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Speaker 1: I am Greg Sauceman. Pleasure to have you here with
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Speaker 1: It's well twenty pm Eastern time. For Frankie, how's it going.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, gree how are you doing? I just
Speaker 1: sleep last night. I slept well and you need very
Speaker 1: silly as she took a nap at like nine pm
Speaker 1: after dinner. Terrible idea. So then he woke up at
Speaker 1: ice cream, watched the show and said, we're going to
Speaker 1: bed now. I'm like, I'm really going to bed. She
Speaker 1: hasn't been old hyper and like I'm trying to sleep,
Speaker 1: Like why do you got to do this right now?
Speaker 1: Are you a napper? Um? No, not really yes, And
Speaker 1: I'm not like a lot. I can't do it because
Speaker 1: if I nap, then I can't sleep in it. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really bother me as long as if at the
Speaker 1: right time, Like sometimes they go home from work and
Speaker 1: it's like six is or whatever. I have TV on,
Speaker 1: I can see my I doze, but like I'm not
Speaker 1: like out cold, you know, like someone opens the door,
Speaker 1: I'll be a week an instant. So yeah, I know
Speaker 1: people who are chronic nappers like sleep for hours when
Speaker 1: they get home from work and they just go to
Speaker 1: sleep at night. To have no idea how that Judie
Speaker 1: can sleep, wake up at ten o'clock or eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: on a Saturday or weekendor whatever, right do activities are
Speaker 1: on three four o'clock, takes another nap until about six
Speaker 1: six thirty, has dinner, comes home, it was back to sleep.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I don't know. I don't know how that's possible.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, do not get it. I can't
Speaker 1: fathom them. And but I still um hasn't been great recently.
Speaker 1: I keep waking up early in the morning, like five,
Speaker 1: six am, and I can't go back to sleep. But
Speaker 1: today it wasn't so bad. It was a little bit
Speaker 1: better today. It's like going on greed. Lot going on
Speaker 1: in the world of fantasy baseball, a lot going on
Speaker 1: in betting baseball at too. How do we do last night?
Speaker 1: You know, I know I missed the half a run.
Speaker 1: Both of mine were wrong, all right, And shout out
Speaker 1: to shout out to the Padres defense, who I believe
Speaker 1: had four errors last night. And I was watching that
Speaker 1: start because they had Joey lu CAZy starting in multiple places.
Speaker 1: They did him no favors. So yeah, shout out to
Speaker 1: the Padres defense. Like the Padres moneyline, they would they
Speaker 1: were in a I mean solid position. Joel CAZy actually
Speaker 1: allowed to earned runs three runs total because the defense
Speaker 1: was terrible. But yeah, they couldn't really score off Sean
Speaker 1: Anderson either, so that didn't work out well. And Zach Eflin.
Speaker 1: To his credit, I like to Philly his money line.
Speaker 1: He pitched awesome eight innings, nine strikeouts. He was great.
Speaker 1: Meryl Kelly was a little bit better. So didn't work out, Grey, No,
Speaker 1: it didn't work out, But the idea I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of right on the money. Uh, today's poll question.
Speaker 1: We had have alluded to it yesterday. Frank, We're finally
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Yeah, there's a lot of fantasy analysts.
Speaker 1: I understand. You want to promote yourself as someone that
Speaker 1: gets a lot of things right. That's how you sell yourself,
Speaker 1: and that's how you get people to read your work
Speaker 1: and listen to your shows. And of course everyone wants
Speaker 1: to get things right. But if people read your work
Speaker 1: and they listen to your shows, then they'll know what
Speaker 1: you said before the season, and they'll know whether you
Speaker 1: were right or wrong, whatever it might be. So you
Speaker 1: don't have to remind everyone how right you are all
Speaker 1: the time. So I just thought, let's put out a poll.
Speaker 1: See what see what the fans think. The people who
Speaker 1: obviously listen and watch. Do you do you want to
Speaker 1: fantasy analysts, it's constantly telling you how right they are
Speaker 1: all the time. Someone who tells you that they're right
Speaker 1: and wrong, tries and learn from their mistakes, or someone
Speaker 1: who just tells you they're wrong all the time and
Speaker 1: tries and have fun with it. Because actually we might
Speaker 1: be closer to that. We're probably in the middle. Like
Speaker 1: we still do say when we get things right, we
Speaker 1: definitely tell you what I've just let off the show
Speaker 1: telling you that we got our bets wrong esterday. It's true.
Speaker 1: It's true, we got ourselves on the back, but not
Speaker 1: like hardcore. It's more like, yeah, I don't. We don't
Speaker 1: definitely beat our chests, but Greg, I mean, we know
Speaker 1: a how to people who do this, who they've never
Speaker 1: got a single thing wrong in their lives. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems a little dishonest to the viewer. I agree,
Speaker 1: you know, I agree with that too much stuff. The
Speaker 1: other thing we really wanted to accomplish getting the votes.
Speaker 1: Tell us what you want a respond to the chat
Speaker 1: call on three sixty seven nine if it's working, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't promise that. UM no, not working,
Speaker 1: don't call it, just respond or tweet at us. Um
Speaker 1: more than we really wanted to hit on today, And
Speaker 1: we're getting like the stuff from last night. We always
Speaker 1: tend to, but I wanted to make sure we heat
Speaker 1: on this. I'm gonna do it at the top so
Speaker 1: I don't forget Frank, And that is is there still home? Right?
Speaker 1: It's June twelfth today? Watch this wrong? Okay, it's June twelfth, yesterday,
Speaker 1: due tonight. We are through June twelfth. In baseball, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that you drafted, that you believed in,
Speaker 1: and you want to know is there still hope? And
Speaker 1: the most common name that I've been tweeted about, You've
Speaker 1: been tweeted about, you had worries about yourself. He's Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: About a month ago, almost exactly a month ago, you said,
Speaker 1: Manny Machado is one of those guys that you are
Speaker 1: most buying in on that you want to buy low
Speaker 1: right now. A month later, not all that much has changed.
Speaker 1: Has your opinion changed in terms of buying low? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would still like to buy low on Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: It's not the same situation as Joseer Mirriez. While Jose
Speaker 1: Mirriez does have a to three year track record of
Speaker 1: being a very good player, and his first half last
Speaker 1: season was m v P caliber. Manny Machado has done
Speaker 1: this for a long time. He's been a really really
Speaker 1: good player for a long time, and I think I
Speaker 1: have more faith in him bouncing back than other players
Speaker 1: that we are going to talk about. If you look
Speaker 1: at Manny Michado's line at this point the season to
Speaker 1: forty batting average, ten home runs, thirty one runs scored,
Speaker 1: thirty three RBIs, he has not lived up to what
Speaker 1: we have wanted from him, obviously, you know, we were
Speaker 1: expecting probably close to thirty five home runs, maybe ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen steals, and only has one stolen base a
Speaker 1: you know, two eighty plus batting average. He was a
Speaker 1: borderline first round pick. He was a late first early
Speaker 1: second rounder, and for good reason, multi position eligibility. Again,
Speaker 1: He's done this for a long time, I mean dating
Speaker 1: back to you know, twenty fifteen, this guy has been
Speaker 1: a perennial over thirty home runs, you know, over a
Speaker 1: hundred runs scored, gives you stolen bases, and I'm still buying.
Speaker 1: I'm still buying on many Machado. I think that there
Speaker 1: are better days ahead, Like there are things that he's
Speaker 1: doing this year that he needs to correct. Most definitely
Speaker 1: the strikeout rate for him, and swinging strike rate is
Speaker 1: up two percent this year. His strikeout rate is up
Speaker 1: seven percent from last year. It's that's twenty one point
Speaker 1: three percent, and his career mark in the strikeout department
Speaker 1: sixteen point seven percent, so it's even up there as well.
Speaker 1: And yes, that can mean the difference between you know,
Speaker 1: thirty to forty points of batting average. If you're striking
Speaker 1: out seven eight percent more than you are in years past,
Speaker 1: then yeah, that's going to affect your your overall batting
Speaker 1: average output. And if you look at his bat and
Speaker 1: ball data, forty two percent. Hard hit rate up this
Speaker 1: year for Machado, although it's up for everyone, but it's
Speaker 1: a career best for him. Um needs to correct the
Speaker 1: infield fly balls as well. The strikeouts and the infield
Speaker 1: flyballs are what's killing him. And I said this before
Speaker 1: the season two, I wanted to pay a little bit
Speaker 1: more attention to infield flyball rate. For his career's fourteen percent,
Speaker 1: this year, it's eighteen point seven percent. You have to
Speaker 1: realize that eighteen point seven percent of his batted balls
Speaker 1: our infield flyballs. Those are automatic outs, so almost one
Speaker 1: fifth of his batted balls right now are automatic outs
Speaker 1: and one fifth of his plate appearances are strikeouts, So
Speaker 1: that's what's absolutely killing his batting average right now, and
Speaker 1: those are all up. Like the infield flyball is up,
Speaker 1: the strikeout rate is up. So if it comes back
Speaker 1: to anywhere near his career norm, then he's going to
Speaker 1: be better rest of season. And the fan grass projections
Speaker 1: all expect him to be better too. They have him
Speaker 1: for a between two seventy and two eighty batting average
Speaker 1: rest of the way, anywhere from seventeen to twenty two
Speaker 1: home runs the rest of the way, which would put
Speaker 1: him right around, you know, thirty, slightly over thirty home
Speaker 1: runs for the season. He's going to be better, Greg,
Speaker 1: So for everyone who's freaking out, what do I do
Speaker 1: with Manny Machado? Should I be buying low on him
Speaker 1: right now? I've sent out a few buy low opportunities.
Speaker 1: What are those by opportunities that you sent out frank
Speaker 1: trade offers or they legit I I don't remember specifically.
Speaker 1: It was like you, Darvish, because this person needed a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher and like a middle infielder who's semi breaking out.
Speaker 1: I don't remember who it was, so it was like
Speaker 1: a let's say top twelve middle infielder and a U
Speaker 1: Darvish for Darius and Tommy Lostella's are you telling me
Speaker 1: it wasn't time to the cell but maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: So probably could have done better there. But if you can,
Speaker 1: if you can buy low, it's something that I would
Speaker 1: look into do. I think he's gonna be better. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's just oh first year of a contract
Speaker 1: playing in the NLS. He played half of the season
Speaker 1: in the NLS last year. He was perfectly fine with it.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot like pressure, right like you going
Speaker 1: to New York and you're struggling, like you're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of chalk it up to the New York pressure. You
Speaker 1: don't have that in San Diego. Yeah, Like they weren't
Speaker 1: really expected to make the playoffs this year. They're kind
Speaker 1: of scuffling right now. They're two games under five hundred.
Speaker 1: Talk about Paddock a little bit later on as well.
Speaker 1: But I think we have a month enough of a
Speaker 1: track record from a childo where if his numbers just
Speaker 1: normalized to where they usually are in terms of infield
Speaker 1: flyball rate, strikeout rate, the battle ball numbers are still there.
Speaker 1: The expected batting average. If you look at that, it's
Speaker 1: it's not as good, it's not where it normally should be.
Speaker 1: That's because of the strikeouts. So overall, I do think
Speaker 1: Maniado is gonna better. And ball ratios is a little
Speaker 1: bit closer to right a thirty percent now traditionally as
Speaker 1: a fift, so it goes off like not significantly. Also,
Speaker 1: he's been terrible against right handed pitching this year, great
Speaker 1: god off this year to sixteen batting average six o
Speaker 1: nine o p s against rights. In his career to
Speaker 1: seventies seven eight oh nine o p s against rights.
Speaker 1: I don't think that this guy just forgot how to
Speaker 1: hit against right handed pitching. He is clearly struggling right now.
Speaker 1: But again, if any of these numbers normalized to where
Speaker 1: they are supposed to be what we've seen out of
Speaker 1: Manni Matado for so long, then he is a prime
Speaker 1: by low candidate right now, and that's what I believe
Speaker 1: him to be. Okay, what other players do you believe?
Speaker 1: He's a prime by low candidate up to that level,
Speaker 1: like Manny Machado's. One of them is Jose Ramirez or
Speaker 1: those two guys that you're buying low at the moment. No, no,
Speaker 1: I I have a little bit more concerned when it
Speaker 1: comes to those guys. Obviously, with Jose Ramirez, I mean
Speaker 1: he's the top. He's he's the top of the pecking
Speaker 1: order when it comes to severe underperformance this year. I
Speaker 1: mean I tweeted out the other day it was it
Speaker 1: was June eleventh that day, Greg so I actually got
Speaker 1: the date correct. But um, I basically labeled him as
Speaker 1: a bust. Like there's no way around it when it
Speaker 1: comes Josie. He's batting around two hundred, He's been at
Speaker 1: that mark er below for most of the season. His
Speaker 1: expected numbers, he's he's expected like a two forty batting average,
Speaker 1: he's expected slugging his expected woe but all around league
Speaker 1: average or worse. We did not draft Josier Meres to
Speaker 1: be a league average hitter. We drafted him to be
Speaker 1: a you know, guy with a you know, two e
Speaker 1: D plus batting average. That's what I was expecting out
Speaker 1: of Jose Ramirez. And it's just it's not happening right now,
Speaker 1: and it's really baffling. And I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: any one thing that you can kind of put your
Speaker 1: finger on to figure out what's up with Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 1: You know a few people have tweeted at me, Well,
Speaker 1: there was a there was a steroid report last year,
Speaker 1: a p e D report, like the p D report.
Speaker 1: I looked into this, what it happened in May, and
Speaker 1: he didn't really start struggling struggling until August. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: once he heard the report, maybe he stops using stuff
Speaker 1: and then it takes a few months to affect his performance,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's a real possibility. Again, this is just speculation,
Speaker 1: but there's nothing else that you can really point out.
Speaker 1: I tweeted out an article from Tom Verducci where he
Speaker 1: broke this down in depth. Basically, the past three or
Speaker 1: four years, Joseiramirez was the best hitter in baseball in
Speaker 1: terms of turning on inside fastballs, and basically since August
Speaker 1: he's been one of the worst. So you don't just
Speaker 1: lose that ability overnight. So there's some underlying issue when
Speaker 1: it comes to Jose ramire Is, and I really don't
Speaker 1: have as much faith in him that he's going to
Speaker 1: turn around. When it comes to yas Peak, a lot
Speaker 1: of similar issues to Manny Machado actually greg for his career.
Speaker 1: How about this I guess right handed pitching two eighty
Speaker 1: two batting average seven OPS. Peak was always someone who
Speaker 1: actually had reverse splits. He's better against prities than he
Speaker 1: was lefties. Strike at rate for his career against righties
Speaker 1: this year two oh six six oh three ops a
Speaker 1: seven percent strike at rate against right handed pitching. Now
Speaker 1: for Puig, at least the counting stats are still there
Speaker 1: for him, Greg He's on page for twenty seven homers,
Speaker 1: eighty three ribbies, twenty twenty two stolen bases. That's a
Speaker 1: really good year from Peak, and I think most people
Speaker 1: would take that if he was giving you his to
Speaker 1: seventy batting average, are you expected? The problem is he's
Speaker 1: batting to twelve and he's actually what he's doing differently
Speaker 1: is he's trying to lift the ball too much. There
Speaker 1: are there are guys in the game that are capable
Speaker 1: of lifting the ball, and then there are guys that
Speaker 1: it's just not natural for them to do it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: Sale Peak is one of those guys. He's one of those.
Speaker 1: He's normally been around a forty groundball rady, hits a
Speaker 1: lot of line drives, not really known for being that
Speaker 1: much of a flyball hitter. And I think he's stressing
Speaker 1: a little bit too much, maybe because he's gonna contract year,
Speaker 1: because he's in Cincinnati, so he's in a smaller ballpark.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's trying consciously to hit more home runs. Uh.
Speaker 1: The strikeout rate is actually is up this year as well,
Speaker 1: the swinging strike rate, the chase rate. I think he's
Speaker 1: putting a lot of pressure on himself to try and
Speaker 1: live up to this contract year, and he wants to
Speaker 1: earn a contract. I think he just has to go
Speaker 1: back to what he's uh, he's used to doing, hitting
Speaker 1: more line drives, hitting the ball on the ground and
Speaker 1: just be yourself. Yeah. Peak, But the counting stature still there.
Speaker 1: You see the two thirties seven babbit it's god awful.
Speaker 1: That's because it goes hand in hand with him hitting
Speaker 1: more flyballs. Hit more flyballs a the lead to home runs,
Speaker 1: which don't count for babbit anyway, and you're gonna normally
Speaker 1: guys who had a lot of fly balls are low
Speaker 1: BABIT hitters all like a Joey Gallo because a lot
Speaker 1: of flyballs are outs or home runs. So that's why
Speaker 1: you see the batter than the batting average so low
Speaker 1: for yas again, like Mannie Machado the past two or
Speaker 1: three years from Puig, if he just gets back to
Speaker 1: doing what he was doing those years, then the numbers
Speaker 1: will normalize and we're looking rest of season. What can
Speaker 1: you do rest of season? So if he gets back
Speaker 1: to being a even a two six seventy hitter and
Speaker 1: keeps with these counting stats and is aggressive on the
Speaker 1: base paths, then yeah, yeah, peak will be fine. But
Speaker 1: I have a little bit more concerned with Puig than
Speaker 1: I do Machado because not much of a track record,
Speaker 1: a bit of a headcase, he's in a contract year,
Speaker 1: seems like he's pressing a little bit. The plate discipline
Speaker 1: is a little bit more all over the place when
Speaker 1: it comes to puigu um As opposed to Manni Michado.
Speaker 1: So if I'm ranking them, I'm most likely to buy
Speaker 1: right now Machado in terms of turning it around, then Puig,
Speaker 1: and then Josier Mirrors. I I just don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of faith in Josie Mirrors. Is there anybody else?
Speaker 1: I mean, those are big three, and those are the
Speaker 1: names that we're getting major, major questions on night, and
Speaker 1: I agree, like I wanted a monthly when we have
Speaker 1: this conversation. I wanted to, like Cosie Ra mirrors. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that said he was gonna turn it around many
Speaker 1: how there were signs yes, if we got a few
Speaker 1: as well, I rank him in the same way. Is
Speaker 1: there anybody else who comes to your mind that's kind
Speaker 1: of like this. I'll just throw two pictures out there
Speaker 1: real quick before the break. Noah Syndergarden, Jack Flaherty. There
Speaker 1: has been guys that I've been kind of yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break, wanning into what happened last night
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Speaker 1: Go by Manny Machadocado and you know what tomorrow he's
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Speaker 1: As long as we get sixteen out of the supposed
Speaker 1: twenty to join in, the contest will run for money.
Speaker 1: And of course Greg I am the master of winning
Speaker 1: the contest when it's not for money. So last week
Speaker 1: I think we got up to fifteen people. We didn't
Speaker 1: we didn't have enough to run for money, and I
Speaker 1: came in first place. So yeah, shout out to me.
Speaker 1: I'm the best. I'm the best fantasy analysts of all time.
Speaker 1: I'm the best FANDUL player. No one can beat me.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I had a really good, really good night too.
Speaker 1: How did they lose? Because I was in you you
Speaker 1: know who it was, m m hm m hmm. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was your boy, Ramond Loriano and Jeff McNeil. You
Speaker 1: had those guys in your lineup, Ramone, Mariano Greggy by
Speaker 1: the way, Oh my goodness, gracious you did that. I
Speaker 1: think it could be a good disgracious with um. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you see what he did yesterday? I
Speaker 1: was playing against him in one of my my home
Speaker 1: leagues in a in a point did not Actually he
Speaker 1: had a grand slam and two stolen bases. He proba
Speaker 1: like seventeen fantasy points in my home league, which is
Speaker 1: basically like a quality start from a picture. The guy
Speaker 1: has just been on real. I tweeted about this last night.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can pull it off for you. Greg.
Speaker 1: It's basically been since early to mid May. He's just
Speaker 1: been a complete stud. Here you go, Greg, so a
Speaker 1: little bit over a month now. Since May eight, Ramone
Speaker 1: Loriano is thirty seven. This is including yesterday three oh
Speaker 1: six batting average, six home runs, nineteen runs scored, sixteen
Speaker 1: rb i s, and five stolen bases. These are my
Speaker 1: trout level numbers, Greg. Over the past month, Romo Loronando
Speaker 1: has performed like Mike Trout to what you say, Breck,
Speaker 1: You're right we should have um. Alex Smith is all
Speaker 1: the super hot. Oh actually funny. Sorry, I'll show you
Speaker 1: this during the break. Some one of my patrons on Patreon,
Speaker 1: they private messaged me yesterday and they said, I listen
Speaker 1: to your show yesterday. I know that you don't like
Speaker 1: to uh toot your own horn so too much, but
Speaker 1: you were so right about Malex Smith. He said, you
Speaker 1: need to give Greg crap every single day for the
Speaker 1: rest of the baseball season. He said, I needed stolen basis.
Speaker 1: I picked up Alex Smith. This guy has been a godsend.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Patreon. I subscribed paton right now. There
Speaker 1: you go. You will get the best fantasy analysis of
Speaker 1: all time. That meating me. No, No, that's just me
Speaker 1: imitating every fantasy analysts who thinks they're the best, which
Speaker 1: just goes back to the poll, goes back to the
Speaker 1: poll question. Yea, how about you pat me on the
Speaker 1: back too while we're at agree Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: You can't see you might have hurt moving over these obviously.
Speaker 1: I love that we're doing a lot of video elements.
Speaker 1: We're not on videos on the back job. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: little pad on the back like that, Alex Smith. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Alex. And to be fair, I think in
Speaker 1: both leagues that we played together. I own him. I
Speaker 1: do not follow my own advice. I follow Frank's advice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you should ask me about Josh Bell, Greg, I did.
Speaker 1: I don't think I told you to drop Jo. You said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have no issue with me dropping Josh Bell. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go back to the tape. We can, uh.
Speaker 1: While Greg is doodling with his share, I think it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning we should bring this up. We'll have a
Speaker 1: little conversation here about Chris Paddock because everyone's freaking out rightfully.
Speaker 1: So we got the report yesterday in the middle of
Speaker 1: the day that he's going to be sent to High
Speaker 1: A ball. Uh, And everyone's like minor league endings count
Speaker 1: the same as major league nings. Well, he's not really
Speaker 1: gonna pitch in in High A ball. He's going there,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe when it's his turn in the rotation,
Speaker 1: he'll like have a relief day, like he'll throw like
Speaker 1: a bullpen something like that. But they are doing this
Speaker 1: to limit his endings. And I see people talking about
Speaker 1: like manipulating service time, blah blah blah blah blah. Well,
Speaker 1: he started the year in the majors and right now
Speaker 1: he's on pace for a hundred and fifty six innings pitched.
Speaker 1: Last year he only pitched ninety innings in the minors.
Speaker 1: So a realistic jump forward forty forty five innings, if
Speaker 1: you want to be aggressive, maybe fifty. That puts him
Speaker 1: for between a hundred and thirty and a hundred forty innings.
Speaker 1: You're being aggressive on his step forward this year. We
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier on in the show, we were talking about Machado.
Speaker 1: The Potters are two games under five hundred. They're five
Speaker 1: games out of the wild Card. They're not out of
Speaker 1: it by any means, but this is a team that's
Speaker 1: more so built for the future. They have one of
Speaker 1: the best farm systems in baseball, they're one of the
Speaker 1: youngest teams in baseball. They're looking towards the future. They
Speaker 1: need to basically do what the Warriors didn't and kind
Speaker 1: of protect Chris Paddock from himself little bit here. So
Speaker 1: everyone's freaking out. I understand he's been mostly really really
Speaker 1: good this season. He scuffled a little bit lately, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna be back. Greg, What what do you expect?
Speaker 1: How many weeks do you expect him to be down
Speaker 1: in minors before he's back. So we're chatting about this
Speaker 1: before the show began, and he pitched about what do
Speaker 1: we say last year? So he pitched ninety innings last year,
Speaker 1: So I thought he was gonna be good for one
Speaker 1: thirties currently on pace for one of the six you
Speaker 1: told Nick, So that means he has to go probably
Speaker 1: about thirty innings down realistically, right, So that's actually more
Speaker 1: so than I figured out downstairs. I said three weeks
Speaker 1: three he starts, it's more like five starts. I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance if they hold him down now break
Speaker 1: He also rais exactly what you need. It's not a month,
Speaker 1: it's a month from now. It's a month from now.
Speaker 1: And if you hold him now he missed five starts,
Speaker 1: then he's good for the entire rest of the year. Again,
Speaker 1: as Freik mentioned, if San Diego is out of it, though,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna push this kid in September, there's no
Speaker 1: reason too. So I think then there's a chance that
Speaker 1: you bring him back a little before the All Star Break.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's certainly a chance they bring him back for
Speaker 1: a start before the All Star making because then you
Speaker 1: have a week and you can reconfiguree ther rotation. He
Speaker 1: missed a couple of weeks here, so I think there's
Speaker 1: a chance he misses like three his next three starts,
Speaker 1: maybe brought back sometime in early July, and then you
Speaker 1: have the All Star break something like that. And this
Speaker 1: could be a blessing in disguise as well, if it
Speaker 1: turns out the potteries are somewhat in a wild card
Speaker 1: race down the end of the season. If they held
Speaker 1: him out now, then you're gonna have more of Chris
Speaker 1: Paddock later on in the season. Shout out to the closer,
Speaker 1: Chris Venture who brought this to my attention downstairs. He says, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if we can have Chris Paddock for the
Speaker 1: you know, the stretch run of Fantasy Baseball or you know,
Speaker 1: the head to head Fantasy playoffs, and that's actually more meaningful.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Chris Paddock then than than now. I
Speaker 1: understand you've got to make it to the playoffs, but um,
Speaker 1: having Chris Paddock later on in the season could also help.
Speaker 1: But again, if they're out of it, then maybe they
Speaker 1: just kind of like shut them down in September. If
Speaker 1: if they're not, if they're not going for anything. But overall,
Speaker 1: I mean, Greig, we knew this was gonna happen, right.
Speaker 1: We said that earlier on season when we all had
Speaker 1: it was pitching as well as he was. We said,
Speaker 1: if you can trade him for a top top twenty
Speaker 1: starting pitcher that you have more faith is going to
Speaker 1: make every start all like a Jack Flaherty. That's the
Speaker 1: example we kept giving. But basically, anyone in that range
Speaker 1: and make the trade. And I also think if you're
Speaker 1: in a keeper or dynasty league and you realize that
Speaker 1: this isn't your year and the person who has Chris
Speaker 1: Paddock this is their year, you can kind of prey
Speaker 1: on them right now, and that's something that you should
Speaker 1: be going out there and trying to do. Dynasy and Keeper.
Speaker 1: You should be trying to buy Chris Paddock while everyone's
Speaker 1: freaking out. I just it's unbelievable. I'm sorry. Yes, Chris
Speaker 1: Paddick's gonna be back keeper leagues, dynas is you're feeling great.
Speaker 1: I am gonna say, as you mentioned, though, if they
Speaker 1: get into September and they're out of it, he gets
Speaker 1: shut down. If you were trying to fight for that
Speaker 1: playoffs it is a redraft league and you were playing
Speaker 1: the end of August and Tember is your playoffs, it
Speaker 1: might be an issue. It really might be. Yeah. Look there,
Speaker 1: you're allowed to have skepticism when it comes to Chris
Speaker 1: Paddock for the rest of the season. The only people
Speaker 1: who really know are you know, the Padres front office,
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock himself. They said anything they I mean, they
Speaker 1: basically have just said that they're trying to limit his work,
Speaker 1: like I knew that. Yeah, I mean they haven't. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen any like crazy quotes, right, I believe that
Speaker 1: our one of our sponsored podcast, the Fantasy Sports Radio Network,
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball Hour, with Matt Striker, Mikero, Rotto Coop. I
Speaker 1: saw this on Twitter last night that they actually got
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock's brother to call in to there to the podcast.
Speaker 1: So when we when we put that on demand it
Speaker 1: on today, you can listen to that and get some
Speaker 1: more details when they today, Golden They recorded it last night,
Speaker 1: so I wish I could he had a phone. The
Speaker 1: phone line's working. I'll just call Striker right now. If
Speaker 1: what he said, I don't know, all right, but yeah,
Speaker 1: a little a little bit of plug for that podcast.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you might be able to get more details
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. But ultimately, uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: a hazy situation when it comes to Chris Paddock. But
Speaker 1: I do still believe in buying low and keeper in
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Redraft. I don't know that I would be
Speaker 1: trying to actively acquire him. I'm not just actively trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of him either, you know, if I
Speaker 1: can afford to hold onto him, So I spec that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. I speak of it a lot.
Speaker 1: So Dennis Lynn, who's Apologize beat reporter for The Athletic,
Speaker 1: I want to say, tweeted out the option patic does
Speaker 1: not sound would be sound like he will be down
Speaker 1: long the likely planets for packs only miss one turn
Speaker 1: of the Big League rotation. Okay, yeah, I believe it
Speaker 1: when I see it, I think it's probably like at
Speaker 1: least two or three, but they're you know, they say
Speaker 1: something like that to try and calm everyone down, like oh,
Speaker 1: he's only gonna miss one. And then it turns out
Speaker 1: like we're two or three weeks later and everyone's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I thought it was only gonna miss he was only
Speaker 1: gonna miss one. Star was Chris Paddick. Yep. So just
Speaker 1: something to pay attention to. Obviously, justin Verlina is incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Fifteen kys zero walked or man that was
Speaker 1: his uh that was his career high and strikeout school
Speaker 1: just surprised me. Yeah, I thought it would have been
Speaker 1: highed to career high fifteen strikeouts last night, nine swinging
Speaker 1: strikes on. You know, it was nuts to me. Our
Speaker 1: guys at Daily Rotor dot com. And I'm not pipping them,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about the pole and when things. People
Speaker 1: get things right, nobody calls out people get anything wrong
Speaker 1: more than I do. But the Daily Roado last night,
Speaker 1: you watched the FanDuel Hurry it yesterday and it was
Speaker 1: a combination of Ricky and Drew filling this thing out.
Speaker 1: Verlinder was their starter. Okay, you're not not telling me much.
Speaker 1: Although I called him, I was like facing the Brewers,
Speaker 1: like sure you want to do that? He's like, yeah, yeah, fine.
Speaker 1: Verlinder was his top play on the board. He's under
Speaker 1: the radar pitcher was Danny Duffe? You pitched well, Tigers
Speaker 1: strained him in the pit league. Fine, let's under the
Speaker 1: radar hitters last night? Rady to Les j Mancini Houn
Speaker 1: and a triple really really impressive last night. Let's go
Speaker 1: they're doing a great job. Really, he was really impressed
Speaker 1: by that. Um No, wils did a great job last night.
Speaker 1: Greig Jordan's Yamamoto. How how about the debut for the
Speaker 1: kid man. I was actually watching MLB Network that had
Speaker 1: him on. They interviewed him, uh, talked about his first
Speaker 1: start with him. Did you know he actually went to
Speaker 1: high school with Marcus Mariota the Hawaii It's awesome. So
Speaker 1: he was a freshman when Marcus Mariota was a senior.
Speaker 1: So there you go, Hawaii producing a NFL quarterback and
Speaker 1: how a Marlins starting pitcher at the MLB level. So
Speaker 1: he was great elamrto last night seven show. In his
Speaker 1: five strikeouts two walks, he allowed just three hits at
Speaker 1: a hold a good parking Marlins park, faced the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: who aren't exactly the Marlins when it comes to hitting here,
Speaker 1: I assume Yallamoto gets another start at least. How interested
Speaker 1: are you picking up Yellowmodo now? I have I have
Speaker 1: slight interests. He actually went for seven dollars out of
Speaker 1: a hundred in one of my home leagues, Like we
Speaker 1: run Wednesday, Friday and Sunday FAB, so he went for
Speaker 1: about he went for seven percent of FAB here in
Speaker 1: my home league. I wouldn't be that aggressive on him
Speaker 1: in deeper lys. I'm gonna take a shot. It's kind
Speaker 1: of similar to you know, when we talk about any
Speaker 1: Giants pitchers, any Morlins pitchers, half of their home starts
Speaker 1: are really favorable starts because they pitch in such big ballparks.
Speaker 1: And Yamamoto is gonna have to be able to get
Speaker 1: more swings and misses at the major league level if
Speaker 1: he wants to to continue to perform this way. He
Speaker 1: only had eight swinging strikes on last night. That's an
Speaker 1: eight point four percent swinging strike raight and league averages
Speaker 1: around eleven percent this year. And his first pitches he
Speaker 1: threw a heat threw first pitch strikes to fourteen of
Speaker 1: twenty four batters faced. That's fifty eight point three percent.
Speaker 1: So both of those numbers are going to have to improve.
Speaker 1: But I like what I saw from him. Right he's
Speaker 1: not overpowering fastball, but he mixes in four other pitches
Speaker 1: that he throws pretty confidently. He has a is a cutter,
Speaker 1: a slider, a changeup, and a curve. And he's actually
Speaker 1: supposed to be known for his curveball, but his slider
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a I don't want to I
Speaker 1: don't want to boasted too much, but it looked a
Speaker 1: little bit like that Jose Burrio slurve that he throws,
Speaker 1: where it just kind of like sweeps across the strike zone,
Speaker 1: in on lefties and away from right e's. But it
Speaker 1: was like a slurve type slider where he made a
Speaker 1: few people look very foolish last night. And you want
Speaker 1: to get the Cardinals lineup, I mean there that's no
Speaker 1: slouch of a line up two. So to give you
Speaker 1: that much depth, seven endings, five strikeouts. I really like
Speaker 1: what I saw from him. I have interest, obviously, and
Speaker 1: and it only should be owned already fifteen teamers. I
Speaker 1: would like to pick him up twelves if you have
Speaker 1: someone on your bench that you're not using a speculative
Speaker 1: ad for him, you know, one to maybe three bucks.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it. Greg. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get another start, maybe he's in the rotation.
Speaker 1: Short term, we'll find out what's going on with like
Speaker 1: Jose Urania Caleb Smith. But I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to be pretty safe, especially when it comes to Caleb Smith.
Speaker 1: Yamamotos next start comes June, if he's still in the
Speaker 1: rotation against the same St. Louis Cardinals that he faced
Speaker 1: last night, this time in St. Louis. He's actually projected
Speaker 1: for a two star week next week if he sticks
Speaker 1: around for that long. St. Louis and who else. You know,
Speaker 1: I can pull it up. Yeah, I know, I knew St.
Speaker 1: Louis was the next team that he can tell you
Speaker 1: hold on, I can pull it up in a moment
Speaker 1: for you. It's it's the Cardinals and in the Phillies
Speaker 1: in Philly, So I don't love that. No, that's not
Speaker 1: so good. That's not so good. I don't love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of those on the road too. So uh well,
Speaker 1: man Moodigon next week. He'll help us figure out whether
Speaker 1: or not we want to use Jordan Yamamoto. But I
Speaker 1: think with those two matchups on the road to a
Speaker 1: little bit more hostile, probably with Lean with right now
Speaker 1: not using him even though he's on a two star week.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a young picture to a veteran that
Speaker 1: was fantastic yesterday. And it's not just justin Berland and
Speaker 1: Bruce co Hamels in Colorado yesterday, the over under for
Speaker 1: this game was twelve twelve and a half. Right, you
Speaker 1: like the under and I said there was. That's scary.
Speaker 1: The Cups put off ten runs themselves and they still
Speaker 1: hit the under thanks to Coal Havil seven shoot out
Speaker 1: in he's in Colorado, nine cas, he walked one. He
Speaker 1: did a lot of six hits. Now if he can't
Speaker 1: get Virginia on the line. Uh. In a bit, we
Speaker 1: asked Rabanolan Aronado because Hamils did hit Ronado in the arm,
Speaker 1: but Black said there was no significant damage, which is
Speaker 1: not which is encouraging. You're not like all that encouraging.
Speaker 1: Like I wanted to say that he's fine, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no significant damage, which means that there's damage, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like there's at least minor damnit. I feel like he
Speaker 1: broke his arm. It's not there was There was four
Speaker 1: people hitting this game, yes, already two on east side.
Speaker 1: Why didn't Why didn't you know where were the injections yesterday?
Speaker 1: Gosh right, Joe must Grove barely touches someone's shirt, Josh Donaldson,
Speaker 1: and he gets rejected because Josh Donaldson wants to fight
Speaker 1: hit doesn't make any sense. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: Cole hamil's really just putting together a nice year. Here
Speaker 1: greg twelve percent swinging strike rate, right in line with
Speaker 1: last year's numbers. He's got a two point nine eight
Speaker 1: e r A. Uh, the underlying numbers say that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some regression for him. He's got a three
Speaker 1: point eight eight x FIT. I wouldn't expect him to
Speaker 1: pitch to a sub three e r A. But if
Speaker 1: he can give you a three five three six e
Speaker 1: r A with his eight point eight case per nine
Speaker 1: and a fifty three percent groundball, right, that's the biggest
Speaker 1: difference for him. He's able to mitigate some of these
Speaker 1: walks because he's over three walks per nine. It's always
Speaker 1: kind of been an issue for Hamil's but he's able
Speaker 1: to mitigate some of those walks because he's he does
Speaker 1: get a decent amount of swings and mrs almost a
Speaker 1: strike out for ending. But the fact that the groundball
Speaker 1: rate is up as high as it is fifty two
Speaker 1: point eight percent right now, if the season ended today,
Speaker 1: that would be Cole Hamil's highest market in the season
Speaker 1: in his career. So to go into Coors Field yesterday,
Speaker 1: pitch those seven endings, seventeen swinging strikes on ninety three
Speaker 1: pitches whole. Hamiles has been a godsend, Greg, He's been
Speaker 1: unbelievable for the clubs and for fantasy owners. Would you
Speaker 1: say he's better than Kyle Hendricks gig hold oh oh
Speaker 1: my pet on back? Yeah, you can't hear it, but
Speaker 1: Greg Sausman is patting me on the bat pat on
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Speaker 1: All right, you like the man in the mirror? Alright?
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson met him? Horrible interest songs is Brian? That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's before it's time. You know Greg in this? You
Speaker 1: are you boring? Brian? It sounds so weird to hear
Speaker 1: that documentary, so he just turned on Yep, January. Have
Speaker 1: you read that? Have you read that? Bryan? All right? Uh,
Speaker 1: back with you here on the b f f's Frank Stample,
Speaker 1: Greg Susman and Frank a lot of patting you back today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're doing exactly what we're not supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: Greg great, Uh, No one Arnado, Um gets hurt yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's hitting the arm. David Donald continues to rank another
Speaker 1: three game for him. He's been ridiculous, dude, not much power,
Speaker 1: but it's just the average is really really good. Um,
Speaker 1: let's get in the bruland there here. I love that
Speaker 1: they all came in. It's Lefty too, Greg, he's been
Speaker 1: very very good Berland yesterday, I told you the fifteen
Speaker 1: strike out's a lot of three runs overre seven innings,
Speaker 1: four hits, didn't walk anybody, only three runs, you lad.
Speaker 1: We're all on solo home runs from you as a
Speaker 1: money Garandal or Ryan run and Eric Thames. He does
Speaker 1: even get a win as his one goes in the
Speaker 1: fourteen and the Astros actually lose this game six to three.
Speaker 1: Branda Woodruff gotta match him. And then the amount of
Speaker 1: strike outs, but seven things and three run ball, four hits, uh,
Speaker 1: three walks, six ks. Nice job by bullpens in bull
Speaker 1: on both sides until the ash was ultimately blue. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And for Justin Verland, he's got a two point five
Speaker 1: o e r A on the season, a zero point
Speaker 1: seven three whip. Are you serious? It's like this guy's
Speaker 1: pitching like an elite reliever. He's zero point seven three whip.
Speaker 1: It's just absolutely insane. He doesn't have a three point
Speaker 1: four three x fit and at three point zero eight Sierra,
Speaker 1: So I think there's gonna be some slight regression for
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander. He's pitches more to fly balls, and it's
Speaker 1: his hard contact rate is up this here. Everyone's hard
Speaker 1: contact rate is up this year. But his swinging strike
Speaker 1: rate is just absolutely ridiculous fifteen point nine percent, his
Speaker 1: oh swing, his chase rate thirty nine percent, like a
Speaker 1: fine wine greggy. Justin Verlander just getting better with age.
Speaker 1: Even if the e r A rises to like the
Speaker 1: high twos, even the low threes, he's gonna give you
Speaker 1: a ton of strike. Guy, He's gonna give you a
Speaker 1: massive whip. His walks have been awesome this year, one
Speaker 1: point seven zero right in line. With last year's one
Speaker 1: point five six walks for nine. So justin Verlander easily
Speaker 1: and trenched as one of the top two or three
Speaker 1: starting pitchers in fantasy. He's awesome. He's how how many
Speaker 1: years in a row are we gonna doubt this guy? Greg?
Speaker 1: I didn't doubt him this year, like I think we
Speaker 1: initially did, but then we came around, Well, why didn't
Speaker 1: we bid on him? Then? Greg? Why do we end
Speaker 1: up with Trevor Bauer? Because that was the plan. Friend
Speaker 1: plan were alan was Trevor Bauer. Garrett Cole probably should
Speaker 1: have got Garret Cole, and then the plan for hitters
Speaker 1: was Ronald Lucoon you or Christian Yelloch. We probably a
Speaker 1: really good team. Imagine we had yellowt and Garrett Cole
Speaker 1: or Yellow and Verlander. Oh my gosh. Like the plan,
Speaker 1: the idea was right, process over results, process over results.
Speaker 1: Not really that you know what. Ronald da cun is
Speaker 1: having a fine season, it's just not Christian Yellows the season.
Speaker 1: I would like to look up what Ronald Cuna is
Speaker 1: on Pace four actually, which I will do. Well, you
Speaker 1: introduce whatever you want to talk about next, Craig. Oh,
Speaker 1: we should talk about the blue Jay's bullpen, because Ken Jiles,
Speaker 1: we should talking about that and everything else that happened.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can Giles on the list, did I?
Speaker 1: Or maybe I did? I remember anyway? Before that, ronalda
Speaker 1: Is on page for two eighty three six home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty one steals, runs, scored a hundred eight ruys. That's
Speaker 1: a really, really good It's not Christian Yellis, but that's
Speaker 1: a damn good year, like someone who was worth taking
Speaker 1: as a top six pick in right around we had
Speaker 1: the Ken Jiles in just one second? What's up? Crazy
Speaker 1: trade in he releague? Trade in my league? All right?
Speaker 1: What do you got? J was in the last place?
Speaker 1: Traded away Justin Verlander, Robbie Ray, whit Meryfield and a
Speaker 1: sixteenth round pick. I mean, this is this has to
Speaker 1: be some kind of crazy fire sale for Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Speaker 1: And a third round pick and you keep players forever.
Speaker 1: Four years? Has lad already been kept? I've been kept
Speaker 1: one year, for three more, for three more years. He
Speaker 1: gets vlad a third round pick, he gets lad In Verlander,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray, Merryfield and who is this Robbie Ray Verlander? Wit?
Speaker 1: That's it? And I like a late pick. Is that
Speaker 1: a fair trade? I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 1: It seems like a trade that if it happened in
Speaker 1: my league I would be pretty frustrated about. I mean,
Speaker 1: it isn't it's a lot to give up. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we just talked about verlind top three pitcher in baseball,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray, top thirty five starting pick. You're in Fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball and with Merrifield, who position, versatility, second base, outfield, batting,
Speaker 1: it all right, Well, maybe it's not so bad because
Speaker 1: he's a third round pick and Vlader mc guireo is
Speaker 1: probably gonna be like a borderline first second round pick
Speaker 1: and Fantasy next year keep him for three more years.
Speaker 1: He seems like, what side are you on? I don't
Speaker 1: even know what. It seems like the person who gave
Speaker 1: up Verlander give up a little bit too much. You
Speaker 1: get Lad Yeah, and a third round pick and a
Speaker 1: third round pick. I mean that's not nothing. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: like you can't even keep lad forever. You can just
Speaker 1: keep for the next three years. But he has him late,
Speaker 1: he has him round. It's not it's not one of
Speaker 1: the worst keeper lead. I don't think it's hard. I've
Speaker 1: heard like the worst things have happened in my keeper leave.
Speaker 1: He would have lad in the fourteenth next year, that
Speaker 1: it's twelfth, in the tenth. It's I think it's not egregious,
Speaker 1: but I would slightly lean that giving up Verlander winch
Speaker 1: in Robbie raised a little bit. So to me, it's basically,
Speaker 1: let's say Radford Orlander. Okay, we have any issue with
Speaker 1: that because I wouldn't and no issue with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: take that out of it, so that it's whit Maryfield
Speaker 1: and Robbie Ray for a third. It's so egregious in
Speaker 1: a keeper league. I'm fine with that. I have no complaint.
Speaker 1: I mean what Maryfield himself was like a third round pick, right, agree?
Speaker 1: And Robbie raising it top thirty five streakout, it's not,
Speaker 1: it's not, it's I have I have no issue with.
Speaker 1: I have no issue with doing that. Now this person,
Speaker 1: obviously this keeper trade, Yes, the little he couldn't. He
Speaker 1: could have shopped around, but who knows if he gets
Speaker 1: better than this, I don't know. How are you doing
Speaker 1: in that league? To the bash bro No bash is
Speaker 1: the one day the trade though? Got Verlander? Yeah, interesting
Speaker 1: hometown hellers in first home down. Hello, he's a Jaguars fan,
Speaker 1: right all right, shout and Jeff the Jets fans in
Speaker 1: third alright, So Greggy and all his boys right at
Speaker 1: the top. Let's get the Blue Jays bullet out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Ken Giles was placed on the I L where
Speaker 1: we're like, all right, who's gonna be the closer? I
Speaker 1: believe Frankie tweeted out Joe Bie and Jeannie probably the
Speaker 1: most likely candidate, not the only person tweeted out. Everybody
Speaker 1: kind of assumed that's what would be. Daniel Hudson came
Speaker 1: on in the eighth inning last night, gets the last
Speaker 1: out clear uh in the fire storm here, I had
Speaker 1: to clear it out, does his job, then puts himself
Speaker 1: in the middle of the storm in the ninth inning,
Speaker 1: but then gets out of that as well. Daniel Hudson
Speaker 1: gets the first opportunity, Will he get the next opportunity?
Speaker 1: I would lean that way as of right now. They
Speaker 1: brought Joe Bijanie in in the eighth ending with runners
Speaker 1: on first and second in an eight three game, and
Speaker 1: clearly not a save opportunity. They just you know, they're
Speaker 1: trying to close out the game, but they bring Joe
Speaker 1: big Yegini in. Uh, he does not perform well. Before
Speaker 1: we know it, it's eight six and it's a safe situation.
Speaker 1: So Daniel Hudson comes in in that eighth ending puts,
Speaker 1: puts the fire out and then also puts pitches. The
Speaker 1: ninth allows one walk with three strikeouts. I would assume,
Speaker 1: I would assume Daniel Hudson gets the next save, Greg,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't surprise me if it's like a committee,
Speaker 1: if it's him and Joe Biagini. For now, it sucks
Speaker 1: because Ken Giles was actually performing really well. You know,
Speaker 1: if you've listened to this podcast or show for years now,
Speaker 1: you've known I'm not really the biggest Ken Giles fan,
Speaker 1: but I mean this year he has been otherworldly. Fifteen
Speaker 1: case for nine, one point zero eight r a one
Speaker 1: point zero four whip me Shrike, Greg. Ken Giles has
Speaker 1: been amazing eleven saves on the season as well. That
Speaker 1: kind of comes with the territory of being the closer
Speaker 1: for the Toronto Blue Jays because they don't win that
Speaker 1: many games. But this is a big loss for Ken
Speaker 1: Giles owners. So if you're if you lost him, you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to be aggressive on Daniel Hudson. I would
Speaker 1: say he is one A and no, it's he's one.
Speaker 1: He's one, he's not one A. And then and then
Speaker 1: and then job Jeanie's too. But we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: the next couple of save opportunities. Yeah, you know we
Speaker 1: when we last talking about Ken Giles was in relation
Speaker 1: to Craig Kimbroll, right like where did Giles fall on
Speaker 1: that scale? And I believe we ultimately decided he was
Speaker 1: one spot after Kimberrell or or right out of the
Speaker 1: top ten I thought it was inside of the top
Speaker 1: twelve um, right outside the top ten um. And there's
Speaker 1: this one hurts because Giles has been really, really good.
Speaker 1: I know in the past it's been very volatile Ken Giles,
Speaker 1: certainly in his years in Houston, but he's been really
Speaker 1: good this year for Toronto. Daniel Hudson I don't have
Speaker 1: much trusting Like who would you rather own, Sean Kelly
Speaker 1: or Daniel Hudson. I would take. We don't know how
Speaker 1: long Ken Giles is going to be out. Daniel Hudson
Speaker 1: may have the job for a day, he meant not
Speaker 1: get the next opportunity like when did Bigini last pitched?
Speaker 1: He pitched last, like, I have no idea he did.
Speaker 1: He did. He was terrible. Yeah, he was the one
Speaker 1: night it was eight to three. He put them into that.
Speaker 1: He made the game eight six, and then Daniel Hudson
Speaker 1: came in and put out the fire. So I would
Speaker 1: probably still lean with Shaun Kelly because it's probably gonna be, like,
Speaker 1: we know, he's gonna get the same opportunities moving forward.
Speaker 1: For now, I still think that, you know, by the
Speaker 1: All Star break or maybe after the All Star break,
Speaker 1: Jose mc clurk is is the guy ends up being
Speaker 1: the closer again. I mean, the Rangers have kind of
Speaker 1: hinted at that, but you're right there, we don't we
Speaker 1: don't know that Daniel Hudson is the guy. So just
Speaker 1: because we know Sean Kelly is the Rangers closer for now,
Speaker 1: I would lean him. But I don't really love either situation,
Speaker 1: I guess understandably understandably, so um Chuck Hilly definitely the
Speaker 1: guy that I would choose over Daniel Hudson. I used
Speaker 1: to love Danie Hudson as a start of Arizoner, Like
Speaker 1: I always thought he would be really good and then
Speaker 1: he had. I guess it was Tommy John and has
Speaker 1: not been. He used to be a top prospect for
Speaker 1: the White Sox back in the day. Correct, and he
Speaker 1: started and he started with the White Sox's supposed to
Speaker 1: be started your prospect, he did. He was jacked by
Speaker 1: the White Sox and came over. That's very funny. You
Speaker 1: know who got traded for uh, Edwin Jackson. Jackson's funny one.
Speaker 1: Now that on the same team toge how about that?
Speaker 1: Ah Man. Yeah, So earlier on in his career, I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be really good for the White
Speaker 1: Sox to so. Yeah, so he had to Tommy John surgeries,
Speaker 1: That's what it was. He went under one Tommy John
Speaker 1: in twelve. A year later he retour it and did
Speaker 1: it again, and that completely sapped him in my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean he's actually performed well so far this year,
Speaker 1: um right around a strikeout for any eight point seven
Speaker 1: case per nine three point three zero e ar a. Uh.
Speaker 1: The walks have been an issue for him. His underlying
Speaker 1: numbers like x fips here and not good when when
Speaker 1: it comes to UH to Daniel Hudson. That's why I
Speaker 1: thought Joebigini was going to get the job because over
Speaker 1: all his numbers and his underlying numbers were just better
Speaker 1: than Daniel Hudson. But you know the fact that he
Speaker 1: actually converted a save already, I think that's that's going
Speaker 1: to help his cause moving forward. So something to pay
Speaker 1: attention to. But if you lost Ken Giles, I would
Speaker 1: probably be fort to five percent of my fab on
Speaker 1: on Daniel Hudson, just to make sure I have what
Speaker 1: I assumed to be the next man up. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens over the weekend too. Yeah. Absolutely, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think we wait and see. I don't I don't really
Speaker 1: want Dannie Hudson. I know he's been good this year.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't really want. But if you played in a
Speaker 1: fifteen team or Greg, I mean, there's not gonna be many.
Speaker 1: Like the speculative closers, they don't come around very often.
Speaker 1: So if you lost Ken Giles, you might not have
Speaker 1: a choice but to be aggressive on Daniel Hudson. Let's um,
Speaker 1: we got five minutes ago, so let's be the best
Speaker 1: best forever. Cool? Yeah, let's go all right, see best
Speaker 1: best forever. Yesterday on the program, I gave out again
Speaker 1: starting five minutes from now, it was the Indians and
Speaker 1: the Reds. I had over nine and a half. They
Speaker 1: got stuck at nine. That's a loss for me. Uh.
Speaker 1: Frank also lost his two from yesterday. He liked the Phillies.
Speaker 1: Zac Evlin was really really well. Um, and you also
Speaker 1: like San Diego Joey Lucas who also pitched well, but
Speaker 1: their defense let them down. Today we're gonna get back
Speaker 1: on the board, and for me, first one that stands
Speaker 1: out is the Dimebacks and Nationals. Dimebacks are a slight favorite,
Speaker 1: a much once two, but it's Grinky agains Eric Freddy,
Speaker 1: I'll think Greggy, Yeah that actually, Uh, that stuck out
Speaker 1: to me as well. I'm gonna go in a similar situation,
Speaker 1: a really good picture who's on the road. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before. It seems like whenever we get
Speaker 1: a really good picture who's on the road, they are
Speaker 1: not as big of a favorite as they should be.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at Matt Boyd and the Detroit Tigers
Speaker 1: going up against Homer Bailey in the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and Greg, you're getting the Detroit Tigers at a minus
Speaker 1: one two money line. So I like Matt Boyd and
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers to get it done today against the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals. Alright, I got here? Still you got here.
Speaker 1: We've been all over this Tiger's Royals series because I
Speaker 1: mean both teams suck. Is that so that's why we're
Speaker 1: in on? Yeah, because I mean, like they can. The
Speaker 1: decision of these games could easily be swung. They're both
Speaker 1: not good teams. Spencer Turmboll either day, we talked about it.
Speaker 1: He was in a good spot to win, but I
Speaker 1: believe the bullpen blew would after we left. Oh this
Speaker 1: is really good. What do you got? I like the
Speaker 1: Rangers a lot tonight and plus two ten I was
Speaker 1: looking at that. I just don't know that I trust
Speaker 1: Adrian Sampson on the road. I looked into his home
Speaker 1: road splits because he doesn't have a two star week
Speaker 1: next week, and I think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: gonna be in on Adrian Sampson for his two star
Speaker 1: week next week. Both of those starts are at home,
Speaker 1: So that's why when I looked at the home road
Speaker 1: splits actually had a bit on him. Last night, I
Speaker 1: got slightly outbid, so I didn't get him. But tonight
Speaker 1: he's on the road in Fenway and he's got something
Speaker 1: like a like a low two z r A at
Speaker 1: home and an earrator on six on the road. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing like Sampson's pitch better as of late. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and two tens is too big and he's just too
Speaker 1: big a dog. I get what you're saying here with
Speaker 1: the with the value, Like if you're a red Sox
Speaker 1: standard and there's no you touch this game, I'm minus
Speaker 1: two is way too big coat. I just think I
Speaker 1: just think this number is way, way, way too big.
Speaker 1: You can make you make a bit of a property here.
Speaker 1: Plus two ten. Yeah, I think people are just looking
Speaker 1: at Adrian Sampson and they're just not like fantasy owners
Speaker 1: and analysts alike. We didn't really know how good this
Speaker 1: guy was pitching until we looked it up over the weekend.
Speaker 1: The last five stars, he's actually been pretty good. So
Speaker 1: I think the books are kind of reflecting that sentiment
Speaker 1: that they don't know how good that Adrian Sampson has pitched.
Speaker 1: So I would agree with you that there's value to
Speaker 1: be had at plus two ten, Greg, But overall, I
Speaker 1: I don't really have a good feel for Adrian Sampson
Speaker 1: and the Rangers tonight. Yeah, that's fair. I'm just taking
Speaker 1: the value. That's really what I'm looking at. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you could sprinkle something on it, but it's not something
Speaker 1: that I would put my normal unit amount. I agree,
Speaker 1: it's not my best bet forever. That's the Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: against the Gnats tonight. But my other bet that I like,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now plus to ten. That's great.
Speaker 1: Texas in Baltimore in Boston, excuse me. Adrian Sampson on
Speaker 1: the mound for the Texas Rangers tomorrow on the show,
Speaker 1: will be joined by Mike florial hopefully, Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta contact him and confirmed that, but I would
Speaker 1: assume he's good to go. All right. We'll we joined
Speaker 1: by Mike florio Is to take a look at the weekend.
Speaker 1: Weaver's Adrian Samson, one of these two star pitchers you
Speaker 1: may want to consider bidding on. As Frank did, I
Speaker 1: will also take a look, Um, we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at everything that he needed over baseball for the weekend.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, tell you right now. We're
Speaker 1: going to discuss the NBA Finals, like Game six is tonight.
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna talk They're gonna be talking about there's
Speaker 1: game seven, there's a Game seven, or the Raptors have
Speaker 1: conquered their first championship in NBA history. We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: So and we get Mike's thoughts too, because Mike I
Speaker 1: heart Knicks fan. He wanted Kevin Duran on the team
Speaker 1: as well. So well, we'll talk a little bit about it.
Speaker 1: Let's say we spend ten minutes out of the hour
Speaker 1: that we have Michael Florio on, is that fair? Greek?
Speaker 1: I think ten minutes. I think that I think that's reasonable.
Speaker 1: But I want to get very clear. We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Get back last early first half of the first second.
Speaker 1: So all right, I want to thank everybody for all
Speaker 1: their help downstairs. I know it's been uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble here today give the technical issues.
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