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Speaker 1: Frank Stample here Venture day off to that. It's an
Speaker 1: adventure for our two day. I just do what crude venture?
Speaker 1: He said, I said, all right, recovering from the Easter
Speaker 1: weekend kind of thing. Yeah, it's supposedly traveling I think
Speaker 1: for Easter, so he had to He wasn't sure when
Speaker 1: he'd be back, so he wanted the day you got
Speaker 1: breaking news? Oh, is it is it? Actually breaking? Is
Speaker 1: something interesting? I feel like it's not kind of it's
Speaker 1: not like half and half. It might matter to someone.
Speaker 1: But Michael Walker has played from the Io that might
Speaker 1: matter someone Alex has he started yet? I know that
Speaker 1: they're they're currently in the process of stretching out. Alex
Speaker 1: Rais he did start. Oh, let's read this at We're
Speaker 1: called Drew Robinson. So Michael Walker based on the I L. J.
Speaker 1: Robinson's a reliever. No, Drew Robinson's like a journeyman. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. I have an article in the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Post Dispatch. All right, let's see here. Okay, here
Speaker 1: we go. Alex. Yes, he strikeout four and through thirty
Speaker 1: nine pitches through three innings in Class Triple A on Saturday,
Speaker 1: averaging on the fastball. Mhm, he's not ready. I'm very interested.
Speaker 1: You know what's gonna start. You know what's gonna start
Speaker 1: for them, Austin Gomber. It's gonna start for them. Really,
Speaker 1: because Rhodo World was saying Daniel Pumps day Leon. Oh,
Speaker 1: I go that Pumps Da Leon had a great year
Speaker 1: in the minors last year. I was just reading that
Speaker 1: because Austin Gomber pitched seven shootout innings in his last
Speaker 1: start e r A two twenty two strikeouts. Cardinals always
Speaker 1: have a slew of It's like guys like Dakota Hudson,
Speaker 1: Austin Gomber, John Gand this is like a bunch of
Speaker 1: random back in the rotation guys that somehow most of
Speaker 1: them end up working out well for them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll pay attention to this. For Alex Reyes, you know,
Speaker 1: first start, three innings, one hit, one walk, four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He only threw forty pitches, so they're slowly building him up.
Speaker 1: But I think the fact that they're stretching him out
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues should you know, it should intrigue
Speaker 1: some people. If you have a minor league spot, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say Alex Reyes is up there as someone
Speaker 1: someone as stash for now, very very interested in Alex Reyes.
Speaker 1: Austin Gallbert paum staleyon whoever. Starting from Michael Waka, I'm
Speaker 1: interested in all right, Frank, Before we continue on, let's
Speaker 1: let's start of the hour with a call. How about that?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go with Chris in Nashville. Will leave
Speaker 1: us off today. What's up? Chris? Christmas? Up? Man? Hear me?
Speaker 1: Ye were here now yet? Me? Alright? Awesome? What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm just gone to I'm just calling a build off
Speaker 1: your Friday podcast on making room on your rosters for
Speaker 1: addible and droppable players. UM, I got a couple of
Speaker 1: guys are a little bit more valuable to where your
Speaker 1: kind of questions. Um, as far as Travish Shaw Ender
Speaker 1: in CRD and Justin Turner, at what point do you
Speaker 1: really look into selling these guys are picking up the
Speaker 1: Cold Tuckers of the world. So Justin Turner is not
Speaker 1: in that category, doesn't turn doesn't belong in there. He's
Speaker 1: he's higher, he's in terms of what his upside can be.
Speaker 1: Like he got robbed that whole run wall. It was
Speaker 1: like to the wall, the loser game. But Justin Turners
Speaker 1: will be fine. I really believe that. And they're in CRD.
Speaker 1: Is the guy that you could drop. I think I
Speaker 1: dropped him into twelve team points. I think you could
Speaker 1: drop for Cold Tucker. I'm okay with that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. Look, Travis Shaw,
Speaker 1: I wanted as much exposure to the Brewer's lineup as
Speaker 1: I could possibly get. And he's off to a terrible
Speaker 1: start to understand that. But you know, I think he
Speaker 1: is part of the plans, at least, you know, for
Speaker 1: for for this season, for the seasons to come for
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw. So yeah, he's off to a terrible start.
Speaker 1: But I would say of those three, uh, Enter in
Speaker 1: CRT is the one that's probably most cutible. If you
Speaker 1: want to pick up a guy like Cold Tucker or
Speaker 1: you know, some of these other prospects, just take a
Speaker 1: take a shot and see what happens with them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I would I would rank it and n c RT
Speaker 1: Shaw and Justin Turner in terms of who's most probable here, right,
Speaker 1: And Justin Turner was more of a cell candidate than anything. Um,
Speaker 1: why would you tell him now he's even in a
Speaker 1: home run. I wouldn't tell him yet, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't know if you guys thought he actually was gonna
Speaker 1: make a comeback of this injury year really just kind
Speaker 1: of plugged his career. Oh, I think turn will be fun.
Speaker 1: Turner is always a guy that's kind of nicked up
Speaker 1: here and there. You know, it seems like he's always
Speaker 1: kind of banged up. But I guess I still do.
Speaker 1: I had high expectations coming into the year. I love
Speaker 1: the Dodgers lineup as well. Um, you know, I still
Speaker 1: I still have a decent amount of faith and a
Speaker 1: guy like Justin Turners, so I wouldn't be trying to
Speaker 1: sell right now. Look, if you worry long term about
Speaker 1: the injuries for him, if he puts together a hot
Speaker 1: stretched then maybe then you try and sell him. But
Speaker 1: you know, uh, considering dropping him or even trading him now,
Speaker 1: I don't think it makes a lot of sense with
Speaker 1: his value being as low as it is. Great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I completely completely agree. Obviously. Like I said, I believe
Speaker 1: in them. Um, I believe in Travis Shaw. I want
Speaker 1: the exposure too, So is the RDA. You can go.
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Speaker 1: twelve team leagues, You had your waivers go through. What
Speaker 1: did you do in your whole league this week? Where
Speaker 1: where is your head at? Yeah, so I was talking
Speaker 1: to you about this during the break. I picked up
Speaker 1: a few shares of Jose Martinez, who we know whenever
Speaker 1: he's given an opportunity to play, he performs well. So
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to get some Cardinals exposure here.
Speaker 1: I was pretty aggressive on picking up Jose Martinez. I
Speaker 1: also had a few bids in on on Avasail Garcia
Speaker 1: as as a backup. I think, you know, especially with
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows going down, his playing time is just even
Speaker 1: more uh solidified now. So Avie Garcia is a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna play every day. Obviously. You know, on Friday
Speaker 1: we talked about Ryan Mcmanhonhunter, Docher. Those guys have to
Speaker 1: be owned. But you know, the outfielders again as Garcia,
Speaker 1: Jose Martinez, Dwight Smith, who it's worth noting that he's
Speaker 1: dealing with a quad issue now. He was performing really well,
Speaker 1: but now he's dealing with with a quad issue. And
Speaker 1: then it's cold Tucker. We spoke about the prospects of
Speaker 1: in the first hour, uh and you know some of
Speaker 1: the other stashable players Michael Javis and Brian Reynolds as
Speaker 1: well Mike Talman. But really for me, it was Jose Martinez,
Speaker 1: Avie Garcia, c J. Crone. Those were three guys that
Speaker 1: were available in my twelve team leagues that I was
Speaker 1: pretty aggressive on over the weekend. Um, you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I kind of gave the names, like in my home league,
Speaker 1: really dool that much? I picked up Ry McMahon last week.
Speaker 1: Did you pick up Cold Tucker? Were you know him
Speaker 1: at all? Did he get picked up yet? He has
Speaker 1: not been picked up yet. So he went for four
Speaker 1: dollars in one of my league's last night, one of
Speaker 1: my twelve teen points leagues, and then the other one
Speaker 1: he didn't get picked up. And it's interesting because you
Speaker 1: know what, I would like to pick him up, but
Speaker 1: I just I have so many injuries right now. I
Speaker 1: have Daniel Murphy, I have Polanco, I have Stanton I
Speaker 1: It's just it's hard to pick up a guy that
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put right in your lineup right away.
Speaker 1: And I also have Jonathan Scope, so I don't really
Speaker 1: want to give up on him. Would you drop Garrett
Speaker 1: Hampson for cool Talker? Mm hmm, it's a good question.
Speaker 1: Um No, I won't because I I still think that
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit in terms of upside for for
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson. Uh, you know, it's put up a shut
Speaker 1: up time for him now because once Daniel Murphy comes
Speaker 1: back and everyone starts getting healthy for the Triple A
Speaker 1: rehab assignment. Already, if Garrett Hampson doesn't start performing, then
Speaker 1: you know he is going to be the odd man
Speaker 1: out once again. And Ryan mcmanhon is gonna start most
Speaker 1: of the time against right handed pitching, so well, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. He's got to perform now before Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy gets back so that he can kind of leave
Speaker 1: his mark and give them a reason to play him
Speaker 1: more often than not. And you know, bench a guy
Speaker 1: like Ian Desmond here, they're like, do they really want
Speaker 1: Ian Desmond in the lineup? Garret Hampson has started out
Speaker 1: every day, every single day, and f that breakout game
Speaker 1: last week where Ventura and Frank and I were all
Speaker 1: excited about Garrett Hampson. Since then, he's been dropped back
Speaker 1: to the seventh hole and then ultimately the eight hole.
Speaker 1: He's gone just two for sixteen since then. He struck
Speaker 1: out in each of the past three games, one for five,
Speaker 1: one for four, doing anything. What do you think Hampson
Speaker 1: versus Cold Tucker? It's I think it depends on what
Speaker 1: kind of what kind of fantasy player are you? Do
Speaker 1: you want to take the more conservative approach, the guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna give you the bats. Then you pick up
Speaker 1: Cold Tucker. You need stolen bases right now. You want
Speaker 1: run scored, you pick up Cold Tucker. If you want
Speaker 1: to take a shot at the upside the Colorado Rocky's lineup.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants exposure to corps Field. Um, and he's still Look,
Speaker 1: I still have faith in Garrett Hamson. I know he
Speaker 1: hasn't done it yet. What I mean he had pretty
Speaker 1: good bat toball skills in the minor leagues grad the
Speaker 1: the batting average was good in the miners. The stolen
Speaker 1: bases were there, just like they were for col Tucker
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. Uh. And overall, it's just a
Speaker 1: better lineup. It's a better environment to hidden in Colorado
Speaker 1: rather than Pittsburgh. So if you're someone who wants to
Speaker 1: swing for the fences, you're looking long term, you want
Speaker 1: the guy who has more upside in my opinion, Greg
Speaker 1: Starrett Hampson. But if you want the player now who
Speaker 1: is going to play every day, at least in the
Speaker 1: short term. I know they had an injury injury to
Speaker 1: Eric Gonzalez, their shortstop, and that's why Cold Tucker is here. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: if eric In Zalace is healthy, is he gonna take
Speaker 1: playing time away from Cold Tucker? Now? No, If if
Speaker 1: mill Tucker is playing well, he's gonna stay in the lineup, Craig,
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to what kind of fantasy
Speaker 1: player are you. I'm just looking, by the way, speaking
Speaker 1: by a fantasy team we played with Justin Charmer for
Speaker 1: I was looking at his last seven days. So is
Speaker 1: o BP is three ninety one. It's awesome. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: three for seventeen during that time. She's walking lot clearly
Speaker 1: with three singles, zero runs scored, zero home runs, zero
Speaker 1: r v I, zero stolen basis. He has more strikeouts
Speaker 1: in total basis over the those last seven days. And
Speaker 1: I get it seven days, very very small sample size,
Speaker 1: but he's really really otting off to a boring, boring
Speaker 1: lee cold starts. If you expand what I just gave you,
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, turners eight thirty seven, the
Speaker 1: OVP drops three sixty two. He's got one run and
Speaker 1: one rv I with no stolen bases eight for thirty
Speaker 1: seven and the last two weeks eight it's actually crazy
Speaker 1: nine total basis even with nine total. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: a home run yet. Um, he only has two doubles
Speaker 1: on the season, so he's not hitting for power yet. Uh.
Speaker 1: The strikeout rate is up, which is slightly alarming. You know.
Speaker 1: It's whereas in his career it's fourteen per seven last year,
Speaker 1: twelve points seven percent k rate and ten point three
Speaker 1: p k rate the year before that. Greg, But he
Speaker 1: has a fifty point eight percent hard hit rate and
Speaker 1: his uh, his bad right now is is three thirty nine,
Speaker 1: which is pretty much on part with where he has been.
Speaker 1: But I think the fact that his hard hit rate
Speaker 1: is as high as it is, he's got to get
Speaker 1: back to lifting the ball a little bit more. The
Speaker 1: fly ball rate is down over all this season, Greg,
Speaker 1: the launch angle is down five degrees, but the average
Speaker 1: eggs velocity, the hard hit rate is still there for
Speaker 1: for Justin Turner. So if you were high on him,
Speaker 1: like we were coming into the season, he's a He's
Speaker 1: a prime by low candidates. Ian. We just had a caller,
Speaker 1: Can I drop him? Should I be trying to trade him?
Speaker 1: So there's probably a bunch of people who feel that
Speaker 1: way about Justin Turner, especially if you play in O
Speaker 1: B P leagues, or if you're play in head to
Speaker 1: head points leagues because he walks so much. Um, he's
Speaker 1: huge in those formats. So if there's someone in your
Speaker 1: league that's freaking out about Justin Turner and I would pounce.
Speaker 1: Speaking of colors, let's take another caller right now, well
Speaker 1: to Chicago to talk to Ian. What's up being guys? UM?
Speaker 1: Last week I tuned in when you were talking about
Speaker 1: Eric Tames and Uh, I'm actually in a twelve team
Speaker 1: and l lonely. It's weekly locking head to head points league,
Speaker 1: so it's it's a pretty deep roster in the NL.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if if you guys are holding onto
Speaker 1: Eric Tames or what you think is gonna play out
Speaker 1: with Hayese's aguilar. Obviously he's been struggling a lot this week,
Speaker 1: but it seems like they keep wheeling him out there
Speaker 1: every game. So I'm really glad you brought this up
Speaker 1: because I actually planned on talking about this in them
Speaker 1: about five minutes from now, after the break, we can
Speaker 1: start the conversation now for you. I we have his
Speaker 1: decision in our gs T league. This week we have
Speaker 1: Eric Thames. We've picked him up just in case he
Speaker 1: got hot and Aguilar went to the bench. And right now,
Speaker 1: did you guys obviously this this this morning, Eric Thames
Speaker 1: in our lineup over Hayesew's Aguilar. But as Ian just mentioned,
Speaker 1: if you just look at the game logs, Aguilar is
Speaker 1: still starting every day. Thames is still pinch hitting almost
Speaker 1: every day. What what are you planning on doing this week?
Speaker 1: And why Frank with Dames and Aguilar. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: actually made an executive decision without you guys, and I
Speaker 1: put er Mike. I didn't talk to anyone yet. It's
Speaker 1: still early so we can talk about it together. But
Speaker 1: Eric Thames, Yeah, Look, they faced five rights this week
Speaker 1: in their six matchups, so I think he can start
Speaker 1: a few games here. And we're getting to the point
Speaker 1: now we're almost a month into the season, Greg, where
Speaker 1: hasan z Aguilar does not have a home run, he's
Speaker 1: hitting one thirties six. If he doesn't start to do
Speaker 1: something and Eric Thames continues to perform, yesterday he had
Speaker 1: a game tying home run of Kenley Jansen. He had
Speaker 1: a three run bomb and I'm telling you it was
Speaker 1: a bomb. I was watching this live. If he continues
Speaker 1: to perform in big spots, for them and at least
Speaker 1: performing against right handed pitching. He's going to start in
Speaker 1: a in a strong side of the platoon against right
Speaker 1: handed pitching. So the call originally was regarding, you know,
Speaker 1: if you play in a twelve team and only league,
Speaker 1: what are you doing with Eric Thames? He absolutely needs
Speaker 1: to be owned. Uh and he's likely in my lineup
Speaker 1: in a in a twelve team and the only league,
Speaker 1: unless for some reason you have better outfielders, you have
Speaker 1: a better first baseman. Um, But I would imagine that
Speaker 1: if they are playing five out of six games that
Speaker 1: are starting, it's a righty. I think he's in the
Speaker 1: starting line up at least three times this week and
Speaker 1: the other three games. You know, maybe you get some
Speaker 1: pinch hit appearances. But just based on that, that means
Speaker 1: him and him and are splitting time almost evenly. And
Speaker 1: he's performing better when he's in the lineup, So why
Speaker 1: wouldn't he be in our line up in other people's life.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about it right now, right tave
Speaker 1: sean Eric Thames this week he is our guy. Frank
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Speaker 1: That's Frank. I'm Gregg. Frank was trying to do a
Speaker 1: little more convincing on Eric Thames during the break. Not
Speaker 1: really against it, to be honest with you, I don't
Speaker 1: really feels strongly either way. But you know what I've
Speaker 1: said what I've said regarding players again, given an opportunity
Speaker 1: and performed in you know, he hit a three ron
Speaker 1: homer of Kenley Jansen. If you ask me, I would
Speaker 1: imagine that he gets more playing time moving forward. And
Speaker 1: we did something that we've kind of been prepping for
Speaker 1: because you know, we picked up Thames because we have
Speaker 1: haz And has been terrible, and our thought process was
Speaker 1: there's a chance here, I don't you know, the percentage
Speaker 1: is obviously rising. There's a percentage chance that Eric Thames
Speaker 1: does to Hayesler what Agilar did to Thames last year.
Speaker 1: That was the point where he picked him up. In general. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it looks like it's happening. So I didn't like
Speaker 1: hayes zacular and as a draft Sorry, it's okay, you know,
Speaker 1: at know who we drafted. Let's not go back and look,
Speaker 1: I'm not going. I don't I don't want to be reminded.
Speaker 1: I'm not going. I'm not going to. All right, good,
Speaker 1: all right, Um. These teams have seven games this week,
Speaker 1: the d Backs, the Red Sox, the Tigers, the Astros,
Speaker 1: the Angels, the Yankees, the Phillies, the Pirates. The Ranger
Speaker 1: has a lot a lot of teams in seven games.
Speaker 1: These teams have five, the Padres, the Giants, and the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays, with having said, in weekly leagues, you gotta
Speaker 1: set your line up tonight. What changes for you? Like
Speaker 1: who you men changed? It was more so I used
Speaker 1: the games for the week as who am I targeting
Speaker 1: as pickups? Right, So in my points league, I I
Speaker 1: typically focus on pitching throughout the draft kriick. So I'm
Speaker 1: constantly picking up hitters to kind of stream and so
Speaker 1: I use you know, obviously volume. I want volume for
Speaker 1: points leaves. I want guys that are gonna play. I
Speaker 1: want players who have the most games, and so I
Speaker 1: like to highlight these these teams who have seven games
Speaker 1: and the teams that have five. So more so just
Speaker 1: determines who I add. So, for example, Rowdy Teles was
Speaker 1: available in a few of my league, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think the blue Jay's lineup could get a lot better.
Speaker 1: You know, once on Lad comes up, and you know
Speaker 1: at some point Bobichette and Cavan Vigeo has been performing
Speaker 1: well in the minors as well. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: the Blue Jay's lineup is gonna get better. So I
Speaker 1: think Rowdy Tells has some upside. But again, the Blue
Speaker 1: Jays only played five games this week, So instead of
Speaker 1: going with a guy like that, maybe you're if you're
Speaker 1: just looking for the short term this week, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll pick up a talkman because he's playing seven games
Speaker 1: with the Yankees. I mentioned in in my main event
Speaker 1: fifteen team Mixed Rodo. I pick up Tommy Listella, who
Speaker 1: randomly has been playing, and he's been playing well. He's
Speaker 1: six home runs in the year, hit a multi home run,
Speaker 1: he has two multi home run games already. And the
Speaker 1: Angels play seven games this week. So it just comes
Speaker 1: down to, um, how does it affect me? It affects uh?
Speaker 1: For setting lineups, I'll lean on the guys that I've
Speaker 1: said and games as opposed to U some of the
Speaker 1: guys that play five. Now, I'm not just automatically benching
Speaker 1: Manny Machado. I'm not just automatically benching for Nato Tatiss.
Speaker 1: But if you're splitting hairs and trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who do I need to start? Uh, Manny Marco, well
Speaker 1: he only has five games? Or I like Talkman, who's
Speaker 1: gonna play seven? You know? So these are the things
Speaker 1: that you weigh, like maybe Brett Gardner versus a Padre's outfielder.
Speaker 1: All right, Brett Gardner, we imagine it is probably gonna
Speaker 1: play seven games. So that's why I like to highlight
Speaker 1: some of these teams and players who who do have
Speaker 1: seven games versus the guys that have five. Take advantage
Speaker 1: of these teams that have seven games on the way
Speaker 1: over wire to you know, just get that extra game,
Speaker 1: specifically on Monday and Thursdays when teams have have the's
Speaker 1: off to Antana seven games this week. So there you go, like,
Speaker 1: that's someone you might want to take advantage of. Prime
Speaker 1: short term add because we don't know exactly when Rugneto
Speaker 1: odor is gonna be back. Well, once he does, it
Speaker 1: doesn't really seem like there's an opportunity for Danny Santana
Speaker 1: to play, unfortunately, because he's playing well and he's has
Speaker 1: three stolen bases in the plast week and he hit
Speaker 1: a home run. But it's when everyone's healthy. They have
Speaker 1: Joey Gallo in the outfield, they have de Line with
Speaker 1: the shields, they have no more Mazzara, they have Shinto
Speaker 1: chu is their d h. This is part of the
Speaker 1: reason why, you know, Willie Calhoun can't even get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play with the Texas Rangers because there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of mouse to feed. So it's it's especially
Speaker 1: a short term at what a guy like Danny Santana,
Speaker 1: But he does have seven games this week and he's
Speaker 1: been performing in in the small sample size. The opportunity
Speaker 1: that he's been given one of the injury to know,
Speaker 1: we haven't spoken about yet. Matt Kemp goes on the
Speaker 1: d L or the aisle right right into the wall,
Speaker 1: and that could mean increased playing time for our guy
Speaker 1: Jesse Winka who's now homer in two of his past
Speaker 1: four games. Where those little hits in those games and
Speaker 1: he's as an ov P of two thirty two the
Speaker 1: average of one. But Frank is a chance to buy
Speaker 1: low on Jesse Winka. Yeah, absolutely, A lot of people
Speaker 1: like Jesse Winger coming into the year. He has a
Speaker 1: lot of prospect pedigree and they were expecting him to
Speaker 1: develop into the next coming of Joey Vado. A guy
Speaker 1: who has a good eye, a good ov P, he
Speaker 1: has good that's a ball skills. I think the batting
Speaker 1: average is going to get better for him. Obviously only
Speaker 1: hitting one seventy two, but he has six home runs
Speaker 1: n r B I S so yes, a guy like
Speaker 1: Matt Kim going on the i L that helps because
Speaker 1: that might allow Jesse Winker to pick up a few
Speaker 1: more starts against left handed pitching, a few more games
Speaker 1: where he will actually start. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: he's actually been in the lineup. He's only you know,
Speaker 1: since April nine, he's only set two games, so he's
Speaker 1: been in there most of the time. Now this is
Speaker 1: the this is the time for him where he actually
Speaker 1: has to start to uh, he has to start to
Speaker 1: perform because he's getting an opportunity to play every day,
Speaker 1: and I think that he will. Austin Meadows also hit
Speaker 1: the I L Over the weekend. Is he has a
Speaker 1: sprain right which he's expected to keep him out for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. I know it's a disaster for us, Frank,
Speaker 1: we have Meadows in quite a few places which were
Speaker 1: ultimately very very excited about. Now Meadows has gone for
Speaker 1: a while and what is called a quote freak act
Speaker 1: it in he just lived in a third base in
Speaker 1: jan the s thumb and that's why you don't freaking
Speaker 1: go head first. Joey Wendell was activated off of the
Speaker 1: I L for Tampa. Is he the one that's gonna
Speaker 1: get the majority of playing time without Meadows? In the lineup.
Speaker 1: Do we go back to us A L. Garcia where
Speaker 1: the conversation was late last week. What do you think
Speaker 1: happens now without Austin Meadows in the line up for
Speaker 1: potentially the next month. Yeah. I was in a few
Speaker 1: weeks where people were actually very aggressive on picking up
Speaker 1: Joey Wendell. Uh this peak this weekend. In the main event,
Speaker 1: he wasn't available there, but in the Great Fantasy Baseball
Speaker 1: Invitational he goes four hundred and twenty five dollars. That's
Speaker 1: Joey Wendel. And I believe I was the one who
Speaker 1: actually drafted him and ended up dropping him because he
Speaker 1: got hurt and I just couldn't afford to statch all
Speaker 1: these guys. But Joey Wendell an interesting middle infield option.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play most of the time against lefties.
Speaker 1: Maybe they sit in because you know the Rays more
Speaker 1: than any other team. It's just, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: sum of the parts. They do a lot of platooning,
Speaker 1: they get they get guys like Daniel Robertson in the
Speaker 1: lineup to uh So, Yeah, I think Joey wind is
Speaker 1: gonna play most of the time against right handed pitching
Speaker 1: in the middle endfield for the Tampa Bay Rays, but
Speaker 1: you brought up Avisail Garcia, um, and he's been great
Speaker 1: for them, so you know that's that's actually, that's one
Speaker 1: of your guys, Greggy. That's uh, that's been one of
Speaker 1: the better calls this season. And yeah, he's gonna play
Speaker 1: every day. He's been the d h um I'm looking
Speaker 1: at again since April nine. He's he's played every game
Speaker 1: but one, and the power has been there. He's got
Speaker 1: four home runs surprisingly two stolen basis for Avy Garcia
Speaker 1: as well, he's hitting two eighty four. So yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the guy. He's the guy more so, uh, more so
Speaker 1: than Joey Wendell. I think Avy garcia Is playing time
Speaker 1: is safer than a guy like Obviously, waivers have run
Speaker 1: for most people. But if it's first come first sir,
Speaker 1: if you've lost all semanas, you're just going out simply
Speaker 1: replacing it with an Avasail Garcia's or somebody else, you
Speaker 1: would you rather have Garcia or Talkman. I'll take Garcia
Speaker 1: even though he plays one game less. He plays six
Speaker 1: games this week. Talkman plays seven. But I think a
Speaker 1: guy like have a sale Garcia has a little bit
Speaker 1: more staying power. Greg and Tampa Bay Rays lineup, it's
Speaker 1: always it's a it's a weird line up again, it's
Speaker 1: like the sum of the parts. They're scrappy. We talked
Speaker 1: about this a lot, Greg, but they get the job done.
Speaker 1: Rays lineup has been right this year. Let's see on
Speaker 1: the season. I would like see where they rank in
Speaker 1: terms of run scored. Tampa Bay raised their fifteen in
Speaker 1: the league. Would you would you have expected that? The
Speaker 1: right smack in the middle, and they don't really have
Speaker 1: any standouts like they have Tommy fam they have Austin Meadows,
Speaker 1: they have Yandy Diaz. They just they find these guys
Speaker 1: that just do enough and you know it's it's a
Speaker 1: good lineup and they they're gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: exposure in the Al East Ballparks and Stadium Camden Fenway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I want I want to get in on
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays lineup. I do like him. I
Speaker 1: if you lost a guy like um Austin Meadows, especially
Speaker 1: in the twelve team league. I think avasale Garcia is
Speaker 1: the name that's out there and he's he's gonna play
Speaker 1: every day. So I think everybody knows I like I
Speaker 1: have a sail Garcia okay, Um, Matt Shoemaker to where
Speaker 1: his a C l over the weekend and now he's
Speaker 1: of course out for the year. Tough tough break for
Speaker 1: Shoemaker who was picking very very well to start off
Speaker 1: this season. He's not been able to stay on the
Speaker 1: field and this is another one of those terrible, terrible injuries. Absolutely, man,
Speaker 1: I feel for him because and I feel for fantasy
Speaker 1: owner who picked him up because you felt great about
Speaker 1: what you were getting. Definitely, Um, you know he was
Speaker 1: hights how about to start the year? Greg, and you
Speaker 1: know the quality start like he was giving you quality
Speaker 1: start after quality start. Yesterday against the Oakland A's he
Speaker 1: had allowed three hits and three innings but didn't allow
Speaker 1: a run. Um. And you know, he had quality starts
Speaker 1: in three of his first four games and the only
Speaker 1: the only other one where it wasn't a quality start
Speaker 1: just because he didn't go deep enough into the game.
Speaker 1: It was five and two thirds and he's pitched with
Speaker 1: two earned runs and four strikeouts against a strong Red
Speaker 1: Sox team. So yeah, it really sucks, man. This guy
Speaker 1: had an year a under two. Um, he's giving you
Speaker 1: modest strikeouts, not blowing anyone away, getting a lot of
Speaker 1: groundballs too. So yeah, he was. He was a guy
Speaker 1: that you picked up in in deeper leagues, and it
Speaker 1: sucks for store Man, sucks for fantasy owners. It sucks
Speaker 1: for a shoemaker too, who was having a renaissance season
Speaker 1: early on here Greg he was. It's a very tough
Speaker 1: break formatt Shoemaker who goes down and his first season
Speaker 1: with the Blue Jays, and now he doesn't get an opportunity, unfortunately, uh,
Speaker 1: to experience what we're all hoping to experience later this week,
Speaker 1: which is Vladimir Guerrero coming out. Inflicting reports too, because
Speaker 1: over the weekend we heard tomorrow I was gonna be
Speaker 1: there tomorrow, and then there was a report from a
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays reporter that was like, it's like a
Speaker 1: one person chance that this happens, and so we're confused, now,
Speaker 1: is is it going to happen? And then you know,
Speaker 1: I saw another one that says, are, well, maybe it's
Speaker 1: later on we Friday. So yeah, well that's why I
Speaker 1: told you I thought it was gonna be this homestand
Speaker 1: it was, you know, if not tomorrow, if not earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. Then you know, maybe you do it
Speaker 1: for the weekend. To me, right exactly, So to me,
Speaker 1: if you' gonna do it tomorrow, when do you want
Speaker 1: to do this? Now? He sells some extra tickets for
Speaker 1: to morow. That's it now. Yeah, absolutely, you want to
Speaker 1: get people. People are going to be excited. Man, they're
Speaker 1: gonna flocking rightfully, so to see Vladi mc guerrero. I mean,
Speaker 1: the number one prospect in all of baseball. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just very excited about him coming up. But it
Speaker 1: sucks for people who wanted to get him in the
Speaker 1: line up this week too, now because all right, well
Speaker 1: the Blue Days played five games. Are you gonna put
Speaker 1: him in the lineup not knowing if he's gonna start
Speaker 1: tomorrow or not. You can't. I mean it might just
Speaker 1: it might come out tomorrow morning or later on today
Speaker 1: that yes he's playing, and then line up slock and
Speaker 1: then you don't get him in there and he missed
Speaker 1: five games out of out of lad when you've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this. So it's really really weird situation, very
Speaker 1: frustrating for fantasy. Just five games this week, as Frank
Speaker 1: set of Lee for the Blue Jays, So that means
Speaker 1: they'll play Wednesday, Tuesday, Wednesday off, Thursday, and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1: So maybe they make the announcement Thursday that he's getting
Speaker 1: called up potentially there on Friday. Yeah, so it's a
Speaker 1: lot easier to get this done in daily transactions league
Speaker 1: where you can get him back in the lineup. But
Speaker 1: for weekly if we don't know before tonight, or if
Speaker 1: you play in a league where you can move him
Speaker 1: out of the lineup even tomorrow because the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: have him played yet, then maybe you wait, but just
Speaker 1: make sure that you have a plan. The problem is
Speaker 1: you can't really wait because there's only three teams to
Speaker 1: have five games. Only three teams. Um, there's more than
Speaker 1: three teams. Don't play to that, I should say, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: there's only that select few that'll play, uh tonight. One
Speaker 1: name that impressed me yet, oh when we're injury. Actually,
Speaker 1: I want to imagine that's Robinson can Now what you more?
Speaker 1: I should say, Robinson can hurt his hand? Are you
Speaker 1: starting him this week? Are you're taking that shot personally? No?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to because they said he was seen
Speaker 1: in a soft cast after the game and they need
Speaker 1: to undergo more testing. So that doesn't sound very good
Speaker 1: regarding Robinson Cano and overall he's gotten off to a
Speaker 1: slow start Greig. So even if he plays, let's say
Speaker 1: he misses a game or two, he only plays four games, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's not under percent for those games, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: been performing anyway. So me personally, if I can afford
Speaker 1: to leave him on the bench and put in another
Speaker 1: second baseman, that's the route that I would go down, Right,
Speaker 1: Is this an opportunity to maybe to pick up if
Speaker 1: he's not how many he leaves Jeff McNeil available. And
Speaker 1: I feel like it feels like every day we talk
Speaker 1: about Jeff McNeil and not like really in depth solid,
Speaker 1: Like he's a solid player of Yahoo League, So he's
Speaker 1: not almost half of Yahoo leagues here um plays every day,
Speaker 1: So he's probably not available in your in your competitive
Speaker 1: league McNeil more Blane time. I think he's solid, but
Speaker 1: it's you know, he's in three seventy one with ten ribbies,
Speaker 1: no homer's, no stolen bases, so nine run score. The
Speaker 1: compt that I had for him was young. Danie Murphy
Speaker 1: makes a lot of contact, he doesn't strike out, but
Speaker 1: doesn't really offer you much power, doesn't offer you much speed.
Speaker 1: By season's end, you know, maybe he gives you fifteen
Speaker 1: home runs with a really good batting average. I don't
Speaker 1: want to downplay the batting average because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to find guys that go later on in
Speaker 1: drafts or even pickups that can help you in the
Speaker 1: batting average department. So and he's a good points player
Speaker 1: because he hits a lot of doubles and he doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out all that much. So he's a solid player, Greg.
Speaker 1: And if he's available U is of Robinson Canoe replacement,
Speaker 1: then sure, you know, just you know, you can look
Speaker 1: in house uh on the Mets roster and you know,
Speaker 1: pick up whoever is going to play next, which looks
Speaker 1: like Jeff McNeil. It's I think it's worth mentioning Jed Lowry.
Speaker 1: Sure he's not returning yet, but he's a guy that
Speaker 1: I've been eyeballing in deeper leaves Greg because he was
Speaker 1: dropped in a lot of fifteen team leaks and he's
Speaker 1: not owned, and I think once he returns, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're kind of gonna have a situation there where they
Speaker 1: have to figure out how they're gonna get playing time
Speaker 1: for everyone, Greg, But Met's line up is a good one,
Speaker 1: so you know, in deeper leagues, let's pay attention to
Speaker 1: Jed Lowry because I think he's pretty close to returning.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe not this week, within in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But it's a good Mets line up,
Speaker 1: So I have some interest in Jed Lowry and deeper
Speaker 1: lea staying in that UM and l east. Anthony Rendau
Speaker 1: was also banged up over the weekend. He missed, was
Speaker 1: getting hit by pitch on their hand. He missed. He
Speaker 1: missed yesterday's game. So are universed with Anthony Rendoni starting him? Man,
Speaker 1: this is one of the toughest calls because, as Matt
Speaker 1: Moodiga kept alluding to, the Nationals play three games in Colorado.
Speaker 1: You want Anthony Rendon it in Colorado, in course field,
Speaker 1: you want that in your lineup. It's just we don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know, Greg, So this is this is something
Speaker 1: that we have to pay attention to. If you really
Speaker 1: don't have a better option, a better third, I would
Speaker 1: want to leave him in there because I want Anthony
Speaker 1: Rendon and the Nationals lineup going into Coorcefield in Colorado.
Speaker 1: I want that. I want that in my lineup. So
Speaker 1: unless you have like a really good replacement option at
Speaker 1: third base, or you know, if you can pick up
Speaker 1: like Howie Kendrick, like like Modica mentioned, who you know,
Speaker 1: should get playing time here, they're going into course field.
Speaker 1: Me personally, I'm probably gonna leave him in there because
Speaker 1: i just want to take that shot at getting some
Speaker 1: CorCE Field production out of Anthony Rendon. All right, so
Speaker 1: you're leaving didn't play yesterday and Howie Kendrick filled in
Speaker 1: for him. X rays came back clean. It looks like
Speaker 1: he'll avoid the injured list. This is something to pay
Speaker 1: attention to up until first pitch to make sure Anthony
Speaker 1: and downs in the lineup. Hopefully, if not, you're able
Speaker 1: to grab somebody like a Howard Kendrick or you know,
Speaker 1: something along this line. A lot of annoying injuries as week.
Speaker 1: A lot of these players just banged up, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's really really frustrating, obviously from that fantasy perspective.
Speaker 1: Brett Anderson sprained his ankle. Big Brett Anderson naming player
Speaker 1: was just naming players. Man Jordan Lyles got hurt yes
Speaker 1: he did that was annoying. Yeah, ever has and I
Speaker 1: got a few texts over the weekend regarding this, Greg.
Speaker 1: Every year it seems like we talked about, oh, there's
Speaker 1: so many injuries. There's so many injuries, right, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's more this year than ever before. Jacob D. Graham,
Speaker 1: now Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, all these early round picks.
Speaker 1: Day Marte was a borderline second third round pick this
Speaker 1: year too. Thank god we just got Frankie lynn Door
Speaker 1: back hopefully though he can stay healthy. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people are asking about Jose Ramirez. You know, when
Speaker 1: is Jose Ramier is gonna put it together? And the
Speaker 1: few people that have asked me, Greg, I've said, let's
Speaker 1: see a few weeks with Jose Ramirez and Francisco Lindor
Speaker 1: in the lineup together. If we get two or three
Speaker 1: weeks of Josiramira is hitting under the Mendoza line, the
Speaker 1: power not coming, then yeah, I'm gonna start to freak
Speaker 1: out because at some point he's got to turn it on.
Speaker 1: And and this has been going on for a while now,
Speaker 1: the second half of last year very bad or Jose
Speaker 1: ramires as well, but now he gets a little bit
Speaker 1: more protection me. He gets his running in lindoor, I'm
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Speaker 1: see the video and it's a really really good breakdown. Um.
Speaker 1: Of course, unfortunately, when I gave my pick with all
Speaker 1: the Giants would pick, these have since changed a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: You said Montes Sweat right at six, so you're not
Speaker 1: on board with that anymore. I don't have any problem
Speaker 1: on Toes Sweat, but he has his heart issue and
Speaker 1: that's really the concern. Like I think if he was healthy,
Speaker 1: still a new issue with that. I think the hard
Speaker 1: issues is a little scary. Well, what route would they
Speaker 1: go down if they don't take Montes sweat they take
Speaker 1: like a like an Ed Oliver or something, or do
Speaker 1: they just want a pass rusher or can it be
Speaker 1: like a just defensive lineman in general? And it'll be
Speaker 1: defensive player. I don't want to even say necessarily alignment.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be a defensive player. I think if
Speaker 1: we assume that Kyler Murray goes one, and then in
Speaker 1: whatever order, you get quinnin Williams, you get Um Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: you get of course Nick post It too, or what's
Speaker 1: forgot about him? And then you're like, all right, who's
Speaker 1: love you have at Oliver? You have Um White write
Speaker 1: the linebacker. I'm cool any of those guys, like any
Speaker 1: of those guys I'm interested in. There's only one name.
Speaker 1: The Giants are two first round picks. There's only one name.
Speaker 1: I don't want to come out of the first round
Speaker 1: with literally one go DJ Daniel Jones, Daniel Jens the
Speaker 1: only guy a lock, right, such a lock. Walter Football
Speaker 1: has Rashaun Garry defensive end, defensive tackle. He's a defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Who has some versatility, they can move him around. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know they have the Tampa Bay Bucks taking at Oliver.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think at Oliver is actually gonna go
Speaker 1: higher than a lot of people are people some of
Speaker 1: the people mocking him, Like I've heard the middle of
Speaker 1: the first round big rum today on Monday has been
Speaker 1: the Jets really like at Oliver. I'm cool with I'm
Speaker 1: finally yeah. Like I think that they're gonna take obviously
Speaker 1: a defensive player. They've been very big on the best
Speaker 1: player available. Obviously they're trying to trade down. So you
Speaker 1: can't really mess this up. But you're the Jets, so
Speaker 1: you can always mess it up. But even if you know,
Speaker 1: if they move back to a team that wants to
Speaker 1: move up and take whatever quarterback Drew Locked Dwayne Haskins,
Speaker 1: if they trade with like let's say a Bengals team
Speaker 1: or a Dolphins, Washington Redskins to the Giants trade up
Speaker 1: for Daniel Jones, I can't do it. Uh, if anything great,
Speaker 1: I think that they'll use the six pick on a
Speaker 1: defensive player and then they'll trade up from seventeen until
Speaker 1: you know, maybe like Range and and try and take
Speaker 1: a quarterback there. Because once he gets fourteen. You have
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, you have the Redskins, who are all teams
Speaker 1: that are talking about potentially taking a quarterback. So maybe
Speaker 1: that's something that they look into. But if the Jets
Speaker 1: were to move back and like recoup uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of second round picks, I think that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense for them. Ultimately, I didn't really
Speaker 1: like how the Jets handled free agency. I know that
Speaker 1: they get Levian Bell, that Jameson Crowder is fine, but
Speaker 1: I think instead of putting all your eggs in one
Speaker 1: basket and signing a C. J. Mosley, they should have
Speaker 1: spread the wealth around a little bit and sign a
Speaker 1: center here, and maybe sign a linebacker. But you didn't
Speaker 1: have to go out and get the best linebacker. I
Speaker 1: think they should have spread it out a little bit
Speaker 1: more and focused on multiple positions because the Jets have
Speaker 1: a lot of holes greg and they don't have enough
Speaker 1: draft picks, so it wouldn't surprise me if they do
Speaker 1: move back. I know it's something that they're looking into.
Speaker 1: They'll have, of course, more NFL Draft coverage Thursday Night
Speaker 1: Live NFL Draft. I assume we'll do some draft on Friday.
Speaker 1: Probably we'll do. We'll do some draft hopefully have Florian
Speaker 1: in the first hour. Maybe the second hour will do
Speaker 1: you can, yeah, I'm sure he'll. So we'll get we
Speaker 1: can get Jim day on, we can have Venture on
Speaker 1: and we'll have a nice little first hour will be
Speaker 1: weekend waivers with Florio, and then second hour will do
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL draft recap and basically the biggest
Speaker 1: fantasy takeaways if any running backs are taking. I've seen
Speaker 1: a few people mocking Josh Jacob's going to the Raiders
Speaker 1: the third pick in the in the first round. I
Speaker 1: think that makes a lot of sense, and only Crowl's
Speaker 1: the answer for them long term, but you know, Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs could be an answer for them long term. And
Speaker 1: you know how many wide receivers go in the first round.
Speaker 1: There's not really anyone that stands out all that much.
Speaker 1: People talk about DK Metcalf because he's a freak physically,
Speaker 1: but his three cone drill was not great, and people
Speaker 1: have question marks about his lateral quickness, his quickness, and
Speaker 1: his his route tree. Can he do what? What can
Speaker 1: he do other than you know, just be a deep threat.
Speaker 1: I think that's the question mark regarding DK Metcalf. And
Speaker 1: then there's a bunch of other guys like A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown and Nikkill Harry, so it would be interesting. I
Speaker 1: think from a fantasy perspective, it's just gonna be who
Speaker 1: ends up in the right spot. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: weird first round from a fantasy perspective this year because
Speaker 1: there aren't too many running and might be the only
Speaker 1: running back if m not even go in the first
Speaker 1: like the top the first kill position off the board
Speaker 1: outside of quarterbacks, me t J. Hockinson. He's ten, and
Speaker 1: you know tight ends typically historically have not fared well
Speaker 1: their first season. A lot of people have Hockinson or
Speaker 1: No a fan going in the first round as well,
Speaker 1: and No offense more so known as the pass catcher.
Speaker 1: But t J. Hockenson, the all around tight end who
Speaker 1: people are excited about. I'm scrolling through a mock here.
Speaker 1: Let's see they have A J. Brown as the first
Speaker 1: wide receiver off the board to the Seattle Seahawks. So alright,
Speaker 1: let's see you know, Doug Baldwin more offseason surgeries and yeah,
Speaker 1: I've already started listening to some podcasts, looked into some
Speaker 1: fantasy football mock drafts, and you see your first best
Speaker 1: ball this weekend, Yes, after the NFL Draft is gonna
Speaker 1: kill you. Actually she won't, Greg, because she's going away.
Speaker 1: I'm a freeman, Greg, want to meet up and hang out?
Speaker 1: What am I doing this weekend? Uh? Still pass over?
Speaker 1: This would be awesome If the Colts will ended up
Speaker 1: with DK Metcalf, that would be awesome, Greg, that'd be cool.
Speaker 1: Opposite of t Y Hilton. You get a big body
Speaker 1: in there, somebody using the red zone who could stretch
Speaker 1: the field, opposite of t Y Hilton too. Gosh, man,
Speaker 1: that I would just make the Colts offense that much better.
Speaker 1: I still, you know they still have some needs on defense,
Speaker 1: but man, that would be sick. Let's finish off with baseball.
Speaker 1: We have about ten minutes remaining here, and Frank, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of pictures this week that you really like
Speaker 1: that could be out there in fantasy leagues, especially twelve
Speaker 1: team leagues. There's these color pictures. We mentioned Jared i
Speaker 1: cough before because he might the magic against Miami. There's
Speaker 1: a few more guys that are out there that you
Speaker 1: really like only start once. Like at this person might
Speaker 1: not be out there, but you might also be on
Speaker 1: your bench because he hasn't performed well, and it's j
Speaker 1: have going at the San Francisco Giants. He's a guy
Speaker 1: who struggled with home runs this year. But no, there's
Speaker 1: no better place to fit, There's no better place to pitch,
Speaker 1: there's no better remedy. Then if you're struggling giving up
Speaker 1: home runs in Yankee Stadium, then going to San Francisco
Speaker 1: and pitching an Oracle Park, It's just it's a great
Speaker 1: park to pitching from a pictures perspective, and they just
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of home run hitters, not a
Speaker 1: lot of power in that lineup. So Jay Happ is
Speaker 1: number one on my list. Greig and then Martine Perez,
Speaker 1: who looks like he's gonna be in the rotation for
Speaker 1: the time being now with the Minnesota Twins. He performed
Speaker 1: well his last time out, which was against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: He gets the Orioles once again, so I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Martine Perez. Merrill Kelly, he got blown up his last
Speaker 1: start against the Chicago Cubs, didn't get a lot of
Speaker 1: help from his defense. He walked like seven guys. He
Speaker 1: was absolutely brutal. I can't make any excuses for Merrill Kelly.
Speaker 1: But he's going to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have not
Speaker 1: been one of the better offenses this year, and they've
Speaker 1: lost Darling Marte. And it's in Pittsburgh, which is known
Speaker 1: more so as a pitchers park than a hitters park.
Speaker 1: So Merrill Kelly is number three on my list. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Jared I called in the first hour like him
Speaker 1: going up against the Miami Marlins. I wish it was
Speaker 1: in Marlins Park. It's in Citizens Bank, so you take
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hit there. But the Marlins
Speaker 1: lineup overall is just a complete mess. And then number
Speaker 1: five's the press the name here, Greg play Buckles. Play
Speaker 1: Buckles going up against the San Francisco Giants again. You know,
Speaker 1: these are the teams that I want to pick on.
Speaker 1: I want to pick on San Francisco, I want to
Speaker 1: pick on Miami, I want to pick on Pittsburgh. Baltimore
Speaker 1: has actually been surprising this year, but now Dwight Smith
Speaker 1: has kind of banged up, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with him. But overall, you know, lay buck holds Greg
Speaker 1: he's just it feels like he's been around forever, but
Speaker 1: he's performed well the past couple of years and in
Speaker 1: the last year with the with the Arizona Diamondbacks, and
Speaker 1: then this year his first couple of starts with the
Speaker 1: with the Toronto Blue Jays. His second one against the
Speaker 1: Twins three and three and runs in four and two thirds.
Speaker 1: And he's not great. But his first start against Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay wonder and run in six endings, pitch six hits, loud,
Speaker 1: no walks. So against the Giants, I like it. You
Speaker 1: love these old idiots, you really do. Man, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is this is my Jordan's im room moment this week.
Speaker 1: And Listens has had his moments, certainly last year before
Speaker 1: we got hurt Um. The Giants are just so bad,
Speaker 1: very bad, very very bad. I'll give you that. So
Speaker 1: would you pick up Trent Thornton to get his Giants?
Speaker 1: It's not terrible, not terrible. I'd probably take play Buck
Speaker 1: stinks too, but I would imagine, like Martine Perez is
Speaker 1: probably out there in a lot of league, especially in
Speaker 1: twelve teams. Miss tomorrow when we can Seattle Seattle's Seattle's
Speaker 1: top lineup, whoa what they're cold now? They Let's see,
Speaker 1: in the last seven days they have the ninth most
Speaker 1: run scored in baseball Grade not as cops overall as
Speaker 1: a team over the past seven days. So you know
Speaker 1: they're not winning games. It's probably because they're pitching sucks.
Speaker 1: But whine up still getting a tongue. Greg, do you
Speaker 1: know who pitches for against him tomorrow? I? Oh, you
Speaker 1: don't need to I'll tell you. It's Nick Vicious. Please don't,
Speaker 1: please don't tell people to start. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do it, kinda want to do it. Please do it,
Speaker 1: Nick market Vicious. Oh, yeah, you're out. I'm out. Do it.
Speaker 1: Do it? You won't. Why do you want me to lose?
Speaker 1: I don't know why you like this guy. Clay Buckles
Speaker 1: is much faster. What do you have against Clay Buckles?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just because he's a former Red Sock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is. You're not wrong. It
Speaker 1: just looked at h Clay Buckles is average fastball Philosphies
Speaker 1: this season on a good day, let's try eighty seven
Speaker 1: point eight miles per hour on the fastival. That's Nick
Speaker 1: market Vicious your territory. Look if Nick Vicious. You know
Speaker 1: what Nick Vicious has done very well against the Giants
Speaker 1: is here, Greg? The Giants connot hit. That's why I
Speaker 1: like clay Buckles. Now you're using nick visions to sell
Speaker 1: clay Buckles. Great, that's that's that's great, Frank that that
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. Um Co. More names of note before we
Speaker 1: wrap this one up. A guy that neither of us
Speaker 1: were in on at all this season is Josh Donaldson.
Speaker 1: Donaldson's two homers yesterday for the Bravos against Cleveland, and
Speaker 1: now he's now come around exactly not too forty, which
Speaker 1: I doesn't sound like much, but it's way up for
Speaker 1: where it was we could go at this time. He's
Speaker 1: got four homers, seven rivs on the year. I don't
Speaker 1: know that people have dropped Josh Donaldson. He's only leagues,
Speaker 1: but your opportunity to buy low is over if you
Speaker 1: worved about that life, because I am quote not about
Speaker 1: that life. Regarding Josh Donaldson, I still think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just been so banged up over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. And it's not just one injury. It's it's
Speaker 1: a it's a back, it's a shoulder, it's a knee,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a cash strain. It seems like there's
Speaker 1: always something going on with Josh Donaldson and he's one
Speaker 1: year older. You know, he's stuck into my eye. Last
Speaker 1: night he had two on runs Again, Greg Fantasy Karma,
Speaker 1: I talk crap about Josh Donaldson. What happens he goes
Speaker 1: out and destroys my boy Shane Bieber, who did not
Speaker 1: have the best start last night. Um, it was very bad. Honestly.
Speaker 1: He gave up seven runs with five earned runs. But
Speaker 1: Doosh Johnson. It's two home runs over the past week.
Speaker 1: He's hitting two eighties six with one ops. He's coming
Speaker 1: around a little bit. Uh. If you were about Josh
Speaker 1: Donaldson life, I think your opportunity to buy low might have.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's the windows closing, the windows closing.
Speaker 1: If you still want him, I would say, you know,
Speaker 1: go out there and try and get him. Now. Me personally,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Josh Shalson guy, just because I think
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be banged up at some point. Floria
Speaker 1: had this note earlier and it's worth mentioning here on
Speaker 1: our show. You go check out Florida's Patreon. More importantly,
Speaker 1: Frank's patatreon page right now will literally be your sleep
Speaker 1: for ten bucks. He had all his articles and that's
Speaker 1: pretty much worth it too. But anyway, Jack Peterson, who's
Speaker 1: scorching hot right now himself two home runs yesterday after
Speaker 1: going four for five, had back to back to back
Speaker 1: games with home runs. Four home runs out of five
Speaker 1: games about a week or so ago, and the leaving
Speaker 1: phases three straight lefties for the next three days against
Speaker 1: the Cubs, he will not be in the line up.
Speaker 1: They do not play him against lefties. They don't want
Speaker 1: to play him in stuff lefties, and he's kind of
Speaker 1: terms with them. Read terms with it or a really
Speaker 1: good article in the Athletic about it. He's just not
Speaker 1: gonna hout about it anymore. And I believe facing three
Speaker 1: straight lefties, he should be out of the lineup. So
Speaker 1: if you're in a weekly league, he may want to
Speaker 1: bench John Peterson. Yeah, I think No, I think that's
Speaker 1: a really good point. Yeah, it's Jose Guantana, it's cold Hanimals,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah for these next three games, so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect Jock Peterson. Maybe he gets in one of
Speaker 1: these games late or all of them late as a
Speaker 1: defensive replace, and maybe gets in a bat here or
Speaker 1: there as a pinch hitter, but at least for these
Speaker 1: first three games. It doesn't look like he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the lineup, Craig, and I'm seeing an update year
Speaker 1: ten home runs of the season. By the way, for
Speaker 1: John Peterson, he talked to a great start, and you
Speaker 1: know he's extremely streaky, but the right streak is happening
Speaker 1: right now with this juice ball. This could be the
Speaker 1: year that we get thirty plus home runs out of
Speaker 1: out of Jock Peterson. You know, I wish I would
Speaker 1: just teach this guy had a hit against left handed
Speaker 1: or even be adequate, say he could be in the lineup.
Speaker 1: It's not even given an opportunity anymore though, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, some people would argue that it's almost
Speaker 1: better this way because from a Rhoto perspective, down your
Speaker 1: batting at right when he faces lefties. So in deeper leagues,
Speaker 1: in in Rhodo, it's can you just perform when you're
Speaker 1: in the lineup. But I play in a lot of
Speaker 1: points leagues as well, Greg, and I need volume. I
Speaker 1: need guys that are going to play every day. So
Speaker 1: from that perspective, when Jock Peterson is facing this many lefties,
Speaker 1: he's probably on your bench. From a Points Leek perspective,
Speaker 1: I got an update from Bob Nightingale, not that you
Speaker 1: know you love Bob nighting anything, but he says the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are awfully close to promoting Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Speaker 1: But our quote all casts not bringing him up Tuesday
Speaker 1: to datebut against the San Francisco Giants in Toronto. So
Speaker 1: that's your latest. So the thing is that they're this close,
Speaker 1: they're this close to bring him up, Like, what are
Speaker 1: you waiting for? You're not waiting for him development wise.
Speaker 1: You know he's healthy, you know he's time has already.
Speaker 1: You know his glove is red. What do you I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're waiting as well? Probably will never
Speaker 1: be ready, Greg. It's ready enough, That's what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's about as good as it's gonna get.
Speaker 1: It's ever gonna be a Gold Glove defender. But I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that's not what the Blue Jays won for.
Speaker 1: They want want to be a great hitter, and he's
Speaker 1: obviously gonna have that upside, but it is not coming Tuesday.
Speaker 1: That maybe maybe because they used on the fly lad
Speaker 1: in a Toronto or something like Big Ladd rather well,
Speaker 1: they could probably get him there by tomorrow, Greg Maybe
Speaker 1: he's a vacation. Maybe I don't know. We gotta figure
Speaker 1: it out. What it doesn't look like a tap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So hopefully you'll get Vladimir Guerrero later this week. He's
Speaker 1: due to come up and he played a weekly league.
Speaker 1: I just I don't think I could put him in
Speaker 1: probably not, probably not, especially knowing they only have five
Speaker 1: games this week. There are no lineups out because first
Speaker 1: pitch tonight seven O five with Pittsburgh and really, oh
Speaker 1: it did I missed him? Sorry? I pretty right passed
Speaker 1: it is as Kansas City Royals as Brad Kella takes
Speaker 1: him out against the only Churinos of the Rays. Uh
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Royals, it's a pretty standard line
Speaker 1: up from what I could see with with Mary Field
Speaker 1: leading off at Albert demondescy second Alex Gordon, under doger
Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn. Chris only is the third Ray soler Martin
Speaker 1: Venado from Billy Hamilton's are oh Age, Ryan O'Hearn, Gregor.
Speaker 1: It was just honor to come up in the main event.
Speaker 1: I need a big weekend tomorrow. Age. I want to
Speaker 1: thank Matt Modica for joining us tomorrow. Chris Venture returns
Speaker 1: and we hope you do as well. For Frank Standfeld,
Speaker 1: I'm Greg Susman will be right back here tomorrow he
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