Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into Leading Off the Fantasy
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Speaker 1: for the show, but for myself, Joel Rico and my
Speaker 1: dear friend and co host Casey Bubba, this is the
Speaker 1: last time you will see us on Fantasy Pros for
Speaker 1: the season. Really appreciate all you guys who continued listening
Speaker 1: in the Peanuts and cracker Jacks in the live chat
Speaker 1: have really kept the shows going as well, So thank
Speaker 1: you to all involved. This is our last show, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna make it a good one. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about a lot of different things today, playoff races,
Speaker 1: some streamers, injury updates, all the usual stuff. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have some fun. Bubba, how you doing today?
Speaker 2: Doing great?
Speaker 3: Glad to be here for the last hurrah of the
Speaker 3: diehard baseball guys that we are.
Speaker 2: So it's good to be here.
Speaker 3: The football guys will come back and Joet and he
Speaker 3: knows what's going on in September and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 3: So you guys will enjoy that and make fun of
Speaker 3: them all you want with your peanuts and cracker jacks,
Speaker 3: but yeah, we're here to get you some streamers, get
Speaker 3: you to the finish line for those that are still grinding.
Speaker 3: So thanks looking forward to it, And if you're in
Speaker 3: the Southeast, stay safe. Things are looking nasty.
Speaker 2: Down your way.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen what's going on.
Speaker 3: Hurricanes coming through. Like there's a chance like tomorrow's gonna
Speaker 3: be complete wash out of Atlanta and the Mets.
Speaker 2: There's like zero percent chance that plays.
Speaker 3: And right now there's about a forty percent chance of
Speaker 3: rain starting about an hour there. They have a night game,
Speaker 3: so's things can get interesting in the Southeast and for
Speaker 3: the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: That's what it was because I heard some people online
Speaker 1: saying there's a chance for the games to get delaid
Speaker 1: and then the Braves might get to throw sale in
Speaker 1: a not Game one sixty three, but Game one sixty
Speaker 1: two to kind of decide all the marbles. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about some of the wild card
Speaker 1: stuff in the second, but that would be quite the
Speaker 1: advantage of getting to use Chris Sale a second time there.
Speaker 1: Considering the season he's put together, It'll all be fine.
Speaker 1: It always is pretty fun following these races in the
Speaker 1: live week of the season, and that's where our story
Speaker 1: begins today. Talking about the Padres, this was this is
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You don't usually see this, but they punched
Speaker 1: their ticket to October with a game ending triple play
Speaker 1: to leave Shoheo Tani in the on deck circle. But
Speaker 1: were you watching this one? Where were your thoughts on
Speaker 1: all of this crazy situation that happened.
Speaker 3: I was recording last night' Bubba and the Bloom had
Speaker 3: the game on in the background, and I was kind
Speaker 3: of looking at it, like what just happened there, kind
Speaker 3: of confused, And then we finished our recording like right
Speaker 3: about that same time, and I got like a million
Speaker 3: alerts on my phone about Padres clinched the postseason, the
Speaker 3: ending with a triple play, all this stuff, and it
Speaker 3: was absolutely amazing, and it was poetic justice that one
Speaker 3: of the worst managers in baseball doesn't bunt in that scenario,
Speaker 3: and he had to bunt on for the first pitch apparently,
Speaker 3: and then wiped it off after the first pitch and
Speaker 3: then that took place.
Speaker 2: I'm just I say it, not just.
Speaker 3: I know it's a Giants Dodgers thing, but Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: has cost that team so many big games down the line.
Speaker 3: Like he is, he's been blessed with the great with
Speaker 3: the great team, and to see it end like that
Speaker 3: night just made me laugh so much. For the years
Speaker 3: of everyone telling me how great the Dodgers are and
Speaker 3: the Giants suck. But we have three World Series, like
Speaker 3: legit World Series in the last you know, fifteen years,
Speaker 3: unlike the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: The rivalry is a live and well folks. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I have heard a lot of criticism of Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: It seems like every year we get down of this time.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how true it is because I
Speaker 1: don't focus on it so so much, not being a
Speaker 1: California guy, but they're not usually as prepared as they
Speaker 1: maybe should be, and it definitely definitely feeds into some
Speaker 1: of the rivalry. There for sure is Bubba rooting for
Speaker 1: the Padres. Joseph in the chat is wondering.
Speaker 3: I am a big Padres fan. I wouldn't mind seeing
Speaker 3: the Dbacks, but the Giants have been beating them down
Speaker 3: the last two nights, which made me laugh because I
Speaker 3: did not see that coming. But if I had to
Speaker 3: pick an NL team, it's Phillies and Padres for me.
Speaker 3: Those are the two that I'm really really pulling for.
Speaker 3: It's hard not to love the Phillies team. Man, there's
Speaker 3: so much fun like the last few years in the
Speaker 3: postseason watching them celebrate there a blast. But this Padres
Speaker 3: team's cool too, Like there's a lot to like there
Speaker 3: with them. So yeah, I'm rooting for pretty much eleven
Speaker 3: teams not named the Dodgers should win, and I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: As long as the World Series doesn't go back to
Speaker 1: Chavez Ravine, Bubba will be a happy fella at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. I do want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about some of these final wild card spots
Speaker 1: because we are down to just a few games left.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the American League to start off here, Buba,
Speaker 1: just briefly, because we'll get into the fantasy stuff. But
Speaker 1: what do you expect to happen with those final two
Speaker 1: wild card spots? Do you expect it to be as
Speaker 1: it currently says? The Tigers and the Royals, the Twins
Speaker 1: and the Mariners also have a chance, and I guess
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, if they run very pewer here, could
Speaker 1: have a mathematical chance. How do you see those final
Speaker 1: two spots breaking down?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: I think the Tigers, man, this is like a momentum thing.
Speaker 3: We've seen it year after you Like, I'm not saying
Speaker 3: they going to the World Series like the Dbacks were,
Speaker 3: but we all it feels like every year we get
Speaker 3: like one team that just runs so pure at the end.
Speaker 3: They find their way in the postseason. Now, how you
Speaker 3: know far does it get from there?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 3: But I think the Tigers are getting in for sure,
Speaker 3: and Oils had the advantage on them technically. But if
Speaker 3: you go to fangrafts, Tigers eighty seven and a half percent,
Speaker 3: Royals eighty two percent, So it looks like they're pretty
Speaker 3: much locked in.
Speaker 2: You mentioned though, that.
Speaker 3: That's actually for the Yeah, no, they're pretty much locked
Speaker 3: into the playoffs right there. The Twins have a shot,
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, and you're looking at the Red Sox,
Speaker 3: it's like a slimmer of a whole, like zero point
Speaker 3: seven percent right now for the Red Sox. So the
Speaker 3: Twins are gonna need a miracle. I feel like it's
Speaker 3: a Tiger's Royal situation there, which is fun for baseball.
Speaker 3: Two new teams we haven't seen in a while. The
Speaker 3: Royals have fallen off of late, because if you would
Speaker 3: have had this question early September, you would think they'd
Speaker 3: have a chance to like make a little noise in
Speaker 3: the postseason. But they got the pitching yacht Reagans, you
Speaker 3: got Lugo and walk is no slouch. That'll keep you
Speaker 3: in a lot of playoff games. But yeah, Tigers, come
Speaker 3: on Treek Scouble game one of a playoff game, Like,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 2: That's pretty fun stuff.
Speaker 1: I think the question at this point is who's getting
Speaker 1: the ball in Game two? I think that's the only rule.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the Yeah, it is Kyder Montero, the guy
Speaker 3: you want to go to battle with, Like that is
Speaker 3: like brand Herder's actually probably been the best number two
Speaker 3: option of late. And that's the conundrum, and that's why
Speaker 3: certain teams just can't go the distance.
Speaker 2: Like if the Tigers went the.
Speaker 3: Whole dang thing, that's like beyond proving any analytic person correct,
Speaker 3: So that'll be nuts. But yeah, I just I'd love
Speaker 3: to see schools like the old theory, like would be
Speaker 3: great to see Trout in the playoffs. Like there's certain
Speaker 3: players I just they deserve the big stick once in
Speaker 3: a while. And the year Schoobl's having right now. I
Speaker 3: know we've talked about it all the time on this show, Like, dude,
Speaker 3: just put them on the stage for one game. Let
Speaker 3: them have it, and I'll give the Tigers fans credit.
Speaker 3: They're coming out in droves. I saw a tweet from
Speaker 3: a Beat writer today the weekend series in Detroit. It's
Speaker 3: almost all sold out already, all three games in Detroit.
Speaker 3: Like that's insane for the Tigers. So it's cool to see.
Speaker 1: And our friend Marty Tallman, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw yesterday you wont himself some free tickets courtesy of
Speaker 1: the Tigers. So good for him to get out there
Speaker 1: and support We got a lot of Detroit.
Speaker 2: The Tigers get it.
Speaker 3: The Tigers get it man, Like they're a franchise that
Speaker 3: doesn't fill out the place. They're not that they don't
Speaker 3: spend a lot of money, but hey, we need to
Speaker 3: push these young kids to go. Here's some tickets. Like
Speaker 3: they gave out a bunch. That's that's smart baseball. Unlike Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: That is smart baseball.
Speaker 1: Oh we'll talk a little bit about in the pocketbooks
Speaker 1: a little bit later on. I think that Minnesota might
Speaker 1: have a chance just based on the schedule. They have
Speaker 1: a couple of games left against the Marlins and then
Speaker 1: they'll be facing the Orioles to end the season, who
Speaker 1: won't really be playing for so much. Where with Kansas City,
Speaker 1: you know, they got to end up facing the Braves,
Speaker 1: who will be playing for a lot. So I don't
Speaker 1: think it's set in stone that final spot there. I
Speaker 1: thought the Twins, like a couple of weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: would have thought that they had a chance to maybe
Speaker 1: be a World Series team. Really good offense, solid three
Speaker 1: headed monster in the rotation, good bullpen. But they have
Speaker 1: really really fallen apart here in terms of the National League. Here,
Speaker 1: it's the Mets, the Diamondbacks, and the Braves are the
Speaker 1: only teams that are really competing for those final two spots. Bubba,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit worried for the Mets. What do
Speaker 1: you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: I feel like they're probably gonna be the odd man
Speaker 1: out based on the way things are trending. But what
Speaker 1: do you think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rough, but I still think I just it
Speaker 3: depends on how this whole rain thing plays out. I
Speaker 3: know that's kind of a cop out answer. Atlanta, like
Speaker 3: there is all these jokes on Sunday, They're going to
Speaker 3: their house of horror. They stink in Atlanta, and dude,
Speaker 3: they got smoked like they were red hot coming in
Speaker 3: got smoked on Tuesday night. Schwelly's a beast. There's no
Speaker 3: doubt about that. But yeah, you got sale and you
Speaker 3: got freed coming up like they have their three best
Speaker 3: lined up to face the Mets. I still have a
Speaker 3: weird feeling the Mets get through, I really do. I
Speaker 3: agree it's almost a coin toss. Like if you look
Speaker 3: at fangrass projections, Mets are seventy seven percent, Braves are
Speaker 3: seventy percent. I think it's closer than that. I think
Speaker 3: it's like that number probably flips if the Braves win
Speaker 3: the night. Like it's that simple. It's that close of
Speaker 3: a coin toss situation. And you're mentioning the schedule coming
Speaker 3: up here, you got like you said, Atlanta gets Kansas
Speaker 3: City this weekend. Singer Luga Reagan's you know, not a
Speaker 3: cakewalk scenario there and that's if that stays in line,
Speaker 3: of course, and then you got this Mets team that
Speaker 3: hopefully isn't reeling after this, but they get Milwaukee who
Speaker 3: might be off. You got ray montoss Myers, their pitchers
Speaker 3: aren't going deep. I think Mets are set up for
Speaker 3: a better weekend, let's put.
Speaker 2: It that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've also talked about how the Brewers are probably
Speaker 1: going to be facing They're probably through with the drinking
Speaker 1: for now, with the celebrating, but they're not playing for
Speaker 1: much at this point. So if you don't see the
Speaker 1: A team lineups, if you see a starter get scratched
Speaker 1: or something there, don't be shocked. It could really go
Speaker 1: either way. In the National League, with the Braves and
Speaker 1: the Mets, they always tend to play each other in
Speaker 1: the final week of the season, which does make things
Speaker 1: pretty fun. Sticking in Atlanta, Spencer Schwellenbach had a great
Speaker 1: final start of the season, the kind of cap off
Speaker 1: a breakout year for him. Really, seven innings of one
Speaker 1: run ball with four strikeouts. He finishes up with a
Speaker 1: three forty seven ERA and one zero seven WHIP over
Speaker 1: twenty games starts. I kind of want to pair him
Speaker 1: with the next guy tanner Byby but a great year himself.
Speaker 1: Seven innings of one run ball himself yesterday, and he'll
Speaker 1: finish with the exact same era of three forty seven
Speaker 1: with a one to twelve whip. So just thinking about
Speaker 1: both of these guys separately or together, I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to frame them together because I think there's a
Speaker 1: chance they go pretty close in drafts next season. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the pair, Bubba, and who would
Speaker 1: you be more interested in trusting in twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: drafts as probably your SP two. I would imagine I'm.
Speaker 3: Still a Tanner Biby guy, but it's probably more just
Speaker 3: biased because I was all in on Biby this year.
Speaker 3: I wrote articles on him, and I got a lot
Speaker 3: of pushback early in the preseason, like I was over
Speaker 3: excited on him, and he made the adjustments and it
Speaker 3: was great to see.
Speaker 2: As no downplay on Schwellenbach.
Speaker 3: Like he's absolutely amazing as well, but it's kind of
Speaker 3: like the whole are you paying for the career year?
Speaker 2: Is this his career year?
Speaker 3: A lot of questions to be said about Schwellenbach there.
Speaker 3: It's quite the jump. He took massive increase in the
Speaker 3: innings as well. I'm gonna lean with the Biby camp
Speaker 3: on this one. He's the ace of their staff, so
Speaker 3: to be your SP two is pretty sweet. Now, Schwelly
Speaker 3: is a great to option b if that's how it
Speaker 3: plans out. But I'm going to buy you on this one.
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think they will go close together?
Speaker 1: I know it's way too early, but it feels like
Speaker 1: they'll probably be in a similar type of range in
Speaker 1: terms of sps and overall of my am I crazy there.
Speaker 2: Now, they'll be pretty close.
Speaker 3: Like Bibby'll probably be around five or six give or
Speaker 3: take on, maybe maybe four if he creeps up, but
Speaker 3: he'll be an SP and like Schwellenbuck in the early
Speaker 3: draft I did was tenth round and we all said
Speaker 3: a that was that was late August. Like, he's gonna
Speaker 3: move up and he keeps pitching better and better. He
Speaker 3: should be a fifth or sixth round pick when all
Speaker 3: things are said and done. So yeah, they should be
Speaker 3: going quite quite close together for sure.
Speaker 1: That'll be an interesting one to monitor. I think it's
Speaker 1: just because the eras are ending on the same number.
Speaker 1: I figured it was a decent discussion point. But I
Speaker 1: think Bouten Francis is also somebody that deserves a bit
Speaker 1: of our time. I don't know if we've talked too
Speaker 1: too much about him on the show. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: come up, but I think he deserves a little segment
Speaker 1: here another shout out outing from him. Yesterday, I'll be
Speaker 1: at just five innings. They could have probably let him
Speaker 1: go a little bit longer. I think it was like
Speaker 1: seventy one seventy two pitches, but we'll take it over
Speaker 1: the second half. One point eight zero ERA and a
Speaker 1: point six zero whip. It's unbelievable type of numbers that
Speaker 1: you'd say, if you just saw those numbers, you'd think,
Speaker 1: all right, I was de Gram, maybe that was Strider,
Speaker 1: but the point six whip is just absurd. He's gonna
Speaker 1: finish with a three to three ERA and a point
Speaker 1: ninety three whip over one hundred and three and two
Speaker 1: thirds innings. Insane to think he'll get one or two
Speaker 1: down ballot Czy Young votes after this performance. I know
Speaker 1: the innings are a bit lacking, but he's been the
Speaker 1: best pitcher in baseball in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: I think he might get one or two. But is
Speaker 1: that just the Toronto Homer popping out in me.
Speaker 3: No, like baby, No, I do think he should get
Speaker 3: some if it's either third fourth place votes, he should
Speaker 3: get some acknowledgment on the cy Young you know there's
Speaker 3: gonna be there should be one hundred percent going to
Speaker 3: one guy in Detroit and then you fill in the
Speaker 3: blanks afterwards on that. So I don't see an issue
Speaker 3: with Francis getting some you know, third fourth rate round
Speaker 3: type stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know how interested I'm gonna be heading into
Speaker 1: the next season. I feel like he's gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of babbit block and there will be some concerns for
Speaker 1: me taking him too early next year. But man like this.
Speaker 1: It's a shame that the Blue Jays wasted this in
Speaker 1: a season where it didn't matter. But one of the
Speaker 1: best stretches I've ever seen from a starting pitcher, and
Speaker 1: maybe that will ever see from a starting pitcher. Point
Speaker 1: point six whip and like said, unbelievable stuff he did
Speaker 1: for your ratios. We got a question here regarding a
Speaker 1: couple of pitchers. How would we order Schwellenbach, Yuri and
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra for next season? So Sandy start the
Speaker 1: year Schwelley's healthy, but I think i Contra's healthy heading
Speaker 1: in helps. Sorry sorry, but I think al Contra is
Speaker 1: kind of close to healthy now, so I think he'll
Speaker 1: be ready to start the year. But he sounds like
Speaker 1: you're Schwellenbach over al Contra.
Speaker 3: Schwellenbach because he finished the year and Contra did not
Speaker 3: throw this year, So I'd have all Contra second yeary third.
Speaker 3: That's my only difference. Like al Contra is, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe the best. I've always been a little down on
Speaker 3: him because he's a he has to accumulate, So how
Speaker 3: much is he gonna accumulate next year is the question.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go Schwellenbach just because he finished this
Speaker 3: year on the mount.
Speaker 1: I think that's totally fair. Yeah, when you see guys
Speaker 1: get hurt in the year or they don't throw at all,
Speaker 1: it definitely makes you worry wonder what they're gonna look
Speaker 1: like coming into next season. I think I'm probably on
Speaker 1: the same page. I wouldn't really have much of a
Speaker 1: problem going Yuri over Sandy just because of some of
Speaker 1: the things you meant, like the strikeouts, the volume concerns.
Speaker 1: But like Angelo said here, Yuri was kind of born
Speaker 1: on the injured reserve. It's hard to know when he's
Speaker 1: going to be healthy or not. He's dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff considering what is he twenty one, Like,
Speaker 1: he's gone through quite a bit at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very young and talent's there's got to somehow
Speaker 3: stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It's an issue with the Elizardo Yuri al Contra Garrett like,
Speaker 3: that's almost every picture in Miami. He's had issues and
Speaker 3: must be a Florida thing. Tampa Bay and Miami have
Speaker 3: some fun stuff with the with the elbows and.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers who had at some points, to say, two
Speaker 1: whole rotations with the pitchers on the IL. They had
Speaker 1: like nine pitchers. Good pictures on the IL at certain
Speaker 1: points this season. Let's change gears and talk about some hitters,
Speaker 1: and we'll start in your neck of the woods, Bubba
Speaker 1: with Elliott. Is it Elliott? I think it's Elliott, right,
Speaker 1: Elliott right, it's Elliott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was jelln Ryan a ways back when I
Speaker 3: went to the Giants game for the first time early
Speaker 3: this season and they announced him in warm ups as
Speaker 3: Elliott Ramos, I was like, what, yeah, so now it's
Speaker 3: always it's Elliott from here on out.
Speaker 1: I still hear Elliott, he I hear all these kind
Speaker 1: of names, but it's Elliott. It just imagine that the
Speaker 1: h is not there, essentially, But he went four for
Speaker 1: five yesterday. It is twenty third homer of the season.
Speaker 1: Looking at a two seventy batting average, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one WRC plus almost an eight hundred ops and
Speaker 1: a fairly fairly small sample size of one hundred eighteen games.
Speaker 1: It's fairly small, but it's also fairly large, depending on
Speaker 1: how you want to look at it. What's your interest
Speaker 1: level heading in the next season, Bubby, You've got to
Speaker 1: watch him up close and personal this year. Is he
Speaker 1: actually a breakout star or is this something that we
Speaker 1: should probably be wary of in drafts next year.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan. I'm a big fan of what we
Speaker 3: saw this year. He was a big time prospect, one
Speaker 3: of our top prospects. For a while, people thought he failed,
Speaker 3: kind of like Luis Montos, and maybe Mantos figures it out.
Speaker 3: It's like, I know, I've said it on this show
Speaker 3: in mini shows. Young players need reps. It's just that simple.
Speaker 3: And you know they finally just ran with him. He
Speaker 3: had a couple of hot streaks, he had a couple
Speaker 3: of slumps. They stuck with him, and he's put together
Speaker 3: a really good season. He's a staple in the lineup.
Speaker 3: He's going to be the starting left fielder for hopefully
Speaker 3: years to come in San Francisco. And is he going
Speaker 3: to be an MVP? I don't know if he has
Speaker 3: that level, But could the dude be a two to
Speaker 3: seventy hitter that gets you close to thirty home runs
Speaker 3: each year? Like that's legit who Elliott Ramas can be.
Speaker 2: And I'm a big fan of him going forward.
Speaker 3: ADP wise gets interesting because there's a lot of outfielders
Speaker 3: in play there, but he could be a very very
Speaker 3: strong asset. Just the speed He'll have some but not
Speaker 3: ton so that's what's will probably push him down a
Speaker 3: little bit. But I think everything else pretty solid. I
Speaker 3: think he's got one hundred and fifty combined runs in
Speaker 3: RBI is too. Like he's putting together a pretty strong
Speaker 3: season for the Giants. And that's why I tweeted last
Speaker 3: night when he hit his home run, I said, I
Speaker 3: know schemes, I know Jackson Merrill. I just hope Elliott
Speaker 3: gets a few rookie of the Year votes to acknowledge
Speaker 3: how good he actually has been this season.
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic, And I think part of that Once
Speaker 1: you said that, I went and looked at the at
Speaker 1: the betting odds. In the National League, it's just such
Speaker 1: a stacked field, and in the American League, it's like
Speaker 1: it almost feels like it's gonna go to somebody by
Speaker 1: defaults like, Okay, I guess it's gonna be Heal, I
Speaker 1: guess it'll be Cows, or I guess it'll be Wells
Speaker 1: or whoever. In the NL, there's like five or even
Speaker 1: more legitimate Rookie of the year's in most season Skeiins
Speaker 1: Merrill absolutely a lot of seasons getting it done, Cheerio
Speaker 1: in a lot of seasons is getting it done. And
Speaker 1: then showed at Imanaga, who probably will end up on
Speaker 1: some cy young ballots, but the fact that he's thirty
Speaker 1: one years old probably takes some of that away. But
Speaker 1: it is a stacked field in the National League, and
Speaker 1: somebody else who could potentially be there in a less
Speaker 1: stacked season, Tyler Fitzgerald, who I believe still has rookie
Speaker 1: eligibility even though he's a little bit older. I think
Speaker 1: he's twenty six, but hell of a season he's put
Speaker 1: together in just ninety two games, and he had a
Speaker 1: home run yesterday, which is partly whyse on the sheet,
Speaker 1: but also we're starting to wrap up the year a
Speaker 1: little bit. I wanted to evaluate things as a whole
Speaker 1: now to some extent, a two eighty seven batting average,
Speaker 1: fifteen homers and seventeen steals over ninety two games that
Speaker 1: pro rated out over a whole season is probably not
Speaker 1: Probably it is a first round type of player. But
Speaker 1: you're looking at a high strikeout rate. You're not looking
Speaker 1: at a great track record. Not a bad one, but
Speaker 1: not somebody that you would have thought would be a star.
Speaker 1: What's your interest level in Fitzgerald and would you prioritize
Speaker 1: him over Ramos? I no different positions in all but
Speaker 1: the two Giants assets there. Where do you put them?
Speaker 3: Obviously the lazy answer depends on your format. Five outfielders,
Speaker 3: probably Ramos if you need speed, Fitzgerald, Like I took
Speaker 3: Fitzgerald around eleven of that too early draft because I
Speaker 3: want twenty twenty upside at my middle infield, and I
Speaker 3: understand the strict right, it's gotten better and this is again,
Speaker 3: a young player getting tight like regular reps. He's the
Speaker 3: starting shortstop. He's going to be the starting short stop
Speaker 3: next year. He plays pretty good defense. He's been in
Speaker 3: a pretty good slump of late. They kept running him
Speaker 3: out there. They's moved him down the order, kept running
Speaker 3: them out there. Matt's starting to wake up again, like
Speaker 3: young players will do this, and I think there is
Speaker 3: a lot of talent trying not to be a home run.
Speaker 3: If anybody's listened to me long enough, I'm very narcissistic
Speaker 3: when it comes I'm very very angry when it comes
Speaker 3: to my giants, Like there's no sugarcoating that. But when
Speaker 3: I see like development, that's something I like to see.
Speaker 3: Ramos has developed. Fitzgerald has developed wisely even this time around.
Speaker 3: Starting look like he took a lefty deep yesterday. Like
Speaker 3: he's starting to look like a little bit better ballplayer.
Speaker 3: I'm not all in on him yet, but the future
Speaker 3: is not as bleak as I once thought. We'll see
Speaker 3: this stuff signed free agents, and that's a whole nother podcast.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm very optimistic when we're seeing with Fitzgerald.
Speaker 3: I think if you want like a power speed guy,
Speaker 3: say we talk about how shortstop drives up. If you
Speaker 3: miss out on shortstop, not a bad plan, be.
Speaker 1: Not about at all. And they've already locked up Matt Chapman.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they open up the pocketbooks a little
Speaker 1: more this offseason. I'm sure Bubba is hoping for it,
Speaker 1: but I want to shout out Ryan in the chat
Speaker 1: here real quick, thanks showing Bubba won the ship a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago and joined the sweet taste of victory.
Speaker 1: You enjoy that, Ryan, enjoy the last couple weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, or couple weeks, a couple of days of
Speaker 1: the season at this point, hanging that banner, it will
Speaker 1: fly forever for you, my friend. Let's talk about Michael
Speaker 1: Harris before we jump into some injuries. He's been on
Speaker 1: an absolute ridiculous heater, multiple hits in five consecutive games,
Speaker 1: and in four of them he has three hits. Over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, he's hitting four oh seven, unbelievable stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's probably gonna be somebody that I
Speaker 1: you know, I've kind of gone back and forth, interested,
Speaker 1: not that interested, but it's hard to look at what
Speaker 1: he's done as of late and think that the Braves
Speaker 1: will be fully healthy next year and not be interested.
Speaker 1: Do you think Michael Harris is going to go bob
Speaker 1: a third round or so? And would you have interest
Speaker 1: where he is going to go?
Speaker 2: You think, yeah, he's a third rounder for sure. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of that.
Speaker 3: I think you know, everyone's gonna see the shiny new toy.
Speaker 3: They're gonna go Jackson Marrow, They're gonna go Jackson Curio
Speaker 3: and those things where last year that's where Michael Harris
Speaker 3: was going. So it's just going to push him down
Speaker 3: by default. And it's like again, it's I keep saying
Speaker 3: I want the back end round one right now. A
Speaker 3: lot can change. Obviously it's September twenty fifth, for crying
Speaker 3: out loud, but it's so loaded you get like two
Speaker 3: great picks right there. In reality, you can get Michael
Speaker 3: Harris as well, like you could set up for like
Speaker 3: a just thunderdome in the back end there. So I
Speaker 3: think he will fall just by default because there's so
Speaker 3: many good players and it could be a nice little
Speaker 3: bounced back spot because you're not expecting the you know,
Speaker 3: massive batting numbers, but the power speed's legit and the
Speaker 3: only question is a coon He'll be back where does
Speaker 3: Harris hit? That's the million dollar.
Speaker 1: Question, Hitt. And second, I would love it if he's
Speaker 1: down at ninth. I wouldn't hate it, but definitely wouldn't
Speaker 1: like it as much. The argument is he would like
Speaker 1: turn over for a Kunya and I'll be and whoever else.
Speaker 1: So it's not terrible. We've seen him produce from that
Speaker 1: spot before. I'd like to see him at the top
Speaker 1: of the order, though, but just an incredible season. And
Speaker 1: to your point, the outfield in the third and fourth
Speaker 1: round next year is gonna be pretty good. You know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to double tap a couple of
Speaker 1: those guys. Hell, even at the back end of the
Speaker 1: first you might be able to take four outfielders in
Speaker 1: your first four picks. Ye Julio, Carrol Surio, Mike Harris
Speaker 1: hypothetically if you're drafting it like the back end of
Speaker 1: the first round. I don't know that if that's something
Speaker 1: I'd want to do necessarily, but it doesn't sound too
Speaker 1: shabby as of right now. If you're able to get
Speaker 1: all four of those guys.
Speaker 3: No, man, it's the old philosophy I've been trying to
Speaker 3: instill the last couple of years and I bring it
Speaker 3: up on a mile out of my shows is we
Speaker 3: got to stop focusing so much on positions. Yes, you
Speaker 3: need to fill a roster, but in the end, it's
Speaker 3: the final stat line the matter. So these are the
Speaker 3: four best players, all right, let's rock and roll. Like
Speaker 3: two years ago, I think it was a labor draft.
Speaker 3: Ryan took five outfitters in his first seven picks, and
Speaker 3: he was not happy on the live stream. He won
Speaker 3: the league. He won the league. So you just build
Speaker 3: the best team. That's that's why Fitzgerald comes into play
Speaker 3: now at stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's something you know. Even just last year,
Speaker 1: like Al two Vea and Bryson Stott were both targets
Speaker 1: of mine, and there came some drafts where I was like,
Speaker 1: especially early on, I was like, I have Al two
Speaker 1: v I don't need to take Stott. Throw him in
Speaker 1: the middle endfield for all. I mean that wasn't like
Speaker 1: he was an amazing player this year. But throw him
Speaker 1: in the middle enfield, throw him in the utility spot,
Speaker 1: wherever it is you can find room. It's why the
Speaker 1: Otawani dh clogging that whole thing up. I think it's
Speaker 1: kind of gone with the Dodo Bird over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years between him and what Ozun has done
Speaker 1: as well. I don't think people mind clogging up to
Speaker 1: DH with those type of numbers. But let's go onto
Speaker 1: the injury segment. We'll talk Nester to Cortes. He's gonna
Speaker 1: undergo an MRI on his elbow on Friday. Does not
Speaker 1: look like we're gonna see him again in the regular season, Babba,
Speaker 1: I think you can, probably if you're in a daily
Speaker 1: league at this point, just cut bait and pick somebody
Speaker 1: else up.
Speaker 3: Yes, the only weird caveat i'd take just wait for
Speaker 3: the results because he's still technically scheduled to pitch tonight,
Speaker 3: so for some reason, it's just like a minor thing
Speaker 3: where they move him back to day. You're gonna want that.
Speaker 3: Someone in the chat way early on, I think was mentioning.
Speaker 3: They asked him, was potit starting right now? It's rumored
Speaker 3: to be Marcus Stroman jumping in there for that star
Speaker 3: he's been on the bullpen. But yeah, I just yes,
Speaker 3: if the result obviously comes back negative, you drop in
Speaker 3: Nester Cortez one hundred percent on board there, But as
Speaker 3: wonky as things are right now, just sit back because
Speaker 3: the Orioles are not good versus lefties of late, so
Speaker 3: somehow you getting nester.
Speaker 2: I'd run with it.
Speaker 1: Second half Orioles have been really, really not good. I
Speaker 1: want to pair a I want to pair a couple
Speaker 1: of guys together here, Francisco Lindor and Jordan Alvarez. They're
Speaker 1: both I mean, for Lindor it's in play that he
Speaker 1: could come back today, not sure if it's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent going to happen. Jordan Alvarez hoping to get back
Speaker 1: in the lineup this weekend. I guess my question is
Speaker 1: for those people playing in weekly or semi weekly lineups.
Speaker 1: If you're on the NFBC, you got to set a
Speaker 1: Friday through the weekend lineup. Are you putting these guys
Speaker 1: in if we don't have any clarity, like let's say
Speaker 1: they have to miss Friday, are you putting them in?
Speaker 1: Specific it looks like Lindora'll be back. I guess this
Speaker 1: is specifically a Jordan Alvarez question. How confident do you
Speaker 1: feel that he is going to play over the over
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll give you this much, because about maybe five
Speaker 3: minutes before we started recording chan roam of the Houston
Speaker 3: Astros beat reporter said, jord On Alvarez and Chas McCormick
Speaker 3: will not accompany the Astros to Cleveland. They'll stay back
Speaker 3: and train with the team. So that answers your question.
Speaker 1: So that puts a bow on his season. I guess yes. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Jordan Alvarez, get him out of your lineups. I
Speaker 1: guess that's that's a tough one to do it this
Speaker 1: time of the year. But if he's not gonna play,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play. Lindor looks a little rosy, or
Speaker 1: somebody in the chat saying that he grabbed a bat
Speaker 1: last night, I think that. I don't think he actually
Speaker 1: had an at bat. I think you mean, like in
Speaker 1: the dugout he grabbed a bat or something.
Speaker 3: He think he was getting loose. I'm just worried with
Speaker 3: the way the weather's so bad.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: That's another point. Yeah, Like if he, you know, takes
Speaker 1: a bad swing and strains something or something, plus you
Speaker 1: gotta worry about the weather. Although it is, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy who's gonna come second in MVP voting, So
Speaker 1: it's not somebody that you really want to put on
Speaker 1: your bench, but it's a. It's a tricky situation if
Speaker 1: we don't have an update or we probably will. But
Speaker 1: let's say Friday he's scratched. I think he's probably somebody
Speaker 1: I'm sitting for the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, it's definitely an up in the I
Speaker 3: set him for the first half of the week, so
Speaker 3: second half I need to see a lot more positive
Speaker 3: news in that direction.
Speaker 1: Let's lock Clayton Kershaw not face hitters this week, and
Speaker 1: there isn't currently a plan for one that will happen,
Speaker 1: no idea when he is going to face hitters, So
Speaker 1: he's not going to pitch in the regular season. That
Speaker 1: seems clear enough. Any chance you think that Kershaw pitches
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and hell doll, the Dodgers won him
Speaker 1: pitching in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Right now, it's literally I don't think he pitches in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. I think we've seen the last of Kershaw
Speaker 3: this season, unless a miraculous change takes place in his health.
Speaker 3: Because he looked like he was going to face pitchers
Speaker 3: on our hitters on Tuesday and he's basically shut down again,
Speaker 3: So I'm not feeling too optimistic about that.
Speaker 1: The last piece of injury news is another bad one.
Speaker 1: No good stuff comes out this time of year. Really,
Speaker 1: Austin Riley season is done. He will not be available
Speaker 1: for the postseason as he continues to recover from a
Speaker 1: fractured hand. You think that him missing the last couple
Speaker 1: weeks of the season potentially takes a round or two
Speaker 1: off the price next year, Like you said, finishing healthy.
Speaker 3: No, No, he was hitting the ball so well as
Speaker 3: kind of a freak injury. I think you ready to
Speaker 3: rock and roll for the regular season. You might get
Speaker 3: a discount and take advantage of him.
Speaker 1: If I do see a discount, I probably will. Although
Speaker 1: as a whole it was pretty disappointing season, but I
Speaker 1: think the Braves just had some bad juju this year.
Speaker 1: I'll be willing to invest back into the next season.
Speaker 1: Let's run through some potential streamers for those of you
Speaker 1: still in the hunt. This week, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about a few guys for the daily lineups. Obviously, weeklies
Speaker 1: are long done for the year, but let's talk about
Speaker 1: tonight Cody Bradford and Brady Basso on either side of
Speaker 1: the equation, Bubba Oakland and Texas. If you're in a
Speaker 1: daily league, are you streaming either of these guys, I
Speaker 1: think I would with Bradford. What do you think?
Speaker 3: I love them both, and I just want to throw
Speaker 3: out I think Basso's very, very good because in September,
Speaker 3: Texas is striking out thirty four percent of the time
Speaker 3: verus left. He's hitting one forty nine with a thirty
Speaker 3: five WRC plus as a team. That is atrocious, atrocious stuff.
Speaker 3: So I like both those pitchers and I'll throw one
Speaker 3: more out there real quick for you. Joey Cantillo going
Speaker 3: up against the Reds, a team hitting one seventy one
Speaker 3: with a thirty eight WRC plus with a twenty nine
Speaker 3: percent carry versus lefties in the month of September. So
Speaker 3: Antillo is another one who's actually been pretty good of late.
Speaker 3: So there's some nice, nice Wednesday streams for you.
Speaker 1: There are some decent options I'm looking into Thursday. Again,
Speaker 1: these are not all set in stone. I just kinda
Speaker 1: want to get Bubba's thoughts on a couple of them.
Speaker 1: The first one is a little bit dicey. I will
Speaker 1: admit Kyle Gibson at Colorado. Colorado is really not a
Speaker 1: team that scares me. Gibson is kind of whatever. But
Speaker 1: let's say it's a fifteen team league here, Bubbo, and
Speaker 1: I'll only type of deal. You're streaming him in deeper
Speaker 1: leagues or you're just trying to steer clear of Kyle Gibson.
Speaker 3: Deeper leagues. You can stream shallow leagues. No, because you
Speaker 3: said the Rockies don't scare you, Kyle Gibson scares me.
Speaker 3: So that's that's the difference there. But in deeper formats, yes,
Speaker 3: you still roll Kyle out there because it is a
Speaker 3: chance at a w You got.
Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker at Oakland tomorrow. I know that it hasn't
Speaker 1: been maybe as good as we would have hoped, but
Speaker 1: still pretty decent stuff against a team like Oakland. I
Speaker 1: think that in most cases I'm streaming him, especially if
Speaker 1: I'm looking for strikeouts. But but you have any worries
Speaker 1: about throwing Kumar Rocker out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: If you need strikeouts, go for it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he has enough to get a win,
Speaker 3: so definitely, depending on what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: That's true. David Festa against Miami coming off of not
Speaker 1: a great one, but a fantastic matchup here, Bubba Festa
Speaker 1: has disappointed me a little bit, but I do love
Speaker 1: the skills and I do love the matchup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, skills are great matchups great over gave
Speaker 3: it four early but settled down on Monday. If you're
Speaker 3: looking for a little at late late push the season,
Speaker 3: I could see rolling the dice with festa.
Speaker 1: Angelo mentioned Reese Olsen in the chat here. He's also
Speaker 1: on the list for his start against Tampa. What's your
Speaker 1: interest level for that one?
Speaker 3: It just depends on how far Olsen goes in the game.
Speaker 3: But phenomenal matchup Rays have been pretty garbageably, especially a
Speaker 3: lot of strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Let's move into Friday, there's just one and again these
Speaker 1: are a little bit dicey. As we go further and
Speaker 1: further along, you never really know one hundred percent. But
Speaker 1: as of right now, jpcars line up to start against Seattle.
Speaker 1: He's been not too bad in the second half. Seattle's
Speaker 1: been a great matchup. What's your interest level here, Bubba?
Speaker 3: I like series. Just make sure you need it because
Speaker 3: the one thing I'll say is they have turned it
Speaker 3: on in September two sixty seven, average one twenty five.
Speaker 3: I have WRC plus versus lefties, and a lot of
Speaker 3: that is Jay Rod warming up in a big way.
Speaker 3: So if you really need, you know, strikeouts and a
Speaker 3: chance to win. Sure, if you're pretty safe, be cautious
Speaker 3: with this one.
Speaker 1: Fred Dinger in the chat we just mentioned Kintio Bubba
Speaker 1: is a fan of using Joey Cantillo for Saturday. A
Speaker 1: couple of guys I've highlighted, Nick Martinez at the Cubs,
Speaker 1: Andre Polante at your Giants, Bubba, what's your thoughts on
Speaker 1: these two.
Speaker 3: Cubs are one of the hottest teams in baseball right now,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna steer clear of that one. So no
Speaker 3: attacking the Cubs in my mind. Polante if you're desperate,
Speaker 3: a lot of pitch to contact there, but he has
Speaker 3: pitched really well. I'll give him that much over the
Speaker 3: last month or so. So if you're looking for some upside,
Speaker 3: I get it. Probably he's going opposite Blake snell Win
Speaker 3: might be tricky.
Speaker 1: I put Baba through the ringer there just quick fire,
Speaker 1: quick fire streaming questions. But that is kind of the
Speaker 1: group of options. Things will miss, things will mix around
Speaker 1: a little bit. But Bradford, Basso, Kumar Rocker for strikeouts,
Speaker 1: David Festa re Andre Polante, those are kind of the
Speaker 1: main ones here. Over the last few days For Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna try and recommend anything because I
Speaker 1: have no idea what's going to happen for anybody, But
Speaker 1: through Saturday, those are our favorite picks, just for fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know how fun this is in Baltimore, but
Speaker 1: eloy him and has dropped down optioned to Triple A.
Speaker 1: What does his future look like at this point? Is
Speaker 1: he somebody that's gonna slowly fade out of baseball, you think,
Speaker 1: or does somebody give him another chance to actually live
Speaker 1: up to that potential. It feels like we're kind of
Speaker 1: running out of time at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he'll get a shot just because baseball
Speaker 3: is so bleak, and he'll be affordable, i'd imagine, But
Speaker 3: it's been bad. An injury is lack of power when
Speaker 3: he does play, and then you know, getting basically traded
Speaker 3: for and sent to Triple A not looking good for you, Lay,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: They might need to hang.
Speaker 3: His jersey open the little dugout once again to bring
Speaker 3: him back to life.
Speaker 1: They're not hanging it in the rafters anywhere. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that at this point. Roddy Tillas, I saw you
Speaker 1: mentioned it on your sub stack. I don't understand why
Speaker 1: teams do this. I saw some people trying to defend
Speaker 1: the pirates and say and say, no, no, you know what,
Speaker 1: he didn't get the advats he did. They they cut
Speaker 1: him with a few games left so he wouldn't get there.
Speaker 1: It's just the scummy move over a couple hundred grand
Speaker 1: I think it was two hundred to two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty k. People don't forget this type of thing. Bubba
Speaker 1: teams players guys looking to sign. It's not like Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: is a big free agent destination anyway. Do you think
Speaker 1: this has much of an impact on their ability to
Speaker 1: bring in players at all?
Speaker 2: It will.
Speaker 3: It will probably give like Paul Skeens a re signing
Speaker 3: with the team, stuff like that. There's gonna be a
Speaker 3: lot of trepidation in those thoughts.
Speaker 2: That's put it that way.
Speaker 3: You could have let him play Tuesday, get four played
Speaker 3: appearances in DFAM on Wednesday. That's a very simple fix
Speaker 3: to the problem. It wasn't like you're bringing up a
Speaker 3: top prospect. You brought up Richie or Joshua. Pelasio's kind
Speaker 3: of know who he is and the over Pigero in
Speaker 3: his eighty eight WRC plus, so you didn't really neither
Speaker 3: one's the first basement to top it off, just throwing
Speaker 3: that out there. You could have waited a day. You
Speaker 3: could have done the right thing. There was no need
Speaker 3: to make this move. Pirate bad teams stay bad teams.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why they would have needed to
Speaker 1: make it like the season's done on Sunday, let him
Speaker 1: finish out the year. Is just embarrassing a player who,
Speaker 1: albeit he wasn't amazing for them this year, but there
Speaker 1: was a stretch where Rowdy Teles was really really good.
Speaker 3: And they were in the playoff hunt at that time.
Speaker 3: They were continuing for like a while, like they were
Speaker 3: actually good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think it's a bad, bad thing
Speaker 1: to do to a good guy, to a somebody around
Speaker 1: baseball who is known as a good guy. I love
Speaker 1: him for my time in Toronto. Obviously he's not a superstar,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't do this kind of thing to players.
Speaker 1: The Angels did it last year, a similar thing when
Speaker 1: there was somebody who could have gotten some kind of
Speaker 1: bonus or some health relief thing and they cut him.
Speaker 1: I think it was a catcher. I can't remember exactly
Speaker 1: what it is somebody listening is gonna know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about and think I'm insane for not remembering it.
Speaker 1: But there are these little weird people moves that people
Speaker 1: don't forget, especially those players around the league who are
Speaker 1: going to be looking for deals as free agents. But
Speaker 1: let's move on, and let's talk about the three up
Speaker 1: and three down quickly to Reik Scooble, to nobody's surprise,
Speaker 1: have an nitting seven strikeouts and no earn runs. Ory Polanco,
Speaker 1: who has been on the down or just ignored a
Speaker 1: lot this season. I have dragged his name through the
Speaker 1: mud because he was one of my most drafted players.
Speaker 1: He very much disappointed me. He went four for four
Speaker 1: yesterday with a home run, and then Von Grissom also
Speaker 1: had probably his best game of the season. Hasn't been
Speaker 1: much this year, but he did have a three hit
Speaker 1: game himself. So I wanted to highlight a couple of
Speaker 1: names there along with three school who haven't really done much,
Speaker 1: Ory Polanco and Von Grissom. Bubba, you gonna be buying
Speaker 1: the quote unquote dip next season on either.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm not gonna say no, but Polanco injury concerns
Speaker 3: throughout the entire season and Griffon. We know the talents there,
Speaker 3: but what's playing time look like there's a lot of
Speaker 3: question marks.
Speaker 2: For both of them.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather take a chance on Grissom considering
Speaker 1: what we saw when he first came up. He's got
Speaker 1: a good ballpark, a decent team. Where with Polanco I
Speaker 1: don't know at this point. Three down John Carlos Stanton
Speaker 1: the golden sombrero of the night. JP Crawford also had
Speaker 1: one as well. Brandon fought two and two thirds, four
Speaker 1: earn runs, six hits and two walks. Not good stuff
Speaker 1: from brand and it fought to end the season. And
Speaker 1: then a surprise name on the down Logan Gilbert. Four
Speaker 1: earned runs in three homers over six innings yesterday against Houston.
Speaker 1: Not his best. It wasn't terrible. Usually the down is
Speaker 1: a little bit worse than that, but no starting pitcher,
Speaker 1: I don't think you've up more than four earned runs yesterday.
Speaker 1: So it was hard to be good pitching, hard to
Speaker 1: find a true true blow up. But Baba, that will
Speaker 1: take us for the last time this season. In two
Speaker 1: our best bets of the day for Wednesday, and Joey
Speaker 1: p and the Welsh are still up on the graphic.
Speaker 1: You'll get them back on Friday for the finale, but
Speaker 1: you're stuck with us for one more time. Here on
Speaker 1: the Best Bets of the Day, presented by a Bet
Speaker 1: three six five Bubba, how are you wrapping up your season? Here?
Speaker 3: On leading off, we're staying on the plus money train
Speaker 3: here going Taylor Ward over one and a half total
Speaker 3: basis at plus one twenty five, talked about how good
Speaker 3: he's been lately. Gets a great matchup there against Davis
Speaker 3: and the Chicago White Sox had another good game on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: Corbyn Carrol. I think the the Dbacks bats wake up
Speaker 3: Versu or Tyler Black. Mason Black pitching for the Giants
Speaker 3: on Wednesday night, Corbyan Carol over two and a half hits,
Speaker 3: runs in RBIs at plus one twenty five might do
Speaker 3: that in one at bat. And then Joey Cantillo talked
Speaker 3: about him earlier over five and a half strikeouts at
Speaker 3: plus one thirty. I was shocked to see plus one
Speaker 3: thirty on this one as the red strikeout a ton
Speaker 3: of Cantio has been getting six plus k's in his outings,
Speaker 3: so I like that one quite a bit.
Speaker 1: And TiO you are interested in him. He had that
Speaker 1: amazing start. What was it against the White Sox? It
Speaker 1: was like ten strikeouts, seven shutout innings. He has I
Speaker 1: mean it is the White Sox, but he still has
Speaker 1: a lot in him. I think that he could be
Speaker 1: somebody that's pretty interesting. And tonight, I mean, plus money
Speaker 1: plus one thirty for five and a half strikeouts does
Speaker 1: feel pretty attainable for him. My bats, I'm starting off
Speaker 1: with one that I hit the last time. I'm doing
Speaker 1: the exact same thing over here. David Peterson over two
Speaker 1: and a half earned runs. I don't trust him. I
Speaker 1: haven't trusted him throughout this streak. The underlying data is
Speaker 1: not good. He's still got command issues, the strikeouts aren't
Speaker 1: really there. And I think Atlanta, just based on the
Speaker 1: way we're trending here, I think that they're going to
Speaker 1: get to him tonight. They don't even need to really
Speaker 1: get to him for this one to hit. They just
Speaker 1: need to get three earned runs. I think that is
Speaker 1: definitely gonna happen tonight. Shouldn't say definitely, but I think
Speaker 1: there's a good chance. Austin Gomber is the second one.
Speaker 1: How can we wrap up a season without betting against
Speaker 1: Austin Gomber. It's Saint Louis coming into town. They're not
Speaker 1: world beaters necessarily, but Austin Gomber is not very good, folks.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has the odds start here and there
Speaker 1: where he's okay, but by and largely somebody that you
Speaker 1: can target. So I'm taking plus three and a half
Speaker 1: earned runs. That one is at plus one zero five,
Speaker 1: a little bit trickier at over three and a half,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty confident that he's not gonna have a
Speaker 1: great start tonight. And then we're wrapping it up. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be on the right side of history here. We're
Speaker 1: taking the Angels money line to beat the White Sox
Speaker 1: tonight and get them into the history books. I think
Speaker 1: that there's only so long the White Sox can hold
Speaker 1: this one off. They won yesterday. I don't see it
Speaker 1: happening again. So those are our best bets of the day.
Speaker 1: And Bubba, the final thing to do on the season
Speaker 1: here for Leading Office pick our final home run call
Speaker 1: for today and I guess through the final week end
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go back to the well thought Monday
Speaker 3: would be the day for it. We're going back to
Speaker 3: it on Wednesday. I already picked Corbyn Carroll over two
Speaker 3: and a half runs.
Speaker 2: Hits an rby.
Speaker 3: I said it might happen and one at bat, and
Speaker 3: that a bat will be a home run for Corbyn Carroll.
Speaker 3: I really do believe Mason Black is not that great.
Speaker 3: A heat shuts down the d Backs, I would be
Speaker 3: just amazing happy at the same time. But yeah, give
Speaker 3: me some Corbyn Carroll going deep on Wednesday in the desert.
Speaker 1: I am targeting Austin Gomber once again here and it'll
Speaker 1: be I believe they were teammates at one point, his
Speaker 1: old teammates on Nolan Aeronado.
Speaker 2: No, they were traded for each other.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right for each other. I forgotten, my god, it.
Speaker 3: Was Austin Gomber and a bucket of balls and a
Speaker 3: couple other things for Aeronado and cash.
Speaker 1: Some shoelaces, a bunch of bunch of spare parts. I've
Speaker 1: totally forgotten that. That is pretty funny. But Nolan Aeronado,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna take Gomber yard tonight in Colorado.
Speaker 1: It's been a bit of a down season for him,
Speaker 1: but I think the situation is right for as Angelo says,
Speaker 1: auestome goober to get hit around a little bit tonight.
Speaker 1: But guys, this is bringing us to the end of
Speaker 1: the show. I can't promise we're gonna cut the black
Speaker 1: and do a Sopranos type of ending or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I want to just take a moment to say
Speaker 1: thank you to Fantasy Pros, to everybody who let us
Speaker 1: take the reins here for the show, to Joe piece
Speaker 1: a Pa, to Chris Welsh. They're gonna be back on Friday,
Speaker 1: but I really do appreciate them trusting us with their
Speaker 1: baby over the final However many shows we did Bubba fifteen, seventeen,
Speaker 1: twenty shows or so, it's been a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of fun getting to talk here with you three
Speaker 1: to four times a week, and we get to talk
Speaker 1: a lot more putting the shows together and stuff. So
Speaker 1: thank you to Fantasy Pros, thank you to Joe and Chris,
Speaker 1: and thank you to you guys who continue to listen
Speaker 1: to the show. I know how strange it can be
Speaker 1: when you're listening to your favorite podcast and there's a
Speaker 1: different voice and you're probably thinking, what the hell. Some
Speaker 1: people might just tun it, turn it off, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't blame them, but you guys stuck around, whether it's
Speaker 1: on the podcast side on the YouTube side. So truly,
Speaker 1: from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everybody
Speaker 1: who helped make the show what it is. Bubba. Any
Speaker 1: final thoughts before we do sign off here, No.
Speaker 3: It's been awesome. It's been pleasure getting to do it
Speaker 3: with you, my friend. You know, we usually record a
Speaker 3: couple times a year. Anyways, it was fun to get
Speaker 3: to do it multiple times a week now. Watching your
Speaker 3: ascension in this world is a lot of fun. So
Speaker 3: looking to see what's next in store for you. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I've always enjoyed. This is my third year kind of
Speaker 3: being one of the September subs. It's been been great.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to probably doing it again next year
Speaker 3: with you and see you'll see where it goes. But
Speaker 3: thanks to all the listeners in here, and I'll just
Speaker 3: keep supporting, support us off and do whatever we do.
Speaker 3: But if you guys like football, guys that'd like to
Speaker 3: talk baseball from time to time, Friday as your show.
Speaker 3: But if not, Joe and I have other content for
Speaker 3: you can check out, so enjoy and thanks to everybody
Speaker 3: for listening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you follow Bubba over on Twitter. He's
Speaker 1: severely under followed at B d Ententrich bd E N
Speaker 1: t R e K. I'm at Joel Rico ninety nine.
Speaker 1: But go prioritize Bubba. I should not have more followers
Speaker 1: than this guy does. It's ridiculous. Go ahead and hit
Speaker 1: the follow button over there. But guys, I hate to
Speaker 1: actually end the show, but that's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: us for today, this season for us. But there's gonna
Speaker 1: be leading off with Joe and Welsh on Friday. I
Speaker 1: do have some plans throughout the off season. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be doing some stuff. We won't go away. There will
Speaker 1: still be content on the baseball side. Make sure you
Speaker 1: guys are helping us out with those subscriptions, ratings, reviews,
Speaker 1: doing all that stuff to help the numbers stay steady
Speaker 1: throughout the off season. But guys, for the final time
Speaker 1: this season, for Casey Bubba, I am Joe Alrico. Good
Speaker 1: luck down the stretch. Have a great night. Cheers.
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