hitting this game. It's very confusing. I'm sorry. Ten
Speaker 1: hold runs hit here, unbelievably enough to four or five. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's why I refused. It was ten different players hit
Speaker 1: home runs last night, thirteen home runs runs. I knew
Speaker 1: I had that number right home runs. And this is
Speaker 1: exactly why I don't like to start pitchers at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: or I'm not I'm not even gonna want to start
Speaker 1: any of their own pictures in Philadelphia anymore. Maybe outside
Speaker 1: of an Aaron Nola. Let me just go Zach Efflyn
Speaker 1: in the right spot. But look, if you started Jared
Speaker 1: I Coffe yesterday. And yes, I'm sorry, I did seven
Speaker 1: earned runs hit league. I'm sorry we let you down.
Speaker 1: Let me read you this scoring summary is really fun.
Speaker 1: Drud Dyson Homer folled by kenl Marte Homer folled by
Speaker 1: for All to Homer three nothing Arizona after the first,
Speaker 1: Jesus Gara Homer were one after the first, he got
Speaker 1: a Franco ground it out. Reecee Hoskins singled, and Wardo
Speaker 1: Escobar Homer, Alexabila Homer, Scott Ingary Homer and war To
Speaker 1: Escmar Homer, Vargas Homer next up, and we're escort double
Speaker 1: the deep right, Scott Kingary Homer, Frace Harper single Vargas Homer,
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskin, Homer, Bruce Homer, ridiculous, ridiculous, Bryce Harper, no homer.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper was basically the only person not to homer last.
Speaker 1: Nan doesn't even get a hit. Frank, he's last. He
Speaker 1: walked one time, he didn't. The only two starters not
Speaker 1: to get hit in this game. I'm I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna answer Caesar Hernandez and Christian Walker.
Speaker 1: Christian Walker at least the amazing walked twice, Greggy. When
Speaker 1: it comes to EDWARDO Escobar, we gotta open up a
Speaker 1: candle worms here because he is awesome, breaking out awesome
Speaker 1: before our eyes. Yes, last year to seventy two homers,
Speaker 1: eighty four rubies, we thought, alright, solid player, you get
Speaker 1: him as your middle infielder, shortstop later round, pick a
Speaker 1: solid player, probably better for points leagues. Hits a lot
Speaker 1: of doubles right this year to home runs fifty four
Speaker 1: rb I. He is the number two third basement in
Speaker 1: Fantasy baseball, the number two shortstop in Fantasy baseball, behind
Speaker 1: two Rockies, Trevor Story and Nolan Arronado. Pretty sure those
Speaker 1: guys were drafted in the first and second round is respectively.
Speaker 1: EDWARDO Escobar has been amazing, Greg hard hit rate will
Speaker 1: continue fly ball rate. But we received a tweet. I
Speaker 1: knew there was a butt coming. We received a tweet
Speaker 1: before said that there there's another Fantasy baseball show that says,
Speaker 1: and EDWARDO Escobar keep up what he's doing because his
Speaker 1: expected stats via stat cast are very bad. He's sitting
Speaker 1: expected batting average GREG is to thirty nine. That's stark
Speaker 1: difference his slugging percentages five. His expected slugging is fourty six. Jesus.
Speaker 1: His average eggit velocity is eighty seven point nine miles
Speaker 1: per That is in the thirty third percentile in baseball GREG.
Speaker 1: So this gentleman asked me, how much weight do you
Speaker 1: put on can you? Can you give a shout out
Speaker 1: to the gentleman. Yeah, I find it, And he asked
Speaker 1: the question. I feel like he deserves an Johnny Mr
Speaker 1: Johnny Sacks on Twitter, Johnny Stanfel, No, not my brother.
Speaker 1: He says, how much weight do you put on expected stats?
Speaker 1: Because I play in leagues where I get fantasy production
Speaker 1: for actual stats, not expected stats. And I thought that
Speaker 1: it was an interesting talking point because cause you're right.
Speaker 1: You know, if we played in expected stats leagues, then
Speaker 1: John Gray would be a first round pick and he'd
Speaker 1: be awesome. The way that I feel about expected stats,
Speaker 1: and and this is just this is my perspective. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can ask you know, ten different fantasy I
Speaker 1: don't listen to get ten different answers. Right, these expected
Speaker 1: stats are here to help you. It doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 1: that those things are going to come true, but you
Speaker 1: kind of you use them as a measurement of what's
Speaker 1: almost what's expected in the future. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and say that they mean nothing. Because the
Speaker 1: expected stats say that Jose and Mirras should have a
Speaker 1: much better batting average than he does at this point
Speaker 1: in the season, and he doesn't. He's still batting around
Speaker 1: two hundred, might even still be below two hundred. So
Speaker 1: it's like you can pick, and it's you can pick
Speaker 1: and choose where you're gonna use expected stats, which isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily fair, but that's where coming that's where watching the
Speaker 1: game and doing the eye test comes into play. Rights
Speaker 1: it's so not good, But like how your baya is.
Speaker 1: Last year, Greg was someone that I was off completely
Speaker 1: because swings and misses. A ton strikes out, his swinging
Speaker 1: strike rate higher if not, you know, right around the
Speaker 1: same reigns as a Joey Gallo. Joey gallabatt's right around
Speaker 1: two hundred. So I'm saying to myself, well, how can
Speaker 1: how your baya is keep this up thing? His expected
Speaker 1: stats and his underlying numbers, they're not good. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just gotta watch players play and they defy what the
Speaker 1: expected stats say is supposed to come of them. So
Speaker 1: that's why you know, we we use expected stats, but
Speaker 1: they can be misleading at times, they can be greg
Speaker 1: I don't know if misleading is the right word. Because
Speaker 1: Eduardo Escobar, he expected his expected batting average to thirty nine.
Speaker 1: He's expected batting average last year was to forty nine.
Speaker 1: And he hit too. He he hit to seventy two
Speaker 1: overall last year, so he so he's outperformed his expected
Speaker 1: stats now two years in a row. Like I think,
Speaker 1: if you see that for two years in a row,
Speaker 1: it almost becomes a trend. Like this is someone that
Speaker 1: can outperform what is expected of him. When he makes contact,
Speaker 1: it's really good contact, and he's in a really good
Speaker 1: spot right now in Arizona. So I'm almost I'm almost
Speaker 1: fucking the expected stats for a guy like at Wardo
Speaker 1: Escobar because the hard hit rate is up. This here, Greg,
Speaker 1: he's putting the ball in the air and that's pretty
Speaker 1: much all we can ask of him, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this was Daniel Murphy from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He started hitting the ball in the air more, his
Speaker 1: hard hit rate went up. He was always a guy
Speaker 1: who would hit like maybe you know, fifteen home runs,
Speaker 1: really good batting average, around three batting average with the Mets.
Speaker 1: But then starts to raise his launch hang a little
Speaker 1: bit more, hits the ball in the air, and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, he's hitting three thirty with home runs. Yet,
Speaker 1: like some of these other guys, his expected numbers were
Speaker 1: much lower than that. So at a Wardo Escobar at
Speaker 1: this point is hitting the ball in the air more.
Speaker 1: He's hitting more flyballs, he's making harder contact. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not gonna sustain being a top three third
Speaker 1: baseman or shortstop reast of season. That's fine. I can
Speaker 1: get behind that. But even if you try to trade him, like,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna give you a top five, top ten
Speaker 1: option in return. So I'm just gonna write it out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna write it out with it Wardo Escombar. I
Speaker 1: love what I've seen from him. He's he's made great strides. Greg.
Speaker 1: Even if he is in the top two or three
Speaker 1: option rest of season, that doesn't mean that he can't
Speaker 1: be a top six option, top ten option. And based
Speaker 1: on where you got him, Greg, it's still worth keeping
Speaker 1: him for that. He's already You've already profited so much
Speaker 1: from him for where he was going in drafts. So
Speaker 1: there you go. I don't know if you have an
Speaker 1: answer when it comes to like the expected stats. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can. I think we want to be
Speaker 1: leave in the expected stats. And that's what we ace
Speaker 1: on our moves during the season on right, like we
Speaker 1: expect this player to get better, we expect that this
Speaker 1: player to get worse. That's why people want to trade
Speaker 1: and Warder Westobar right now, I understand it. You're selling
Speaker 1: him high. Does he expect expectations that it goes down?
Speaker 1: It's very hard to do that given how hot he is.
Speaker 1: It's like a break, we'll come back. I wanta hit
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Speaker 1: So we got some questions inside our YouTube chat this
Speaker 1: afternoon in regards to Griffin Canning. A pitch last night
Speaker 1: against John Riu, and Riu was once again amazing, and
Speaker 1: the questions really were about Canning's ability going forward. U
Speaker 1: six sting seven hits, one run. The only run allowed
Speaker 1: was a homer to Cole Calhoun in the second inning
Speaker 1: as a solo shot walk Nobody strugg out six over
Speaker 1: his ninety nine pitches. He is the r A went
Speaker 1: up to one point three six while Griffin Kenning, if
Speaker 1: you quality start, didn't want anybody five hits, three earned runs,
Speaker 1: he struck out of five. The Angel came back to
Speaker 1: win thanks to Mike Trout and friends getting the job done.
Speaker 1: Hands a rod List a lot, a couple of hits
Speaker 1: the ninth, but he picked up his eighth save of
Speaker 1: this season. Franks answer the people's questions, what do you
Speaker 1: think about GRIFFN. Cannon going forward? I think he has
Speaker 1: the makings of an ace based on his swinging strike
Speaker 1: potential and the fact that no last night, I think
Speaker 1: he he matured a little bit because you see him
Speaker 1: give up three runs in that second ending, but then
Speaker 1: settles down after that and still is able to get
Speaker 1: through six innings, three earned runs against a really really
Speaker 1: good Dodger offense. And if you look at his swinging
Speaker 1: strike ratee on the year, sixteen percent. I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: this up right now. I mean, if you were if
Speaker 1: you were qualified, that might lead all of baseball. Greag
Speaker 1: which is as crazy to say, because again he's a rookie.
Speaker 1: So I mean he's got nasty stuff. He's got the
Speaker 1: mid nineties fastball, he's got the breaking pitches, uh swinging
Speaker 1: strike rade. Right now, what do I say it is
Speaker 1: that would if he if he was qualified, that would
Speaker 1: rank third in baseball grade. He's probably not far off
Speaker 1: from being qualified either. Yeah, he probably just doesn't have
Speaker 1: enough innings yet. He got he got a little bit
Speaker 1: of Number one is Blake's now nineteen point four percent,
Speaker 1: Eric Coles sixteen point five percent. Griffin Canning is third
Speaker 1: in baseball right now if he qualified, thirty five percent
Speaker 1: chase rate, so he gets opposing batters to chase. His
Speaker 1: x FIP is four point four five is hard hit
Speaker 1: rate is a little bit up. But strike out for
Speaker 1: Enning two point zero three walks per nine. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to like about the kid. The bat
Speaker 1: is a little bit low at two thirty nine. You know,
Speaker 1: based on his hard hit rate, he probably should should
Speaker 1: have given up more hits. But I think if you
Speaker 1: have this kid in a dynasty or a keeper league,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be really really good for years to come. Grady,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very excited about Griffic Kenning for this year now,
Speaker 1: I would probably right out with him for a couple
Speaker 1: of more starts, maybe even another month, but around the
Speaker 1: All Star break I might try and sell him. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe even try now, because it's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: on an endings limit at some point. Greg. See last
Speaker 1: year he pitched just around like a hundred and ten innings,
Speaker 1: so you could imagine he might get capped at like
Speaker 1: one fifty this year. I don't think that the Angels
Speaker 1: are gonna be in the postseason either there. I don't
Speaker 1: think they have any reason to push him, so you
Speaker 1: do have to worry about him getting shut down at
Speaker 1: some point or an ending his limit. But I would
Speaker 1: say he probably gets capped around. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be really good for years to come. Greg, I tend
Speaker 1: to agree. I like Griffin Canning. I think he's been
Speaker 1: just a quality machine as of late. Uh. The polity
Speaker 1: starts in four of his last five grad it's called
Speaker 1: the quality start machine as late as I mentioned, and
Speaker 1: the one that he didn't get the quality started it
Speaker 1: was last time out Frankie Montas and Oakland allowed four
Speaker 1: runs over his six innings of work, but did strike
Speaker 1: out eight. He's been really good at my shot in
Speaker 1: his eighteenth homer of the year, I don't know he
Speaker 1: realized that is eighteen homers or like Coca is fourteen homers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by Trout, A lot of people are gonna look at
Speaker 1: him and uh, I think that he's having a down year.
Speaker 1: And I saw his on paced numbers are basically the
Speaker 1: same as like when he won the m v P.
Speaker 1: They are every year. Yeah, so he's he's like four foody,
Speaker 1: he's noting average eighteen homers. He has seven stolen bases.
Speaker 1: He's okay, Yeah, it's pretty good at baseball. He's not
Speaker 1: not not really much else to say there, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: not at all, not much to say it at all.
Speaker 1: If there was a draft going on today, Greg, can
Speaker 1: you justify Christian Yellows going ahead of him? I think so.
Speaker 1: I think you can justify. I think you're justifying. Would
Speaker 1: you do it? I probably wouldn't. I might, Yeah, I might. Yeah, Yeah, again,
Speaker 1: you can make the argument for it's just the safety
Speaker 1: we've seen. We've get Trout to it for so long.
Speaker 1: I get it. That's going to be the discussion next year.
Speaker 1: Top three picks as of now, Trout yellow Bellinger. Is
Speaker 1: that is that the top three? That's the top three.
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense that was the top three
Speaker 1: when they were doing those drafts round Memorial Days, that
Speaker 1: was pretty much a consensus top three and sometimes the
Speaker 1: order change. Hedn't shout to me he's a no brainer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, why wouldn't Belier be up there too? Though,
Speaker 1: ye look at some of the other hitters. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. Wow, okay, um another hitter that's probably up there.
Speaker 1: I'll get to him in a moment. It's no one hour,
Speaker 1: not another homeworker last night, so we'll get to him
Speaker 1: in a second. Uh kenj And right, where would he
Speaker 1: go one of these drafts? I mean he's he erases
Speaker 1: at one point three six top twenty picture. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: fair to say. Probably, Like if we were just doing
Speaker 1: a draft right now, I think he would probably go
Speaker 1: in the third round, third fourth round as somebody's ASP one.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would feel safe with him
Speaker 1: as my SP one one six. Yeah, but he still
Speaker 1: does have the injury concerns about it's been like all
Speaker 1: over the place, so like one of these things could
Speaker 1: easily flatter up again. The hamstring did flare up earlier
Speaker 1: on in the season. That was something he dealt with
Speaker 1: last year too. But yeah, has a top twenty picture,
Speaker 1: you know, third, fourth ound. I think there might be
Speaker 1: some pause with him still because the injury concerns, so
Speaker 1: you might be able to get him in like the fourth.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean there's still a lot of baseball
Speaker 1: to play this year. One point three six e r
Speaker 1: A the x FIP two point nine one two point six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's amazing, amazing. He has like over like close and
Speaker 1: ninety strikeouts now and five walks. It's it's pretty good, Greg,
Speaker 1: very very good. Frank I mentioned seventy seven strikeouts five
Speaker 1: walks in the season. I mentioned that Nolan Arnado who
Speaker 1: hit another homer yesterday, he started off the season relatively cold.
Speaker 1: I yes for him, but Arnado against you Darvish last
Speaker 1: night led his team to his victory with his seventeenth
Speaker 1: home run over this season. A lot of homers last
Speaker 1: night and for Colorado and in Chicago really was bomb's
Speaker 1: away at Course Field. Ian Desmond hit his seventh, Charlie
Speaker 1: Blackman hit his eleventh home run over the season, um
Speaker 1: and the Rizzo his seventeenth of the year for Chicago,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shoreber, He's thirteen. David Body had his eighth. Uh,
Speaker 1: David Donalds still a base. He's been really hot as
Speaker 1: of late. Has doll Um batting hours of three ov
Speaker 1: P and then Daniel Murphy Frank stole third bass. Last
Speaker 1: night was a three two pitch to run out top
Speaker 1: of who swung through it, and Daniel Murphy stole third base.
Speaker 1: For some reason, watching was watching that. Yeah, we're not
Speaker 1: We're not used to seeing him steal many basses at all,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't really expect his moving forward. But I
Speaker 1: was very angry about Daniel Murphy earlier on in the season,
Speaker 1: and I still believe that it was somewhat justified. But
Speaker 1: he's back. He's He's absolutely back, Greg. I'm pulled it
Speaker 1: up right now. Since uh, since since matwenty one, he's
Speaker 1: basically been playing every day and um getting I think
Speaker 1: getting his legs back underneath him. I think his finger
Speaker 1: continues to heal up and he continues to get healthier
Speaker 1: and healthier. Since matwenty one on, he's betting three forty
Speaker 1: three with a seven percent walk crate, a fourteen point
Speaker 1: seven percent k rate, three home runs, eighteen ribbies, since
Speaker 1: twenty one. I'm I will confidently say that Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: is back. I don't really have a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks about him right now. Let's just hope he just
Speaker 1: doesn't reinjure that finger. There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: Um you Darvish, you were concerned about starting in Colorado,
Speaker 1: went sixty things, four runs, So I got three six hits.
Speaker 1: I think is a win. You start, your Darvish is
Speaker 1: a win. Yeah, it's not lost, not it's not. It's
Speaker 1: not a terrible outing, but you know, six and the
Speaker 1: four earned runs like in a vacuum. It's not a
Speaker 1: great start either, but the fact that it's in Coors
Speaker 1: Field and he didn't get completely bombed. I was watching
Speaker 1: a lot of the start early on before the before
Speaker 1: the basketball game started. I just really liked that he
Speaker 1: didn't walk anyone. Zero walks for you, Darvish in this start,
Speaker 1: and he kind of continues to build off of what
Speaker 1: he's been doing a lot of that recently. You know,
Speaker 1: he's two of his last but five starts he he
Speaker 1: doesn't have he has zero walks in in two of those,
Speaker 1: and then uh, you know the other starts he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's not walking six batters and more like he was
Speaker 1: in Miami. So he's been two walks, three walks, he's
Speaker 1: been around there, strikeouts coming around, weren't there last night.
Speaker 1: But again, really really tough Rocky's lineup. I think you
Speaker 1: Darvish is on his way, Greg, He's he's throwing his
Speaker 1: cutter a ton um and he's on his way. But
Speaker 1: I had him, I had him in one league and
Speaker 1: he was on my bench, and that's what I said yesterday.
Speaker 1: So ultimately, I think you're I think you feel okay
Speaker 1: either way. If you started him, you should completely kill you.
Speaker 1: But if he was on my bench, which he was,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'm not mad that I didn't
Speaker 1: start him either. Totally ultimately gets the Dodgers. See what
Speaker 1: happens next. Start her mom Marque has allowed three home
Speaker 1: runs on the night seven strike as for Marquez at
Speaker 1: home in Colorado four and runs is kind of what
Speaker 1: you get when you start her mom Marquez at home
Speaker 1: at Course Field, Wade Davis's back and got his eighth
Speaker 1: save all of the Season's got over against the winspit,
Speaker 1: allowing a run in the eighth. Her Man Marks now
Speaker 1: five point zero six e r A at home three
Speaker 1: point three three on the road A clear you should
Speaker 1: do that basically what we told you coming into the year.
Speaker 1: You're paying a top twenty five price for a picture
Speaker 1: you can only start on the road. Is uh there
Speaker 1: anybody else you want to make sure we mentioned before
Speaker 1: we sign uf A YouTube. Uh, Charlie Morton. I think
Speaker 1: it's I think he's not want to mention Mike Minor
Speaker 1: flying under the radar of this year. I mean Charlie
Speaker 1: Morton seven and he's pitched two hits, two walks, zero
Speaker 1: zero earned runs, seven strikeouts. He's now eight No. When
Speaker 1: I saw that last night, I had to do a
Speaker 1: triple takes, really take triple take eight no ear right
Speaker 1: now down to two point one zero. He was being
Speaker 1: drafted around top thirties starting pitchers. He was around that range,
Speaker 1: top thirty five. You're geting him as zero maybe SP three,
Speaker 1: SP four some locations, maybe even later than that. But
Speaker 1: right he's been a godsend. You know. We question whether
Speaker 1: or not he can continue what he was doing the
Speaker 1: past couple of years in Houston with Tampa Bay. And
Speaker 1: I remember saying very clearly, if there's one organization that
Speaker 1: can get it out of him, it would be Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: So if you drafted him, he's he's been one of
Speaker 1: the one of one of the god sends. I think
Speaker 1: you know I trust him right now. Is easily a
Speaker 1: top twenty five starting pitcher. Charlie Morton was amazing last night,
Speaker 1: seven striking out seven innings, no runs, two heads, two walks.
Speaker 1: Mike Miner is a guy that I you know, the
Speaker 1: one of these guys in the pit leae that I
Speaker 1: had and dropped because you told me to. Um, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I told you. You did for sure.
Speaker 1: Minor last night in Boss That's like I didn't tell
Speaker 1: you to drop drush Bell. You you didn't. You told
Speaker 1: me drop Minor. That's different. I don't know. If you can't,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to roll back to state. Mike Miner, Well,
Speaker 1: to be fair, I feel you can't trust anyone in
Speaker 1: Texas and uh both he and Lan flint Or putting
Speaker 1: it in my eye. So is Adrian Sampson. Yeah, eightnings.
Speaker 1: I mean now the Rangers are like two games out
Speaker 1: of the wild Card, absolutely having a really great year,
Speaker 1: and it's a frustrating Chris. It's frustrating for contenders that
Speaker 1: want to kind of poach these guys. They can't you
Speaker 1: like my minor. We we keep saying that Sean Kelly
Speaker 1: is gonna be dealt at some point, right is he?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I meant they might just keep him around.
Speaker 1: He blew a save last night. Are we getting closer
Speaker 1: to jose La clark as as taking over the closure
Speaker 1: shop again? Chris Martin came in, got his second same
Speaker 1: of the year. Matt Barnes, So, Matt Barnes blew it
Speaker 1: in the the top of the ninth and and then
Speaker 1: Sean Kelly blew in the bottom of the night and
Speaker 1: then Ryan Brazier lost it later on. And there you go.
Speaker 1: There's your reminded of Red Sox fans that Craig Kimberle
Speaker 1: is now a Chicago cub. With that, we're gonna say
Speaker 1: goodbye on YouTube right now. Coming up next it is
Speaker 1: at the Window Sean Grosstmakio will give you his thoughts
Speaker 1: on what took place last night in Toronto Game five
Speaker 1: between the Rafts and of course the Gold State Warriors.
Speaker 1: Look forward to that. Come up next on the podcast side, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get your fantasy best bets forever and we'll do
Speaker 1: that right now. I appreciate you watching. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right, Frankie, we have five minutes ago, which means
Speaker 1: it is time for our fantasy best bets forever. And
Speaker 1: last night we took an l on Joe Mushco with
Speaker 1: the Pirates not our fault, and I said, let get
Speaker 1: your money back for that. I like Jason Morgas and
Speaker 1: the Mets. They didn't play. I have no reason I
Speaker 1: have to go back to them, so I won't. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, you don't like Jason Vargas against James Paxton.
Speaker 1: Now tonight, Greggy, why not the will headed? You know
Speaker 1: things are mixing. Yeah, he's both being a little more refresh.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not going back to the world for that.
Speaker 1: You're not doing it, not doing that yet, so I
Speaker 1: will come back and go in a different direction. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of questions about John Means in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Is that's the way you're looking tonight? Do you want
Speaker 1: to know they should start John Means against Toronto? Uh,
Speaker 1: it's I don't. I don't think it's a bad spot.
Speaker 1: The Blue Jays haven't been great against left handed pitching
Speaker 1: this here. They have a two eighty four weighted on
Speaker 1: base average. That's twenty seven in baseball against left handed pitching.
Speaker 1: So I think that John Means can perform well here
Speaker 1: in terms of it's just hard to take the Orioles
Speaker 1: to win because they don't They just don't score that
Speaker 1: maybe runs. They're growing up against Trent Thornton, who has
Speaker 1: been inconsistent this year. He's had some good outings, there's
Speaker 1: been other outings where he's been blown up. It's probably
Speaker 1: just a game that I would stay away from. But
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, I don't hate John Means. Tonight
Speaker 1: tonight all right? What is your best bet forever? The
Speaker 1: one that's jumping out to me right now, greg Is
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo Luis Castio in the Reds money line plus
Speaker 1: one four team going up against the struggling Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1: The ball has just been flying out against Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: this year, and there's a decent amount of home run
Speaker 1: hitters on that Cincinnati Reds team. Joey Votto has actually
Speaker 1: been coming around a little bit here. Derrek Dietrich, You
Speaker 1: know what, Derek Dietrich might be the safest bet, like
Speaker 1: a DFST perspective, tonight, he's gonna be in the line up.
Speaker 1: He's going up against Trevor Bauer, who allows home runs.
Speaker 1: Yah cl Pleague, who I wanted to talk about. Maybe
Speaker 1: we could get into him the next couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: But the batting average hasn't been there. The counting stats
Speaker 1: are still there for ye Peak. They have some home
Speaker 1: run hitters. I think they might be able to get
Speaker 1: into Trevor Bauer tonight and Luis. Luis Castillo's resume for
Speaker 1: the season speaks for itself. I think the Reds win
Speaker 1: this game tonight. Greig so Thanky going with Luis Castillo
Speaker 1: and the Reds his best bet for ever for me, am,
Speaker 1: I not to take a favorite minus. Oh just went
Speaker 1: up again. Damn, I just watched it live. Go up
Speaker 1: those crazy So the favorite that I liked is that
Speaker 1: minus one two. That's not that big. It's not bad.
Speaker 1: Now of the minus is that illegal? Then the Astros
Speaker 1: and Brad Peacock tonight at home against the Brewers. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised that this friend is not bigger. Um it is home.
Speaker 1: Peacock's prints pitched pretty well. I know it's the brew
Speaker 1: crew and whatnot, but I like I like the Astros
Speaker 1: at home, and I like them. Freddy parl the pitching,
Speaker 1: for sure, Yeah, this is the this is the Kevin
Speaker 1: Gausman theory. Greg. It's not that, oh, we love Brad Peacock,
Speaker 1: we really want to take him against the Brewers. It's
Speaker 1: that we love the Ashtrows going up against Freddie Peralta. Correct.
Speaker 1: How many times are people gonna get suckered in by
Speaker 1: Freddy Parlta, Greg? Yeah, I saw him get picked up
Speaker 1: again in fifteen team leagues again this I saw the
Speaker 1: same thing and I didn't do it, dude, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: you picked him up after he just had the seven enning,
Speaker 1: nine strikeout game. That means you're gonna have him in
Speaker 1: your lineup for tonight when he's gonna give up six
Speaker 1: earned runs and like three innings pitched. Very strange. He's
Speaker 1: just a really, really frustrating picture. I believe Nick Pollock
Speaker 1: Pitcherlist calls us a cherry bomb. He's a guy that
Speaker 1: can even a really sweet start every now and then,
Speaker 1: but he's also gonna get blown up. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: blown up tonight by the Astros. I agree that Peacock
Speaker 1: like the Astros tonight. I don't hate that either. I
Speaker 1: just don't understand why people this always happens. He has
Speaker 1: one really good start, he will pick him up, and
Speaker 1: then you pick him up for the start where he
Speaker 1: gets blown up. I thought you're gonna I thought you're
Speaker 1: you're don Albert. It's probably gonna take him deep. Tonight,
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna head to Kansas City and
Speaker 1: go with the ball the Tigers. I don't hate that.
Speaker 1: Plus plus what plus money with the ball gonna getting rocked.
Speaker 1: But the problem with taking the Tigers money line is
Speaker 1: a lot like taking the Orioles money line, is that
Speaker 1: they're just not a good team. They don't put they
Speaker 1: don't put a lot of runs up. So that's you
Speaker 1: might ask yourself, well, how can they be underdogs against
Speaker 1: Jake Junus He hasn't pitched well all year. Spencer Turnbull
Speaker 1: has pitched pretty well well. The Tigers don't score that
Speaker 1: many runs. That's what it comes down to for me.
Speaker 1: I like the Tigers and I like the Astros. Tonight, Uh, Frankie,
Speaker 1: you were going snatty read snatty reds over trippor Bauer
Speaker 1: and the Indians. Frank Stample, I'm Greg Susman, shaunk lost
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