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Speaker 1: It is Joel Rico and Casey Bubba coming at you
Speaker 1: once again. Here a couple of full weeks of Joe
Speaker 1: and Bubba. Lots of fun getting to talk with you
Speaker 1: every day. My friend, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2: Doing great?
Speaker 3: It's a Friday, heading into another weekend, and we're getting
Speaker 3: so close to the end of this season that it's fun.
Speaker 3: But we got Rocker last night to Gront tonight. We
Speaker 3: got some fun things still going on around baseball.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we are going to start off with Kumar
Speaker 1: Rocker for sure. We got a fun show sheet today.
Speaker 1: I've added in some playoff prep. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about some fringier two start pitchers who are on the
Speaker 1: bubble a little bit, and I've also highlighted five really
Speaker 1: hot hitters that we're going to discuss, as well as
Speaker 1: the usual to do's here on the show. But if
Speaker 1: you guys have any questions. Should have some time later on.
Speaker 1: If you guys have any questions about next week or
Speaker 1: this weekender or anything even twenty twenty five drafts, whatever
Speaker 1: you got thrown into the chat and Bubba and I
Speaker 1: should have some time to get to them. But let's
Speaker 1: start off like with what you mentioned there. Buy about
Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker. I'm not sure if you were watching this one.
Speaker 1: I had the two screens of Thursday Night Football, and
Speaker 1: I had the Kumar Rocker start going on, and the
Speaker 1: first couple batters got hits against him, and you're thinking, oh, go,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen here? And then he just settled in
Speaker 1: and looked dominant. I mean, I heard comparisons to Jose
Speaker 1: Fernandez yesterday. I saw people saying that his slider is
Speaker 1: an eighty grade pitch. I think that he has the
Speaker 1: potential to be a game changer if he stays healthy.
Speaker 1: He looks dominant. Well, what were your thoughts about on
Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker's MLB debut?
Speaker 3: Absolutely filthy. I didn't get to watch it live. I
Speaker 3: watched all the highlights of it. Then here we go again,
Speaker 3: watched the highlights of it, and it was pretty darn
Speaker 3: Impressedive the seven k's, the twenty three percent swinging strike rate,
Speaker 3: the slider was just pure domination. He looked great. So
Speaker 3: I'm hoping we get to get more Kumar for the
Speaker 3: rest of the season. That's still up for grabs on
Speaker 3: what the Rangers are doing there with the rotation, But
Speaker 3: I love what we saw. Kid is legit and it's
Speaker 3: good to see him finally getting his after all the
Speaker 3: injuries and everything else after he left Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: Harry Say projected first round twenty twenty five. No, he
Speaker 1: won't go in the first round, but if we see
Speaker 1: two or three, well how many times? I mean, there's
Speaker 1: only what potential for maybe three more starts? Probably two,
Speaker 1: maybe three if he looks dominant in all those starts.
Speaker 1: What's the highest you think we could see Kumar getting
Speaker 1: pushed up draft boards? About a third, fourth, fifth round?
Speaker 1: What's your initial thought there?
Speaker 2: I would hope fifth round.
Speaker 3: There's always a crazy person out there that will go
Speaker 3: third round or something. But you know, a couple starts
Speaker 3: as nice. We know the pedigree is good, but there's
Speaker 3: still to me a lot of questions surrounding kum Moore Rockers,
Speaker 3: So I would hope he's like a round to pick
Speaker 3: one like an SP three at least at least an
Speaker 3: SP three is what I'd hoped for.
Speaker 2: But he's got the ceiling to be more. I will
Speaker 2: admit that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's tricky, right, Like there's no the first
Speaker 1: round is so deep. Like we've talked with this on
Speaker 1: a few shows, it's really really tricky to break into
Speaker 1: that top fifteen, even top twenty, and then you know,
Speaker 1: it's just such a risk, like there are really even
Speaker 1: outside of those first fifteen or twenty picks, you're still
Speaker 1: looking at a lot of established value, not just pitchers everywhere,
Speaker 1: and you'd be taking a big chance for the health
Speaker 1: side of things with Rocker. He throws very hard. You
Speaker 1: never really know what a guy's going to look like.
Speaker 1: As great as he did look yesterday, and as much
Speaker 1: as I think he is going to be an ace,
Speaker 1: I think that you're probably right SP three, maybe if
Speaker 1: you're getting cheeky SP two, but I think he's probably
Speaker 1: should be SP three. We'll see how excited people get.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the offseason. Jackson Curio had himself
Speaker 1: a game. He became the first member, or not the
Speaker 1: first member, the youngest member of the twenty twenty club
Speaker 1: in MLB history. It's been a little bit of a
Speaker 1: shaky season for him. He started off pretty well and
Speaker 1: then he went through a bit of a cold stretch,
Speaker 1: and then he's just really turned things on in the
Speaker 1: second half of the year. One run seventy one Ribys
Speaker 1: twenty twenty with a two seventy two batting average. Are
Speaker 1: we firmly thinking he's a third rounder at worst?
Speaker 2: Bubba?
Speaker 1: Is there any chance he's getting outside of the top
Speaker 1: fifty picks and drafts next season?
Speaker 3: No, he should not be this guy. He should not
Speaker 3: be getting outside of those fifty picks. I should say
Speaker 3: he's a second rounder for me, third at the if
Speaker 3: you're lucky he's twenty twenty. We saw he's got thirty
Speaker 3: thirty potentialists. A kid, he's twenty, I say, kid, he's
Speaker 3: twenty years old, legally cannot drink in the United States
Speaker 3: of America, and he's out there. You know, slow start,
Speaker 3: heves com platuning for a second there, then shocker, after
Speaker 3: more reps, a young kid starts to figure things out.
Speaker 3: He started producing and the last cup like month or
Speaker 3: two have been amazing for Jackson.
Speaker 2: Cheerio. I think he's an absolute stud.
Speaker 3: They've moved him towards the top of the order, which
Speaker 3: has helped him him hitting with William and Country and
Speaker 3: company up there. So I'm a big Jackson Cheerio fan.
Speaker 3: I think he's very, very worthy of a second round pick,
Speaker 3: and it's going to be the big debate this whole offseason.
Speaker 3: Centurio Jackson, Merrill. Well, some keep forgetting White. Langford shouldn't
Speaker 3: be that far behind that, but it'll be fun for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that early draft you did, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: Langford went a few rounds behind those other guys, right,
Speaker 1: he was kind of forgotten about a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to say, like round nine or ten,
Speaker 3: and these guys both went in round two like it
Speaker 3: was a big, big gap.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think if that's the gap, and that's if that's
Speaker 1: what's happening consistently, then I'll just wait and take Langford
Speaker 1: because I don't know that there's that much of a
Speaker 1: difference in terms of the long term projection. It's not
Speaker 1: been the greatest season for Langford. It's like ten homers
Speaker 1: and it was the thirteen steals or something. It's been underwhelming.
Speaker 1: But if I'm getting him seventy picks later than these
Speaker 1: other guys. I'm gonna take that every single time. But
Speaker 1: definitely a group of guys that are all potential. You know,
Speaker 1: if we're looking toad to twenty twenty six, which I
Speaker 1: know it's crazy, but those guys could all be top
Speaker 1: thirty picks. Yeah, easily. Let's move on to talk Nester Cortez, though,
Speaker 1: who's been a bit up and down this season. There
Speaker 1: was a while where Nestor Cortez was unstartable. In the
Speaker 1: middle of the summer, he was brutal, but he's kind
Speaker 1: of turned things around. Yesterday, five solid innings, nine strikeouts
Speaker 1: with one ear and run against the Red Sox. He's
Speaker 1: down to a three ninety ERA and even maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more surprising, a one to fifteen WEB over
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight innings. Has he done enough
Speaker 1: to get you interested again for next season Nestor Or?
Speaker 1: Has there been enough concern this year that you'd kind
Speaker 1: of just want to avoid him in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Nestor has always been a guy I like. The inconsistencies
Speaker 3: are annoying as all get up, But I think after
Speaker 3: you start talking SP four SP five's are going to
Speaker 3: have a lot of inconsistencies, but the ceiling that Nestor
Speaker 3: brings playing on a good team that should lead to wins.
Speaker 3: The fact he strikes guys out. That's always one of
Speaker 3: my big things I look for in my later pitchers
Speaker 3: is you know, there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 3: warts on these guys later on. As long as he
Speaker 3: can strike guys out, we can, you know, play the
Speaker 3: matchups hopefully and see how it works. Doesn't always work
Speaker 3: out that way, but that's the goal. So I am
Speaker 3: a Nestor fan. If he's healthy, that was kind of
Speaker 3: the concern coming into this year as the health. So
Speaker 3: he's proven to stay pretty healthy this year. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying I'm going to force myself to draft him, but
Speaker 3: he will be on the radar, Like, if he's available
Speaker 3: at the right price, I will take him.
Speaker 1: I think I will as well. It really and I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we get ourselves in trouble this time of
Speaker 1: year talking about potential prices because we have no idea
Speaker 1: what the hell is going to happen. But I feel
Speaker 1: like if Nester Kortez is like I don't know, in
Speaker 1: the one hundred to one, twenty one to thirty type
Speaker 1: of range overall.
Speaker 3: But that does that sound about right? Something like that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he that's probably the high range. I'd hope
Speaker 3: for lower if I'm picking, but I could see that
Speaker 3: happening just because he gets the Yankees tax and all
Speaker 3: that kind of fun stuff. So yeah, like in a
Speaker 3: perfect world, in my mind, one twenty to one thirties
Speaker 3: where I want Kumar Rocker to go.
Speaker 2: So that's where my head would be.
Speaker 3: But I'm always like more cautious with my picks, and
Speaker 3: it doesn't always work out for my interest.
Speaker 1: I don't know for getting Kumar at that price. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you hop into an ESPN league or something,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get to get a price
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: But just maybe a November draft he might have a chance.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tricky, especially if he keeps up what
Speaker 1: we saw. Yes, I want to touch on Sonny Gray
Speaker 1: a little bit. He faced his old team in Cincinnati yesterday,
Speaker 1: six innings, one run, ball with nine strikeouts, two hits,
Speaker 1: and two walks. The thing with Sonny Gray that's kind
Speaker 1: of come out of nowhere a little bit as a
Speaker 1: strikeouts to some extent, like he's been a solid strikeout
Speaker 1: pitcher for the last several seasons, but twenty seven, twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty four percent. He's up out over thirty percent strikeout
Speaker 1: rate this season. But one thing I do want to
Speaker 1: point out is the swinging strike rate is a thirteen percent.
Speaker 1: If you guys don't look at swinging strike rate consistently,
Speaker 1: it's the rule of thumb is you can kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, double it by I multiply it by two,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of like an expected strikeout rate. I
Speaker 1: feel like he's probably not a thirty percent strikeout rate
Speaker 1: guy going forward. Baba, and he concerned drafting Sonny Gray
Speaker 1: next season heading into his age thirty five year, coming
Speaker 1: off of maybe in a bit of an overperforming season.
Speaker 1: Any concerns for you there long term per Sonny.
Speaker 3: Gray, age is always a concern. There's no like hiding
Speaker 3: from that. Thirty five is pretty getting pretty up there
Speaker 3: for a starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: But I love him this year.
Speaker 3: This is back to a couple of really good seasons
Speaker 3: in a row when he went to Minnesota pitched well.
Speaker 3: Is he a thirty percent k guy? No, But if
Speaker 3: you look at all his underlying like era indicators, he's
Speaker 3: even better than what his numbers are showing. His KDO
Speaker 3: walk's been great all season. He's pitched really really well,
Speaker 3: and we've seen these last couple of starts the indicators
Speaker 3: are starting to show in his favor. So I'm still
Speaker 3: a big fan of Sunny Gray.
Speaker 2: Pitching for the Cardinals isn't gonna hurt.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a plus just being in that division
Speaker 3: and all the other fun stuff that goes along with
Speaker 3: that ballpark. So I like Sonny Gray. I think he
Speaker 3: is a really really good SP three with a little
Speaker 3: bit of SP two upside because he's not flashy. But
Speaker 3: you know, it's not thirty percent K, but I believe
Speaker 3: he could be twenty four to twenty five percent and
Speaker 3: that'll still be very very serviceable going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, you know, you got to worry about
Speaker 1: a guy getting older a little bit, But Sunny Gray
Speaker 1: is not usually somebody that gets that much helium. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just because he's been around for
Speaker 1: a long time and honestly, like the surface numbers three
Speaker 1: seventy five era, that might be what some people look at,
Speaker 1: and maybe he doesn't get put stup as high as
Speaker 1: I think, But yeah, just I feel like that strikeout
Speaker 1: rate is going to come back down to earth, but
Speaker 1: he should still be a pretty interesting target considering where
Speaker 1: he's likely to go. Sticking in St. Louis for a second,
Speaker 1: Mason Win hit a home run yesterday, and he's actually
Speaker 1: been a really nice value shortstop this season. Thirteen homers,
Speaker 1: eleven steals, seventy two runs, only fifty ribies. You're not
Speaker 1: going to get a ton of the top of a
Speaker 1: mediocre lineup, but he's also hitting two seventy two, Bob,
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts on on Mason Win going
Speaker 1: forward heading into next season? Is he somebody you'd target
Speaker 1: as a starting shortstop. Is he somebody you'd want more
Speaker 1: as a backup middle infield type of option. What's your
Speaker 1: comfort level as.
Speaker 3: Of right now with Mason Win. I liked what we've
Speaker 3: seen this year a lot. In some of my preseason talks,
Speaker 3: like my team previews, I had Matt Thompson, a prospect's
Speaker 3: live on and he's huge on Mason Win, but he
Speaker 3: admitted he's like a year away, like this was kind
Speaker 3: of the get comfortable year, and we're starting to see
Speaker 3: as the season goes on, Like you mentioned, he's starting
Speaker 3: to get comfortable which is good to see. So I'd
Speaker 3: still prefer him as a middle infielder for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: But you and I recapped the first eleven picks the
Speaker 3: other day. I'm benched with Bubba, and shortstop goes really
Speaker 3: really early and then it gets really really bleak. So
Speaker 3: if you miss out on the early run or you
Speaker 3: don't want to be aggressive on the early run, I'm
Speaker 3: cool with Mason Winning. You're starting a shortstop because that
Speaker 3: means you should have done better things with your other
Speaker 3: picks to make your team work out. So I'm not
Speaker 3: opposed to Mason win is a shortstop in a fifteen.
Speaker 3: He's definitely a shortstop. Twelve team, ten teams maybe not,
Speaker 3: but I do like him period. I wouldn't mind him
Speaker 3: on my roster, but preferably middle endfielder.
Speaker 1: Later option that gets you a decent batting average is
Speaker 1: always going to be a little bit appealing to me. Generally,
Speaker 1: batting average drives up so soon. But if you're getting
Speaker 1: somebody who not a ton of power, not a ton
Speaker 1: of speed, but somebody who won't really hurt you anywhere,
Speaker 1: who's going to hit in the two seventy two to
Speaker 1: eighty type range, that's potentially very very appealing for me.
Speaker 1: I like Mason Winn and shout out to Ben Ted,
Speaker 1: who was somebody that was very interested in Mason Win,
Speaker 1: our mutual friend Ben. Let's talk Marcus s Ami in
Speaker 1: a little bit. It had been kind of a down
Speaker 1: season for him as a whole, but he's things up recently,
Speaker 1: hit a home run yesterday. Over the last week, three
Speaker 1: home runs and a couple stolen bases, and he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna finish as a top one hundred overall player. I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of conversation about Marcus Semion over the
Speaker 1: last couple of days about where he should come in
Speaker 1: in second base rankings, in terms of where he should
Speaker 1: go overall in a draft. Is he a top five
Speaker 1: second baseman, top seventy five overall pick at this point still,
Speaker 1: or what's your concern level as he continues to get older,
Speaker 1: somebody who depends on volume to get by for fantasy?
Speaker 1: Are you going to be interested for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: If the price is right? And in that early draft
Speaker 3: he went past pick seventy five, that's for sure. He
Speaker 3: fill a ton in that draft and I almost ended
Speaker 3: up taking the chance on him. But at that time,
Speaker 3: he still wasn't hitting. This recent hot streak has been
Speaker 3: very very good to see because he's been hurt a
Speaker 3: lot this year.
Speaker 2: He's getting older. This is what happens when you get older.
Speaker 3: The thing that made Simeon so great was racking up
Speaker 3: at bats, playing one hundred and sixty two games a year,
Speaker 3: getting over seven hundred played appearances.
Speaker 2: That's what made Markusieman who he was.
Speaker 3: And we've all said, if he doesn't do that, the
Speaker 3: production's obviously not going to be what you want for
Speaker 3: a second round pick. Now, if he drops into rounds eight, nine,
Speaker 3: ten or whatever, he's very serviceable. So he's not a
Speaker 3: top five second baseman, but if the price stays in that,
Speaker 3: you know, eight to ten round range, very very serviceable
Speaker 3: second basement going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'll think I'll buy a dip, like
Speaker 1: you said, like, it has to be a decent enough
Speaker 1: dip and if that's what's gonna happen consistently. If he's
Speaker 1: going in round six, seven, eight nine, he's been a
Speaker 1: top well what was he going this past season in
Speaker 1: the third round? I think a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: So I'll take that dip hoping to get in on
Speaker 1: a bit of a bounce back. It's been just a
Speaker 1: terrible season for Texas as a whole, but I feel
Speaker 1: like they could kind of bounce back all around next season.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to mention Aaron Judge. He's in the midst
Speaker 1: of the longest home run draut of his career, sixteen
Speaker 1: consecutive games without a home run. Anything to make of this,
Speaker 1: Bubba or is this just the random variance of baseball
Speaker 1: in your opinion.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it random variants of baseball. The weird
Speaker 3: thing is with Judge. He could be hurt just because
Speaker 3: he's got that tendency, but he's gonna play through it
Speaker 3: right now because it's the stretch run. I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: say it's you know, soda was ice cold until about
Speaker 3: three games ago too, So this this team's kind of
Speaker 3: going the way of the Dodo. It seems like as
Speaker 3: they get towards the end of September. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: I'm going to rack it up to a slump, which
Speaker 3: is craziest because we haven't seen Judge do that.
Speaker 1: Never in his career, even as a rookie. The longest
Speaker 1: Drodi had was fifteen games. But the Curse of Paw
Speaker 1: Patrol appears to be alive and well. Right now, for
Speaker 1: mister Judge, if Bobby.
Speaker 2: Witch a great episode, a great episode, I.
Speaker 1: Am childless, so I have not seen this episode. But
Speaker 1: the thing with the American League MVP rais is that
Speaker 1: Bobby Wit actually had a chance to kind of make
Speaker 1: up some ground here, but he's been stone cold himself.
Speaker 1: If he had done his usual thing over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and this could have been a little
Speaker 1: bit more interesting. But I feel like it's still probably
Speaker 1: going to be Aaron Judge's MVP as of right now.
Speaker 1: Let's take a couple of questions. I got a couple
Speaker 1: of them start here. Let's start with one from Harry
Speaker 1: in the chat three year Keeper League? Do I keep
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber or Josh Naylor? Where are you heading on
Speaker 1: this one?
Speaker 3: Bubba schwore bombs and I'm a Josh Taylor fan, But
Speaker 3: you keep Schwarber in this scenario?
Speaker 1: I think I am too. Like the three year thing
Speaker 1: kind of worries you a little bit. But Schwarber's a
Speaker 1: lot younger than I think a lot of people realize.
Speaker 1: He's like thirty one. He's been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think people probably and he looks a little bit
Speaker 1: older than he is. I think people will probably think
Speaker 1: he's like thirty three thirty four, but he's younger than
Speaker 1: you'd expect. Naylor, we have seen the downside recently. I
Speaker 1: love Josh Naylor, don't get me wrong, we grew up
Speaker 1: in the same area. Love the guy. But I think
Speaker 1: it's Kyle Schuber here for me. Someone offered me Hunter
Speaker 1: Brown in a tenth round pick for is that Rooker
Speaker 1: or Rocker? No, it's Rocker and an eighth round pick.
Speaker 1: I think I'm probably going with Rocker, but it's close,
Speaker 1: man like. That might just be me reading too much
Speaker 1: into the recent sample size here. What do you think Bubba.
Speaker 3: If fits like a Dynasty keep Forever league, Probably in
Speaker 3: the Rocker side of it. But if it's just like
Speaker 3: you know, I get a couple of years. There's certain
Speaker 3: policies in place. Hunter Brown's really really good too. There's
Speaker 3: no denying that, like the dude's gonna he might not
Speaker 3: be far off from Rocker and you get the tenth round.
Speaker 2: But see, I think I want the eighth round pick
Speaker 2: in a keeper league.
Speaker 3: It's already so shallow when it comes to draft round five,
Speaker 3: you're literally throwing darts at a wall. So round ten's
Speaker 3: a little rough. I think Rocker in an eighth rounder
Speaker 3: is pretty pretty nice.
Speaker 1: I think I am taking Rocker there too. Don't want
Speaker 1: to be prisoners at the moment, but man, he could be.
Speaker 1: He could be a cy young winner, Like he really
Speaker 1: could be that level. I think, like, there's not many
Speaker 1: pitchers who possess an eighty grade pitch of any kind.
Speaker 1: His slider is that good, and the fastball movement is like,
Speaker 1: he's just so good. Like we're not prospect guys, but
Speaker 1: just the eye test yesterday was like my dad, who
Speaker 1: barely follows baseball at all, was watching this like, holy crap,
Speaker 1: this guy's pretty good. I was like, yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Dad, He's pretty good. Let's talk about Tommy
Speaker 1: Edmund versus Parker Meadows. This one's kind of interesting. I
Speaker 1: think it's Tommy Edmund for me, probably, Bubba. I know
Speaker 1: you're not exactly the Tommy Edmund fan club president, but
Speaker 1: where are you going on this one?
Speaker 3: I'll go with Edmund on this. I got a whole
Speaker 3: lot of flak from Ryan Bloomfield on bubb in the
Speaker 3: Blue on Thursday night because I am anti Edmemb. But
Speaker 3: he's back to back double domb games. He's playing, he's
Speaker 3: hitting arth or fifth daily for the Dodgers, and we're
Speaker 3: talking about two weeks. If he's streaking right now, you're
Speaker 3: right the streak. I love Parker Meadow's I would take
Speaker 3: Parker metals in the draft ahead of him next year,
Speaker 3: but for the final two weeks, give me Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 1: I think you got to. Yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 1: Like it's close, Like I love Parker Meadow so much,
Speaker 1: but you know, middle of the Dodgers line up with
Speaker 1: what he's doing, it's hard to it's hard to go
Speaker 1: against that. Drop Tristan Cassis for Parades or Horwitz could
Speaker 1: could probably do for Horwitz maybe, But I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's such a crazy thing to say, just thinking about
Speaker 1: where Tristan Cassas was a couple of months ago. But
Speaker 1: I think that's an all right move to make.
Speaker 3: Tristan Cassis is platuning now, so it's a very good
Speaker 3: move to make. He's not playing at all vers lefties.
Speaker 3: What I would say, though, is check your waiver wire.
Speaker 3: You got Ty France with six games in Cincinnati next week,
Speaker 3: or Carlos Santana plays five or six rities next week,
Speaker 3: and Santana's been great. I'd take France and Santana over
Speaker 3: Pretis and Horwitz, so check your format. Otherwise, if it's
Speaker 3: just these two guys, give me Spencer Horwitz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll mention Switzer Horwitz again in a second. But
Speaker 1: one other question, Strider, should he be a top three
Speaker 1: sp I'm assuming this is talking about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: If he comes into spring training healthy, he maybe should be,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he will be. Bubba, where
Speaker 1: are you at on this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't do it until I see him healthy. Like,
Speaker 3: I don't think he's back till May, early May, so
Speaker 3: you're missing a month, which still five months of peak.
Speaker 2: Strider's great, but not for me.
Speaker 1: Kind out there for a second, But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a it was a quick note. Bloomfield's having some fun.
Speaker 1: Here is this AI generated Bubba actually touting Tommy Edmond?
Speaker 1: He is? He is, in fact touting.
Speaker 2: Back to back days. Yes, dead so bad too.
Speaker 1: I'm back to back days. This is what I'm This
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing to Bubba. This is what happens.
Speaker 1: Let's do a little bit of playoff prep. Just want
Speaker 1: to talk about some fringier two star pitchers for next week.
Speaker 1: Depending on your format, these guys might be an automatic
Speaker 1: yes or an automatic no, but we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about them briefly anyway. Merril Kelly at Colorado at Milwaukee
Speaker 1: hasn't been the greatest stretch for Merril Kelly at Colorado
Speaker 1: worries me a little bit. Are you rolling with him?
Speaker 1: And let's say twelve teamers here, Bubba.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take Merril Kelly in this one. Colorado doesn't
Speaker 3: scare me. Milwaukee scares me more than Colorado. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll roll Marrial Kelly out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I probably would, maybe not in really
Speaker 1: shallow leagues, but I think twelves and beyond is probably okay.
Speaker 1: Aaron Savali, this one is tricky versus Philadelphia versus Arizona.
Speaker 1: I think I'm leaning no, just based on the trickiness
Speaker 1: of the matchups, Bubba. Maybe in fifteen's i'd maybe consider it,
Speaker 1: But I think generally I'm leaning no here.
Speaker 2: That's no for me.
Speaker 3: You can throw him back to the waiver wire and
Speaker 3: pretend this year never happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a lot of people want to pretend
Speaker 1: this year never happened for Aaron Savali, Jake Irvin coming
Speaker 1: off of a decent start after what had been kind
Speaker 1: of a terrible stretch for him. Not a bad couple
Speaker 1: of matchups at the Mets at the Cubs. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm probably gonna roll with him if I need
Speaker 1: some volume here. He's not a bad option. What do
Speaker 1: you think in Bubba?
Speaker 3: When I'm looking at this matchup, I'm really not a
Speaker 3: fan of ja Gerb and he's been I've been a
Speaker 3: fan earlier this year he was great. I think he's
Speaker 3: hitting his wall innings wise, We've seen this with young pitchers.
Speaker 3: I would avoid this two step.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you need volume, I think you could do worse.
Speaker 1: But I think generally speaking, I kind of agree. The
Speaker 1: only reason this guy is even getting mentioned this next
Speaker 1: guy is because of the matchups. But it's probably a no.
Speaker 1: Even with the matchups. Bobby Miller at Miami versus Colorado,
Speaker 1: it's about the most cupcake two start you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 1: But Bobby Miller has been garbage, so any any chance
Speaker 1: you're starting him here, Bobb? But even in fifteens, would
Speaker 1: you roll Bobby Miller?
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think the Dodgers are starting
Speaker 2: him next week.
Speaker 3: Let's put it that way. Glass now supposed to come
Speaker 3: back Thursday. I don't think Bobby Miller's in the rotation
Speaker 3: next week. But even if he is, that's a no.
Speaker 3: I am not going through that chaos. It's just not
Speaker 3: worth it.
Speaker 1: So just briefly, heading in the next year, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be dirt cheap, dirt cheap, No, you don't want him.
Speaker 2: Nah.
Speaker 3: If he's dirt cheap, he I don't think he will
Speaker 3: be though, unless it's like a Yahoo or a CBS
Speaker 3: Like in the NFC leagues. People are smart enough to
Speaker 3: know the talents there. The kid's been hurt, slash a mess.
Speaker 3: Could he figure things out? Like it'll be a discount
Speaker 3: from this year, but not as big a discounts. I
Speaker 3: think most people think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, maybe you're right. I think in the
Speaker 1: average league, like you mentioned, it's Yahoo, ESPN, CBS fan tracks,
Speaker 1: he might not even get drafted. In twelve teamers, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have like an eight something era, a one to
Speaker 1: seven whip. In those NFBC leagues, he's probably gonna get taken.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if I'll be tempted to take the dip.
Speaker 1: He's looking at the strong stuff numbers and everything like that.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's an injury. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: got to be something wrong.
Speaker 3: With his knees been bugging him. I think there's more
Speaker 3: than that. It's so bad right.
Speaker 1: It's got this, I feel like there's got to be
Speaker 1: something more. Let's talk about a couple of hitters who
Speaker 1: are also probably some guys you should consider picking up.
Speaker 1: Spencer Horwitz, who we already mentioned. He's been really really good.
Speaker 1: We're both pretty interested there. Forty percent rostered on Yahoo
Speaker 1: for the deeper league players, Otto Lopez second base, shortstop eligible.
Speaker 1: He's been really really solid for them recently. He's batting
Speaker 1: typically in the middle of the order. Last three games, fourth, second,
Speaker 1: and fourth. It is Miami, but Otto Lopez has been
Speaker 1: pretty good. Even over the last month. He's hitting three
Speaker 1: hundred four stolen bases in that time. You got any
Speaker 1: interest in Auto Lopez BABA?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In deeper formats, if you need a middle infielder, go
Speaker 3: for like there's s JC from Saint Louis is a
Speaker 3: middle infield option. Trevor Story is play widely out there
Speaker 3: for middle infield, but Otto Lopez in a deeper league
Speaker 3: is definitely viable.
Speaker 1: Dylan Cruz is also somebody that I think should be
Speaker 1: more a roster than he is forty percent. Feels like
Speaker 1: we're selling him a little bit short. I understand that
Speaker 1: football is here and people are kind of done with
Speaker 1: their leagues. If it's head to head and it ended early,
Speaker 1: or or if you're in eleventh place, you might not
Speaker 1: be making pickups. But Dylan Cruz only on forty percent
Speaker 1: of rosters. He's been really solid. I mean, the batting
Speaker 1: average is only two forty one, but in fifty eight
Speaker 1: at bats, three homers and six stolen bases. I mean
Speaker 1: that's pretty damn impressive. Bubba, is he an all formats
Speaker 1: type of for you or is he more of a
Speaker 1: deeper league play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely an all four Mets type guy. You
Speaker 3: can run him out there unless you're unless you have
Speaker 3: one heck of an outfield, that's where you want to
Speaker 3: be going.
Speaker 1: I also want to mention Victor Roblaz, who you'd think
Speaker 1: would be on more rosters based on how he's done
Speaker 1: this season, but he's only on twenty four percent of
Speaker 1: Yahoo rosters. He's a top ten player over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks sixteen for his last thirty five was six
Speaker 1: tolen bases. He's playing every day in that leadoff spot
Speaker 1: in Seattle. Not a good park, obviously, not a good lineup,
Speaker 1: But I think Victor Roblaz should be on a lot
Speaker 1: more than twenty four percent of rosters at this point.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. He's back leading off. He's hitting almost
Speaker 3: five hundred over the last like thirteen games or something,
Speaker 3: and he's got eight stolen bases. Yes, he needs to
Speaker 3: be rostered everywhere.
Speaker 1: Somebody else I want to mention for the deeper league
Speaker 1: crowd is Kyle Farmer. I know that this is a
Speaker 1: bit of a niche one one percent rostered on Yahoo,
Speaker 1: and that one percent came over the last day or so.
Speaker 1: But if you look over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: he's doing really good things. She's not an every single
Speaker 1: day type of player, but he's on a five game
Speaker 1: or a six game hit streak right now. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of intrigued for deeper leagues if you need a
Speaker 1: bit of a utility option here, triple eligible, any interest
Speaker 1: in Kyle Farmer, Bubby, I know this one's going to
Speaker 1: skew for the deeper crowd, But what's your interest level here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're in a deep league, he fits the
Speaker 3: mold I guess is a guy drafting, drafted holds all
Speaker 3: the time. He's starting for me in leagues right now
Speaker 3: for this exact reason. He's got that multipositional eligibility, which,
Speaker 3: as we finished the last couple weeks, could be tremendous
Speaker 3: with weird injuries and guys sitting. So yeah, I think
Speaker 3: he's a very, very viable option.
Speaker 1: Didn't think we'd be talking about Kyle Farmer as a
Speaker 1: viable option, but that's the ups and downs of the
Speaker 1: fantasy season. Sticking in Minnesota for a second, with just
Speaker 1: a weird one here, I think everybody kind of saw
Speaker 1: this ONECE Jeff pass and tweeted out. Yesterday, the Twins
Speaker 1: released minor league catcherck Derek Bender, who's their six round pick.
Speaker 1: This past year, he was caught tipping pitches to the
Speaker 1: opposing batters, and his reasoning was that he wanted the
Speaker 1: season to hurry up and get over with. I feel
Speaker 1: like we can all relate to some ex that there,
Speaker 1: but I feel like throwing your whole career away might
Speaker 1: not have been the smartest move there. This is really surprising.
Speaker 1: The first thing that my mind went to was are
Speaker 1: you able to bet on single A games? Because this
Speaker 1: has got to be some thing too, got to be
Speaker 1: I don't know where these books are that are taking
Speaker 1: action on single A games, but that feels like that's
Speaker 1: got to be involved somewhere. What was your reaction when
Speaker 1: you saw this, Bubba. It's probably the craziest story I've
Speaker 1: seen this year.
Speaker 2: It was very bizarre.
Speaker 3: I thought I was watching like Major League seven or
Speaker 3: something when this is taking place.
Speaker 2: But yeah, because it makes no sense.
Speaker 3: If you want to get the season over earlier, why
Speaker 3: are you telling them what to hit like that?
Speaker 2: Things like that would prolong the game. That is what
Speaker 2: I'm kind of thinking.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a weird one, and that's a it's
Speaker 3: wild to think you've played your whole life, you finally
Speaker 3: get drafted, you're in the bigs, and you're gonna throw
Speaker 3: it away like that. That's you're a catcher, man. These
Speaker 3: are long time, long seasons. That's just that's the reality
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: I like, I was a minor league baseball player. I
Speaker 1: never read, not a high level, but you dream of
Speaker 1: making it to the show. You make it to the show,
Speaker 1: you get drafted, and then you throw it away within
Speaker 1: six months because your borders. I don't know. I can't
Speaker 1: get my head around it. Just wild. One wanted to
Speaker 1: mention that there it wasn't the just for fun segment,
Speaker 1: but I didn't even know where to place it. Really,
Speaker 1: it's just a weird story right up there with the
Speaker 1: took a Peeda Marcano's story. Agreed, Angelo, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the three up and three down. Brent Rooker continues his
Speaker 1: incredible season the Combo Meal yesterday, stealing a base for
Speaker 1: you as well as hitting a home run. Frankie Montas
Speaker 1: six innings of shutout ball with eight strikeouts, a lot
Speaker 1: of couple of hits and picked up a win. And
Speaker 1: then Mitchell Parker a bit of an up and down
Speaker 1: rookie season for him, but if you streamed him yesterday,
Speaker 1: you did well for yourself. Six and the third with
Speaker 1: five strikeouts and three hits of shutout ball. On the
Speaker 1: three down, Carson Spears not good stuff two and two thirds,
Speaker 1: seven hits, three walks, and four earned runs. JP Crawford
Speaker 1: oh for four with three strikeouts, and he also took
Speaker 1: one of the more ridiculous swings. I've seen him and
Speaker 1: Jorge Polanco or just swinging all over the place against Rocker.
Speaker 1: It was pretty embarrassing stuff from the both of them.
Speaker 1: In Crawford, I didn't even realize he's been below two
Speaker 1: hundred this year. It has been awful for JP crawt
Speaker 1: Ryan Pepio two innings, four hits, two walks, and two
Speaker 1: earned runs. Not what you were hoping for him this
Speaker 1: time of year, either on the either upboard down segment, Bubba.
Speaker 1: Any of these six names really stick out to you
Speaker 1: in any way.
Speaker 3: This one I highlight Franky Montas since he's joined the Brewers,
Speaker 3: he's made eight starts, fifty strikeouts, and forty five innings,
Speaker 3: three in runs or less than six of the eight starts.
Speaker 3: So he's much more formidable than I think people want
Speaker 3: to give him credit for. And JP Crawford he's moved
Speaker 3: down to like seventh or eighth and Yoder and he can, yeah,
Speaker 3: he can go. He go get Kyle Farmer instead of
Speaker 3: JP Crawford.
Speaker 1: It's awful. JP Crawford was a great fantasy asset last
Speaker 1: season as a late shortstop, middle endfield guy, even like
Speaker 1: a utility bench option. This year has been awful for him.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the injury updates. A bit of
Speaker 1: a scary one here, a scary name to see on
Speaker 1: the injury report. Toreek Schooble was hit on his glove
Speaker 1: hand by a comebacker on Thursday. Did stay to finish
Speaker 1: the inning, and he's listed as day to day. Any
Speaker 1: concern here, Bubba that this could potentially lead to Scooble
Speaker 1: having to miss a start down the stretch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw this news last night when I was
Speaker 3: doing my stuff, and I was like, what in the world.
Speaker 3: But they said X rays or negative. They don't expect
Speaker 3: him to miss time. It happened earlier in the game
Speaker 3: and he finished the game, pitched six strong innings, like
Speaker 3: you mentioned, I would imagine he's fine that. Then again,
Speaker 3: he's already kind of hitting those innings. Somebody they're like, hey,
Speaker 3: we got a reason to kind of shut you down
Speaker 3: for the year. Kid, You've already got the cy young.
Speaker 3: Let's call it good. I don't think it slows him down,
Speaker 3: but definitely something to monitor going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. If it does lead him to miss
Speaker 1: a start, that would not be great, especially for those
Speaker 1: head to head managers. This time of year, that would
Speaker 1: be pretty bad. Speaking of bad Corey Seeger season, Finito,
Speaker 1: we already pretty much knew this was coming, but he
Speaker 1: underwent sports hernia surgery. As of now, he's expected to
Speaker 1: be ready for spring training. Do you think this will
Speaker 1: impact his price heading in the next season at all?
Speaker 2: Babo?
Speaker 3: I always want to say so, but it seems like
Speaker 3: Corey Seger always has an injury and people still take
Speaker 3: him in the second or third round of every draft,
Speaker 3: and I just avoid, avoid, avoid, and it's burned me
Speaker 3: like once, I guess, And it's nothing against Corey. He's
Speaker 3: a great player when he's on the field, but he's
Speaker 3: just never on the field. So weirdly enough, I don't
Speaker 3: think it'll affect his draft price because he should be
Speaker 3: ready by opening day, so I don't.
Speaker 1: You're probably right. Question of the chat, how did you
Speaker 1: get hit on the glove? Hand? Isn't that just getting
Speaker 1: hit on the glove? I actually admittedly did not see it,
Speaker 1: but I would imagine it was just a ball that
Speaker 1: hit on the outside of the glove or something, and
Speaker 1: it was hit hard enough that it did hurt his hand.
Speaker 2: Look at his Look at his next comment.
Speaker 1: Oh, near the wrist. Yeah, I actually did not see it.
Speaker 1: I just saw it on the on the injury report there.
Speaker 1: But I'll take a look at the clip and what
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it again.
Speaker 3: If anybody's played baseball and someone throws the ball hard
Speaker 3: or whatever, or I played first base, get a line
Speaker 3: drive and it hits you in the palm of the glove.
Speaker 3: The glove ain't that thick, folks. It's still going to
Speaker 3: hurt like a like a mother. So yeah, that's probably
Speaker 3: what took place there.
Speaker 1: You're probably right on some cheerier news. Jacob de Gram.
Speaker 1: We've mentioned a couple times this week, but it's today, folks.
Speaker 1: His first start in five hundred and three days will
Speaker 1: take place against the Mariners. I'd imagine I'm not the
Speaker 1: biggest DFS player anymore, but you might get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a discount first start back. No, no, a
Speaker 1: full price.
Speaker 3: The top of my top of my head, he's eighty
Speaker 3: five or eighty six hundred bucks, which I guess is
Speaker 3: technically a discount from the normal to Gram, but you're
Speaker 3: only expecting like four or five innings, so it's not
Speaker 3: early a discount like Rocker was eighty five last night too,
Speaker 3: Like they're they're not coming out, but Brasso's four KA night,
Speaker 3: so that's why I'll be playing.
Speaker 2: But sorry to turn this to no DFS segment.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, I love DFS. I wish it
Speaker 1: was more accessible here. I'm in the one place in Canada,
Speaker 1: in Ontario where it's very hard to play DFS. They've
Speaker 1: made it very difficult over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: There's only one or two niche places where I can play.
Speaker 1: But I miss it. I do miss playing DFS as
Speaker 1: much as I used to. Liam Hendricks shut down for
Speaker 1: the remainder of the season, likely to be shut down.
Speaker 1: That wasn't like one hundred percent, But it looks like
Speaker 1: we're trending in that direction. A little bit of a
Speaker 1: setback in his recovery from Tommy John and they figure
Speaker 1: there's no need to risk it. I wonder if William
Speaker 1: Hendricks ever gets a closer job again, Bubba, is there
Speaker 1: a chance that maybe he's the closer in Boston or
Speaker 1: somewhere else next season? Will you be speculating on him
Speaker 1: in drafts as if that's going to be the case.
Speaker 2: I think is Kinley still there next year?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Still?
Speaker 3: Only thing I got to check. I feel like he is,
Speaker 3: but I could be wrong. If Kenley's not there, then yes,
Speaker 3: Liam has a chance to be the closer. I would
Speaker 3: not be shocked there. I think he's gonna have to
Speaker 3: prove himself for a year, though, at least half a year.
Speaker 3: Like Liam's gonna have to come back and put some
Speaker 3: miniings out there and show he can bring the goods
Speaker 3: goods again, and then he'll he will be a closer
Speaker 3: against sometime that We've seen the volatility of closers in baseball.
Speaker 2: They get paid.
Speaker 3: Like if Liam just wants to get a paycheck if
Speaker 3: he pitches good next year, but Colorado could sign him
Speaker 3: and he can get paid. He might not be the
Speaker 3: best case scenario, but he'll get his money and everyone's happy.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be happy if he's a Colorado closer. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't love it. I mean, I'd still take it.
Speaker 2: But thirty saves, so it would work.
Speaker 1: That's true. As for ken Ley, he is a free
Speaker 1: agent after this season. He's also going to be thirty
Speaker 1: seven years old later this month, so I wonder how
Speaker 1: much time we have left on the Kenley train. It'd
Speaker 1: be interesting. I'd like to see Liam Hendrickson. After all
Speaker 1: he's been through, it'd be really cool to see him
Speaker 1: get a closer job back and return to like he
Speaker 1: was like a second third round type of player for
Speaker 1: a few years there.
Speaker 2: He was awesome.
Speaker 1: He was amazing, and the Blue Jays of course had
Speaker 1: him and let him slip through the cracks before. We
Speaker 1: won't get into that because I'll be here all day.
Speaker 1: Chas McCormick was placed on the al with a fractured rerist.
Speaker 1: Season is more than likely over, which is a shame
Speaker 1: because as awful that he'd been for most of the season,
Speaker 1: he'd actually started to pick things up a little bit
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. But it's overall a
Speaker 1: very disappointing season for mister Chas McCormick. Any thoughts on
Speaker 1: him there, Bubba, Will you buy the dip next season?
Speaker 3: I doubt it in a deep like a draft and
Speaker 3: hold I don't mind him as like a deep deep
Speaker 3: outfielders to add depth to my bench. If he figures
Speaker 3: it out, it's great in a redraft league. I doubt
Speaker 3: it because Jake Myers should get the job over him
Speaker 3: starting the season and they have other options for now.
Speaker 3: If the injuries take place. He's a fab target, not
Speaker 3: a draft target.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right there. Unfortunately, I had big expectations.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a twenty twenty guy, easily a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty guy. But you never know. You never know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen throughout the course of the season.
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Speaker 1: On your best bets?
Speaker 3: All over one and a half total bases. That's what
Speaker 3: we're keeping it simple here.
Speaker 2: We're sorry.
Speaker 3: Lane Thomas over one and a half total bases. Great
Speaker 3: matchup for the Guardians on Friday. Thomas is actually swinging
Speaker 3: it very well, multiple hits in a handful of the
Speaker 3: last four or five games, so he's a plus one
Speaker 3: forty over one and a half total bases. Carlos Santana
Speaker 3: gonna keep going to that well. They have a great
Speaker 3: matchup in Minnesota. Carlos has been double like multiple hits
Speaker 3: in a lot like last game last Wednesday, had a
Speaker 3: hit in two walks, so like he's still getting on base.
Speaker 3: So this is kind of the bummer, But it's the
Speaker 3: best odds I saw out of his props. So he's
Speaker 3: plus one thirty and I'm gonna keep writing PCA. He
Speaker 3: didn't come well, he half came through. He got the
Speaker 3: total the hits, runs and RBIs on Wednesday. Didn't get
Speaker 3: the run scored part, so yin and the yang, but
Speaker 3: over one and a half total bases. Cubs are in cooers, folks,
Speaker 3: it's plus one twenty and Gohmer's coming off the IL.
Speaker 3: I wanted to take a lot more Cubs props, but
Speaker 3: it's going to be a bloodbath in Coors this weekend.
Speaker 3: Maybe not Fridays. Might sometimes takes a day. But give
Speaker 3: me PCA at plus one twenty, so all plus odds
Speaker 3: as usual.
Speaker 1: You are the plus money man, as I have coined you,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Ryan will eventually take that term and
Speaker 1: use it as well on your show. But my bets.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Jacob deGrom. I've talked about him at nauseam.
Speaker 1: At this point, over six and a half strikeouts is
Speaker 1: plus money today. That's kind of where the buck stops
Speaker 1: for me. Kumar Rocker, Kumar Rocker in four innings, got
Speaker 1: the seven strikeouts. It's the Mariners. This team is. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if there's any Mariners fans watching. They're pretty much
Speaker 1: a joke. Offensively. Anybody could go in there and rack
Speaker 1: up a decent number of strikeouts. But to Grom six
Speaker 1: and a half, it's not a crazy number at plus money,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't pass it up. Landon Nak as well
Speaker 1: on the strikeout over against Atlanta, it's just a very
Speaker 1: low number at four and a half. It is at
Speaker 1: minus one twenty, but this is a number that I
Speaker 1: feel like he can pretty easily hit. And Atlanta is
Speaker 1: a team where I feel like there's still the near
Speaker 1: around them that they're the Braves. They're the Braves. They're
Speaker 1: a tricky offense, They're really not that great offensively. Landonna
Speaker 1: is coming off of an eight strikeout game against Cleveland,
Speaker 1: a team that does not strike out that much. So
Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident that he can get to over four
Speaker 1: and a half today and then say a Suzuki like
Speaker 1: you already alluded to with the Cubs to Austin gombering,
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be happening tonight. Say a Suzuki over
Speaker 1: one and a half total bases. It is juice to
Speaker 1: minus one sixty. But you want to mix those in altogether,
Speaker 1: parlay them or something, you'd get some better odds. But
Speaker 1: that is where I'm headed. Bubba's at Lane Thomas over
Speaker 1: one and a half total basis, Carlos Santana over one
Speaker 1: and a half total bases, and Peek Armstrong over one
Speaker 1: and a half total bases. I'm Jacob deGrom over six
Speaker 1: and a half strikeouts, Landonnac over four and a half strikeouts,
Speaker 1: and say a Suzuki over one and a half total bases. Bubba,
Speaker 1: it's time for the home runs and we are on fuego.
Speaker 1: Are both of our home run calls hit? On Wednesday?
Speaker 1: The teams that we were targeting the Cubs in Arizona
Speaker 1: combined for twenty two runs on Wednesday, So we nailed
Speaker 1: that one. Where you headed today for.
Speaker 3: Your call, Well, you just happen to have a prop
Speaker 3: bet on, Sayzki, I believe I'm going with Saya's Azuki
Speaker 3: going to town. I almost kept Cody Bellinger just to
Speaker 3: keep the streak. Alive for the week, but I went
Speaker 3: to sayah, he went deep on Wednesday as well, because
Speaker 3: everyone hit a home run on Wednesday. But yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: go say as Azuki, who's actually been red hot over
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, and enjoy some coors Field fun.
Speaker 1: I love Saya. I love Saya Azuki. If that early
Speaker 1: draft you did as any indication, maybe he'll be slided
Speaker 1: a little bit heading into drafts next season. If he is,
Speaker 1: I'll take any do. I love the guy. All he
Speaker 1: needs is to stay healthy and he can easily be
Speaker 1: a top at worse a top one hundred player in fantasy.
Speaker 1: I'm going for James Wood today against Edward Cabrera. A
Speaker 1: couple of games consecutively for edvarg Cabrera not allowing a
Speaker 1: home run. That's just not who he is. He is
Speaker 1: due to give one up eventually, and James Wood. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could go for a couple different members of the
Speaker 1: Nationals today, but I think I am leaning towards James
Speaker 1: Wood considering how solid he's been. The power hasn't quite
Speaker 1: been what I was hoping for. He hasn't hit a
Speaker 1: home run the last couple of weeks. I think he
Speaker 1: is due to breakout of his dry slump today the
Speaker 1: same way that Kad Tell Marte did on Wednesday when
Speaker 1: we hit that one. Bubba, let's keep the hot streat going,
Speaker 1: my friend as we head into the weekend. But that
Speaker 1: will do it, folks. That is leading off for the week.
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts, Bubba before we sign off.
Speaker 3: Everybody, have a great weekend. Make sure to do your
Speaker 3: fab when it matters. Got a couple more week to
Speaker 3: grind on that one. Don't be afraid to drop people
Speaker 3: you've been cleaning to all year because they might not
Speaker 3: be benefiting you when you need them the most the
Speaker 3: last few weeks. But good luck everybody, and we'll be
Speaker 3: back with you guys to start next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see if well she's around, you'll get one
Speaker 1: of us, for sure. We'll see if we'll see because
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