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Speaker 1: of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Network.
Speaker 1: We got a big show for you. Check it out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a lot of things. Earlier in
Speaker 1: the week when I was at Studio thirty four and
Speaker 1: Rock and Rilly's, we were talking a lot about the
Speaker 1: NFL and free agency, kind of wrapping that up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Now that the big wave has come. You know,
Speaker 1: even even guys that are bridge people like A. J.
Speaker 1: Mccaren and Tyrod Taylor have been moving around. You know. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike Glennon already has a deal for Garrett
Speaker 1: Blunt already has a deal. So what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: with this episode is we are going to shift it
Speaker 1: a little bit over and we're gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about baseball. You know, it is fantasy baseball season,
Speaker 1: although you would not have believed in with the northeaster
Speaker 1: that was going through the East Coast at my home,
Speaker 1: New York City earlier this week. But check it out.
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do is we're gonna zone in on
Speaker 1: the A L East. I'm gonna give you my division
Speaker 1: preview for the AL East. You know I've been doing that,
Speaker 1: going division by division, getting you ready fantasy baseball draft,
Speaker 1: which are probably happening fast and furious. I did a
Speaker 1: baseball draft just yesterday. Okay, so that was really hot, yo.
Speaker 1: Check it out. I'll show by you. You You can catch
Speaker 1: my team on Twitter, follow me at spitting Spiece. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into the AL East. But and you know that,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm Puerto Rica from the Bronx,
Speaker 1: so I gotta represent the Yankees the worlds. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about um. There's a very interesting article that I
Speaker 1: saw in Sports Illustrated about um Giancarlo Stanton and you
Speaker 1: know his his thoughts about the Marlins and his thoughts
Speaker 1: about coming over to the Yankees. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit as well some other interesting parts
Speaker 1: about the a L East in general. We're gonna put
Speaker 1: the fun in functional sports radio. A little bit later on,
Speaker 1: we talk about Tampa Bay and what they are doing,
Speaker 1: which is very unique in Major League Baseball and could
Speaker 1: be the opposite of what some other teams are doing.
Speaker 1: And it brings us to our poll question. Check it
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball rotation? Okay, this year in two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: there will be teams with four, five and six man rotations.
Speaker 1: Will get into that a little bit as well. You
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Speaker 1: That's overbeat Cipher. Let's get into its. Starting with the NFL.
Speaker 1: Okay Listen, Like I said, free agency continues since the
Speaker 1: last time I talked to you. I think the new
Speaker 1: signings of the note first of all, Eric Ebron going
Speaker 1: to the Indianapolis Colts. I think that is interesting because
Speaker 1: they still have Jack Doyle there in Indianapolis. Is this
Speaker 1: the way they're gonna try and get weapons slash protection
Speaker 1: for Andrew Luckless? And this team lost Donte mong grief
Speaker 1: they lost Frank Gore. I have not seen them do
Speaker 1: that much to kind of aug meant the weapon grief.
Speaker 1: Shall we say, do you believe in Marlon Mack? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure about that. But Eric Ebron now out there
Speaker 1: in the kind of too tight end offense. A lot
Speaker 1: of teams are going through this too tight end offense.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard this year in fantasy football to
Speaker 1: get a quote unquote workhorse tight end in the same
Speaker 1: way you can't get a workhorse running back. Are we
Speaker 1: seeing tight end by committee in more teams? That's something
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. And also check this out, um,
Speaker 1: in Oakland Beast mode, we'll be back with Opland Raiders. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess there was some kind of it was up
Speaker 1: in the air a little bit after John Gruden came
Speaker 1: in as the new head coach. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: see if he was a fit, what they could get
Speaker 1: out Marshawn He actually took a cut to stay there. Okay.
Speaker 1: So um, I think that's interesting. And you know they're
Speaker 1: accumulating now with Jordy Nelson taking over the micro graduy role.
Speaker 1: They really putting the pressure on car to stay healthy
Speaker 1: with that good offensive linelessly with Gruden. Good to do there.
Speaker 1: I think they are a fantasy herd. You know, if
Speaker 1: you listen to the stands over beat Cipher, you know
Speaker 1: about that. And the one thing I want to say
Speaker 1: before we dive into um, the real NFL topic for
Speaker 1: this episode of Fantasy Freestyle is did you see this? Um,
Speaker 1: this incident with Za Jones, Bill's wide receivers. Z A
Speaker 1: Jones was in a uh, you know, an apartment complex
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, Okay, And I'll tell you what. There
Speaker 1: was a woman there, and there was his brother there,
Speaker 1: and there's an argument, um and A Jones ultimately arrested
Speaker 1: for vandalism. Right. But if you see the video, and uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of places you can see the video,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was originally from TMZ. And
Speaker 1: you see the video, Um, it is on some next
Speaker 1: level ish right now. Okay, he's running around n kid,
Speaker 1: he's screaming that you know, he's fighting with Jesus. He
Speaker 1: tries to jump out potentially of a thirtieth story window.
Speaker 1: It breaks the class. I saw a video you know
Speaker 1: afterwards it look like it was definitely a crime scene involved. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely crazy. Like I'm saying, he's screaming that he's
Speaker 1: fighting with Jesus his brother who's also an NFL player. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's a wide out with the fightings potentially, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, is trying to you know, calm him down.
Speaker 1: And there's been a lot of an outcry about like,
Speaker 1: you know, mental health right now in um professional sports.
Speaker 1: You know, UM, guys like de Marta Rosen have come out,
Speaker 1: guys like Kevin Love have come out in the NBA
Speaker 1: talking about anxiety, talking about depression and so you know,
Speaker 1: this is a sensitive thing in the conversation right now.
Speaker 1: But I do gotta tell you this, Um, he could
Speaker 1: have just also been on K two. This is what
Speaker 1: people on K two do, you know. So who knows
Speaker 1: what's going on in the off season was day Jones,
Speaker 1: who is a Jones, So who knows? But we do
Speaker 1: hope everything is well, but you know, let's see, let's
Speaker 1: see how this one develops. But I had to stats
Speaker 1: that would be decipher know about that what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about though in the NFL, because listen, there's
Speaker 1: this player movement and we're gonna be giving it to you,
Speaker 1: you know, as the offseason chugs along, you know, after
Speaker 1: this free agency kind of slows down a little bit,
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who's still out there. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what teams still need to you know, make it happen.
Speaker 1: Next time we talk on the Fantasy Freestyle. Um and
Speaker 1: then we get into this draft coverage and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a lot with Emery Hunt, our guy. This are
Speaker 1: the playbook Emery Hunt. He got that new glitch in
Speaker 1: the system on the Fantasy Sports and network. You gotta
Speaker 1: love what he's doing. He's the man um. So as
Speaker 1: we go, we're gonna go into draft covers. But before that,
Speaker 1: what I do want to tell you is, listen, they're
Speaker 1: talking about this redefinition of a catch. Okay, and this
Speaker 1: is something we talk about all the time on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. Check it out. Troy Vincent, the vice president
Speaker 1: of Football Operations, says, uh, you know, there's been panels,
Speaker 1: there's been reviews, okay, but they already submit a set
Speaker 1: of recommendations. And here's how they did it. I think
Speaker 1: this is interesting. They they looked at current plates and
Speaker 1: they work back from that. You know, they kind of
Speaker 1: backwards planned there and map out if it should be
Speaker 1: a catch. You know, this is what it should be.
Speaker 1: So for example, the ideas of slight movement of the
Speaker 1: ball in the receiver's hands, they may reverse that. That
Speaker 1: used to be able to still be a catch for
Speaker 1: now off the balls moving, they might reverse that. He says, Okay,
Speaker 1: going to the ground, that part is going to be eliminated,
Speaker 1: and that's the big deal. Okay, going to the ground,
Speaker 1: that might be eliminated. Okay, and they could change some
Speaker 1: of the replay standards as well. Okay, check this out
Speaker 1: um part of the quote. The new updated rule quote
Speaker 1: will require only that a receiver have control of the
Speaker 1: football and any slight movement of the football and the
Speaker 1: receiver's and detective via replay would not result in an incompletion.
Speaker 1: It would also quote eliminate the requirement that a receiver
Speaker 1: who was in the process of going to the ground
Speaker 1: while making a catch must maintain control of the football
Speaker 1: while on the turf to be awarded illegal catch. So
Speaker 1: those are the two main things. Okay, and I think
Speaker 1: this is very interesting right now, that Dez Brian catch
Speaker 1: against Green Bay in the playoffs that would now be
Speaker 1: a catch. They say, the Jesse James catch against the
Speaker 1: Patriots this year from Pittsburgh, which could have changed the
Speaker 1: entire a f c UH would now be a catch
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. Interestingly enough, I've been telling you like,
Speaker 1: I think this is a step in a good direction.
Speaker 1: I think this does make a little bit more sense.
Speaker 1: This does kind of define and clarify a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But it's still imperfect. It's still gonna be other calls.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna be other plays that we see in
Speaker 1: the next UH, you know year. That makes us further,
Speaker 1: you know, we find a new gray area. You know.
Speaker 1: So I still say, I still say what we need
Speaker 1: to do is have you know how we listen? If
Speaker 1: we could do replay in UH centralized in New York,
Speaker 1: If now we could have independent neurologists centralized in New
Speaker 1: York which can buzz something and take a player off
Speaker 1: the field. For players safety, oh man, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into players safety very soon on the fantasy freestyle because
Speaker 1: this concussion settlement um is not going so well for
Speaker 1: the NFL. But we'll get into that a little bit
Speaker 1: later on or another another down the road here on
Speaker 1: the fantasy freestyle, I've always said what you could do
Speaker 1: consistently or maybe you know, you know, as MLB had
Speaker 1: the fan Cave, maybe you could do this and just
Speaker 1: have a panel of like fans in the cave and
Speaker 1: you have five every every Sunday and they just go
Speaker 1: on thumbs up, thumbs down? Was it a catch centralized?
Speaker 1: And boom that's it? And you know you have an
Speaker 1: alternate if it's like the teams, if it's the team's involved,
Speaker 1: he's got a he or she has to abstain and
Speaker 1: you put on an alternate, that's what's up. I would nominate,
Speaker 1: I would I would volunteer to try to do that.
Speaker 1: How can I do that? Or just have like some
Speaker 1: kids just watching and make them their decision. That's how
Speaker 1: I've always said, let me know what you think. Hit
Speaker 1: me up on Twitter at Spin and speeds. Is that
Speaker 1: the right way to do the panel? And would you
Speaker 1: serve on it? Would you be honest on it on
Speaker 1: that sort of thing? So, um, that's that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about NFL. But like I said, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: mostly MLB this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into the A L East. Okay, We're gonna talk about, um,
Speaker 1: which arms I like, which one's a fool Gazzy. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the bats um, you know, outside of just
Speaker 1: standing and judge. Obviously right standing Judge are gonna be huge,
Speaker 1: but what other bad you know, everyone knows about those
Speaker 1: two guys. I'm trying to tell you where your diamonds
Speaker 1: and the rough and there's definitely some in the A
Speaker 1: L East. But before we do that, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you something. I saw this very very interesting article
Speaker 1: um about Giancarlos standing okay, and he kind of really
Speaker 1: opened up about, you know, his situation in Florida, in Miami,
Speaker 1: um through the through the dull drums and seeing what
Speaker 1: has happened, you know, and and he made the point
Speaker 1: that he had eight different managers in his eight years
Speaker 1: with the Marlins, you know, and how every year someone
Speaker 1: knew would come in and be like this new enthusiasm
Speaker 1: right in this new set of ethics and this new
Speaker 1: culture and blah blah blah, and it just became kind
Speaker 1: of a broken record. And he he kind of not
Speaker 1: necessarily tuned out, but it was hard for to have
Speaker 1: as much investment or faith, you know. And then he
Speaker 1: also said that when he went at All Star Games,
Speaker 1: when he when he was at the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 1: When he would see other elite players, high level players
Speaker 1: and and coming from their organizations with their winning culture
Speaker 1: was like with their work ethic was like with their
Speaker 1: level of expectation was like you know. He he literally
Speaker 1: said that, um, he felt the brunt of it and
Speaker 1: that and that he felt clowned. You know, he said, quote,
Speaker 1: you laugh it off for a while, then you start thinking,
Speaker 1: are you part of the mess? Are you the face
Speaker 1: of what everyone is laughing about? He says it didn't
Speaker 1: sit well with him for years. It started to really
Speaker 1: burn him up inside. He asked himself, if his career
Speaker 1: ended tomorrow, what would he take away from it beside
Speaker 1: the few individual accomplishments. So this is important for him, Okay,
Speaker 1: and now he's finally, you know, has this clauset be
Speaker 1: able to hit this open market? You know? So he
Speaker 1: takes visits with the Giants, with the Cardinals, and he
Speaker 1: said he did that purposely just because he wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, peek behind the curtain and see how other
Speaker 1: organizations did it. And I think that's interesting. Players are
Speaker 1: considering this now with their with their with their their
Speaker 1: quality of life, the taxes, but also like what are
Speaker 1: they what kind of work situation are they getting into
Speaker 1: what do the alignment the vision? Is it a well
Speaker 1: run organization? Blank Griffin said this recently in the NBA too,
Speaker 1: when he came from the Clippers to Detroit and he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, he sees the banners on the wall and
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, this is how this is a culture,
Speaker 1: that this is a way to do it. I think,
Speaker 1: I think, listen, that's what's happening here. So I think
Speaker 1: it's I really like standing opening up about this right
Speaker 1: in this article also, and this is potentially one of
Speaker 1: the most interesting parts to me, he talks about this
Speaker 1: is uh standing. He talks about how the death of
Speaker 1: Jose Fernandez was a huge turning point for him, you know,
Speaker 1: because on a on a number of levels too. You know.
Speaker 1: The first is that like Fernandez was a legit ace.
Speaker 1: You know, Fernandez was that guy you could build around. Okay,
Speaker 1: he says, you need a picture like that who can dominate,
Speaker 1: like he can win the World Series. You know, he
Speaker 1: can help you in the World Series. That's sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And also because what Fernandez was in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and this has been you know, well documented, what kind
Speaker 1: of like life force he was in baseball and locker
Speaker 1: rooms as a team made as a joy and what
Speaker 1: that did to that team, right, so um, But then
Speaker 1: he says one other thing. He says that he says
Speaker 1: that Fernandez came up to him once and was like,
Speaker 1: you know how it goes down here business wise? He says,
Speaker 1: when I get out of here, I'm going to the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and I'm taking you with me. And I've always said,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness as a as a Yankees fan, or
Speaker 1: that's the guy I wanted in this big summer coming up,
Speaker 1: which is supposed to be you know, Arper and Matado
Speaker 1: and Donaldson. I was like, now, I wanted Jose Fernandez
Speaker 1: and he apparently wanted to come to the Yankees. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't that. And then they talked about how it
Speaker 1: comes together kind of from the cashman side of things, right,
Speaker 1: which is very interesting from the general manager. He was
Speaker 1: saying that, like listen, he knew they wanted to upgrade
Speaker 1: at d H and their first target was Otani at first, right,
Speaker 1: but then Oltani wanted to play on the West Coast
Speaker 1: and things like that. They knew they were out of
Speaker 1: it for them. So then they went up and and
Speaker 1: we're kind of more aggressive enquiring and and and and
Speaker 1: and working and propositioning around Stanton, you know. Um. And
Speaker 1: I think that was really interesting that they talked about
Speaker 1: how they had to get some money back to go
Speaker 1: on through one nineties seven, how they had to um,
Speaker 1: how they had to take Castro. It's part of the
Speaker 1: deal to get you know, they also get down on
Speaker 1: some money, you know. And then and then they really
Speaker 1: standing described his interactions with Derek Jeter and trying to
Speaker 1: be able to like give this team a shot with
Speaker 1: Yellows with o Juna, and how Jeter was like not
Speaker 1: into it. And I think so it's a very interesting
Speaker 1: article and I think listen it for me. It reinforces
Speaker 1: that stand as his head on his shoulders, that he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be you know, um, starry eyed coming to
Speaker 1: New York, that he's about his business, that he's about
Speaker 1: not being necessarily fe man, but huge cog in what
Speaker 1: could be the most scary offense in a very very
Speaker 1: long time. Um, we're talking about you know, many many
Speaker 1: Ramirez David Ortiz kind of combo. But also people are
Speaker 1: forgetting about this also with Gary sanche as the number
Speaker 1: one catcher offensively in the major leagues thirty home run
Speaker 1: potential with maybe a healthy Greg Bird, although Greg Bird
Speaker 1: could also be Nick Johnson. My Yankee fans molle, what's up?
Speaker 1: But with d d with you know, with Guardy this
Speaker 1: is a good offense. With Aaron Kicks, this is a
Speaker 1: good offense do with I guess apparently if they want
Speaker 1: to go to veteran route with Nea Walker and Brandon
Speaker 1: Drewry with the kids coming up still, I think Torres
Speaker 1: is still like coming up as soon as that time
Speaker 1: in June is up, you know. So I think this
Speaker 1: is this is really interesting to get into the mindset,
Speaker 1: and I really like how he you know, I guess
Speaker 1: kind of let you in so obviously, um um um,
Speaker 1: I'm all about these Yankees. I'm a former bleacher creature.
Speaker 1: But what I will try to do is give you
Speaker 1: an honest assessment of the a A least because in
Speaker 1: fantasy you gotta sometimes take your heart out of it, right.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my boy Sammy so old Dog and Zippy. Um.
Speaker 1: He couldn't play fantasy baseball because he couldn't have He
Speaker 1: would just take the entire Yankees team, or couldn't have
Speaker 1: any Red Sox or anybody even in the American League sometimes.
Speaker 1: But you can't be that way, okay, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try and divorce that for you in my a L
Speaker 1: East preview coming up right about now on the Fantasy Freestyle.
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Speaker 1: the offense, the diamonds and the fou gay zis and
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle. What's your boy, Dame
Speaker 1: Martinez be spend statistician getting in on the Fantasy Sports Network.
Speaker 1: I told you we're gonna get down about the A
Speaker 1: L East. We're gonna chop it up, giving you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know fantasy baseball. We're gonna go kind
Speaker 1: of team by team. I'll give you some diamonds, I'll
Speaker 1: give you some food gazes. I'll tell you my predictions
Speaker 1: for the division. If you want to get on some
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Speaker 1: get into this a l east. Um. The first place
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about is the arms we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into, you know. And and honestly, there are
Speaker 1: there are some bad pitching staffs in this division. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's let's let's get them out of the way.
Speaker 1: And obviously Baltimore is one of the one of the
Speaker 1: worst rotations in major leagues in my opinion. Okay, they
Speaker 1: played a small ballpark. Also, they play in a division
Speaker 1: where with OFFENSI juggernauts. They're gonna see the Yankees nineteen times,
Speaker 1: They're going to see the Red Sox nineteen times. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna even see an offense like Toronto and above
Speaker 1: average offense nineteen times. You know. So it is not
Speaker 1: a good situation, uh for in an Orioles pitcher and
Speaker 1: and and Dylan Bundy. They're quote unquote eights. You know.
Speaker 1: Dylan Bundy is Yeah, sure, he's coming off his best season. Well,
Speaker 1: he had over a hundred fifty strikeouts fifty two strikeouts
Speaker 1: last year, but he still had a yar a. His
Speaker 1: ex fit was still four point seven seven and he
Speaker 1: he threw a hundred sixty nine innings, but that was
Speaker 1: the previous year he threw a hundred and nine innings. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a big jump. So I am worried about what
Speaker 1: this kid who has had injury troubles before. I would
Speaker 1: not be on Dylan Bundy. Dylan Bundy is a definite
Speaker 1: fool Gaze nominee for me in the A L East.
Speaker 1: And after that, what are we talking about? Nothing? Okay,
Speaker 1: So you're gonna keep it moving when you think about
Speaker 1: the arms in Baltimore. You know, even when you think
Speaker 1: about the closer side, Britain is on the d L
Speaker 1: And if he's healthy, he's gonna get traded as a
Speaker 1: commodity because the Orioles won't meet him, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And Brad Brock like, how many how many
Speaker 1: opportunities you think he's gonna get. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's an elite level closer. If you need someone at
Speaker 1: the bottom, go right ahead. But you know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be very interesting to see as Britain if Britain gets
Speaker 1: back anytime soon, not necessarily scheduled too. In Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: in this division, um, you you definitely you have Chris Archer, okay,
Speaker 1: And and don't get it twisted. Chris Archer is a
Speaker 1: sp one for your team, okay. In the last three
Speaker 1: years ten point seven strikeout rate, ten point four strikeout rate,
Speaker 1: eleven point one strikeout okay, in the last three years
Speaker 1: five point to war, three point to war, four point
Speaker 1: six war. But in the last three years his record
Speaker 1: has been under five twelve and thirteen, under five hundred
Speaker 1: nine and nineteen, under five hundred, ten and twelve. He
Speaker 1: is the quality. Start reason I'm gonna call I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call Archer right now. The quality the q S flag,
Speaker 1: you know, shout out to my people over there at Rotorwear,
Speaker 1: Kenny Cash. You know what it is, you know, flying
Speaker 1: the q S flag Like that's what Archer is. He
Speaker 1: is the you know, he's gonna give you a great outing.
Speaker 1: But there's no offense there really to help, you know.
Speaker 1: And then then what about the rest of him? Odorizzy?
Speaker 1: I think Jake od Rizzi is going to be traded.
Speaker 1: He is a prime candidate to be traded, even if
Speaker 1: no one actually sacks up and pays the price for
Speaker 1: a guy like Archer. I think someone you know, could
Speaker 1: in the in need get a guy like Jake Odorizzy.
Speaker 1: But what I'm intrigued by his Blake Snell. Blake Snell
Speaker 1: to me is a potential diamond in the rough. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a guy um who pretty much dominates. Triple
Speaker 1: A has been I think brought along right. I have
Speaker 1: faith in that organization to bring along young pictures. They
Speaker 1: have been doing it for a long long time. And
Speaker 1: I think this guy is about to take the jump
Speaker 1: and throw about a hundred eighty innings this year and
Speaker 1: maintain his kind of strikeout potential, and he is going
Speaker 1: very late in draft. Blake Snell is a name to
Speaker 1: watch and someone why for example, you know, in the
Speaker 1: same way in football, I say you need to wait
Speaker 1: on quarterback because there's so many guys. In baseball, what
Speaker 1: I believe is you need to get your two starting
Speaker 1: pitchers at the top. I recommend, you know, not necessarily
Speaker 1: getting the Kershaw or the Sale or the shows are,
Speaker 1: but give me, give me into my third and fourth round.
Speaker 1: If I can get if I can get synder Guard
Speaker 1: in the third, if I can get um, you know,
Speaker 1: a Carrasco in the fourth, if I can get you
Speaker 1: know something, you know, look eight eight to ten starting
Speaker 1: pitcher right there. If I can get stuff like that
Speaker 1: in that area, those will be my two. And then
Speaker 1: I wait for a long time. Why because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick my high upside guys like a Blake Snell later
Speaker 1: on in the draft. There's a lot of them out there,
Speaker 1: and some of them are gonna pop, and otherwise you're
Speaker 1: gonna be on the waiver wire early in the season anyway,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna find the guys that are having good seasons.
Speaker 1: And that's the way I'm I'm gonna be playing and
Speaker 1: when I get my uh starting pitchers this year, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the way you should play it as well.
Speaker 1: But Blake Snell is an intriguing guy for me. So
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, you know, are definitely above Baltimore
Speaker 1: in the division when we think about it, in the
Speaker 1: number three spot in these in the I guess these
Speaker 1: starting ranks and guys you need to know about in
Speaker 1: the A L. East. We talked about the Toronto Blue Jays, okay,
Speaker 1: and I like Marcus Stroman. But here's the thing. Marcus
Speaker 1: Stroman is kind of a um. He is a high floor,
Speaker 1: low ceiling kind of guy, and you have to know that.
Speaker 1: So you have to know that if he's gonna be
Speaker 1: your speech. You know. I like him as a low
Speaker 1: end SP two. But the only problem is when a
Speaker 1: guy has this kind of sinker slider stuff, he doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out as many guys as you might want from
Speaker 1: some of your power arms at the top. When you're
Speaker 1: drafting early and you're getting your SPT, you wanted to
Speaker 1: be a guy who's gonna be around one strikeouts, Okay,
Speaker 1: you and and and and Stroman is not necessarily that guy. Okay.
Speaker 1: You know who could be that guy in this notation
Speaker 1: for me, potential diamond is Aaron Sanchez. Okay, in the
Speaker 1: same way that Snell is intriguing. Aaron Sanchez is intriguing.
Speaker 1: We have seen this kid throw over a hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour out of the bullpen. We've seen him as
Speaker 1: a starter go a hundred and ninety innings already in
Speaker 1: his career and lead the American League in the r A.
Speaker 1: He had a three even e r A in two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen. Okay, but he's coming off a season where
Speaker 1: he only pitched thirty six innings because of blisters, and
Speaker 1: that's something that hopefully he has going right. And I
Speaker 1: think this could be a guy that is worth taking
Speaker 1: a shot on. Again. Remember the strategy overall is you
Speaker 1: get your studs right. If I can come away with Syndergarten,
Speaker 1: Bum Gardener, I'm happy, and then I'm waiting, and then
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for a while after I get my sp two,
Speaker 1: especially if you're in some rhodos. In my opinion, Okay,
Speaker 1: but um, that's the guy like in Toronto, it's Aaron Sanchez.
Speaker 1: I'll take him before Jay App, I'll take him before
Speaker 1: Marco Strada. Those guys could be streamers. But remember Toronto
Speaker 1: was also a good hitting park, and so give me,
Speaker 1: give me Stroman, but as a solid floor, and give
Speaker 1: me Aaron Sanchez. The two. The number two rotation in
Speaker 1: me in this division is the Boston Red Sox. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox. And to be quite honest, this
Speaker 1: is why I think I'm down on them overall. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have to now. I don't think they
Speaker 1: have the depth. Now, don't get me wrong. Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: Chris Sale is in my opinion, the number one UH
Speaker 1: starting pitcher for fantasy, for fantasy baseball. Why because of
Speaker 1: his strikeouts, Okay, just because of his strikeouts. I mean
Speaker 1: he had three hundred and eight strikeouts last year. That
Speaker 1: is more than even Kershlaw. That's more than shuts Or.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who calls out there and every
Speaker 1: single night. But the thing is he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: on any of my teams because you have to invest
Speaker 1: pretty much a late first round pick in order to
Speaker 1: get him, or an early second round pick, and that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen for me. Okay, I go get elite talent.
Speaker 1: Like I said, one and two and then I'll be
Speaker 1: happy with Syndergard. I'll be happy with synder Gard after that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion. But listen, there's no there's no poo
Speaker 1: pooing how dominant Chris Sale can be. But the wild
Speaker 1: card is is David Price. David Price was a workhorse.
Speaker 1: David Price was a workhorse and then kind of has
Speaker 1: broken down since a little bit of time in Boston.
Speaker 1: And and the thing about Price that I found a
Speaker 1: little bit surprising is that he's thirty three years old.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be thirty three this August. Okay, that surprised me.
Speaker 1: I always reminded him, he remembered, you know, he was
Speaker 1: this young kid coming out a Vanderbilt that dominated for
Speaker 1: the raise as a as a as as a closer,
Speaker 1: as a starter, you know, like he was dependable. He
Speaker 1: was their workforce. It wasn't medium game James Shield, you know,
Speaker 1: it was Price. And now he's kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: folling off. So does he have a kind of post
Speaker 1: renaissance And if he does, then they are very formidable.
Speaker 1: If not, I don't know, because I'm not moved by
Speaker 1: Rick Porcello. Okay, he might be slightly better than what
Speaker 1: he did last year with a four six five y
Speaker 1: r A going well under seventeen. But he's certainly not
Speaker 1: even close to his two thousand and sixteen of twenty
Speaker 1: two and four and three r right, Like, that's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, Okay, So he's not gonna be on my
Speaker 1: team's um. So then and and when you think about
Speaker 1: Stephen Wright the other guys they have in that in
Speaker 1: that rotation, Um, it's gonna be a lot on on
Speaker 1: on price and on sale. And then what we have
Speaker 1: is what I believe is the best, is the best
Speaker 1: rotation in this division. And that s the Yanks. And
Speaker 1: and I say that at because listen, they're deeper, They're deeper.
Speaker 1: I've been saying, like who who who has a number
Speaker 1: three and four that are better than Sunny Gray and
Speaker 1: you know, say CC and more reliable. You know, Sevy
Speaker 1: was third. Luis SEVENA was third in the cy Young
Speaker 1: voting last year behind Sale and Cluber. Okay, and um,
Speaker 1: that's pretty nasty is to nine e r A struck
Speaker 1: out ten point seven guys per nine innings. Okay, but
Speaker 1: I still do feel like in the playoff series he
Speaker 1: would be a dog to a Corey Gruber or Chris
Speaker 1: Sale or a Verlander and Kaiko kind of situation, right,
Speaker 1: and so they're he's kind of the one A and
Speaker 1: so is Tanaka. Listen to knock out a great year. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've seen him with a sub three year, right. Uh.
Speaker 1: His x FIMP last year Tanaka was was two point
Speaker 1: four four Okay. He threw a hundred eight innings when
Speaker 1: people were worried about this album at at home most
Speaker 1: a ten strikeout for nine rate. So I mean he
Speaker 1: had a good year as well. And then you have
Speaker 1: Sunny Graham, and then you have c c and and
Speaker 1: and of course you have that bullpen. The bullpen is
Speaker 1: maybe the best in all of Major League Baseball. So
Speaker 1: that's why, that's why I think the Arms give an
Speaker 1: advantage to the New York Yankees in this division. And
Speaker 1: then when we talk about and then when we talk
Speaker 1: about the offense, I mean, you know, come on, right,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's save the obvious for last. I mean,
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay, this is again, this is a bad offense. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a bad offense in the same way the
Speaker 1: Orioles have a bad uh you know, pitching staff. The
Speaker 1: Rays have a bad offense. There were twenty five in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball last year and one scored. And then
Speaker 1: they lost Kevin Longoria, they lost Logan Morrison. They didn't
Speaker 1: get much help. You know, Kevin Kermeyer at the top.
Speaker 1: He could be a kind of guy right um, and
Speaker 1: he's probably better than where I'm seeing him go and
Speaker 1: draft I'm seeing him go as like outfield of fifty
Speaker 1: right now. He might be slightly better than that. But
Speaker 1: his strikeout rate is is horrible. I think it's okay,
Speaker 1: and his babbit, his baby, is gonna regress. He had
Speaker 1: a high bad if people again on fantasy field freestyle
Speaker 1: if you don't know, babit is batting average on balls
Speaker 1: in play, and that should be around three hundred. That's
Speaker 1: like the league normal. Okay. So that basically takes your
Speaker 1: batting average right, and it takes the strikeouts out of it, okay,
Speaker 1: because the strikeouts, remember the three true outcomes, right, the
Speaker 1: three true outcomes. You take the strikeouts out of it. It
Speaker 1: It takes the defense out of it, and so everyone's
Speaker 1: batting average is gonna rise a little bit, okay. And
Speaker 1: what happens is it puts the defensive metrics. You can
Speaker 1: figure out a standard average and there should be around
Speaker 1: three hundreds. So if you're babbit is high like kire
Speaker 1: Myers is. Sometimes people have high babbitts because they're they
Speaker 1: leg out groundballs and things of that nature. And Kiremyer
Speaker 1: does fit that prof file. But you know it's a
Speaker 1: matter of that's gonna regress back to the mean and
Speaker 1: your aver batting average will go down and it over time.
Speaker 1: You know, that's one of the indicators. And if your
Speaker 1: batting average goes down, your opportunity for runs and Ribby's
Speaker 1: and all that good stuff goes down as well, especially
Speaker 1: for it got like ker Meyer has stolen bases. You know,
Speaker 1: Ramos could be a top ten catcher if he stays healthy.
Speaker 1: He's not far removed from that season with the Nationals
Speaker 1: where he hit three or seven with twenty two homers. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he might be in a run producing spot. But
Speaker 1: there's nothing really for this offense to think about. Okay,
Speaker 1: But then when you look at the next offense, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you about um and this is gonna surprise
Speaker 1: some people, but to me, the next offense and down
Speaker 1: four is the is the Toronto Blue Jays. And the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays listen Donaldson is an elite is elite, right,
Speaker 1: He's he's one of the top top four third basemen,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's in a walk year, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: But he's been a little injury prone to me, so
Speaker 1: that gives me a little bit of concern. Who I
Speaker 1: love in this lineup is Justin Smoke. Is this like
Speaker 1: the post post post height for Justin Smoke? Right? What
Speaker 1: his his his last year with thirty eight homers at
Speaker 1: a no. Where is very very interesting. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the lineup that now has grants and at the
Speaker 1: top Donaldson morale its toolo. It's an interesting lineup, and
Speaker 1: I like Smoke. Smoking is isolated power of two fifty nine.
Speaker 1: That's pretty that's pretty high. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: he could be a breakout. I would watch him as
Speaker 1: a diamond in the rough. You know, A corner infielder
Speaker 1: is pretty deep. If you want to get a corner infielder,
Speaker 1: Justin Smoke could be a very interesting guy to get.
Speaker 1: But I'm you know, listen, guys guys that have those
Speaker 1: ceilings too for me, like Toulow or Granderson. You know
Speaker 1: what you're getting in these kind of professional hitters. They're
Speaker 1: aging Kendricks Morales another one as a run producer, but
Speaker 1: they're they're in the fourth spot for me. In the
Speaker 1: third spot is Baltimore. Baltimore. To me, I think, listen,
Speaker 1: we talked about three two outcomes, right and in Baltimore
Speaker 1: you have a three outcome bonanza. And this is I
Speaker 1: think a lot due to the fact that Candy Yards
Speaker 1: is their ball mark. Okay, um, Chris Davis, Jonathan Scope specifically,
Speaker 1: you know, if you need our Manny Machado, if you
Speaker 1: need power, Baltimore is for you. Okay. Manny Machado to
Speaker 1: me is a a second round pick potentially. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: in a contract year. We're gonna see what happens. I
Speaker 1: don't think he runs though, Listen, his running has gone down.
Speaker 1: But he's good for thirty home runs. He's good for
Speaker 1: ninety ribbies from the shortstop position, made from the third
Speaker 1: based position. That's obviously good. Dude, Like Chris Davis. Chris Davis,
Speaker 1: even with a little bit of a dip and some
Speaker 1: of his power number some of his isso he's he's
Speaker 1: a thirty home run easy guy if he can stay healthy.
Speaker 1: But Jonathan Scope is the guy I want to point
Speaker 1: out Jonathan Scope second basement. He is going right now
Speaker 1: as the fifth highest second basement in a DP okay, UM,
Speaker 1: and I think it's deserved. I think it's deserved. I
Speaker 1: think this year he's gonna be in like the five
Speaker 1: spot of the lineup. I think his walk rate went
Speaker 1: up slightly up to five percent last year, and I
Speaker 1: think that could go up a little bit more. He
Speaker 1: had thirty two homers on a hundred five ribbies, nine
Speaker 1: two runs. Okay, this is a guy you gotta keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. And he is not like he's not
Speaker 1: an old guy. He's still ascending. So I really like
Speaker 1: Jonathan Scope. He's an a l East diamond in the
Speaker 1: rough candidate for sure. UM. And then listen to Adam Jones.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. He'll have one hot streak for you,
Speaker 1: but you can move on from him. Scope is the
Speaker 1: guy you you like in Baltimore, UM, and he could
Speaker 1: be a very interesting, uh second baseman. I think he
Speaker 1: can be literally top five second baseman this year and
Speaker 1: in a kind of three trough outcomes power away, which
Speaker 1: is the way you need you need to get your
Speaker 1: power right. And then in Boston, listen they got j D. Martinez.
Speaker 1: They needed J D. Martinez. Uh, he'll love the Green Monster.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who had a higher OPS than
Speaker 1: both the Gian Carloston and Aaron Judge. W W some
Speaker 1: you know, adjustment period. But he'll be overdrafted. He'll be great,
Speaker 1: but he won't be what you draft him as. And
Speaker 1: but other than that, listen, Bogart's gotta love bets, gotta
Speaker 1: of I am down on Ben Attendee. I think Ben
Speaker 1: Attendi is just like he's not a powerful he's not
Speaker 1: really a power hitter, a true power hitter. He's more
Speaker 1: of a stuff all five categories kind of guy, you know.
Speaker 1: And there's a place for that, but just not where
Speaker 1: he's getting drafted. He's getting drafted as like a top
Speaker 1: a top ten outfielder. And you know that's kind of
Speaker 1: like the Dustin Pedroia mold, you know. And and I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that, listen. But he's just he won't be
Speaker 1: on many of my teams, okay. But you know who
Speaker 1: might be is Raphael Davers. And this is a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, my man friend Standfield has the man crush
Speaker 1: on him, right, the power is real, but um, he
Speaker 1: won't hit two eighty again. I'll tell you that. But
Speaker 1: he's definitely a guy to look at. And then last
Speaker 1: in this division obviously is the New York Yankees. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be ridiculous. Judge in Stanton will hit a
Speaker 1: hundred home runs potentially this year, right, um, And the
Speaker 1: funny part is for me, like Gary Sanchez maybe the
Speaker 1: biggest beneficiary of this the whole thing. He's gonna hit
Speaker 1: thirty five homers. He's gonna have like a hundred ribbies.
Speaker 1: If he stays healthy, he's gonna be the number one
Speaker 1: overall catch. He might hit fifth or six in this lineup,
Speaker 1: depending on how they spread out right ease and lefties, Okay,
Speaker 1: Like d D is gonna be a huge beneficiary. This
Speaker 1: is a short stop with twenty five home runs. And
Speaker 1: again he is a lefty, so he is gonna be
Speaker 1: breaking up some of these power bats at at some
Speaker 1: point in the lineup. Is he the fifth or sixth hitter?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean this is a guy right now,
Speaker 1: d D. Gregorious. And I'm writing about this in an
Speaker 1: article keeping an eye out. I'll let you I'll know,
Speaker 1: I'll hit you up on Twitter and let you guys know. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm writing an article for the A P D D.
Speaker 1: Gregorious is going right now is like shortstop ten or
Speaker 1: eleven in drafts, and he's gonna hit twenty five homers.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have more opportunity for run production and greg
Speaker 1: Bird will be a low cost free agent, UH first baseman,
Speaker 1: corner in fielder for you as well, Greg Byrd, along
Speaker 1: with Justin Smoke, there are some names here in the
Speaker 1: A L. East. What we're gonna do when we come
Speaker 1: back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is we're gonna get into my overall division predictions. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my diamonds and for gay zes for
Speaker 1: the A L East, and then we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: little bit of fun. The Temple Bay Raiser doing something
Speaker 1: very interesting with their rotation. We'll get into that. It's
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Speaker 1: The Stable Genius and vocal Minority, and were chopping it
Speaker 1: up about the Al East. I was giving you all
Speaker 1: the insight on the bats, on the arms, on the closers, Okay,
Speaker 1: and right now we're gonna do is. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you my diamonds and my fool gazes for the division
Speaker 1: overall and um, listen, because you've got fantasy baseball drafts
Speaker 1: going on right now. I had one earlier in the week.
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Speaker 1: sent you. Um, you know, we'll see, maybe they'll hit
Speaker 1: you up. But listen. My diamonds and fool gazes for
Speaker 1: the A L East. First of all, my diamonds in
Speaker 1: the Rough Jonathan Scope, Jonathan Scope. I told you he
Speaker 1: will be a top five second baseman this year. Is
Speaker 1: lock it in the thirty home runs? Easy? Better spot
Speaker 1: in the lineup. I told you about Justin Smoke, diamond
Speaker 1: in the rough in the A L East for Toronto,
Speaker 1: yet thirty eight home runs last year, and I think
Speaker 1: he is going to be able to sustain some of
Speaker 1: the trends he had. What is walk rate with strike
Speaker 1: out right. I think the power is real. I like
Speaker 1: Greg Bird to stay healthy and on the pitching side.
Speaker 1: Give me Blake Snell as a diamond in the rough.
Speaker 1: I think he can take another step and developed. I
Speaker 1: think he is worth the risk later on in draft
Speaker 1: my fool gazes for this division, I got two of
Speaker 1: them for you. The first I told you in Baltimore
Speaker 1: Dylan Bundy. Dylan Bundy is coming off a huge jump
Speaker 1: in his innings and it's not like he was ever
Speaker 1: that good. It's just because he had a good start
Speaker 1: to the year and people were like, oh, it's coming
Speaker 1: to fruition, but that was not the case later in
Speaker 1: the year. Do not believe in Dylan Bundy. And for me, listen,
Speaker 1: uh Rick Porcello and David Price. Neither one of them
Speaker 1: are going to be able to back up Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: And I think the Red Sox know that they are
Speaker 1: full gayzies. For me, when it comes to the predictions
Speaker 1: for the A L. East, there's some interesting lines. I think. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm a Yankees fan, Okay, I love the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: I am a Yankees fan. There's a lot of money
Speaker 1: right now about them being a L favorites. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, they are not my a L Pennant winner, Okay,
Speaker 1: I I would stay away from this. I do think
Speaker 1: the Yankees can win the division. I do not think
Speaker 1: they win the AL Pennant. I'll give you my Pennant
Speaker 1: winners next week when we finish it up, right before,
Speaker 1: right before the baseball season starts. But it is not
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, Okay. So I would not take
Speaker 1: that money if I were you. That is not where
Speaker 1: I would lay my money. I like, I like another
Speaker 1: team that we already covered with what I think is
Speaker 1: better elite pitching and better uh more rounded, younger offense.
Speaker 1: Um in Cleveland, But I digress. Let's talk a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: Boston will be there. Boston will be there, but they're
Speaker 1: in that kind of wild card tier. I don't believe
Speaker 1: in the pitching, like I said, behind Chris Sale and
Speaker 1: with Toronto and Baltimore, they're gonna lose their best players.
Speaker 1: And then in the course of the next you know,
Speaker 1: six to eighteen months, and Mattadle and Donaldson and and
Speaker 1: and Tampa Archer is gonna be gone as well. So
Speaker 1: this is really continues to be the same arms race.
Speaker 1: It always has been between the Boston net Sox and
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. But one thing that I do
Speaker 1: got to tell the Status over beat Cipher about this,
Speaker 1: A l East is in Tampa. If this could have
Speaker 1: Fantasy impact as well. The Tampa Bay Rays are going
Speaker 1: with a four man rotation. You know, we hear teams
Speaker 1: like the Texast Rangers, uh considering a six man rotation.
Speaker 1: The Rays are gonna go with a four man rotation. Okay,
Speaker 1: They've got Archer like we've been talking about, Jacob Ferrier.
Speaker 1: We've got Blake Snell like I said, and Nate Eovaldi.
Speaker 1: And it's a problem if Nate Eovaldi, You're you're you're
Speaker 1: hoping to get a hundred seventy nine innings out of
Speaker 1: as your number four starter. But that's all they got. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all they got. So they might go with a
Speaker 1: four man rotation, but not where you're gonna be on
Speaker 1: short rest every time throughout the whole season. What they're
Speaker 1: going to do, and manager Kevin Cash has confirmedness is
Speaker 1: saying that every fifth day whenever it's needed, because remember,
Speaker 1: sometimes you do skip that turn in the rotation when
Speaker 1: you have the days off and things of that nature. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's not utilized all the time, but when it's needed,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's probably needed, I would say twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty five times in in in the season. What
Speaker 1: they're going to do is a pen committee day. That's
Speaker 1: how they're going to do this. And I think this
Speaker 1: is very interesting. I think this is very interesting and
Speaker 1: I always want to keep it um in in the
Speaker 1: spotlight for a couple of reasons. One, I think this
Speaker 1: could be a financial play. Okay, I think this is
Speaker 1: a financial play because they are not taking on more
Speaker 1: contractual money. Starting pitchers make a lot more money than
Speaker 1: your rough underbelly bullpen guys or your guy that can
Speaker 1: go the three innings. Okay, so this is a financial
Speaker 1: play I think for the race to keep their coughts down.
Speaker 1: It's not like they're contending anyway, right, So I think
Speaker 1: that's interesting. And will other teams start to do it
Speaker 1: because of the way that pitching and starting pitching contracts
Speaker 1: have gone a little bit out of control, right? Or
Speaker 1: is this put you know, uh, purposefully to clear the
Speaker 1: way to let young talent that they want to bring
Speaker 1: up develop, you know, and that there will be a
Speaker 1: spot for them, uh you know, on on that random
Speaker 1: Thursday in June, they want to come up and make
Speaker 1: a spot start. I think that is another interesting thing
Speaker 1: to consider about this. And what I will say is
Speaker 1: if and if you listen to the status over Beats
Speaker 1: Cipher Fantasy Freestyle, you know that I was talking about
Speaker 1: this in a different way last year with the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers, how they were in essence having a six
Speaker 1: man rotation, but they were also manipulating the system. What
Speaker 1: they were doing, in my opinion, was they were leveraging
Speaker 1: the ten day d L because it went down from
Speaker 1: fifteen to ten day and the idea of like the
Speaker 1: shuttle bus from Triple A with guys like Urius, you know,
Speaker 1: in the d L, with guys like Rich Hill, guys
Speaker 1: like Kent to my Ada, and they were kind of
Speaker 1: in essence doing a six man rotation and always keeping
Speaker 1: some guy in the d L or some guy down
Speaker 1: in the minors. And that was a way to do it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways teams are doing so what
Speaker 1: is the right way? And that's the Twitter question. Uh,
Speaker 1: if still with us out there on Twitter at spitting speeds,
Speaker 1: is it a four man rotation? The standard five man
Speaker 1: rotation or the six man rotation that maybe Texas is considering, right,
Speaker 1: and I know, I think there's merit to all of them,
Speaker 1: which is really interesting to see how this evolves. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen the the importance on the bullpen as well
Speaker 1: and stringing together three four dominant arms out there that
Speaker 1: can go one inning and that's contractual. Also think about
Speaker 1: Dylan Patantis is arbitration, um, you know, situation. So listen,
Speaker 1: these these are these are ways that teams get around
Speaker 1: their books and their talent based on where they are
Speaker 1: in the cycle of competing. You know, we're focused on
Speaker 1: the A L East, right, So one story I wanted
Speaker 1: to tell you guys about real quick that was pretty
Speaker 1: funny to me in the A L. East is the Yankees.
Speaker 1: The Yankees are They're they're Double eighteen in Trenton is
Speaker 1: gonna do something funny this season starting on May eighteenth, okay,
Speaker 1: on Fridays, and this is you know, minor league baseball.
Speaker 1: This is what you love. My man, Fernando Perez would
Speaker 1: love this because he says he wants to make the
Speaker 1: product more interesting. Okay, starting in May eighteenth, the Double
Speaker 1: A Trenton Thunder are going to change their name to
Speaker 1: honor a food favorite of New Jersey. Um, and on
Speaker 1: Friday they are going to be the Trenton Pork Roles. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, if you're not from the area,
Speaker 1: you might know it as Taylor Am as well, but
Speaker 1: this is like kind of real regional and the general manager,
Speaker 1: Jeff Hurley, said that he is rebranding as the Trenton
Speaker 1: Pork Roles on Friday nights. He says it is quote
Speaker 1: the perfect way to celebrate a garden state favorite. I
Speaker 1: think that's funny. You can see it opening up so
Speaker 1: many potential ideas for for mascots, for in between inning
Speaker 1: games and races and challenges. Um. So it's big shout
Speaker 1: out to the Yangs for you know, playing to their
Speaker 1: base as it were there becoming the Trenton Pork Roles
Speaker 1: on Friday nights. Maybe I'll have to go out there
Speaker 1: keeping it here in NYC as well, you know, we
Speaker 1: do it born and raised. Shout out to Chronicle my
Speaker 1: man rocks one young fist full of rings. Um. We
Speaker 1: don't talk soccer much, but I thought it was funny
Speaker 1: as a New Yorker. Check this out now. Two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row, a visiting team from MLS soccer team
Speaker 1: one trying to play n y CFC one trying to
Speaker 1: play the Red Bulls were late to their arena because
Speaker 1: of issues last so last week it was you know, St.
Speaker 1: Patty's Day in New York. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: regrudge anybody, you know, it was they parades out there.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of revelry going on. I call
Speaker 1: it amateur hour though that in like Santa Con uh
Speaker 1: here in New York. But the team bus for Orlando
Speaker 1: was late to Yankee Stadium and they had to push
Speaker 1: back the game like forty five minutes. And the week
Speaker 1: before that, the Portland Timbers were late to play the
Speaker 1: Red Bulls because the bus got lost in directions and
Speaker 1: went the wrong way. Ny CFC and the Red Bulls
Speaker 1: won their games handily and in those two events, so
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the city can confuse you with
Speaker 1: intimidating before you even get here, before you even have
Speaker 1: to play the opponent. I thought that was funny. Big
Speaker 1: shout out to uh N y CFC undefeated, top of
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you next week we got a big
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Speaker 1: continue getting into some NFL storylines that I think are
Speaker 1: a real interesting We'll look at free agency. What's some
Speaker 1: teams that kind of are left out of the cold
Speaker 1: in this situation at this stage of the off season,
Speaker 1: and how they're gonna have to reddicate their attention maybe
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