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Speaker 1: I am Greg Sauceman that Moodica here as well from
Speaker 1: Medica Monday. How's going, Frankie? I'm doing all right, you know,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I have a little banged up like
Speaker 1: this fluctuation and weather like kind of like one day
Speaker 1: it's warm, one day it's cold and rainy. It's all
Speaker 1: over the place. Uh. Drank a decent amount this weekend too,
Speaker 1: So I've been better overall though, like yesterday seeing endgame,
Speaker 1: thought Game of Thrones was awesome. All right, how do
Speaker 1: you sleep? I was the weekend? My weekend was miserable. Man,
Speaker 1: it was long. I so you want a long weekend? No,
Speaker 1: not not this kind of long weekend. So like last Thursday,
Speaker 1: I came on Friday and so I had a few
Speaker 1: beers on Thursday night and it wasn't feeling good like
Speaker 1: you saw me. We all went out Friday night and
Speaker 1: you know, drank there as well. Then Saturday I had
Speaker 1: this party, drank some wine, came back, drink some beer.
Speaker 1: I was drinking all night. Then yesterday was saying to
Speaker 1: my I went to my dad's who had shots lined
Speaker 1: up for us when we got there, Like you said
Speaker 1: there would be Like I said, there were be healer shots. Well,
Speaker 1: but the thing is you do one and then he
Speaker 1: just he just pours the next one. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: It's not it was fright. I just felt like my
Speaker 1: friends were over like two thirty on Saturday night and
Speaker 1: I had to be my dad's like pretty early. I
Speaker 1: was like exhausted from this week, exhausted. I was probably
Speaker 1: doing He's doing well, man, he's doing well. But I
Speaker 1: wanted to sleep last night. I had some trouble falling asleep. Um,
Speaker 1: and they went to sleep and I woke up very refreshed,
Speaker 1: which is nice. I feel good now. But I did
Speaker 1: have a great weekend. I was just tired all weekend.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you had fun. It sounds like you're
Speaker 1: just complaining because you're kind of old. Maddiemo. What's going
Speaker 1: on you man? Happy Monday? Frank, would you like your
Speaker 1: shout at tequila? I'm down now, bring him down, Bring
Speaker 1: him on down Happy Britos. Yeah what, but no, I agree.
Speaker 1: I took Game of Thrones was actually really good last night.
Speaker 1: UH won some fat bits and you know we got
Speaker 1: an early game this week. Give me honest with you.
Speaker 1: I really like Thrones last night. I really didn't. They
Speaker 1: were just telling me downstairs and said, oh yeah, Greg
Speaker 1: hated last night's episodes. I really, I was really disappointed. Bot.
Speaker 1: It was better than last week. I thought it. I
Speaker 1: thought it dragged a lot. I thought that there was
Speaker 1: way too much like fan service and Brandon Jamie's literally
Speaker 1: just all the fans want to Brann and Jamie. Let's
Speaker 1: give him Brandon. Jamee me, this is stupid. As a
Speaker 1: wrestling fan should be able to appreciate service. But didn't
Speaker 1: you love the second episode, which basically all service? Agreed,
Speaker 1: I'm done with the fan service now, Matt. We did it.
Speaker 1: We don't need another episode of it. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: And then I said this last season, in the season
Speaker 1: before that, but you can't spend the first three seasons
Speaker 1: going from point A to point B like it takes
Speaker 1: the entire season to get there, and then in this
Speaker 1: season because it's the last few episodes, like they go
Speaker 1: to King's landing by the staff of a finger and
Speaker 1: a guy that's literally in the water using arrows to
Speaker 1: kill a dragon is then back with Cercy within five minutes.
Speaker 1: They're like bothered the crop out of me. And I thought, Matt,
Speaker 1: that would bother you too. I mean it does. But
Speaker 1: we're at the point I think once the old man
Speaker 1: when they ran out of his material, I know he
Speaker 1: still consults. It hasn't been the same and good. I
Speaker 1: still enjoy it tremendously, but I was pretty I thought that.
Speaker 1: I thought the the moment of the whole show was
Speaker 1: Arias Stock breaking hearts. I like that. That was great.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I I actually read a pretty interesting
Speaker 1: analogy about um, the guys who took over writing the
Speaker 1: show after George R. Martin. Yeah, it's it's like it's
Speaker 1: it's like an artist who it's really good at sketching
Speaker 1: other people's work, but now they have to do their
Speaker 1: own work, and you can just tell that it's noticeably different, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's actually like a total that's great. Like the like
Speaker 1: season six, seven, and the first six seasons were really good, right,
Speaker 1: Season seven and eight seem like they've been a little
Speaker 1: bit rush and a little bit more Hollywood overall. Exactly.
Speaker 1: I really last night just because I felt like it
Speaker 1: was a call back to we had a bunch of
Speaker 1: different things that we saw earlier on. We had that
Speaker 1: all season long, will be fair to me, it felt
Speaker 1: like more so than every before, like we had all
Speaker 1: these callbacks like old things that used to happen, Like
Speaker 1: the conversation between Tyrian Andvaris that was like so old
Speaker 1: school Game of Thrones. I mean that that was I
Speaker 1: don't agree that's having everything arras Barrats hasn't been like
Speaker 1: the Spider in a while, sure, but like you have
Speaker 1: the last week, you have Milissandre and already have a conference,
Speaker 1: the same conversation they had. It seem two that the
Speaker 1: same thing, right, It's just overall it just felt like
Speaker 1: they were It was just they give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything, Like there was a little bit of comedy,
Speaker 1: There was drinking, there was a sex scene. There was
Speaker 1: like multiple deaths. Like also it was ridiculous the dragon
Speaker 1: died from these arrows after they had a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: weights on them last week, like a billion things trying
Speaker 1: to kill this dragon and he just swapped them away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's a little bit easier to
Speaker 1: like shake off some like dead people other than getting
Speaker 1: the dead. The dead people was pounding on you. There
Speaker 1: was the question I had, how if she's flying over
Speaker 1: the you know, she over the ocean, how do you
Speaker 1: how do they not see the ships? So that was
Speaker 1: my first That was my first day, you, Matt. The
Speaker 1: second issue is one dragon goes down. Right, she sees this,
Speaker 1: she's next to the dragon it goes down. Why doesn't
Speaker 1: she immediately just blow fire and kill everybody immediately? I'm
Speaker 1: kind of with you. My wife was very sad, though
Speaker 1: very sick. Really, yeah, she was sad about the dragon.
Speaker 1: Mr Modco set about the drag. We had to press
Speaker 1: pores for a minute. We got the mad the Mad
Speaker 1: Queen has arrived. Some would argue that the mad Queen
Speaker 1: has been in How are all along, Greg, No, mad
Speaker 1: Queen's about to Well, I'm just referring to sure, she's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy, so do we? So I guess with two
Speaker 1: episodes ago, who do you think ends up on the throne. Well,
Speaker 1: my my pick before the season was John Snow and
Speaker 1: I'm sticking by it. See, I'm just hoping it's not
Speaker 1: John Snow. Ordinarius. That's just too obvious. The show has
Speaker 1: never been about being obvious. I felt reading the books
Speaker 1: she years ago, it would be Gendri and Aria. But
Speaker 1: are you know, kind of killed that one for me.
Speaker 1: So I think, in a crazy way, a great ending
Speaker 1: would be winning. It would be nobody expects. Everybody's expecting
Speaker 1: to see how she dies and how Aria kills it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm really being Songs is gonna
Speaker 1: end to the throne at this point. Who can't keep
Speaker 1: a secret? But who look at secret? But like that
Speaker 1: she that was another issue right like in seven at
Speaker 1: one point of this one, I didn't notice this one.
Speaker 1: It was like, tell Songs of the secret, sons, I
Speaker 1: couldn't hold the secret for one scene. The next scene
Speaker 1: she tells the Darian. Well, I mean I've read a
Speaker 1: lot about it. It's very like what she's doing right now,
Speaker 1: little finger. So that's cool. So I like that, Like
Speaker 1: that to me is awesome. She's clearly little fingering the
Speaker 1: crap out of this, which is awesome. Maybe we should
Speaker 1: talk Basbo why I don't know. People are getting mad
Speaker 1: at it. I don't know. And every other podcast, the
Speaker 1: Athletics podcast Game of Thrones, Pat Mano podcast, Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: I can't Game of Thrones for the first twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: Too bad, We're gave Thrones in right now. Well have
Speaker 1: two more weeks to do this anyway, Hey man, I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I'm cool with it. Maybe it's a start
Speaker 1: today that I don't know people are all upset about.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand how people are playing on platforms
Speaker 1: still in twenty n team that the whole week's lineup
Speaker 1: locks on first pitch. That I don't get. You don't.
Speaker 1: I don't get that. It's kind of similar to the
Speaker 1: way fantasy football works too, Like if your players are
Speaker 1: playing at one, those players should lock. The rest of
Speaker 1: your players if they played four, if they played eight,
Speaker 1: if they play on a night football, it shouldn't lock.
Speaker 1: It should be the same thing for fantasy baseball. So
Speaker 1: I agree, yea, I'm completely with you. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the waivers now, though, because I feel like you s
Speaker 1: thought my momentum friend, So um, I'm gonna let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's get into waivers now. High bid this week we
Speaker 1: said it wasn't a great week of bids. Who in
Speaker 1: the main event was the highest bid this week? Frank.
Speaker 1: The highest bid this week was in my league in
Speaker 1: my main event was Griffin Canny for a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars all right, number one Vivin Cannon. We
Speaker 1: thought we had talked about him. Make makes sense. Not
Speaker 1: a massive amount by any means, but Griffin Canning goes
Speaker 1: for the most matt where you went on him. I
Speaker 1: listen on him in several leagues. I got him in
Speaker 1: a few. In the main event with Frank, I had
Speaker 1: Low and Canning. I forget who I had on top
Speaker 1: of each other. I had them. I was like the
Speaker 1: top two picks. I had it at ninety nine. I
Speaker 1: moved it to one on nine. I should have just
Speaker 1: left it at ninety nine. But I think you know
Speaker 1: what a guy like Canning. It's the strikeout upside. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's a team that's so desperate for starting pitching, and
Speaker 1: in this landscape, everybody you know, you just you have
Speaker 1: to keep adding strikeouts. There's more strikeouts. Everybody's striking people out,
Speaker 1: so in order to be competitive, especially in the fifteen
Speaker 1: team league, you gotta keep adding that factory. I agree,
Speaker 1: i'm i'm I liked what I saw from Griffin Canning
Speaker 1: the first start too. He wasn't terribly efficient in that
Speaker 1: start creak. He could, he didn't go deep into that game.
Speaker 1: But no prout with the fast bill. He has to
Speaker 1: breaking pitches that he used, and I like the bite
Speaker 1: that I've seen on those on those two breaking pitches
Speaker 1: that he was using. And he's got a two start
Speaker 1: week this week or two. So that's just adds a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, adds a little more uh price
Speaker 1: there on the fab bid a little bit more. But overall,
Speaker 1: I mean they think he has someone that should stick around.
Speaker 1: The Angels are desperate for pitching. Their pitching staff has
Speaker 1: just got awful. They continue to throw Matt Harvey out there.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Modica, but the days of the Dark Knight
Speaker 1: are long gone. Oh yeah, no, I'm with you on
Speaker 1: the days of the Dark Knight. One quick thing is,
Speaker 1: I'm not so certain Canning has a too start week
Speaker 1: because I think Sunday Nick Tropiano is a very real
Speaker 1: possibility and a six man rotation, So you know, it
Speaker 1: a little dependency how that works out, but I think
Speaker 1: for now I have it as Trupiano on Sunday, others
Speaker 1: having his Cannon getting the start, So we'll see, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard some rumors about this too, that he might
Speaker 1: not have a two start weeks, so yeah, something to
Speaker 1: pay attention to. But either way, um, he does have
Speaker 1: some upside and I don't hate the price that he
Speaker 1: went for here, a hundred and thirty five dollars. But
Speaker 1: big Nicky T. Huh Nick Tropiano, that's coming in? God,
Speaker 1: this is this is a thing again. I wish it
Speaker 1: confused with Nick Triviano and Nick Tefish's about big nicky Man,
Speaker 1: Big Nicky T. Yeah, both guys don't deserve a nickname.
Speaker 1: Not great starting pitchers. But for whatever, we're still rolling
Speaker 1: out with that. Well, that would suck if he ruins,
Speaker 1: if he's the one to ruin to star to star
Speaker 1: week here for Griffin Kenny overall, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if they go with a six man rotation, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty hard to get two star weeks out of anybody.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a matter of do they continue
Speaker 1: to do it week in a week out. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Ye absolutely all right, who's next? My
Speaker 1: friend set up? Is your boy Matt Modica fitting on
Speaker 1: Nate Low got him for a hundred and nine dollars,
Speaker 1: which I don't. I don't hate the price either. I've
Speaker 1: seen other leagues where um, you know, we play in
Speaker 1: the league together. The g D D D fifty team
Speaker 1: total lead, he went for thirty five dollars out of
Speaker 1: a hundred. So that's thirty of your fab and uh,
Speaker 1: Modica get them here for for one or nine. What
Speaker 1: do you like about a Modica? I just think he's
Speaker 1: a guy that's hit at every level. Uh, he should
Speaker 1: be in the heart of that lineup. One up that
Speaker 1: As of the other day when I was watching the
Speaker 1: Raised game, they had scored in the first inning nineteen
Speaker 1: times out of in their first thirty two games. So
Speaker 1: you know, there's something thing you have to you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta take shots. I think the guy has. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be a batting average drain.
Speaker 1: I think he can produce runs. And you know, one
Speaker 1: thing I will have to do going forward is really
Speaker 1: tighten the wild. This is where I'm usually at in
Speaker 1: like mid June as far as when I have left hand,
Speaker 1: but I'm like a month I had a schedule this
Speaker 1: year and pretty much with most of my teams. But
Speaker 1: I think once you hit that spot, you just gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, reassess and restrategize. But I'm happy with the
Speaker 1: players I've got good, you know. So Nate Low, you
Speaker 1: in our just hely went for one sixty three, so
Speaker 1: not just similar, um, not too dissimilar to say to
Speaker 1: what Matt throughout one oh nine. And in the main
Speaker 1: event Nate Low, Uh, well, we'll see. We we we own
Speaker 1: him in the island. It in a couple of leaks actually,
Speaker 1: so let's hope it goes well. Yeah, he hasn't put
Speaker 1: much together yet, but I agree with, you know, everything
Speaker 1: that Matt said about him. He's hit across all levels.
Speaker 1: Last year across I believe it was two or three
Speaker 1: different levels, he had three thirty seven home runs, So
Speaker 1: the hit tool seems pretty legit. And he's got a
Speaker 1: little bit of pop two and its Tampa Bay Ray's lineup.
Speaker 1: It's been a pretty good one all season long. I
Speaker 1: think they've been pretty surprising. They always find ways to
Speaker 1: kind of just put together a scrappy line up. Scrappy's
Speaker 1: probably the word that you're always gonna use when associated
Speaker 1: with the Rays. They is kind of piece things together,
Speaker 1: but it works out. And this is all with Austin
Speaker 1: Medals on the I L two. So he'll be back
Speaker 1: at some point and that will make the lineup even better. Great,
Speaker 1: I hope, so, I hope that's that's the case. Frank,
Speaker 1: I think it's um. I think it's funny. I'll say
Speaker 1: this rafter the break when hitting to the closers here
Speaker 1: with David Steo has a robos. I want to get
Speaker 1: Shawn Kelly as well, So I'm gonna save that um
Speaker 1: for after the break to go to Hudson went for
Speaker 1: eighty seven dollars Matt in your main event. How come
Speaker 1: almost ten percent was spent? Hudson? I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: it's the two start week. He was somebody I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure I was gonna get it. I thought maybe Daniel
Speaker 1: pont de leone Frank just in the uh in over
Speaker 1: the weekend, But it looks like Hudson, we'll get that.
Speaker 1: To start. He did beat up and pitched very well
Speaker 1: against a beat up on nationals Aline per meant to say, so,
Speaker 1: I'm not too crazy about him. I think maybe his
Speaker 1: best attribute for this team at some point is a
Speaker 1: multiple inning reliever. I think he could really excel in
Speaker 1: that aspect. But right now, Sair Lewis has given him
Speaker 1: the chance and it's not somebody I said, I just
Speaker 1: don't trust him really, going, uh, don't really trust him
Speaker 1: this week? Yeah, the it's one matchup against Philly. It's
Speaker 1: one matchup again and Pittsburgh here, So obviously really like
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh matchup. Although the lineup has come around a
Speaker 1: little bit. Brian Reynolds is playing well, starring Marte Hits
Speaker 1: the walk off homer yesterday, Gregory Polanco back in the
Speaker 1: lineup as well, so it is a lineup that's coming around. Overall, Um,
Speaker 1: still a favorable matchup, but against Philadelphia, I don't love
Speaker 1: that one. I kind of agree with Matt like he
Speaker 1: wasn't a guy that I was adding, I guess in
Speaker 1: a fifteen team or if you're just you know, you're
Speaker 1: just tasting the two star weeks. I get it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have spent that much money on him, and overall,
Speaker 1: just I don't really like the player that much either.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't in on the bidding on Dakota Hudson anywhere.
Speaker 1: I didn't anywhere either. That was he was honestly just
Speaker 1: not even on my radar here. Um this week I
Speaker 1: kept saying it was a not a huge, huge pitching
Speaker 1: week or it really hit her week. Either. Some of
Speaker 1: the names that we went over, the names we've gone
Speaker 1: over for a while. One more name before we hit
Speaker 1: the break. It's Rani Rodriga As We started a DFS
Speaker 1: on Friday night because he was super cheap. But he's
Speaker 1: betting like fifth for the Tigers. He's a pretty good guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has been. I text you about you, thisterday. Um,
Speaker 1: he's interesting. I looked at his numbers, only twelve games,
Speaker 1: but he has three homers, nine runs scored, eight rbi.
Speaker 1: Is depending on where you play. He has eligibility everywhere too.
Speaker 1: Uh so eight percent walk great, twenty six percent line
Speaker 1: drive rate, forty four percent flyballs, fifty percent hard hit rate.
Speaker 1: So he's hitting the ball hard. He's hitting enough flyballs,
Speaker 1: he's hitting line drives. The Tiger's lineup is not a
Speaker 1: great one, but it seems like for the time being,
Speaker 1: Greg he's gonna play quite regularly and he's hitting the
Speaker 1: ball extremely hard. So I understand people wanted to jump
Speaker 1: in here. Matt, did you have any bids on Ronnie Rodriguez?
Speaker 1: I did not, Um, I remember that game A week
Speaker 1: or two ago versus the Red Sox. So it was
Speaker 1: a Monday or Tuesday earlier game where he just went
Speaker 1: off put on a show versus I remember that, Uh
Speaker 1: first thing I came to Mars would have a guest
Speaker 1: was a short stop. You know, I doubt it if
Speaker 1: you want to spend a couple of dollars, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's like a free bid, why not. Right, If
Speaker 1: it's it's a free bid, why not forty bucks um
Speaker 1: in one league? That more than more than I would
Speaker 1: have expected, though, you know, maybe like a two percent
Speaker 1: something like that out of a thousand. But don't underrestate.
Speaker 1: Don't underrestate. I like him, but what do you We'll
Speaker 1: get into the closers are picked up in the latest
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Speaker 1: Fantasy best Friends Forever, Fantasy Sports, Ragdio Network. A couple
Speaker 1: of starting pitture injuries I want to get to in
Speaker 1: a few moments out of nowhere ridiculous and David Price
Speaker 1: and Jamison ti On I was very annoying, very terrible. Um,
Speaker 1: but we'll get to that in a little bit. I
Speaker 1: want to go over the relievers that went for a
Speaker 1: whole lot of money in all of our leagues. We
Speaker 1: begin UH in the main event once again with Diego
Speaker 1: Castillo for the Tampa Bay Raised. It's been a mess
Speaker 1: Matt this season in Tampa Bay with Alvarado and Castillo
Speaker 1: and Jose Alvarado. UM, there's been very very little clarity here.
Speaker 1: Why do you think cast you? I mean everyone wants closers, Well,
Speaker 1: why cast you at eight? I get I think he's
Speaker 1: very talented. I thought I'm a I don't had a
Speaker 1: shot to be one of the best closures this year.
Speaker 1: Given a full opportunity with the role. UH starting off
Speaker 1: good the first week, it's quickly evaporated. UH. Pagan was
Speaker 1: a guy I got for forty nine dollars the week prior,
Speaker 1: and I had Diego as my top uh big for
Speaker 1: that week, but then Bagan went out and saved three games,
Speaker 1: so I flipped them, and I probably want casteod Agant.
Speaker 1: I was not really a Progott believer, but I thought
Speaker 1: you'd go from more than forty nine at eighty one
Speaker 1: with CASTEO. I'm fine with. Yeah. And it's not just
Speaker 1: what he does with the saves too, because he doesn't
Speaker 1: get a ton of strikeouts. Greg he has a good
Speaker 1: e r A, a good whip. He's got a two
Speaker 1: two O e r A. He's got twenty strikeouts in
Speaker 1: sixteen and a third endings pitch, so he's being used
Speaker 1: a lot. He's got a one oh four whip. Um,
Speaker 1: you know there there's been let's see here, there's between
Speaker 1: those three there's been eleven saves and it's been flick
Speaker 1: quite evenly. I mean, Jose Alvarado has four, geokst has
Speaker 1: four and Emilio Pagan has three. So wouldn't surprise anyone
Speaker 1: if if this continues to happen, you you get maybe
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen saves out of the guy, but really
Speaker 1: good numbers outside of that too. It's frustrating for fantasy overall.
Speaker 1: They're they're using three different closers here, but it's working
Speaker 1: for them. It always works for the Rais. They know
Speaker 1: what they're doing there. Um, they're kind of ahead of
Speaker 1: their ahead of the pack when it comes to stuff
Speaker 1: like this. So uh, it's again, it's just frustrating, But
Speaker 1: I us understand why he went for that much. Everyone's
Speaker 1: trying to get saved and it's not like saves the
Speaker 1: only thing he gives. It gives you good er a
Speaker 1: whapons strikeout, no, no doubt about it. And our GST
Speaker 1: league Shawn Kelly was out there. He went for three
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars. Wow, Wow, that's crazy. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of money. That is a lot of money, much more
Speaker 1: than you know, I think he should have been in
Speaker 1: maybe eight nine range. Maybe Yeah, if you need a closer,
Speaker 1: you go over a hundred for them. But it weson
Speaker 1: go about this with Brad Ziegler last week. Greg, do
Speaker 1: you know you don't know how long he's going to
Speaker 1: have this closer job for now? As long as he
Speaker 1: performs well, he should hold on to it for the
Speaker 1: time being. But they gave le Clerk a contract extension
Speaker 1: before the season for a reason. He's younger. They're they're
Speaker 1: tied to him, and wouldn't surprise anyone if this team
Speaker 1: is out of it a mid season and they trade
Speaker 1: away Shawn Kelly to another team that needs a reliever,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me at all. I mean, I get
Speaker 1: trying to pick up you know, maybe and twelve saves
Speaker 1: something like that, but I mean, there's just there's not
Speaker 1: much reassurance here when it comes to Kelly. Three fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's probably three times as much as
Speaker 1: Easy probably so givers. You know, yeah, it's crazy, it's
Speaker 1: it's a lot of cash for Sean ll. You have
Speaker 1: any shares with Shan Kelly, what do you do? I
Speaker 1: don't think sure, I might have one, not that I
Speaker 1: wouldn't h you know, when he was going for cheap
Speaker 1: when you can get up for like twenty bucks before
Speaker 1: he was named the closuring Clark was struggling. I understood
Speaker 1: that I had him in one spot and dropped them.
Speaker 1: So that wasn't a good move. But I still think
Speaker 1: the clerk is going to get a shot at the
Speaker 1: job back. I mean, for anything, if your Texas you won't.
Speaker 1: I know, they gave him a contract, but you want
Speaker 1: this guy performing and the possibility of being able to
Speaker 1: flip him at the break along with a guy like
Speaker 1: Mike Marnin and try and build his team up, saving
Speaker 1: several pictures for their future. I was surprised again at
Speaker 1: that much money um for me. The next guy in
Speaker 1: the main event was Hansel Robless at sixty three dollars.
Speaker 1: He had another reliever, Saith Lugo. I go at sixty one.
Speaker 1: I assume that was because familiar gets hurt and said
Speaker 1: Lugo be the next guy up and when he has
Speaker 1: get hurt, is that is that the idea? So there
Speaker 1: was no backup bit on this. So its just I
Speaker 1: think everyone was kind of thrown off a little bit
Speaker 1: by it. He went for as much he did. But
Speaker 1: the only thing I can think about for the six
Speaker 1: there is the Stephen matt snews that broke and would
Speaker 1: they give him a shot in the rotation or something
Speaker 1: like that. Bus I mean, I don't I don't him
Speaker 1: get any shames. Yeah, so I thought about that too.
Speaker 1: No matter, you always loved you, you love lu But
Speaker 1: with with without Steven Matts for the next start or
Speaker 1: two or three, someone's in a replacement one I don't
Speaker 1: think that's just gonna be Lugo. I think they like
Speaker 1: the bullpen. How how it's been for the most part.
Speaker 1: I don't see them as making that movie and throwing
Speaker 1: Lugo in the rotation. That would surprise me a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think to surprised all of us. Again, there was
Speaker 1: no backup bids, so you know, maybe if you speculate,
Speaker 1: you throw like twenty bucks on him, something small like that.
Speaker 1: But hey, I guess you look, you want to go
Speaker 1: out and get your guy. You think he's really talented,
Speaker 1: which he has shown the past couple of years. He's
Speaker 1: a talented picture, but hasn't really had his opportunity to
Speaker 1: start all that much. It seems like he's kind of
Speaker 1: adapted well to this, uh, this reliever role where he
Speaker 1: comes in, maybe gets used for an ending, maybe two innings, um,
Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's got the eleven case for
Speaker 1: nine this year. He's performing very well. So I understand
Speaker 1: that he's always had a guy who has the high
Speaker 1: spin rate on the curveball. He has a very good
Speaker 1: cur a ball. But overall it could be a short
Speaker 1: term stay in the rotation if you were to get there.
Speaker 1: We don't even know. He's not just she's not stretched
Speaker 1: out enough. I really would be surprised if if Seth
Speaker 1: Lugo up Marcus got hurt too. Maybe it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more likely now. I mean it's it's that might
Speaker 1: be additioned by subtraction. That's fair. They should. He hasn't
Speaker 1: been awful this year. I know, it's like his past
Speaker 1: three or four stars hasn't been awful. It's been serviceable.
Speaker 1: But you heard, you heard over the weekend that Blake
Speaker 1: trin And had some elbow soreness and like, oh god,
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's gonna be okay. Felt much
Speaker 1: better yesterday. Took some uh Adville has an m r
Speaker 1: R today. But everybody picks up Luke Trevino and like
Speaker 1: forty six dollars at say, a nice five for Trevino
Speaker 1: if he was available. He wasn't the main event. He's
Speaker 1: in my other leagues. Trevino's out there. But the crazy
Speaker 1: thing about what Trevino was he pitched like once last week.
Speaker 1: That was the first time he pitched like two weeks
Speaker 1: even though he wasn't on the if dealing with an
Speaker 1: injury himself. So as good as Trevino is He's definitely
Speaker 1: the handcuff here. You do have a little injury worry there.
Speaker 1: I thought Trevino at forty six, Matt and your main
Speaker 1: event was actually very goodbye. Oh no, it was I
Speaker 1: was trying to get Trevino. I treated that last night.
Speaker 1: He was the one that got away. I'm still really
Speaker 1: concerned about Blake try and the thing with Trevino is,
Speaker 1: much as I love him and all the ratios that
Speaker 1: come with it, would the A's give story a shot.
Speaker 1: I know he hasn't pitched well this year, especially walk
Speaker 1: in the Park, but you know guys that have that experience,
Speaker 1: managers for some reason always go to them and maybe
Speaker 1: still used Trevino in his role. That was my one
Speaker 1: thing I was concerned about. But Trevino was a guy
Speaker 1: I had forty four dollars one league. I was tired
Speaker 1: and lost and pretty much around that price. But uh,
Speaker 1: I think he was a good this week. Even if
Speaker 1: even if everything's all right with Blake Charling. It was
Speaker 1: a great speculative when have two responses to Madiga. First,
Speaker 1: when he said the one that got away, instantly thought
Speaker 1: of Katie Perry, so to throw it back there and
Speaker 1: then too, I actually agree with you. I wrote about
Speaker 1: this on my Patreon Greggy ding that, Um, I think
Speaker 1: if something were actually happen to Trying, and I think
Speaker 1: they would keep lu Travino in the role that he
Speaker 1: has been in, which is you can use him in
Speaker 1: a multiple inning set up role. He's been really good
Speaker 1: at that role. Kind of reminds me a little bit
Speaker 1: of the High Butchery and Handsel Robost situation in l A,
Speaker 1: where they have guys like Soria and Fernando Rodney. While
Speaker 1: they haven't been good and there honestly not very good anymore,
Speaker 1: they do have closing experience, and I think Trevino, being
Speaker 1: as good as he has been in his role, I
Speaker 1: don't know that they would take him out of that.
Speaker 1: I still think it's an okay by at that price.
Speaker 1: It is not like you break the bank and Trevino
Speaker 1: as another guy who gives you strikeouts. He gives a
Speaker 1: good ar a good whip. So if they just want
Speaker 1: to put the best reliever in there, if something were
Speaker 1: to happen to Trying in like long term, then um,
Speaker 1: I think that wouldn't make sense. I wouldn't blame them,
Speaker 1: but I also could see the other side of that,
Speaker 1: as Mett Moodiga says, they could go to one of
Speaker 1: these veterans, whether it's Soria or Rodney. I know Rodney
Speaker 1: blew another one yesterday, but for whatever reason, he still
Speaker 1: gets the same opportunity wherever he's seventy five years old
Speaker 1: and still still pointing the arrows to the sky. Can
Speaker 1: I send one thing real quick? Frank? You the reference
Speaker 1: you got when I said the one who got away
Speaker 1: was Katie Perry for me? That was from l A
Speaker 1: Confidential when Kevin Space about to die, and it says
Speaker 1: Rollo Tomassi, the one who love it. Frank doesn't know
Speaker 1: what confidentialist. It's fantastic film. Excellent, excellent film. I do
Speaker 1: like good films. Great it is. I don't know you
Speaker 1: like this one? That? Why is that? It's not really
Speaker 1: your time? It's like a it's like a no war film. Yes,
Speaker 1: it definitely filmed the war. That's right out. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: fantastic film. I can't give it a hall enough ready
Speaker 1: l A Confidentially. I'll write it down and write it
Speaker 1: down in the notes. Always down for some good movies.
Speaker 1: Saw Endgame yesterday. No spoilers. I'm not saying anything it
Speaker 1: was all I thought. It was that I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It was though, really I thought the what was the
Speaker 1: one previous? If in any war? I thought that was better.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a tough act to follow. They're both
Speaker 1: really damn good, but it's just, uh, the way that
Speaker 1: they basically wrapped up the past, like eleven twelve years
Speaker 1: of Marvel movies. I thought it was really really well done.
Speaker 1: It was a good movie. I liked it a lot.
Speaker 1: At what point do you guys like to give spoilers
Speaker 1: to this? I don't know what's what's the ruling. I don't.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't even I don't want. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say anything because it might be you know, some
Speaker 1: people might not be able to like go to the
Speaker 1: movies and go see it and might have to wait
Speaker 1: till it comes out on whatever, you know, DVD, Netflix, whatever.
Speaker 1: So I'm probably just not going to talk about it
Speaker 1: for like the next year anything that happens to be fair.
Speaker 1: I just I don't want. I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, running the producers saying that
Speaker 1: when I can say spoilers, can give it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sign for jumping in there. But one of the producers
Speaker 1: said this Monday, you're allowed to reveal spoilers. I don't
Speaker 1: agree with that too. I'm kind of like with Frank,
Speaker 1: one of my friends who came with me to the
Speaker 1: movie on the list Tuesday, it's like half price tickets.
Speaker 1: I paid for them, and uh, He's like, you can't
Speaker 1: tell anybody in my family because you're waiting for my
Speaker 1: daughter to come home from college. We're going to a family,
Speaker 1: but you know, some people still won't be able to
Speaker 1: see it for another week or two. So I don't
Speaker 1: think it's right to say anything. And I say all that,
Speaker 1: and we just poke about everything to happen in Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones, so that was fine. Line TV. It's different, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you should have watched Game of Thrones
Speaker 1: right now. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a little bit different
Speaker 1: for you. It's it's such an a point where it's like, musty,
Speaker 1: I wait till ten o'clock because of Fab but you know,
Speaker 1: oh fab before Game of Thrones? Really MOI, yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to do. Yeah. I saw Matt actually tweeting about
Speaker 1: all right, gave of Thrones time like at ten thirty
Speaker 1: that last night. Yeah. I actually I texted and make
Speaker 1: sure he was coming on today, and good thing. I
Speaker 1: didnt say anything at first, like or did you watch Thrones?
Speaker 1: Like no, well I'm watching it now, so all right,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anything. Really good episode though, yes, right, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to not spoil stuff. I mean, man Um
Speaker 1: a couple other relievers before get back to the injuries.
Speaker 1: I saw in your Great Fantasy baseballationally had a mere
Speaker 1: Garrett go. He's very very good for the Reds, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'll do anything get saves Frank
Speaker 1: and Wrestley Glaciers blew another one yesterday and it funds
Speaker 1: like gup, like there are a few names. He has
Speaker 1: a lefty, so it's tough to normally give Um a
Speaker 1: lefty the closer job if someone were to struggle. I
Speaker 1: still think that they have a lot of confidence and
Speaker 1: they have a decent leash when it comes to Rice
Speaker 1: Ley Glaciers but again blows another saved yesterday. A mere
Speaker 1: Garrett has been awesome at one point eight four year
Speaker 1: A has got over eleven case for nine. It's been
Speaker 1: really good. But I believe like Robert Stevenson has been
Speaker 1: pretty good in that bullpen. No David Hernan has picked
Speaker 1: up a save earlier on in the year UM for
Speaker 1: Cincinnati as well, So I don't know that he's the
Speaker 1: next man up. I think it's uh, it's kind of
Speaker 1: what we talked about. Um, you want to be one
Speaker 1: week earlier rather than one week late. So I think
Speaker 1: it's just kind of speculation. And especially if that owner,
Speaker 1: uh it's actually clay link of rotal wire. If he
Speaker 1: owns Rightley Glaciers, it probably makes even more sense for
Speaker 1: him to own a mere Garrett. Um, is this anything
Speaker 1: that you've thought about? Mad? Do you think, uh, we're
Speaker 1: in danger of losing saves here for Riceley Glaciers. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're endangered just yet, and maybe they decide to
Speaker 1: use him more, uh in in in a different role
Speaker 1: at some point. They hit that at that before the season.
Speaker 1: But I still think he's gonna get the opportunities. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't disagree with Garrett. Garrett has been awesome.
Speaker 1: I hate that. You know, it's it's right to say it,
Speaker 1: but I don't understand why. If you're a left handed
Speaker 1: pitcher and you're dominant, Uh, you know you should get
Speaker 1: the opportunity. But Robert Stevenson has been a very good
Speaker 1: surprise this ship. So even one of those two are
Speaker 1: nice options. And I get it. If I don't Garrett,
Speaker 1: I would want to go one or the two. I
Speaker 1: might have want Stevenson just because of that stupid, you
Speaker 1: know rule with the left handers. The other reliever not
Speaker 1: really relieving we ever started it. You wanted everywhere, Frank,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you got him anywhere, but you
Speaker 1: asked about him constantly. That was Jalen Beaks, And I
Speaker 1: think it's it's worth bringing up as we get into
Speaker 1: the starting pitching now for this week, because Jalen Beaks
Speaker 1: is not a starter for the race, but plays the
Speaker 1: multi inning role, essentially the Ryan Yardboro role um for
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, and he does not start with pitches three,
Speaker 1: four or five innings, and he's actually been very very good.
Speaker 1: He's a former Red Sox, one of their higher level prospects,
Speaker 1: and was traded away in the Eovaldi deal last season.
Speaker 1: Why did you want Jalen Beaks, who in our G
Speaker 1: S T League went for a hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: dollars just for the reasons you mentioned, right, So he's
Speaker 1: playing that role where he comes in and and last
Speaker 1: time that he came in technically for relief, you know,
Speaker 1: six and two thirds and he pitched six strikeouts. He's
Speaker 1: been really good overall in the year ago. He's got
Speaker 1: a two four or five year, he's got twenty six strikeouts,
Speaker 1: it's twenty five and two thirds and he's pitched. So
Speaker 1: I think he's better in roto than and like head
Speaker 1: to head points leagues, just because you don't know how
Speaker 1: many anything he's gonna throw roll. But I do think
Speaker 1: that when he pitches, he's gonna give you strikeouts. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you pretty good peripherals. He's got a swinging
Speaker 1: strike right that's right around twelve percent. So overall, I
Speaker 1: just think he's a good picture. And as long as
Speaker 1: he's going with these multi dings. I mean, the last
Speaker 1: time before h this one when he went six and
Speaker 1: two dirts, he went four and two thirds and had
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts. So he's been really good when they're giving
Speaker 1: him an opportunity. And he had really good numbers in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues last year as well with the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: So overall, I just think he's a good picture. So
Speaker 1: I don't have any problem with him how much did
Speaker 1: you say you went for He went for one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty six dollars. Yeah, that's probably too much. I
Speaker 1: would have settled in maybe like fifty sixty bucks something
Speaker 1: like that and half the prices. But I do think
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you quality innings whenever he's in there. Okay,
Speaker 1: any answers in you and Jalen Beaks here met let
Speaker 1: Frank said, I would have maybe capped out out of
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. I get it for the you know, if
Speaker 1: you're playing a winds league as well, and he comes
Speaker 1: into the second inning or so and gives you three
Speaker 1: four innings and could be the guy who qualifiers to win,
Speaker 1: plus get you the strike ats and ratios. So I
Speaker 1: do get the appeal. I just don't get the price.
Speaker 1: I think that's just way too much. And I'm somebody
Speaker 1: that's not afraid to spend, but I think that's going
Speaker 1: a bit too high. Kind Yeah, process is too high. Greg,
Speaker 1: you know you you're just smiling with it. Was funny,
Speaker 1: I love, so they laughed. Jalen Beeks has been, uh,
Speaker 1: the guy pitching after Ryan Static and when the static
Speaker 1: starts constantly, guess he's like, isn't the fourth starter. Maybe
Speaker 1: next year will turn into a real starter. Jian Beeks
Speaker 1: h someone who have on your radar other starters that
Speaker 1: were picked up. We talked a lot about Anthony DeSclafani
Speaker 1: last week. Two starts this week against San Francisco. UM.
Speaker 1: We had to pick up Zach Eflins. We idiotically dropped
Speaker 1: him last week. That was on me for falling asleep,
Speaker 1: so I apologize. So I thought you pulled a quick
Speaker 1: one last night to Greg, I did it. So you
Speaker 1: stopped answering us for about twenty minutes. So he Flory
Speaker 1: and Greg, we we put our bids in after Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones, around like ten thirty eleven. I started that conversation,
Speaker 1: was like, let's do this now before we fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Times Greggy falls asleep. I mean, come on, you know
Speaker 1: it's hard. So I'll be very honest with what happened here.
Speaker 1: So I started the conversation. I was like, I want
Speaker 1: to do this before we start falling asleep. It's like
Speaker 1: about ten thirty now, and frankly, I'm here. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: So he asked the first player, I immediately give a response,
Speaker 1: you know, before if anyone can respond, next player, I
Speaker 1: give response. Next player. Judy comes down and goes, I
Speaker 1: talk to you about some wedding stuff. I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 1: and there goes Greggy. It was honestly perfect, Matt. I
Speaker 1: had Barrier on in the background. I was doing waivers
Speaker 1: and there comes Judy. Barry gets paused. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: it's a half hour later. She goes back into the
Speaker 1: bedroom and these guys are basically done with waivers, and
Speaker 1: I felt bad, like, guys, drop the f bomb. I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, here's my thoughts and these bids and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, all right, cool, completely honest. I texted
Speaker 1: Floria on the side, I said, can you believe this guy?
Speaker 1: Let's do waivers and many leaves. It wasn't my fault.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was there. Hey, we still got it.
Speaker 1: I was there, all right, the injuries and what do
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Speaker 1: me start over the weekend. We'll get more from doctor
Speaker 1: right on Thursday. But Jamie tie On out of nowhere
Speaker 1: elbow discomfort, which turns into going to Andrews and then
Speaker 1: all check and he's not coming back anything that soon.
Speaker 1: This is called that modica a disaster. They say, no bueno,
Speaker 1: no bueno. Uh, funny enough. Right before the season that
Speaker 1: weekend tout Wars Weekend, I was having lunch with Michael
Speaker 1: Salfino and he mentioned that Um Thailand was one of
Speaker 1: the leading candidates for an arm injury, which I really
Speaker 1: hadn't heard elsewhere due to his velocity and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So this is unfortunate, doesn't sound good, And you know
Speaker 1: this has gotta be at least six weeks before you
Speaker 1: see him throw a pitch, even if it's good, so
Speaker 1: he might be out for like two months. If that's
Speaker 1: the best Cats scenario. Yeah, he's not taking up a
Speaker 1: ball for the next four weeks. That's terrible. So he's
Speaker 1: not to get a ball in the next four weeks.
Speaker 1: So he takes up a ball in the middle of June,
Speaker 1: and you gotta how everything feels right. Then you gotta
Speaker 1: hope that he's fine. Realistically, it might be post All
Speaker 1: Star break. I just hold him out through that almost
Speaker 1: like Yeah, I mean, look, this is a guy who's
Speaker 1: obviously dealt with a lot already in his career um
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. He was not pitching up to
Speaker 1: what we expected so far this season. Greg. I wonder
Speaker 1: if part of the reason why he was a candidate
Speaker 1: for an arm injury this year he does so hard.
Speaker 1: He throws mid nineties. But he so he introduced the
Speaker 1: slider last year, Greg, But he's like, really up to
Speaker 1: his slider usage just here, it's up to thirty two percent.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about a guy who just introduced a
Speaker 1: slider last year mid season and then starts throwing it
Speaker 1: as much as he is this year. I guess it's
Speaker 1: really not all that surprising that he's dealing with an
Speaker 1: elbow injury right now. So it sucks. Look, it seems
Speaker 1: like every single day there's players dropping like flies, not
Speaker 1: just Yankees anymore, because you know James Paxton dealing with
Speaker 1: the knee injury, and I know that's that's gotta be
Speaker 1: one that hits Modico right in the heart there because
Speaker 1: I know he's a big packing guy. But overall, these
Speaker 1: these players are just dropping greggy it. See, we talked
Speaker 1: about every single year, but it just feels like it's
Speaker 1: gotta be recently biased. But is here more than ever?
Speaker 1: Is this every single day there's someone new We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to him right now. To David Price out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: I mean elbow tendonitis, and this is the guy who
Speaker 1: has like the slightly torn what is it you see
Speaker 1: el in his elbows dating back till last year. So
Speaker 1: it's terrible news going around man with with these pictures
Speaker 1: and their elbows really bad. It's very very frustrating that
Speaker 1: tend the Nights played trying Jamison ti on Uh and
Speaker 1: now David Price, and it is it is out of
Speaker 1: nowhere that you're seeing this. It's very very frustrating. We
Speaker 1: we all hear elbow and we're all like, crap, this
Speaker 1: is this this is not good. Um, Matt, if you're
Speaker 1: a Jamison ty On owner, if you're a David Price owner,
Speaker 1: what do you do? I mean, right now with tie On,
Speaker 1: you just team leagues. You cannot drop in twelve team leagues.
Speaker 1: You gotta hold on. And you know, do you hear
Speaker 1: some more news, some more updates. I think he's too
Speaker 1: talented to uh give up just yet. But as far
Speaker 1: as Price goes, you know, this is kind of a
Speaker 1: shame because we saw last year. I think it was
Speaker 1: like in May, it was early on last year he
Speaker 1: really kind of you know, changed the pitch, pitch mix up.
Speaker 1: He was being really effective. He pretty much to me,
Speaker 1: should have been the m v P of the World Series,
Speaker 1: or at least co m v P, because if he
Speaker 1: didn't take that team on his back in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they would not have won it. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: this was something you had in the back of your mind,
Speaker 1: was always a concern with Price because what Frank mentioned
Speaker 1: about having the torn with the UCL. So look, you
Speaker 1: gotta hope it's just uh maybe a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: you just get some rust and they give him a
Speaker 1: shot at PCP whatever and all is good. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think you gotta you gotta keep him out of
Speaker 1: your lineup. Obviously right now we get this update right
Speaker 1: before the start the Red Sox obviously don't play utill
Speaker 1: later on tonight, so get him out of your lineup.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't drop either one of these guys, Greg, I
Speaker 1: know it's a little bit tougher. Someone asked us early
Speaker 1: here today, you would you drop Jamison ty On in
Speaker 1: a ten team league. Now, that's where you're really starting
Speaker 1: to like push the envelope, because there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: really really good talent out there. Uh inten teamers overall
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. Look, if you don't have I L
Speaker 1: spots or if they're already all taken up, I mean
Speaker 1: you have to weigh is Jamison Tyo's upside better than
Speaker 1: maybe some other injured players that you have. But in
Speaker 1: a ten team league, Greg, You're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: find some talent out there. So that's really pushing the envelope.
Speaker 1: I mean I would have to see some names, but
Speaker 1: I would say you probably get pretty close to being
Speaker 1: allowed to drop ty On in attention, And that was
Speaker 1: the question that we got on Twitter earlier today, Right,
Speaker 1: can you drop him? And I think would you would
Speaker 1: have to know who for? That's obviously what it comes
Speaker 1: down to, Like am I gonna drop Matty? You're gonna
Speaker 1: drop tyn four? Like Martine Perez for example, who's pitched
Speaker 1: really well. He has a two star week dropping it
Speaker 1: for a Griffin Canny? Are you know? Are you doing
Speaker 1: any of those? No? That a kid? You know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be you know options. And every time I get
Speaker 1: a question on Twitter, you know, how long do you
Speaker 1: wait for a guy? Can I drop this guy? It's
Speaker 1: it's all league context, attemp teamer. Obviously you have a
Speaker 1: lot short of the leash. These are so many good
Speaker 1: players out there in league. You know you can't. You
Speaker 1: gotta let guys go. You gotta hang out to you
Speaker 1: guys until at least June or later. And in a
Speaker 1: twelve team, you know it varies. Those are tougher calls.
Speaker 1: So everything has its own context. Greg you asked me
Speaker 1: a pretty good question during the break regarding Pirates prospect
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller and whether or not he could be a
Speaker 1: candidate jump into the rotation here obviously with tie On
Speaker 1: out now and Chris Archer dealing with an injury. And
Speaker 1: I told you, I don't think so. He's been pitching
Speaker 1: in Triple A and he's twenty three years old, so technically,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that far off from the timeline
Speaker 1: when they would want him to get called up. But
Speaker 1: he still has had a lot of issues with walks
Speaker 1: the past couple of seasons, and I think that's something
Speaker 1: they would want to see him get better at before
Speaker 1: ultimately calling him up to the majors. You want to
Speaker 1: make sure he's ready, But I mean they might be
Speaker 1: getting to a point where they don't really have a choice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they got all these guys getting
Speaker 1: hurt and it would be a serious long term injury
Speaker 1: for Jamie Tyone. What do you think here, Matt, you
Speaker 1: think there's any chance that Mitch Keller is a candidate
Speaker 1: to get into the Pirates rotation? Here? If it's an
Speaker 1: excellent that you brought him up. I just heard an
Speaker 1: update uh over the weekend for the Pirates GM stating
Speaker 1: that Mitch Keller has developed a sliter this season similar
Speaker 1: to Jamison tie On, and he's really it's becoming an
Speaker 1: effective pitch. But they want They're not gonna rush him
Speaker 1: because they want him to hone it and completely own
Speaker 1: that pitch. So I think if the news in a
Speaker 1: month with tie On is, look, he's gonna you know,
Speaker 1: he's not pitching the rest of the season, or there's
Speaker 1: a very slim chance he's gonna pitch, then I think,
Speaker 1: you know, post All Star break, Mitch Keller could be
Speaker 1: uh pitching for the Pirates. Yeah, so post All Star break,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit further down the line. If you
Speaker 1: have minor league spots in your league, I think he's
Speaker 1: one of the names that makes sense to stash. What overall,
Speaker 1: if you don't have minor league spots, Greg, given all
Speaker 1: the injuries that teams you're suffering right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know that you can afford to stash Mitch Keller. We
Speaker 1: talked about this last night. We talked about potentially stashing
Speaker 1: your Don Alvarez where everyone's trying to pick up right now.
Speaker 1: Of the Houston astros. Zach Galen is another name that
Speaker 1: that I brought up. I tweeted about him over the weekend.
Speaker 1: This guy's absolutely crushing Triple A and he's pitching in
Speaker 1: the PCL right now, in the Marlins minor league system.
Speaker 1: He's got a sub two years he's got a zero
Speaker 1: point five five whips because Zach Galen has been awesome.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna take either an injury or or continued
Speaker 1: under performance from guys like Trevor Richards or whose Uranius,
Speaker 1: So I just don't know how he fits into it.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to stat these prospects right now, greg
Speaker 1: given all the injuries that a lot of teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you name some of the players, the prospects
Speaker 1: the injured players like Addy Gregorys and Aaron Hickson, for
Speaker 1: I don't think he's dropped, but like like Severino's outside
Speaker 1: Severnos gave us an update over the weekend that he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be back until the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: We know what he can be. It's just really hard
Speaker 1: to stat these guys when you know we have Stanton
Speaker 1: on the yell on the team, we have we have
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows on the ile, so a lot of people
Speaker 1: have have multiple hurt players. It just it's really hard
Speaker 1: to stat these prospects. Yeah, it's it's it's very very frustrating.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Aaron Hicks was just so this come across um,
Speaker 1: come across my my timeline, and that is um. Aaron
Speaker 1: hicks rehab assignmon begins today, so he could be back
Speaker 1: as soon as probably next week. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bunch of rehappy Friday, maybe over the weekend. I don't
Speaker 1: think you've seen next week because I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: need a bunch of rehab games from him because he
Speaker 1: hasn't played in months at this point. So probably next
Speaker 1: week it's great. Okay, Yeah, so Monday, do we get
Speaker 1: anything on stanting yet? I haven't seen anything on stating Quay.
Speaker 1: He's gonna like do activities today. Yeah, like we've been hurting.
Speaker 1: Aaron Hicks is doing activities for the past you know,
Speaker 1: two months. What does that mean? Like, you know, me
Speaker 1: playing video games on my couch is an activity. It
Speaker 1: doesn't help me get closer to playing baseball, greag, I
Speaker 1: don't think so one are these guys? Actually that's what
Speaker 1: I want to know. Where is staying stand up? That's
Speaker 1: a great question. I mean, aren't you concerned? I am sure,
Speaker 1: of course. Two weeks ago and all systems go, So
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to think anymore. I gotta
Speaker 1: think it's a lot more serious than we will. We
Speaker 1: will let on, I know it was supposed to be
Speaker 1: something else that was bothering him. But you know, looks
Speaker 1: the Yankees. I gotta say, as a met fan, Yankees
Speaker 1: have been stellar and staying in this thing and not
Speaker 1: like falling behind and everybody stepping up. And a guy
Speaker 1: I wanted this week, but I got like Canning or
Speaker 1: I got low was Jonathan. Uh. If you wanted to
Speaker 1: say Lasagna as an Italian, that's acceptable, fair enough. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is foreshadowing. We're gonna get a picture
Speaker 1: of Matt Modiki eating lasagna right after the show if
Speaker 1: I had something that would be posted immediately flood some
Speaker 1: Jonathan Lasagna. But I did see some people pick him up.
Speaker 1: And he's got nasty stuff. He hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: go deep into games, and any of his starts that
Speaker 1: he's had this year, he made two starts earlier on
Speaker 1: Greg he went four innings, he went three innings. This
Speaker 1: stuff is absolutely legit. Though he's got electric fastball, he's
Speaker 1: there their top pitching prospect, I guess technically outside of
Speaker 1: Domingo Herman, who has been great as well. But I
Speaker 1: saw Jonathan Lwise gonna get picked up in a few
Speaker 1: deeper leagues and I don't have any problem with it.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have upside. He's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the rotation as long as uh Paxton is out. But
Speaker 1: if you do play in quality start leagues, just no,
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna go deep into games. Yankees are
Speaker 1: are very cautious when it comes to by the way
Speaker 1: the Reds game, it was supposed to. Yes, they're in
Speaker 1: a blay. What happened? You know what happened? Uh ten
Speaker 1: years ago, Greg, when we had when we had a
Speaker 1: Yankees pictures, where was the where was the bug delay?
Speaker 1: Then when we needed to come my poor guys come on?
Speaker 1: Wasn't Then it was serious started? They started, it started.
Speaker 1: I do like him, Yeah, they find he's doing some
Speaker 1: great things this year. I looked into his pitch usage.
Speaker 1: He's using his he's using his curveball more this year.
Speaker 1: His past three starts, he's been really good. The strikeouts
Speaker 1: have been up, swinging strike rad is up. You get
Speaker 1: two starts against the Giants, Matt it doesn't get much
Speaker 1: better than that unless you have two starts against Miami.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really get better than that. It really doesn't.
Speaker 1: And I don't have the scientific proof to back it up.
Speaker 1: But even when an espression, it's the same exact week,
Speaker 1: usually like overlaps a week. But I always find that
Speaker 1: it's one good start and one bad start like it
Speaker 1: just for most cases, like outside of like elite pictures,
Speaker 1: it just always seems to work out that way. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't have the uh scientific stats to
Speaker 1: back it up, just a generalization. No, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: It feels like that's uh normally the kid. You don't
Speaker 1: normally see the two really good starts. Do you even
Speaker 1: get two really bad starts? Or you get one good
Speaker 1: and one bad? Greggy let we asked Maddy Moe about
Speaker 1: some two star pitchers. I feel like we should since
Speaker 1: that's his four. Right ahead, Frankie, all right, let's let's
Speaker 1: let's scroll down the list here. We already went over
Speaker 1: to Sclafani. I know that Matt likes Martine Perez a
Speaker 1: lot as well. At Toronto versus Detroit, those are two
Speaker 1: pretty good matchups. Well that how about a Jolisa seeing
Speaker 1: here going up against the Nationals and the Cubs both
Speaker 1: matchups not really that great. No, I I don't look
Speaker 1: I was made to look like a full week prior.
Speaker 1: I've been smirched his good name in my article. He
Speaker 1: went out and spun six shutout. INA's having no hitter going.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm taking a past year. I agree with
Speaker 1: you on that one. How about Vinny Alaska's Greggy. That's
Speaker 1: your boy, Big Vinny v at St. Louis at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: So there you go right back into the theory. You know,
Speaker 1: one okay start and one uh one not great start
Speaker 1: against St. Louis, very good line. What do you think here? Uh?
Speaker 1: In deeper leagues and like a fifteen teamer, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll him out. But in quality start leagues,
Speaker 1: I am not going to pitch him. He's only completed
Speaker 1: uh six innings and three of his last seventeen starts.
Speaker 1: Oh that is uh a very alarming number there, Greg
Speaker 1: from your boy Vince the last. You know what? So
Speaker 1: I actually had a choice this week between go with
Speaker 1: any vas By the star pitcher or Merrill Kelly. So
Speaker 1: who would you have chosen or neither? Obviously, Matt, what
Speaker 1: do you think Merrill Kelly this week? Well? I got
Speaker 1: Merril Kelly going in a couple of weeks. I'm not
Speaker 1: happy a battle. There's a fifteen team leagues. I I'll
Speaker 1: go with the Lasquez and hopefully the strikeouts are there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hope he's got you know, one of those
Speaker 1: five and five and a third where he strikes out
Speaker 1: eight or nine. Yeah, he is capable of doing that.
Speaker 1: You see that. You see a lot of lines when
Speaker 1: it comes to any Alaska's where he doesn't go deep,
Speaker 1: but he gets you a lot of strikeouts. Merrill Kelly
Speaker 1: really the opposite. He doesn't get a lot of strikeouts,
Speaker 1: not like he's a great you know, has a great
Speaker 1: e r a great whip either. It seems like there
Speaker 1: is some regression coming from Merrill Kelly at Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: and versus Atlanta. I don't love the matchups, but I
Speaker 1: do have him going. I think I have him going
Speaker 1: in one twelve team league too, So I'm rolling him
Speaker 1: out there, Matt. What about Kevin Gausman, the gas man
Speaker 1: at L A. D and at Arizona on fact Greg,
Speaker 1: I use him on FanDuel on Friday ur BF Vandal
Speaker 1: contest guy leaves in the second ending. I guess tomorrow's
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. Kevin Gausman. What do you think, Matt?
Speaker 1: But you should have been expecting that after what happened
Speaker 1: earlier they were there was talk. They look at the
Speaker 1: front at him and I guess the umps were on
Speaker 1: it and tossed them his uh start, his to start
Speaker 1: now bumps Mike Fulton. Evitt's out of having a to start.
Speaker 1: I don't love it. I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but I do like the fact that at least it's
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers themselves are not ideal. The
Speaker 1: offense has been really good, and pitching out Arizona. Arizona
Speaker 1: has been much better on the road, and Chase Field
Speaker 1: is a much better pitching park. What so, it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're kind of you know, guysman, if you had
Speaker 1: for me, it's like one of those if you must,
Speaker 1: I know, certain people have to play. The two start
Speaker 1: pitchers that emo. I know another one you love Aaron Santez.
Speaker 1: You said you're willing to die on the hill. He's
Speaker 1: going against Minnesota this week at home both home starts
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Chicago. What do you think here? When I
Speaker 1: was I'm on that hill, somebody take me down. When
Speaker 1: he's starting in Minnesota. I don't like that one at all.
Speaker 1: But the White Sox you gotta love matchups versus then
Speaker 1: he's another guy in a quality start league. It's really
Speaker 1: tough to start him. As much as you know, I
Speaker 1: want to believe he doesn't really get past a five
Speaker 1: inning mark, and he's got to figure out these walks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he does. Matt CC Sabathia. The past couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: he seems like he's out pitches peripherals going up against
Speaker 1: Seattle at home and at Tamba Bay. Not really the
Speaker 1: best matchups here. No. Uh, look, Ceci has been a warrior.
Speaker 1: He's been great. He's got a three thousand strikeout. I'm
Speaker 1: staying away here. There's a lot not to like about
Speaker 1: his game. Uh So, I don't want to knock Sabathia,
Speaker 1: but I'm not starting him in this two starts Maddie
Speaker 1: mo Modica Monday, follow on Twitter at CCN Baseball. Maddimo,
Speaker 1: what do you have going on at the Athletic? Uh?
Speaker 1: The two start article is up podcast as well. Real quick,
Speaker 1: I'll give you one guy to start this week, and
Speaker 1: that is Lucas Giulio Lucas Geel a little bit further
Speaker 1: down going up against Cleveland and at Toronto. I like
Speaker 1: him too. That's what like, Jelio, all right, mean strike
Speaker 1: rate is there, the strikeouts are there, Greggy all right, Jeerlio,
Speaker 1: it is okay, Maddie, Mollie. That's talk to him next week.
Speaker 1: That shore's up next, we hope