Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle, Part three of the week.
Speaker 1: I am Ryan Warmley, joined as always by Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: If you missed our first two sections of the show,
Speaker 1: either on audio or on YouTube, be sure to go
Speaker 1: check those out. We did a little round in the
Speaker 1: bases talking some trending topics around baseball. We also did
Speaker 1: some bilos sell high and some waivers pickups for you.
Speaker 1: This is our pitching streamers and of course our two
Speaker 1: start pitcher competition is back for this year. What we've
Speaker 1: been doing this is Mayor is picking his favorite streamers
Speaker 1: kind of every day of the week. We'll highlight some
Speaker 1: of my favorites as well the ones that he's picked,
Speaker 1: and he'll throw out some honorable mentions. So we'll get
Speaker 1: into the rest of the pictures we want to talk about, Mayor,
Speaker 1: let's five indoor streamers.
Speaker 2: Sure, let's start right, And since this is going to
Speaker 2: be like three videos and three shows, should we have
Speaker 2: like a wardrobe change and you know, should we really
Speaker 2: treat it like three separate things and just like Vito Vito. Okay,
Speaker 2: by the way, we are using the Fantasy pros what
Speaker 2: is it called streaming rankings? The streaming picture tool, which
Speaker 2: is pretty cool. You can sink your leagues and it'll
Speaker 2: show you, like which of these players is actually available
Speaker 2: in your league without having to like look them all up,
Speaker 2: which is pretty cool, very handy for someone like me
Speaker 2: who's in eight leagues and I can just kind of
Speaker 2: like filter through them see who I can probably stream.
Speaker 2: So let's go through it day by day. For Monday,
Speaker 2: someone I talked about in the previous video or previous
Speaker 2: episode is Nick Martinez, and the interesting thing here is
Speaker 2: not up to a great start, but he is at
Speaker 2: the Marlins, so good matchup in a good picture friendly ballpark. However,
Speaker 2: if you have to stream weekly, he does have a
Speaker 2: second start that is supposed to come at Course Field,
Speaker 2: so you do a kind of have to take your
Speaker 2: medicine if you want to stream him and it's a
Speaker 2: weekly league. But if it's a day league, you can
Speaker 2: just stream him at Miami and then either drop him
Speaker 2: running back on your bench for that rocky start. Jose
Speaker 2: Kintana someone I'm interested in picking up this week. Also
Speaker 2: a two star pitcher this week. Not the worst matchups,
Speaker 2: not great matchups, but not terrible for Tuesday. He's streaming.
Speaker 2: He's a streaming option for someone at the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 2: Later in the week, he has the Cardinals, who are
Speaker 2: off to a strong start on the hitter side of things.
Speaker 2: For Wednesday, David Festa against the White Sox. Just you know,
Speaker 2: every day pretty much see who's pitching against the White
Speaker 2: Sox and see if they're available, and if they are,
Speaker 2: pick them up. But David Festa also is off to
Speaker 2: a pretty good start, so good for him. Tyler Anderston
Speaker 2: I famously did not write down who's pitching against, but
Speaker 2: it looks like he's at home against the Pirates again,
Speaker 2: someone I think is off to a pretty good start
Speaker 2: that you know, is readily available. His roster. His consensus
Speaker 2: roster percentage just three percent, so that'll probably be a
Speaker 2: little bit higher in leagues on CBS, but I can't
Speaker 2: imagine it's very high. So if you need a streaming option,
Speaker 2: I think he's pretty good. Friday is a rough one.
Speaker 2: Friday I stared at for a while and I tried
Speaker 2: to think of I was missing something, And I think
Speaker 2: for the first time in his career, we might be
Speaker 2: looking at Justin Burlander as a streaming option. However, I
Speaker 2: don't feel great about it because Justin Burlander is not
Speaker 2: up to a great start and he doesn't have a
Speaker 2: great matchup. He's home against Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: Other than that, yeah.
Speaker 2: So if you want to stream this week, maybe don't
Speaker 2: look at Friday. But I was looking at other options.
Speaker 2: It's not great out there either. There was like Fridays,
Speaker 2: Ben Brown versus the Phillies, Matthew Liberatory against the Brewers,
Speaker 2: Jake Irvining is the Mets. Bobby Miller who probably won't
Speaker 2: even be on the Dodgers at that point. Maybe whoever
Speaker 2: the Dodgers replaced Bobby Miller with against the Pirates should
Speaker 2: be your option for Friday.
Speaker 1: I think it's worth pointing out though, that sometimes the
Speaker 1: best streaming option is not streaming anybody. Yeah, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if there are literally no options, you don't have to
Speaker 1: force it just for the sake of having a streamer
Speaker 1: every day. If that's something that is a part of
Speaker 1: your approach, you can say we're taking this day off
Speaker 1: because there's just not any good options. That's that's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a good point. I don't think
Speaker 2: you probably should be streaming every day. You probably get
Speaker 2: some crooked numbers if you do that. So Yeah, for
Speaker 2: this week, I would say Friday. Probably stay away from Friday.
Speaker 2: I know, sometimes you have to get creative with how
Speaker 2: you're streaming because you have like certain transaction limits or
Speaker 2: like you have certain pictures pitching on certain days, so
Speaker 2: you might only have like the ability to stream on
Speaker 2: certain days or pick up a player who like you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I have an open spot on Wednesday kind of a thing,
Speaker 2: and so I would just get Friday this week. You know,
Speaker 2: if you have to, you know, water pistol to your head,
Speaker 2: have to stream someone, I guess justin Verlander, but I
Speaker 2: would agree with you Worm that the better option would
Speaker 2: be to not stream anyone. Saturday wasn't much better, but
Speaker 2: I did land on Edward Cabrera at the Mariners. But
Speaker 2: that's also you know one like if you do have to,
Speaker 2: I'd probably just avoid that one. And that's something I
Speaker 2: feel a little bit better about. Richard Fitz at the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians. Richard Fitz's kind of just a guy, but
Speaker 2: he's been pitching like fine, he's been good for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a favorite for these. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a you know, whatever week of options. I guess
Speaker 1: you did try to sell usan Jose Kintana in our
Speaker 1: previous show for this week, so maybe him, maybe Anderson
Speaker 1: actually against the Pirates I could get into.
Speaker 2: I think Anderson would be my pick. I think if
Speaker 2: you need the two starts and you need the volume,
Speaker 2: I would go with Katana. But I think if I
Speaker 2: just had to pick one, i'd probably go Anderson against
Speaker 2: the Pirates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have the matchup in the sheet, but
Speaker 1: now that I remember it's the Pirates, because you said
Speaker 1: that in your read through, I think I would go
Speaker 1: Anderson as well as my favorite there and yeah, I would,
Speaker 1: like I said, I wouldn't do anything on Friday.
Speaker 2: In some weeks, I have like an honorable mention or two.
Speaker 2: I have no honorable mentions this week because it's not
Speaker 2: a good week.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have any dishonorable mentions.
Speaker 2: All of them? Yeah, it's just it's brutal out there.
Speaker 2: If you're looking for stream and pitching, maybe more is
Speaker 2: coming and you know, we'll see some other pitchers get dropped,
Speaker 2: but this is not the best week for it. We
Speaker 2: have some you know, potential pittures coming back from injury soon,
Speaker 2: but yeah, not great.
Speaker 1: Let's get to our two start picture competition. We do
Speaker 1: have our Week one is now in the books. Hunter
Speaker 1: Green ended up in our kind of league that we're in,
Speaker 1: which is just kind of the easiest way to track
Speaker 1: scoring and put a number to it, forty seven point
Speaker 1: six Fantasy points in his two starts. Michael King for
Speaker 1: me had forty five point seven, so a very close outing.
Speaker 1: After the first starts of each guy, it looked like
Speaker 1: Hunter Green was going to win this running away, and
Speaker 1: then Michael King goes out and throws a complete game shutout,
Speaker 1: which helped me tremendously. But ultimately, though I suppose it
Speaker 1: comes down to because those those scores are really close,
Speaker 1: it comes down to two very good starts versus one
Speaker 1: elite start, one bad one. I think I would rather
Speaker 1: have had Hunter Greens two starts this week, so I
Speaker 1: will I will see the victory in Week one. To you,
Speaker 1: and also, Hunter Green, is you know, is your guy guy?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I planted my flag on him,
Speaker 1: you know, from day one in this draft season, so
Speaker 1: I can't complain too much about him getting a victory.
Speaker 2: Whereas I picked him in the two start competition and
Speaker 2: then wrote him up as a cell high and dissed
Speaker 2: him last week as someone I'm selling high because of
Speaker 2: injury concerns, which is also why I used a contest.
Speaker 1: Also, I faced you last week in this league, and
Speaker 1: you have Michael King, So I was going against you know,
Speaker 1: my golden child, and you were going up against your
Speaker 1: actual starter against me. Uh So we had a lot
Speaker 1: of crossover there. So we'll give Mayor a slight edge
Speaker 1: for week one to take the victory. Still waiting to
Speaker 1: see the result of Scooble versus Max Free. We also
Speaker 1: have a note to check out. Taiwan Walker did good,
Speaker 1: so smart to not pick him.
Speaker 2: If you watched last week, you'll know why we mentioned
Speaker 2: Taiwan Walker. But there is a noe in the sheet
Speaker 2: to see how Tywin Walker did just in case. But
Speaker 2: I think we're going to be okay there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for week three, I got to the sheet first
Speaker 1: and I couldn't decide between Max Meyer or Hunter Brown,
Speaker 1: and I ultimately went with Hunter Brown, just giving them
Speaker 1: matchups against the Blue Jays and at Kansas City. Those
Speaker 1: are two of the bottom four teams in baseball and
Speaker 1: home runs this season. That appealed to me. Hunter Brown
Speaker 1: is pitched well that appealed to me, so I was
Speaker 1: between Brown and Meyer and ultimately with Brown. Mayor then
Speaker 1: came in and said, hey, actually, Hunter Brown might not
Speaker 1: be a two start pitcher because McCullers is probably coming
Speaker 1: back next week, and that will push Hunter Brown out
Speaker 1: of being a two start pitcher.
Speaker 2: Which would give you.
Speaker 1: Said. I said, I'll switch to Max Meyer then, and
Speaker 1: Mayer said, no, I already took him. As you might
Speaker 1: be able to tell, there were not a lot of
Speaker 1: good options this week. It is a horrific two start
Speaker 1: pitcher week. But I'm gonna do and I'm gonna kind
Speaker 1: of insist that you allow me to do. This is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, because we don't know that mccullors is
Speaker 1: coming back in so I'm gonna say Hunter Brown is
Speaker 1: my pick if he does make two starts, and this
Speaker 1: is regardless of how he performs, like, if he performs poorly,
Speaker 1: I'm still locked in him if he makes two starts.
Speaker 1: If he performs well in his one start, I'm still
Speaker 1: not allowed to use him if he gets two. If
Speaker 1: he makes two starts, I'm still picking Hunter Brown if
Speaker 1: he doesn't make that second start. Because it has not
Speaker 1: been announced about mccollors. Yet I will I will have
Speaker 1: another pick that I'm making and said, I don't know
Speaker 1: who that is gonna be. I said I was gonna
Speaker 1: decide live on the show. And I'm just still looking
Speaker 1: at these names, and just like ever, the pictures that
Speaker 1: are pretty good have bad matchups, and the pictures that
Speaker 1: have good matchups aren't any good. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: like Kevin Gossman, who I just pitched you as a
Speaker 1: cell high. He's at the Yankees and at Houston. Like
Speaker 1: Schwellenbox had a couple downstarts, also not the easiest couple
Speaker 1: of matchups. Brandon Fotts facing the Rays and the Braves,
Speaker 1: Flahertys facing the Padres and the Orioles. I don't want
Speaker 1: really anything to do with that.
Speaker 2: You know what you're coming Bryce Miller, you know what
Speaker 2: you're coming back? Like Walker bet Right.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Walker Bueler gets the White Sox, which is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, appealing. He also gets the the Guardians. And
Speaker 1: then Bryce Miller, who's a player I like, you know,
Speaker 1: at Boston against Miami Bailey Ober we talked a little
Speaker 1: bit in the rounding the bases. You know, he gets
Speaker 1: the White Sox and the Angels. That's not terrible. A
Speaker 1: lot of ify choices. I wish I could have gone
Speaker 1: with Max Meyer, as you've already staked your claim to
Speaker 1: who would you go with?
Speaker 2: If you were me, I would probably go with by
Speaker 2: the way. Not to spoil it for you, but I
Speaker 2: have like multiple sites open while we're doing this to see,
Speaker 2: you know, because like a lot of it's projection. You know,
Speaker 2: we're you know, we recorded this a few days early.
Speaker 2: Teams do weird things with their with their rotations all
Speaker 2: the time, so a lot of is it projecting to
Speaker 2: start pay So one of these sites does not have
Speaker 2: Bailey Obra as a two star pitcher either, Okay, so
Speaker 2: I would not pick him just for the you know,
Speaker 2: for the sake.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at fan tracks by the way, just in
Speaker 1: case anybody's wondering where I'm getting these, and yes, sometimes
Speaker 1: they are not accurate.
Speaker 2: So I think I would go if I were you
Speaker 2: with where is it I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: It feels to me like like Bryce Miller. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, like Bryce Miller or Kevin Gossman. I feel
Speaker 1: like because Gosmin's pitched well and I almost kind of
Speaker 1: want to ride the hot streak, but I mean at
Speaker 1: Houston and at the Yankees, so that's really tough to overlook.
Speaker 1: I will go with Bryce Miller. That would be my
Speaker 1: official pick, So Bryce Miller at the Red Sox and
Speaker 1: home against the Marlins. So I'm really counting on that
Speaker 1: my official back my official backup. But yes, Hunter Brown
Speaker 1: is my If Hunter Brown makes two starts, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how he performs in them, he is the pick.
Speaker 1: But given that there's some uncertainty, hear, my official backup
Speaker 1: pick is Bryce Miller at the Red Sox and home
Speaker 1: against the Miami Martin.
Speaker 2: And I will say in the YouTube comments, if you
Speaker 2: want to throw out your preferred two star pitchers, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll see how they do against you know, because it's
Speaker 2: a rough week, but we can do this every week too,
Speaker 2: But throw out who you would you use this week
Speaker 2: as a two star pitcher if you were in the competition,
Speaker 2: and we'll look at some of them next week and see,
Speaker 2: you know, just how much better they would have been
Speaker 2: than the players were.
Speaker 1: Did we have any comments last week for people who
Speaker 1: wanted to pick Taiwan Walker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was overwhelming Taiwan Walker love last week. Everyone
Speaker 2: was like Wow, what a what a move. You should
Speaker 2: have used him yeah in your league and lock him
Speaker 2: in for those two starts like I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. All right, let's wrap up with
Speaker 1: some weekend excitement. Last week I sat here and said,
Speaker 1: there really wasn't a ton I was that interested in
Speaker 1: This week, I think there's a ton of fun matchups. Honestly,
Speaker 1: Friday alone, listen to some of these fun at somebody.
Speaker 1: I might be lopsided, like, I'm not saying these are
Speaker 1: all going to be like like neck and neck, but
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of fun names going ahead to
Speaker 1: head Cole Reagan's against Jackson Joe, And again, this is
Speaker 1: all Friday alone, Sandy al Katara versus Zach Wheeler. Should
Speaker 1: I have a typo in here, but Yamamoto versus Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram and Mackenzie Gore versus Chase Dolander, who again
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it is as good as him, but
Speaker 1: just really interesting to watch those guys. So a lot
Speaker 1: of really fun matchups on Friday, and just in general,
Speaker 1: like from the series perspective, like Padre's Astros is a
Speaker 1: fun series. Rangers, Dodgers, you know, possible world series previews,
Speaker 1: so I think it's a really exciting looking weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree, and you took most of them.
Speaker 1: I only took Fridays. You could have taken anything Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sun.
Speaker 2: Well, you've mentioned the series, so like the Corvers, a
Speaker 2: lot of the series. The one thing I mentioned that
Speaker 2: I wanted to First off, it's Easter weekend, so I
Speaker 2: have young kids and they're at the age now where
Speaker 2: they're going to really enjoy Easter weekend. So I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to that. I'm spending time with them, and from
Speaker 2: baseball perspective, Tyler Molly against the Dodgers is someone I
Speaker 2: want to watch just because he's off to a really
Speaker 2: strong start, kind of smoking mirrors like he has. He
Speaker 2: has a non elite fastball with an elite with fright.
Speaker 2: Don't know how long that's going to last. And I
Speaker 2: think this will be a test of the this blow
Speaker 2: up and he turns into a pumpkin or can he
Speaker 2: at least hold his own against probably the best offense
Speaker 2: in baseball?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is interesting one to watch as well. Which
Speaker 1: is your favorite pitching matchup with the ones I listed
Speaker 1: since I took them from you, was there one that
Speaker 1: you would have definitely picked if it was available.
Speaker 2: I think probably Yama Moto de Gram, uh, because I
Speaker 2: really like Yamamoto and then also like de Gram. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of like I don't want to say,
Speaker 2: like confusion, but it's like is he going to be elite?
Speaker 2: Is he going to just work with his lower velocity?
Speaker 2: And so like, you know, can he pitch around the Dodgers?
Speaker 2: I think it'll be. You know, we're going to continue
Speaker 2: to see some interesting results out of de Gram. So
Speaker 2: this is obviously a really big early test and you know,
Speaker 2: we'll probably have some answers there.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're wrap things up there. If you missed
Speaker 1: our other segments of the cycle, be sure check them
Speaker 1: out on YouTube and also on audio. We've got the
Speaker 1: whole show split up on all platforms this week, so
Speaker 1: be sure to check out every little bit of the cycle.
Speaker 1: For Mayor, I'm Ryan Warmley. Thanks everybody for tuning in
Speaker 1: not just to this segment, but to all the segments,
Speaker 1: and be sure to drop your thoughts in the comments.
Speaker 1: Like Mayor said, in terms of your two start pitchers
Speaker 1: or any other streamers that you guys might like. We
Speaker 1: got out here on that and see again next week.
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