Speaker 1: T G. Yeah. Now welcome your b your host, Bye
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Speaker 1: p to be a best action Hour begins now. I
Speaker 1: am Frank Stanfeld. We had to let Eric Young go
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to torture him by talking about baseball.
Speaker 1: That's why I kept my buddy Michael Florio around. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do a little MLB trade deadline special here in
Speaker 1: the second hour, kind of relate that back into some
Speaker 1: MLB betting futures and you know, try and figure out
Speaker 1: who you can get value on right now before they
Speaker 1: make moves at the MLB trade deadline. I do want
Speaker 1: to reset though, for people who weren't listening to the
Speaker 1: first hour, just talk about the Tyreek Hill news once
Speaker 1: again before we get into some of the MLB trade
Speaker 1: deadline stuff. Look, Tyreek Hill, if you haven't heard, you
Speaker 1: probably live under a rock. He will not be suspended
Speaker 1: this year by the NFL with the ongoing investigation, with
Speaker 1: everything that's going on regarding Tyreek Hill, so it seems
Speaker 1: like as long as he stays healthy, he's going to
Speaker 1: be here for the entire season. For the Kansas City Chiefs. Mike,
Speaker 1: I know that you were doing a Best Ball draft
Speaker 1: earlier on before the show. Let's remind people where you
Speaker 1: saw Tyreek Hill go in that raft. Once this news
Speaker 1: was announced, he went sixth overall, behind the Big four
Speaker 1: running backs and David Johnson, and I was very surprised
Speaker 1: to see that. I think he is a top six
Speaker 1: or seven wide receiver easily regardless of format. But to
Speaker 1: take him over, you know, d Hop and those guys,
Speaker 1: I get it. It's best ball. He's gonna have those
Speaker 1: huge spike weeks where he just puts up ridiculous numbers.
Speaker 1: But I was a little shocked to see him go
Speaker 1: sixth overall. I did, frank though. I woke up this
Speaker 1: morning and I was on the clock in another Best
Speaker 1: Ball draft, and I joined in the Sunday and we're
Speaker 1: only in round four. I was on the clock in
Speaker 1: round four when I woke up and saw the Tyree
Speaker 1: Killed news. So I got Tyreek Kill in the end
Speaker 1: of round four. I was pretty happy about that. That
Speaker 1: is awesome. That is that is great. You know, I
Speaker 1: actually have a story that's the reverse of that. So
Speaker 1: I was on the clock earlier this morning. I can't
Speaker 1: really argue with this pick either. I was I was
Speaker 1: in the third round, I have the second pick overall,
Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown was still there. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll take Antonio Brown. I'll double down on wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I start to draft Alvin Kamara, Mike Evans, and Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: I love it. And then we get the Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: news and two picks later, he goes off the board
Speaker 1: at three four. So that person is obviously feeling great
Speaker 1: about getting him at that point based on what you
Speaker 1: just told me. You know, sixth overall really really aggressive
Speaker 1: for fantasy football drafts. When it comes to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: We know what kind of upside he has. I get
Speaker 1: it for best ball, but uh, in terms of consistency,
Speaker 1: I think Davontae Adams and DeAndre Hopkins, might you know,
Speaker 1: edge him out there in terms of on a week
Speaker 1: to week basis what we can expect from these guys
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective. Mike, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: You said that you have a draft that's going really,
Speaker 1: really slow. Do you have a gentleman in there by
Speaker 1: the name of Project Mayhem by any chance? Uh? If
Speaker 1: you give me a minute, I could pull up the
Speaker 1: draft and check. I'll let you pull that up. I
Speaker 1: really hope that this gentleman is all right, because he
Speaker 1: is in my draft as well. He has timed out
Speaker 1: twice already. We are in the third round. He it
Speaker 1: is at three five he and Mike. This is a
Speaker 1: best ball draft. You have eight hours to select. He
Speaker 1: has timed out with his first pick, he has timed
Speaker 1: out with his second pick, and he is currently has
Speaker 1: been on the clock for five hours. He is now
Speaker 1: under three hours picking. Honestly, I just hope that he's
Speaker 1: all right at this point, because you don't have to
Speaker 1: have a really, really good excuse to use all of
Speaker 1: your time on your first two picks in a best
Speaker 1: ball draft. And now considering you know, we're in the
Speaker 1: third round and h he's used five hours already, Project Mayhem.
Speaker 1: If for any chance you are listening or watching this
Speaker 1: right now, I hope that you're all right. Mike. Have
Speaker 1: you had enough time to pull up your draft and
Speaker 1: see if he's in it. He is not in it.
Speaker 1: But there is someone with the name Stump s t
Speaker 1: u MPF, And for a hot second I thought maybe
Speaker 1: we were in the same draft together. That's actually uh
Speaker 1: that's the bizarro version of me. So I'm Frank Standfell
Speaker 1: and uh, that's that's stump drafting against Michael Floria. I'm
Speaker 1: sure his team is terrible, you know, that's what That's
Speaker 1: what the bizarro version of me would be, Mike. You
Speaker 1: know because obviously I'm um the best draft of all time.
Speaker 1: That's how this works, right, I actually don't love his
Speaker 1: You are not gonna like his team at all either.
Speaker 1: He started, he had won three. He started Zeke, that's obvious.
Speaker 1: He then followed it up with Cooper. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan. You're not gonna like the next two picks,
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette at three three and then Calvin Ridley at
Speaker 1: four ten. I like Calvin Ridley. I get it for bestball.
Speaker 1: Four ten is a little bit over his adp Leonard Fournett. Look,
Speaker 1: I can I can make both k I can see
Speaker 1: why people would want him. I can make the case
Speaker 1: why you would want him for fantasy football. I just
Speaker 1: think that the downside is a little bit more evident
Speaker 1: apparent when it comes to uh to Leonard Fournett, Mike,
Speaker 1: I want to bring this back to Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 1: the and the Kansas City Chiefs Chiefs real quick. Bring
Speaker 1: it back to betting for a second. The Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs have the second highest, second best odds to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year at eight to one. Doesn't
Speaker 1: Does that shock you because I still feel like their
Speaker 1: defense is not good. That does not shock me. First
Speaker 1: of all, I think you know you're better at betting
Speaker 1: than me. You know more about it, you do it more.
Speaker 1: But I do think they're definitely gonna play up on
Speaker 1: the hype of the Chiefs. Like the Chiefs are this
Speaker 1: super talented offense and people want to root for them,
Speaker 1: people want to watch them. I think that mate impact
Speaker 1: the numbers. Plus, I think Patrick Mahomes is the most talented,
Speaker 1: if not one of the top three most talented qbs
Speaker 1: in the league, and that that offense right there, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, they were a couple of plays away from
Speaker 1: beating the Patriots and being in the Super Bowl last year,
Speaker 1: so it's not crazy to me. I'm guessing the biggest
Speaker 1: odds though, are the Patriots right Yeah, they are the
Speaker 1: favorites right now at seven to one plus seven hundred
Speaker 1: on the FanDuel Sports book. I'm wondering if this Tyreek Hill, uh,
Speaker 1: this Tyreek Hill news that came out is going to
Speaker 1: affect the odds. Are you know, are people gonna start
Speaker 1: to bet on the Kansas City Chiefs Marrow, We're gonna
Speaker 1: see this line move a little bit. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't really think that they can surpass the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: You know, I just I worry about this defense. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna be able to make enough play as in
Speaker 1: the postseason two ultimately be able to win, because that's
Speaker 1: what held them back last year, right, Like you can
Speaker 1: blame the coin flip, and if they win the coin flip,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we're talking about them winning the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl last year, but the fact they lost that corn
Speaker 1: coin flip you kind of saw. The downside of the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs is that I still have a lot
Speaker 1: of concern about their defense. They couldn't stop a nosebleed
Speaker 1: last year. They obviously couldn't stop the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: in the a f C Championship. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see if these odds change at all now
Speaker 1: with the Tyreek Hill news coming out regarding the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, they are still the second favorite on the
Speaker 1: board to win Super Bowl fifty four here in the year,
Speaker 1: I guess it's gonna be at that point, but the
Speaker 1: twenty season here uh in the NFL, Mike, I also
Speaker 1: just got this update that Aaron Boone will be suspended
Speaker 1: one game. I mean, look, what can we say about
Speaker 1: this Aaron Boone rant from yesterday? Ivied he earned my respect?
Speaker 1: I mean that was just that was awesome to see.
Speaker 1: I've been very critical of Aaron Boone, especially earlier on
Speaker 1: in the season, but look, this is now two years
Speaker 1: in a row that the Yankees are probably going to
Speaker 1: win one games. I don't really know how you can
Speaker 1: bash Aaron Boone anymore at this point, even if it's
Speaker 1: like Brian Cashman in the front office who are making
Speaker 1: the lineups and telling him everything to do. You love
Speaker 1: to see that passion from your manager, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can appreciate that. Just based on everything that's been
Speaker 1: going on with the New York Mets. What do you
Speaker 1: what do you think about yesterday? The savages in the
Speaker 1: box and Aaron Moon It was the best man, best
Speaker 1: thing any manager has done, in my opinions, since the
Speaker 1: Terry Collins no his Synderguard outburst. We got a couple
Speaker 1: of years back. That was awesome too. They're on the
Speaker 1: same level to me, like, they're both just hilarious and
Speaker 1: and I saw some people defending the Umps and saying
Speaker 1: Boone shouldn't react like that, but umpires are not really
Speaker 1: held to any standards at all, and they get away
Speaker 1: with making bad calls and making games ump shows. So
Speaker 1: when they're not doing a good job, I'm okay with
Speaker 1: the manager, you know, telling them they're not doing a
Speaker 1: good job. And it sucks for me, but even I
Speaker 1: have to it, man, Like I think Boone should get credit.
Speaker 1: The Yankees are if not, you know, they're in the
Speaker 1: top three teams easily. I think if them in the
Speaker 1: Ashills is gonna come down to the A L and
Speaker 1: the winner will get to take on the Dodgers. But man,
Speaker 1: those three teams are just heading shoulders above everyone else
Speaker 1: in my opinion, just an absolutely epic rant by Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone yesterday. I had to agree that at some point,
Speaker 1: you know, I watched this rand maybe like five ten
Speaker 1: times yesterday, at some point I did kind of feel
Speaker 1: bad for the umpire. I think he's a rookie ump
Speaker 1: as well, so um that kind of played into it.
Speaker 1: Did you see the extended version, all the stuff that
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone was also saying from like the dugout even
Speaker 1: before that, like he was he was really getting into this,
Speaker 1: this rookie ump even before he went out, like he
Speaker 1: was tossed from the dugout. And then that's when he
Speaker 1: came out and he's like, I'm gonna get my two
Speaker 1: cents worth and you see, you know, Brett Gardner in
Speaker 1: the background clap in his hands and stuff. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: would play the audio on here, but we can't because
Speaker 1: you know, there are there are a ton of f
Speaker 1: bombs dropped in there. But if you haven't seen that
Speaker 1: rant yet from Aaron Boone yesterday, you should because it
Speaker 1: is one of the most epic ones that we've seen,
Speaker 1: you know, in perhaps ever when it comes to baseball. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't we don't know what they used
Speaker 1: to say back in the day with all these all
Speaker 1: these guys that were you know, kicking dirt on the plate,
Speaker 1: kicking dirt out on the umps, and you know, throwing
Speaker 1: throwing basses around and throwing throwing home plate around and
Speaker 1: all this other crazy stuff. We've seen some crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: We've seen some crazy stuff. So far, Uh, what do
Speaker 1: you got my I was gonna say, I have one question,
Speaker 1: though I did see the extended version. I don't have
Speaker 1: a question of what Boone was doing, but what the
Speaker 1: hell was Brett Gardner doing? So like the bad thing right, So,
Speaker 1: like he was hitting where they where they hold the helmets,
Speaker 1: and then he started hitting above the dugout. I guess
Speaker 1: like the roof over the dugout and everything that I
Speaker 1: saw on it was that last time he kind of
Speaker 1: threw it like a a tirade in the in the dugout.
Speaker 1: It was when he threw his helmet off and it
Speaker 1: came back and smack him in the face and he
Speaker 1: had to get like six stitches in his lip. So
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of like learning from his mistakes
Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, I'm not gonna throw my
Speaker 1: helmet anymore. I'm not gonna try and like you know,
Speaker 1: bash anything that can kind of like come back and
Speaker 1: fly at me and hurt me. So it's good to
Speaker 1: see that. You know, Brett Gardner, uh, the old wily
Speaker 1: veteran that he is, he's obviously learns from his mistakes.
Speaker 1: So you know, he very quietly, you know, starts just
Speaker 1: jamming his bat into where the helmets are are held
Speaker 1: and starts ramming it into the roof of the dugout
Speaker 1: as well, and all along. If you watch the clip
Speaker 1: of all this happening, Aaron Hicks is like in the
Speaker 1: hole right in front of him, just like trying to
Speaker 1: hold back laughter because he doesn't he can only hear
Speaker 1: what's going on behind him, but he couldn't see it.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. That was low key one of the
Speaker 1: funniest parts to just him like like holding his face smirking,
Speaker 1: because that's how like I would be, even like someone
Speaker 1: was freaking out of like at work, and like Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone just reacted like one of us. That was I'm
Speaker 1: not Aaron Boon, Aaron Hicks. That was just hilarious. And Frank,
Speaker 1: I think, I think your boy Brett Gardner needs to
Speaker 1: come to Queen's real quick and teach Jeff McNeil that lesson,
Speaker 1: because I don't remember it was last night or two
Speaker 1: nights ago, but McNeil got out at a big point
Speaker 1: and went into the dugout and threw his bat kind
Speaker 1: of like a spear, and it like hit off the
Speaker 1: wall and came back at him, so he he needs
Speaker 1: that listen as well. Well, you know, Jeff McNeil is
Speaker 1: still young, so I could kind of give him the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt, like hopefully he learns from that,
Speaker 1: you know, even uh, even Brett Gardner again, he had
Speaker 1: to learn from his mistakes throwing his helmet off the
Speaker 1: wall and the coming back and flying at him. Uh,
Speaker 1: anyone downstairs, any of the producers that we have downstairs,
Speaker 1: if you could just let me know whether or not
Speaker 1: we're going to break or not, if we're just gonna
Speaker 1: blow through it, keep going, all right, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep going. We're gonna keep going here. I'm gonna we'll
Speaker 1: start talking about the MLB trade deadline here. Obviously, Mike,
Speaker 1: you saw up close in personal last night, Uh, Madison
Speaker 1: Bumgarner going up against the Mets, and you know, he
Speaker 1: looked awesome. And I think a lot of us were
Speaker 1: obviously wrong on Madison Bumgarner this year. From a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 1: do you think that bum Earner is the top picture
Speaker 1: on the market, because I don't know that there is
Speaker 1: a I don't know that there's a legitimate ace, right,
Speaker 1: like someone that you feel really really really great about
Speaker 1: acquiring at the deadline, Like, there's a lot of really
Speaker 1: good pictures from bum Garner to to Trevor Bauer and
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray and Matt Boyd and Marcus Stroman and all
Speaker 1: these guys. Do you think bum Gunner is the top
Speaker 1: guy at the MLB trade deadlines that teams should be
Speaker 1: looking to acquire if they need a picture. I think
Speaker 1: as long as I don't really believe that Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: will get traded, and if he is not traded, I
Speaker 1: think mad Bum is the top arm. But if Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer is available, I think Trevor Bauer is. I still
Speaker 1: think he is one of some of the best stuff
Speaker 1: in the league. I know the results haven't been there
Speaker 1: this year, but I think the upside is so much higher.
Speaker 1: But if he is not dealt because the Indians are
Speaker 1: back in the race, I think it is mad Bum. Uh.
Speaker 1: No one was more was wrong around mad Mom than
Speaker 1: I was this year, and I will own that. Uh.
Speaker 1: The velocity came back on his pitches and fastball still
Speaker 1: getting hit a lot, at least coming into has today
Speaker 1: started was his cutter has been really effective this year.
Speaker 1: Though I do think the move away from San Franz
Speaker 1: will hurt him a bit. But remember, Matt Bomb has
Speaker 1: this reputation and rightfully so, as like one of the
Speaker 1: greatest postseason performers ever, and Trevor Bauer doesn't have that
Speaker 1: going from we know Trevor Bauer, he did struggle at
Speaker 1: times in the playoffs in recent years. So I do
Speaker 1: think mad Bomb because I know for we know, I
Speaker 1: think we know for a fact he is add percent available.
Speaker 1: I think he will be the biggest pitching fish available,
Speaker 1: especially for a contending team, because you have to feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about him going into the playoffs. Mike, what
Speaker 1: do you think about this? Though? With everything that the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants are doing right now, they're one of
Speaker 1: the hottest teams in the league there two and a
Speaker 1: half games out of the wild card. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can kind of make the argument that they're right in
Speaker 1: the thick of things like it is. Should that be
Speaker 1: their mindset now? The fact that as hot as they are,
Speaker 1: that they shouldn't be selling off their pieces. I know that,
Speaker 1: you know, I've seen a lot of prospect analysts talk
Speaker 1: about how the Giant have the Giants prospects have actually
Speaker 1: performed really really well this year, and they're actually higher
Speaker 1: on this Giants farm system than previously thought. So, look,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is make it to the
Speaker 1: postseason and then anything can happen. The fact that the
Speaker 1: Giants are as hot as they are, they're only two
Speaker 1: and a half games out, should they reconsider being sellers
Speaker 1: at the deadline? I thought they might because the Giants
Speaker 1: have a reputation of going for it, and the Giants
Speaker 1: kind of put themselves in this terrible position by trying
Speaker 1: to be aggressive and keep going and acquiring really bad
Speaker 1: contracts like Longoria. I know they had mc cutcheon at
Speaker 1: one point. You know, they brought in a lot of
Speaker 1: veterans with these bigger contracts and it didn't really work
Speaker 1: out for them. I don't think they should reconsider it.
Speaker 1: I think you trade mad Woman and you hope that
Speaker 1: you know the guys you have continue to perform. But realistically,
Speaker 1: I think they know that even if they were to
Speaker 1: sneak in as a second wild card, and and even
Speaker 1: if they win that game behind mad Bum, then we're
Speaker 1: talking about having to win a five game series against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and I think they even realistically know that
Speaker 1: they cannot compete with that, and they are I think
Speaker 1: even though they're playing very well, I think they're one
Speaker 1: of the least talented teams in the NL, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they would be a serious threat if they
Speaker 1: made it. But so that being said, even as of yesterday,
Speaker 1: I read reports that they were looking to sell, and
Speaker 1: it made sense to me what I think they did
Speaker 1: do last night. I think they put the final nail
Speaker 1: and the Mets coffins and made them sellers as well.
Speaker 1: But I do think that John should continue to sell,
Speaker 1: especially will Smith and mad One, because it should be
Speaker 1: your prospects playing better than than expected and getting production
Speaker 1: out of these younger guys. I think you trade your
Speaker 1: big pieces bringing even more higher end talent, and you
Speaker 1: hope to escalate this rebuild rather than hope to sneak
Speaker 1: in as a second wild card this year. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I actually said that yesterday too. Even
Speaker 1: if you sneak into the wild card, you're get enough
Speaker 1: facing what Max Scherzer in a one game playoff, and
Speaker 1: then if you get past him, you're gonna end up
Speaker 1: playing the Los Angeles Dodgers. So I think the Giants
Speaker 1: have to be realistic with themselves here, and everything that
Speaker 1: I've said also falls in line with that, they're going
Speaker 1: to be sellers. I think that they can get you know,
Speaker 1: a decent hole back if they if they trade away
Speaker 1: all of their useful relievers outside of like Mark Lanson,
Speaker 1: they probably won't be able to get rid of that
Speaker 1: contract or however much is left on that contract. But
Speaker 1: if they get rid of Mad Medicine, Bum Garner and
Speaker 1: Will Smith and potentially Tony Watson and Sam Dison and
Speaker 1: all these guys, they should be able to get a
Speaker 1: pretty good haul and potentially turn this around sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. When it comes to the Giants, because if
Speaker 1: you look at their Major League rosso right now, who
Speaker 1: are they building around for the future. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's been a lot of smoking mirrors. If you
Speaker 1: look at, you know, the guys that have been performing
Speaker 1: well for them, with Alex Dickerson and Austin Slater you know,
Speaker 1: not related to heat Slater, um Uh and Uh and
Speaker 1: Brandon Belt and Buster Posey and and Brandon Crawford has
Speaker 1: been awesome over the past couple of weeks. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Mike, I think that um I think that
Speaker 1: they should continue to be sellers and you know, maybe
Speaker 1: a quiet are some MLB ready prospects, whether it's a
Speaker 1: Clint Frasier with the Yankees or you know, maybe a
Speaker 1: maybe a Kyle Tucker with the with the Houston ash
Speaker 1: or something like that. I think that makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense for the San Francisco Giants. Mike mentioned the
Speaker 1: New York Mets. They now fall to five games out
Speaker 1: of the second wild card spot. I talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot recently as well. When it comes to the
Speaker 1: National League wild Card, the only team that is I guess,
Speaker 1: mathematically out of it is the Miami Marlins, who are
Speaker 1: thirteen games out. Everyone else is within five games of
Speaker 1: that second wild card spot, including the New York Mets
Speaker 1: and the Cincinnati Reds, Mike, wh only have a minute left.
Speaker 1: What do you expect the Mets to do here? Do
Speaker 1: you think that they're just kind of selling away everyone
Speaker 1: not named the Graham, Peter Alonso, and Syndergarten. I think no.
Speaker 1: I actually think the opposite. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: sell Wheeler. I think they'll sell pieces that are not
Speaker 1: going to be here, like they'll try to trade away
Speaker 1: Todd Frasier, guys who aren't guaranteed to be here in
Speaker 1: I do think though they look at it like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of money invested, we have a
Speaker 1: terrible farm system. We have players like mc neil and
Speaker 1: and who were playing above what the Mets had expected
Speaker 1: them to do when they got a call last year
Speaker 1: and stuff. So I think the Mets are going to
Speaker 1: look to still try to compete next year. So I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do a little bit of selling. But
Speaker 1: I do think the loss last night firmly puts them
Speaker 1: in the seller's category. That's Michael Florio. We'll hear more
Speaker 1: from him when we get back. We're gonna put a
Speaker 1: Yankee hat on Michael Florio, put him in Brian Cashman's
Speaker 1: shoes and see what he thinks that Yankees should do.
Speaker 1: F Deadline to Mike Florio, Frank Stanfel here on the
Speaker 1: BFS on the Fantasy Sports Network, Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: BFS here on a Friday, Happy Friday, everybody t g
Speaker 1: I f Frank carefully tonight Frank Stanfield joined by Michael Florio,
Speaker 1: No Greg Sussman do a little it'll be trade deadline
Speaker 1: preview here on the show, and before the break, I
Speaker 1: mentioned that I was gonna put Mike in Brian Cashman's shoes.
Speaker 1: I needed some pretty big shoes to film. Mike, and
Speaker 1: I know that you used to be a Yankee fan,
Speaker 1: so this isn't all that hard for you, right, No,
Speaker 1: I hate the Yankees. They're in my lead. They are
Speaker 1: my least favorite team sports, even more than the Patriots. Mike, Mike,
Speaker 1: don't make me do it. You're gonna are you gonna
Speaker 1: make me do this? Mike, Mike's gonna make me do this?
Speaker 1: I guess. So true story. Back in high school, Michael
Speaker 1: Floorio had a Yankees folder. This is a true story.
Speaker 1: I believe it was an Alfonso Soriano folder. Is that correct, Mike? Probably?
Speaker 1: I I my brother was a Yankees fan when I
Speaker 1: was My whole family was Met fans except for my brother,
Speaker 1: So I liked both because, you know, I used to
Speaker 1: watch games with my brother and Alfonso Soriano is still
Speaker 1: probably my favorite player of all time, at least favorite
Speaker 1: non met of all time, and I was a big
Speaker 1: Yankee fan with him, and then after they traded him
Speaker 1: for a Rod that next year, I tried to keep
Speaker 1: rooting for them, and then it just all fell off
Speaker 1: after that. So there you go. You heard the truth.
Speaker 1: It finally came out of the bag. Michael Florio used
Speaker 1: to love the Yankees. Maybe not love, but he did
Speaker 1: love Alfonso Soriano. Um, he's one of those, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll root for both both New York teams. And then
Speaker 1: and then he decided to go down the Mets path,
Speaker 1: which I'm sorry for, Mike, but look, you got probably
Speaker 1: the worst decision I've ever made. And I mean, really,
Speaker 1: go down two roads, the Mets or the Yankees. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a bad decision. Like I will tell people now,
Speaker 1: if you were trying to get into baseball, pick any
Speaker 1: team other than the Mets. Like that's just good advice.
Speaker 1: And here's what we'll say. You know, we can say
Speaker 1: this about both the Mets and the Knicks. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been a little bit more fortunate in my life. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I like the Yankees, so I have you know, seen
Speaker 1: multiple championships. I'm also a Jets and a Knicks fans,
Speaker 1: So that does not work out. Mike full On hates
Speaker 1: himself when it comes to the roots the teams that
Speaker 1: he roots for, because he's got the Mets, he's got
Speaker 1: the Knicks, he's got the Buffalo Bills. It does not
Speaker 1: get much worse than that. So look, Mike, I'm sorry, um,
Speaker 1: I I know that everyone wants to stick with their team.
Speaker 1: But I think if there were any two sports franchises
Speaker 1: that you can make the case for getting off of
Speaker 1: being a fan, it is the Knicks and it is
Speaker 1: the Mets, just based on everything they have done from
Speaker 1: an ownership perspective over the past decade or two. I think,
Speaker 1: and you know, normally I wouldn't say this. You're supposed
Speaker 1: to stick by your team. I understand that you don't
Speaker 1: want to be a front runner. You don't want to
Speaker 1: you know, run away from your team when you know
Speaker 1: things are going wrong. But those two franchises, Mike, I
Speaker 1: think that you can actually make the argument for, Yeah, agree,
Speaker 1: the Mets are never going to be good as long
Speaker 1: as the Wilpons owned them, at least not consistently good.
Speaker 1: They'll have a year, every day game where they almost
Speaker 1: win it all and something goes terribly wrong for them.
Speaker 1: But that's really their history since the eighties, like one
Speaker 1: really good year and then I mean, even if you
Speaker 1: go back to the the sixties, A sixty nine, in the
Speaker 1: seventies seventy three, and the eighties, eighties, six, the nineties,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say it was more two thousand,
Speaker 1: but then oh six, that's six good seasons in their
Speaker 1: franchise that I counted. That that's all you need to know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's not a lot. But as I mentioned, Mike,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put you, uh, we're gonna put you in
Speaker 1: charge of the Yankees. If you were the Yankees, which
Speaker 1: starting pitcher on this market would you be most aggressive on?
Speaker 1: And I guess, look, it's a loaded question because obviously
Speaker 1: different players are going to require, you know, different amounts
Speaker 1: of a return. But you know, the Yankees are in
Speaker 1: a position where they have Clint Fraser, who is an
Speaker 1: MLB ready prospect. He showed earlier on in the season
Speaker 1: what he can do at the major league level. They
Speaker 1: have Estebon Floria, who you know, does have upside as
Speaker 1: an outphabler. He is, you know, their top hitting prospect
Speaker 1: outside of Frazier. And then they now have the uh,
Speaker 1: the the ascension of Deviy Garcia, who everyone is excited about.
Speaker 1: He's been promoted to Triple A. So given that they
Speaker 1: have those three prospects, I feel like they are in
Speaker 1: a position to go out and get pretty much anybody.
Speaker 1: I think Synderguard would be included in that if they
Speaker 1: were able to pry him away from the Mats. I
Speaker 1: understand he still has like two and a half years
Speaker 1: of control, so he would take a big package. But
Speaker 1: in terms of pause, I realized they just said big package.
Speaker 1: By the way. But when it comes to when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Yankees, there's Stroman, there's bum Garner, there's Synderguard.
Speaker 1: They talked about Robbie Ray, they talk about Matt Matt
Speaker 1: Boyd as well. You know which one of those pictures
Speaker 1: do you think makes the most sense that the Yankees
Speaker 1: should go out and try and get. They're giving a
Speaker 1: Clint Frasier, which I think they would have to for
Speaker 1: any of those guys. I would try to get a
Speaker 1: picture who's under more team control than this just next
Speaker 1: the rest of this year, like a mad bone. But
Speaker 1: to be honest, I feel I don't think Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: has traded. The Indians are the first wild card right
Speaker 1: now out in the a L. They're also only four
Speaker 1: games back of the Twins. I think they're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to try to go for it. Jose Rimirez turning it around.
Speaker 1: Their offense has been playing better, so I'm taking him
Speaker 1: off the table. I also realistically don't think the Mets
Speaker 1: would trade Noah Syndergard to the Yankees. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're going to trade him at all this deadline because
Speaker 1: I think that's a decision that you know, you don't
Speaker 1: make and uh oh, we're out of it this year,
Speaker 1: let's sell them. And I think they're gonna if they
Speaker 1: were to trade him, it would happen in the off season. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's gonna be to the Yankees,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for you for you know, Yankee fans. But so
Speaker 1: because of that, I think it's mad ONEm. I think
Speaker 1: he has the playoff experience. He's a big lefty, which
Speaker 1: I think that helps the Yankees. You have Tanaka Paxton,
Speaker 1: and I think right now their third would be Herman.
Speaker 1: But you also got uh Stowman, who's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the not Stowman, uh sad Reno, who's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the mix. That's a lot of right es. I think
Speaker 1: you want to get another lefty there, which similar to
Speaker 1: what I think their plans were with jy Hat. I
Speaker 1: don't think they want to have Hap or CC starts
Speaker 1: a playoff game ideally, so I think I think mad Bone,
Speaker 1: with his postseason success and the fact that you won't
Speaker 1: have to give up a huge haul again him, it
Speaker 1: might just like Clint Fraser for him might be enough
Speaker 1: straight up. So I think I think he is the
Speaker 1: route they should look to go in. Yeah, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what they do, because they've already come
Speaker 1: out and said now, just because they say something doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that they're going to stick by it. But there
Speaker 1: have been reports that said that they will not move
Speaker 1: Clint Fraser for a rental in terms of starting pictures,
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see if they if that
Speaker 1: holds true. Now, maybe if if they could get Will
Speaker 1: Smith and Madison Bumgarner from the Giants for you know,
Speaker 1: Clint Fraser and maybe another piece like That's that's something
Speaker 1: that I can see happening, you know. I've I've seen
Speaker 1: reports of like they're interested in Marcus Stroman and Ken Giles,
Speaker 1: So maybe that's something that they're trying to do where
Speaker 1: they can get a starting picture and a really good
Speaker 1: reliever in return as well, even though they already have
Speaker 1: like an awesome bullpen and like Adam out of Vino
Speaker 1: and Tommy Canley and Zach Britton and a roll As Chapman.
Speaker 1: But I guess you can never have too many relievers,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to trying to make a deep
Speaker 1: postseason run. Mike, he kind of hit on it when Oh,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I did see on Twitter last
Speaker 1: night the Yankees apparently heavily were scouting the game between
Speaker 1: bum Garner and Syndergard, and I read too that it
Speaker 1: could be because they were also they're scouting the Giants relievers,
Speaker 1: So a trade of like a Will Smith and a
Speaker 1: mad bumb may very well make sense. Yeah, I I
Speaker 1: would agree with that, But overall, you don't think something
Speaker 1: between the Yankees and Mets happens like maybe outside of
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler, which, of course, in Mets fashion, zacly look
Speaker 1: gets hurt right when they're getting ready to try and
Speaker 1: trade him, which affects his trade value. But you know,
Speaker 1: I I thought, you know, if the Yankees, while and
Speaker 1: Harror is shelf for the season, if they included like
Speaker 1: Andrew Harror and Clint Frasier, like I think that would
Speaker 1: probably be enough to get Synderguard away from the Mets.
Speaker 1: I would do that if I was the Mets, But
Speaker 1: I I find it hard to believe that they're going
Speaker 1: to again, like it's Brodie's first year. To trade two
Speaker 1: and a half years of Noah's syndergard across town to
Speaker 1: the Yankees in the middle of a season, that's a really,
Speaker 1: really big move that you can't come back from. And
Speaker 1: I understand he hasn't been afraid to make big moves.
Speaker 1: Trading your top prospect for very bad Robinson Canoe and
Speaker 1: not as elite headwind Diez hasn't really worked out for him,
Speaker 1: but I would be I wouldn't be surprised if he
Speaker 1: traded Wheeler there, because Brodie doesn't seem like the type
Speaker 1: of guy to me who wouldn't take the best offer.
Speaker 1: But I would be surprised if he was willing to
Speaker 1: see Noah's syndergarten two and a half years, especially because
Speaker 1: he'd probably pitching in a World Series in one of
Speaker 1: those two and a half years, and that the Yankees
Speaker 1: would probably help him live up to his full potential,
Speaker 1: which he the Mets have not been able to do.
Speaker 1: All Right, enough, Yankees and Mets talk. This is in
Speaker 1: New York Sports Radio. It's the Fantasy Sports Network, So
Speaker 1: we're gonna get back to talking about all these other
Speaker 1: teams as well. You know, Mike, I look at the
Speaker 1: I look at the Minnesota Twins right, and you know
Speaker 1: this their lead in the Ale Central has plummeted. You
Speaker 1: mentioned it as well. They had, you know, a double
Speaker 1: digit game lead something like a month or two months ago.
Speaker 1: And the Cleveland Indians are coming around along with your
Speaker 1: guy Jose Ramirez. But you know, Corey Klueber is expected
Speaker 1: to be back, hopefully sometime in August. I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, what they're doing right now, it makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense just based on the pitching that they have.
Speaker 1: As awesome as Shane Bieber has pitched, you know, Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer has pitched. Well, we'll see what happens with like Carrasco.
Speaker 1: I mean, there hasn't really been much on him. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you have Clueber, Shane Bieber and Bauer,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a pretty good threesome that you can
Speaker 1: put up against other teams in the postseason. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: you got my? You even just those three right, you
Speaker 1: left out Clevinger. Uh, there's Carrasco who's up in the mix,
Speaker 1: like we said, and Danny Salazar might be back. So like,
Speaker 1: I think that the Indians get in, they are just
Speaker 1: as dangerous as any other team because of that pitching.
Speaker 1: But you know who doesn't have pitching really in that
Speaker 1: division is the Minnesota Twins. So I think that they're
Speaker 1: probably going to be in the mix for some of
Speaker 1: these guys as well. I just I don't know that
Speaker 1: there is enough of a difference maker for the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 1: Admittedly I love their lineup coming into the season, but
Speaker 1: I mean, are you really gonna trust Jose Barrios, j
Speaker 1: Ego to Rezy and you know, Kyle Gibson in in
Speaker 1: a series when it comes to the postseason for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. So I think they're probably in the mixtair
Speaker 1: as well. It wouldn't surprise me if Madison Bum gonna
Speaker 1: ended up with the Minnesota Twins. Yeah, they are definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix, and I think they are
Speaker 1: a team that would make sense for a Hey let's
Speaker 1: do a mad Bum and Will Smith trade. I actually,
Speaker 1: I've said on my podcast yesterday, I'm very afraid of
Speaker 1: if I owned Taylor Rodgers right now with him getting replaced,
Speaker 1: because not only could I see the Twins going out
Speaker 1: and acquiring a starter as excited as I am to
Speaker 1: see Jake oder Rizzy pitch in the playoffs. I do
Speaker 1: agree with your point. I think they need to add
Speaker 1: another starter that they can rely on. And uh, I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna try to add to that bullpen as well.
Speaker 1: They are one of these teams that has a lot
Speaker 1: of very solid leavers, but I don't know if they
Speaker 1: have a guy that you trust to nail a game
Speaker 1: home in the playoffs yet, so I could see them
Speaker 1: going out and trying to acquire a reliever as well. Mike.
Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday on the show that I love betting
Speaker 1: on the Washington Nationals right now to win the NL
Speaker 1: East just because of the odds that you're getting right now.
Speaker 1: I understand that they are. I believe it's six games
Speaker 1: out of the National League East as of right now.
Speaker 1: But they made up. They cut this in half. They
Speaker 1: were twelve games out like a month and a half ago.
Speaker 1: So who's to say that over this next month and
Speaker 1: a half they can't cut that again. You know that
Speaker 1: they can't, you know, close that gap between themselves and
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Brats. We're gonna talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about the Nationals and what they need to do at
Speaker 1: the deadline. If anything, maybe they just need to get
Speaker 1: healthy and have those pictures ready to go. Mike Florial
Speaker 1: Frank Staffel here on the BFS the Fantasy Sports Network,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the BFFs Here on a Friday, Frank
Speaker 1: Standfel joined by Michael Florio, and they'll be trade dead
Speaker 1: deadline preview here talking about which teams we expect to
Speaker 1: make move and be aggressive at the trade deadline. I
Speaker 1: left off with the Washington Nationals. My the Washington Nationals
Speaker 1: right now are plus five fifty to win the NL
Speaker 1: East and that number keeps dropping because they're getting closer
Speaker 1: and closer. They are just six games out leave. It
Speaker 1: was like a month and a half ago, maybe two
Speaker 1: months that they were like twelve thirteen games out of
Speaker 1: the National League East, and they've cut that in half.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this and saying to myself, why
Speaker 1: can't they do that again? You know? I the Braves
Speaker 1: are probably gonna be aggressive at the deadline as well.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at the Nationals pitching and I think
Speaker 1: that they're hitting is starting to heat up now as well.
Speaker 1: What if the biggest weakness right now for the Washington Nationals,
Speaker 1: Because I think that they're starting pitching staff is really good.
Speaker 1: I think that their lineup is really good. It's probably
Speaker 1: the back end of the bullpen, would you agree? What
Speaker 1: else do you see with the Washington Nationals? So, Frank,
Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I don't know why the audio
Speaker 1: is not working, but I read your lips and he
Speaker 1: said Washington Nationals. Uh So, I'm gonna guess we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about what they should do before the deadline. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a very obvious answer. I
Speaker 1: think they need to acquire bullpen pieces and more than one.
Speaker 1: I think they had their back end closer and a
Speaker 1: Sean Doolittle. But the rest of these guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're e ra A this year. Their bullpen e RA
Speaker 1: is five nine seven, only worse by other you know,
Speaker 1: Inner City or however you want to call them neighbors,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. Their expit for the bullpens over five.
Speaker 1: It is atrociously bad. It's the reason why they were
Speaker 1: so far back in the race just a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. And I know they've been getting better results
Speaker 1: as of late. But you already have a starting pitching
Speaker 1: staff that can compete with anyone. You have a very
Speaker 1: deep line up, although I'm sad that how we Kendrick
Speaker 1: loses playing time, But other than that, they need to
Speaker 1: add pieces to this bullpen and go for it now
Speaker 1: while they still have Anthony Rondon and have these young
Speaker 1: guys before they have to pay them, because pretty soon
Speaker 1: the Nats are gonna have to start paying all these guys,
Speaker 1: and that's when you know, teams fall apart. So this
Speaker 1: may be one of the National's best chances to actually
Speaker 1: win a World Series with this core, and they need
Speaker 1: to capitalize on it right now. Yeah, I agree. One
Speaker 1: good job by Mike Florio. They're reading my lips. Uh uh,
Speaker 1: Guys downstairs, if can you reconnect Mike on Sky just
Speaker 1: so we can try and figure out whether or not
Speaker 1: he's hearing me or not, so we can figure that
Speaker 1: out and make sure we have things good to go here,
Speaker 1: because I don't want him to have to have to
Speaker 1: try and read my lips for the rest of the
Speaker 1: show here. Uh, it wouldn't work out very well for
Speaker 1: everything that we're trying to do. So let's let's hang
Speaker 1: up on Mike and let's let's reconnect here with Mike
Speaker 1: Florio and it will continue talking about the MLB trade
Speaker 1: deadline and what we expect to happen. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the American League East right now and the Yankees. They
Speaker 1: have a six game lead over the Tampa Bay Raised,
Speaker 1: so I believe that went up last night. I went
Speaker 1: up yesterday, no six game lead over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 1: The Boston Red Sox or nine and a half games out.
Speaker 1: We saw the Red Sox trade for Andrew Kashner. Um,
Speaker 1: I still expect them to try and make another move.
Speaker 1: We've seen the Boston Red Sox linked to Zach Wheeler
Speaker 1: as well, and I think that they need some more
Speaker 1: pitching for whatever reason. Um. Whatever whatever is going on
Speaker 1: with the Boston Red Sox this year, whether it's a
Speaker 1: World Series hangover or whatever it is, they haven't looked
Speaker 1: like themselves. Mookie Betts hasn't been himself overall. I feel
Speaker 1: like the lineup has underwhelmed at times this year. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, Chris Sale wasn't himself earlier on but
Speaker 1: and obviously yesterday, what he does with the twelve strikeouts,
Speaker 1: that was great to see for for the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 1: But I think that they're players here at the deadline. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta keep in mind the luxury tax
Speaker 1: I think that they want to they want to stay
Speaker 1: below that right now, So I don't know that they're
Speaker 1: gonna take on anyone who has big salary. That's probably
Speaker 1: why they make that Andrew Cashner move. They're trying to
Speaker 1: just make like these savvy moves. But it wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me if the Boston Red Sox try and make them
Speaker 1: a few moves here at the deadline. As of today,
Speaker 1: they sit three games out of the second wild card spot,
Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Rays leading it and the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Indians and Oakland A's tied for the second wild card spot.
Speaker 1: But obviously the Boston Red Sox are right in the
Speaker 1: thick of things going on there in the American League.
Speaker 1: So wouldn't surprise me if they're if they're out here
Speaker 1: trying to make some moves at the deadline as well.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the Indians and the Minnesota Twins already
Speaker 1: regarding the American League Central. The Cleveland Indians have an
Speaker 1: awesome pitching staff. We're starting to see their their offense
Speaker 1: come around as well. Lindor has been great once he
Speaker 1: returned from injury. Jose Ramirez over the past month is
Speaker 1: batting over three hundred Oscar Mercado has gone through a
Speaker 1: has gone through, you know, some ups and downs here
Speaker 1: in his rookie season, but he's come around lately as well.
Speaker 1: So I think as we continue to see this offense
Speaker 1: take off for the Cleveland Indians UH, that we're going
Speaker 1: to see them, obviously, UM continue to ascend in the
Speaker 1: A L Central Um. You know that that depends on
Speaker 1: what the Minnesota Twins do. Obviously, I think that they're
Speaker 1: going to be in the market for someone in the
Speaker 1: back end of that bullpen, someone with a little bit
Speaker 1: more closing experience, and then I think that they need
Speaker 1: more starting pitching. As I've mentioned, I don't know that
Speaker 1: hose A Barrios and uh and Jake Odorizi and Kyle
Speaker 1: Gibson is enough to make that run deep into the
Speaker 1: postseason four the Minnesota Twins and the rest of everything
Speaker 1: else there. The Chicago White Sox, I don't really know
Speaker 1: that they have much to offer. Like I'm sure Alex
Speaker 1: collam is gonna be on the market. The Kansas City Royals,
Speaker 1: they've already traded Terren's Gore to the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: But they've already they've come out and said that they're
Speaker 1: going to be sellers as well, trying to trying to
Speaker 1: shop Billy Hamilton see if they could get anything for him,
Speaker 1: and then the same thing for Ian Kennedy. Missed Kennedy
Speaker 1: the closer of the Kansas City Royals. I think that, um,
Speaker 1: he could land somewhere else as well. You know, from
Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective, if Ian Kennedy is traded, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be the closer. Wherever he goes, He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: end up pitching in a setup role the seventh ending,
Speaker 1: eighth ending. If he gets traded, he's not gonna end
Speaker 1: up being the closer anymore for the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. They're also shopping Jake Sekman,
Speaker 1: Shane Green, you know, Shane Green with the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about sellers. Just going through the
Speaker 1: rest of this a l central here. I think Shane Green.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw on on MLB trade rumors that
Speaker 1: the the Dodgers could be in the mix for Shane Green,
Speaker 1: much like Ian Kennedy. From a fantasy perspective, if Shane
Speaker 1: Green has traded away from the Detroit Tigers, he's gonna
Speaker 1: go to a team where I'm not so sure he's
Speaker 1: going to be the closer anymore. He's had a phenomenal season.
Speaker 1: He's been one of the best late round steals for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes this year. But as Shane Green has moved,
Speaker 1: he's more than likely not the closer on the respective
Speaker 1: team that he is headed too. You know, maybe if
Speaker 1: he ends up in Minnesota, he would still be the
Speaker 1: closer there, But if he goes to the Dodgers, if
Speaker 1: he goes to a team like the Yankees, let's just
Speaker 1: say or or the Houston Astros, He's not gonna be
Speaker 1: the closer for those teams. So keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: And if he has traded, I think Joe Hamnet is
Speaker 1: probably the next man up there from a fantasy baseball perspective,
Speaker 1: just going up and down the US to the standings
Speaker 1: here in the MLB and trying to decipher who is
Speaker 1: going to be a buyer and who is going to
Speaker 1: be a seller. The Houston Astros as of right now,
Speaker 1: are the second favorite to come out of the American League.
Speaker 1: I think there's some Yankee bias when it comes to that,
Speaker 1: I would still have the Houston Astros all things, considered
Speaker 1: as the favorite in the American League, just based on
Speaker 1: their pitching staff, Justin Verlander, Herrick Cole. Yankees lineup, you know,
Speaker 1: it might be better than the Astros, is it? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, you're on. Alvarez is up for
Speaker 1: them now and he's been awesome. They still have George Springer,
Speaker 1: they have Jose al two, Carlos kore is gonna be
Speaker 1: back at some point. Alex Bregman. I think it's a
Speaker 1: toss up between the Yankees and the Astros in terms
Speaker 1: of whose lineup is better. But there's no doubting in
Speaker 1: my mind that the Houston Astros pitching staff right now,
Speaker 1: at least at the top Garrick Cole and Justin Verlander,
Speaker 1: is better then the New York Yankees. Mazza, Heiro Tanaka
Speaker 1: has pitched very, very well in the postseason. James Paxson,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been there. That's not his fault, but you know,
Speaker 1: can he stay healthy. I still kind of think that
Speaker 1: this knee injury is affecting James Paxton. That's why the
Speaker 1: Yankees are going to go out and make a move.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about the Houston Astros right now. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're in the mix for a third picture there.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they necessarily need it, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think they want to get back to the World
Speaker 1: Series after losing to the Red Sox last year in
Speaker 1: the postseason. So maybe they could go out and make
Speaker 1: a splash with a with a Madison Bumgardner or Marcus
Speaker 1: Stroman or maybe even a Zach Wheeler. Right Like, if
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler ended up with the Houston Astros, they would
Speaker 1: be able to figure out how to get the most
Speaker 1: out of out of Zach Wheeler. We've seen that in
Speaker 1: the past with all these guys. No, Garrick Cole was
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, and you know, given their heavy fastball mentality
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates, they kind of ruined. Garrick Cole goes
Speaker 1: over to Houston, starts throwing more breaking pitches, adds a
Speaker 1: little bit more velocity to that fastball. What do you know,
Speaker 1: Garrick Cole turns into one of the best pictures in
Speaker 1: the league. Same thing with Justin Verlander. Justin Verlinder had
Speaker 1: a few renaissance seasons with the Detroit Tigers once he
Speaker 1: went to the Houston Astros. He's basically been maybe the
Speaker 1: best picture over the past two seasons since he's joined
Speaker 1: the Houston Astro. So I think that they need a
Speaker 1: third picture. They have, you know, Wade Miley, but man,
Speaker 1: you know it's Wade Miley. You know they probably want
Speaker 1: a better third picture in there. So I think the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros are gonna be in the mix for a
Speaker 1: third starting pitcher in their rotation for the postseason. Whether
Speaker 1: it's bum Garner, whether it's Stroman, whether it's a a
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler or or something like that. We've seen them
Speaker 1: linked to Robbie Ray and that boys, those are really
Speaker 1: the names that I've seen thrown around most as the
Speaker 1: pictures available here as the trade deadline approaches, Let's not
Speaker 1: forget the trades deadline is July thirty one, So over
Speaker 1: the next twelve days, we're probably going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of moves being made the rest of the a
Speaker 1: L West. Uh, the Oakland A's are four and a
Speaker 1: half games out. I mentioned that they're tied for the
Speaker 1: second wild card spot. Obviously, you know they need pitching.
Speaker 1: They went out and made a move for Homer Bailey, Um,
Speaker 1: I think A. J. Puck is going to He's gonna
Speaker 1: be with the big league roster, especially once rosters expand
Speaker 1: in September to the forty man roster. A J. Puck
Speaker 1: is one of their top pitching prospects. He actually had
Speaker 1: to get Tommy John and he's going through a rehab
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know that he's going to be
Speaker 1: stretched out enough to make a difference as a starter
Speaker 1: this year, but he could be used in a multi
Speaker 1: ending reliever type role. For the Oakland A's, they probably
Speaker 1: want to get another starting picture. Do they have enough
Speaker 1: ammunition to, you know, make that happen. Do they want
Speaker 1: to kind of deplete their their farm system in order
Speaker 1: to get another picture? I don't know that the Oakland
Speaker 1: A's are going to do that. The Texas Rangers, they've
Speaker 1: kind of fallen off a little bit here over the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. I still didn't think that it's
Speaker 1: been a phenomenal job done by Chris Woodward here in
Speaker 1: his first season as the Texas Rangers manager. They are
Speaker 1: nine and a half games behind the Houston Astros. They
Speaker 1: are five games out of that second wild card spot,
Speaker 1: but they have some pieces you know, if they decide
Speaker 1: that they want to be sellers at the deadline, I
Speaker 1: don't know that I would blame them because I think
Speaker 1: that they also want to kind of replenish that farm system.
Speaker 1: And Mike Minor as well as he of has pitched
Speaker 1: this year, all of the numbers are great. The underlying
Speaker 1: numbers for Mike Minor, the X fit, the Sierra, that
Speaker 1: skill interactive e r A. Those are e r A
Speaker 1: indicators that say that Mike Minor is going to regress
Speaker 1: at some point. So, you know, if they wanted to
Speaker 1: turn around and flip Mike Minor at the deadline, or
Speaker 1: even and Andrew Kashner, who's just pitched out of his mind,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't blame the Texas Rangers for wanting to do so.
Speaker 1: So keep your eyes heeled for what the Texas Rangers
Speaker 1: do and whether or not they do ultimately sell some
Speaker 1: of these pieces towards the trade deadline. The Nationally East,
Speaker 1: I've already told you guys how we feel about the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals. I love betting on them right now to
Speaker 1: win the NL East. It just wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 1: they can make up these six and a half games
Speaker 1: here behind the Atlanta Braves. Like the Atlanta Braves, like
Speaker 1: the lineup that they have a lot Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 1: Ronald Dacuna there, and Josh Donaldson has revitalized himself able
Speaker 1: to stay healthy this year. I don't know that the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves have enough pitching. That's probably gonna be another
Speaker 1: team that's in the mix for some pitching here at
Speaker 1: the deadline. But if you're just turned UH talking about
Speaker 1: betting value right now, the Washington Nationals, it sucks because
Speaker 1: you could have got them at much better value before
Speaker 1: and now that dropped all the way down to plus
Speaker 1: five fifty. It wouldn't surprise me again if the Nationals
Speaker 1: win the NL East. The Philadelphia Phillies, again, like a
Speaker 1: lot of teams in baseball, they have a really, really
Speaker 1: good lineup, but they just don't have enough pitching. So
Speaker 1: maybe they're in the mix here. They're eight and a
Speaker 1: half games out of the NL East. They're they're a
Speaker 1: half a game behind UH in the wild Cards, so
Speaker 1: they can make some noise based on the lineup that
Speaker 1: they have, and you know, awesome game the other day
Speaker 1: between them and the Los Angeles Dodgers. That could be
Speaker 1: a potential preview of a playoff series that we see
Speaker 1: Hector Nerris has done a good job in the back
Speaker 1: end of the bullpen. The NL Central completely wide open
Speaker 1: still between the Cubs, the Brewers and the Cardinals. I
Speaker 1: think all those teams will be active at the deadline
Speaker 1: as well. I want to thank Eric Young for coming
Speaker 1: on the show. I want to thank Michael Foyo. Sorry
Speaker 1: for the technical difficulties everybody. Greg Suston will be back
Speaker 1: on Monday. I am Frank Standvill. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for watching. We'll be back on Monday. We hope