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Speaker 1: what's up, guys, how are you doing? It's your boy,
Speaker 1: the Closer Chris Ventre here and we've Paddock last night. Amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing guy. All those guys that declined the trade of
Speaker 1: Tommy fam and Chris Paddock for Chris Arthro or Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty up because nobody trees and they all got declined.
Speaker 1: I was giving them a great offer. They still decline it.
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. And that was right now,
Speaker 1: they'd be you know, very happy. What again, Tommy fam
Speaker 1: also had a monster day yesterday. He's having a monster
Speaker 1: season overall. He's one of the best style fielders in
Speaker 1: the league right now. Um is that a keeper league
Speaker 1: is a keeper league. I think you have to hold
Speaker 1: Paddock then, So we talked about this a little bit
Speaker 1: in the first hour. If you played in a re
Speaker 1: draft league, at what point do you kind of poy
Speaker 1: with the idea of selling Paddock because of the innings
Speaker 1: limit or do you just ride it out and say,
Speaker 1: are you even if I only get a hundred innings,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good a hundred forty innings. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna keep him. See in like a league where
Speaker 1: where we're playing in the pit league where E R
Speaker 1: A and whip matters more, and uh, the innings don't
Speaker 1: matter as much. Have to head categories league yet, right,
Speaker 1: you don't need to I think you hold. You don't
Speaker 1: need to trade him because the innings limit isn't really
Speaker 1: gonna affect you as much. Whereas you're in the points league,
Speaker 1: innings mean a lot. And I think in a redraft
Speaker 1: points league, I would consider selling. He's at an absolute
Speaker 1: high top twenties starting pitcher. You get something really good
Speaker 1: for him right now? What is it I would have
Speaker 1: to do to pop into my head immediately? Greg Jack Flaherty.
Speaker 1: I think I would do that. I would give up
Speaker 1: Paddock to get Jack Flaherty. I watched Jack Flaherty pitch
Speaker 1: multiple times this year. He's got filthy he so he
Speaker 1: struggled on the road so far this year. His home
Speaker 1: road splits are very bad, and he's had something of
Speaker 1: matchups again. He faced the Brewers I think three times already.
Speaker 1: His underlying numbers are really good, though, if you can
Speaker 1: make that happen, I know it's hard to part with
Speaker 1: Paddock in the pit League. I traded away Pete Alonzo
Speaker 1: to get Steven Strossberg. It was hard for me to
Speaker 1: do because I've loved watching Pete Alonzo play. He's been awesome.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to trade him but to get back
Speaker 1: a starting picture. And and before I even made the trade, um,
Speaker 1: James Paxson had gotten hurt too, so I kind of
Speaker 1: needed a starting picture. I had to do it. So
Speaker 1: sometimes you just you kind of even if you really
Speaker 1: like a player, you kind of just gotta swallow your
Speaker 1: pride and whatever. Let me see what I could get
Speaker 1: for this guy. But if you're thinking about it logically,
Speaker 1: as as much as it pains me to say, I
Speaker 1: think Paddock is awesome, but if you do have concerns
Speaker 1: about the endings limit at some point in a redraft,
Speaker 1: especially like a points league, I would throw him out there,
Speaker 1: and I think you might be able to get a
Speaker 1: top twenty starting picture and return. I like Jack Flaherty
Speaker 1: a lot many No I do too. I agree. I
Speaker 1: tried to that. That's one of the things I tried
Speaker 1: to do, was a Paddock and fan for for Flaherty declined.
Speaker 1: If I did Paddock and you could do, there's people
Speaker 1: out there who will accept that trade, but it's hard. Now,
Speaker 1: you're right, I like that deal you made with Strasburg.
Speaker 1: Starting pictures are just super valuable, especially ones that are
Speaker 1: that good. Especially in our league. We're in a fourteen
Speaker 1: team league with nine pictures starting in our lineup. There's
Speaker 1: nine starting pictures every day. We gotta plug in. In
Speaker 1: a fourteen league, you're throwing scrubs out there, then, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. There's a lot of teams that
Speaker 1: are throwing just scrubs out there. So to get a
Speaker 1: picture like that in return for Pete Alonzo, which you
Speaker 1: could get from you know, you get a similar season
Speaker 1: maybe from a Christian Walker, maybe not, but at least
Speaker 1: maybe a little less, whereas you're gaining so much in
Speaker 1: the Strasburg, especially after the injury you just got. I
Speaker 1: think that's a great deal. Getting pitching is just hard
Speaker 1: to do. It's hard to trade for pitching right now. Right,
Speaker 1: just to let you inside the mind of some of
Speaker 1: the listeners and watchers and how they feel about Chris Paddock.
Speaker 1: William Friedman, no effing way a moving Paddock, and I
Speaker 1: think that's how most people would feel but think. But
Speaker 1: it's also when you react that way, there's no better
Speaker 1: time because that everyone feels that way about Everybody wants
Speaker 1: Paddock right now. I'm just throwing it out there. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want again. I understand how funny is to watch.
Speaker 1: You also have to remember it's not even just the
Speaker 1: way he's pitching, right, it's the feeling of fantasy owners
Speaker 1: that they got it right, that they nailed this young
Speaker 1: guy was gonna be the guy. They got him in
Speaker 1: the middle rounds of their draft and they nailed it.
Speaker 1: You have that as well. It's like an ego boost
Speaker 1: a little bit. But here's the thing. The best fantasy
Speaker 1: owners are going to be the smart ones that sell
Speaker 1: because you can't have attachments to these guys. The best
Speaker 1: fantasy players don't have attachments to these guys. And when
Speaker 1: you have like this personal attachment, I don't want to
Speaker 1: let him go. I picked him right, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ride him out. It might work, but
Speaker 1: you have you know that innings cap is there, and
Speaker 1: the and the logical and the smart thing to do
Speaker 1: is to sell him at some point, And now is
Speaker 1: the time you're gonna get the most out of him.
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. Maybe you get a little more
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, maybe as another two great starts.
Speaker 1: Now he's had an all time high, you know value.
Speaker 1: But how much more value you gonna get out of
Speaker 1: him than what you're getting right now? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? I don't know that it's ever gonna be higher.
Speaker 1: Like he's got a one ar a. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be the bearer of bad news. I feel like
Speaker 1: a Chris Paddock fan clubs about to barge in here,
Speaker 1: like throw tomatoes at me or something. He's got a
Speaker 1: five year A, he's got a three three X fit,
Speaker 1: he's got a one seventy six badbit against right now. Yea,
Speaker 1: even if he's the best picture for baseball, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some regression. I'm storing out there without down. He's
Speaker 1: he's awesome, he's really fun to watch. But I'll just
Speaker 1: I'll throw it out there. It's almost impossible to sustain
Speaker 1: a rookie to sustain one five five r a one
Speaker 1: point seven whit like that's that's Clayton Kershore in his prime,
Speaker 1: Like you know, getting that. You know, do you know
Speaker 1: what team he came for, Greg? And what the trade was?
Speaker 1: I saw this last night. Yes, I'll ask Ventraventra, do
Speaker 1: you know what team Chris Paddick came from before the Padres?
Speaker 1: Was it the Red Sox? It wasn't It was the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins. And for who Fernando Rodney like five years ago?
Speaker 1: Straight up. Now, I don't know what if there was
Speaker 1: anything else involved, but and you know what, I started
Speaker 1: instantly thinking about this, Greig. This is the same Padres
Speaker 1: organization that traded James Shields away to get Fernando Tatis Jr.
Speaker 1: The Padres are crushing it right now. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: let's let's take this once up step further the Marlins.
Speaker 1: And look, it was the ownership group before Jeter that
Speaker 1: made a lot of these trades and the general managers whatever.
Speaker 1: But they are also the same team that traded away
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo to get Dan Straley Padres Marlins. Well, to
Speaker 1: be fair, that that that got reversed over here, that well,
Speaker 1: Luis Castio tree got got reversed with the Podres because
Speaker 1: a J. Pelor lied to the to the Marlins. Wait,
Speaker 1: so was Luis Casti originally be part of he was
Speaker 1: was originally traded to the Padres in the this what
Speaker 1: was the what was the deal? Remember this now? It
Speaker 1: was for a bunch of players and Louis Castillo. That
Speaker 1: trade got reversed because the Padres had lied about their
Speaker 1: players being hurt. They traded the Marlins. It was and
Speaker 1: I remember it was some starting pitcher like failed the
Speaker 1: physical or something like that. It was Andrew Cashner. Wasn't
Speaker 1: it was Andrew Cashner trade? I want to say, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Colin It was Colin Ria. Yes, it was CoA, Yes,
Speaker 1: it was the Andrew Cashner trade. Though yeah, right now,
Speaker 1: it was Louise Castiolan just didn't want anything to do
Speaker 1: with Louise Castio. Huh, they did not want this guy.
Speaker 1: No injured reliever card to Caps was involved, Cass he
Speaker 1: was good for a second. Remember is going to be
Speaker 1: the next big clos right along with Kevin Quackenbush. Jared
Speaker 1: Cosart was another one involved that who was also highly
Speaker 1: crowded too. Yeah, so oh Mike in this the Fernando
Speaker 1: Rodney trade was actually straight up Chris Paddock for Fernando
Speaker 1: Marlin's Marlin. Man, Oh my goodness, gracious to me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't even remember Rodney on the Marlins, Like I
Speaker 1: remember when it was half a season. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: They don't even remember one of the Marlins. It was
Speaker 1: like it was him and um it was the guy
Speaker 1: A j. Ramos were and they were kind of making
Speaker 1: a run that year. Here Brad Ziegler might have even
Speaker 1: been on that they were they were kind of making
Speaker 1: a run. Um it was you know, Stanton was hot.
Speaker 1: The outfielders, it was Haim Mozuna yellow and like everyone
Speaker 1: was kind of jelly d Gordon. That might have been
Speaker 1: a year or one of the years that he had
Speaker 1: like the batting title. But we can't bash the Mallins
Speaker 1: too much. I know this ever is bad, but they
Speaker 1: also won two World Series there a very young franchise
Speaker 1: technically because they haven't been around that long, and they
Speaker 1: won the World Series where no money they got these
Speaker 1: guys and they gave him all away the year after
Speaker 1: both those world series, so the team completely fell up.
Speaker 1: But they still won two old series in like a
Speaker 1: decade span, so that's pretty good. It's not good. You
Speaker 1: haven't been out in the playoffs since the teams that
Speaker 1: haven't even won the haven't been to a World Series. No,
Speaker 1: I understand that half the Marlins way of operating. He's
Speaker 1: not good. It hasn't been good. You just don't have money.
Speaker 1: As much as we're crossing them to like you have money.
Speaker 1: That's not sure. They have money. That's bessy. Every team
Speaker 1: has money to spend. There was true, and they're also
Speaker 1: money is also not a small mine. Is also not
Speaker 1: a small market. That's that's just afforded to sign every
Speaker 1: single team, every single team. They don't get, uh, they
Speaker 1: don't get anybody watch the games and stuff like, they
Speaker 1: don't make money from that. I mean, I know, any
Speaker 1: owner could spend any money they want, like you know,
Speaker 1: there's no cap, so you could do what you want realistically.
Speaker 1: But these small market teams, it is hard to try
Speaker 1: to figure out different ways, Like Oakland tries to figure
Speaker 1: out what you know with literally bean ball and all
Speaker 1: that stuff money ball, like you know, you try to
Speaker 1: figure out different ways. I don't know. I like the
Speaker 1: moll I like how the Mallins won two World Series
Speaker 1: in that time. Can you name every team Fernando Ruddy
Speaker 1: has played for? Definitely out, but I can try you want,
Speaker 1: you want to try? Sure, Tampa Bay and ten of them,
Speaker 1: Bamba Bay, Miami, Oakland, Arizona, Minnesota at some point last
Speaker 1: year is either last year? Yes, gosh, um you're you're rising,
Speaker 1: the only you're rising. The first two teams he played for,
Speaker 1: um and who was he on back in the day,
Speaker 1: and you're rising? Two others he was on. We got
Speaker 1: six You're you're missing four out of the first five
Speaker 1: clubs he played for Detroit's that's the first thing he
Speaker 1: played for. Oh yeah, it was him. And who was
Speaker 1: it do with the big Beard? Was Valverde No, No No,
Speaker 1: not him. Zumaya was a nut job He also heard
Speaker 1: himself playing guitar hero. So that's bad. That's something I
Speaker 1: can imagine, like game doing. Yeah, rope, he plays real
Speaker 1: good time. Are you we got seven? We got seven
Speaker 1: out of ten? Yeah? There don't remember. I feel like
Speaker 1: he played. One of them is really gettable. The other
Speaker 1: two are tough. One of them that one of them hard.
Speaker 1: If it's for Baltimore Seattle, that's correct, alright, Seattle was gettable.
Speaker 1: I thought he's either two are impossible. One of them
Speaker 1: is really tough. I don't think the other one is.
Speaker 1: I give up. So after the Tigers, they traded. He
Speaker 1: said was a free agent for two years eleven million
Speaker 1: dollars with the Los Angeles Angels of Ada. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say Angels. I thought that. I thought about that too.
Speaker 1: He was in a red jersey at some point outside
Speaker 1: of Arizona. The Mariners ultimately cut him, and he was
Speaker 1: then traded for cash considerations. This is the one that
Speaker 1: I had no recollection though. The Chicago Cups, I don't
Speaker 1: remember that. I do remember that. I don't remember that
Speaker 1: it was a short How long was he there for?
Speaker 1: Not long? Right? Like? How many appearances any making a
Speaker 1: cub uniform? Greg that's a really good question. You just
Speaker 1: had like his fan grabs page. Oh my goodness, and Rodney,
Speaker 1: what an interesting career. You don't say what you want
Speaker 1: about the guy. He's done it for a long time. Man,
Speaker 1: He's been one of He had some really good closer years.
Speaker 1: And I brought this question up before the end of
Speaker 1: the hour. Someone askeds on Twitter at to night Nick
Speaker 1: Luciano on Twitter rank and this is gonna be tough
Speaker 1: for you. There's a few guys on this list that
Speaker 1: you really like him Anderson, Elvis Andrews, Ory Polanco, Fernando
Speaker 1: Tatis Jr. Jonathan VR. Five shortstops who were you know,
Speaker 1: maybe Jonathan VR wasn't undervalued during draft because he was
Speaker 1: drafted highly because of his stolen basis, slightly because he
Speaker 1: also he's in Baltimore. But Elvis Andrews was a guy
Speaker 1: who was undervalued, Horry Polanco, Fernando Tatis. Obviously, once we
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna start the year in the majors,
Speaker 1: he climbed up forts but before that undervalued. And then
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson. We spoke about that a lot, and we
Speaker 1: did our shortstop preview how he was undervalued too. So
Speaker 1: how would ranking's guy you name five, right, Polanco, Tim Anderson, Andrews, Polanco, Tatis,
Speaker 1: Johnny VR So. I think number one for me would
Speaker 1: be Tim Anderson. I agree with you. I agree as well.
Speaker 1: Uh number two I would go with, right now, Polanco.
Speaker 1: I actually just picked up Polanco Frank Lank Polanco last,
Speaker 1: did you well, he's probably doing it from a points
Speaker 1: leak perspective. If that's true, I would put Polanco second.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely killing and point lead right. UM three would
Speaker 1: be We'll do it from a points league and then
Speaker 1: I'll do it from a RODO For me would be
Speaker 1: I think Tatis, who's the okay seen we had Andrews's
Speaker 1: Andrews VR Yeah, so I would say Tatis three, uh
Speaker 1: VR four, Andrewses last for me? Okay, from a roto perspective,
Speaker 1: I put Tim Anderson first as well. Then I would
Speaker 1: put mm hmm. I would put Andrews is killing it though, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's really good man. I would put Andrews second in RODO,
Speaker 1: and then I would put the R Tatis man. I
Speaker 1: don't want to put Polanco last. I like Polanco a
Speaker 1: lot patting average is awesome. He's basically he's gonna hill
Speaker 1: three categories. He's gonna give you batting average, he's gonna
Speaker 1: give you home runs, he's gonna give you run scored.
Speaker 1: The RBIs might not be there because he's gonna lead
Speaker 1: off or be at the top of the lineup, and
Speaker 1: he's not really gonna give you stolen basis. So he's
Speaker 1: a three category player. They're all really good, though, Man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to rank him last. I really don't
Speaker 1: want to. They're all, you know, Tim Anderson first, Andrews second.
Speaker 1: You know, I would put Tatis last on this list,
Speaker 1: and redraft just because he does strike out a lot.
Speaker 1: I think there'll be some regression into batting average. This
Speaker 1: is a great group, though, man, I mean would be
Speaker 1: happy to have any of them. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: would be happy to have any of them. Elvis Andrews
Speaker 1: completely proving people wrong. Year in a year out his
Speaker 1: stack cast numbers. I was just looking at it during
Speaker 1: the break. His sprint speed is not good. It's like
Speaker 1: in the fifty three percentile. He still has six stolen
Speaker 1: bases on the year. Elvis andres and he hits in
Speaker 1: the middle of the lineup in a really good lineup
Speaker 1: in Texas, we didn't think it was gonna be that good.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty good, better than with the Great Ballpark
Speaker 1: to hidden. He's hidden third, so he's gonna give you
Speaker 1: r BIS two and runs because he's got you know,
Speaker 1: Shoy Gallow behind him. I get you probably fifteen home
Speaker 1: runs and stolen bases. Give you the Homer's man. I
Speaker 1: feel like the Homers are like. I like like this
Speaker 1: group a lot. I like this group of shortstops a lot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would put Tim Anderson first, UM and yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably put put Polanco let's say, fourth, and put
Speaker 1: fifth fifth and re draft because I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some he strikes out a lot, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some batting average regression a little bit for him. He's
Speaker 1: got to come back from the injury. I want to
Speaker 1: see how he responds to that too. Right now, on
Speaker 1: May seven, with him on the IL, i'll rank him one.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break here. When we come back, I
Speaker 1: want to mention what ve alaska Is didn't didn't do
Speaker 1: last night, and his opponent Miles Nicholas, and what he
Speaker 1: did as well. We're also gonna chat about Trevor Bower's
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Speaker 1: all hanging out and I meagined before I wanted to
Speaker 1: get Intovincent velasque is and what he did last night,
Speaker 1: what he didn't do. What he did do was be terrible.
Speaker 1: What he didn't do it would be good. Velaska has
Speaker 1: when four innings, four hits, five runs, five walks. He
Speaker 1: struck out of three, allowed three home runs. On the
Speaker 1: other side, Miles Micholas was excellent seven and things, three hits,
Speaker 1: no runs, allowed, five strikeouts. We said before, we said
Speaker 1: it last week too. Despite the ear A being under four,
Speaker 1: you can certainly drop Vinny Velasquez at this point. Miles
Speaker 1: Michelis needed a good start. His ear A still hovers
Speaker 1: around four, but he got a good start against a
Speaker 1: tough offense here. Frank, Yeah, Miles Michaelas has been bouncing
Speaker 1: back his past couple of starts, so it was good
Speaker 1: to see this, especially against a pretty good Phillies line
Speaker 1: up here, very tough one for a right handed picture navigating.
Speaker 1: He was just outstanding. Seven shut out innings, three hits,
Speaker 1: zero walks is exactly what you want to see from
Speaker 1: Miles Mikolas. And after his really really rough started getting
Speaker 1: the ear right down to four point zero two, and
Speaker 1: I think it's going to continue to climb, to continue
Speaker 1: to fall a little bit lower than this. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna pitch to the sub three ear a that he
Speaker 1: had last year, but I think he is a picture
Speaker 1: that ken pits two amid three z r A. I
Speaker 1: think he could be in that range. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people like to flock to or its pictures
Speaker 1: who gets strikeouts. And I understand why because the more
Speaker 1: you have a picture that allows balls in play, the
Speaker 1: more things can go wrong. Obviously, but we've seen guys
Speaker 1: make a career out of it. What about Dallas Kiko
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, he's been able to make
Speaker 1: a career out of the young guy who gets a
Speaker 1: lot of groundballs and pitches to contact. Miles miekle Loss,
Speaker 1: I think is a guy based on his stuff too,
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't have bad stuff, he doesn't have swinging
Speaker 1: miss stuff, but he knows how to pitch, and he
Speaker 1: knows how to induce soft contact. And he's got like
Speaker 1: a you know, a load of mid nineties fastball. He's
Speaker 1: got a pretty wicked slider. Two. It just doesn't translate
Speaker 1: to strikeouts for whatever reason when it comes to Michael Uss.
Speaker 1: But I do I do think he's going to continue
Speaker 1: this this strand of well, I don't know what consistency
Speaker 1: that he's putting together, right liability and like as a
Speaker 1: as an SP three SP four, maybe even in some
Speaker 1: leagues I'd be fine with that. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think it's like, oh, I need
Speaker 1: to get guys that strike out, so Micholos kind of
Speaker 1: isn't as rated as high. I feel like a bit
Speaker 1: underrated because of that. Sometimes, listen, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: bad pictures out there that could strike out people that
Speaker 1: have nasty stuff. You're talking about Corbin Burns before. Um,
Speaker 1: there's other guys like Vince Alaska's who is known to
Speaker 1: be a strikeout picture, but he just gets blown up
Speaker 1: and walks a lot of guys you Sometimes it's just
Speaker 1: not good pictures. So it's not all about the strikeouts.
Speaker 1: You gotta bite the bolt sometimes and take a guy
Speaker 1: like Micholos who can get it done and give you
Speaker 1: a solid six innings, you know, three two out of
Speaker 1: three starts, you know what I mean. He'll give you
Speaker 1: a solid game and get you the points you need
Speaker 1: or get you the start you need. And yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna kay a ton of people, but that's fine.
Speaker 1: He's not an sp one. You're not drifting him an
Speaker 1: sp one. You drifting SP three or four. And I
Speaker 1: think that's about what he'll give you. Yeah, he started
Speaker 1: off a little rough, but be starting to come around.
Speaker 1: Last three out of four starts he's pitched very well.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're a Miles Mikolos owner, you
Speaker 1: should be you know, at least have a little happier
Speaker 1: than you are at the beginning of season with him.
Speaker 1: I didn't really like him in points leagues too, because
Speaker 1: he goes deep into starts. Yes, he's a guy who
Speaker 1: you know, he went to what was a Korea and
Speaker 1: then came back, so he's been around a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a journeyman guy. Uh, they don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about an ending's limit. They're gonna let him,
Speaker 1: you know, throw as many endings as he possibly can.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna get wins on a good st Louis
Speaker 1: Cardinal's team too. Uh, the strikeouts are gonna be there,
Speaker 1: which hurts a little bit for Rhodo purposes. But if
Speaker 1: he gives you a good e r a a good whip,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get you wins because he has a
Speaker 1: good Cardinals offense behind him. And I think you're right
Speaker 1: with that. You know what you're getting from Miles miek
Speaker 1: Loss and I think he's starting to do exactly what
Speaker 1: you wanted from him, Greg, and we have a funeral
Speaker 1: on today's show, and uh who and we just end
Speaker 1: the Vince Alaska stuff and we just do it, and
Speaker 1: we just put his fantasy value to rest. I know
Speaker 1: Handsel Robost isn't coming in, but if someone downstairs, if
Speaker 1: you give me the Undertaker theme song, and we could
Speaker 1: just have like a little eulogy for for Vince Alaska's fantasy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it. Don't have to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, we don't know anyone can do.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna, you know, I don't want to give
Speaker 1: what are we doing? He's how to give you and
Speaker 1: strikes out for any anything else like his walksber nine
Speaker 1: is four point four five. He's got a three eight
Speaker 1: six e r A four point nine five xfit five
Speaker 1: point a more depressing song than the Undertake Alaska's. You
Speaker 1: had years of upside, you had a few double digit
Speaker 1: strikeout performances. And yes, you'll still give us a strikeout
Speaker 1: per anyone, which helps in rhodo, but you're gonna hurt
Speaker 1: every other category. R A whip walk to many batters,
Speaker 1: you give up home runs. You're pitching a bad ballpark
Speaker 1: of the vision. Vice of Alaska's doesn't go deep into games.
Speaker 1: I know you're only twenty six years old, but I'm
Speaker 1: here to lay your fantasy value forever, forever. Watch next year,
Speaker 1: it's the year of Vince of Alaska. You're Vince Alaska
Speaker 1: and dropped in Filaski with this guy the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be all right. It's just it's not gonna
Speaker 1: work in Philly. It's not gonna work for him. He
Speaker 1: don't go tired of putting him in my lineup getting
Speaker 1: excited about the strikeout. It's excited about the upside, and
Speaker 1: then you get these just blow up performances. Five walks,
Speaker 1: three strikeouts, five and runs. I'm tired of it, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna leave him in my lineup for the
Speaker 1: one good start and then the three terrible starts that
Speaker 1: come after it. It's just he's not even one of
Speaker 1: those guys where you say I take the good with
Speaker 1: the bad, because there's just so much more bad than
Speaker 1: always the good. It's over. I'm sorry you can drop him, Greg.
Speaker 1: I know it's a very somber note for you in
Speaker 1: a fifteen team, and maybe you could stream him or
Speaker 1: even own him, you know anything. He's a tough time
Speaker 1: for can't he still likes him, That's fine. I don't
Speaker 1: like him. I don't. I don't want to own him.
Speaker 1: I just feel bad barry him. He's my guy, he Mike,
Speaker 1: you never know. He could have a monster second half.
Speaker 1: He's always been my guy. He's not having him a
Speaker 1: monster seconds, not this. Uh well, I agree with you, Michaels.
Speaker 1: Also the quality starts. He'll give you a lot of those. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the goal, obviously, Miles michels Um. One name I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring up here on this program was Matt Carpenter.
Speaker 1: W Homer was the fourth time on the season yesterday
Speaker 1: venture I wanted to go with you here Carbon exactly.
Speaker 1: Mac Carpenter was amazing last year. We had a really
Speaker 1: really really rough April. Sam if you said this year
Speaker 1: where he had a really really really rough April. Obie
Speaker 1: pits Obi Pi sas at three the average sits. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, I'm not now killing Matt Carpenter. We
Speaker 1: like mat I think the undertaking music here not Hansel
Speaker 1: Robots is coming in the room. Greg, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to kill what's what's happening there? I don't know. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: So Matt Carpenter obi seven. The average is to fifteen.
Speaker 1: That's gone up in recent days as he's has three
Speaker 1: consecutive days with hits, has six hits in his list
Speaker 1: three games. Yeah right, I'm not saying you're worried about that, Carpenter. Chriss,
Speaker 1: what do you think we should expect the rest of
Speaker 1: the way from more of this? Alright? But obviously the
Speaker 1: average isn't gonna be super high by the end of
Speaker 1: the year or anything, but it's gonna be better than two.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously last year had a slow start, same
Speaker 1: thing this year. Now is the time you should not
Speaker 1: like sell him right now. This is when he's gonna
Speaker 1: go off. You'll be giving him away to somebody else
Speaker 1: getting all the benefit of him. Uh. Now is when
Speaker 1: you'll benefit from Yeah, he had a slow start. You
Speaker 1: just gotta be patient. This is mconference. This guy has
Speaker 1: been doing it for a long time. You know he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up giving you a lot of homers by
Speaker 1: the end of the season, thirty plus. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: he walks a lot ob p with a two fifteen average,
Speaker 1: he'll be you know the walk the plate discipline for
Speaker 1: him is still You're still getting production in the OBP category,
Speaker 1: court category from so you've got a couple of stolen bases.
Speaker 1: I think this is when you want to own him.
Speaker 1: So if you've been patiently waiting for the breakout, it's
Speaker 1: kind of coming out right now, and I think it
Speaker 1: will continue for a while. He will get into his
Speaker 1: cold streaks, but for the most part the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, you should be okay with that. Aver should
Speaker 1: go up to to sixty. Great song by the way,
Speaker 1: patiently waiting, great song, whether or not weather storm, all right?
Speaker 1: This guy, well, Ventra is the rapper on the show.
Speaker 1: Actually if you're wanna start rapping recently waiting. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to Matt Carpenter, he is a player I
Speaker 1: would be looking to buy in a points league, in
Speaker 1: a rotal league, I do have some concerns. He strikes
Speaker 1: me as a two category contributor. Greg in a rotal league.
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you run scored. He leads off for
Speaker 1: a great lineup, and I do think that the home
Speaker 1: runs are gonna come around. Vents. What you said that
Speaker 1: he's gonna get to thirty, I think you don't know
Speaker 1: he's gonna get to thirty. He's only had four right
Speaker 1: now and it's already made seven. Now he can go
Speaker 1: on one of those street streaks that you know, similar
Speaker 1: to what he did last year. But thirty six summer
Speaker 1: last year was by far a career high. He comes
Speaker 1: close to thirty, but in a rotal league, he just
Speaker 1: strikes me as a guy only gives you his home
Speaker 1: runs and runs. He's not a plus contributor in batting average.
Speaker 1: He you know, maybe he'll get up to to fifty,
Speaker 1: but doesn't give you RBIs because he leads off, not
Speaker 1: gonna steal bases, so he's really just a two category contributor.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be looking to buy in a rotal league.
Speaker 1: If I play in an ob P league, sure that's
Speaker 1: something I would look into doing. In the points league,
Speaker 1: sure I'll try and buy him there too. The battball profile,
Speaker 1: the line drive rate, the fly ball rate pretty much
Speaker 1: in long life last year, but the hard hit rate
Speaker 1: is actually down ten percent from where it was last year.
Speaker 1: So he is one year older. He is thirty three
Speaker 1: years old. Maybe this is a time when we should
Speaker 1: kind of like lump Joey vatdo in with him right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: because I have concerns over Joey Votto too, like mid thirty,
Speaker 1: I think voto concern is more at this moment than
Speaker 1: Matt Carpet. I would agree with that. I'd be more
Speaker 1: apt to buy I Matt Carpenter that I would Joey Votto.
Speaker 1: But I just I still overall, I just don't know
Speaker 1: that Matt Carpenter is gonna live up to what people
Speaker 1: were expecting him to do this year. So I think
Speaker 1: that's why I'm kind of lumping them in together because
Speaker 1: I have serious concerns about Joey Botto. It might be
Speaker 1: one of those things where you just kind of like
Speaker 1: like the bullet because you can't you can't drop Joey Bottom,
Speaker 1: can't trade him right now unless you and you just
Speaker 1: kind of gotta bite the bullet unless you package him in.
Speaker 1: And he got five RB I adventure, yeahs got five
Speaker 1: RBIs he's a guy. What do we doing? No? I know, listen,
Speaker 1: he has mileage and he is a guy I'm concerned
Speaker 1: about because he's also older, like to the point where
Speaker 1: what is he thirty five, thirty six something like that? Right,
Speaker 1: he's thirty five thirty five. So that's when usually when
Speaker 1: guys start to deteriorate a little bit. Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he's six arev guys sold? I'm short now Carpet only
Speaker 1: has eight, but he's a leadof fitter um, so he's
Speaker 1: not gonna give you that. But bottoms leading off now
Speaker 1: for the Reds. Yeah, so he has been kind of
Speaker 1: expecting that the run scored is gonna be what what
Speaker 1: he's gonna Votto is gonna get leading all, that's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna look at. But anyway, Carpet to thirty three,
Speaker 1: he's not an old thirty three I think about it.
Speaker 1: This guy came into the league when he was twenty
Speaker 1: six years old. But he's had so many injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: like his body has taken a beating. He's been beat
Speaker 1: up the past couple of years. He's missed time. He
Speaker 1: kind of cancels out. You're right that he got a
Speaker 1: later start, you know than most guys, but he's also
Speaker 1: dealt with a lot of injuries. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: pro and it's a con. He started late, but he's
Speaker 1: had so many injuries, so he has kind of beat
Speaker 1: up at a little bree years old. I think the
Speaker 1: batting average will get better. You don't think he's a
Speaker 1: two fifteen hitter. I get it to like to fifty.
Speaker 1: But overall, I just I do have my concerns from
Speaker 1: in roto leagues. He might he just might not live
Speaker 1: up to what you wanted from him. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about him in points leagues or I mean rotal leagues,
Speaker 1: don't you know. I guess you could be a little concerned.
Speaker 1: You're right, but I'm not worried about the age, is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, I don't. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: get this year and one more really good year at
Speaker 1: a carpet to than the age might take a toll
Speaker 1: because I think he still does a lot of things well.
Speaker 1: And reg said it before early in April. Last year
Speaker 1: also had a really bad start. So this could be
Speaker 1: like a trend thing. As the summer, you know, as
Speaker 1: it gets warmer, the summer comes, he gets better and better.
Speaker 1: I think you'll see that. For the compence is a
Speaker 1: professional ballplayer, like he's been around for a while. He
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. I don't. I wouldn't be too concerned.
Speaker 1: I can understand him. Rodo being a little concern, though
Speaker 1: I understand the reasons to be concerned, but I hate
Speaker 1: to just do this. Just look at last year. I
Speaker 1: hate to do that, but I think it's a legitimate frank, Like,
Speaker 1: there was no sign that he was gonna all of
Speaker 1: a sudden turn it around. Last year. Well, he was
Speaker 1: hitting the ball extremely hard, to hitting a lot of
Speaker 1: fly balls, and normally those things in conjunction lead to
Speaker 1: a lot of home runs. So I'm pretty sure like
Speaker 1: last year he was doing exactly that. He had the
Speaker 1: little batting average in the little battit because when you
Speaker 1: hit a lot of fly balls, that leads to Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, I remember Modica mentioned it. I jinked
Speaker 1: him last year. I said, you know, Matt Carpenter, like
Speaker 1: he I said, he went over for where I said,
Speaker 1: from now on, the over will be known as the
Speaker 1: Matt Carpenter And after that day he took off. Do
Speaker 1: you want to say to anyone else? Want me anyone
Speaker 1: right now? Who who positive? Who's sucking right now that
Speaker 1: you want me to jinks Joey Luke Casey, Maybe I
Speaker 1: have to do it for vince Velaski's the getting rocks.
Speaker 1: Well I'm not. I'm not gonna do it for the Mets.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Martino. Now you guys still have really pictures.
Speaker 1: Come on, you'll be going to figure this out. Getting
Speaker 1: blown up in the start is now known as the
Speaker 1: Vince Velaskis. That's what we're gonna do here, Greg, Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1: Last night he got Vince Velaski's vince Velaski's last night
Speaker 1: it was bad man. So now Vince Volaskis turns it on,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do a reverse a reverse funeral.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to, you know, we'll we'll dress ventrop
Speaker 1: Is the night King or something. We'll bring Vince Velaska
Speaker 1: and I mean, you know you like to do all
Speaker 1: the crazy hair stuff. We'll figure it outur last night
Speaker 1: ten hits, eight runs allowed, seven or earned, five innings,
Speaker 1: seven strike as, and his opponent, who's got who had
Speaker 1: the worst earrate in baseball coming into the start? Seven
Speaker 1: in things? Eight hits, one run, one walk, five strike ads.
Speaker 1: That was Ivan Nova? Mr. Was it like opposite opposite
Speaker 1: they here? Did he space jam all of his skill
Speaker 1: out of him? Did they must team skill? Here? Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it was. It was my boy
Speaker 1: Moncada basically wrecking him and uh Tim, Tim and Tim
Speaker 1: and Jon had a couple of hits. You know, they
Speaker 1: spread it out. But Tim and this in Makada are
Speaker 1: killing it right now. I mean this team could blow
Speaker 1: up your pitcher by themselves. Those two guys. Literally, bre
Speaker 1: was over five. I was watching the start yesterday too.
Speaker 1: Forever Bauer just left a lot of pitches in the
Speaker 1: middle of the zone. They did not miss it. He
Speaker 1: spoke about it after the start to he was obviously
Speaker 1: trying to like find a positive in what he did yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he's like, well, I was trying to pitch more
Speaker 1: in the zone because I've been walking a lot of
Speaker 1: bad ters recently. And all right, well, great Bauer. He
Speaker 1: only walked one battery yesterday. He gave up seven er
Speaker 1: and run. I'd rather you go back to walking, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one walked. So he was trying to you know, again,
Speaker 1: he's trying to find the positives here. Reading the quotes
Speaker 1: about him, I want to see because there's something I
Speaker 1: didn't know about. He's like, well, I wanted to pitch
Speaker 1: more in the zone in the start, I didn't I
Speaker 1: wanted to limit the walks. It was something that you know,
Speaker 1: it was cognizant of coming into this one. He's he
Speaker 1: just said, right into the White Sox. Man, He's like,
Speaker 1: I thought I made pitches. They were just better today
Speaker 1: and they mash it. I mean they were what he said,
Speaker 1: they were significantly better. But it's just been a weird
Speaker 1: season overall for Bowers. He's trying I think he's trying
Speaker 1: to do too much, and he throws like five different pitches.
Speaker 1: He messes around with all this stuff in the off season,
Speaker 1: with his drones and all these pitching analytic uh guns
Speaker 1: and stuff that he has, all the like I did.
Speaker 1: He's trying to do too much. Man, He's like introducing
Speaker 1: a changeup now that he's throwing more of this year.
Speaker 1: He throws like five six different pitches. This is what
Speaker 1: we've heard about Bauer for a long time. He has
Speaker 1: a lot of tarot. We saw it last year. But
Speaker 1: when the manager and the pitching coaches, when they try
Speaker 1: to coach him up, he just thinks that he knows
Speaker 1: better than everyone else. Right now, guess what, Trevor Bauer,
Speaker 1: you don't know better than everyone. You have three four
Speaker 1: two year a fine. That's not that's not the worst.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not terrible. The case per nine are
Speaker 1: down this year. The walks per nine are way up.
Speaker 1: Four point one walks per nine, that's the that's the
Speaker 1: highest it's been in any of his previous six seasons
Speaker 1: that have been full seasons for him before. I mean
Speaker 1: his previous high before that was four point zero four.
Speaker 1: That was back when he had a four or five
Speaker 1: five year Yeah, it's hard hit rate this year. I'm
Speaker 1: sure last night contributed to it because these guys were
Speaker 1: just squaring him up. Forty two point seven percent, that
Speaker 1: would be that would be a career high for Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1: Swinging strike right down. The first at strike percentage down.
Speaker 1: He talked about pitching in the zone last night. His
Speaker 1: first pitch strike percentage last night was still sub fifty percent,
Speaker 1: Greg fifty, less than fifty percent of the batters that
Speaker 1: he faced. He threw a first pitch strike to those guys.
Speaker 1: Why do you look so surprised, I'm not surprised, Baer.
Speaker 1: I mean so this, I guess it. It goes hand
Speaker 1: in hand with both both him and Zach Wheeler. They
Speaker 1: made huge gains last year, and I was banking on
Speaker 1: those two guys picking up where they left off on
Speaker 1: the gains that they made last year, and it hasn't
Speaker 1: been the case. And and a lot of people just
Speaker 1: like everybody was pretty much on that band. Wigan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Zach Wheeler has done some really nice things this year.
Speaker 1: He ultimately has not lived up to my expectation thus far.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean he won't be able to. But Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer all the games that he made last season in
Speaker 1: terms of limiting walks and limiting home runs and limiting
Speaker 1: hard contact and getting as many strikeouts as he was
Speaker 1: all those games that he made. Greg we all kind
Speaker 1: of assumed that he would just stick up from where
Speaker 1: he left off, and it hasn't been the case. It's
Speaker 1: been very frustrating season. Bower. Lots of really good, lots
Speaker 1: of yesterday was just really bad. That's why I didn't
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Trevor Bauer before the break venture. I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring him back up to you. Didn't really
Speaker 1: give you a chance to uh opine on Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1: It's been a little bit of a mixed bag though.
Speaker 1: I'll open up the floor to you regarding Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1: What have you seen? Do you have any shares? Were
Speaker 1: why were you avoiding him? So I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say something quick. Um. The reason why I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: is because, like I wasn't on him as much as
Speaker 1: everybody else was. I feel like he was going a
Speaker 1: little bit too high for my liking, just because and
Speaker 1: I know he had a great season last year and
Speaker 1: it looked like this is the turnaround for him to
Speaker 1: break out basically for the rest of his career. But
Speaker 1: there's so many years behind that where he had over
Speaker 1: a four r A and you know, just couldn't seem
Speaker 1: to figure it out. You know, he's got talent, but
Speaker 1: maybe he has mental issue with overcoming things. And you
Speaker 1: know he's got a big mouth and all that. He
Speaker 1: gets in trouble with the media. He's crazy analytical, he overthinks.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of mental uh you know, problems or
Speaker 1: issues at play here with Bauer. I think so I
Speaker 1: didn't want to pay that much. I liked what he
Speaker 1: costs years prior, which was a lot cheaper. And I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see something in between last year and
Speaker 1: you know, the year before we had a four one
Speaker 1: nine r A. I think he's somewhere in the middle
Speaker 1: of that. I don't think he's this as good as
Speaker 1: he was last year. To two one is absolutely fantastic,
Speaker 1: it's elite. I don't think he's that type of picture.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm not that surprised that he's pitching
Speaker 1: two or three four two, which is still very good.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, it's still a very good and he
Speaker 1: still has sixty two strikeouts in fifty two innings, so
Speaker 1: the strikeouts are still very good. The walks are a problem, obviously,
Speaker 1: but he'll correct himself here and now. But he's gonna
Speaker 1: have blow ups, and I think it's gonna have to
Speaker 1: do with his mental capacity. Certain guys can't overcome certain things,
Speaker 1: or they overthink, or whatever the case may be, and
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be an issue with him his
Speaker 1: whole career. Quite honestly, Uh so I think this year
Speaker 1: is gonna be a mixed bag. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: happy about it because you paid a lot for me,
Speaker 1: you expected a lot. I get it, but you know,
Speaker 1: for me, I just never expected. I do have own
Speaker 1: a share of him. I'm in six leagues. I own
Speaker 1: one share of him. Uh So I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: But I know he's a good picture. He's just not
Speaker 1: the great picture we saw last year. I don't think
Speaker 1: he is that guy. So that's what all I want
Speaker 1: to say. That's why I'm not so surprised at this
Speaker 1: rocky kind of start. He's still having a good season, though,
Speaker 1: if you look at it face value without thinking about
Speaker 1: you know, where you drafted him. You know he's still
Speaker 1: having a pretty good season. Where would you rank Turbauer
Speaker 1: right now? Do you still think he's like a top
Speaker 1: ten starting picture. No, I'd say he's top he's top
Speaker 1: twenty five. He fluctuate. Well, there's pictures that are coming
Speaker 1: up that a you know, I'll do you know, I'll
Speaker 1: performing him right now like a glass. Now, you know
Speaker 1: there's guys that are stepping up. You'd rather have Glass
Speaker 1: down the bower right now. That's a good question. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that venture. Glasstown has been really good.
Speaker 1: He has been great, heed himself at the top, maybe
Speaker 1: top twe because last year you're saying, or because of
Speaker 1: who Bower? I mean, yeah, I mean I just crushed
Speaker 1: the guy. But he's still not even having that bad
Speaker 1: he's not. I mean even after yesterday give me up
Speaker 1: seven and runs, he's got a three or four two
Speaker 1: e r A. But it's past couple of starts have
Speaker 1: been very frustrating. I own him in multiple leagues, and
Speaker 1: so but that's what I mean before that, before Bauer
Speaker 1: is great season. Last year he was a guy that
Speaker 1: was getting drifted well outside side the top what thirty pitchers,
Speaker 1: top forty pitchers, even right outside the top forty. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden he's a top ten
Speaker 1: I say, he's somewhere in between that, And that's what
Speaker 1: I always thought. The last now has a one four
Speaker 1: seven r A, a point eight six. With the guys
Speaker 1: absolutely dominating right now, it wouldn't surprise me if Last
Speaker 1: Now by the end of the season was a better
Speaker 1: picture than Trevor Bower, because I don't think Bowers is
Speaker 1: that good. I just don't. That's just me personally. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people do, and I understand that,
Speaker 1: but I just don't think he is. I think he's
Speaker 1: more of a very good picture, not an elite picture.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I mean. You're watch him
Speaker 1: pitch though, like he has talented. Movement on his pitches
Speaker 1: is nasty. It's slide pieces, his mid nineties fastball. Again
Speaker 1: what I said before the break, I just I think
Speaker 1: he just tries to do a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: He introduces these new pitches and he he was working
Speaker 1: on the change up during spring and he's been using
Speaker 1: that more. I think he's just trying to do so
Speaker 1: many different things. Why doesn't he just master his craft,
Speaker 1: master what he's already really good at. And I understand
Speaker 1: why to introduce new things. You're frustrated, I know, like
Speaker 1: because it's a mental thing. It's not even his talent.
Speaker 1: His talent is great, his talent is elite. His mental
Speaker 1: capacity isn't there. It's just not he doesn't have the brain.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the um you know, like you know
Speaker 1: how Eli is where he's very like stone cold. He
Speaker 1: doesn't care if he does something bad. He kind of
Speaker 1: just shrugs it off. I feel like he's not that
Speaker 1: type of guy. I don't put Eli in stone cold
Speaker 1: in the same sense, but like he doesn't show Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. He's like literally doesn't show emotion.
Speaker 1: He'll just go like this when a touchdown, you know
Speaker 1: that he makes the dumb face like but then he's
Speaker 1: like he moves on. He needs to be like that Bower.
Speaker 1: I don't think Bower is like that. I feel like
Speaker 1: things affect him and it lingers with sall on him,
Speaker 1: snowball for him yesterday, right every any like I would
Speaker 1: come back to the game every ending, something news happening,
Speaker 1: what's going on with this guy? Especially against the White
Speaker 1: Sox too, and say they have Mankato, they have to
Speaker 1: manage it. But this is a lineup that you should
Speaker 1: be able to dominate. They still strike out a lot,
Speaker 1: and there they haven't been one of the better all
Speaker 1: around hitting teams so far. In the middle of the road.
Speaker 1: You should you should be able to pitch well again
Speaker 1: the White Socks. So that's what I mean. You're expecting
Speaker 1: such elite performances. I don't think that. I do feel
Speaker 1: like the expectations just a little too high. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: gonna have some okay games and some bad games, but
Speaker 1: it'll have a lot of good games and he's still
Speaker 1: pitching good. So you can't complain too much, right You
Speaker 1: paid a lot, so it's like, oh, I want better,
Speaker 1: I want better, you know. Yeah. Look, I drafted him
Speaker 1: in the Pit League in the third round as my
Speaker 1: sp one. Man. I took him as my eight we
Speaker 1: reg and I got him in g D D fifteen
Speaker 1: team Road League. You own him a lot. We spent
Speaker 1: thirty five bucks on him in an auction as our
Speaker 1: sp one. I think those are the only two shares
Speaker 1: that I have about it. Yeah, so I have two
Speaker 1: out of I think I have like seven leagues, so
Speaker 1: two out of seven shares. I was. I was expecting
Speaker 1: some pretty big things. What I could tell people is
Speaker 1: if you own him, I think it just kind of
Speaker 1: sits height right now. Um, you can't. You obviously can't
Speaker 1: try and sell them or do anything after yesterday started.
Speaker 1: It's just it would be a bad cell right now.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Let's let's move on. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Marlins and the Cubs. We haven't really touched
Speaker 1: on this game at all so far today. Cole Hamiles,
Speaker 1: I think a little bit disappointing last night. Three earned runs,
Speaker 1: six innings, seven strikeouts. It's a good game, but against
Speaker 1: the Marlins. Overall, was expecting a little bit more. On
Speaker 1: the season. Cole Hamil's still been pretty good e r A.
Speaker 1: The whip hasn't been that bad either. Actually, I remember
Speaker 1: I had I like Cole Hamiles. I made fun of
Speaker 1: Florio one day he called it and we talked about
Speaker 1: Cole Hamils versus Kyle Hendrix. They ended up with no shares,
Speaker 1: ended up with no stars of Cole Hamiles. But I
Speaker 1: like him and the underlying numbers with him really good
Speaker 1: three three r A six six five three x fit.
Speaker 1: He's got a fifty six percent groundball rate walks for
Speaker 1: nine er below three, which is good for him, although
Speaker 1: lately the walks have been up. He's got a one
Speaker 1: point one zero whip two two batting average against. That's
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna rise a little bit. He's two thirty
Speaker 1: five for his career. He's like what you expected right
Speaker 1: at six babbit. He's two eight four his career. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if he pitches to a mid three e
Speaker 1: r A and that's very good. Yeah, sub one to
Speaker 1: zero whip and a strike for any Oh man, you'd
Speaker 1: love that. Sign up for that every day of the
Speaker 1: week with Cohemil where you got him. Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: going as what barely a top forty starting pitcher. So
Speaker 1: I was on this, I was I was in on
Speaker 1: him as a kind of renaissance. He wasn't gonna do
Speaker 1: exactly what he did with just the Cubs last year,
Speaker 1: which was ridiculous. Yeah, I mean he had a two
Speaker 1: three six r A. But strikeouts have been there this year.
Speaker 1: The swinging strike rate still there. You gotta be happy.
Speaker 1: The only thing I see is the last three starts.
Speaker 1: He has walked eleven guys in the last three starts,
Speaker 1: which those can be a bug about sixteen innings. That
Speaker 1: a lot of walks. But this is cal Hamils, a veteran.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing, so I wouldn't worry too much. Again,
Speaker 1: when you pretty much wanted out of Cale Hamils right now,
Speaker 1: like maybe he's probably pitching around. I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: haven't watched his starts enough. I haven't watched every skill
Speaker 1: start to tell you this is exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 1: But when you just said he's a smart guy, he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing, he knows how to pitch. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking maybe he's pitching around the best hitters of opposing teams.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know he's like, all right, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: let these guys beat me. I'm not gonna give him
Speaker 1: anything to hit. Let me just walk these guys. If
Speaker 1: you know, he's not that type of guy anyway, where
Speaker 1: he's wild, he's not wild. Pedro Strope brutal game in
Speaker 1: this one here Ventro. I picked him up in one
Speaker 1: of my home leagues, my points league where I lost.
Speaker 1: I drafted Cody Allen actually as my second closer. That's
Speaker 1: a disaster. And then pedro Strope and this one. He
Speaker 1: hadn't been terrible on the year, but he was terrible
Speaker 1: in this one. I was watching this. Three walks, one hit,
Speaker 1: didn't even record an out, three earned runs. He gets
Speaker 1: tagged with the blown save the the ear right now
Speaker 1: over five, I'll throw this your way. If he continued
Speaker 1: to struggle, who do you think would be the next
Speaker 1: man up? In Chicago? They have Steve c Scheck, who
Speaker 1: has saved a few games so far this year, Brad Brock,
Speaker 1: who has some closing experience with the Orioles, and then
Speaker 1: they just recalled Carl Edwards, who threw a clean ending
Speaker 1: last night. If Peter Stroke continues to struggle, who do
Speaker 1: you think is the next man for Chicago? I would
Speaker 1: say it'd be closer to I think. Um, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. But my thing is if fantasy guys out
Speaker 1: there and everything, I wouldn't really touch a Cub situation
Speaker 1: right now. It's kind of scary, it's murky. You know.
Speaker 1: Stroke's obviously he's got a five r A now, like
Speaker 1: you can't really trust him. Uh, I wouldn't really trust
Speaker 1: any sea Scheck has experience. He has done well with
Speaker 1: the Marlins in the past. Uh. He has gotten saves
Speaker 1: before for teams, so he has experience. But like that's
Speaker 1: like a cheap closer. You can gree ab both the
Speaker 1: waive of wire understand that, but you don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the saves. That's the problem. I just
Speaker 1: want to stay away from Cubs bullpen in general right now.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to touch it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I don't trust the situation. What's the guest
Speaker 1: on Brandonmorrow? I feel like I haven't heard anything on him.
Speaker 1: He's just still on the I l he's always just
Speaker 1: dealing with so many injuries. This is why he was moving.
Speaker 1: He would be out for probably a month before before
Speaker 1: the season, during draft season, but now he's on the
Speaker 1: sixty day I l um, which means that, all right,
Speaker 1: we're not seeing this guy anytime soon. He's recovering from
Speaker 1: right elbow surgery. So yeah, just a messy situation. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're a team that gets in on Craig Kimberroll once
Speaker 1: the MLB Draft asses by. They could probably use him
Speaker 1: the Definitely, they're always a team that is willing to
Speaker 1: spend money too. But if I am playing in a
Speaker 1: deeper league like I do in a few fifteen team
Speaker 1: roto leagues, I think I think it would be a
Speaker 1: smart move to throw a few bids in on Steve
Speaker 1: c Chick, just because, especially in those leagues, and we've
Speaker 1: said this before, whenever Modique is on, you want to
Speaker 1: be one week early rather than one week late. Now,
Speaker 1: if praise your Strope goes out and blows another save
Speaker 1: this week, or goes out and has two more like
Speaker 1: rough performances, than everybody's gonna be in on the bidding
Speaker 1: for Steve cisheck right? But see what happens the rest
Speaker 1: of this week. It's something that I would throw out there.
Speaker 1: So you're playing a deeper league and you want to
Speaker 1: speculate maybe you own Page or Strope, and you want
Speaker 1: to lock down both Cubs relievers just to make sure
Speaker 1: you have it. I think Steve C. Scheck is probably
Speaker 1: the next band. That was the last thing I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, is that, like, it's a sticky situation when closes,
Speaker 1: because like it's not like a hitter coming up from
Speaker 1: the minors and you know he's gonna get playing time
Speaker 1: and you know, take over a role like c Check.
Speaker 1: You could pick him up, and then Strop starts doing
Speaker 1: well again, he starts getting you know, more of the saves.
Speaker 1: It could go back and forth. It could be a
Speaker 1: committee approach, it could be sloppy. So but if you
Speaker 1: do get Sea Scheck and Strop in a deep league,
Speaker 1: you know only in deeper leagues, really, uh, then maybe
Speaker 1: you have it locked up. It's just hard to manage that.
Speaker 1: You know, one week, you especially in a weekly league,
Speaker 1: one week you might put Strop in and see Check
Speaker 1: gets two or three saves and Trump doesn't get any,
Speaker 1: and then you know the next week's Check gets the saves. Like,
Speaker 1: I just don't want to be a part of that situation.
Speaker 1: But if you need your desperate for something, I would.
Speaker 1: I would. I'm agree with you. C Check is the
Speaker 1: guy that you would want Besidestrop. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues, in retal leagues where you just start
Speaker 1: the nine pictures, a lot of people like to go
Speaker 1: six starting pitchers, three relievers. Then you know you were
Speaker 1: probably taking stroke very late in your drafts. Anyway, you
Speaker 1: probably have another closer. Maybe you start that closer stroke
Speaker 1: and see Scheck. So regardless of who is getting to save,
Speaker 1: you have that Cubs reliever in your lineup. So that's
Speaker 1: something that you can look to do in deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: Right now. On the other side here, obviously, the Marlins
Speaker 1: locked down the wind. They went at six to five.
Speaker 1: We spoke about Fernando Rodney earlier and all the teams
Speaker 1: that he's been on in his career and how he's
Speaker 1: been a journeyman. He's a veteran at this point. How
Speaker 1: about Sergio Romo keeps getting it done? Huh. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got a six E r A, but he's got
Speaker 1: six saves. The Miami Marlins, look, they have ten wins.
Speaker 1: He saved six of those. Yeah, it's a pretty good ratio.
Speaker 1: Yeah anything, he's one of the lower He's one of
Speaker 1: the lower end, like if you start a third closer
Speaker 1: in the Roto League. He's like on the obviously extremely
Speaker 1: low end here, bottom of the batrel. But hey man,
Speaker 1: he's he's six saves. He struck out the side. Yesterday
Speaker 1: he gave up a homer to Chris Brian but he
Speaker 1: struck out the side. So the ear and the whip
Speaker 1: won't be great for Sergio Romo, but looks like he
Speaker 1: is fully entrenched in as the closer of the Marlins
Speaker 1: right now. Earlier on in the season, a lot of
Speaker 1: people were speculating on Nick Anderson here that crazy strike
Speaker 1: out to walk ratio. Um Teyron Guerrero is a guy
Speaker 1: that I've been kind of looking at the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. He's huge, massive guy towards like a hundred
Speaker 1: miles per hour, but at the time doesn't know where
Speaker 1: it's going. So I think Sergio Romo is a guy
Speaker 1: that he's a candidate to be traded later on in
Speaker 1: the season. I don't know if any other team really
Speaker 1: wants him, but if he's traded, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: start thinking about who's the next man up for these
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins. Uh, it was a guy I really think
Speaker 1: it about as a pickup? Was it in Miami Marlin? No? No, hope,
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you guys are touching on him before. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure everybody owns this guy at this point,
Speaker 1: but for some reason in shallower leagues, he's not that
Speaker 1: highly owned ESPN leagues. Joy Polanco I just picked up.
Speaker 1: I picked him up in my home league, a twelve
Speaker 1: team league. Or hey, Polanco was in the free agent pool.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna have to have a talk
Speaker 1: with with the rest of your league there, I know. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing is, you know, the rosters are smaller. You
Speaker 1: can't hold all these guys. There's some good guys out there.
Speaker 1: You gotta expand those rosters. Man, you gotta add the
Speaker 1: middle infield. You gotta add ever you get up to
Speaker 1: five outfielders. That's exactly what I was going to the
Speaker 1: last two years. I tried to do a vote, let's
Speaker 1: add a second utility because we only have one utility
Speaker 1: right now, nine hitters, and every time they decline they
Speaker 1: like the way it is. Fine. That's the way they wanted.
Speaker 1: But guys like Planco I picked him up. He goes
Speaker 1: three for four, hits, a homer yesterday. I'm on board
Speaker 1: you at the Polanco thing. I wanted to say that
Speaker 1: Polanco should be owned in almost every league. Yeah, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, every single league. Maybe a ten team league.
Speaker 1: There's no room somewhere. But he's a short stop life. Wow.
Speaker 1: So the whole time we were talking about this, I
Speaker 1: was like, ventures crazy. I mean, Horry Polanco has to
Speaker 1: be owned everywhere. Right, He's only fifty two percent owned
Speaker 1: in Yahoo right now, That's what I'm telling you. How
Speaker 1: is that passed under the radar? Man? He's too good
Speaker 1: not to be owned. That's insane, man. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the guy's saying three seventeen, he's got twenty runs scored,
Speaker 1: He's got six home runs. I know here against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: he had a rough weekend. There's no tempt about that. Here.
Speaker 1: He was cold, he went over twelve, he went over twelve,
Speaker 1: and he's still hitting three seventeen. Where he was at
Speaker 1: ten doubles, four, three hits yesterday to run scored a
Speaker 1: home run. Come on, everybody, Yeah, he's got Polanco has
Speaker 1: gotta be. You know, he's he's actually seventy four percent
Speaker 1: own the espan leagues. He's he's own more in Espanile
Speaker 1: and Yahoo He's which is odd you don't normally it's
Speaker 1: usually that it's lower. Yeah, I want to see how
Speaker 1: owned he is in CBS leaves. Yeah, here we go,
Speaker 1: get on at people planco percent on more like CBS.
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