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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports for Your Network, alongside Frankie Standford. I am
Speaker 1: Greg Susan Bragg Greggae. Happy Friday, t G I f
Speaker 1: thank god it is Friday. Greg, We've made it. Tell
Speaker 1: him me man through the week tired, A lot going
Speaker 1: on here, a lot to talk about from last night,
Speaker 1: we starting baseball, we got some waiver, tired to talk
Speaker 1: about for over the weekend, maybe getting some two start
Speaker 1: pitchers as well. For all that, Greg, I just sleep
Speaker 1: last night, Buddy, I slept well, but oh but very tired. Today.
Speaker 1: I slept well. I came in an hour late. As
Speaker 1: we kind of kicking you in Caboose. I guess, I
Speaker 1: guess that's what it is. I guess I just feel
Speaker 1: like I've been kicked. That's what it is. I'm going
Speaker 1: on that I don't know about. No, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just tired, tired, and sleep very well last night, a
Speaker 1: couple of beers before the before bed, but it didn't help.
Speaker 1: So you know what I did last night? Oh so
Speaker 1: Judy was not home again? Oh week, where's Judy party?
Speaker 1: Animal duties? She was working late last night. So I
Speaker 1: I watched um some TV and I had to catch
Speaker 1: up on I was watching a little baseball and I
Speaker 1: got kind of boring until I watched like the second half.
Speaker 1: I wound up doing some watching something, then watching the
Speaker 1: second half of the Giants Rockies game to completion Jeff So,
Speaker 1: Marja and Johnny Gray. Oh again, and how about in
Speaker 1: my home be shark dude, dude do dodd? In my
Speaker 1: home league, I was facing Jeff So, Marja and john Gray.
Speaker 1: So that was like demoralizing, that's disastrous. That was me
Speaker 1: last week I was going up against I think it
Speaker 1: was Brad Keller, and he had three starts and he
Speaker 1: outscored Max Scherzer. And I'm just like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on? I'm just saying that. It was like
Speaker 1: I cannot believe this is real. So that was incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 1: Um anyway, So before that, I watched the last week's
Speaker 1: episode of Barry on on HBO. Go and watch Barry now.
Speaker 1: I know sometimes I think you just make up these
Speaker 1: shows stars Bill Hater, he's an actor, he's a star.
Speaker 1: Barry anyway, So I watched, Um, oh, I've seen ads
Speaker 1: for this show. It's good. It's he'd like it. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Eight point one out of ten according to i MD.
Speaker 1: Brock Myer is much better. Brock Meyer's hysterical. I watched
Speaker 1: second episode. I watched second episode of that yesterday as well.
Speaker 1: Watched that. I watched um, a couple episodes of Modern Family.
Speaker 1: It is very quick to watch, you know, you fly through,
Speaker 1: and then the Cubs Pirates game. It just wasn't interested
Speaker 1: in at all. Oh, come on, Greg, it's a pictures duel.
Speaker 1: It's great. It was a great Pictures dual. Right. So
Speaker 1: I was just like a cat against Joe Musgrove, right,
Speaker 1: so that's how I felt, and we have shares of
Speaker 1: both of those guys. Come on. I was listening to
Speaker 1: it on the radio. I couldn't believe that what is
Speaker 1: happening expected you. They played semi charmed Life coming back
Speaker 1: from I was like, you know those games on TV.
Speaker 1: They must know that I'm listening. They played semi charms
Speaker 1: coming back from a break. I was driving around so
Speaker 1: I needed something to keep me occupied. So anyway, they
Speaker 1: I had HBO go on for Barry, and I just like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, and then I put on I just
Speaker 1: fast forwarded through. It's the parts that I like, the
Speaker 1: Greatest Showman. Oh, it's awesome. You know the greatest Showman. Bavona,
Speaker 1: This is a joke. This guy's a joke, absolute joke. Bavona.
Speaker 1: This is the perfect opportunity of you to chime in, Bona.
Speaker 1: But I was saying how I was, um Christ to
Speaker 1: stop talking when we're on the air. So I was
Speaker 1: saying when we were I was just flipping through and
Speaker 1: I was on HBO Goal last night and I had
Speaker 1: watched an episode of Barry and then I just saw
Speaker 1: looking into Showman and I just I just played fast
Speaker 1: forwarded to all the great parts of the movie, and
Speaker 1: I thought you'd appreciate it. I really do love Yeah. Say,
Speaker 1: I knew it. I knew it. It's amazing. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: the greatest. It's so good. This is a musicale and
Speaker 1: you're surprised that I haven't seen it. Why this is
Speaker 1: the greatest show man? Oh, I thought that's what was
Speaker 1: coming next, The greatest show me No, trying to you know,
Speaker 1: fit in, Like the soundtrack is man the greatest? The
Speaker 1: soundtrack is just ridiculous, Pavona, isn't it like interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There was perfect. Yeah, I'm with you, man. I guess
Speaker 1: he's getting pumps. He's got the goose bumps going on
Speaker 1: a Friday. I got him back. So I watched the
Speaker 1: last night. You can't watch without this massive smile on
Speaker 1: your face. That's how I felt. Okay, I did not.
Speaker 1: I was listening to some of the Katana against Big
Speaker 1: Joe musgroove. Then I watched two episodes of Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones like that getting me ready for I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought about that all so, and I'm almost done with
Speaker 1: season seven again, so I'm up to the final episode.
Speaker 1: I'll watch that probably tonight, and then I'm good to go.
Speaker 1: For Sunday and then, like you, I turned on some
Speaker 1: John Gray and Jeff some Martina called the end of
Speaker 1: that Sleepy Time. Watch the entire second half of that
Speaker 1: that game like from the fifth inting on, and um,
Speaker 1: it was annoying because I just wanted runs anyway, all
Speaker 1: I wanted his runs. These are not scoring runs right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if you've noticed that. They're
Speaker 1: They're very bad. Rockies are very bad right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get Michael Flory on at some point.
Speaker 1: They're awful. We're trying, We're trying, We're trying. But you know,
Speaker 1: this would have been a perfect opportunity for him to say,
Speaker 1: I love jo I love John Gray. He's the best.
Speaker 1: That's one you're gonna say because he's the best. I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting here, like, you know what. One of them
Speaker 1: was going around probably picked two hundred, and one of
Speaker 1: them is going around picked four hundred. So would you
Speaker 1: rather have can be the guy going around pick four on?
Speaker 1: I can't believe that happened last night. To me, it
Speaker 1: was like the worst, and I love that it happened.
Speaker 1: Uh from Jeffson margin against you, Greg, because you talk
Speaker 1: so much smacks so much SMA about margin? Is that
Speaker 1: a real thing? What is fantasy karma a real thing?
Speaker 1: When you talk smack about a player on the air.
Speaker 1: Because I've talked smack about Tyler Glass now all preseason
Speaker 1: and I'm going against him this week he dropped almost
Speaker 1: thirty fantasy points on my head, right, So not a
Speaker 1: thing is that because I talked smack about him. Now
Speaker 1: I talk smack for Dames about Jordan's urin. It worked
Speaker 1: out quite perfectly, now you didn't. I was almost getting
Speaker 1: you to buy in, almost not on Jordan's Erman. I
Speaker 1: bought it on the bowl And we can start right there,
Speaker 1: right you want? How about we start on the other
Speaker 1: side much better? The Beabes Beabs and you love the Beabes.
Speaker 1: You love the Beabes, man, I love the Beabs all right?
Speaker 1: Where do you actually want to start? Where I started?
Speaker 1: The Beams? Shane Bieber yesterday seven innings of three hit ball,
Speaker 1: six strikeouts, one walk. He was fantastic against Detroit. Spencer
Speaker 1: Turnbull not as fantastic against Cleveland, but limited the damage
Speaker 1: through his four innings. Yeah, Turnbull was disappointing yesterday, to
Speaker 1: say the least. I streamed him. If you places I
Speaker 1: recommended him as a stream on Patron, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: you know I also streamed him. So everything that I
Speaker 1: tell um, you know, people who listen or read what
Speaker 1: I write, is exactly what I would do myself. So
Speaker 1: I had Turnbull in the lineup as well. I had
Speaker 1: him in the main event. It pushed for Turnbol over Wheeler,
Speaker 1: we still had Turnbull in there. We had Turnbull and
Speaker 1: Wheeler and we bet Jose Kitana, which was clearly not
Speaker 1: the right decision. But there's still I think there's still
Speaker 1: a lot to like with Turnbull. I know yesterday was
Speaker 1: not great, Greg, but over eleven case per nine to
Speaker 1: start the year, you look at the swinging strike rate,
Speaker 1: the first pitch strike percentage UM, they're still very good.
Speaker 1: Twelve and a half percent swinging strike rate for Spencer
Speaker 1: Turnbull in the season, a near six nice first pitch
Speaker 1: strike percentage. I still have a lot of interest in Turnbull.
Speaker 1: This was a disappointing performance, to say the least against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians, but I'm not dropping him yet. I'm
Speaker 1: not giving up on the Bull. Shane Bieber, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, was great. As you mentioned, the Indians need
Speaker 1: him to be great with everything that's going on with
Speaker 1: Mike Clevinger. And I actually looked into Shane Bieber a
Speaker 1: little bit this morning. Greg had thirteen swinging strikes yesterday,
Speaker 1: four on his current bolly, it's seven on his slider,
Speaker 1: and so I looked into his pitch usage. How about
Speaker 1: this Greg? Last year his forcing fastball was not good.
Speaker 1: He allowed a one nineties six isolated power against his fastball.
Speaker 1: Last year he's lowered his fastball usage by eleven percent
Speaker 1: and upped his slider usage by eleven percent, So direct correlation.
Speaker 1: Throwing a slider more throwing his forcing less. His slider
Speaker 1: is a very good pitch. So I think this is
Speaker 1: addition by subtraction to take away some of that fastball.
Speaker 1: And through two starts, opponents are have a one forty
Speaker 1: three isolated power against his fastball, so it's down about
Speaker 1: fifty points. So I think using his fastball lesson using
Speaker 1: his slider more is actually helping Shane Bieber a lot
Speaker 1: this year. We believe the Biber just who starts face
Speaker 1: the Tigers and the Blue Jays, right right? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: very good matchup. I have no again, no issue with
Speaker 1: me from there, but good to see him taking advantage
Speaker 1: of matchups that he should be doing, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. That was part of the reason you like
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber and all these Indians starters because they played
Speaker 1: the al Central and we thought the matchups would be
Speaker 1: good and they were. And Greg. One thing that I
Speaker 1: will let you know about Shane Bieber is right now,
Speaker 1: his hard hit rate is forty seven percent, so it's
Speaker 1: a little scary. It was around forty four percent, but
Speaker 1: it will say this right. So one of the main
Speaker 1: things that we were saying about Bieber heading into the
Speaker 1: season was that he can't pitch in the zone as
Speaker 1: much as he did last year. He's got a nibble
Speaker 1: a little bit more. He's gonna throw outside the strike zone.
Speaker 1: He is actually doing that this season. His zone percentage
Speaker 1: last year was forty eight percent, so forty eight percent
Speaker 1: of his pitches in the zone last year and this
Speaker 1: season it's forty point nine, so he's lowered it by
Speaker 1: about seven percent. And he's getting opposing batteries to chase
Speaker 1: pitches outside the strike zone thirties five point seven percent
Speaker 1: of the time. That's up five percent from last year.
Speaker 1: His first strike percentage is great scent, swinging rakes or
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber. So pretty much everything is there that that
Speaker 1: you want to see from him. I want to see
Speaker 1: that hard hit rate obviously come down. I want to
Speaker 1: see a few more groundballs, but good command strikeouts are there.
Speaker 1: So far Bieber has been great. I want to see, uh,
Speaker 1: if you can put this together in tough matchups as well. Greg, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I wanted I wanted to be and again he did
Speaker 1: what he had to do for the first two matchups.
Speaker 1: The hard hit rate a little bit harder than we
Speaker 1: wanted it to be, but overall, feeling pretty good about
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber through his first two starts. Very confident Spencer Turn.
Speaker 1: When we start him again next week, we own him.
Speaker 1: Next week, I I would continue to own him. I
Speaker 1: would have to look up who he faced. I don't
Speaker 1: know off the top of my head. Obviously. You know,
Speaker 1: Turnboll is more of a matchup play not performing the
Speaker 1: matchup that we liked this week. Next week going up
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, that's not a bad matchup. Pittsburgh does not
Speaker 1: have a great lineup, and especially with Corey Dickerson out
Speaker 1: of the lineup. He's on the injured list, they're missing
Speaker 1: a few other people. They just have like a random
Speaker 1: cast of characters. They still have Josh Bell, they have
Speaker 1: Frankie Savelli and Stop Marte. But really not a lineup
Speaker 1: that scares me. So in deeper leagues and ale only,
Speaker 1: I would leave Turnbull in the lineup. In a twelve
Speaker 1: team league, I would imagine that your replacement value is
Speaker 1: probably better. Again, I wouldn't drop him, but against the Pirates,
Speaker 1: I'm not scared of that, Craig. In a daily transactions league,
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm screaming pictures, I would use him
Speaker 1: against the Pirates. Sure, I tend to agree with you.
Speaker 1: I'm also using him against the Pirates if i still
Speaker 1: have him on my team by next week. Offense wise,
Speaker 1: as Frank said, when we were watching the game, everybody
Speaker 1: was crushing the ball. Everybody is getting hit on the
Speaker 1: ball except for one guy, and he would over five
Speaker 1: with two strike as yesterday, and that was Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping to get Florial along because I do
Speaker 1: want to talk to to Mikey about Jose amrors and
Speaker 1: see how nervous he he is when it comes to
Speaker 1: Jose Um But really bad man, really really bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a few times that I've talked to Mike regarding Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 1: His sentiment has been, it's only been two weeks. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very early on in the season. Let's give this
Speaker 1: guy's hands. But this is a guy who normally walks
Speaker 1: a decent amount. He's only walking four percent of the time.
Speaker 1: And we spoke about him the other day. He's striking
Speaker 1: out a little bit more than usual. Still hitting too
Speaker 1: many fly balls. I understand that's what he did last
Speaker 1: year in the first half and it worked for him.
Speaker 1: He hit forty percent fly balls last year fifty one percent.
Speaker 1: He's fifty percent of the balls that he's putting in
Speaker 1: play are fly balls. So I just think he's trying
Speaker 1: too hard to lift the ball here. Um again, I
Speaker 1: spoke about the pull rate the other day that we
Speaker 1: need to see that go up because the past, basically
Speaker 1: his whole career, he's a forty three percent pull hitter.
Speaker 1: He's only this year. And remember Greg, when we were
Speaker 1: watching we watched the Jose Ara mirrors that bat yesterday
Speaker 1: he hit a screamer to the to the warning track
Speaker 1: and it got caught. So he was a little bit
Speaker 1: unlucky there. He made good contact on that one, and
Speaker 1: he's just been a little bit unlucky this far. He's
Speaker 1: got babbit s batting average. Again, the babbit is that
Speaker 1: low because he's hitting fifty one percent fly balls. Hard
Speaker 1: hit rate is around thirty seven percent. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not great to start the year. The one saving graces
Speaker 1: that he still has three stolen bases. But he's got
Speaker 1: to turn it on, you know, by next week, a
Speaker 1: couple more weeks, Like if he's still hitting under two hundred,
Speaker 1: I might start to hit the panning button. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do it right now, only two weeks into the season,
Speaker 1: but Greg, if we have a whole month of a
Speaker 1: sample size he's still hitting under two hundred, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start to worry a little bit. By that point.
Speaker 1: You have to it's your first round pick. It's not
Speaker 1: only your first round pick, Frank, but it was just
Speaker 1: second half of last year. Also, it's not just it's
Speaker 1: not just a two weeks or the one month sample size.
Speaker 1: That's the issue. I want to ask more Deka about
Speaker 1: Josera mirrors too. So do you know because we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about whose Era mirrors. I think it's because
Speaker 1: we own no whatnot? You know Nolan no Ronado also
Speaker 1: does not have a home run yet this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe he and Josire mirrors might be the only
Speaker 1: first round hitters, first round caliber hitters without a home
Speaker 1: run to start to see. I understand that they have
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries, but and they haven't played a
Speaker 1: lot of home games either. I believe they've only played
Speaker 1: two home games and one of them got snowed out.
Speaker 1: Is that it they only played two against the Braves
Speaker 1: and that's where got but still has thirty eight runs
Speaker 1: scored greg their third most in baseball. Yeah, the marriage
Speaker 1: is a thirty eight run scored yesterday, So it's like, well,
Speaker 1: to put that in perspective, they actually have a hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen thirty eight more triple Think about this. The
Speaker 1: Stanfords just Go Giants have thirty nine runs scored. They
Speaker 1: have one run scored more than the Rockies, which was
Speaker 1: basically last night they won one zip thanks to who
Speaker 1: Jeff baby shark? Do do do do do technically because
Speaker 1: that's because of stay hot, young man, Stay hot? Why
Speaker 1: all he's been doing his homework? Are you telling just
Speaker 1: stay hot? For anyone who might own him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously should be on there. He should be own
Speaker 1: in fifteen teamers, fift team mixes. Tigers had just three
Speaker 1: hits yesterday. Niko Goodrum had one of them. War is
Speaker 1: eight percent for the for the Indians. We joked about
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana, but on the years at five one, he
Speaker 1: is on a fire right now. Stay hot, young man,
Speaker 1: Stay hot? Are you mocking me about who let off
Speaker 1: the game? Greg? You're just gonna completely skip over that.
Speaker 1: Leones Marttine Martine hits a home run and steals a
Speaker 1: base in this game. His home run was the second
Speaker 1: of the season. He also added a double. He was
Speaker 1: basically the nemesis of term but that's what happens when
Speaker 1: you face off the bull. But three hits for Leoni's
Speaker 1: Martin interesting power speed combination. Should he be owning anything
Speaker 1: shallower than a fifteen team league? Greg? No, probably not,
Speaker 1: You don't think so. Probably not. He got off to
Speaker 1: a slow start, but he's started, he's picking it up.
Speaker 1: He's got the power speed combo. Have you playing a
Speaker 1: twelve team roto league with five outfielders? Leonly's Martine be
Speaker 1: owned there? Probably as a fifth outfielder. I think so
Speaker 1: shallower than that, like four our fielders or last like
Speaker 1: twelve teams three outfield leagues. No, we only marteam doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be on ro five outfielders. I think you
Speaker 1: should day break. We'll come back. I'm not gonna hit
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Speaker 1: Sam Pavona. Are you going to have this played at
Speaker 1: your wedding? There is a strong possibility at some point. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I was talking about my mom recently. She's like, you're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna have like a real band, right, you definitely
Speaker 1: trying to as a band guy. We we were looking
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Speaker 1: Um yeah, so I was all for My mom was like,
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Speaker 1: do you know your first song yet? Uh? We do?
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Speaker 1: don't know, you don't want to everyone else to know yet?
Speaker 1: Or is my friends don't want to reveal it. So
Speaker 1: my friends or some of my friends listen. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: so I'll tell you off the Aero problem. But my
Speaker 1: mom was like, oh, the greatest show, the greatest show,
Speaker 1: god Ma, so for you that. By the way, all right,
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Speaker 1: There you go, all right, dirty Mike and the boys
Speaker 1: and the boys, all right, is there anything on the
Speaker 1: Orioles As game yesterday that you wanted to hit on?
Speaker 1: The know? We talked, We joked a lot during the
Speaker 1: show about the ages being bombs away yesterday. All these
Speaker 1: home runs I felt like happened with Orioles and the Aids.
Speaker 1: I will say this again. If you're playing in our
Speaker 1: fandal contest tonight, you've set your lineup, but by four pm,
Speaker 1: four pms to cut off. If you're in the contest
Speaker 1: and you don't set your lineup, I'm booting you. I'm
Speaker 1: inviting more people. I wanted to run tonight. I won
Speaker 1: last week and it wasn't for money, so very annoying.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, Greig, the A's are going
Speaker 1: up against true Smiley tonight. Stack the Oakland seem like
Speaker 1: Mark Canada tonight, I will say, yeah. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be in the line up. He's gonna bat
Speaker 1: in the middle of this lineup. Chris Davis is doing
Speaker 1: Chris Davis. You're gonna be in there, first one to
Speaker 1: uh first one and nine home runs on the season.
Speaker 1: Is Chad Pinder him in a lone up? I don't
Speaker 1: want to sure. They gave Matt Chapman the day off yesterday,
Speaker 1: so he was in there because of that. But against
Speaker 1: the lefty, yeah, he probably will calm down, probably will stop.
Speaker 1: The other side Cric stop, I think you could drop
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins. And with that, we're welcome to Michael Florio. Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you had to hear Greg's crappy singing again.
Speaker 1: I had to cut him off because this guy just
Speaker 1: won't stop. How are you doing, Mike, and are you
Speaker 1: dropping Cedric Mullins. I don't own Cedric Mullins. And I'm
Speaker 1: doing all right. I just sleep last night. I'lept pretty good.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Gregg scene that as usual? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean nothing has changed. Have you ever seen the
Speaker 1: greatest showman? No? Really, I can see Nicolette loving it.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's as with ye that Fron Really? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: really just sold me on it there, gregs awesome, Zach,
Speaker 1: everyone's awesome and said da pretty hot. Zac Efron is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, like Greg's Greg's fit like Jack Alter Ego
Speaker 1: and zac Efron, No doubt I'll take that is way
Speaker 1: too high of a compliment for Greg. I kind of agree,
Speaker 1: way to have a compliment like zac Efron is like
Speaker 1: the upper echelon of like what I also prefaced my saying,
Speaker 1: you know is Jack fit version. That's awesome, man, I
Speaker 1: will take that like any comparison I'm in. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: normally like Jack fitman Ard, you know, much better looking
Speaker 1: than us. I mean you're saying it for how it is. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: of course it's going to be much better than who
Speaker 1: we Yes, definitely, I'm sorry. But if you could get
Speaker 1: as in shape as that Efron, and I highly doubt
Speaker 1: you will, you will reach his level of you know,
Speaker 1: being a successful actor in Hollywood. He's that's a high bar.
Speaker 1: It's a very high bars, Greg, I put you on
Speaker 1: a pedestal. I put you on a high pedestal, and
Speaker 1: Florio's trying to drag you down. Takes Nicola let me know.
Speaker 1: She if she's seen the greatest Showman? Okay, Yre cool,
Speaker 1: because it's awesome. Mike. We did bring you up during
Speaker 1: the first segment because we wanted to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: regarding jose Ra mirrors. Obviously, we all own him in
Speaker 1: GSC together. He was our first round pick. We took
Speaker 1: him fourth overall. Are you worried about him? Have you
Speaker 1: looked into the bad and ball data? To me, he's
Speaker 1: hitting balls. It just seems like it's too much, like
Speaker 1: he's trying to lift the ball. Maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: too much here, striking out a little bit more than usual.
Speaker 1: What do you got on Josier mirrors? Are you worried yet? No,
Speaker 1: He's he's lifting the ball. He's hitting the ball hard
Speaker 1: at the same rate as he was last year. Once
Speaker 1: it warms up, I think those are gonna leave the park. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's already been a couple this year where I thought
Speaker 1: if it was warm whether it would have left the park. Plus,
Speaker 1: I think once you know Lindore returns, that's an obvious
Speaker 1: boost for his value. We saw last year this guy
Speaker 1: could really like get his numbers in a two or
Speaker 1: three month stretch. So no, I'm not worried yet about
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez, which obviously makes him better for Roto because
Speaker 1: as long as we get the end of season Novembers,
Speaker 1: we don't really care when they come for you know,
Speaker 1: head to head, you need a little bit more consistency.
Speaker 1: But I didn't to agree with you. Look, Josie ra
Speaker 1: mirror is I think has to come around. We didn't
Speaker 1: really plan I guess to ask you this, but we
Speaker 1: talked about him a lot yesterday regarding Tyler Glass Now,
Speaker 1: and we spoke about you know, what level picture are
Speaker 1: you trying to trade glass now four If you're trying
Speaker 1: to sell him, If you're buying into him and what
Speaker 1: he's doing so far, then you're obviously not trying to
Speaker 1: sell him. I had someone tweeted ay today that he
Speaker 1: sold Tyler Glass now to get Chris sale, which awesome,
Speaker 1: that's a great job. I think, where are you out
Speaker 1: on Tyler Glass now to start the year? If you
Speaker 1: own him, are you trying to sell high? Probably not.
Speaker 1: If I own him, I probably got him the way
Speaker 1: I draft. At least, I probably would have ended up
Speaker 1: with him as like my SP three or four. And
Speaker 1: if I have that kind of depth at my pitching,
Speaker 1: then I'm I'm kind of set with that. It's a
Speaker 1: lot like with Blake Snell last year. Why I wasn't
Speaker 1: selling him after his hot start, I just I believed
Speaker 1: in it, and with Glass now I I do as well.
Speaker 1: I did actually write about him potentially being this year's
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. But my thing is I want to I
Speaker 1: still want to see him develop a third pitch or
Speaker 1: start to use that curveball even more. Because he's throwing
Speaker 1: his fastball like six of the time, well above league average.
Speaker 1: We continue to see the decline in fastball usage. So
Speaker 1: I think if he either has to heavily incorporate that
Speaker 1: curveball a little bit more, or if he can develop
Speaker 1: a third pitch, that this guy can take that next
Speaker 1: step and really be I think right now I have
Speaker 1: him as like a I would value him as kind
Speaker 1: of an s P two with how he's pitching. If
Speaker 1: he can make those adjustments as the year goes on,
Speaker 1: and if I'm trusting any team to help a picture
Speaker 1: make that adjustment, it would be the Rays would be
Speaker 1: one of them. If he can make those adjustments, I
Speaker 1: could see him really taking even another step in the
Speaker 1: right direction. And if he can continue to build up that,
Speaker 1: he could potentially be a league winner. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: so quick to sell him, but if you would get
Speaker 1: like a Chris Sale or or a proven picture like that.
Speaker 1: The first thing that came to mind was like James Paxton.
Speaker 1: I would try to him for Paxton right now, Like,
Speaker 1: if you could do something like that, then I would.
Speaker 1: I would do that. But if you have to get
Speaker 1: lower than that, I'm just gonna stick with the upside
Speaker 1: of glass. Now what about Walker Bueller. Walker Mueller I'm
Speaker 1: afraid of I didn't. I didn't draft him anywhere because
Speaker 1: out of the well, it started off as fourteen aces
Speaker 1: and by you know, the end of draft season, it
Speaker 1: was twelve bases out of the fourteen, and out of
Speaker 1: the twelve, he was always my last ranked one. Uh
Speaker 1: And part of it is because he's the least proven
Speaker 1: of the bunch. I wasn't worried about his innings in
Speaker 1: the sense of on a perse start basis because we
Speaker 1: saw him last year. They'll let him go six seven innings.
Speaker 1: I was more worried about his if they were gonna
Speaker 1: let him, you know, go two hundred innings. And I'm
Speaker 1: the guy who always says, you know, you want the quality.
Speaker 1: The quality of the innings don't matter as long as
Speaker 1: you're getting strong performances. But with my top two pictures
Speaker 1: in the rounds that I have to invest, I do
Speaker 1: view that a little bit differently. Plus, I'm always cautious
Speaker 1: of pit shoars who go deep into the playoffs because
Speaker 1: then they have a shorter time to to recover and
Speaker 1: to start ramping it up for the next season. And
Speaker 1: Bueller was a pitcher who not only had a significant
Speaker 1: inning jump last year, but also it was pitching into
Speaker 1: the World Series. So to me, there was some red flags.
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying like I had him as a bust
Speaker 1: or anything, but he was always consistently the last of
Speaker 1: the aces. For me, I think that makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. And I'm going to try and paint the
Speaker 1: glass half full here, Greg, because I do own a
Speaker 1: share of Walker Bueler in a great fantasy based momentational
Speaker 1: and if you own Walker Bueller, I think this is
Speaker 1: what you might want to hear. I don't disagree with
Speaker 1: what Mike said coming into the season, but on the season,
Speaker 1: his command has been got awful. You saw that yesterday
Speaker 1: he hit a few batters. He like walked in runs.
Speaker 1: He's averaging over three nearly four walks for nine three
Speaker 1: point seven five walks for nine. His strand rate is
Speaker 1: like that, that's just abysmal. He's still getting fifty percent groundballs.
Speaker 1: The swinging strike rate is a little bit down, but
Speaker 1: his first pitch strike percentage also down, um, but down
Speaker 1: the chase rates down. The chase rates down, so people
Speaker 1: are laying off of pitches outside the zone and that's
Speaker 1: part of the reason why the walks are up. But
Speaker 1: the velocity, the fastball velocity still there. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the cutter velocity, Greg, it's up two miles per hour
Speaker 1: this year. UM. The slider is down, which is weird.
Speaker 1: So I understand. I think he's kind of getting ramped
Speaker 1: up here because he has such a late start to
Speaker 1: spring training. It's kind of similar to Chris Sale. They
Speaker 1: both go deep into the postseason. Obviously, Chris Sale much
Speaker 1: more proven, so we have more trust that he will
Speaker 1: bounce back. But you know he got Walker Buler got
Speaker 1: a late start to the spring, Greg and I think
Speaker 1: this is kind of still part of his spring training. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's never been a guy to walk
Speaker 1: this many batters. So it wouldn't surprise me if we
Speaker 1: see a Dodgers like i Elston at some point here,
Speaker 1: I think soon with Kershaw and rich Hill, you know,
Speaker 1: nearing their return like that wouldn't surprise me regarding Walker Bueller,
Speaker 1: But I'm not completely jumping ship yet. If I own him,
Speaker 1: like I'm not just trying to sell. Are you doing
Speaker 1: the opposite then? Are you just buying low? So like
Speaker 1: Glass now for Walker Bueller, is that something that you
Speaker 1: would do Me personally, I'm not a huge believer in
Speaker 1: Glass now, so I probably would do that. I would
Speaker 1: do that. But you know, if if you're a believer
Speaker 1: in Glass now, if you're someone who trusts what he's done,
Speaker 1: and you trust the prospect pedigree and you expect him
Speaker 1: to kind of take this next step forward. Maybe you know,
Speaker 1: Mike mentioned his name in the same breath as a
Speaker 1: Blake Snell, So if you kind of believe that he
Speaker 1: can take obviously not that step. Not be a cy
Speaker 1: young but take that next step and be this good.
Speaker 1: Then you're probably on the side where you want to
Speaker 1: just keep Tyler Glass now. And if that's you, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Like I don't own him anywhere, but if if that's you,
Speaker 1: that's fine me Personally, I would I would trade him
Speaker 1: for Walker Bueller if I can. But that's a classics
Speaker 1: you know, sell high by low. We mentioned Josie Ramirez,
Speaker 1: the other name that I brought up before Florio where
Speaker 1: you got on, and I was talking to Frank about
Speaker 1: we'll go back into the games in the second with
Speaker 1: nol Aranada, who has not hit a home run yet
Speaker 1: this season. Frank mentioned, Hey, they only play two games,
Speaker 1: of course, but I don't care when Nolan Arnado's playing
Speaker 1: and he's the first round pick because he's very, very
Speaker 1: good everywhere. What's non Eronado? I just think the whole
Speaker 1: Rockies organization as a whole is off to a slow start.
Speaker 1: We saw this last year too, and they were able
Speaker 1: to bounce back. Ronado. I I don't I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about him at all. I I do believe at the
Speaker 1: end of the year he'll be where he always is
Speaker 1: the fact. I mean, if we look at it, it's
Speaker 1: two weeks, like you said, they have they've only played
Speaker 1: two games at cores So and they've also played in
Speaker 1: like Marlin's Park, which is a hard place to hit.
Speaker 1: So I'm not giving, you know, excuses for Nolin Ernando,
Speaker 1: but it is way too early for me to even
Speaker 1: consider worrying about him. He's I think, the most consistent
Speaker 1: player in fantasy baseball. Yeah, I do agree with that.
Speaker 1: That's the hard hit rate thirty eight percent, basically on
Speaker 1: par with his career. I think he might be trying
Speaker 1: to lift the ball a little bit too much to
Speaker 1: start the season. Greg, his his fly ball percentage is
Speaker 1: actually up and he's actually been jammed a few times.
Speaker 1: His infield fly ball rate is up to which we're
Speaker 1: not normal uh normally used to scene from nol Aranado.
Speaker 1: So I do tend to agree. Again, Look, know a
Speaker 1: lot of his production is going to come at home
Speaker 1: in coorse Field. Wants the weather heats up there. You know,
Speaker 1: he's like every other Rockies hitter. He has great splits
Speaker 1: at home regarding coors Field. So just look, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be more of those games to come. So if someone
Speaker 1: in your league is freaking out about Ronado. I would.
Speaker 1: We're also still at the point of this season, though,
Speaker 1: where one game could literally change the entire like pro
Speaker 1: player profile right now. Like I saw on Twitter, it
Speaker 1: was actually PAULS. Boord was leading about it. He wrote
Speaker 1: about how Joey Gallo had a his strikeout rate was
Speaker 1: down significantly this year, and then Joey Gallo had a
Speaker 1: three I think it was a three strikeout game, and
Speaker 1: his strikeout rate was back over thirty. So we're still
Speaker 1: at the point where we're dealing with extremely small sample
Speaker 1: sizes and literally one game could change ratios across the board.
Speaker 1: It's a good point too, because we own Ronald Dakunia
Speaker 1: greg and look at that. It's a couple of games
Speaker 1: in a row. Now he has a three hit performance.
Speaker 1: Last night he was just batting like one eighty and
Speaker 1: now he's hitting two sixty two and he's got five
Speaker 1: home runs in the year. So it only takes a
Speaker 1: few game for these guys to get hot. I e
Speaker 1: Ronald Kumia absolutely and hopefully that happens soon rather later
Speaker 1: for No Nada and Josie Ramirez and more of Ronald
Speaker 1: Dakunia and all the other players, were you more likely
Speaker 1: to buy low Greg, Jose Ramirez or No One Arnado?
Speaker 1: No One or not for me? Um, Josie Ramirez obviously
Speaker 1: has the ability to steal bases and runs. We've seen
Speaker 1: a couple of steals out of Ramirez, but I just
Speaker 1: can't get out of the back of my mind now
Speaker 1: and again it's been two weeks. I recognize that the
Speaker 1: second half of last year, like No. One, I didn't
Speaker 1: have that down horribly down second half of last year,
Speaker 1: and he has a whole lot more games at course
Speaker 1: to come. I think Ramiro's will bounce back and be fine.
Speaker 1: If I have to choose one of them to pick,
Speaker 1: to pick, it's probably Aaronada. Even though we drafted Josira.
Speaker 1: Mirror is over Aronada. You know three weeks ago, why
Speaker 1: did think he'd be this bandman? Look, I would say,
Speaker 1: if you play in a any kind of categories or
Speaker 1: RODA League, I would still rather take the stolen base
Speaker 1: of thirty thirty upside of a guy like Josie Ramirez.
Speaker 1: But in uh In I had to hit you know what,
Speaker 1: Josier Mirrors is really good and head to head points too.
Speaker 1: I guess overall, I would just rather take Josier mirrors.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Mike, If I'm one, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna go with Ronado just because, not that
Speaker 1: I would I had him ranks higher than Ramirez. I
Speaker 1: just think he's safer and more consistent, so if you
Speaker 1: have some worries, also, I think he's in a better lineup,
Speaker 1: better ballpark, everything, kind of, He's just so much safer.
Speaker 1: So I would be more inclined to buy Ronado. But
Speaker 1: at the same point in time, I think it's much
Speaker 1: more likely that a Jose Ramirez owner is panicking based
Speaker 1: off of the second half last year in the slow start,
Speaker 1: rather than Ronado. I I would imagine that most Ernado
Speaker 1: owners feel very similar that we do, Like this guy
Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. I'm surprised Gregg hasn't asked if
Speaker 1: we could drop him yet. Mike, Yeah, I know. Greg
Speaker 1: wants to drop everyone every week, everyone but the most players. Yes,
Speaker 1: we were going through GDD today, He's like this guy,
Speaker 1: we gotta drop, this guy, we gotta drop. I wasn't
Speaker 1: really wrong in any of them. Is here, Mike, Here's
Speaker 1: who I said. I wanted to drop Wellington Castillo, which
Speaker 1: I put in a bit, and I'm dropping it. He sucks.
Speaker 1: Why am I keeping him? I wanted to drop Yonder Alonso.
Speaker 1: Frank said, no, I find fine, you could have that one.
Speaker 1: But whatever, what I don't Yonder Alonzo was terrible. Oh well,
Speaker 1: let's move on. I wanted to drop Wilmar Flores, Great,
Speaker 1: no problem. I wanted to drop Tyler by the way,
Speaker 1: it was Tyler ro O'Neil. I want to drop Great,
Speaker 1: no problem. I said, we could drop Marwin Gonzalez, Fine,
Speaker 1: no problem. Is there anything he was so wrong about there? No? Um,
Speaker 1: there was the Yonder Alonzo one. I've never been a
Speaker 1: big Yonder guy. Like, I'll admit that that was Frank's guy.
Speaker 1: But I did write about him in Fancheck, my one
Speaker 1: of my fan checks articles this week. His walk rate
Speaker 1: is up dramatically, Like it's twenty three point three percent
Speaker 1: right now. Last year was eight point nine. So if
Speaker 1: that's something he's incorporated into his game, the ability to
Speaker 1: draw more walks, I do think an ov P and
Speaker 1: points leagues there's reason to be intrigued there. But g
Speaker 1: d D is just a five by five rodor league, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't love Alonzo in that format and
Speaker 1: uh the other guys. Yeah, I think you're depending on
Speaker 1: who's out there though, because that's always a big factor
Speaker 1: in leagues that deep. Like. So, I was I was
Speaker 1: going to we put bids in on dead, vogel Box
Speaker 1: and Mitch morelandex obviously vogo Box, you guys, all three
Speaker 1: of those guys, act, Will Frazier and vogel Box. You
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be spending on I hope. Well, how
Speaker 1: aggressive are you on vogel Box right now, Mike? Because
Speaker 1: I have reference this the other day and you picked
Speaker 1: him up in our home league for I believe nine bucks,
Speaker 1: So how aggressive would you be on him? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean I spent nine out of a hundred bucks, So
Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty aggressive on him and that league though,
Speaker 1: I will say, uh, Frank, you're in that league as well.
Speaker 1: It's an auction league. I went more stars and scrubs
Speaker 1: than I haven't had before. Uh, So I am looking
Speaker 1: to fill in some holes in my lineup. For corner infield,
Speaker 1: I had C J. Crone, who I think is better
Speaker 1: in Rhodo. Don't really love him in points at all,
Speaker 1: so I dropped him for vogel Box, and I'm hoping.
Speaker 1: All that I think vogel Bock needs is a playing time,
Speaker 1: and I think they would be silly to get away
Speaker 1: from giving him playing time. So I'm kind of trusting
Speaker 1: the Mariners here to do the right thing. And I
Speaker 1: think if he continues to see the playing time, he's
Speaker 1: been crushing the ball so and and he is also
Speaker 1: a player who came with some prospect pedigree, so I
Speaker 1: think there is reason to be excited there. Well, so
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Speaker 1: When and see you here, this is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite ones. Yeah, it's not any favorites, not only like
Speaker 1: this one. Ron. There's a country version of the Grandish showing.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's not good, it's it's it's arguably
Speaker 1: at least you things that we don't condone here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy BFFC. Definitely one of them. Shock and done
Speaker 1: country music. Do we do not condoned Dave Matthews band?
Speaker 1: Whatso we end the show every day with Dave Matthews
Speaker 1: not we you do not me. I never agreed to that, Uh, Bavona,
Speaker 1: I curse you because because during the breaks, now every
Speaker 1: freaking break, Greg's just sitting here, you know, answering around
Speaker 1: and singing this show. So I'm happy. Yeah, kissing me off?
Speaker 1: So anyway, right, no, no, no, please don't play Metallico. No,
Speaker 1: let me we're about to say, well, well let me well,
Speaker 1: let's know what we're about to sail well back with
Speaker 1: you Fantasy best friends for whatever Fantasy Sports Network voted.
Speaker 1: We can get that Jack Affron Hugh Jack Mason and
Speaker 1: they sing together where they're at the bar. That great.
Speaker 1: Please don't do that like that one, thanks buddy. No, Mattaca,
Speaker 1: we start off the hour two of Metallica. Did you
Speaker 1: start off every segment with Mattaca? Greg Metal? That's amazing. Um,
Speaker 1: we're talking about it last earlier, Florio, So I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk to you about it. What took place in
Speaker 1: that Colorado San Francisco game where Baby Shark and John
Speaker 1: Gray both went wild seven innings of three hit, ball,
Speaker 1: one walk, seven caves for some marja uh six and
Speaker 1: two thirds five hits. The only run that Johnny Gray
Speaker 1: allowed was a Kevin Pollard homer in the seventh, six
Speaker 1: strikeouts for your body, John Gray? What was real? What
Speaker 1: was not here? Mike? I think a lot of it
Speaker 1: was matchup based, Like I'm not getting excited about Gray
Speaker 1: because he can pitch well against the Giants in San Franz,
Speaker 1: Like that's the best picture ballpark. That's you know, one
Speaker 1: of the worst lineups in baseball outside of Kevin Pollar,
Speaker 1: who was just absolutely on fire with the Shark. I
Speaker 1: did tweet last night like seven shutout innings, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: only thirteen swinging strikes. But still it's a step in
Speaker 1: the right direction against I know, I understand the Rockies
Speaker 1: are atrocious right now offensively, but I still think you
Speaker 1: have to take notice. I did put I'm not trusting
Speaker 1: him yet. I'm not like picking him up and starting
Speaker 1: him by any stretch, but if he's out there, I
Speaker 1: do think, you know, throw a couple of bucks on
Speaker 1: him this weekend and see if you have anything there
Speaker 1: with him, because again I'm not fully sold on him,
Speaker 1: but he's done nothing wrong to to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: get treated like some Marja the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: half Vona. If Greg's gonna request bad music coming back
Speaker 1: from breaks, then I want baby Shark as one of
Speaker 1: our songs. Commemorate jeff So Marja owning your ass yesterday, Greg,
Speaker 1: because you hate jeff So Marja and he owned you.
Speaker 1: That would be baby Shark Bivona, Baby Shark is Elvis
Speaker 1: Andrews is legit walk up song. That's great. I don't
Speaker 1: know like he comes up to it every yet, at
Speaker 1: least he did early in the season. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he still does. Who came out to the Undertaker
Speaker 1: song the other day, Hansel Robulists and you guys haven't.
Speaker 1: If you guys haven't seen the entrance video the Angels
Speaker 1: have made for Robulists, please go check it out. It
Speaker 1: is the weird thing. Ever. He comes up to the
Speaker 1: Undertaker's music and in the video they show rose petals falling,
Speaker 1: they show a horse running, they show just his feet
Speaker 1: as he runs in from the bullpen. It's a very
Speaker 1: very strange video and it also cannot be more unfitting
Speaker 1: for a picture to come out to that song than
Speaker 1: Hansel Roblists actually just retweeted it. If anyone else wants
Speaker 1: to watch it, I'm watching it right now live. There
Speaker 1: are candles, there are rose pedals. Why are they making
Speaker 1: such a big deal out of Hansel Roblists. This is
Speaker 1: kind of like a like a wrestling intros. Now, if
Speaker 1: he was, his finishing move would be pointing at home runs,
Speaker 1: thinking their infields flyall. I love what he does that.
Speaker 1: Every time there's a fly ball, he just points up
Speaker 1: at the sky and it goes five feet. It's the best.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone else do that before. Hello, what
Speaker 1: does that? He does it every time? Man, any time,
Speaker 1: every fly ball he thinks it's a pop up five
Speaker 1: hundred feet out? What are you doing the salad? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? I wanted to hear it. You can't
Speaker 1: hear during the break? Come on? What are we doing right?
Speaker 1: What was Cantana versus Joe Musgrove last night? A pictures
Speaker 1: do well? An awesome, awesome performance here, Mikey. Unfortunately we
Speaker 1: uh we did not use Jose Cantana because he got
Speaker 1: rocked in his first started to give up eight and
Speaker 1: runs against the Brewers. But he was much better yesterday
Speaker 1: at fifteen swinging strikes, and I looked into his pitch ustage.
Speaker 1: So far this season, it's a lot closer to what
Speaker 1: he was doing, which is great because THO those were
Speaker 1: his best years, whereas last year he sucked. So I
Speaker 1: think only good things are going to come right for Rosana,
Speaker 1: like as long as he's not walking the world like
Speaker 1: he did last year, and the swinging strikes are up
Speaker 1: this year. And he's getting a few more wishes on
Speaker 1: his curve and his changeup as well. Like this is
Speaker 1: kind of why I was back in on Jose Cantana.
Speaker 1: Would you see last night from both him and Musgrove.
Speaker 1: I'm much more excited about must Grove. I'm not fully
Speaker 1: sold on Qantana yet. The fact that he could pitch
Speaker 1: well against the Pirates isn't enough to completely push me overboard.
Speaker 1: Plus I'm kind of burned. I had him in a
Speaker 1: lot of spots last year, and this was a trend
Speaker 1: with him, bad good, bad good, just when you were
Speaker 1: ready to drop him. Every time, he'd go out and
Speaker 1: throw a start like this and suck you back in.
Speaker 1: Then you put him in your lineup and he would
Speaker 1: just get rocks. So I kind of want to see
Speaker 1: him do it a little bit more. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: there's no reason to be intrigued by him. I know
Speaker 1: both of us read that article in the Athletic this
Speaker 1: year and we were excited that he made a mechanical change.
Speaker 1: So I was very hopeful that he could get back
Speaker 1: to the Jose Quintana of old. But I wanna this
Speaker 1: was a great step in the right direction. I want
Speaker 1: to see him do it more than one outing against
Speaker 1: the Pirates. But as for Joe Musgrove, He's looked awesome
Speaker 1: so far this year. He's everything we all thought he
Speaker 1: could be and more. I haven't got to do my
Speaker 1: deep dive on these pictures yet. I do it every
Speaker 1: morning for my Patreon page. I put it right up
Speaker 1: on it, so I'm gonna do that after this show.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you right now I'm already much
Speaker 1: more excited about Joe Musgrove. And it's probably because as
Speaker 1: I've been burned in the past by Kantana, but I
Speaker 1: want to see it a little bit more out of him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of shares of Jose Kantana, so
Speaker 1: obviously I needed to see this bounce back performance against
Speaker 1: the Pirates. I agree, it's obviously a great matchup against
Speaker 1: him next week in Miami against the Marlins. Uh. That
Speaker 1: goes without saying that that's a must start. But I
Speaker 1: do like what I what I saw when I kinda
Speaker 1: I kind of dove into some deeper stuff with these
Speaker 1: guys today regarding Katana and must Grove, and I like
Speaker 1: that he's using his pitch arsenal similar to Stretch where
Speaker 1: he was obviously much better Greg, and then for must Grove.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll you'll notice this when you look at it, Mike.
Speaker 1: His velocity is down. I know it's only two starts
Speaker 1: and usually they build up, but his four seen velocities
Speaker 1: down three miles per hour and his slider velocities down
Speaker 1: two miles per hour. So normally, if you start the
Speaker 1: year down one or two miles per hour, like we
Speaker 1: expect you to build it up three miles proble on
Speaker 1: the fastball, two miles on the slider. Again, I love
Speaker 1: Musgrove raft, Joe must grow. We started the chant here
Speaker 1: um and I still like what I've seen from him,
Speaker 1: but the La City is definitely something that I'm paying
Speaker 1: attention to here. Mike. Yeah, I wrote that on after
Speaker 1: his last start that he was down consistently across the
Speaker 1: board about to maybe on some pitches a little bit
Speaker 1: more than that, So that is very worrisome. It is
Speaker 1: uh still, you know, very early in the season and
Speaker 1: very cold, and last night's game was sub optimal weather conditions.
Speaker 1: But what I liked again, I haven't looked at his
Speaker 1: last night's outing, but he threw as a before last night,
Speaker 1: he was throwing his slider almost thirty two percent of
Speaker 1: the time. He had twelve of his uh seventeen swinging
Speaker 1: strikes on that pitch. And remember last year I kept
Speaker 1: saying the starts that he pitched well were the ones
Speaker 1: where he didn't use his four seam fastball, like I
Speaker 1: believe the number was like fifty plus percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and the starts where he pitched poorly was when he
Speaker 1: was heavily reliant on that fastball. So to see him
Speaker 1: throwing his slider as much as he is, I'm very,
Speaker 1: very excited right now. It's a good call too, because
Speaker 1: even after last night's game, his slider percentage is up
Speaker 1: around eleven percent, and his whiff rate on that slider
Speaker 1: is that that's up five per sent from last year
Speaker 1: at eighteen percent, So yeah, he's doing using the slider
Speaker 1: more and it's actually been even more effective this year
Speaker 1: than it was last year. So that's a good call.
Speaker 1: Florio gonest Tom I actually was able to remember my
Speaker 1: log in for Fandels, so I ken play in it now.
Speaker 1: We'll get you invite, We'll get you in there. I
Speaker 1: won it last week, but we didn't have enough people
Speaker 1: didn't count, so it didn't run for money, but I dominated.
Speaker 1: I had like a hundred ninety points, and I didn't
Speaker 1: win anything because not enough people joined. Boo, we'll have
Speaker 1: one more this week. Didn't count. Didn't count. My didn't
Speaker 1: count because you probably finished in fourteenth that of fifteen.
Speaker 1: I would say fifteen, but I know that Chris venture
Speaker 1: finished in fifteen. I have some suck. I've set a
Speaker 1: preliminary lineup for now. I'm waiting to see, you know,
Speaker 1: when more lineups come out. Obviously I've done though a
Speaker 1: lot of set. He's just gonna leave it alone no
Speaker 1: matter what. Yeah, you reveal what picture're using, or you
Speaker 1: do not want to do that you're using. Go to
Speaker 1: the squad Chris Paddock. Paddock going up against the Diamond Paddy. Actually,
Speaker 1: I read a great article on Paddock on The Athletic
Speaker 1: where seven thousand people retweeted, Actually, it's it's awesome. I
Speaker 1: actually got into a little spat on Twitter because of it,
Speaker 1: because someone wanted me to give it away and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, dude, I'm I also right and like stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give away someone's work for free.
Speaker 1: And they got like a little bit annoyed at me.
Speaker 1: But great article by. You know, the it's all about
Speaker 1: his changeup and how he's been working on it since
Speaker 1: high school. It has two lefties, it kind of goes
Speaker 1: out of the strike zone, that moves back in, and
Speaker 1: it's just an absolutely filthy pitch. So Paddock, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very excited about him, although we did
Speaker 1: sit him in our league this week. So I noticed
Speaker 1: last week you put the put him back up, put
Speaker 1: them back up, Martina. So I noticed this last week.
Speaker 1: Week you just had a blank wall behind you. Now
Speaker 1: there's one thing on your way. Had that last week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I pay attention. I guess he was sitting directly
Speaker 1: in front of it last week. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: When he moves around, he gets and he did see it.
Speaker 1: I also don't have this view of the screen like
Speaker 1: you do. You know that right your eyes checked. It's
Speaker 1: about angles. My apartment is still pretty bad. We're still
Speaker 1: in the process of during NFL season, it was really
Speaker 1: hard for me to really do anything. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: gonna get a desk and like put up a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff right behind where I'm sitting now. Actually, but
Speaker 1: that sign, it's the exact mileage from where we live
Speaker 1: to City Field. Nicolet had a custom made for me.
Speaker 1: It's very nice. That's a good fiance right there. It's
Speaker 1: a very good fiance. Greg, Mike, when are you coming
Speaker 1: back to New York? I don't know yet. There's a
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, guys, some stuff off the air. There's
Speaker 1: some stuff holding it up. But when I when I do,
Speaker 1: I will be back in New York at some point.
Speaker 1: And when I do, I'm hoping I get to go
Speaker 1: to a Met game. And I had to bring this
Speaker 1: out because you know, today is a day I get
Speaker 1: to see this guy. It's Wheeler Day, all right, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Wheels up, baby, let's go. It's amazing the publicity. Wheels
Speaker 1: Up is a Wheeler Day. Harvey Dame was the thing
Speaker 1: until Harvey sucked, and we can't do a Harvey Dame. Ya.
Speaker 1: Now it's wheels up, wheels amazing. Do we have anything else?
Speaker 1: What do we? Of course, that's not a thing now.
Speaker 1: Thor Day is not a thing, Greg, probably something are
Speaker 1: making a synder Garden Game of Thrones bobblehead and it
Speaker 1: looks amazing. I'm actually getting one, so I'm pretty exciting
Speaker 1: that admit this. Mets do a much better job with
Speaker 1: their bubbleheads, and these ones are they're nice, like I
Speaker 1: I think I got Brett Gardner last year in David
Speaker 1: Wells and tonight is actually Bernie Williams Bobblehead night tonight
Speaker 1: at the at the Stadium where Bernie Williams Jersey, but
Speaker 1: I will not be attending. But they, you know, the
Speaker 1: Mets just to a lot more creative stuff with the
Speaker 1: whole Todd Fraser w w E one that was awesome.
Speaker 1: Did you get that? I didn't get it. But the
Speaker 1: thor Game of Thrones when I've seen that too, it's awesome,
Speaker 1: it looks awesome, it's great. I also saw the Angels
Speaker 1: were doing one. I think last week it was Mike
Speaker 1: Trout silver Slugger bobblehead was just like a bunch of
Speaker 1: silver bats. And from sick that the Mets they did
Speaker 1: the Jacob Degraham saw Young Award and actually someone is
Speaker 1: sending me that one as well, but it's it's just
Speaker 1: him holding the trophy. It's not as creative as the
Speaker 1: other ones. Still more creative than anything Yankees got. Going
Speaker 1: on May the fourth, they're doing CC with the with
Speaker 1: the light saker that they always do that they had
Speaker 1: Judged last year. It doesn't excite man jed I because
Speaker 1: you know it doesn't like it. It's just because everybody does.
Speaker 1: That's all. You guys might get mad at me for this,
Speaker 1: But Peter Alonso to me, is the most fun player
Speaker 1: in New York since the first year of Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: I know we're very early in the season, but it
Speaker 1: just reminds me of like when Judge first that first season,
Speaker 1: and which is destroying baseball's every night, and like that's
Speaker 1: all like people were talking like when Peter Alonso gets
Speaker 1: up now, like on Twitter, that's you just see one
Speaker 1: like oh, like Peter lands will doing this, like doing that,
Speaker 1: like it's the mode. To me, it's the closest thing
Speaker 1: I've experienced since your guys Aaron Judge phenomenon. And I'm
Speaker 1: not mad at you at all. I actually said this
Speaker 1: the other day. I actually compared him to Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: in terms of his stature, how hard he hits the ball,
Speaker 1: and even if the strikeouts are there, the fact that
Speaker 1: he hits the ball so hard, like he's not gonna
Speaker 1: sink your batting average because he makes optimal contact. And
Speaker 1: I saw the home run. I believe it was again
Speaker 1: last night, right, he had another one. The way to
Speaker 1: describe it for me is easy power, Like when you
Speaker 1: watch him swing, it's this easy power, like he makes contact,
Speaker 1: just drives it to straight away center field like it's nothing.
Speaker 1: So I tend to agree with you. It's like every
Speaker 1: time this guy steps to the plate, there's a chance
Speaker 1: that he's gonna hit a home run. So I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at that call. You know. I think Matt Moldika's
Speaker 1: description was the best Joey Gallo with a batting average.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. And I said that it's funny
Speaker 1: because we were talking, Um, it's not as much of
Speaker 1: like a three true outcome like Judge because he doesn't
Speaker 1: walk as Wright knew. I knew. I saw the perfect
Speaker 1: comparison from a guy I can't remember what it was though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is Alonzo's walk? Great? Right? I think it's like
Speaker 1: under ten percent. But I know his barrels per played
Speaker 1: appearance because Baseball finally released twenty nineteen information he's second
Speaker 1: behind only one player in baseball. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys would guess it or not. I actually
Speaker 1: just looked it up, so I can't guess it. Greg,
Speaker 1: you get one guess? Are you get two guesses? Chris Davis? Nope,
Speaker 1: such a bad Chris Davis four. It was not It
Speaker 1: wasn't great then, all right, so then just tell me
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it. Dan Vogelbach Um, No, he actually
Speaker 1: ranked sixteen, so not both of your guests were in
Speaker 1: the top six scene it is El Garrichez who you know.
Speaker 1: The Yankees just added Kyle Hi Gashioka to the roster. Greg,
Speaker 1: does that make you worried about Gary Sanchez? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean you have to go on the i L now
Speaker 1: one word DHL weekend just not be el Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I was gonna say. The Yankees right
Speaker 1: now would be small to call up a catcher like
Speaker 1: they did and actually get Gary Sanche at bats a
Speaker 1: d H while their outfield is you know, banged up,
Speaker 1: and I mean while their whole lineup is banged up.
Speaker 1: Take advantage of that and not make Gary's First of all,
Speaker 1: don't subject your pictures to Gary Sanche's catching for the
Speaker 1: time that you don't have to, and don't subject his
Speaker 1: body to that wear and tear. And you haven't been
Speaker 1: all over the Yankees like like we are Floria, but
Speaker 1: also reminds that a terrible year on like ast outside
Speaker 1: of that like four weeks stretch last year has never
Speaker 1: been that great. I haven't seen him defensively, he's good,
Speaker 1: just strictly talking defensively. YEA, yeah, dad, I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just so you know, Pete Alonzo
Speaker 1: I predicting him as my Rikie of the year, saying
Speaker 1: me too. I had Chris Paddocks, so sure, I like,
Speaker 1: you know, we both have pretty through two whole weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. We're on it in the al though,
Speaker 1: I had ELOI, so that's looking terrible. What did I
Speaker 1: haven't the probably glad, I would assume A. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: kind of taken the chalk with that one. Seems a
Speaker 1: little bit too easy. Let you be up soon. Um. Like,
Speaker 1: outside of Dan, Vogelbacher had a few names here on
Speaker 1: the rundown, Who do you think is the most must
Speaker 1: add player right now? We're gonna obviously dive into the
Speaker 1: waiver wire alot. Second, what do you think is the
Speaker 1: biggest must add player in fantasy right now? Um? I
Speaker 1: like Max Freed a lot if he's available. I think
Speaker 1: Dan's by Swanson should be added. Uh. And if Jesse Winker,
Speaker 1: I see you have him on the list here too.
Speaker 1: If he's been dropped, I'm still picking him up. I
Speaker 1: want to end this with this way. Floria in a
Speaker 1: twelve team league mixed is Jerriedson profile an absolute must own? Uh?
Speaker 1: He is much better in points league. So if you're
Speaker 1: in the points league, I do think so. He hits
Speaker 1: a lot of doubles, he's gonna walk, he's gonna limit
Speaker 1: the strikeouts in a standard five by five league. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a you know, a guy that you
Speaker 1: have to have on your roster, but I would be
Speaker 1: hard pressed to cut him this early in the season.
Speaker 1: All Right, there you got Mike Florial. We appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: Just Patreon, I mean what, he has a Uber fan
Speaker 1: tracks and everywhere else he writes. All right, we appreciate time.
Speaker 1: Then of course, thank you guys. Let's doing this with y'all.
Speaker 1: Flowsers up next the Ventura. Okay,