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Speaker 3: Hello everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I'm Ryan Warmley, joined
Speaker 3: as always by Mike Mayor. If you miss parts one
Speaker 3: and two of the Cycle to speak, be sure to
Speaker 3: check those out either on YouTube or wherever you listen
Speaker 3: to your podcast. Or We did round in the bases
Speaker 3: and our buys and sales and waiver picks. We are
Speaker 3: now talking some pitching streamers, will of course do our
Speaker 3: two start pitcher competition as well and talk about what
Speaker 3: we're excited about this weekend. Mayor start us off as
Speaker 3: we always do for this segment with our pitching streamers,
Speaker 3: and we've definitely settled into the pattern of kind of
Speaker 3: one per every day of the week here, so take
Speaker 3: us Monday to Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so similar to last week, and some of that
Speaker 4: we've talked about in a few reason videos. It's not
Speaker 4: great out there if if you need pitching and you're
Speaker 4: streaming pitching. Some of the names are are pretty gross.
Speaker 4: And I will reiterate with something that you said last
Speaker 4: week where sometimes the best decision is just to not
Speaker 4: stream anybody, which for one of the days I actually
Speaker 4: wrote just stay away, stay away.
Speaker 3: From I think last week the day that that prompted
Speaker 3: me to say that was Friday, And this week I
Speaker 3: noticed Friday is the day you wrote stay away. Maybe
Speaker 3: Fridays are just bad streaming days.
Speaker 4: It could just it could just be the Fridays are
Speaker 4: bad streaming days. Some of the other names that you
Speaker 4: can potentially stream, and some of these, you know you
Speaker 4: have to assume, you know, either you're in a daily
Speaker 4: league where you can kind of you know, either change
Speaker 4: your lineup every week or a drops or change your
Speaker 4: lineup every day or make ad drops every day, and
Speaker 4: other times you know, maybe it's it's a weekly streamer,
Speaker 4: and so for some of them, maybe you can get
Speaker 4: like a two star pitcher, which one of them I included.
Speaker 4: For Monday, I have JP Sears at Texas at the Rangers.
Speaker 4: They are going to be without Corey Seeger, and they
Speaker 4: already are according to our pitching streaming tool, they are
Speaker 4: one of the bottom offenses, meaning they're a good team
Speaker 4: to stream against right now, just based on recent performance.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's going to stay the case all year,
Speaker 4: but at least right now they are not hitting well,
Speaker 4: and so they are a target to stream against, and
Speaker 4: so JP Sears up to a fine start three point
Speaker 4: two to one ERA. He's available in most leagues consensus
Speaker 4: roster percentages like fourteen percent. Tuesday, I have someone we
Speaker 4: already mentioned. I have Andrew Heeney, who has been a
Speaker 4: two star pitcher. Of course, as of right now, he's
Speaker 4: protected to be a two star pitcher. The only problem
Speaker 4: is that his two stars are against the Cubs and
Speaker 4: the Padres, two of the better offenses in the league.
Speaker 4: And so you're kind of really getting an Andrew Heeney
Speaker 4: truth test here of how just how legit this start
Speaker 4: is for him, and you're gonna find out next week.
Speaker 4: Even though I think some of the Cubs stuff. I
Speaker 4: know a lot of people think they have like the
Speaker 4: best offensive baseball or one of the best offenses in baseball,
Speaker 4: I think some of that is is going to kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, come back down to earth. I don't know
Speaker 4: that their offense is going to be this good all year.
Speaker 4: Wednesday is actually probably my favorite pick of the week.
Speaker 4: Tobias Myers. You know, I don't necessarily necessarily love grabbing
Speaker 4: a name, grabbing a picture just coming off the injured
Speaker 4: list to start right away, but he is starting at
Speaker 4: the White Sox, and so if you're going to come
Speaker 4: off the injured list, a nice softlantic spot is going
Speaker 4: against White Sox, and so Tobias Myers is a picture
Speaker 4: who I like. He's kind of maybe just kind of
Speaker 4: like a guy, but he's also just been like really
Speaker 4: solid for a pretty you know, like all last season.
Speaker 4: I kept waiting. I think there was actually one point
Speaker 4: early in the year in the two Star pitcher competition
Speaker 4: where I was like, oh, maybe I'll just stream Tobias Myers,
Speaker 4: like as a joke, and then he was just like
Speaker 4: really good, Like the rest of the year, and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, joke's on me. Thursday, not the biggest name,
Speaker 4: but also attacking the White Sox Chad Patrick, who was
Speaker 4: off to you know, a fine start with the with
Speaker 4: the Brewers, and just again attacking that White Sox offense.
Speaker 4: I don't know how long Chad Patrick's going to be
Speaker 4: in the rotation because they have some pitchers coming back,
Speaker 4: but for now he's pitching fine and he's got the
Speaker 4: White Sox. Friday, I have is a stay away. I
Speaker 4: looked at some names for Friday and it was hard
Speaker 4: to get there. There's Ben Brown against the Brewers. I
Speaker 4: wasn't crazy about, Michael Waka against the Orioles, Mitch Keller
Speaker 4: against the Padres. Mitch Keller might all if you can
Speaker 4: stream him, maybe you can do it, but he's probably rostered.
Speaker 4: He's below the fifty percent threshold on this tool. But
Speaker 4: my guess is if you're in CBS or Yahoo, he's
Speaker 4: probably already rostered. And then Quinn Priester, I don't know
Speaker 4: that I would stream him against the Cubs despite everything
Speaker 4: I just said about the Cubs. Do you want to
Speaker 4: take your life into Charlie Morton's hands and go against
Speaker 4: the Royals.
Speaker 3: Charlie Morton needs to retire a month ago. I mean
Speaker 3: he's so washed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's really it, unless you want to go
Speaker 4: with Michael Soroka, Jonathan Cannon, Ryan Feldner, Like Friday is
Speaker 4: just to stay away day for me.
Speaker 3: No, you've proven your point.
Speaker 4: Saturday, Jamison tyone against the Brewers. Tyone is his numbers
Speaker 4: aren't that great, but he got off to kind of
Speaker 4: like a rough star and he's been fine his last
Speaker 4: few starts, and so he's an interesting streaming candidate to
Speaker 4: stream against the Brewers at Milwaukee. And then Sunday, I
Speaker 4: kind of have pick your poison of two pagers going
Speaker 4: up against each other. Do you want and Vasquez going
Speaker 4: up against the Pirates or Andrewheny going up against the Padres?
Speaker 4: Andrewhiney being a if you're in a weekly league, you'd
Speaker 4: be a two star pitcher. But does have the Cubs
Speaker 4: in the Padres. And then the honorable mention I have
Speaker 4: is I forget what day it was on, but I
Speaker 4: have Tyler Anderson at Seattle is kind of like a
Speaker 4: bonus one for someone who might be available in your league.
Speaker 4: It looks like it's Wednesday. Tyler Anderson at Seattle is
Speaker 4: another name that kind of jumped out to me. If
Speaker 4: someone I'd be fine streaming against the.
Speaker 3: Mariners, Anderson will probably be my favorite if available. I
Speaker 3: guess like Buyers, Tyne or the other favorites. It's not
Speaker 3: a particularly eye popping slick you know group of names here.
Speaker 4: No, it's the waiver wire is thin right now for pitching,
Speaker 4: so if you're streaming, you know you have to really
Speaker 4: pick your spots.
Speaker 3: Does this make you, like going through this exercise, maybe
Speaker 3: more inclined to take a value hit in a trade
Speaker 3: of like a hitter for a pitcher you were trying
Speaker 3: to just add pitching and not have to do as
Speaker 3: much streaming.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's hard to say, just because I
Speaker 4: have a couple of leads where I really really need hitting,
Speaker 4: and so it's hard to think about. Like from the
Speaker 4: reverse perspective, I tend to lean wanting hitting because I
Speaker 4: think it's harder to find like long term hitting replacements
Speaker 4: or stream hitters where I think, with like streaming pictures,
Speaker 4: I can always just stream volume and it's like gonna
Speaker 4: you're gonna have some rough spots, but if you're right
Speaker 4: more than you're wrong, and you also have a few
Speaker 4: decent starters on your team. The numbers should work out
Speaker 4: in the end, like the law of large numbers, unless
Speaker 4: you're just like streaming and getting blown up time and
Speaker 4: time again. But I do. I do kind of like
Speaker 4: in some leagus depending on how it goes, like having
Speaker 4: almost like one spot where I dedicate, like a streaming picture,
Speaker 4: especially where I could just like file in like two
Speaker 4: star pitchers, or like a good matchup paired with starters
Speaker 4: that I really like, and then just locking in as
Speaker 4: many good hitters as I can.
Speaker 3: Let's go to our two start pitcher competition. We'll check
Speaker 3: out how we did in Week two, which is most
Speaker 3: recent completed week. You had Tweak Schooble against the Brewers
Speaker 3: and the Royals. He got twenty eight point four points.
Speaker 3: In our league, I had Max Freed against the Royals
Speaker 3: as well, and the race he got thirty six point
Speaker 3: two points, so I come await the victor there. Evening
Speaker 3: up the season at one and one, we wanted to
Speaker 3: make a note of checking to see how Taiwan Walker did.
Speaker 3: He combined for three Fantasy points all right, so we
Speaker 3: were definitely correct to not buy into the early decent
Speaker 3: start of Taiwan Walker. We're still waiting to see how
Speaker 3: Hunter Brown versus Max Meyer goes, or if it doesn't
Speaker 3: end up being Brown, is it still looking like Brown
Speaker 3: will make the second start? Actually haven't love.
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you, I haven't looked, I haven't.
Speaker 3: Checked, so possibly Hunter Brown for me, possibly Bryce Miller
Speaker 3: and how their first starts. When I'm certainly hoping it's
Speaker 3: Hunter Brown. We'll see what ends up being the case there.
Speaker 3: But Mayor's got Max Meyer, who obviously got off to
Speaker 3: a very strong start here in the week. We'll see
Speaker 3: how that goes for a week four this upcoming week.
Speaker 3: I went first, kind of another week of like not
Speaker 3: a ton of like names I loved. I ended up
Speaker 3: going with Freddy Peralta because he's getting the Chicago teams.
Speaker 3: He's at the White Sox, and he's home versus the Cubs,
Speaker 3: and he's off to a pretty good start this season. So,
Speaker 3: like I said, I didn't. I didn't kind of want
Speaker 3: to overthink it. I just went for someone who has
Speaker 3: pitched pretty well and who has you know, he gets
Speaker 3: the White Sox, which is just always going to be
Speaker 3: kind of a not that I needed a tiebreaker in
Speaker 3: this case, but it's always going to be somebody that
Speaker 3: I will will gravitate towards. Do you have do you
Speaker 3: have any We haven't really talked about Paralta this year
Speaker 3: so far, just any kind of quick thoughts on what
Speaker 3: we've seen out of him. I mean, yesterday he pitched
Speaker 3: poor Lee prior to me putting his name in the sheet,
Speaker 3: so that makes it look a little bit less. He
Speaker 3: had five innings, three earned runs, and three strikeouts yesterday.
Speaker 3: Prior to that, his e RA was one ninety one.
Speaker 3: I think his whip was under one before yesterday, so
Speaker 3: he had looked pretty good so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yesterday he had four shoutout innings before the
Speaker 4: wheels came off. So it was really that fifth inning
Speaker 4: that got him. And I know because I bet his
Speaker 4: under two and a half fronts and uh I lost
Speaker 4: that one. And I was and I remember, like, I
Speaker 4: I don't know if I was like going to sleep
Speaker 4: or put my kids to bed. I was like, oh, sweet,
Speaker 4: four shot out of inning. It's like, oh, I just
Speaker 4: need like another inning or two and get him out
Speaker 4: of there and we'll win this bet. And then uh nope,
Speaker 4: three three. But yeah, I like Freddy Pralt. I think
Speaker 4: he was maybe like overrated a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: and now he's maybe underappreciated. I just think he's like
Speaker 4: a good like, you know, not an ace, but like
Speaker 4: a you know, a two B one type starting pitcher
Speaker 4: who I think is going to be fine. Also a
Speaker 4: Hunter Brown. It does look like it's going to be
Speaker 4: a two star pitcher. I know there was some talk
Speaker 4: that Lance mccullors could return and pitch for the Astros.
Speaker 4: Does not appear to be the case, and he's currently
Speaker 4: lined up to start against the Royals on Sunday.
Speaker 3: That is quality news for my to start pitcher competition
Speaker 3: because I need a great foot forward to beat Max
Speaker 3: Meyer coming off of his first start of the week.
Speaker 3: All right, so Freddy Paralza for me, who is your pick?
Speaker 4: I went with Jacob de Grom, who has the Athletics
Speaker 4: not in Sacramento and has the Seattle Mariners, both starts
Speaker 4: in Texas, and I figure, use Jacob de Groam while
Speaker 4: you can, because who knows if he's going to be
Speaker 4: there in June.
Speaker 3: I'd rather just not use him at all this year.
Speaker 4: I mean, he hasn't been that bad. He just hasn't
Speaker 4: not sp one as some people.
Speaker 3: Haven't yet just not out of the Joe a Rica
Speaker 3: not really buying in. Do the athletics scare you not
Speaker 3: in Sacramento?
Speaker 4: I mean that lineup looks better and better.
Speaker 3: Every day, especially Yeah, I was gonna say, like, it's
Speaker 3: a pretty fun lineup, like even aside from the ballpark.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the ballpark especially scares me. But yeah
Speaker 4: there they are no longer an offense that I'm targeting intentionally.
Speaker 4: It just happened to be. I wanted to see how
Speaker 4: du Graham could do. But yeah, there's a that lineup
Speaker 4: is looking pretty good, especially if Brett Rooker gets going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's look at our weekend excitement here. To wrap
Speaker 3: things up, I almost just wrote down only one thing.
Speaker 3: I did end up writing more, but like we get
Speaker 3: Paul Skeens versus Yamamoto that rules cannot wait to watch
Speaker 3: that You did write it in all caps, Yeah, because
Speaker 3: I'm super excited about it. It's like, I mean, how
Speaker 3: many pitching matchups could you come up with right now
Speaker 3: that you'd be more excited to watch than that? Not many,
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: There was someone in YouTube comments last week who called
Speaker 4: Yamamoto mid after our like Ace conversation, which I didn't
Speaker 4: I don't agree with what's really really good based on
Speaker 4: what I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I listen. I respect Fring opinions and if
Speaker 3: they want to make the case go ahead, but like
Speaker 3: for me, my only real question with Yamamoto coming into
Speaker 3: this season was like just giving that its the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: Like how many innings do we actually get? Do they
Speaker 3: give him a phantom? I l stints? Do they take
Speaker 3: him out after the fifth enning a lot of time?
Speaker 3: You know? That was my concern when he's on the mound.
Speaker 3: I pretty much have no concerns about Yamamoto at all.
Speaker 3: I think he's really good. So that's my stats. I'm
Speaker 3: going on in a limit thing. I think Yama Moto
Speaker 3: good picture.
Speaker 4: Rest everyone as much anymore because they are currently in
Speaker 4: third place in the West.
Speaker 3: Sure sure, yeah yeah. Skeens versus Amamoto. Super excited about
Speaker 3: Shane bos versus Michael King is a really fun one
Speaker 3: of two arms that we like a lot. Then we
Speaker 3: get Max Meyer versus Bryce Miller, which I wrote down
Speaker 3: just because it was possibly going to be our two
Speaker 3: start pictures going head to head. Sounds like I will
Speaker 3: get to stick with Hunter Brown, as I made clear
Speaker 3: last week, So maybe that one will be as exciting
Speaker 3: for us personally. But yeah, Skeens versus Adam Yamamoto was
Speaker 3: a big one for me.
Speaker 4: For me, I wrote down the NFL Draft always a
Speaker 4: very exciting time for me. I love the NFL Draft.
Speaker 4: I loved when it was all day on Saturday, because
Speaker 4: my friends and I would get together and just have
Speaker 4: like an all day like out. We would like put
Speaker 4: a TV outside and like barbecue and make a whole
Speaker 4: day of it. I kind of don't love the three
Speaker 4: day extravaganza of like one round and then two more
Speaker 4: rounds and then wrapping it up on.
Speaker 3: Some Yeah, like two days was fine when it was
Speaker 3: like rounds one and two and then three to seven,
Speaker 3: but like, yeah, three days is I don't need that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And by the time round one ends, I'm like I
Speaker 3: want to keep going, Like give me another round.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's brutal, especially like you know, as fans of
Speaker 4: teams that are often picking towards the end of the draft,
Speaker 4: like you wait all night and then like your team
Speaker 4: like trades out of the first round.
Speaker 3: You're like, that's happened so many times.
Speaker 4: I also wrote down I wanted to see more Nick
Speaker 4: Kurtz and he's going to be at home in that
Speaker 4: in that ballpark, which I'm excited to watch. I just
Speaker 4: decided to watch him like in general and like see
Speaker 4: you know if this you know power is legit, and
Speaker 4: just like I'm just excited to watch a young prospect
Speaker 4: like that. And then while you went with all the Aces,
Speaker 4: I kind of wrote down a bunch of other names
Speaker 4: of pictures I wanted to see just because they're off
Speaker 4: over this really strong starts.
Speaker 3: All the Aces, I wrote down schemes and Yamamoto that's.
Speaker 4: It, well the other and Max Meyer, Well you wrote
Speaker 4: down like some exciting pitching matchups. I wrote down some
Speaker 4: kind of like middle of the road names who I'm
Speaker 4: just excited to kind of like see, like Mitchell Parker
Speaker 4: or someone we haven't really talked about. He's after a
Speaker 4: really strong start, doesn't seem that real to me. But
Speaker 4: also like I just kind of want to see Tyler Molly,
Speaker 4: someone we've talked about on the show. He's like seems
Speaker 4: like a lot of smoke and mirrors, but he's after
Speaker 4: a really strong start. And then Nicolodola also off to
Speaker 4: a strong start. He's pitching in Colorado, which I you know,
Speaker 4: grimacing emoji at that one. Yeah, I'm interested to see
Speaker 4: like a lot of those pictures who are just off
Speaker 4: to like really good starts, Like what's what's going on here?
Speaker 4: How long is this going to go on for? Like
Speaker 4: are wheels going to come off with immediately? Is it
Speaker 4: going to kind of be like a first half thing?
Speaker 4: And then the last time I wrote down is walk Bueller,
Speaker 4: who has like been on a pretty good run, but
Speaker 4: it just doesn't pass the eye test to me, Like
Speaker 4: I watch him pitch and I'm like, this doesn't look right,
Speaker 4: like the velocity's down, it's not really like getting a
Speaker 4: lot of like swing and miss, like it just seems
Speaker 4: like disaster is about to happen at any turn there.
Speaker 4: And so I'm interested to watch him pitch again because
Speaker 4: even though the numbers have looked fine the last few starts,
Speaker 4: it just like, like I said, it doesn't really pass
Speaker 4: the eye test to me, like something looks off here.
Speaker 3: We will wrap up there. Thanks everybody for tuning in
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