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Speaker 2: Hello, everybody, welcome into the cycle, Part three for the week.
Speaker 2: I'm Ryan Warmley, joined as always by Mike Mayor. Mayor.
Speaker 2: We are talking some pitching streamers. We're doing our two
Speaker 2: start Pitcher competition. We'll hit on some stuff we're excited
Speaker 2: for for the weekend as well. If everybody hasn't seen
Speaker 2: it yet, please be sure to check out Rounding the Bases,
Speaker 2: which is part one of the cycle this week, and
Speaker 2: of course our Buys and Sells and Waiver Central was
Speaker 2: part two. As always, start us off here with some
Speaker 2: of your favorite pitching streamers.
Speaker 3: All right, so pitching streamers. Like always, we're going to
Speaker 3: go through every day of the week, which I've seen
Speaker 3: in YouTube comments people really like that format. They like
Speaker 3: having a picture for every day of the week, or
Speaker 3: sometimes we say hey this is a stay away day.
Speaker 3: But a lot of people stream daily or almost daily,
Speaker 3: so they like that. So the format today is the
Speaker 3: picture I went with for Monday is the same picture
Speaker 3: if you watched our previous video about trades and waivers.
Speaker 3: I went with Colin Raya for Monday for a very
Speaker 3: clear reason. He's pitching against the Marlins at home, so
Speaker 3: a great matchup. And also, if you're in a weekly
Speaker 3: league where you have to pick up a pitcher and
Speaker 3: you know if you're starting him for one of the
Speaker 3: starts you ever started him for two could not be
Speaker 3: more ideal because his second started on Sunday against the
Speaker 3: White Sox. So Colin Raya Monday against the Marlins and
Speaker 3: Sunday against the White Sox. And do you want to
Speaker 3: keep going any comments on Yeah, we usually run through
Speaker 3: them all.
Speaker 2: All right, Well we've done this episode enough. You you
Speaker 2: know how the format goes.
Speaker 3: That's true. The last week I was the host and
Speaker 3: Kelly did the streamers, so it was it backwards last week.
Speaker 2: Well, I will say, you know, strong indoors, I totally
Speaker 2: agree on Raya. I think it's also funny that you
Speaker 2: have there's real pattern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're gonna mix this week.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: Six of the seven days are against one of two opponents,
Speaker 2: So you're really taking advantage of the matchups here this week.
Speaker 3: I haven't really taken advantage of the matchups. And that's
Speaker 3: in part because of the matchups and also in part
Speaker 3: because there wasn't a lot of other like great options
Speaker 3: those days, and so for a bunch of them, I
Speaker 3: looked around, I was like, oh, whoever was pitching against
Speaker 3: the Marlins? But I also like I looked at every
Speaker 3: day pretty closely, and that's kind of where I landed
Speaker 3: with the best options. So Monday was Colin Raya versus
Speaker 3: the Marlins, Tuesday Ben Brown versus the Marlins as well,
Speaker 3: and Wednesday Jamison Tyone also against the Marlins. So first
Speaker 3: three pitchers, just whoever's pitching against the Marlins? Grabbing every
Speaker 3: picture for that series. I actually would prefer that it
Speaker 3: was in Miami instead of you know, Chicago, but you know,
Speaker 3: I'll always you know, take the Marlins. But there are
Speaker 3: just like more some like great options for those days,
Speaker 3: just like looking around, even on like Tuesday, like you know,
Speaker 3: Ben Brown was definitely the highest one on my list.
Speaker 3: You could also potentially do like Brian Bayle against the Tigers,
Speaker 3: but I didn't love that one. You know, Jose Siriano
Speaker 3: against the Padres. I don't want to stay from that.
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Springs at the Dodgers, No, thank you, Casey myies
Speaker 3: is probably rostered too many places. But like after those names,
Speaker 3: the pitches available as like Quinn Priests against the Guardians,
Speaker 3: Michael Saroka against the Braves, Like, I'd rather just stream
Speaker 3: against the Marlins and be happy with it. Thursday, we
Speaker 3: gotting away from the Marlins, but we're going against the
Speaker 3: White Sox. Nick Martinez against the White Sox. It's another day.
Speaker 3: That's a small slate day. So that was kind of
Speaker 3: a you know, not a ton of great options, either
Speaker 3: for like matchups or for you know, players are probably
Speaker 3: going to be already rostered places. One of the other
Speaker 3: names I looked at he had a favorable matchup was
Speaker 3: Zach Lttel. He's only five percent consensus rostered. He's at
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays, but he's only got twenty five strike
Speaker 3: outs to forty one inning. He's four point six to one.
Speaker 3: Ear Ray, I feel like there's you know, too much
Speaker 3: downside there for like the upside you're you're getting into.
Speaker 3: So I was more interested in Nick Martinez against the
Speaker 3: White Sox. Friday, I posted this has like been our
Speaker 3: trickiest day each week of for or most weeks. I
Speaker 3: wrote it up as Dustin May or stay away. I
Speaker 3: imagine Dusty Dustin May is rostered in your league. But
Speaker 3: when I was looking up, I was pretty shocked to
Speaker 3: see that his roster percentage was pretty low. If you're
Speaker 3: in a CBS, he's likely rostered because he was rostered
Speaker 3: like sixty eight percent there or something like that, but
Speaker 3: wildly available on Yahoo at ESPN, like way more than
Speaker 3: I expected.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Yahoo forty six percent rostered, ESPN twenty six
Speaker 2: percent roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so way lower than he should be. Like, I
Speaker 3: feel like he should be rostered everywhere, and so so
Speaker 3: if you can stream, he's at home against the Angels,
Speaker 3: So if you can stream him, he's also the kind
Speaker 3: of picture you can potentially pick up and keep for
Speaker 3: a little while. But maybe I'm over valuing Dustamony, but
Speaker 3: I like him a lot.
Speaker 2: Especially he's been on fan tracks. By the way, he's
Speaker 2: eighty three percent, so he's really high there. I mean
Speaker 2: it's been a struggle. Truthfully, he has one good start
Speaker 2: in the last month, so I get why people might
Speaker 2: have dropped him, even if the talent is still pretty high.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was for Friday, so Dustin may or
Speaker 3: stay away if you're not going with that one. I
Speaker 3: didn't like much else that was out there. Saturday, I
Speaker 3: went with Matthew Boyd versus the White Sox. Matthew Boyd
Speaker 3: after a really good start, still widely available, and again
Speaker 3: you're targeting the White Sox. And then Sunday I already
Speaker 3: mentioned it's Colin Reya again against the White Sox. So
Speaker 3: three starts against the Marlins, three against the White Sox
Speaker 3: and one against the Angels. Also a bottom offense without
Speaker 3: Mike Troupp.
Speaker 2: If you're in a league where you don't have to
Speaker 2: lock guys into the full week, and you pick up
Speaker 2: for Monday, would you drop him for one of these
Speaker 2: others Let's say you only have one real streaming spot.
Speaker 2: Would you drop him for one of these other guys
Speaker 2: around the week, or would you just hold on to
Speaker 2: him for at least that Sunday against the White Sox.
Speaker 3: I think I'd rather just I mean, maybe Matthew Boyd,
Speaker 3: but you wouldn't be able to pick up Matthew Boyd.
Speaker 3: I guess you would be able to technically pick up
Speaker 3: Matthew Boyd, drop him Saturday night and pick up Raya
Speaker 3: for Sunday, as long as you drop Raya immediately on
Speaker 3: Monday and your your waivers aren't more than like two
Speaker 3: or three days. That would be the other one I
Speaker 3: would talk about just because Boyd is off to a
Speaker 3: really good start. And then some honorable mentions, sorry, some
Speaker 3: honorable mentions names I considered for some of those weeks. Wednesday,
Speaker 3: I also liked Jose Katana at Cleveland. We've talked about
Speaker 3: Jose Katana before. At some point he's gonna turn back
Speaker 3: int Jose Katana, but for now he hasn't, So maybe
Speaker 3: try one more time. Hopefully you're not left holding the
Speaker 3: back when he turns back Intojose Katana. Thursday a J
Speaker 3: Smith shov against the Washington Nationals. Again the pitch. We
Speaker 3: talked about all three videos this week. I think Saturday
Speaker 3: Andrew Rabbit against the Guardians. Also a player. He might
Speaker 3: be roster in your league, but his roster numbers are
Speaker 3: pretty low. And then Saturday. Also Ben Casparius against the Angels.
Speaker 3: He's an interesting one because they're stretching him out as
Speaker 3: a starter. But last week he did come out of
Speaker 3: the bullpen, he got the win. Or his last start,
Speaker 3: he came out of the bullpen, he went, he went
Speaker 3: four and to third. He still got the win, but
Speaker 3: that he came after an opener. So if you're the
Speaker 3: kind of league that needs a quality start, he's probably
Speaker 3: not gonna be the name you're going to target because
Speaker 3: he might come out of the bullpen and he also
Speaker 3: if he does start, he might not go more than
Speaker 3: five innings.
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Speaker 2: sign for the two start pitcher competition. I noticed last
Speaker 2: week you did not assign a winner for that previous week.
Speaker 2: Whose turn it was? I believe it would have been
Speaker 2: Week three's Hunter Brown versus Max Meyer. I was confused
Speaker 2: why you didn't assign a winner because it seemed pretty
Speaker 2: clear cut to me.
Speaker 3: I didn't tally up the numbers. I mentioned on the
Speaker 3: show that with Kelly, I just said, we'll save that
Speaker 3: for next.
Speaker 2: Week, okay, because Meyer had a great first start and
Speaker 2: then a poor second start, and Hunter Brown had two
Speaker 2: very good starts. So it was a very very easy
Speaker 2: call of looking at the points. A wide gap there.
Speaker 2: So Hunter Brown the winner for week three. So I
Speaker 2: am up two to one. Now we have to pick
Speaker 2: the winner week four. This one I thought was a
Speaker 2: lot closer, And I'm curious if you want to make
Speaker 2: a case one way or the other. I had Freddy Peralta,
Speaker 2: you had Jacob de Gram Peralta. You know, by the scoring,
Speaker 2: if we're strictly going on points from this league that
Speaker 2: we have as kind of like a baseline to keep track.
Speaker 2: Par also got thirty seven point seven points, de Grom
Speaker 2: thirty two point four. That would be a win for
Speaker 2: me this that lines are really close. So the main
Speaker 2: difference to the points is that Paralta got quality starts
Speaker 2: both of those games, whereas de Gram didn't. But for
Speaker 2: Paralta twelve innings, seven hits, two runs, four walks, twelve
Speaker 2: strikeouts two and oh record to Gram eleven innings, seven hits,
Speaker 2: one run, two walks, ten strikeouts, two and oh record.
Speaker 2: So de Gram had one fewer innings pitched, two fewer walks,
Speaker 2: one fewer run, two fewer strikeouts Peralta, you could argue
Speaker 2: more consistent getting quality starts.
Speaker 3: Both those weeks.
Speaker 2: He had two more walks, one more run, one more
Speaker 2: inning pitched, and two more strikeouts. So really close. I
Speaker 2: would lean like a very slight lean towards Peralta, But
Speaker 2: I'm curious if you want to make the case for
Speaker 2: de Gram.
Speaker 3: I want to put this to a vote. I want
Speaker 3: the public to vote on this. I want like YouTube
Speaker 3: and social media to vote on this. I want a graphic,
Speaker 3: and I want to say which which pitcher had the
Speaker 3: better week. I was actually curious why Paralta had more points,
Speaker 3: But it makes sense that you if you're counting points
Speaker 3: for quality starts, that would be the main difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way our lega is set up, you get
Speaker 2: points for a win, and you get a smaller number
Speaker 2: of points. I think I want to say it's like three.
Speaker 2: It might be four, but you get smaller points or
Speaker 2: quality starts. So the fact that per Alta went deeper
Speaker 2: into his games, you know, played into that. I mean
Speaker 2: he also got an extra inning pitch, which helps in
Speaker 2: a points league. He had two more strikeouts somewhat off set,
Speaker 2: you know, two more walks and two more strikeouts. Right,
Speaker 2: one more run but one more inning pitch. It's they're
Speaker 2: very similar overall stat lines.
Speaker 3: I'm putting it to use what they say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll read those stat lines one last time for
Speaker 2: people who are voting in the YouTube comments again. Jacob
Speaker 2: de Gram eleven innings pitched seven hits, one earned run,
Speaker 2: two walks, ten strikeouts. Friday Peralta twelve innings pitched seven hits,
Speaker 2: two earned runs, four walks, twelve strikeouts. Both of them
Speaker 2: went to and Ozer. Maybe you may or can put
Speaker 2: a pin a comment on the YouTube channel with those
Speaker 2: stat lines.
Speaker 3: Or maybe our video producer can put up put up
Speaker 3: a graphic on the on YouTube. You can actually look
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 2: While you're I don't I don't like asking them to
Speaker 2: do extra work. I don't mind asking you to do Actually.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking him. I'm just saying maybe, maybe, maybe
Speaker 3: about it right now, and they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're so wady to see what happens with the
Speaker 2: last week exact where versus Shane Smith Wheeler Off obviously
Speaker 2: off to a stronger start there. I appreciate Kelly filling in.
Speaker 2: I did listen to this section, so I heard her
Speaker 2: change this at the last second, so hopefully it works
Speaker 2: that well for me. I you know, she tried to
Speaker 2: leave me some better names.
Speaker 3: For this week.
Speaker 2: There were really two main names that I thought were intriguing.
Speaker 2: That there was a third name, which is Paul Skeens,
Speaker 2: but he had really tough matchups, so you know, I
Speaker 2: think you and I maybe had the same line of
Speaker 2: thinking of let's not yeah, I don't think you've used
Speaker 2: Skeens yet, all right, and I know I haven't, so
Speaker 2: let's save him for maybe a better matchup week. And
Speaker 2: I've already used Michael King, so that's where you're going,
Speaker 2: and I'll let you speak to that in a second.
Speaker 2: But I couldn't use King. The only other name that
Speaker 2: was really appealing was Hunter Green. But obviously there's this huge,
Speaker 2: huge asterisk here of the injury, which we are not
Speaker 2: yet sure we're waiting this MRI, So if you'll allow it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pick Hunter Green and say, regardless of
Speaker 2: how he does, he is my locked and guy. If
Speaker 2: he is healthy enough to make these starts. If the
Speaker 2: injury changes his status and he's no longer a two
Speaker 2: star pitcher, I have a backup here, and I think
Speaker 2: you will allow me to pick this backup because he's
Speaker 2: been absolutely horrific lately. But like I said, there weren't
Speaker 2: a ton of options I really liked. I did consider, actually,
Speaker 2: given his matchups, I went with Shane Boz because of
Speaker 2: the matchups. He gets a game at Miami, which, as
Speaker 2: you highlighted when talking about the streamers, is extremely appealing.
Speaker 2: He also gets at Toronto, who have been really, really
Speaker 2: bad against right handed pitchers this year. Boz obviously has
Speaker 2: high upside when he's been on. As of late, that
Speaker 2: has not been the case. So I'm really hoping I
Speaker 2: don't have to use him. That Hunter Green is healthy
Speaker 2: and I can take advantage of him getting the White
Speaker 2: Sox and the Guardians. But if the health does not
Speaker 2: pan out, I will accept this struggling backup option here,
Speaker 2: Shane Boz.
Speaker 3: If that works for you, Yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: Shane Boz has been bad, bad lately, so that's a
Speaker 3: that's a bold choice, but not as bold as the
Speaker 3: guy who just left with an injury. So two bold choices.
Speaker 3: We'll see if either one.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think Green's not bold if he's plays.
Speaker 2: And again, we just saw Reagan's actually come back from
Speaker 2: a groin injury against the White Sox and do quite well,
Speaker 2: So you know, maybe we get the same from Green.
Speaker 3: Be even more generous to you for your for your backup.
Speaker 3: In the event that Hunter Green misses his first start
Speaker 3: and makes his second, and in the event that Shane
Speaker 3: Boz makes his first start and then gets sent down,
Speaker 3: you can have Boz's first start and green second start
Speaker 3: as your two week.
Speaker 2: Will that be allowed to use half of a Green
Speaker 2: week again in the future or is he off the
Speaker 2: board in that scenario.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I don't know what'll play is
Speaker 3: about your how it goes.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, like I said, I would have picked
Speaker 2: King obviously, but I have already used him, and then
Speaker 2: I just didn't want to use Skimes this week. I
Speaker 2: think it's the Mets and the Phillies he's facing and
Speaker 2: everybody else I thought was halfway decent. I was really
Speaker 2: worried about the I either didn't like the matchups or
Speaker 2: didn't like the picture. Like I said, Raya was a
Speaker 2: guy I considered, but I couldn't have my official picks
Speaker 2: be Shane Smith and Colin Rayo back to back weeks.
Speaker 2: That just felt icky.
Speaker 1: So not that bo.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be really furious with myself if the scenario
Speaker 3: I just presented to you happens and I lose the
Speaker 3: week and you lose because of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: Any quick thoughts on King, just two good matchups and
Speaker 3: a good picture. Like you said, there weren't another a
Speaker 3: lot of other great names of target. I didn't really
Speaker 3: want to put my faith in Colin ray especially if
Speaker 3: someone who's already losing the contest. So yeah, Michael King,
Speaker 3: just good matchups, good picture. Also in our points league
Speaker 3: that weren't together. I actually benched him last week because
Speaker 3: you've only had one start and it was against the Yankees,
Speaker 3: and I had other pictures who were like going two
Speaker 3: starts and it worked out for me. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's not often you bench Michael King. I don't have
Speaker 3: a cad for it. But this week definitely start him.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to our weekend excitement here. Not
Speaker 2: a ton you know stuff going on. I don't just
Speaker 2: Cubs Mets in general is gonna be really fun series
Speaker 2: to first place teams, Phillies, Guardians, you know, a fun
Speaker 2: series as well. And then the one real pitching matchup
Speaker 2: I wanted to high was just Garrett Crochet Verus Cole
Speaker 2: Reagan's like, that's obviously really fun just in terms of
Speaker 2: those two guys going to get going against each other.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, will be a lot of strikeouts in that one.
Speaker 3: I went with my wife being back to help me
Speaker 3: watch my kids because she's been gone all week and
Speaker 3: it's been a struggle, and I've been I've been counting
Speaker 3: it down, like you know, sometimes it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: three more sleeps till Christmas. I've been counting it down
Speaker 3: of like like two more bedtimes and two more daycare
Speaker 3: drop offs until my wife is back. So she's back
Speaker 3: tonight and really looking forward to that. Have you have
Speaker 3: you been busy?
Speaker 2: You've never mentioned it.
Speaker 3: I've been pretty busy.
Speaker 2: All right, We'll get out of here on that one
Speaker 2: so you can get back to watching your kids. Prior
Speaker 2: to your wife getting back. We will put up a
Speaker 2: poll on YouTube. Mayor will put up a pole. Hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll get a graphic too when you when you put
Speaker 2: this out to the people in the comments, I mean,
Speaker 2: if they listened to, they'll know who was who. But
Speaker 2: just for anybody reading the comments, just put the stat lines.
Speaker 2: Don't put like de gram did this and this was
Speaker 2: Mayor's pick, Worm's pick, pra Alta did this. Just say
Speaker 2: which was the better stat line for fantasy this week.
Speaker 2: I have a feeling they might lean towards your pick
Speaker 2: in that regard, but we'll see.
Speaker 3: If you can add.
Speaker 2: You can add to the stat line one of these
Speaker 2: guys got two quality starts and the other did not.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm gonna put that in the outline right here,
Speaker 2: all right. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Hopefully if
Speaker 2: you didn't catch it, go check out Rounding the Bases
Speaker 2: and also our buys and sells and waivers segment as well.
Speaker 2: So we've got three shows out this week as always,
Speaker 2: both on YouTube and on audio platforms. For Mayor, I'm
Speaker 2: Ryan warmly thanks everybody for tuning in. We will see
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