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Speaker 1: got the waiver wire pickups, we got all the guys
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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, we didn't miss you here. We were fine.
Speaker 2: We had a great Greek without you don't worry about us, Joe.
Speaker 2: We were perfectly fine here with that. You just leave
Speaker 2: if you want to leave, it's fine. We were fine. Okay,
Speaker 2: not passive aggressive at all. I mean that definitely doesn't see.
Speaker 2: I will say this though.
Speaker 1: You know what I like yesterday on the MLB games,
Speaker 1: I like the uh the stars and stripes hats that
Speaker 1: everybody was wearing. So those were weird hot design man.
Speaker 2: Okay, So do you know what they reminded me of?
Speaker 2: The sharks hound tooth hat? Of are the shark's tooth
Speaker 2: hat from the early nineties, the one that had like
Speaker 2: the logo and then you did as well.
Speaker 1: You just put house tooth and shark's tooth and made
Speaker 1: them one thing you pulled away.
Speaker 2: I mean, at least it was a cliche, but it was.
Speaker 2: It is two designs. I understand I messed up. But
Speaker 2: there was a shark's tooth hat in the early nineties
Speaker 2: that reminded me of that. So, okay, I'll have to
Speaker 2: try and find a picture and send it to you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I heard they were all up in arms
Speaker 2: though in Toronto about it. They didn't like these hats.
Speaker 2: They're like, well, why are you making us wear of
Speaker 2: these hats?
Speaker 1: So I get it. You know, they should have had
Speaker 1: a Canadian one. I mean that's pretty cool. I want
Speaker 1: maple leaves falling everywhere. I mean, come on, we can
Speaker 1: we can do some nice things. Yes, And there's Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer right on it with the Blue Jays before I
Speaker 1: can even say it, there he is, Yes, the curmudgeon himself.
Speaker 1: It must be hard to be a curmudgeon in your thirties, mayre,
Speaker 1: It must be hard. Let's get to some of the
Speaker 1: action from yesterday, shall we, And let's start with the headlines.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals and back to back to back to back
Speaker 1: to back, No, just just back to back to back
Speaker 1: to back home runs, the eleventh time in Major League
Speaker 1: history that's happened. The last team to do it was
Speaker 1: the White Sox against the Cardinals in twenty twenty. From
Speaker 1: five runs down, Jordan Alvarez, who you know, couldn't buy
Speaker 1: a home run for the week that I picked him
Speaker 1: on vacation, then gets a concussion and then comes back
Speaker 1: and decides he's going to hit a bunch of home runs.
Speaker 1: So last couple of days, so great, but good for him,
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's healthy, but a four hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four foot walk off not bad. Saya Suzuki made his
Speaker 1: return and had an in the park home run. That's
Speaker 1: always fun, isn't it bogs the inside the parking?
Speaker 2: Of course, Two league homers are fun. Man that they're
Speaker 2: fun to watch. It's fun to see somebody screw it
Speaker 2: up in the outfield, which is typically what happens on
Speaker 2: an inside the parker, and then just the panic in
Speaker 2: their face. That's a lot of fun to see.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's deflating for everybody at once. It's
Speaker 1: deflating for the entire defense, Like everyone's out there at
Speaker 1: one time. The pitcher's deflated because you know, he gave
Speaker 1: up a big hit to the outfield. The outfield, somebody
Speaker 1: made a bad throw somewhere, like something went to rye there.
Speaker 2: I went to the World Baseball Classic. I don't even
Speaker 2: remember what year, but it was USA versus Canada, and
Speaker 2: speaking of Canada, winning stubby clap sitting inside the park
Speaker 2: Grand Slam from the nine hole in Chase Field. It
Speaker 2: was embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Yes, nice, I love a good stubby clap from the
Speaker 1: nine holes. One of my favorite things Oh the Dansby
Speaker 1: Swanson drives in three runs that win over the cards.
Speaker 1: We also had Byron bucks And homering and being part
Speaker 1: of a very fun triple play where the White Sox
Speaker 1: just kind of lost their mind on the bass pass
Speaker 1: had no idea what was going on, Like as if
Speaker 1: they thought that Byron Buckson couldn't get to that ball,
Speaker 1: Like do you not watch Barron bucks In play center field?
Speaker 1: Like you gotta kind of respect the dude a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But the best was I don't know if
Speaker 1: did you kill base I guess, but did you catch
Speaker 1: the loose on the look on Larus's face when Buckston
Speaker 1: caught the ball and then the whole thing happened.
Speaker 2: He thought he was sleeping.
Speaker 1: No, he was awake. He was somebody just they might
Speaker 1: have just woken him up. That That was the same
Speaker 1: look on his face that's just right afterwards. So that
Speaker 1: was pretty spectacular. Chris Taylor left with the swollen ankle Monday.
Speaker 1: He's being re evaluated today, so keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: He should have been your lineups anyway, he's been dealing
Speaker 1: with that foot issue. Brian Bellow was going to make
Speaker 1: his uh major league debut Wednesday, for the bow Socks.
Speaker 1: We also had Mookie Betts starting at second base Monday,
Speaker 1: so that's always fun. Yahoo loves that. Now he'll start
Speaker 1: at second base for the next ten years. In terms of.
Speaker 2: LA he already qualified at second base.
Speaker 1: I mean, no big deal there.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett and the COVID nineteen is gonna be a
Speaker 1: long shot to pitch for this Thursday, So again, manage
Speaker 1: your rotations accordingly. And Jesse Winker starts a six game
Speaker 1: suspension for what was a fight that happened when I
Speaker 1: was on vacation. But that was one of the better fights.
Speaker 2: You know, me, that was a good fight. Tough guys.
Speaker 1: I hate the fake tough guys. If you're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there, you want to throw hands, throw hands, don't
Speaker 1: be a whish.
Speaker 2: Hey man, Anthony Rendel was ready to throw hands with
Speaker 2: one out there. I know, we like that, you know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was That was a crazy, fun, intense
Speaker 2: fight and lots of suspensions and they're you know, Winkers
Speaker 2: serving it now it makes sense, So yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a good one. And it's so nice
Speaker 1: to see all the peanuts and crackajacks, I say, j
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the injuries. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of them. Tyler O'Neil hamstring is coming back from his injury.
Speaker 1: Two hits in triple A Kelly Jansen is expected to
Speaker 1: be back on the twelve, so at least we have
Speaker 1: a target date, so that's important. Wilson Contreras left the
Speaker 1: game with a tight hammy. This is not good though.
Speaker 1: You don't want any injury issues here if you're indeed
Speaker 1: fielding any offers in the next month. Here. For Contreras,
Speaker 1: this is an important one, so monitor that one. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna change anything. Scott Servis, though, was
Speaker 1: optimistic that ty Frantz will be back this week, so
Speaker 1: that's a plus. Kevin Gossman still a little iffy with
Speaker 1: that ankle for his next start. Kimberrel expect to be
Speaker 1: back in a day or two, and the White Sox
Speaker 1: activated Liam Hendrix yesterday too, so that is also good
Speaker 1: news for the White Sox. Speaking of the White Sox bots,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this question. Do you think, now
Speaker 1: that we have passed the halfway point in the season officially,
Speaker 1: that the White Sox have a run in them? Because
Speaker 1: nothing's really quite gone right for an extended period for them.
Speaker 1: Is this the team that's laying in the weeds, not
Speaker 1: just from a wagering standpoint, but also from a fantasy standpoint.
Speaker 1: If they get healthy and finally get hot. Are the
Speaker 1: White Sox a team to start investing in here in
Speaker 1: the second half?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I mean, you know, I believe the
Speaker 2: White Sox had the best odds to make it to
Speaker 2: the World Series in the Al going into the season.
Speaker 2: I think they were just like a little bit better
Speaker 2: than the Blue Jays, is what it was. And they're
Speaker 2: five and a half games back. They're two games below
Speaker 2: five five hundred right now, and the teams in front
Speaker 2: of them are the Guardians and the Twins. This is
Speaker 2: very doable. This isn't like, you know, being behind the
Speaker 2: Astros in the West, where they're thirteen and a half
Speaker 2: games up. That is doable, but it's nearly impossible. But
Speaker 2: that's doable too. But five and a half games, I
Speaker 2: mean that's you know, a good week that could that
Speaker 2: could absolutely happen very quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of agree with you. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was encouraging to see gie Alito have a good week
Speaker 1: because he's been dreadful for the last month, and so
Speaker 1: much so that I started to some guys I don't
Speaker 1: lose faith in, Like, I don't care. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: leave him in my lineup with Gilito in the last
Speaker 1: couple of starts, like, oh man, maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: just benj him and wait a little bit. But I didn't,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad I didn't last week because it turned
Speaker 1: out better, So that's a positive. But still they need
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a team that's got all
Speaker 1: the right pieces, they just haven't all triggered at the
Speaker 1: same time. And as important as a good first half is,
Speaker 1: and the Yankees and the Mets and the Astros, a
Speaker 1: lot of teams, the Dodgers have had really good first halfs,
Speaker 1: that second half is almost more important because that's kind
Speaker 1: of the momentum into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still say the.
Speaker 1: White Sox, I agree with you that division is not
Speaker 1: like a world beater, tough division to get ahead, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe a little bit of a paper tiger
Speaker 1: syndrome at the top of it. Let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: This is from one of our writers, Austin Lowell, who
Speaker 1: has been on this picture for a while. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this, and I'm talking about a Baltimore
Speaker 1: Orioles pitcher. I know, I know the ratings are going
Speaker 1: to go through the roof, but check this out. Tyler
Speaker 1: Wells Elray is down to three ZHO nine after six innings,
Speaker 1: one run, seven k's over the twins this week. Right
Speaker 1: era of five point five to four in April, followed
Speaker 1: by two ninety three in May, two forty two in June,
Speaker 1: and then the one start in July at one fifty.
Speaker 1: No one's talking about this guy, and I love it
Speaker 1: because we have such great writers here at Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: who are tracking things and doing the news updates and
Speaker 1: writing the articles. Tyler Wells is kind of an interesting
Speaker 1: dude right now. That is only roster to believe this
Speaker 1: well in thirty percent of leagu'es box thirty percent of leagues.
Speaker 1: Are you somebody that would pick up Austin Lowell? I
Speaker 1: mean even just make him also like Tyler well I
Speaker 1: would pick up Aston Look at Boston Lowell for sure,
Speaker 1: that guy immediately. He's available in every league. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: would you add Tyler Wells even though he's an oriole
Speaker 1: based on the e R numbers and what he could
Speaker 1: possibly help you in peripherals?
Speaker 2: Look, but see, here's the deal. Anytime you add a
Speaker 2: guy like this, if he starts to you know, if
Speaker 2: he starts giving up a bunch of runs against you
Speaker 2: just dump him. You know, this is uh, this is
Speaker 2: a practice guy. It's fine. This is the guy at
Speaker 2: the end of your bench. That's all that matters. So yeah,
Speaker 2: pick him up, ride the wave. You know, you look
Speaker 2: at his savant page. He's not really good at anything.
Speaker 2: He's kind of middling at everything. Is a low walk rate,
Speaker 2: that's nice. His k percentage is ugly, which is why
Speaker 2: he is not rostered in more places. So you know, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you pick up a guy like this right the waves and.
Speaker 1: Smelts right, smelters another one of these guys too from
Speaker 1: the Twins where you say, well, you know, the cave
Speaker 1: braid is what six per nine was like. That is
Speaker 1: not very thrilling. That's not usually the kind of picture
Speaker 1: I like. But you know, whenever you're trying to stream pictures,
Speaker 1: if it was Paul Blackburn for the first couple of months,
Speaker 1: I guess the question is as well as like been
Speaker 1: this guy that maybe nobody's realized that could be the
Speaker 1: next version of that, And then there'll be another one,
Speaker 1: probably in August September that you can stream or pick
Speaker 1: those matchups. Smeltzer wells, those kind of guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, your best case scenario is whatever it he
Speaker 2: figured out in the second month, that clicks and it
Speaker 2: stays through to the end of the season. Worst case
Speaker 2: scenario is you pick him up, it's your faulty sucks,
Speaker 2: and you dump him after two starts because he's terrible
Speaker 2: again because you added him, right that is, And that's
Speaker 2: kind of where I get to that point with those guys,
Speaker 2: is that you know, and this is what replacement level
Speaker 2: is is. You know, when a guy gets hurt and
Speaker 2: you're starting to churn that spot, that's why you churn it.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe it's a month, maybe it's two. Much
Speaker 2: this guy is great and then he starts to fall back.
Speaker 2: But however long it is, grab him, ride the wave
Speaker 2: and then find somebody else doing the same stuff.
Speaker 1: So again this is right from our writer here. Austin Lowell,
Speaker 1: who has his change up and slider have been nearly unhittable,
Speaker 1: rendering a one to ninety one batting average with a
Speaker 1: two to eighties slugging. Also, he's giving up just five
Speaker 1: runs over twenty six innings against the Yankees, Boston and Toronto.
Speaker 1: See that's always the thing, Like you look at those
Speaker 1: pitchers in you know, in that division, and you go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: do I want one of these low level pitchers on
Speaker 1: a low level team and a big time division. But
Speaker 1: that's that to me is most important. If you can
Speaker 1: hold your own at least give me a quality start
Speaker 1: in those matchups. I think Wells is going to be
Speaker 1: in the in the video and again at Austin Lowell
Speaker 1: wherever you can't too, because clearly he's doing good job
Speaker 1: for us. All right, let's get to next here, which
Speaker 1: is Julio Rodriguez is good at baseball. Julio Rodriguez fastest
Speaker 1: player in Major League Baseball history BOGS to get to
Speaker 1: fifteen plus OH runs and twenty steals in his first season.
Speaker 1: That's pretty astounding, don't you think, especially nowadays where nobody steals.
Speaker 2: Base it's pretty awesome. The Welsh listed off a tweet
Speaker 2: the other day that was comparing through eighty games him
Speaker 2: and Griffy and his numbers were better, which is just insanity,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Better in which way from the stolen bases or from
Speaker 1: just I.
Speaker 2: Think just like it was stolen bases. I think he
Speaker 2: had maybe one or two more homers. I think the
Speaker 2: batting average was close, but the slugging went to uh
Speaker 2: went to Julio for sure here and I got a
Speaker 2: buddy coming in at the end of the month here
Speaker 2: to visit on vacation. We're going to go see the
Speaker 2: Astros and Mariners play, so nice. Hopefully, just be healthy, Julio,
Speaker 2: that's all I asked, healthy, Be healthy for that, for
Speaker 2: that so I can watch you play. But yeah, man,
Speaker 2: he is he is something else right now. No one
Speaker 2: expected the stolen bases, like the fifteen homers not surprising.
Speaker 2: Decent batting average not surprising. The stolen bases kind of
Speaker 2: came out of nowhere. But this is you know, this
Speaker 2: is what I always say people. I don't think people
Speaker 2: think about this. The best instruction in baseball is still
Speaker 2: in the bigs, even though there's really good instruction at
Speaker 2: the lower levels. You want the players that you're investing
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars into to have the best instruction.
Speaker 2: So the best instructors are up in the big two,
Speaker 2: so you know, you learn something new.
Speaker 1: Is the only difference is there's pressure. That's why pressure
Speaker 1: to more pressure. Right, the instruction level is the best.
Speaker 1: Those those guys have those elite jobs is hitting coaches
Speaker 1: and pitching coaches for a reason. I've made a an
Speaker 1: It was an sat analogy basically, So Julia Rodriguez is
Speaker 1: to iPod as Jared Kalnick is to the Zoom. Is
Speaker 1: that accurate?
Speaker 2: Say that accurate? Right now?
Speaker 1: Like that? That's my sat analogy for the day.
Speaker 2: I missed walmarting those kmart right there.
Speaker 1: Well, Kmart was very strong for many many years. Where's
Speaker 1: Kmar Now it's not around. It's not around now neither,
Speaker 1: but it had to run. At least it had a run.
Speaker 1: Just neither's Jared Kalnick. Well, kel Nick never had a run.
Speaker 1: You're right, that's what I mean. Okay, was glorious for
Speaker 1: many years. I remember was the Mars one.
Speaker 2: Do you remember Mars one? There going make a reality
Speaker 2: program and uh send eight people to Mars to colonize
Speaker 2: it and live there. Never happened, so I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: But but then there wasn't another show where they went
Speaker 1: to Jupiter and then it all took off and it
Speaker 1: was great, right.
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, no one's ever done it before, so.
Speaker 1: It's got to be like a pro Like we were
Speaker 1: promised two things, and both of them were supposed to
Speaker 1: be amazing, and one of them did change our culture,
Speaker 1: and the other one became a punchline in Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy. I think that's the difference between those two things.
Speaker 1: The other question I have for you, Ken Julia Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: get to thirty thirty this year, because we're at the
Speaker 1: halfway mark. If you want to extrapolate, the stone bases
Speaker 1: are gonna be easy. It's the home run total. Can
Speaker 1: it be a rookie thirty thirty guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, he absolutely can be. I mean I
Speaker 2: don't know if he will, but it's one hundred percent
Speaker 2: in there. Look at his numbers right now. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: go on to you know, this is hitting homers that
Speaker 2: kind of a normal pace. You know, he's higher in
Speaker 2: the league, but he's not closed to judge or and
Speaker 2: after a.
Speaker 1: Terrible Jap he did nothing in April. You could just
Speaker 1: crumple up April. So this has all been May June pretty.
Speaker 2: Much right exactly. So for sure, Yeah, he can definitely
Speaker 2: get to thirty thirty that it would not be surprising.
Speaker 1: This excites me. I am excited here. I know Mike
Speaker 1: Marris very excited too, and he mayor is right. We
Speaker 1: do have some kmarts still in Jersey. By the way,
Speaker 1: we had one in my town here where I live
Speaker 1: up until about like six seven years ago, and it
Speaker 1: was very helpful to have something like that very close.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to go to Walmart. But
Speaker 1: eventually the Walmart, of course, did eat everything. Just like
Speaker 1: in south Park. It just consumes and consumes. Let's get
Speaker 1: to this day. In baseball, we had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun things. In nineteen ninety three, Ricky Henderson of the
Speaker 1: Athletics opened up both games of a doubleheader with a homer,
Speaker 1: first player to accomplish that feet in sixty years. In
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, one Gonzalez became the second player the
Speaker 1: top one hundred RBI before the All Star Break, And
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 2: And I remember that, remember that so clearly.
Speaker 1: Yes, Wan Gonzales is one of the great power hitting,
Speaker 1: slugging guys that we never talk about because we all
Speaker 1: just assumed there were special vitamins and we just we
Speaker 1: just brush him off. Holy crap, man, there was a
Speaker 1: window where wangan Zalas was unbelievably entertaining. Man, unbelieva.
Speaker 2: I remember, yeah, the one hundred RBI. I just remember
Speaker 2: looking and saying, he has eighty seven RBI right now,
Speaker 2: he's gonna have one hundred before the break. And then
Speaker 2: he did, and I if I'm remembering correctly, I feel
Speaker 2: like he got it in Camden. Maybe I'm mistaken, but
Speaker 2: I just I remember.
Speaker 1: Finished with like one was that one forty something? He
Speaker 1: finished like he didn't lit Yeah, might finished like sixty
Speaker 1: half or hammi or yeah, it's still Hank Greenberg. I
Speaker 1: believe that still has the record for RBI in a season,
Speaker 1: which is some ridiculous number which I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how he could do that. Another
Speaker 1: fun one, nineteen ninety eight, Roger Clemens became the eleventh
Speaker 1: pitcher in baseball history to hit three thousand strikeout mark,
Speaker 1: and that was in ninety eight, So he did it
Speaker 1: on July five. However, that brings us to our trivia
Speaker 1: question of the day, which was on July fourth, two
Speaker 1: not one, but two Hall of Fame pitchers in different
Speaker 1: years recorded their three thousand strikeout. Now, both these guys
Speaker 1: are in the Hall of Fame. That's your clue. They
Speaker 1: did it on July fourth. What two pictures on July
Speaker 1: fourth got to that three thousandth mark in strikeouts? If
Speaker 1: you know, drop the answer in the chat. There you go,
Speaker 1: and we have the answer here. Wan Gonzalez one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty seven is when he ended up with in
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty four games.
Speaker 2: Not too The single season record is Jimmy Fox one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three in nineteen thirty three. I think
Speaker 2: that by.
Speaker 1: Two how Trotsky had won sixty two and Sammy Sosa
Speaker 1: no one. What's the Henk Greenberg record? He had some
Speaker 1: weird record. I thought, Henk Greenberg. I thought it was RBI.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe it's hits in a season. I'm not sure. No,
Speaker 1: that's not it's actually looks like No, there was one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've typed in single season. It came
Speaker 2: up with these one sixties.
Speaker 1: It's Henk Greenberg a hundred and ninety one. That's it.
Speaker 1: Hack Wilson was one hundred and ninety one. Okay, Gerig
Speaker 1: was eighty five, had one eighty five, and.
Speaker 2: Green Break had one eighty four. Maybe those were in
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty nineteen thirty one. When does the like isn't
Speaker 2: there like some type of record, some line.
Speaker 1: I guess. But here's the most amazing thing. You're talking
Speaker 1: about guys in the one eighties and one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four games. That's pretty yeah. Wow, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: before the weight one hundred and sixty two. Roy Halladay
Speaker 1: is not the answer. By the way, we're looking for
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame pitchers who went their three thousand
Speaker 1: strikeout mark on July fourth will.
Speaker 2: Come back one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Randy was not one of those guys. They're a little
Speaker 1: bit older, and they will say this. Both guys pitched
Speaker 1: for a very long time. Both went into their forties.
Speaker 1: That's my other clue. I'll give you bonus trivia. Billy
Speaker 1: Hamilton laid down the marlins first sacrifice bunt of the
Speaker 1: season Monday. There were two teams still without a sacrifice
Speaker 1: bunt this season. Both are in the National League. No
Speaker 1: one's gonna name them, I don't think, but this is
Speaker 1: just hilarious. So the Raves and the San Francisco Giants
Speaker 1: have not.
Speaker 2: It's so funny that as soon as the DH goes
Speaker 2: to the NL, he seems give up bunning. You know,
Speaker 2: I can't believe they're both in the NL, because my
Speaker 2: initial guess on that was the Tigers, just because aj
Speaker 2: Hinch is terrible and they've scored the fewest runs. And
Speaker 2: the Yankees because they just don't need to sacrifice spunts
Speaker 2: to just hit thingers.
Speaker 1: So Nolan Ryan is indeed one of the Andrews. Andrew Hey,
Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan throws in three thousand shrikeouts and the fourth
Speaker 1: of July almost too perfect, that's right. But he did
Speaker 1: it because he's Nolan Ryan. Now that's one of them.
Speaker 1: Can you name the other? No it's not Maddox, No,
Speaker 1: it's not Bob Gibson. So it's a guy who didn't
Speaker 1: If you think of Nolan Ryan on one end of
Speaker 1: the spectrum, this other picture definitely on the other end
Speaker 1: of the spectrum, but still very effective. He did it
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four. That's my last all look at that.
Speaker 1: Somebody got it. Somebody got it. Phil neicro There it
Speaker 1: is de Hood got it. Very nice, Phil Nekro, well done,
Speaker 1: July fourth strikeouts.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the stat heroes from yesterday.
Speaker 1: Christian Javier fourteen strikeouts. Remember the beginning of the year
Speaker 1: when Christian Haavier was my favorite pitcher. Yep, Well he's
Speaker 1: been good, you know. He has more strikeouts than justin Verlander,
Speaker 1: but he's got less innings pitch this year.
Speaker 2: Did you know that's crazy?
Speaker 1: It is crazy and it's true. Franbervaldez six innings to earn,
Speaker 1: thirteen strikeouts for him. Robbie Ray twelve strikeouts. My favorite
Speaker 1: by Low from about a month ago. I help you
Speaker 1: watch that video and listened. Blake Snell twelve strike A
Speaker 1: lot of huge strikeout games. I don't know what everybody
Speaker 1: was hung.
Speaker 2: The weekend was crazy. Yeah, the wesend was crazy.
Speaker 1: It's like everyone's like nop screw contact just not a fan,
Speaker 1: not a fan. Spencer Streider threw a ball one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy two miles an hour. He had eleven strikeouts
Speaker 1: as well. Seane McClanahan ten k's of his own, Charlie
Speaker 1: Morton had ten k's, George Kirby had nine k's, Clayton
Speaker 1: kershawd eight k's. Wow. Unbelievable. In these games and all
Speaker 1: collectively they gave up like negative earned runs. This crew hitters.
Speaker 1: Noan Aernado nine for seventeen over the holiday weekend with
Speaker 1: three dingers. CJ. Crohn got up to twenty. He's at
Speaker 1: three homers, nine ribies. Eduardo Escobar was red hot for
Speaker 1: the Mets, three homers, five for sixteen, flatty three eighteen
Speaker 1: with a dinger Dansby Swanson five hundred. He's been on
Speaker 1: a tear recently. Altuve had a home run eight for
Speaker 1: seventeen with Merrifield, hooray. Three steals six or fourteen. Last
Speaker 1: week we talked about it, Wit, Maryfield is in the
Speaker 1: top ten lowest ops for everyday players. That makes my
Speaker 1: heart like just sad.
Speaker 2: I don't like this.
Speaker 1: Well, I like this weekend though. This is a part
Speaker 1: of him turning it around, I think. So let's hope.
Speaker 2: So let's go cool quit, come on, Wit.
Speaker 1: Big second half baby, Ronald Acunia three steals of his own. Boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy. You know all those people who I'd love
Speaker 1: to see, all those just you know, those vanilla fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball analyst people out there who wrote miles and miles
Speaker 1: of pages about Ronald of coone had a knee injury,
Speaker 1: don't expect him a steel bases, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Like you know, that was probably every single person. I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's the logic. He has a knee injury, so
Speaker 1: why would they run him? You know it was. I
Speaker 1: kind of had that thing. Why because that's true, that
Speaker 1: is true, But.
Speaker 2: Who bases his first game back off? He did? After that,
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, I think it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: So fine, But it was like the year that I
Speaker 1: remember Cam Newton got hurt one year and everyone's like, well,
Speaker 1: don't expect him to run anymore, and they ran for
Speaker 1: eight hundred yards next years. Like stop. When they're young,
Speaker 1: they don't care. You can't change the player when they're young.
Speaker 1: When they get to the thirties, then you can go. Listen, puddy,
Speaker 1: you got to back off a little bit. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and the other time, this is also a lesson about
Speaker 1: this a cl injury in baseball too, as opposed to
Speaker 1: you know, like a cl injuries ten years ago, very
Speaker 1: different than now. Royce lewis right, that was a cl there,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, in dynasty leagues, I mean, that guy everywhere.
Speaker 1: I feel like he is a piece that's gonna end
Speaker 1: up somewhere else on another team. And the ACL injury
Speaker 1: should not scare anybody off. That's just my feeling. I'm
Speaker 1: curious what your thoughts are.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of injuries that should scare you off.
Speaker 2: I think shoulder for a picture, forearm, elbow for a picture.
Speaker 2: Other than that, I mean, there's not that many Achilles
Speaker 2: injuries in backs always scare me with hitters ones, Okay,
Speaker 2: that it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I remember Todd Helton when he started having back issues.
Speaker 1: It was like you just snapped your fingers. Man, it
Speaker 1: was like Infinity War. You just like it disappeared. And that.
Speaker 1: There was a couple guys like that. Keith Nandez was
Speaker 1: like that late in his career and he had back
Speaker 1: issues too. You was such a good hitter, but then
Speaker 1: once you can't rotate through you know, those back issues
Speaker 1: because it's all swing. You know. It's like golf is
Speaker 1: the same way. When Tiger Woods had back issues, he
Speaker 1: was never the same guy after that. Marcus Simeon, by
Speaker 1: the way, two home runs, also a guy. It's good
Speaker 1: to see Marcus Simeon, wit Merrifield all in the same spot.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the zeros. Here's everybody who sucked an egg.
Speaker 1: Hunter Green six earned runs, No Bueyo, Matthew Libator five
Speaker 1: earned runs, Torek Schouble five earned He's the story. People
Speaker 1: have been asking me, what do I do? Drek Scooble
Speaker 1: was so good for three months and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Trek scoobl has hit a bad patch. People
Speaker 1: are asking me, do you drop him? I say no,
Speaker 1: just bench him. But do you buy low even in trades,
Speaker 1: or you just kind of wake this out? What do
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would buy low, but I
Speaker 2: would bench him and not drop him. I'm with you
Speaker 2: there for sure. So yeah, I think he can get
Speaker 2: it together. But he's kind of, you know, looking at
Speaker 2: a stack cast once again, this is middling. This is
Speaker 2: middling right here, he's not over mid one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that insult. It's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite new insults. You're so mid. It's a big
Speaker 1: MJF one.
Speaker 2: I think you're too old to say mid right now.
Speaker 1: That. Yeah, to make it work, to make it work,
Speaker 1: make it work for you guys.
Speaker 2: Remember when Grandpa Joe said mid, Wasn't that.
Speaker 1: Not only make it work, but I'm gonna ruin it
Speaker 1: for everybody else by saying, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Oh.
Speaker 1: Here are the lame hitters for the weekend. Mike Trout
Speaker 1: over eleven nine games, user gross, Javier baias I love
Speaker 1: that Christian Javier at fourteen strikeouts and Hobby Bayas had
Speaker 1: fourteen of them. No that he had also fourteen eight.
Speaker 1: But those are the two guys that I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, you plant your flag in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season about players, right, this guy's gonna be a
Speaker 1: breakout guy. This guy's gonna be a bus We do
Speaker 1: a lot of that in the fantasy industry, and here
Speaker 1: we are at the midway point, and the midway point,
Speaker 1: it could not be clearer that Javier Bias has been
Speaker 1: an absolute unmitigated disaster in Detroit, YEP. And everything you
Speaker 1: could point to so easily. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: the lazy fantasy analysis on Acuna, how about the easy
Speaker 1: shooting fish in a barrel analysis and Hobby bias that
Speaker 1: people just refuse to buy into. Just because I was
Speaker 1: one of.
Speaker 2: Those people, I always took. I always took Bias conditionally.
Speaker 2: But I did feel like he was falling too low.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, everyone expects regression. I didn't expect him
Speaker 2: to hit under my weight. You know that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I was waiting for you to make
Speaker 1: a bat like you could be batting champion. It hit
Speaker 1: my weight joke. That was the fish in a barrel joke.
Speaker 2: That usual short. I'm not sicking if I was six
Speaker 2: four and my weight. Yeah you win a batting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the things I don't like about.
Speaker 1: Well she's too tall. Yeah that's five seven.
Speaker 2: Well you were like five nine five time I see him,
Speaker 2: he goes, did you get taller? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: you just picture me as four inches tall because you
Speaker 2: are a giant.
Speaker 1: I forget I'm five eight. Okay, so we actually will
Speaker 1: look eye to eye almost sure at each other. Well,
Speaker 1: like it hurts my neck when I got to look
Speaker 1: at him in person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you gotta get up on a stool. No good,
Speaker 2: no point.
Speaker 1: Now. Jose Ramirez with a bad week, which is very
Speaker 1: odd for him, so I wouldn't worry. This is your
Speaker 1: Bilow window and Jose Ramier good look, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's not gonna last more than this. Tim Anderson, Tiaoscar
Speaker 1: Nanaz both seven k's had bad weekends. Max Monsey one
Speaker 1: for ten. Uh you know that again. Here he'll go
Speaker 1: again with the bottom half of the Dodger lineup. Chris Taylor,
Speaker 1: hurt expunci struggling, very frustrating Luis Robert two for eighteen
Speaker 1: of four k's and Tommy Edmund four k's three for seventeen.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor, Ladies and gentlemen picked up six home runs
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 2: This is crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a lot to take in. But
Speaker 1: let's go to the home run board here. So Mike
Speaker 1: Mayor is up to twenty six.
Speaker 2: So that's we did everybody. Joe, he's not on here anymore.
Speaker 1: It did it. I hope you're happy with your.
Speaker 2: We're on like the whole week. Last week he was
Speaker 2: so h didn't we get Joe off of this?
Speaker 1: And No? Nine out? But you're not there now, so
Speaker 1: not the great work everybody. Yes, congratulations to high Cubby
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen thirty one, still at the top of the board.
Speaker 1: Now we are going to give away Mayor's got to
Speaker 1: tell me who the winner of June is. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we gave away our little thing yet. Also,
Speaker 1: I want to remind everybody we have the the photoshop
Speaker 1: contest still going. I have my personal favorites of the
Speaker 1: Joe with hair, but if you've got more you'd like
Speaker 1: to submit.
Speaker 2: This week was my favorite.
Speaker 1: Good I actually have a real life one of the
Speaker 1: coolio that exists in real life. When I had hair
Speaker 1: where I let some people do that to me. Had
Speaker 1: how much much? How much?
Speaker 2: How much?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you know me, I'm a
Speaker 1: good time sally. You know. I'll go ahead and put
Speaker 1: it up here anyway, just to show the body. But
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty awesome, so uh, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: It's something I need to see. This is like now
Speaker 1: we do a little maybe we we I'll say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll put out a little thing here. Maybe we
Speaker 1: raise some money for Saint Jude's. We get to one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks, I'll put it up there with collectively everybody
Speaker 1: put five bucks in. Can we do that? Let's do that,
Speaker 1: your guys game.
Speaker 2: Tell me the chat bucks Saint Juts right now, send
Speaker 2: it to me. I need to.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor calling me five four Mike, you're a jerk
Speaker 1: after with this picture, just so everybody knows, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, like I look ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Point it is.
Speaker 1: Of course they were. It wasn't like really long like
Speaker 1: it wasn't like it was just they were little, but
Speaker 1: they did pop out everywhere. So that was I was
Speaker 1: in my gangster paradise. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Springs over on FanDuel four and a half is the kprop.
Speaker 1: Give me the over on that one against Boston Bookie
Speaker 1: bets total bases plus one ten. You're getting good money
Speaker 1: at that Against Colorado, give me that one to the
Speaker 1: juices plus one ten, Nick Povetta, who's been excellent again.
Speaker 1: The k prop is four and a half. Why I
Speaker 1: don't know. The juice is one minus one fifty five.
Speaker 1: I will take that juice. I'll put it with Springs
Speaker 1: and bets or with Alvarez. Total based prop which is
Speaker 1: even money as well. Uh, what do you got today?
Speaker 1: Anything pop your mind here in terms of the Uh,
Speaker 1: I like that Springs one. Yeah, that's probably my favorite
Speaker 1: one that you mentioned. So springs. I like springs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good spring, important invention. Yea, yeah, Okay, to think
Speaker 1: about how we're going, he sure, mattresses clocks, lots of springs,
Speaker 1: sing watches, training, training, lots of spring. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: This is what happens when you've been when you've been
Speaker 1: gone too long, and then you're starting to get back
Speaker 1: in this. You know what that's like, and then the
Speaker 1: mountain is ahead of you of all the things you
Speaker 1: got to do this week now because you decided to
Speaker 1: take it.
Speaker 2: You watch the documentary on the importance of Springs. That's right, right, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I understand. I have eighty brain for sure.
Speaker 2: The importance of Springs on Netflix this fall?
Speaker 1: All right, today is not the best slate to play
Speaker 1: from a pitching standpoint on DFS. I'm gonna keep it
Speaker 1: real because I always do. Some nights, I get very
Speaker 1: excited yesterday. It was a very exciting day for you.
Speaker 1: Saw those strikeouts over the weekend, very exciting today much
Speaker 1: less exciting. I like Paveta because he's been excellent. We're
Speaker 1: is gonna keep riding this train here on DK, I'll
Speaker 1: go Paveta. I would use either Kokuchi or Garcia. Garcia
Speaker 1: has a really good matchup against Kansas City today. I
Speaker 1: would take that instead as my secondary arm. And then, honestly,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't pay a lot of cash. I would just
Speaker 1: go in tournaments with Pavetta or Garcia over on Fandul
Speaker 1: in the single picture sight and I would stack up
Speaker 1: the Yankees in Houston Astros. But you've got some BVP
Speaker 1: guys who can help people out today. Bobs who are they?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Colton Wong has an extensive history against Kyle Hendrick.
Speaker 2: Speaking of guys that have played forever, I'm nineteen for
Speaker 2: fifty three with a bomb in five doubles against him.
Speaker 2: Jake Lamb, for whatever reason, is really good against Herman Marquez.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of d backs versus Rockies. There thirteen
Speaker 2: for thirty six and three sixty one average a homer
Speaker 2: and a double. Josel two Bay ten for twenty six
Speaker 2: three eighty five average a bomb, a triple in the
Speaker 2: double versus Granky Jase Peterson if he's in the lineup today,
Speaker 2: eight for nineteen of four to twenty one average, two bombs,
Speaker 2: a triple and three doubles vers Kyle Hendricks, Carson Kelly
Speaker 2: five for twelve with a bomb, a triple on the
Speaker 2: double versus Oux What and fran Miil three for four
Speaker 2: to two bombs versus Jamison taie On.
Speaker 1: So isn't everybody good against Herman Marquez?
Speaker 2: Though? Like, isn't no, No, the rest of the d
Speaker 2: Backs lineup is not good.
Speaker 1: Believe the I just been in the league. The rest
Speaker 1: of the league has good numbers against.
Speaker 2: Marque is actually a pretty good pitcher. If you got
Speaker 2: him out of Colorado, I feel like he'd be really solid. Well,
Speaker 2: John Gray is showing some signs of life recently.
Speaker 1: John Gray is going to be the He's just gonna
Speaker 1: He's going to be my complete undoing. I mean, there
Speaker 1: is a possibility that two years from now he becomes
Speaker 1: something really solid. The question is can I stick in
Speaker 1: long enough?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Can I Can I hold down the fort long enough?
Speaker 1: In my belief of John Gray, you know.
Speaker 2: You're on the train right now, but it looks like
Speaker 2: you're looking like is this slow enough to jump off of.
Speaker 2: Yet that's what it looks like. You're just waiting for
Speaker 2: one stop so you can be like this is me.
Speaker 1: I feel like it keeps. I feel like what happens
Speaker 1: is it's going and then like the a C breaks down,
Speaker 1: or then like it stops at I have to connect
Speaker 1: at another station that's in like a sketchy neighborhood or
Speaker 1: something like that. I feel like that's that's the ride.
Speaker 1: There's no express ride like Alec Manoa. You get on
Speaker 1: and it just takes you. You just got He would
Speaker 1: be a little bit better if he had some springs,
Speaker 1: I think, wouldn't we all who's got the spring in
Speaker 1: their step? Who are you calling for your home run?
Speaker 1: Call it tonight, Scott Bogmin.
Speaker 2: I'm going with Vlad give me Vlattie. He's hitting for average. Now,
Speaker 2: let's get some power back in there. Let's take flat,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor is going with Derek Hall because clearly, h
Speaker 1: he just got six and he can do whatever he
Speaker 1: wants right. Clearly he is with power now. So now
Speaker 1: he's just like I don't, can't. He's literally picking guys
Speaker 1: out of a hat. Tomorrow he's going to create a
Speaker 1: player in something in MLB the show and just select him.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Nolan Aeronado tonight. That's where I'm going for
Speaker 1: my home run call stick with Nolan, who's been hot.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm going. So that'll do it for us today.
Speaker 1: We'll be back again tomorrow on Fantasy Bros. MLB to
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Speaker 1: see Scott Bogman again. It's great to see all of you.
Speaker 1: I'll be you had a nice holiday weekend. Now it's time
Speaker 1: to go back to work. Let's go win some championships,
Speaker 1: let's go win some money. That'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on. For Scott Bagman,
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time springs.
Speaker 2: Many springs spring