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Speaker 1: Here the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frank Stample. I
Speaker 1: am Greg. He's going, Frankie. Hear the music playing. You
Speaker 1: can only mean one thing. Winter is here, Greggy. Big
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones premiere last night. I enjoyed it. Thoroughly
Speaker 1: nice little rink labor from from Chris Pavona. We didn't
Speaker 1: know that was I like, what things that we don't
Speaker 1: know what's coming happens like that. I enjoyed that. Good,
Speaker 1: good times, good times. Great weekend. Just in terms of
Speaker 1: a great weekend, everything that was happening of the NBA
Speaker 1: Playoffs UFC I watched Saturday was really really good as well.
Speaker 1: Um actually did have to get my passport renewed, which
Speaker 1: took four hours in a post office. Greg. That was
Speaker 1: not a highlight of my weekend. But then Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones baseball, I'm sure the Yankees sucking pleases Met Modica,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be joining us? But outside of that, I
Speaker 1: mean the great weekend. You literally skipped the thing that
Speaker 1: I did for ten hours this weekend. What did you do?
Speaker 1: Watch The Masters? Man? That was literally the number one
Speaker 1: thing all weekend. Tiger Woods, Dude, that was with the
Speaker 1: story of the weekend UFC. Everyone is excited about it, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so like what it was awesome? I look, I just
Speaker 1: I don't have much interest in gol Oh my god, man,
Speaker 1: I watched literally from beginnings and nine thirty to two
Speaker 1: thirty on Sunday. I woke up right for it, sat
Speaker 1: in front of the couch, barely moved, and then Saturday
Speaker 1: turned it on at like three o'clock. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was perfect, the perfect, perfect weekend, so public to
Speaker 1: watch the Masters. It was amazing. Watch a little baseball,
Speaker 1: uh earlier, later watched the pill the Sixers, and the Nets.
Speaker 1: It was an amazing sports weekend at Modica. It actually was.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see the Masters yesterday. I had
Speaker 1: to record our first podcast and just doing so many things,
Speaker 1: a little family day, palm, Sunday, driving around, So for me,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to enjoy it. Happy for Tiger. Not
Speaker 1: the biggest Tiger fan, but I was respect greatness, so
Speaker 1: I'm happy he was able to accomplish that. Feed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was awesome, man. It was
Speaker 1: so cool. Like I was at Judy's family's house or
Speaker 1: dad just stood up after Tiger hits the pot and
Speaker 1: just like Greg is with his history, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we did. It was awesome. It was. It was cool, man,
Speaker 1: It was cool. Uh. Then I I made sure I
Speaker 1: was home last night, plenty of time for Thrones. Sat
Speaker 1: down and pretty much what I expected, a big set
Speaker 1: up for the season. It was fine. You know, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I'm here for the sentimental moments. I think
Speaker 1: a little bit more than than you were. I was
Speaker 1: excited about, you know, everyone meeting up and stuff. It was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was fun to watch. I enjoyed it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I see a lot of people complaining on Twitter. Greg.
Speaker 1: The only thing worse than Game of Thrones Twitter is
Speaker 1: people complaining about Game of Thrones Twitter. Like, dude, Like
Speaker 1: there's mute options on Twitter, Like you can mute words,
Speaker 1: you can you can not follow people. It's like I
Speaker 1: don't understand, Like it's either people talking about Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones or people complaining about Game of Thrones Twitter. Very frustrating.
Speaker 1: Honestly favorite part of Thrones last night night even Kenn
Speaker 1: the map. The new map is ridiculous. It is awesome.
Speaker 1: I didn't really pay enough attention to it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So basically it's just winter Felt, but they go inside
Speaker 1: in like not just over winter Felt. They go inside it,
Speaker 1: which is awesome, and then it's just um King's landing
Speaker 1: when they go inside and they go inside the key
Speaker 1: f It's awesome. You gotta check it out, seriously. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw people talking about it on Reddit afterwards. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're thinking of like being like sarcastic, right,
Speaker 1: but I loved it. I went back and watched it
Speaker 1: twice before I even started the show. Yeah. I might
Speaker 1: actually just go back and rewatch the whole episode. I
Speaker 1: think I think you need with it. You're not you're
Speaker 1: a Throne guy, Mat I'm a big Game of Thrones guy,
Speaker 1: I've read all the books and stuff. I was happy
Speaker 1: with last night's episode. Fine, but I hopefully you know
Speaker 1: from here on it's a lot more action and we
Speaker 1: get to see how this plays out. I believe episode
Speaker 1: three is the Battle of Winters right, the Battle of
Speaker 1: winser Fell ithoudan very very exciting which we're all which,
Speaker 1: to be fair, were all assuments gonna be the We
Speaker 1: all assume it's gonna be the living versus the dead.
Speaker 1: But theoretically the Golden Company could be there in episode
Speaker 1: and that could be a bottle a sandwich of action.
Speaker 1: It could totally like totally Winter from the North and
Speaker 1: like people from the South, and then just you know what.
Speaker 1: I also realized this is more from Matt because I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that Frank won't know who he is.
Speaker 1: I think you're on just looks like an older, jacked
Speaker 1: up Joshua Jackson is what I realized, Yes, last night,
Speaker 1: and no Pacy from I'm not a fan, but I
Speaker 1: know who I knew you even know who he is.
Speaker 1: He just isn't jacked up Pacy with like a must. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about the atflets they put that guy
Speaker 1: in it's kind of like, you know, uh, wanting to
Speaker 1: be a hipster pirate and stuff like exactly. That's exactly
Speaker 1: my point. You're we're on the same page here. I'm
Speaker 1: agreeing with you. Thank you, my buddy, Thank you. All right,
Speaker 1: let's hit it some baseball from what was that's more Thrones,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's hit this baseball, of course from
Speaker 1: this weekend, in particularly the Weaver. Frank, I know we
Speaker 1: actually got Clin Fraser this week rather than last week. Okay,
Speaker 1: twenty seven and the highest other bid was seventeen. I
Speaker 1: think I wanted to be twenty three, but whatever, four dollars,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna complain. We were right around the right
Speaker 1: bids and very very happy, uh with that. But this week,
Speaker 1: at least from my league, when you were talking about
Speaker 1: last night, and this isn't the number one guy by
Speaker 1: any means, that's where I wanted to start, and that's
Speaker 1: with Mike Sirocca, because you guys, I felt a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the industry yourself included, Frank, and in
Speaker 1: my Homebilly, you were very very excited about Mike Saroka.
Speaker 1: And we're trying to figure out why exactly, because he's
Speaker 1: not in the rotation. There are no plans to call
Speaker 1: him up to be in the rotation as as of now,
Speaker 1: two Ussan comes up pitches like six marvelous innings, he's
Speaker 1: locked in the rotations, Shawn Nucom gets sent down. So
Speaker 1: I was surprised when I saw on the train last
Speaker 1: night that you and Florio were not about being a
Speaker 1: bunch for Tussa, but you were all about about Mike Saroka.
Speaker 1: And I was, like I said, confused, because that was
Speaker 1: not where I had in my head we were gonna go.
Speaker 1: I thought, there's gonna be a long conversation how much
Speaker 1: to we been on two on? What's the plan? And
Speaker 1: it was Sharroca that you guys have the discussion with.
Speaker 1: How come you're more on Sharroka than Tussan. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the term locked into the rotation referring to two
Speaker 1: K two san is is a very loose term right
Speaker 1: now because it's gonna be fluid. I think the Braves
Speaker 1: rotation could be fluid all season long. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: very performance based, like as long as Max Freed performs well,
Speaker 1: he'll stay in the rotation. The same thing goes for
Speaker 1: for a two K Twossant. They sent down Seawan Nucomb
Speaker 1: try and get him right because the command the control
Speaker 1: has just been terrible. It's been god awful. So they
Speaker 1: sent him down, try and get him right. And Mike
Speaker 1: Foltonevitch is gonna be back for this team as well.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of moving parts for the Braves rotation,
Speaker 1: but ultimately I believe whoever performs well is going to
Speaker 1: be in this rotation. I don't know if that anyone's
Speaker 1: a lock. I don't know that Julio toron'so lock for
Speaker 1: this rotation either, but it's gonna be very performance based,
Speaker 1: and if I'm just looking at it based on skills,
Speaker 1: who has the best skills? Um. I loved Mikesaroka last season.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to back off of him now. He's
Speaker 1: made two starts in the minors so far, his first
Speaker 1: one on his second one wasn't as good four earned
Speaker 1: runs in four and a third endings, but his first
Speaker 1: one five perfect endings with seven strikeouts. He has always
Speaker 1: been a guy who gets a ton of ground balls
Speaker 1: as well. So me personally, if I think it's a
Speaker 1: fluid rotation and ultimately talent will win out, and that
Speaker 1: that's who's gonna end up in this rotation, and that
Speaker 1: leads me to believe that at some point Mike Sarroka
Speaker 1: is going to be in this rotation. And it's not
Speaker 1: a knock on Tuk Tuson. I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't like him enough to bid the you know
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen percent that people were bidding on him
Speaker 1: last night, because as high as the strikeout upside is
Speaker 1: still have a lot of concerns regarding command with him.
Speaker 1: He walks a lot of guys as well. So he's
Speaker 1: a high upside picture, but there's also a very low
Speaker 1: floor based on based on his command. So I like Toussan,
Speaker 1: but I like so Rocca a little bit more. How
Speaker 1: do you reread? How do you break this down? Matt?
Speaker 1: Between two Tussan, I think Frank Kittle a lot of
Speaker 1: good points here saying that it's fluid. It's very fluid.
Speaker 1: I think there's two spots for three people. That's Tousan
Speaker 1: Ahfried and I'm like Frank lest year. I've been on
Speaker 1: Saroka everywhere, owned them everywhere. Unfortunately, you know, he was
Speaker 1: shut down the shoulder. I was excited again for him
Speaker 1: this season. I think he's major league ready to be
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher. I think they're best if he can,
Speaker 1: if he can be the guy they're anticipating, I think
Speaker 1: he works best for them. Freed has a lot of upside,
Speaker 1: but the jury is still out on him to sign
Speaker 1: for me. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what he
Speaker 1: truly is. Is he more of a middle relief inning picture,
Speaker 1: you know, like those multiple innings you get the high strikeouts,
Speaker 1: or can he really be a starting pitcher. I know
Speaker 1: some people feel he's definitely going to be a starting picture.
Speaker 1: Some people feel, you know, it's maybe not gonna end
Speaker 1: up that way. So the jury is still out. I
Speaker 1: love Sarroka. I found out though. The interesting thing was
Speaker 1: two weeks ago actual people bidding on Sarrocca, and I
Speaker 1: thought I was like, wow, I thought I had time,
Speaker 1: And last week, wherever he was available, I did scoop
Speaker 1: him up. Yeah, people are all over here, Mike Saroka
Speaker 1: um grabbing him. Now the own of my team leaves
Speaker 1: my Great Fantasy Based Romitational, my main event. He was
Speaker 1: already owning both of those. Uh, he got scooped up
Speaker 1: last night in G S T as well. I believe yes,
Speaker 1: he went for he only went for four bucks head
Speaker 1: of a thousand, so maybe we should have been a
Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive on that, but we chose to
Speaker 1: to pick up jeff'son margin over Mike Sarroka. He does
Speaker 1: have the job for now. We'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because when I wanted to pick up to
Speaker 1: last night you you were kind of all about Greg.
Speaker 1: You're you're being very shortsighted about this, and like, you're right,
Speaker 1: I am being shortsighted because I know you're staying on brand,
Speaker 1: which appreciate the consistency. And question question if two key
Speaker 1: two shot didn't come in Saturday night, what would you
Speaker 1: be this excited? Even if they said he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the rotation, but he didn't pitch Saturday night that
Speaker 1: I loved seven was seven strikeouts and shut out ball.
Speaker 1: Oh great, But I don't know what he truly is
Speaker 1: going forward? Well, so so I I want to I
Speaker 1: would not be this excited, No, for sure, Matt, but
Speaker 1: I but I would be excited. I remember he had
Speaker 1: some hype buildings for him throughout the spring. People wanted
Speaker 1: to be and he finally got this opportunity right towards
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. So I would have been
Speaker 1: if if you would have told me right away he's
Speaker 1: in the rotation, I would have been excited. I really
Speaker 1: think so, and I think most people would be excited.
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that, but not as excited.
Speaker 1: I don't know that well to percent of fab in
Speaker 1: some leagues. He went for a hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: dollars in my main event last night, so in our
Speaker 1: main event that that Matt Modiga plays in as well,
Speaker 1: so people were regressive. The backup bid was seventy five
Speaker 1: dollars on him, but you know that's probably where the
Speaker 1: ranking would have been. If he didn't pitch in that
Speaker 1: relief and pitch that well, you know, he probably would
Speaker 1: have been in that, you know, definitely, But you know,
Speaker 1: because he pitched as well as he did, and people
Speaker 1: remember the last thing they saw. He goes for more
Speaker 1: than I think the other thing that I gives maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit hesitant on Serrocca, and I know talent
Speaker 1: was out. I completely understand that, and they he'll wind
Speaker 1: out spending the majority of the season in the rotation,
Speaker 1: as you kind of believe it. I know you believe
Speaker 1: that as well. But Sean Nucom maybe back next before Saroca,
Speaker 1: Right Like, there's no guarantee that Sirocca is the next
Speaker 1: guy up for Atlanta. There's no guarantee for anybody in
Speaker 1: this sortation. Definitely not spoke about this Friday, Kevin Gausman.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's very good. I don't think Kevin
Speaker 1: Gosman like me personally. You're you're not in on him either.
Speaker 1: He's a two pitch pitcher. He relies on the splitter
Speaker 1: a ton. I don't think he's that good. So who's
Speaker 1: like if he struggles, who's to say he doesn't get
Speaker 1: moved to long relief in the minors or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. I don't think anyone is a lock for
Speaker 1: this sortation. I agree, and that's why I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: break the bank for Tussan or for Sarocca. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, but if Sirocca performs well like we
Speaker 1: think he could, just given you know, the strikeout upside
Speaker 1: we think he has and the fact that he gets
Speaker 1: as many groundballs as he does, I might go as
Speaker 1: far as say he might be the best picture one
Speaker 1: like in this rotation. Once, once it's all said and done,
Speaker 1: he might be the best picture in this rotation, Max
Speaker 1: street Man. I like Max free to, but for another
Speaker 1: two pitch picture. Freddy Freeman was really talking on Max Freed.
Speaker 1: And the thing with Suroka now is you can get
Speaker 1: him cheap, Like in the last couple of weeks, you're
Speaker 1: getting him for basically nothing. I mean, I've seen to sapings,
Speaker 1: like Frank said, throughout, I've seen as high as two
Speaker 1: hundred a little over that, and I thought that was
Speaker 1: a little crazy. I was bidding on Tucson. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong with like, I don't like Toussan. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to make an argument here. Yeah, and and and
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And then you go um with Max
Speaker 1: Freed and and all these guys at the Braves. But
Speaker 1: these guys are right. If Siroga is still out there
Speaker 1: in year league and he's not costing you anything, you know,
Speaker 1: now was the time. Now was the time if you
Speaker 1: have the bench spot to a bench spot available for
Speaker 1: you to stash him. Before we move on to the Braves,
Speaker 1: that you want to mention Arronasiskayana hits the d L
Speaker 1: with right shoulder inflammation. As we've seen with a guy
Speaker 1: like Dylan Patances right shoulder inflammation or Luis Savarino right shoulder.
Speaker 1: Information can last a while because I have to figure
Speaker 1: out why it's inflamed. And he had at least similar
Speaker 1: issues last season. I believe it was the same exact
Speaker 1: act injury, which means a J. Mints A taking over
Speaker 1: as the closer in Atlanta for now. If he's available,
Speaker 1: he's must add Frank. Yeah, absolutely, You're not going to
Speaker 1: be available in any fifteen team leagues. But you know
Speaker 1: a big majority of people that listen to the show
Speaker 1: play in twelve team leagues. He might have been out there.
Speaker 1: I think you have to be aggressive. It's his job
Speaker 1: to lose, unless, of course, the Braves get in on
Speaker 1: Craig Kimbrill bidding once once June comes around, when the
Speaker 1: draft compensation gets lifted from him. But for now, it's
Speaker 1: a J mentor's job to lose. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: Rodi's vis kay. You know, I've I've read some really
Speaker 1: pessimistic reports regarding this injury. He could be out a
Speaker 1: long long time, So I think it's a J mentor's
Speaker 1: job right now. Yeahs, you gotta be aggressive. I have
Speaker 1: to be aggressive with a J. Mintjo and just like
Speaker 1: I was last summer with Mintor, because if this guy
Speaker 1: is out for a while, Mintjer may not relinquish this job.
Speaker 1: This is what we said last year, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: have an opportunity this year. This is one of those
Speaker 1: rare instances, Matt. I know we always speculate on who
Speaker 1: the closer could be. If a closer goes down where
Speaker 1: you know it's Mintor, there aren't any question marks like
Speaker 1: this is the guy. I agree right now right it's
Speaker 1: a j mentor, like Frank said, be aggressive. My thing
Speaker 1: is is just now the perfect opportunity for Greg Kimball
Speaker 1: to get the homecoming. Certainly possible, certainly possible. But you
Speaker 1: also when you mentioned the Braves, you probably you mentioned
Speaker 1: Kaiko too. Even they're all the questions they have about
Speaker 1: their rotation, there could be a spot for Kaiko and
Speaker 1: or Kimberle. There's a few spots where where Dallas Kaiko
Speaker 1: could end up. I think you know San Diego they've
Speaker 1: they've talked about it as well. You know they're making
Speaker 1: do with guys like Eric Lauer for now and your
Speaker 1: favorite Nick Vicious margat Vicious over there, which you know, look,
Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of faith in regarding him.
Speaker 1: They have Paddock, obviously, they have Matt strom Strom bounced
Speaker 1: back in his most recent start, but they don't really
Speaker 1: have a veteran that they can lean on. And I
Speaker 1: think it would make a lot of sense for Dallas
Speaker 1: Kaiko to end up with a team like San Diego,
Speaker 1: especially if they want to be aggressive, which they have been.
Speaker 1: You know, uh Fernando Tati Junior starting the year in
Speaker 1: the majors. Do they really want to make a push
Speaker 1: for a wild card spot or even the division. I
Speaker 1: think Dallas Kaiki make might make a lot of sense
Speaker 1: for a team like San Diego. And he was floating
Speaker 1: around on a few fifteen teamers. He wasn't available in
Speaker 1: any of mine. But our buddy Florio texted us and
Speaker 1: said he'd been seventy nine dollars on on Dallas Kaiko
Speaker 1: because he was available in one of his fifteen team leagues.
Speaker 1: The next closest bid Greg One. That's a terrible feeling,
Speaker 1: man hate, but I look, I can't blame him for
Speaker 1: being aggressive on Kaiko. I mean in the team league,
Speaker 1: you know, seven pcent. I don't. I don't think it's terrible,
Speaker 1: but wow, sucks I don't think you can give me
Speaker 1: too heartbroken about that. He really I know. Look, it's
Speaker 1: human nature. We hate to see that the run up
Speaker 1: bid was so low where we overbid, but you got
Speaker 1: your guy. That's always gotta be your goal. It's very
Speaker 1: difficult to try and nail these things, especially in competitive
Speaker 1: fifteen teams. Hunter Dozer was a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: I missed that everywhere last night I definitely do and
Speaker 1: just and I was in on up was in a
Speaker 1: hundred doze or to uh and in our main event, Greg,
Speaker 1: he goes for a hundred and twenty seven dollars. Why
Speaker 1: don't you explain to everybody why Hunter Doser was so
Speaker 1: popular this weekend. Yes, it's a very small sample size.
Speaker 1: Everything is. I'll tell you more about it over the break.
Speaker 1: But he's made strides in terms of his bad at
Speaker 1: ball data this year, and he's striking out less two
Speaker 1: so and he has the prospect pedigree. He's been around
Speaker 1: a while. But I think there's lots of like. There's
Speaker 1: also reason he's getting more playing time now very day. Goodbye, Ryan,
Speaker 1: all right, say right, we'll come back more of the
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Speaker 1: when I mentioned Joshua Jackson Pacy from Dawson's Creek. Will
Speaker 1: you be singing today's introad? A few out a view
Speaker 1: your question. They don't sing, so I'm trying, please stop singing.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to, you know, give the people what
Speaker 1: they want. There you go. We're now a show of
Speaker 1: the people, and we've always been a show of the
Speaker 1: people except for when you're seeing hey, Greg in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. Though, I may have something that
Speaker 1: you're going to be it's a little surprised, um, But
Speaker 1: that singing thing, yeah, it's probably not gonna happen my birthday.
Speaker 1: My birthday passed though, Chris So no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's no, that's fine. It's for the show, all right.
Speaker 1: For karaoke. We're gonna have to do a like a
Speaker 1: team building outing to karaoke and you can get it
Speaker 1: all out there. Greg. You know, I don't get it's
Speaker 1: for eventually a Christmas party and know we still haven't
Speaker 1: waiting on that. Moving on, just saying moving on. The
Speaker 1: hun a hundred does are Yeah. I mentioned what he's
Speaker 1: doing with his bad and ball data. The hard hit
Speaker 1: rate up this year again, small sample size only has
Speaker 1: thirty six bad balls. Hard hit rate. The average eggs
Speaker 1: of last ninety three point six isles per hour. That's
Speaker 1: up from eighty nine miles per hour last season. Launch
Speaker 1: angles up a little bit, as well as batting averages
Speaker 1: to fifty six, which is fine, but according to Baseball Savant.
Speaker 1: They haven't expected batting average at two nine two greg,
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to like regarding Hunter Dozer right now.
Speaker 1: The strikeout rate last year this year down to sixteen
Speaker 1: really small sample size, Let's see if he can keep
Speaker 1: it up. But so far he's made some significant gains
Speaker 1: at the dish this season. I wanted to be aggressive
Speaker 1: on him. I know, you know, I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: over a hundred dollars for a guy like hundred Dozer.
Speaker 1: I was gonna spend you know, four to six percent
Speaker 1: something like that, and I had a bit of forty
Speaker 1: three dollars. He goes for a hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: in our main event at forty three dollar backup bid.
Speaker 1: That was the next closest bid, which was my bid.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't on a hundred Dozer, but I wasn't
Speaker 1: willing to break the bank form not Evel, where are
Speaker 1: you a Hunter Doser? He was one of my sleepers
Speaker 1: this season. He's a guy I owning, uh pretty much
Speaker 1: all my Draft Champion leagues and a guy I should
Speaker 1: have probably acquired last week. I would have got him
Speaker 1: for nothing, you know, pretty much nothing, And this week
Speaker 1: I put in say four bids are so a little
Speaker 1: less a little more, and I really wasn't close in
Speaker 1: the majority. I think I got him in one or two,
Speaker 1: but I pretty much bid on him and almost all
Speaker 1: So people are in on hunterd Doser obviously, people hoping
Speaker 1: uh that he will h has learned has the sample
Speaker 1: size will go bigger and the consistency will remain with
Speaker 1: a guy like hundred Doser. So of the other top
Speaker 1: bids that I saw this week, and you guys in
Speaker 1: comment on them. As we continue on Ruenna's alias in
Speaker 1: r G S T League, Frank went for a hundred
Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars O come. People are desperate for saves.
Speaker 1: Obviously they see him pick up a saved this past
Speaker 1: week as well. That was a game where the game
Speaker 1: was tied when Anthony Sporzact pitched in the eighth inning
Speaker 1: and then Ronan Slias comes in in the ninth and
Speaker 1: and picks up a save there. So people are just
Speaker 1: trying to find saves anyway that they could. I understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, you take a few speculative ads. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna be very aggressive on him because I
Speaker 1: still do think that Anthony Swarzak is the main closure.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they make lies in a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's a a bunch of lefties coming up.
Speaker 1: So I get it, you know, you try and take
Speaker 1: a stabbt getting ten to twelve saves something like that
Speaker 1: out of him. But me personally, I still think Anthony
Speaker 1: Swarzak is the guy until maybe around the trade deadline
Speaker 1: if they end up ultimately moving him. But I think
Speaker 1: it's war Zak for now. I agree, what other what
Speaker 1: other names here, Matt, were you in on this week?
Speaker 1: Because I'm kind of going down, uh one of our
Speaker 1: fifteen team league list, nothing really is standing out to me.
Speaker 1: I'll give you some names that Frankie, Frankie and I've
Speaker 1: been on. But who are your targets this week? Who
Speaker 1: are the biggest targets in your in your big leagues?
Speaker 1: I think in UM as far as you know, arms
Speaker 1: not closures now. But I think the one guy was
Speaker 1: Nick Anderson. I mean, he has a path where you
Speaker 1: can see him closing at some point for the Marlins,
Speaker 1: and I did that path could come sooner than later.
Speaker 1: I believe he's currently reading all relief pictures and strikeout percentage,
Speaker 1: so He's somebody I would definitely want to get. I
Speaker 1: really didn't get many shares because it depended upon the situation.
Speaker 1: Who I had, you know, first, as a conditional bid
Speaker 1: that I mean starting pitching more, that I need to
Speaker 1: hit her all that stuff. But he's somebody that I
Speaker 1: would be wanting to require now on the cheap for
Speaker 1: the possibility. That's really the way to do it in
Speaker 1: obtaining shapes, get the guys before their name the closer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and Florio brought this up to us yesterday when
Speaker 1: we're kind of going through GSC and trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who we want to bid on. Obviously, we have
Speaker 1: the three man team, so we get perspectives from all over,
Speaker 1: but he mentioned Nick Anderson as well, and rightfully so, Man,
Speaker 1: I mean the cap for nine, uh, right around nineteen uh.
Speaker 1: He's he's been awesome to this point. He's got sixteen strikeouts,
Speaker 1: sixteen strikeouts in seven and two thirds endings. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy has just been absolutely ridiculous of swinging strike rate,
Speaker 1: is up getting hitters to chase as well. He's predominantly
Speaker 1: a fastball slider pitcher, but he's been the best reliever
Speaker 1: in the Marlins pens start the year. So definitely definitely
Speaker 1: a pathway to saving opportunities here or Nick and I
Speaker 1: agree with that one. I had a few small bids
Speaker 1: in on him. I had like a twelve eighteen dollar
Speaker 1: bid in two different locations. He ended up going for
Speaker 1: over seventy. I mean, I wasn't gonna do that that
Speaker 1: that's very very aggressive in my opinion, but I do it.
Speaker 1: Did have a few small bids, I didn't get them
Speaker 1: anywhere though I didn't wasn't really a wirator. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't know. I think our leagues. I
Speaker 1: don't feel overly desperate for saves at the moment. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's where I'm at. So I haven't felt the needs
Speaker 1: to go out and get him a name that we
Speaker 1: have speculated on Frank, and we talked about him briefly
Speaker 1: last week. We picked him up. You know, I think
Speaker 1: g s T. We grabbed him and it was Eric
Speaker 1: Thames or very very little and you talked about Matt
Speaker 1: how last week you could have grabbed Hunter Doser for nothing.
Speaker 1: That's basically when we grabbed Eric Thames for this week.
Speaker 1: We cast this thirteen dollars and we saw last year
Speaker 1: Hayes's Aguilar steal the job from Eric Thames and run
Speaker 1: away with it. This year, has Aguilar has struggled out
Speaker 1: of the gate, Is it possible that Eric Thames can
Speaker 1: just get his job act, I mean it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give uh Agilar a longer leash.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Thames would be really good if he
Speaker 1: if he had an opportunity, you know, and was you know,
Speaker 1: as that situational hitter, that matchup guy. We know the
Speaker 1: power is real, you know, we know the power is real.
Speaker 1: We know the balls juice. We know Miller Park, if fly,
Speaker 1: you know, is a very hit or friendly park, so
Speaker 1: you know, couldn't happen. Yes, But I think right, I
Speaker 1: like the spec I like the way you're thinking on it.
Speaker 1: But I think Aguilar has a longer leash, and I
Speaker 1: think I agree with Matodika here. Uh we didn't mention
Speaker 1: that we actually own Hayes Tolar in this league, so
Speaker 1: we kind of wanted to lost town a little bit
Speaker 1: and having both Brewers guys in case anything were to
Speaker 1: happen to Aglar, who's been really unlucky to start the year.
Speaker 1: I mean he's batting one fifty six. Has expected batting
Speaker 1: average according to Baseball Savant two fifty two, which is
Speaker 1: basically in the range that he was in last year.
Speaker 1: He had a two fifty seven last year, striking out
Speaker 1: a lot less. This season, he's walking more. This is
Speaker 1: all hazers, Aglar, so, I think better days are coming.
Speaker 1: And obviously, hitting in Miller Park, it's a great environment
Speaker 1: to hid in. Um So, we basically just wanted to
Speaker 1: lock down having both of these Brewers guys. But you know,
Speaker 1: looking into Eric Thames, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: warning signs to me. He has like a forty eight
Speaker 1: percent strikeout rate Greg um you know, and like a
Speaker 1: sixty nine percent flyball right, So it basically two outcomes here,
Speaker 1: strike out or just trying to hit a home run,
Speaker 1: trying to lift the ball and hit a fly ball.
Speaker 1: He's not walking, he has a zero percent of walker.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a walk rate. He doesn't have a
Speaker 1: walk on the year. So this is basically just trying
Speaker 1: to lock down both. But it's not like Eric Thames
Speaker 1: has been that much better than no he he obviously hasn't.
Speaker 1: I am happy in GST. We changed both our catchers out,
Speaker 1: which was nice we get rid of Beefcatsto and who
Speaker 1: else do we have? Um? It was we had, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Chris Ianeta, the Terrible Catchers. We dropped them both for
Speaker 1: Josh Beagley and Christian Baskets. Who has hit today? Playing
Speaker 1: second base? Today? Kid you not for the bus and
Speaker 1: Red Sox. He's playing second and Blake's Whiteheart is catching.
Speaker 1: Why I think they wanted to give dustin Majoria about
Speaker 1: new yet off. I don't have anything, man, I don't
Speaker 1: give me that baby. Well, we're never gonna use Christian
Speaker 1: Baskets in the second base right now? Enough? All right?
Speaker 1: I was interested that I thought Luis Eirias at three
Speaker 1: bucks a very good bid in RS. Before we move
Speaker 1: on from the Catches, I do want to ask Modica Matt,
Speaker 1: were you in on Josh Familey anywhere? What have you
Speaker 1: seen from him? Do you like the games he's made?
Speaker 1: He's had some power, know in the minor leagues a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago he hit like nineteen homers or
Speaker 1: something like that, so he's got a little bit of power.
Speaker 1: It's a good oakland A's line of two. Were you
Speaker 1: in on Josh Fagley anywhere? I'm gonna put a couple
Speaker 1: of small bids that really wasn't gonna know above like
Speaker 1: a seven to eleven dollar range, was you know the
Speaker 1: market I was paying for Fegley. Interestingly enough, Mitch Garber
Speaker 1: was available in a couple of leagues. You weren't forty
Speaker 1: dollars in one. I had a thirty one dollar bit
Speaker 1: on that one missed out, got swyhearted another. But yeah, look,
Speaker 1: if if you own like, uh, the Nick Hunley types
Speaker 1: of the world and all that the ion net is
Speaker 1: and Fagley was out there, I totally get being aggressive.
Speaker 1: I got Josh Fagley for a thirty three bucks in
Speaker 1: the main event. The next closest bid was it is
Speaker 1: what it is, the second catcher. But it's about need.
Speaker 1: It's about you know, you needed to catch or you
Speaker 1: need to upgrade the position, and that thirty bucks it
Speaker 1: could really it has worked it for you in my opinion,
Speaker 1: to the guy that maybe really didn't need it and
Speaker 1: only went three. Yeah, so I had Carson Kelly as
Speaker 1: my as my second catcher, which very interesting situation for
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks, right, so they trade for Carson Kelly. I
Speaker 1: thought he's gonna have the opportunity to play every day,
Speaker 1: and even with Alex Villa going on the DL, Greg,
Speaker 1: he's still not playing every day. I mean, John Ryan
Speaker 1: Murphy is still getting a lot of playing time for
Speaker 1: four the Diamondbacks. So I ended up dropping him. I
Speaker 1: picked up Fegley for it was actual thirty two bucks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean he's performed well. The hard hit
Speaker 1: rate is up. I mean well at the Oakland A's
Speaker 1: lineup is a very deep one too. It's not the
Speaker 1: best hitting environment. But you know, I get him as
Speaker 1: my second casher. I'm fine with that. I also I
Speaker 1: picked up Chris Davis. Let you see, for eight bucks.
Speaker 1: He's my utility player. I'm hoping that I kipt lightning
Speaker 1: in a bottle here. Greg, it's just a hot weekend.
Speaker 1: It's a small model, man, if you can cash it,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I did one hundred dozer. I was
Speaker 1: in a Dan Vogel box was available in our in
Speaker 1: our main event, he goes for four hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four dollars. I think I had a hundred and thirteen
Speaker 1: dollar bid. I wasn't expecting to get him. I figured
Speaker 1: someone was gonna be much more aggressive, and rightfully so.
Speaker 1: But he went for a four forty four. The next
Speaker 1: closest bid was one seventy one, So you know, put
Speaker 1: that in perspective. But Matt, you know, has has referenced
Speaker 1: that you want to get your guys, you really want
Speaker 1: vogel Box, you gotta spend up to get him. So
Speaker 1: that's what someone did in our main event. You know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was one willing to give up, work
Speaker 1: up a third or two fifths of my fab budget
Speaker 1: left for for Dan Volga. He was really the he
Speaker 1: was the top guy if he was still available, I
Speaker 1: thought so too, and Vogle Black and whether Clint Frasier
Speaker 1: was still out there as well. I know that was
Speaker 1: suber aggressive on him. Uh last week, Um, trying to
Speaker 1: go through the g d D League. Now, Frank and
Speaker 1: go over some of the big waiver wire guys here
Speaker 1: and see who went. What do you make Matt Oh,
Speaker 1: I've seen him picking a cold places. Adam Wayne right,
Speaker 1: I know he's ugly the first star, it's gotten better
Speaker 1: the back next to what do you think of him?
Speaker 1: I do have him on a couple of teams. There
Speaker 1: was a couple of thirty round selections. On the twenty
Speaker 1: ninth round. Uh, he's off of one and I do
Speaker 1: think I have him on two others still. I think
Speaker 1: right now he is you know, border borderline roster bull
Speaker 1: and depended upon you know what the matchup is and stuff,
Speaker 1: you can roll him out there. I mean, I see
Speaker 1: people excited about like Jorge Lopez. I'll start Adam Wayne
Speaker 1: right over him. Every Yeah, every day. Well you're the
Speaker 1: Jorge Lopez guy, right, you excited about Joregal Lopez. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mild excitement here for Jorge Lopez, who has a two
Speaker 1: star week this week. He's going up against the White
Speaker 1: Sox and the Yankees. And I mentioned that the underlying skills,
Speaker 1: the swinging strike rate, it's a little bit over league average. Look,
Speaker 1: he's not blowing anyone away. The case for nine are
Speaker 1: not great, the walks for nine haven't been great, but
Speaker 1: I think the arsenal is decent. He throws like an
Speaker 1: eighty seven mile per hour slider and the whiff rate
Speaker 1: is actually up on that. He did have prospect pedigree
Speaker 1: in the past. He was a top pitching pitching prospect
Speaker 1: for the Brewers a couple of years ago. But he's
Speaker 1: bounced around. He hasn't he hasn't been great until now,
Speaker 1: he's been all right. So in deeper leagues, you know,
Speaker 1: as a two star pitcher, I was looking into him,
Speaker 1: Adam Wayne Right. I just don't know what he offers
Speaker 1: at this point, right, like he's probably gonna have like
Speaker 1: a low four's e r ray. I agree with Matt
Speaker 1: that maybe in the right matchup you can stream him,
Speaker 1: but me personally, I'll go the other way. I know
Speaker 1: Matt said he would use Wayne right over Lopez. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little intrigued by Jorge Lopez. So I
Speaker 1: want to see what he does this week. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I, you know, technically throw him in there
Speaker 1: right away, but I did pick him up in a
Speaker 1: few deeper leagues as a speculative bad just to see
Speaker 1: if there's anything here with him. You know, when he
Speaker 1: pitches at home in Kansas City, it's a good ballpark,
Speaker 1: and he did have some pedigree, So I have some
Speaker 1: interest in Jorge Lopez. Two more names I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up to you, Matt before we hit the break here.
Speaker 1: That's Hunter Renfro for San Diego. Inside our gd D
Speaker 1: he went for sixteen bucks out of a hundred. The
Speaker 1: question really isn't about run for his talents, but that
Speaker 1: playing time, but the injuries in San Diego, he could
Speaker 1: play every day and we know the powers there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will. I think sixteen dollars is a fair bid.
Speaker 1: I want to own him or Fran mill Rays. Like
Speaker 1: you said, it's just about the opportunity of playing time.
Speaker 1: Can they get it? You know, you know it's look
Speaker 1: where three weeks into the season, not even and you
Speaker 1: know maybe there's gonna be some trades down the road
Speaker 1: to Uh, Fran mill Rays was available one of my
Speaker 1: really big leagues, and I did like nine on him,
Speaker 1: not really needing the outfielder there, but I wanted the
Speaker 1: talent and he went for over. Like, yeah, I'm with
Speaker 1: you on friend Milrays too. I tweeted this out yesterday
Speaker 1: Greg Drink regarding the hitters who have the biggest difference
Speaker 1: between their batting average and expected batting average who start
Speaker 1: the season. Friend Milrays was the top one heading into
Speaker 1: yesterday's Action batting average and a three forty nine expected
Speaker 1: batting average. So better days are coming for him. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's He's played a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: the majority of the time this year for the San
Speaker 1: Diego Padres. They're trying to get creative. Manuel Margot another one.
Speaker 1: If he was available in twelve team leagues, I would
Speaker 1: say go out there and be aggressive on him. He's
Speaker 1: off to a solid start this season, and he hit
Speaker 1: his second home run yesterday, a leadoff home run against
Speaker 1: Zack Frankie. But has an interesting power speed combination. People
Speaker 1: are so ready to write off Manuel Marco. The guy
Speaker 1: is still only twenty four years old, Greg, so you know,
Speaker 1: he's been playing every game since April seven, he's been
Speaker 1: in the line up. They're giving him an opportunity. So
Speaker 1: I like this padres outfield, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people did with you. Were worried about the playing time.
Speaker 1: But now you eliminate one guy with Frankie Cordero who
Speaker 1: went on the I l and you know, things start
Speaker 1: to work themselves out a little a little bit here.
Speaker 1: So if Marco or friend Murrays were available, I would
Speaker 1: I would be very aggressive on either one. I very
Speaker 1: much agree I. I was with you a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and anymore go then I wanted to take a shot
Speaker 1: on him. If he can find the playing time, playing
Speaker 1: times there, uh, he won't probably cost as much as
Speaker 1: a guy like Hunter Renfro. So that's why I like
Speaker 1: Manuel Margot if he's out there. One more name before
Speaker 1: the break, Matt, and that's Miss Morland, who hits in
Speaker 1: the middle of that Red Sox order. There's always the
Speaker 1: time every year where I feel like I'm after Moreland. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's earlier rather than later. Now he went for about
Speaker 1: eight dollars to our guy Ian Coln inside the g
Speaker 1: D League. Are you in on Miss Moreland? Yeah, for
Speaker 1: things you said, He's hits in the heart of that lineup.
Speaker 1: He's on the strong side of the platoon. I have
Speaker 1: him on a couple of teams, another guy like you know,
Speaker 1: late twenties, thirties round draft pick or you could get
Speaker 1: on waivers for nothing. So look, he's got power, we
Speaker 1: know that. And that lineup. Look, the Red Shocks are
Speaker 1: gonna get hot. The Red Shocks are not a you know,
Speaker 1: three intent team or whatever the hell they are. No,
Speaker 1: they're not. They're not a three intent team, and they'll
Speaker 1: certainly get hot. Probably the Yankees this week, Frank, Yeah, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so with the with the pictures that there, the Yankees
Speaker 1: are throwing out there right now, just can't do anything right.
Speaker 1: But regarding Mitch Moreland, look, he's batting third in the
Speaker 1: Red Sox lineup, he's already got five homers. You know,
Speaker 1: like if you started him for any of that, like
Speaker 1: you feel great about it. Maybe he doesn't play against
Speaker 1: left handed pitching every single time, but you know what,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you between a two fifty and two
Speaker 1: sixty bantning average right around there. He's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of pop. The r B I S can certainly
Speaker 1: help you out as long as he plays and he's
Speaker 1: batting third. I thought it was interesting for the Red
Speaker 1: Sox early on in the season they were trying out
Speaker 1: Rafie Devers adding third, and what do you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks into the season, they're already pushing him
Speaker 1: down to bat six. So it's like, why would you
Speaker 1: try something all spring and and give a guy a shot?
Speaker 1: And it's like, I know they're getting off to a
Speaker 1: slow start, but you just you don't really give him
Speaker 1: time to work through it. So it's interesting. Look, yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as Mitch Moore and petting third for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, the perfectly fine corner infielder utility, you've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of pop definitely helps with the RVF.
Speaker 1: Al right's he good break when we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: go over some to start pitchers with that Modiga here
Speaker 1: and we'll break down the week with the Elemo five
Speaker 1: game on Patriots Day of Boston. If not, we'll give
Speaker 1: it two star pitchers and let you know what we think.
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Speaker 1: that Frank wanted to ask you about. You grabbed in
Speaker 1: the main event, and that was my man from Miami,
Speaker 1: Austin Howard Dean. What were you thinking? Uh, he was
Speaker 1: probably a thig third on my list, So you know
Speaker 1: you have conditional bids after your top bid. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be playing every day, they called him up. Uh, you'll
Speaker 1: have a spot and in fifteen team leagues, guys that
Speaker 1: will have at bats in a good part of the order. Eventually.
Speaker 1: I don't see him, you know, batting in the bottom
Speaker 1: end of that lineup all year. I don't see that
Speaker 1: as the possibility. So for what is it four percent
Speaker 1: or so to take a shot missed out of my
Speaker 1: other two options. Uh, So you know, we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens there. It's funny. I actually watched a lot of
Speaker 1: Austin Dean oddly this weekend, Frankie, because I was in
Speaker 1: Philly and the Marlins were playing Film Get Crushed, and
Speaker 1: I was watching Zac Get crossed. Yes, yes, yes, I was,
Speaker 1: um and Austin Deine give me the every day right
Speaker 1: field with this. Isn't Peter O'Brien down, not right on her?
Speaker 1: Doesn't Peter O'Brien down. And Austin Dean's get all of
Speaker 1: playing time that there in Miami, and they don't really
Speaker 1: hit all that much. But deems to me part of
Speaker 1: the middle of it, so we'll see. He's a deeper
Speaker 1: league ad. I don't have any problems with him in
Speaker 1: fifteen teamers obviously, and only anyone who has a job
Speaker 1: should be owned. He's got a tweety one career batting
Speaker 1: average in the minors. He was hitting three seventy five
Speaker 1: this year. You get three forty five with p s
Speaker 1: last year in the minors between double A and triple A.
Speaker 1: So I think if you're picking them up, you're really
Speaker 1: banking on the batting average here plays in the big park,
Speaker 1: but maybe a lot of those turned into uh, get
Speaker 1: a lot of gap shots. Get a lot of doubles
Speaker 1: out of Austin Dean. Only twelve homers and two stone bases,
Speaker 1: so modest pop. But I think what you really wanted
Speaker 1: to him is batting average and in the fact that
Speaker 1: he's gonna play every day, Greg, I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with int deep believe. Okay, So there you go
Speaker 1: with Austin Dean. Let's get into some of the two
Speaker 1: start pitchers for this we hopefully your ladders have not
Speaker 1: locked yet. If you go by the gate, the team
Speaker 1: that plays not just the first game of the day.
Speaker 1: I want to begin with Nick Pavetta, who many people
Speaker 1: were high on coming into this year. Matt the then
Speaker 1: I faces the men and he's in Colorado. Certainly two starts.
Speaker 1: You're not exactly thrilled about. You gonna start Prevent this week. No,
Speaker 1: I will not be starting Nick Pivetta this week. I
Speaker 1: highlighted into my article over at the Athletic yesterday. I
Speaker 1: did two start pictures every week. And look, I'm not
Speaker 1: cutting him in any twelve or fifteen leagues. I mean
Speaker 1: definitely not fifteen, And even in the twelve. If you
Speaker 1: had believed in him prior, you gotta give him more
Speaker 1: than three starts. I did a tweet last week on
Speaker 1: Louis Castillo, Zach Wheeler and after get the third Jamison
Speaker 1: Tye on you know after their first month, what they
Speaker 1: were able to do rest of the season. Granted, Provetta
Speaker 1: has not looked good the Phillies radio broadcast, which I'm
Speaker 1: becoming a real good fan of. Uh they said it
Speaker 1: best and it's been the theme early on. Provetta did
Speaker 1: not bring his swing and miss stuff. He almost salvaged
Speaker 1: that start on whatever the middle of the week last
Speaker 1: week where he went up getting dreamed. But when you
Speaker 1: give a pitch to the picture, you know, Jeremy Hellison
Speaker 1: k get a hit off of you, you could have
Speaker 1: had a one to three inning. It turned into you know,
Speaker 1: a four run any or more. So I think there's
Speaker 1: talent there. I'm not bailing on it. Look at the
Speaker 1: state of pitching, you know, the further you go down,
Speaker 1: look at these guys you're streaming. One week, everybody loves
Speaker 1: Spencer Turnbull, then they don't love him. So I think
Speaker 1: you got a better on talent from now. Let it
Speaker 1: win out and go from there. It's one thing I
Speaker 1: don't actually love to fill his radio broadcasting because I thought, like,
Speaker 1: way too horsh for me. It's like every radio broadcast
Speaker 1: is home erge. I don't disagree with at least what
Speaker 1: I was listening. They weren't pulling any punches. Oh I was.
Speaker 1: I did not like it. Like I was listening actually
Speaker 1: all into the train yesterday, and the color guy was
Speaker 1: just like, oh, I got a really good feeling I got.
Speaker 1: I got a good feeling about Gene. You got good
Speaker 1: at bath here against it was like, what is that
Speaker 1: he goes? Let the stats say that. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you my feeling about Gene. Jean's gonna end it right
Speaker 1: here like this is weird. I was that the event
Speaker 1: that he actually hit the home run now even cool.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he he and he. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that years. Oh that's so funny. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was not a batter two before that. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a feeling. Was a little later regarding Nick Pavetta
Speaker 1: fifteen team leagues, I agree. I I can't cut him there.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cut him after three starts in
Speaker 1: a twelve team league. I'm just saying it's a little
Speaker 1: bit tougher there because you see a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys were performing on the waiver wire and and you
Speaker 1: want to pick him up. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit harder. Um. I agree. Look, if you try, if
Speaker 1: you drafted Nick Pavetta, it's obviously for the skills you
Speaker 1: you want them to win out. Um, so try your
Speaker 1: best to be patient. I'm starting to get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a John Gray vibe right from from Nick Pavetta.
Speaker 1: Where it's you know, is he always gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy where the peripherals are much better than the e
Speaker 1: r A. He pitches in a tough ballpark and Citizens Bank,
Speaker 1: it's obviously not to the same level of corpse field.
Speaker 1: But no, last year four four point seven seven ear a,
Speaker 1: we see the strikeouts, we see the command is solid,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he had a three point four
Speaker 1: two x fit and we all right, well, he's got
Speaker 1: to get better. Well this year only three starts from
Speaker 1: the nine point four or five year a three point
Speaker 1: nine eight x five. Is this a guy that's just
Speaker 1: always gonna have better peripherals than his actual numbers? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like we do have a sample size of
Speaker 1: three innings at this point regarding Nick Pavetta, But you know,
Speaker 1: at some point I got to see him put it together. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, met for for for ess and g's here
Speaker 1: those who are listening and watching at home, and you
Speaker 1: figure out what's are would you rather have Nick Pavetta
Speaker 1: or EDWARDO. Rodriguez. I had them pretty much, uh, neck
Speaker 1: and neck. They were part of the six pack of
Speaker 1: upside arms bumped and disappointed so far. You know, I
Speaker 1: probably there slight lean Pivetta. I had him a couple
Speaker 1: of spots higher. I mean, it's pretty much a very
Speaker 1: close coin to I think Edward Rodriguez is a very
Speaker 1: talented picture who unfortunately hasn't made him to stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Had the bed knee, got the surgery, expected good things
Speaker 1: out of Rodriguez, and like I said, these guys we're
Speaker 1: seeing have a good starter or two we get all
Speaker 1: excited about. You know, the guy Thornton in the in Toronto.
Speaker 1: You know, just because you have a lot of swinging
Speaker 1: mrs in one game doesn't mean that he's going to
Speaker 1: translate for the rest of the season. And look, I
Speaker 1: think that John Gray Camp is a really good one, Frank,
Speaker 1: And I think you know, maybe that is the case.
Speaker 1: But you have a bench too, and he's on my bench.
Speaker 1: This week. Uh, you know a guy like Pavetta. I know,
Speaker 1: people after the first couple of starts for I Rod
Speaker 1: were like, he's on my bench, and I'm like, you
Speaker 1: can't do it. I know last week we went a
Speaker 1: little back and forth on Zach Wheeler. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: can't sit Wheeler. You you invested too much on him.
Speaker 1: He's not at course field. You gotta roll with him.
Speaker 1: You know, some of these guys, you're gonna start him over.
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna backfire the majority of times. Sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you have like you're a fifth or six starter
Speaker 1: and you want to take a shot on these two
Speaker 1: start guys or these guys that are coming off a
Speaker 1: good start, I understand it. But I think in the
Speaker 1: long one, you gotta at least give him a month
Speaker 1: or so. In my opinion. The reason I asked because
Speaker 1: I actually traded Nick Pavetta to Greg in our in
Speaker 1: our home, our work ley here for Eduardo Rodriguez. So
Speaker 1: I was able to read pure I think that's very fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was able to read the rewards of the third
Speaker 1: start while I was like, did not that he was
Speaker 1: very very bad? It's not it's two star pitchers. Let's
Speaker 1: continue all of the two start pictures. Frank Um, and
Speaker 1: we mentioned a water Rodriguez. What about Derrick Rodriguez who
Speaker 1: faces Washington and Pittsburgh this week, dek Arriez for the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants matter. Are you on him this week? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. And look, he's only giving up one walk
Speaker 1: in three starts. That's excellent. Uh. To me, he's upside
Speaker 1: is a four A four e R a picture outside
Speaker 1: of an excellent spin rate on his curve ball. I
Speaker 1: think he's an average picture or an adequate picture, even
Speaker 1: I've changed our turn and picture at best. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna roll with him. I don't think the strike an
Speaker 1: upside is there to gamble on. So I wasn't a
Speaker 1: Rodriguez guy coming into the season, and I'm not gambling
Speaker 1: on him right now. I didn't have any shares of
Speaker 1: de rod as well, Greggy, I will say this, or
Speaker 1: you're playing a daily transactions league. I like him for
Speaker 1: the start against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh. I do
Speaker 1: agree that he's probably mostly a an average picture in
Speaker 1: baseball that gets saved by the fact that he pitches
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, which is a huge park. But regarding
Speaker 1: his two starts this week, I believe both of them
Speaker 1: are on the road at Washington and Pittsburgh, so you know,
Speaker 1: they're still regarded as as more picture friendly parks, but
Speaker 1: obviously not as good as San Francisco and Washington is
Speaker 1: you know, obviously they're swinging the hot pads to start
Speaker 1: the year, so you're playing a daily league. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: use them against Washington, maybe against Pittsburgh, but overall I
Speaker 1: wouldn't use them either. My arguably favorite to start picture
Speaker 1: here these week is Kyle Gibson, who faces Toronto and
Speaker 1: is in Baltimore. Uh. The fantasy community has a love
Speaker 1: hate relationship with Kyle Gibson. Do you love him where
Speaker 1: you hate him? I love him for what I want
Speaker 1: him to be. Which was my replacement for Rick Porcello
Speaker 1: this year because he was he was going a hundred
Speaker 1: pitchs later and for like two dollars for a buck
Speaker 1: or two in auctions. I thought he could give you
Speaker 1: that hundred and eighty innings or more, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: closer to two hundred, possibly give you the strikeouts of
Speaker 1: say a hundred and eighty, which he's gonna give you
Speaker 1: strike ats for volume in the innings pitched. It hasn't
Speaker 1: translated early on. I still believe it, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's getting this to start now. Of course,
Speaker 1: now that Martine Perez is pitching tonight and I think
Speaker 1: they have him for Saturday, and now I'm seeing Cole
Speaker 1: Stewart as a possibility on Sunday. That's one of the
Speaker 1: frustrations about this, trying to do this two start week
Speaker 1: in March or eight in the month of April. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for this month to be over. With these
Speaker 1: off days and rainouts and teams being able to move
Speaker 1: some things around. That meeting of fish starter, it becomes
Speaker 1: uh confusion. It's a tough one, Greg, because I really
Speaker 1: like the matchups and we we just don't know as
Speaker 1: of right now whether or not he's going to have
Speaker 1: that that two star week. I use CBS and they
Speaker 1: kind of they you know, they project to the best
Speaker 1: of their ability to figure out who's a two star pitcher.
Speaker 1: So I believe it was Toronto and Baltimore. Those are
Speaker 1: pretty damn good matchups, right Like, if you can't start
Speaker 1: Kyle Gibson for a two star week against those two,
Speaker 1: when are you gonna start this guy. So he hasn't
Speaker 1: been great to start start the year. He actually got
Speaker 1: blown up against the Royals and then also did not
Speaker 1: perform well against the Mets. He's giving up a ton
Speaker 1: of walks, but again, uh, you know, if you can't
Speaker 1: use them against Baltimore in Toronto, especially in a deeper league,
Speaker 1: when using him, I tend to agree that's only the
Speaker 1: only time I'm going to use really any of these guys.
Speaker 1: For the Minnesota Twinkies coming up, we get to this
Speaker 1: is a really interesting one. He joked about it last Friday.
Speaker 1: That was you, Darvish, because he faces Miami, and in
Speaker 1: Miami you're gonna start him. He also faces Ares on it,
Speaker 1: so it's a two star picture. Obviously you're gonna play him.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts thus farmat on you, dar Wish
Speaker 1: or what you've seen from him. It's been disappointing though
Speaker 1: he did have on the last start zero wooks, so
Speaker 1: you gotta take You gotta look for civil linings everywhere,
Speaker 1: so you gotta try. So yeah, zero walks and that
Speaker 1: was progress the point where you, Darvish to me, I
Speaker 1: wrote the semi piece, if you own him, this is
Speaker 1: a much start. If you're not gonna start him this week,
Speaker 1: then why is he on your roster? There's you don't
Speaker 1: have there's no justification for him not to be here.
Speaker 1: He's at Miami and I forget the second start, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so you have to roll him out in this two
Speaker 1: start week hopefully you know, he had to figure some
Speaker 1: things out, maybe mechanically. You know, that first start was horrific,
Speaker 1: but it's gotten incrementally better, I'll say, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to look for that. You know, always stay positive spin.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you Darvish is if I own him, he's
Speaker 1: definitely my line up this week. I have one share
Speaker 1: of you, Darvish. Greg. I was hesitant, but I did
Speaker 1: put him in the lineup. And I think it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit different regarding Darvish because you know, he's
Speaker 1: coming back from the injury at the slow start and
Speaker 1: spring training, so he's still kind of ramping up. Like,
Speaker 1: if I could afford to wait, I would rather see
Speaker 1: him build himself up and kind of work himself into
Speaker 1: some kind of form, hopefully a good form here, So
Speaker 1: personally I would want to be patient. But just like
Speaker 1: that start against the Marlins is so enticing, So I
Speaker 1: owned him in one spot I started him, So I
Speaker 1: guess I agree Greg get him in there. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you had the luxury of waiting and you had
Speaker 1: a good enough rotation, I would kind of just you know,
Speaker 1: want to see him get worked up and and slowly
Speaker 1: build himself back up. One other name we talked about
Speaker 1: Frank last week was Tyler Molly, who face it off
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers and the Padres this week. Molly's like
Speaker 1: a league average guy, but people have been excited about
Speaker 1: him for a little while. A little prospect pedigree here
Speaker 1: it was Tyler Molly got met Oh, this is what
Speaker 1: I'll say, This is what I wrote about him the
Speaker 1: top of my head. He's become finishing relevant again. And
Speaker 1: you know he's got like a strikeout rate ground ball
Speaker 1: that's great. You know, that's everything you want, the walk
Speaker 1: percentages and had to control. But then you look at
Speaker 1: the flip side. I believe that, you know, he's got
Speaker 1: that really low babbitt the hard strand rate. This is
Speaker 1: not a week I'm gonna be using Mally in a
Speaker 1: deeper league. Yes, I would roster him. I don't think
Speaker 1: I want to roll him out this week, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, and I actually watched his last start against
Speaker 1: the Marlins. He has that strand rate, the left on
Speaker 1: base percentage that Modique is talking about, so he wiggles
Speaker 1: out of some trouble, I'll put it that way. I remember,
Speaker 1: I believe he had first and second against the Marlins
Speaker 1: early on in that game and got saved by a phenomenal,
Speaker 1: phenomenal diving stop by Jose Glaciers, which ultimately ended up
Speaker 1: saving him. And the walks have actually been up a
Speaker 1: little bit more this year. You look at his minor
Speaker 1: league numbers, he didn't walk anyone, but in the majors
Speaker 1: he's been walking more people. So it's something that he
Speaker 1: has to get right. That's starting against the Dodgers just
Speaker 1: really scares me too, So I think owning him is
Speaker 1: like a speculative player deeper league, or just leaving him
Speaker 1: on your scout list for now, I think makes sense.
Speaker 1: But I'm with Matt, I'm not starting him. That that's
Speaker 1: starting against the Dodgers really worries me. I agree with that,
Speaker 1: but he's he's certainly a watchless guy for I'm attention
Speaker 1: based on the strikeout for ending and the groundball rate
Speaker 1: being over fifty percent. I agree with all those factors
Speaker 1: that Modeca mentioned. It's just the match against the Dodgers
Speaker 1: scares me. But yes, you should. You should be paying
Speaker 1: attention to him to see, you know, look if he
Speaker 1: performs well against the Dodgers, and yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of like, uh, that's giving you a green light
Speaker 1: there that all right, maybe we could trust this guy
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Yeah, absolutely, Matt, What do you
Speaker 1: what's going on in the athletic this week? What do
Speaker 1: you what do people pay attention to? Uh? To start week,
Speaker 1: two Star Pictures is up podcast with two Star Pictures
Speaker 1: is up as well and hitting Planner, so you know,
Speaker 1: get a chance to check that out. And remember, chaos
Speaker 1: is a ladder. Chaos is a lot of didn't we
Speaker 1: get to do Thrones recaps each and every Monday. It's fun,
Speaker 1: especially for the crazy episodes because you know that they're coming.
Speaker 1: You know they're coming. Greg, there's well, there's five episodes left.
Speaker 1: Next week is also an hour, and then I think
Speaker 1: they all incrementally get higher, like it was like an
Speaker 1: hour of twenty minutes. I think there's one that's like
Speaker 1: closer to ninety minutes as well, So there's a lot
Speaker 1: that still needs to happen between you know, a war
Speaker 1: against the White Walkers and a war against Searcy. There's
Speaker 1: a lot that needs to happen in these next five episodes.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be fun to get a little recap here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good time. It was nice, like everyone,
Speaker 1: I think it was good last night, right, everyone gets
Speaker 1: like talked to each other and see each other the
Speaker 1: first time in a while. You know, it's only gonna good.
Speaker 1: Dad Hill from here. We've talked about this in the
Speaker 1: pit a ton and I wouldn't mind if just everyone dies. Sure,
Speaker 1: I just want to see chaos Modica, like you know,
Speaker 1: I wanna. I want to cry. I want to be
Speaker 1: emotional during the final season. I want to see crazy
Speaker 1: stuff happened. I don't know, you know what. I might
Speaker 1: be alone, but you know what, I don't want to say.
Speaker 1: I don't need to see Danny and John snow riding
Speaker 1: dragons kissing each other. That's why I don't need riding
Speaker 1: each other. I would do That was awful. That was
Speaker 1: like high school exactly exactly. Why do be of like
Speaker 1: how to train a dragn not great? Not great? Net.
Speaker 1: We're replacing Matt Modica with Chris Ventcher. We'll do that next, Matt,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next this week. We'll be back
Speaker 1: right back, ethless