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Speaker 1: it here in just a little bit, Bubba. I feel
Speaker 1: like I haven't seen you in a fortnight or along that.
Speaker 1: How long is a Fortnite?
Speaker 2: The Fortnite's too long. I don't know the kids know
Speaker 2: these days because they play that game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's not about Royale or anything. But I
Speaker 1: don't remember how long.
Speaker 3: It's a while.
Speaker 2: It's been a while, dude, it's been too long. Too long,
Speaker 2: as the kids would say, No, the kids don't say
Speaker 2: that it's been too long. But it's great to see
Speaker 2: your pretty face.
Speaker 1: The kids would say, we busting. We're busting on this episode, Bubba.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Obviously we got to catch up with a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff things going on this week. Playoff runs are happening,
Speaker 1: so it's an important time. I would remind you guys,
Speaker 1: if you guys have any fantasy questions start and sit streamers,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, drop it in the chat. We will
Speaker 1: answer that here in just a tiny bit. Plus some
Speaker 1: I have a speculative prospect that I think has to
Speaker 1: come up, has to come up, which we'll talk about here.
Speaker 1: Plus we're gonna be making some bets. Actually laid down,
Speaker 1: I did the stupid thing, tracked my bets last night,
Speaker 1: went to bed forgot to put them in, and then
Speaker 1: I did it this morning and got hit with a
Speaker 1: little bit of the odds, which was no fun. But
Speaker 1: still playing some bets. We're gonna be doing all of
Speaker 1: that here. It is nice to see you all, and
Speaker 1: thank you for some of the tweets of people being
Speaker 1: like where's leading off? It's like we just we took
Speaker 1: that Monday off and it completely threw me off. My
Speaker 1: Monday felt like a Sunday. Today does not feel like
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, especially with this being the first leading off
Speaker 1: of the week. So we're gonna have some adjustment period,
Speaker 1: so hopefully you guys will hang with us. We're gonna
Speaker 1: kick off the show with how about freakin' jose al
Speaker 1: tuove Altuve homeward in each of his first three the
Speaker 1: first three innings actually say, three at bats, but the
Speaker 1: first three innings yesterday. He has got homers in four
Speaker 1: straight played appearances which went back to Monday, and five
Speaker 1: homers over six played appearances. It's the most in a
Speaker 1: two game span in Astro's history, and tied for the
Speaker 1: most over two games in MLB history. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: Bagman and I had done a decent amount about Jose
Speaker 1: Al Tuve recently, within the last month or so, just
Speaker 1: talking about you know, the injuries have kind of derailed
Speaker 1: his season. He was one of those guys that we
Speaker 1: put out as like a trade target before the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: just because you know, he was kind of quietly sitting
Speaker 1: around really not doing any I mean, he was doing
Speaker 1: some stuff, but it the miss time and the production
Speaker 1: didn't add up to where the value is. You look now,
Speaker 1: career high barrel percentage, his batting his XBA, by the way,
Speaker 1: two point fifty two is one of the lower he's
Speaker 1: had over the last couple of years. But he's got
Speaker 1: the highest wOBA of his career right now at four
Speaker 1: to twelve. He's hitting the ball crazy hard right now.
Speaker 1: He is a monster, and if he doesn't get too
Speaker 1: too hot, he's going to become a value next year
Speaker 1: in fantasy. But he's a guy that is you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's gonna ride you to your championship
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's helping teams cruise to the victory line right now.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see how he finishes up. But yeah,
Speaker 2: three twenty one average, fifteen homers, thirteen steals given. Five
Speaker 2: of those fifteen home runs came in two games lately.
Speaker 2: But he's still walking a ton. You mentioned the you know,
Speaker 2: you mentioned the whoe, but two forty three ISO shows
Speaker 2: that the power is pretty darn legit as well, and
Speaker 2: the overall numbers just great for Rozel Twove. Injuries did
Speaker 2: derail his season, and I guess that'd be my biggest
Speaker 2: concern going forward with him as he's thirty three now,
Speaker 2: be thirty four next season. Yeah, this could be a
Speaker 2: thing going forward, So it's tough to like fully invest
Speaker 2: in the future, but for now, enjoy it because he's
Speaker 2: helping teams in a big, big way.
Speaker 1: Next not to do the whole next but we were
Speaker 1: literally just talking about this off air. We'd like to
Speaker 1: try not to go too much into talking about next year,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna kind of do it because there's some
Speaker 1: things we're gonna talk about here that it's just like,
Speaker 1: where's the relevancy to right now? Well, who would you
Speaker 1: rather have or who do you think you're gonna have
Speaker 1: next year at second base? Jose al Tuve or Jazz Chisholm.
Speaker 3: That's a good one, pooh question.
Speaker 2: I like Chisholm's ceiling more than al Tuove, so I
Speaker 2: probably gamble on Chishom.
Speaker 3: But two, it's pretty darn safe.
Speaker 1: How about who plays more games next year?
Speaker 3: Jazz probably A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so I think I think that will
Speaker 1: be the thing we're starting to talk about next year
Speaker 1: when we're looking at that second base spot. Ozzi has
Speaker 1: kind of solidified. He's taken off Yeah yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 1: he he's created the tier. Well, really, I should actually
Speaker 1: say Mooki because Mookie playing so much second base that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Has Mooki gotten to twenty this year?
Speaker 3: I believe, So I'll double check. I think it's shortstop.
Speaker 2: He's like one or two short, but it's a he's
Speaker 2: gonna be second base outfit eligible next year, so.
Speaker 1: He'll be number one second base and then it'll be
Speaker 1: like his tier, and then it'll be the Ozzie Tier
Speaker 1: and then we'll move down. And I think that's where
Speaker 1: you're gonna live in Li the Jazz Altuove range, and
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be like do you want
Speaker 1: the production that you trust or are you going to
Speaker 1: go in with the ceiling of Josel Tuve.
Speaker 2: He's played fifty three I can't be right. So it
Speaker 2: has played fifty three games at second base this year,
Speaker 2: sixteen at shortstop, and ninety seven in the outfield.
Speaker 1: Does that math work out? That doesn't that math doesn't
Speaker 1: work out.
Speaker 3: I guess, well, well, it might have been shifting in
Speaker 3: and out of game.
Speaker 1: But how many started? Because he probably.
Speaker 2: They're saying forty seven starts at second base.
Speaker 3: That doesn't seem right.
Speaker 1: But is that someone who's been paying attention?
Speaker 3: Has that been That doesn't seem right? But maybe, like
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it, it's on fangrass and I'm like it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this though, like so like Fred just
Speaker 1: put this in the chat. He's like, Keel Marte has
Speaker 1: been solid. This has nothing to do with Ketel Marte.
Speaker 1: This is like a I'm so excited to start talking
Speaker 1: about the next year, values into the off season and
Speaker 1: building the right because it's like these questions. Richard said,
Speaker 1: how about this one at McClain or Altuve. You know,
Speaker 1: McLain absolute monster. Obviously the injury towards the end isn't
Speaker 1: gonna help, but that's you're gonna probably appreciate his value
Speaker 1: a little bit, which is gonna be phenomenal. I'll present
Speaker 1: this to you if Altuve is a what'd you say,
Speaker 1: fourth rounder?
Speaker 3: Third rounder by a fourth rounder. If he's a.
Speaker 1: Fourth rounder and McLain is a seventh rounder, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take McLain. Yeah, I'm gonna take McLain on the value,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what we're gonna be looking at.
Speaker 1: But al Tuove, I guess the point is though he
Speaker 1: could even drop further because of the age and the
Speaker 1: not big counting stats, because of the mistime, and he
Speaker 1: might be a major target next year instead of doing
Speaker 1: some chasing, instead of me doing some crazy chasing at
Speaker 1: the position trying to get the upside of jazz, or
Speaker 1: what if that flipped, what if it's like McLain in
Speaker 1: the fifth and Altuve in the sixth.
Speaker 2: Let's have fun with this like the sime and simeon.
Speaker 2: But al Tuove, your house on Kim.
Speaker 1: So if it's a huge, if this is Altuve in
Speaker 1: the fourth or Kim in the ninth, let take Kim.
Speaker 2: See this second base is actually interesting. I just pulled
Speaker 2: up some guys here, you know, Thyrostrado missed some time,
Speaker 2: still going to finish with ten homers, nineteen steals and
Speaker 2: then add on to whatever he does the rest of
Speaker 2: the month. Labor Torres is awesome, and he kind of
Speaker 2: gets overlooked a lot, and Andres Jimenez average is in
Speaker 2: great but power speed still there. So it's a better position,
Speaker 2: I think. And then does like Horry Palanko or Edward
Speaker 2: Julian make a step forward to your liking type situation.
Speaker 1: Let me present this to you. Is this going to
Speaker 1: be the first time we usually actually do it with
Speaker 1: third base, but this is the first time in forever,
Speaker 1: first time in for it that we're not going to
Speaker 1: cry about second base. It actually might be actually deep.
Speaker 2: Literally pulling that page up, I'm like, I could live
Speaker 2: with ten to maybe fifth at this point in time.
Speaker 2: Obviously we'll break it down more, but I could sleep
Speaker 2: at nights going, okay, one of these top fifteen guys, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: I can live with that.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to be nice. It's really
Speaker 1: going to be about what that you know, the position
Speaker 1: is going to end up looking like a reminder again.
Speaker 1: Any questions pop them in, we're gonna be answering them
Speaker 1: for your playoff runs here in just a tiny bit.
Speaker 1: Also in the news, Angels manager Phil Nevin was speaking
Speaker 1: to reporters on Tuesday said that Otani's right bleak injury
Speaker 1: is quote just a tiny bit of inflammation. Who was
Speaker 1: a late scratch on Monday. It kind of followed with
Speaker 1: saying he's going to avoid the injured list at least
Speaker 1: for now and they'll be monitored day to day. I
Speaker 1: am still shocked that Otani is going and that he
Speaker 1: hasn't shut it down. There are people clamoring shut it down,
Speaker 1: get the injury eno and I if people want to
Speaker 1: listen on rates and barrels, we actually talked about this situation,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm forgetting what the surgery was. Had
Speaker 1: described a type of surgery that you can do that
Speaker 1: could knock you down for six months, which was story Hud.
Speaker 1: I think so, and it's it's like a brace almost
Speaker 1: not a thing. That's what it is. It was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like the brace in the arm and what
Speaker 1: that would do with that could bring him back hitting
Speaker 1: by spring training. He actually if you were to go now,
Speaker 1: because what they said was the recovery time is like
Speaker 1: a six month period, but you can start hitting after four.
Speaker 1: If he did it now, he could start hitting in January,
Speaker 1: which would get you good for March April, and then
Speaker 1: maybe wherever he is doesn't look like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the Angels now all that like oo, they're going to
Speaker 1: swind back with the Angels, all that nasty stuff. If
Speaker 1: if you want to play a little slow, maybe he
Speaker 1: doesn't pitch until May, and that gives him more time
Speaker 1: to recover. I'm saying all this to say that the
Speaker 1: injury that he's got has looked like it's not as
Speaker 1: serious to if you hit, you're not going to reaggravate
Speaker 1: it too much, so you can continue to hit. But
Speaker 1: the potential options here versus what he can do the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, they do not make sense for
Speaker 1: what he's doing right now. If you're going to go
Speaker 1: land your big contract, you're trying to recover, if you're
Speaker 1: dealing with any little tiny bits of inflammation. If I
Speaker 1: say the word inflammation. When you have a Tommy John
Speaker 1: surgery looming right now and you're a two way player,
Speaker 1: shut it down. Some shocked that he's still not shut down,
Speaker 1: but that's the latest news about it. I've got him
Speaker 1: in a head to head playoff run right now and
Speaker 1: it is absolutely brutal. And he's a hitter pitcher now,
Speaker 1: he's a hitter, and I don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: I trust to start him, and I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's going to sink me, Bubba.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I hope it doesn't sink you. I can
Speaker 2: see where your head's at on that though, because I
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of people with those same sentiments
Speaker 2: out there right now. He should have had surgery a
Speaker 2: while ago, like this oblique thing. It came out later
Speaker 2: on Monday, earlier in the day, his agent, Otani's agent
Speaker 2: even came out and said Otani will have a procedure.
Speaker 2: His goal is to DH all of next season is
Speaker 2: pitching twenty twenty five. Thus, what you and you know
Speaker 2: were talking about, and the first thing it came to
Speaker 2: mind was the Trevor story deal. Because six months gets
Speaker 2: you back out there playing catch. You said, four months
Speaker 2: hitting and that's going to help him out a ton,
Speaker 2: obviously in the contract.
Speaker 3: Side of things, but that means you need to have
Speaker 3: it now.
Speaker 1: That's how it now, Yeah, exactly, because if you wait
Speaker 1: to finish out the year, then you're going to start
Speaker 1: a hitting program in February when camps are going up.
Speaker 1: You do it now, and you're leading yourself into spring training.
Speaker 3: And it's like, he's it's so weird.
Speaker 2: Because we talked about, Okay, maybe if he plays out
Speaker 2: the season, that means he'll sign with the Angels again
Speaker 2: on a short deal because they can you know, Okay,
Speaker 2: if you missed the first month whatever, we've had you
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 3: Great. It's just such a weird situation. I don't get
Speaker 3: it at all.
Speaker 1: Did you see in one of the greatest things of
Speaker 1: all time the photo shoot from yesterday with just the guy?
Speaker 1: There's like some random gage.
Speaker 3: Did you see what I tweeted out about it? Apparently not.
Speaker 2: No, there's a picture and it shows the guy standing there,
Speaker 2: and then in front of him is like Trout and
Speaker 2: Rendona and stuff. I said, the only thing crazier than
Speaker 2: a stand in for Otani because they're gonna basically photoshop
Speaker 2: his face on him. The only thing crazier than that
Speaker 2: is Anthony Rendon remembered how to put a baseball jersey.
Speaker 1: Ar I did, right, I mean, I think Grendon's the worst.
Speaker 1: Like the day before, Oh yeah, no, I know he's able, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: hobbleringlass when someone tried to interview I think he's one
Speaker 1: of the worst. And there are people come, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's probably because like there are guys that kind
Speaker 1: of suck but are beloved. Like listen, Granky kind of
Speaker 1: sucks in some ways, like he's not a pleasant person
Speaker 1: to other baseball players, to fans. He does quirky things
Speaker 1: that sometimes suck, but sometimes they're also like really funny.
Speaker 1: So he's he's a kind of like he's kind of jerky,
Speaker 1: but in a in a in a way that we
Speaker 1: can relate with at some points, like like, for instance,
Speaker 1: in spring training last year, I've actually seen this guy.
Speaker 1: There was this guy that has this entire jump suit
Speaker 1: that's like a it's like a weed jumpsuit. It's most
Speaker 1: ridiculous that he looks like an insane person. And he
Speaker 1: had asked Granky for his autograph, and Granky looked at
Speaker 1: him and he said, if I can take a picture
Speaker 1: of you, and sure enough he did, and he posted
Speaker 1: it like that's funny. That's that's actually really funny. Rendon
Speaker 1: sucks like he's not like he he I don't know
Speaker 1: what the redeeming quality about him is in general, he
Speaker 1: just stinks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad, bad deal all around. So hopefully that
Speaker 2: gets resolved quickly. Also, maybe that's what Atani's waiting for.
Speaker 2: You either get rid of him or I'm gonna play
Speaker 2: it out and go somewhere.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that would be the coole the best.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a disaster and I'm so excited, we're
Speaker 1: all excited for Actually, as a card person, I think
Speaker 1: tops should take that picture of the stand in Otani
Speaker 1: and make that a card of.
Speaker 3: That should be like an air or an alternate card
Speaker 3: or something on percent.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Like you have the team picture card, the Angels card,
Speaker 2: but half of them, like a quarter of them have
Speaker 2: the fake Otani.
Speaker 1: Perfect so funny, have be so funny. Julio Rodriguez two
Speaker 1: for five with four RBI yesterday, two homers. I believe
Speaker 1: as well. Since August first. Check this out. Julio has
Speaker 1: played twenty nine games since August first, Bob, are you
Speaker 1: looking at the sheet?
Speaker 3: I just pulled it up. I haven't read it.
Speaker 1: Don't get it, don't look at it. How many games
Speaker 1: of those twenty nine games has he not registered a hit?
Speaker 2: Since I play him in DFS almost every single day
Speaker 2: and on props, out of the twenty nine games, he said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he didn't register a hit in four.
Speaker 1: You nailed it. You absolutely nailed it. Four games, four
Speaker 1: games of his last twenty nine since August first, he
Speaker 1: has not had a hit in that period of time.
Speaker 1: He has the second highest war in baseball. He has
Speaker 1: ten homers and the second most stolen bases during that time,
Speaker 1: which is bonkers have believed evert twenty five but twelve
Speaker 1: twelve stolen bases in that time. And it's you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. It's again, this is one of
Speaker 1: those things. What does it help you right now? It's
Speaker 1: just a reaffirmation of Juliardriguez's value going into next season,
Speaker 1: there'll be no actual value because had he ended cold,
Speaker 1: he'd have probably been like five or six or something
Speaker 1: maybe at the back end. But when we go back
Speaker 1: and look at this season, even if people have checked
Speaker 1: out because football this week, you're gonna see Julliard Regez
Speaker 1: is lead and he's yeah, he's going to be easy
Speaker 1: top five.
Speaker 3: If not the number two, you might be the second
Speaker 3: hitter after Accoon.
Speaker 1: You know, he might have solidified himself as top three.
Speaker 3: I mean, legit, like good argument.
Speaker 2: The argument between Bets and Julio is the one that's
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun one because we had the Bets
Speaker 2: talk last week. Now with Julio entering the chat, that
Speaker 2: gets really interesting real quick.
Speaker 1: Well there's a bunch of I mean, you know, and
Speaker 1: then you throw in like, you know, Carol has kind
Speaker 1: of tapered back a little bit, but when you look
Speaker 1: at his season totals, you're going to be like, whoa.
Speaker 1: And then Bobby Witt as well. But Julio, with what
Speaker 1: Julio's done right here, this might have solidified two or three.
Speaker 1: So it was like a top three overall. He has
Speaker 1: been going nuts. A guy that has been going nuts
Speaker 1: that I think we talked about recently Jordan Walker, and
Speaker 1: someone said, please don't bring him up here, but we've
Speaker 1: got to. He is going off. He has three straight
Speaker 1: multi hit games, three straight games with a homer after
Speaker 1: going three for four with three runs and two RBI.
Speaker 1: He also had a homer yesterday. And I've talked about
Speaker 1: him in a couple different spots. I think Jordan Walker
Speaker 1: he's borderlining the values gone now of what you're going
Speaker 1: to be able to get him in the off season
Speaker 1: for like a good value. But here's my question. I
Speaker 1: think we've asked this two or three times this season.
Speaker 1: You know, as the season has gone on right now,
Speaker 1: rest of season, would you rather have Jordan Walker or
Speaker 1: would you rather have Ellie Daily Cruz Jordan Walker?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think he's more of a peer hitter like
Speaker 2: Daily Cruise is way too much for you can miss
Speaker 2: still and like you mentioned Walker's success seven game hitting
Speaker 2: streak right now, hitting six hundred, Like, dude's a beast.
Speaker 1: He's going crazy. He's finding his rhythm and that's the
Speaker 1: important thing.
Speaker 3: And a young player. Shocker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had what was the one Eno and I
Speaker 1: were talking about Jordan Walker? I had, I had done
Speaker 1: a Oh, I asked him this one, Jordan Walker or
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis next year.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm still a Royce Lewis guy. I'm still a
Speaker 2: Royce Lewis guy. But I respect I won't that's one
Speaker 2: of those. I won't to argue you if you pick
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker.
Speaker 1: That's very fair, you know, and I both picked Jordan
Speaker 1: Walker for next year, but.
Speaker 2: Questions the rest of this season teammates Jordan Walker or
Speaker 2: Tyler O'Neil.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, Tyler neil had three hits yesterday as well.
Speaker 1: I think I go Walker, Yeah, Marmel still I think
Speaker 1: he deals still deep down hates Tyler O'Neill. So feels like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I think there's always a chance, but like Jordan
Speaker 1: Walker is just on a complete tear right now. Lower
Speaker 1: strikeout guy makes really good, really really big haryard contact.
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Walker is a guy we could see
Speaker 1: hit thirty homers next year. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's like people like duh or not, but like, he
Speaker 1: hasn't hit quite at the level and I don't think
Speaker 1: his pace numbers go there, but I think he's going
Speaker 1: to hit thirty homers next year, especially as he's found
Speaker 1: his comfortability. And I think a really good key to
Speaker 1: like young players like this. Maybe you can throw it
Speaker 1: out for veterans, but a guy that can come up,
Speaker 1: can struggle, can be sent down, can come back, struggle
Speaker 1: and then just pop. You've overcome that adversity, and I
Speaker 1: think you can take a lot of that going into
Speaker 1: next season, and we'll have a lot of breakdowns of
Speaker 1: Jordan Walker because he has been pretty awesome. And then finally,
Speaker 1: just throwing this out, John Carlos Stanton reached a He
Speaker 1: reached his four hundredth home run with the Yankees at
Speaker 1: they beat the Tigers. He's the fourth fast this in
Speaker 1: Major League history to get to four hundred homers, only
Speaker 1: behind Mark McGuire, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez, and Albert Poolholz
Speaker 1: is that these numbers look a little different at the
Speaker 1: stat Maybe this was like doubles or something, because the
Speaker 1: numbers that are there are weird. But that was what
Speaker 1: I saw, that he was one of the fastest to
Speaker 1: get to four hundred. So gean Carlos Stanton doing some stuff.
Speaker 1: Here's some rookie lookies. Jason Dimingez has hits in every
Speaker 1: single game he's played. Plus he's hit two homers over
Speaker 1: the weekend. And let's throw on top of it hitting
Speaker 1: third for the Yankees. Hitting third, I was very vocal
Speaker 1: about Jason Dimingez. A lot of prospects are out there,
Speaker 1: but I said, twelve team five outfield er, not to
Speaker 1: be not to be like Joe, like I told you,
Speaker 1: but did say like, this is a guy that I
Speaker 1: was immediately picking up. I was putting priority over a
Speaker 1: lot of other You guys can hear me sometimes, like
Speaker 1: we'll talk about a prospect and I want to like
Speaker 1: be like, oh no, because I'm not a black and
Speaker 1: white guy. Like I think there's gray area with stuff,
Speaker 1: and there's so many people that will talk you in
Speaker 1: affirmatives like this is how it goes. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's true, and I don't think anybody knows those. But
Speaker 1: you'll hear when I kind of perk up about certain
Speaker 1: guys and I'll be a little bit more aggressive about them.
Speaker 1: I was like that with Ellie, was like that with
Speaker 1: Strand for better or for worse, And I was like
Speaker 1: that with Jason Dimingez coming up and he has been
Speaker 1: awesome and hitting three for the Yankees, Bubba, do you
Speaker 1: trust Jason Dimingue's rest of season as a fifth outfielder
Speaker 1: in a twelve team.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I added him in one of my twelves.
Speaker 2: He wasn't added in the other two. I talked about
Speaker 2: that on my show. So he'll be a heavy target
Speaker 2: this week. And I've been playing them every day on DFS.
Speaker 2: He's been too cheap bat and third in that lineup.
Speaker 2: The way he's in Big Fan, he's been nuts.
Speaker 1: Now here's a prospect that I think needs to come up.
Speaker 1: It needs to come up this week. And this is
Speaker 1: gonna be my predictor thing, because if it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: this week, I don't know what we're doing. Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: Jordan Lawler needs to come up. He now has four
Speaker 1: straight multi hit games. Last night he had two home
Speaker 1: and in the month of September. He's up in the
Speaker 1: PCL right now, so the numbers are a little inflated,
Speaker 1: but in September he is hitting over six hundred. He
Speaker 1: has been an absolute monster. Let me throw these numbers
Speaker 1: to you, Bubba Nick Ahmed. Over his last ten games
Speaker 1: is hitting not I was about to say a buck
Speaker 1: zero point four to five with an under two hundred
Speaker 1: OVP and an under one hundred slug. He has one run,
Speaker 1: no homers, no RBIs, no stolen bases. Those are his
Speaker 1: last ten games. Perldo Perdomo hit two point fifty in
Speaker 1: August with one homer and fourteen combined RBI in runs,
Speaker 1: he is hitting one eleven in September. The Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: are one game out of the wild Card right now.
Speaker 1: Their shortstop is a complete void. It's completely devoid of production.
Speaker 1: Right now, Nick Ahmed's gotta go. Jordan Lawler is absolutely
Speaker 1: on fire. I think he's got twenty homers, thirty plus
Speaker 1: stolen bases. He needs to get the call. He won't
Speaker 1: be able to help them for the playoff run because
Speaker 1: they were stupid and they didn't bring him up before September.
Speaker 1: Horribly horribly idiotic move. But they got to get some
Speaker 1: offense from that position. Jordan Lawler is there. He's a
Speaker 1: great defender. So Jordan Lawler has to come up. I
Speaker 1: would be preemptively adding him right now if he's sitting
Speaker 1: around just to see if it happens over the next week. Doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the hell they would do it
Speaker 1: with like a week to go, but right now you
Speaker 1: could get like three good weeks out of this guy.
Speaker 1: So I believe Jordan Lawler's got to get the call
Speaker 1: up and it has to happen in the next like
Speaker 1: four or five days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should happen in the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Like the fact Nicko Meta still has a pulse and
Speaker 2: a major league roster is enough. Said like, you could
Speaker 2: have literally stopped with Nika Med before you ran all
Speaker 2: the rest of the stats there, and I would have
Speaker 2: been like, Yep, sounds good.
Speaker 3: So I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I think they only keep him met up up for
Speaker 2: his defense and not only the guy's that great anymore.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but you got Predomo, that's my Predomo was
Speaker 1: an All Star. And like Dan was like, hey, Perdomo
Speaker 1: is great and a Perdomo is a good player.
Speaker 3: He's a great player to have.
Speaker 1: On your team. Nick Omed is a gold Glove defender.
Speaker 1: We don't need that. Perdomo is a great defender. Jordan
Speaker 1: Lawler is a great defender. There's no bat with Ahmed.
Speaker 1: Let Amed go or do whatever you gotta do. Caught
Speaker 1: him and put him on the bench. Get Jordan Lawler
Speaker 1: up and let him get some starts there. And if
Speaker 1: you're worried about a rookie later in the game, defensively
Speaker 1: replace him with Perdomo. Mess around with your lineup, get production.
Speaker 1: There's literally no production coming out of that spot, and
Speaker 1: you have one of the best prospects in baseball sitting
Speaker 1: at Triple A. He can do like, so it's got
Speaker 1: to happen. I think the diamback's got to do it,
Speaker 1: especially with a wild card race. I could understand like
Speaker 1: not wanting to start, you know, clocks and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: but I think he's going to. I think Lawler has
Speaker 1: got a decent shot to break camp next year as
Speaker 1: a starting shortstop. So just click it up now. So
Speaker 1: that's that's my take on it. I believe it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And if I had the ability to like go premptively
Speaker 1: make a move, so I'd stash him over the next
Speaker 1: week if you're in the playoffs, and if you even
Speaker 1: have the freaking ability to do that, because limited moves.
Speaker 1: Limited moves are frustrating in fantasy at this point, Bubba.
Speaker 1: But also at the same time, there's those monsters that
Speaker 1: would just you.
Speaker 3: Know, rather necessary un necessary evil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good way to say it. The other
Speaker 1: this little rookie lookie here, the Baltimore Orioles promoted Jackson
Speaker 1: Holiday to Triple A. He went one for four with
Speaker 1: a walk in a double in his Triple A debut
Speaker 1: and I believe within the next week we're going to
Speaker 1: hear that he's going to the arison A fall league.
Speaker 1: So without him being at the majors. Yeah, oh, we
Speaker 1: gotta hope. So we only got a couple of questions here,
Speaker 1: So let's answer a couple real quick.
Speaker 3: For whatever you guys.
Speaker 1: Got, Michael said, Josh Naylor or Jordan Walker rest of season.
Speaker 3: I go Walker.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge Naylor fan, but I'll take the hot
Speaker 2: back for the final few weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the same thing. Hot bats right now?
Speaker 1: Are the plays?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: This was Anthony, by the way, he said, please don't
Speaker 1: talk about Walker, held him all season, then dropped him
Speaker 1: week and a half ago.
Speaker 3: I've been there, done that, my friend, been there, done that.
Speaker 1: All too familiar, okay, Richard says Nolan Jones Adam Davar
Speaker 1: large new bar, homer, RBI, stolen base average rest of season.
Speaker 2: I'm a Nolan Jones homer, but I got large new
Speaker 2: bar on that one. He's been playing pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge Nolan Jones fan.
Speaker 1: He just went over five too.
Speaker 2: Jones had a double and a stolen base. I think
Speaker 2: Monday or to Tuesday. Tuesday yesterday. I like Jones a lot.
Speaker 1: Jones.
Speaker 2: It's gonna change my answer because Curland and I talked
Speaker 2: about this on mentioned the bubble last night.
Speaker 3: Fourteen in the last twenty Rockies games are in Coors.
Speaker 1: Give me Nolan Jones, I'm gonna go. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Nolan Jones. Hell, look at you
Speaker 1: getting Curland. Curlin's kind of a big I can't get
Speaker 1: Curling on my show. I asked him earlier this year.
Speaker 1: He's like, Nope, go kick sand and suck rocks.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I will give him a
Speaker 2: lot of heart. I'll give him a big hard time
Speaker 2: about that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh he's he's big time. So that that that shows
Speaker 1: how good Big Bubba is. If you can get Curlin,
Speaker 1: you're you've made it. U Our boy tone says, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: I got one for the playoffs today, head to head cats,
Speaker 1: shallow rosters, two sps, two rps, one pitcher slot bench
Speaker 1: one today Gavin Williams, Joe, Ryan, Lancelyn Alzole or Romano. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he said he's starting straighter, so you gotta just bench one.
Speaker 3: He's been really bad his last like four starts.
Speaker 1: Oh it's Minnesota. Is the matchup today?
Speaker 2: Too?
Speaker 1: But you could well, I guess so with the relief
Speaker 1: pitchery he has, so it's not even I don't know
Speaker 1: why he gave us the option of a romano. You
Speaker 1: have to start them, yeah, unless Gavin Williams may be
Speaker 1: qualified as an RP in your league. Sometimes that happens
Speaker 1: with prospects, but the others wouldn't. So yeah, if you
Speaker 1: got to who are the Dodgers playing? Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: I would go. I'll go Gavin Williams too. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I feel great about that. That's why that
Speaker 1: was a good question. Good good job, tone, miss tone.
Speaker 1: All right, Fred said, can we trust Mitch Keller next week?
Speaker 1: Two home starts against Washington and the Yankees?
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 2: He's actually pitched much better where his last like four
Speaker 2: or five bit some pitch, mixed changes, looking a little
Speaker 2: bit more like the guy always how to start the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I my initial i'd have to look here, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a little peaky peeker because my initial response
Speaker 1: wants to be Yeah, I like that first start. The
Speaker 1: Yankee start isn't as scary as it used to be.
Speaker 1: I know Keller's been a little bit inconsistent. But god, man,
Speaker 1: all these sites, don't you want this? I just want
Speaker 1: my bam bam, bam bam. I can't get them to
Speaker 1: go because I want to look at his splits. Okay,
Speaker 1: So in the month of August, he's got a four
Speaker 1: to two ERA over five starts, thirty four strikeouts, thirty innings,
Speaker 1: walks have actually been kept out. He's only given up
Speaker 1: two homers. That's the second least. Actually, that's the least
Speaker 1: homers he's given up in any given month where he's
Speaker 1: had five or more starts, So that's really impressive. Just
Speaker 1: his post all Star numbers have looked bad, but it's
Speaker 1: picking back up. And in September, in his one start
Speaker 1: he's been good. Yeah, so that makes me feel better.
Speaker 1: So I would go with Mitch Keller as well. And
Speaker 1: then finally, Richard said, next year, carry Carpenter, Suzuki or Jake.
Speaker 2: Berger place Azuki finishing the year strong. He's got the
Speaker 2: best pedigree of the crew. But those are three really
Speaker 2: good options. I'd like to have chairs of all of them,
Speaker 2: to be honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I go with Suzuki.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, I was right, tone said Williams.
Speaker 2: Still so I'd rather have Alzle and Romano for save chances.
Speaker 1: Now, if it was a points league, I would go,
Speaker 1: I would I would feel fine with Gavin Williams. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the some of those guys a little bit later.
Speaker 3: Let me share something with you, Welsh, Okay, I just
Speaker 3: want to give this to the masses because it has
Speaker 3: not been as good as people think he's been.
Speaker 2: And I'm having the loading fun that you had earlier.
Speaker 2: Just click on over his like he only fished one
Speaker 2: inning in.
Speaker 3: His last start.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what happened there, four and a third
Speaker 2: with five runs against the Dodgers, five innings, three runs
Speaker 2: against Detroit. The biggest thing for me, like less than
Speaker 2: a caper, Like basically caper Ani if you're lucky right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm just worried about the wearing Terry in Minnesota
Speaker 2: swinging it really.
Speaker 1: Well, Lucas Gilido just oozing off of Gavin Williams, just
Speaker 1: like just making Morris get him off that team. All right. Injuries,
Speaker 1: we're giving you the extra show today as we usually do.
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller is pitching on Friday to Oklahoma City, likely
Speaker 1: one more rehab start after and then he'll be coming
Speaker 1: up and looked pretty good so far. Anthony n don't
Speaker 1: shut down for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo, What I say, Yeah, garbage, He's shut down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rizzo. Boxton pulled off, was pulled off of his
Speaker 1: rehab assignment, reaggravated his knee injury. So that has halted everything.
Speaker 1: That's a you know, we shouldn't be shocked, I guess, rinse, repeat, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Carlos Carrasco out for the season after dropping a fifty
Speaker 1: pound dumbbell on his finger. What was he doing?
Speaker 2: I was trying, he was working. I had a fifty
Speaker 2: pound dumb bell in each hand doing some curls.
Speaker 3: I guess. I don't know what Carrasco's doing, But how did.
Speaker 1: He drop it on his fancy's like my kids would do.
Speaker 2: They'd be like the thought of his hand, I guess
Speaker 2: or something. So he already had surgery. They said the
Speaker 2: timelines four to six weeks. Obviously not that much time
Speaker 2: in the season. So he's done. But I'm sitting there going, Okay, Carrasco,
Speaker 2: older guy, a pitcher, Why doesn't he fifty pound dumbells?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Why that made no sense to me at all?
Speaker 1: If he said as toe, I would make I don't
Speaker 1: get I don't get this. Tristan McKenzie, Shane Bieber. They're
Speaker 1: pitching in rehab starts Thursday and Friday. So if you've
Speaker 1: been holding on and you can make it through this
Speaker 1: week or you know Rodos, you'll get him back and.
Speaker 3: Let me get a quick one on that real quick. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Deeber will be back soon.
Speaker 2: The thing with the Ckinzie, because he was this was
Speaker 2: that he was a surprise coming back this early. Francona
Speaker 2: came out and said he has to be up to
Speaker 2: eighty five pitches before they even think about bringing them
Speaker 2: back to Cleveland. So this might just be kind of
Speaker 2: get some reps in for next year. So don't go
Speaker 2: crazy on McKenzie just yet.
Speaker 1: Well, and also, these guys getting like those one off
Speaker 1: starts you know, to end the season doesn't get me
Speaker 1: too excited. Andrew mccutching out for the year with achilles injury,
Speaker 1: Joey Bart to the io with a concussion.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I think I typed it in wrong. That's my
Speaker 2: about Patrick Bailey, Joey Bart, oh.
Speaker 1: Pat Yeah, yeah, there was a note by the way,
Speaker 1: Charley Bart, Yeah he was called up. But yeah, Patrick
Speaker 1: Bailey with the concussion, three up and three down on
Speaker 1: the up. Nolan Gorman, Hey quite almost thirty home run season.
Speaker 1: He hit like twenty five and twenty six. He had
Speaker 1: a two homer day two, going two for five yesterday
Speaker 1: because he had that big struggle in between the season.
Speaker 1: Brandon Nimo with a two homer game two for five,
Speaker 1: two homers, scored three runs. And Chris Bassett with a
Speaker 1: great matchup and completely delivered. He went eight and he
Speaker 1: struck out seven on the down. Dane Dunning Bahlah, he
Speaker 1: got them things lit four and one third, nine earned
Speaker 1: runs and three homers. He learned from the best though,
Speaker 1: Patrick KORbin, even though I don't think they played together
Speaker 1: four innings, eight earned runs and three homers, it's just
Speaker 1: apropos and under Jackson four and one third, gave up
Speaker 1: six earned runs, walked five, So it was the five
Speaker 1: that I wanted to mention. They're actually pedro Vila yesterday
Speaker 1: also walked six. Yet he had a decent start in it,
Speaker 1: which I which I thought was a lot.
Speaker 3: That was like, what the heck is going on here?
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Speaker 1: was telling you I had locked in my bets. Well,
Speaker 1: I locked in what I was going to bet last
Speaker 1: night forgot to lock it in and I got screwed
Speaker 1: a little bit on my top bet, which was Texas
Speaker 1: money line. We got a great duel going on today,
Speaker 1: a pitching matchup Justin Verlander versus Max Scherzer. Awesome matchup
Speaker 1: to watch. It's in Texas. Verlander has just been kind
Speaker 1: of struggly on the back half of the year. The
Speaker 1: strikeouts haven't quite been there. Sureziers obviously had his moments
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Speaker 1: moved down, which usually is a bad sign. They went
Speaker 1: from one ten to minus one oh five. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, Arizona and Colorado threw the first five
Speaker 1: over total runs four and a half.
Speaker 3: It's pretty juiced.
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Speaker 1: City team total runs first five, and Texas first five
Speaker 1: money line. Those are my bets.
Speaker 3: What do you got, bubbs?
Speaker 2: Jason Deminge is over one and a half total bases
Speaker 2: at plus one thirty and a great matchup against Detroit.
Speaker 2: Brandon Nemo again love the Mets or one and a
Speaker 2: half total basis plus one fifteen two homers last night.
Speaker 2: I don't think he'll have much of a problem getting
Speaker 2: over one and a half we'll see that's gambling. And
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the other one I did think about was
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Speaker 1: I actually started to play that, and I was going
Speaker 1: to do the first five total runs, which was I
Speaker 1: was going to play at five and a half at
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Speaker 1: total runs for Kansas City. But I'm totally down with that.
Speaker 1: And this will of course be like Jordan Lyles no
Speaker 1: hitter through seven now and Tooky tossand strikes out twelve dfs.
Speaker 1: We're not playing neither one of those guys. But who
Speaker 1: are you playing today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a rough one that night, six games on
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Speaker 2: obviously it's Spencer Strider. You can go Clark Schmidt versus
Speaker 2: Detroit striking out nearly twenty nine percent of the time
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Speaker 2: though the hinted at this the entire last five minutes
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Speaker 2: White Sox and the Royals. Those are my three stacks.
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Speaker 2: don't love Jacolu, but the value gives you to get
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Speaker 1: Listen to Bubba when he speaks. You know the guy
Speaker 1: that like wins taut stuff. So if he's talking to
Speaker 1: you about DFS, you lizzen, that's my official term for it.
Speaker 1: He just wins taut stuff. No destination for Corbyn and
Speaker 1: I we took a little time off from our vacationing
Speaker 1: during Labor Day weekend, but we'll be back at it
Speaker 1: hopefully for Friday, and hopefully we'll be cashing in off
Speaker 1: of the price picks here for the home run call.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Corbyn, Carrol, we do have the board. Look
Speaker 1: at this brute. Blue Harvester hasn't finished this off or
Speaker 1: getting close. We're getting very close. Blue Harvester has fifty
Speaker 1: four homers. Number two is jj Tator at forty eight,
Speaker 1: Razor ramone forty seven, so there's a six homer differential.
Speaker 1: Obviously that can change in a week, but they are
Speaker 1: only so many weeks that are left. I am still
Speaker 1: on the board. I'm down there at nine, but I've
Speaker 1: only got forty one. It did cross the forty marker,
Speaker 1: which was my goal for the season, so I'm very
Speaker 1: happy about that. I don't think I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: speaking of who you calling for your home run today?
Speaker 2: Sticking with the Mets in this one, Give me a
Speaker 2: big meat, Pete the Polar Bear, Pete Alonzo. He's been
Speaker 2: heating up again. He's gonna go deep on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Give me Corbyn Carrol or give me death in Colorado
Speaker 1: Chris Flexen. Yep, we're doing that. We're going. We're locked
Speaker 1: into Corbyn Carroll today. It's Corbyn Carroll Day, even though
Speaker 1: we didn't have a destination. If he hits a homer,
Speaker 1: we'll be in space and we'll take a picture with
Speaker 1: that ball in space here. Dan. By the way, asked
Speaker 1: Wels Indian Vermont, how do you live like this? It
Speaker 1: was one hundred and fifteen the other day. So I
Speaker 1: feel like Corbyn Carrol can do it. I can do it.
Speaker 1: You can do it as well.
Speaker 3: That's it.
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