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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome back into another episode of the cycle.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Mike Maher. I am joined once again

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Speaker 1: by Kelly Kirby and Kelly, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I am actually doing fairly decent, I think for the

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Speaker 2: most part. Sometimes that's a tricky question, but how are you?

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Speaker 1: I've been better? You know, I as we talked before

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Speaker 1: the show, I have a son who recently started kindergarten

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Speaker 1: and it is going below average, I would say so far,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully that that takes a turn and you know,

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Speaker 1: for the better. For this week, we actually have four bases,

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Speaker 1: no t ball, no cricket. We're doing all four bases

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Speaker 1: for rounding the Bases, which for anyone not familiar with

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Speaker 1: the show, which by this point in this season you

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Speaker 1: probably are, but we have the first segment we call

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Speaker 1: rounding the Bases, where we just hit topics that we

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Speaker 1: want to talk about in news notes and injuries and

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Speaker 1: so let's jump right in. And so last week we

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Speaker 1: went very heavy on pitchers, and so this week I'm

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Speaker 1: going to start pitchers because why not. And also it

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Speaker 1: just seems like a while ago there weren't a ton

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Speaker 1: of pitchers to really focus on or talk about, and

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Speaker 1: now there are a ton especially with all the young

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Speaker 1: pitchers coming up, and not just coming up, but all

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Speaker 1: all of them apparently pitching well. And so the big name,

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Speaker 1: the big news for this week is that the Mets

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Speaker 1: are calling up Jonahtong, and I guess the Nolan McLain

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Speaker 1: call up has gone so well. They were like, let's

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Speaker 1: just call up the rest of our top prospects, and

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Speaker 1: so McLain has been very good since being called up.

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Speaker 1: Jonahtong is a more I don't want to say heralded prospect,

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Speaker 1: but he's a bigger name in the prospect world. He's

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Speaker 1: the mets number four overall prospect, and he's the number

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Speaker 1: forty four overall prospect according to MLB Pipeline, so a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are very excited. He has very exciting stuff.

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Speaker 1: If I just mentioned his minor league numbers, he's only

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Speaker 1: made two starts in Triple A, but in Double A

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two strikeouts and one hundred and

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Speaker 1: two winnings with a one point five to nine ERA.

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Speaker 1: And then he made two starts in Triple A, allowed

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Speaker 1: zero runs and struck out seventeen batters in eleven and

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Speaker 1: two thirds innings and the Mets decided that is good

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Speaker 1: enough to call him up. And the total numbers across

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Speaker 1: all of his starts in the minors this year, combining

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Speaker 1: double A and triple A, one hundred and seventy nine

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Speaker 1: point four to three ERA, one point six to seven

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Speaker 1: FIP two point one six x FIP, so it all

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Speaker 1: seems pretty earned. Ten wins, not that that really matters.

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Speaker 1: His whip also is really important for a young picture

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Speaker 1: below one zero point nine two whip. And so we

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Speaker 1: can kind of talk about Jonah Tong and Nolan McLain

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Speaker 1: together because Nolan McLain has made three starts since being

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Speaker 1: called up and looks really good. I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: going to continue to have a zero zero point eight

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Speaker 1: so good. Three starts, twenty and one third innings, twenty

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Speaker 1: better than that. And so Nolan McLain has gone very well.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any thoughts on Jonah Tong and being

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Speaker 1: called up by the Mets and his fantasy value, and

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Speaker 1: he apparently he is starting tomorrow. Well actually, by the

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Speaker 1: time you listen to it probably be yesterday because we

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Speaker 1: are recording Thursday. He's pitching on Friday. So hopefully that

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Speaker 1: that start goes well because we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: him right here, and I'll stop talking now and talks

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Speaker 1: it to you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe people will telepathically understand that we're supporting

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Speaker 2: him on Thursday, so they should pick him up, you know,

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Speaker 2: before they're listening to this. But yeah, I'm all in.

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Speaker 2: I guess, like the way that it's gone with McClain,

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Speaker 2: the way the Marlins are currently playing and lacking certain

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Speaker 2: you know, power hitters, I'm good. I think you throw

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The only minor concern is that it was such

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Speaker 1: enormous for patterns, the difference, but for pictures it seems

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously the major leagues are much better, but

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense. We're seeing all these young hitters

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Speaker 1: more of them when you talk Waivers. But also there

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Speaker 1: are just so many young pictures we talked. If you

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Speaker 1: listen to last week'spisode because they spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: time talking about them. But basically, any pitcher under twenty five,

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Speaker 1: pick them up right now, because they're good. A couple

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Speaker 1: of pictures, yeah, exactly, anyone under twenty five, it's great.

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Speaker 1: A couple of older pitchers who returned. We also talked

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Speaker 1: the you know, lengthy eyel stints yet, And since then

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Speaker 1: they have and they both looked really good. Shane Bieber

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Speaker 1: the Beebes and Kyle Brad Bradish both returned. Both looked

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Speaker 1: So what's your level of trust and interest in you know,

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Speaker 1: these two veteran dress of season.

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Speaker 2: I trust Bieber more, I'll say that, like and again,

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Speaker 2: I just like his situation better all around, and I'm

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Speaker 2: I feel like he has more win equity. I feel

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Speaker 2: like he has just a better support, probably better defense.

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Speaker 2: Like I think, I think you can trust him. Bradish

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Speaker 2: to trust. He's the one that I did pick him

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Speaker 2: so yeah, I am really good with both of them,

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Speaker 2: British just might be more available in your league. So

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Speaker 2: like if I wouldn't feel bad about picking up him

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say that, I would say that's probably

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Speaker 1: two point seventy five yarra and fifty three strikeouts, and

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Speaker 1: But also it's about to be September. We don't need

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Speaker 1: he can come back, he's obviously you know, you wish

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Speaker 1: he was pitching for a better team, but not having

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Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish is one of the reasons the Oriols were

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Speaker 1: not good this year, because they very clearly needed pitching

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Speaker 1: going into the season didn't get any and shockingly, it

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Speaker 1: didn't go love for them, I.

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Speaker 2: Would say, I mean, who could see that coming? If

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Speaker 1: Would you? Trust? Let's say you're because a lot of

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Speaker 1: heading into their playoffs very soon. Are you comfortable starting

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Speaker 1: either of both of these in a head to head

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Speaker 1: you know, categories or points matchup in the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, without without any question.

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Speaker 1: Okay, assuming you don't have Nolan McLain already, you know, clogging.

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Speaker 2: Up here right well, And I mean, I guess it

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Speaker 2: depends like who they're playing this week. I like British

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Speaker 2: I would, I would, I would maybe consider whether or

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Speaker 2: not I wanted to actually pitch them at that point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, all right, Moving on to second base.

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Speaker 1: In a fun little segment, I'm calling trust or bust

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Speaker 1: and just made that up very clever, and what I

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Speaker 1: want to do. Is is something we've talked about, you know,

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Speaker 1: season sample sizes don't matter as much anymore. And when

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Speaker 1: talking about recent recent sample sizes, especially when you're talking

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Speaker 1: pros MLB Fantasy Baseball stats page, and what I like

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Speaker 1: to do is filter by VBR, which is the default filter,

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Speaker 1: which is basic essentially fantasy value. Who's been the most valuable?

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Speaker 1: And I filtered by the last fifteen days for a

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Speaker 1: to you and some of the most valuable fantasy baseball

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Speaker 1: hitters over the last fifteen days, and I will ask

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Speaker 1: just go through the list and we'll we'll hit him

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Speaker 2: I think we can do one at a time and

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Speaker 2: I can answer pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it. I have one, two, three, four, five, six,

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Speaker 1: seven names, so we'll move pretty quickly here. But there's

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Speaker 1: So the hottest hitter in baseball over the last fifteen

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Speaker 1: days is Jerks and Profile. Surprisingly, and over those fifteen days,

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Speaker 1: fifty six at bats, six home runs, batting three fifty

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Speaker 1: bust rest of season? The best hitter in baseball Jerks

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not trusting it. I think this is his peak.

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Speaker 2: So I would either you have him, but I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: go in now. I think he's going to drop off

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Speaker 2: unless he's back on the stuff, in which case you

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Speaker 2: know who knows. But would I stream him? Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean I suppose, like if I needed a hitter and

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Speaker 2: a weird thing where I seem to like athletics players

431
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 2: better than other players, and I don't know why. So

432
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,400
Speaker 2: so but I'm allied to I'm milliing to take him.

433
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's very intriguing. Let me pull up his minor

434
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: league numbers here because I was looking at them earlier

435
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 1: today and in the minors this season across Double A

436
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,280
Speaker 1: and Triple A, so combining them, one hundred and seven

437
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 1: strikeouts and eighty nine and third innings pitch three point

438
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 1: seven three ERA, not ideal for you know, a minor

439
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 1: league array, but also not terrible and like you said,

440
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,399
Speaker 1: one for this season in the majors one point one

441
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 1: to nine ERA. But FIP three or eight x FIT

442
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: four two six, Sierra four three two x Era four

443
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:13,639
Speaker 1: six four, So all all four expected UA numbers significantly

444
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,120
Speaker 1: higher than the one point one nine mirage we're seeing now,

445
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: but also a zero point nine to seven whip, which

446
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: is even lower than what he was doing in the minors.

447
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 1: But for me, very intriguing. It's difficult to trust him,

448
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 1: especially in head to head. I would be much more

449
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,080
Speaker 1: willing to trust him in roto and just be like, hey,

450
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 1: give me some innings and some strikeouts, and you know,

451
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: at this point in the season, if you have one

452
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: bad start, it's not going to kill me because I

453
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 1: have several months of you know, pitching kind of backing

454
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 1: it up orreas in head to head it can kind

455
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 1: of sink a week if he destroys you. So I

456
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 1: would leave more rodo than head to head, but also

457
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: very intriguing if you need innings and trunk outs. This

458
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: is a less exciting name, no offense to him and

459
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: his family, but someone I've been intrigued by for years,

460
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 1: but also just like my level of intrigue is led

461
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: to disappointment for years, Brady Singer. I expanded his stats

462
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Speaker 1: to the last thirty days. Let me change my filter

463
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,719
Speaker 1: and bring them up and I'll fill the buster here

464
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: while I searched for his name. So over the last

465
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Speaker 1: thirty days for pictures, he is eighteenth in VBR and

466
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: with that comes thirty one strikeouts over twenty seven to

467
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 1: two thirds innings, a one point nine to five yarra,

468
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 1: one point zero five whip and pretty intriguing over a

469
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 1: larger sample size. Obviously, twenty seven to two thirds innings

470
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 1: not a large sample size for a picture, but you know,

471
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Speaker 1: I had to expand to thirty days because I was

472
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Speaker 1: we already mentioned two weeks for a picture. It could

473
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Speaker 1: be like two or three starts. Any interest, I assume

474
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna lean bust on this one, but any you know,

475
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: what's your level of interest on Brady Singer, someone who's

476
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: fascinated me for a long time.

477
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 2: I've also been fascinated by him, and not just because

478
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 2: he reminds me of Brons and Arroyo so much that

479
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 2: sometimes I like get them confused in my head. I'm like,

480
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 2: is this the one with the giant kick? And you

481
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 2: know it's not. And Bronson was played like three what

482
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 2: twenty years ago? But anyway, singers a rock. Oh yeah, yeah,

483
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and I'm sure it's the plays

484
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 2: for the Reds too. But to answer your question, no,

485
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Speaker 2: I'm not a big Brady Singer person and I really

486
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: never have been, except for I think one year in

487
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Speaker 2: Kansas City. I believed in him and he let me down,

488
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,120
Speaker 2: So that might be why. But you know, again streaming,

489
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Speaker 2: if there's a decent matchup that you like, I just

490
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: he's never been a big enough strike I feel like

491
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,879
Speaker 2: he's never been a big enough strikeout guy to counter

492
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Speaker 2: the like the walks that he can give up on

493
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Speaker 2: one game. So it's like that. I feel like you're

494
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 2: just kind of playing roulette with the whip and maybe

495
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 2: you'll get some strikeouts. So yeah, I'm not buying it.

496
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say too. We've seen

497
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: flashes from in the past, and I like the idea

498
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Speaker 1: of him going to Spincinnattie, But like like you kind

499
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: of mentioned, he's less than a strike up or inning

500
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Speaker 1: and the rest of his numbers aren't good enough to

501
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: counteract not getting those strikeouts. And you know, the the

502
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: downside is bigger, is lower than the upside, I guess,

503
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Speaker 1: I guess I would say, But on the season four

504
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 1: oh six CRA A FIP is three point eight four,

505
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: so slightly lower, and x Fipsierra and XCRA are all

506
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: four two three or four to two two, so almost exact.

507
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: But that also comes with a one point two seven

508
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: whip and a career one point three to two whips,

509
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: so he's not giving you a great whip either. And yeah,

510
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: I think I think you you said it right. This

511
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: is matchup streaming based and it has to be a

512
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Speaker 1: good matchup for me to trust them, especially if it's

513
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Speaker 1: head to head playoffs, which I'm kind of focusing on

514
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: a little bit more this time of year because throughout

515
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: the season, head to head you can, you know, you

516
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: can make up some ground, but now in the playoffs

517
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,160
Speaker 1: it's it's do or die, And so I do want

518
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Speaker 1: to cater a little bit to our head to head

519
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 1: followers and listeners and readers, users, subscribers, and just continue

520
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 1: to mention that because you know they are hyper focused

521
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: on their matchup this week, whereas roto is still important too,

522
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: but you know the stakes are a little bit lower

523
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: in roto because you still have time. And this is

524
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: the name I've been mentioning on and off for the

525
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 1: last several weeks, Emmitt Shean, and let me pull up

526
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Speaker 1: his numbers. I already have filtered by the last thirty days,

527
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: so I don't have to fill a buster thirty fourth

528
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: in VBR and over the last over twenty six and

529
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Speaker 1: two third innings over that span, three point zero far era,

530
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Speaker 1: thirty three strikeouts, three to one record, one point one

531
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Speaker 1: zero whip and very low roster percentage, and now starting

532
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Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. The one caveat is that the Dodgers

533
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 1: have moved to a six man rotation with Otani now pitching,

534
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: and so you're not going to get a ton of

535
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: volume in terms of like like you're probably not going

536
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: to get a two start week out of amit Chen

537
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: if you roster him. But he's been good. He's been

538
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: someone who's intrigued me for a long time on a

539
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: what is supposed to be a good team, but sometimes

540
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: they aren't. What's your level of interest or trust or bust,

541
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Speaker 1: emmitts Shean rest of season, Yeah.

542
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 2: I trust him. I've always liked him as well. It's

543
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 2: kind of like, uh, I don't know if it's a

544
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: Dodger thing or just that he he seems steady. I

545
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 2: remember like times i've started him or streamed him that

546
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: it's gotten well for me. I do like his strikeout numbers.

547
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: I feel like they're, you know, pretty consistent when in

548
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 2: the majors anyway, I mean not, I guess I'm just

549
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: looking at his minor league numbers. It's not the forty

550
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Speaker 2: five point six percent strikeout rate that he has, but

551
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 2: you know, I'll take the twenty seven twenty twenty six

552
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 2: percent strikeout rate, and yeah, the Dodgers should be good.

553
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 2: And so you know, again that weird win equity if

554
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 2: we're talking about whether head to head, I guess, or

555
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 2: roto I mean, he could just give you a little

556
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 2: bit of a boost, but volume isn't going to be there.

557
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would put him in the same category

558
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: of these other really intriguing young pictures we've been talking

559
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: about over the last two weeks, Nolan mcclaim, John A. Tongue.

560
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: I would put him above someone like Parker Messick, above

561
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: with Chandler, just because Bubba Chandler's role is like bulk

562
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: relief right now. Although I think I think I've seen

563
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: some things that he could move through the rotation. I

564
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: think he got to save the other day, like a

565
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: four inning save. I have the look up if that's correct,

566
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure he got a saved, which, like

567
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: I mean, don't don't pick him up for saves. But

568
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: you know, that's a fun little boost if you had

569
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Speaker 1: him in your lineup, Like we talked about him maybe

570
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: getting wins as a bulk reliever, maybe he'll get a save.

571
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Speaker 1: But he did get a save, and so far in

572
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: the major's eight innings, nowhere in runs and six strikeouts.

573
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Speaker 1: So maybe they'll move him to the starting rotation.

574
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: We look at that x ERA he's given. He's given

575
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 2: up no runs and his XCRA is four point seven

576
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Speaker 2: to nine.

577
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one of those we talked about it

578
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Speaker 1: earlier in the season. This is one of those small

579
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: sample size things I enjoy where all the expected numbers

580
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: are wildly different. Where there is zero fip is two

581
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Speaker 1: seven to five, x Fit four two eight, Sierra three

582
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Speaker 1: five three, and x hera four seven nine, so none

583
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Speaker 1: of them like even within a run of each other

584
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Speaker 1: or barely within a run of each other.

585
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 2: So pretty fun, no, I think once, I just like

586
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 2: wants a show to be like, let's play the small

587
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: sample size number game, because it's just fun. But yeah,

588
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: don't pick them up for saves. I don't actually, yeah,

589
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with him at this point.

590
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I think he's deeper league, or if you

591
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: have deeper roster, you stash, but and just pay attention

592
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: to the news because if he moves to starting rotation,

593
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: he's more intriguing. But also, he was like having a

594
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: weird year in the minors where he was like, he

595
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: was really good and then he was kind of like

596
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Speaker 1: not good for a pretty long stretch and I was

597
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Speaker 1: called up.

598
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Speaker 2: And he's better. Yeah, I mean I think that that's

599
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: where I kind of fall with him, where I'm like,

600
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 2: even if they put him in the starting rotation, I

601
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 2: don't know how much interest I have right now. So like,

602
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 2: if it's not a keeper league, if it's not like

603
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm really I think at this point, I'm willing to

604
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: let somebody else ride that train. And then obviously, like

605
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 2: looking at next year, you know that's a whole different game.

606
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 2: But now for me, there's really nothing they can do

607
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: with him that I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna go

608
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,239
Speaker 2: get him, pick him up.

609
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: So all right, moving on, let's go to third base.

610
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: Very clever that we are going to talk about Raphael

611
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: Devers at third base, the third basement on third base,

612
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: what are the chances? And he's coming off a monster game.

613
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: By the time you're listening to this, it will have

614
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: been a few days since his monster game, unless he

615
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: has more monster games in between. But yesterday and yesterday

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Speaker 1: meaning Wednesday night, because we are recording on Thursday, as

617
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: we normally do, we record on Thursday to get it

618
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Speaker 1: out by Friday evening. So you have this for the weekend.

619
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Speaker 1: And yesterday four for five, two home runs, a double,

620
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: four runs, five RBI And as I told you before

621
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Speaker 1: the show, not a betting show, but it is hilarious that,

622
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, kind of I bet on his under hits

623
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: runs and RBIs yesterday under one point five, and he

624
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: flew over with thirteen and so I just missed that bet.

625
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: But like you said, if you're gonna if you're gonna

626
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: miss on a bet, you might as well miss hilariously.

627
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: And so you know, losing by eleven and a half

628
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: is pretty hilarious. And I don't know, I don't know

629
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Speaker 1: what to make of Rafael Divers. He's had kind of

630
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: a weird season since going to I have split's pulled up.

631
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: Let me pull that back up. Since going to San

632
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: Francisco in the Red Sox trade, which you know, we

633
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about the Red Sox having one

634
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: of the best records in baseball since getting rid of

635
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: Raphael Divers, that's relevant for fantasy, but just to kind

636
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,719
Speaker 1: of get that in there and talk about it. But

637
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: in these seventy three games before being traded, so when

638
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: he was with the Red Sox beat at two seventy

639
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: two with fifteen home runs and fifty eight RPI, sixteen

640
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: point eight, walk percentage, strikeer percentage twenty two point eight.

641
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: He kind of got off to a weird start. There was,

642
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, questions about his shoulders, which they're kind of

643
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: always seemed to be, and then was very disgruntled, you know,

644
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: didn't want to play first base. Now apparently he's willing

645
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: to play first base, but more valuable as a third

646
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: basement in fantasy anyway. And so, but since the trade,

647
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 1: he's batting two forty so much lower batting average and

648
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: twelve home runs including the two from yesterday, thirty one RBI.

649
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: Walk rate is slightly lower, so down from sixteen point

650
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,959
Speaker 1: eight percent to thirteen point six percent at strikeout rate

651
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: is much higher twenty nine point one percent, which it

652
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: was twenty two point eight before the trade, and for

653
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: his career twenty one point seven, and so a significantly

654
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 1: higher strikeout rate. And I guess I mean, like, if

655
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: you have Devers, you're starting a record season, especially because,

656
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: as we talked about, third base is a you know,

657
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: just a desert out there, but he's finally doing a

658
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: little bit better. I would think you can make the

659
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: argument like it's a it's a very interesting move for

660
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: like ballparks for him. We talked about this at the

661
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: time of the trade. Fenway Park is a good park

662
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: for hitters, not necessarily a great park for home runs,

663
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: which is kind of a you know, misconception when you

664
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: think about Fenway Park, everyone thinks about a lot of

665
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: home runs. It actually takes a lot of home runs away.

666
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: But like the ballparking move to is not any better,

667
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: And so I think that's not going to be a

668
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: whole change for him. But I don't know. I guess

669
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: the biggest question is like where what do we do

670
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: with him next season, like twenty twenty six, where does

671
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: he go? And drafts? Where do we rank him in

672
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: third base, like I don't.

673
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: Even know, yeah, you know. I mean, he's an interesting guy,

674
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 2: and I have him in our league, the our Roto League,

675
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 2: and he obviously was just a massive disappointment, but it

676
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 2: was at that same feeling of like, it's Raphael Devers,

677
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 2: so what do I do with him? And in our

678
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: league there's an award for winning the second half of

679
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,239
Speaker 2: the season, which I am I am pushing for, and

680
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 2: all of my players are like, oh, I suppose we

681
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: can try something like hitting now, and I'm like, oh, magic,

682
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: welcome to the world. But Devers in August has been

683
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 2: I mean, he's been kind of more Devers right, like

684
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: eight home runs, two seventy three average, and then but

685
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: I'm looking at his stats for the year and I'm like, well,

686
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 2: those are just like ridiculously kind of in line with

687
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 2: what he normally does. And I think that's his thing.

688
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 2: And so when we talk about him going into next year,

689
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 2: I can already tell that you and I are going

690
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: to fight about it a little because I'm just going

691
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 2: to be like, dude, the overall numbers, like it's yeah,

692
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: Because I also I also know that Boston is not

693
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:12,719
Speaker 2: and not only is it not a great home run park.

694
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 2: It's particularly not good for lefties, which is also a Giant.

695
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: Like everyone just thinks all that like short wall out there,

696
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: except that you know, it's at a normal major league distance,

697
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 2: so it's a little harder.

698
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: He was very good, to his credit, he was very

699
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: good about going that way and Fenwin, that was a

700
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: part of his game that he really leaned into. And

701
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: just outside fastballs, he had no problem popping those over

702
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: the fence or hitting them off the monster. So to

703
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: his credit, he wasn't very good at that.

704
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm like, all right, so he hated everything

705
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: in the first three months of the season, got traded

706
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 2: and then and the Giants kind of fell off a cliff.

707
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: And I can't talk about him as a clubhouse person.

708
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: I don't have any I don't have any personal feelings

709
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 2: about him at all the way that you do, because

710
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 2: you know, of course you do. But I'm just looking

711
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: at his stats, going like, this is what we thought

712
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: he would do. So yeah, I don't know necessarily what

713
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: to what to complain about. And I and yeah, again,

714
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 2: that's an interesting question, like looking at next year, but

715
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm kind of going the consistency factor is actually there,

716
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: even though it doesn't feel like it is.

717
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was going to say, Like you

718
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: think he's having this really lousy season, but like you said,

719
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: you look at the overall numbers and you're like, yep,

720
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: that's those are those are fine and probably going to

721
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: be better than what he did last year because he

722
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: only played one hundred and thirty eight games last year,

723
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: and his stats are almost identical right now to the

724
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: thirty one hundred and thirty and one hundred and thirty

725
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: four games this year, almost identical to one hundred third

726
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: eight games last year. He's probably gonna finish with over

727
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: thirty home runs. And so coming into the season, I

728
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: had Marancus Is the sixth third basement. He's probably going

729
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: to be right around there, top five going into into

730
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: next season. For me, just a really weird year and

731
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: we'll see, like you know, how things change in San Francisco.

732
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: But felt like it was worth worth discussing. Now home

733
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: plate continuing to be clever, We're gonna talk about a

734
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: catcher at home plate, and I want to talk about this.

735
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: We don't have to spend some time on it, but

736
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention it because I think it's very

737
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: interesting Wilson Catres was recently suspended for six games for

738
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: arguing balls and strikes and then throwing his bat in

739
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: the direction of the umpire and hitting one of his

740
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: own coaches, which is a big no note. And I

741
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: think he also threw gum on the field or like

742
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: a gum rapper on the field, like it's like, ah,

743
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: like through a gum rapper, which is you know, even funnier.

744
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: I know you wanted to get to something about this,

745
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: but the one thing I wanted to mention about this

746
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: is so he was suspended six games, which seems like

747
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: a pretty big suspension, but I guess throwing your bat

748
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: is a big deal. He's appealing it and so he's

749
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: not suspended right now. But what I wanted to mention is,

750
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: especially thinking about head to head leagues, this suspension could

751
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: happen at any moment, Like he could agree to a

752
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: reduced suspension or just we see all the time, you know,

753
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: like sometimes teams just kind of like line up like

754
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: when you're going to drop the appeal and just like

755
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: when they want you to serve the serve this mension,

756
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: So he could just like you set your line up

757
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: on Monday. On Tuesday, he drops the appeal and then

758
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: you just have a zero at catcher for the rest

759
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: of your week. So for me and Rodo is one thing.

760
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: You know, I still would be nervous about, like missing

761
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: a week in Rhodo, but it head to head that

762
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: could end your It could end your season. So I

763
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: wanted to get your thoughts on that, like what to

764
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: do with him, and had to head like do you

765
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: drop him? Do you? I mean most leagues don't really

766
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: have don't let you let you ir catchers. But then

767
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: I know you also want to talk about his brother,

768
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: so I'll talk to you. Take it away, Kelly.

769
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean it's I always want to talk

770
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 2: about his brother because I just want to talk about

771
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 2: the two of them whenever you're thinking about literally anything

772
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 2: related to draft season. But you also help me remember

773
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: it's not draft season, so let's hang with us for

774
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: a second. Yeah, I it is hard if it's a

775
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 2: weekly league. I am not starting him until this is done.

776
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 2: But I'm also don't see myself dropping him unless I

777
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 2: have to. I don't. No one likes to carry two catchers,

778
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 2: and I hate playing in two catcher league. I mean,

779
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 2: like we can go on about that forever. So the

780
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: question is really more about like what else is out there?

781
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: What is you know? Because catching the catcher position for

782
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 2: me is the one where you want to do no harm.

783
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 2: Like you just want a guy that's not going to

784
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: kill you. And and if the only thing that's out

785
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 2: there on the wire is a player that is going

786
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 2: to kill you, then I'll just leave Wilson in and

787
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 2: take the zeros and then just wait till he comes

788
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: back or hope that they reduce it so like a

789
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 2: four game suspension or something so he's not out the

790
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 2: whole week. So yeah, that's the That's that's the trick

791
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 2: for me. I'm like, what's out there? Because you may

792
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 2: get nothing, you may get less than nothing, and so

793
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 2: I think I'm just would just be really really careful.

794
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 2: In a head to head, I might prefer the zeros.

795
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you who's out there, Kyle Teal. Kyle

796
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: Teal's out there, that's what you want. He was a

797
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: catcher trader from the Red Sox to the White Sox

798
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: in the Garrett Crochet trade. He was one of the

799
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: big four prospects for the Red Sox when they had Teal, Roman,

800
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: Anthony Campbell, and Marcel la Meyer. He was the four.

801
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: They traded him and now they have Big three. But

802
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: he was the kind of like one of the one

803
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: of the crown jewels of their crochet trade. Got up

804
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: to kind of a slow star. But he's a very

805
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: good hitting catcher and he's eating up recently, So Kyle

806
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: Teal is an option. All right, Let's move on to

807
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: Waivers Central, where we talk about our favorite hitters and

808
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: pictures to pick up on the waiver wire. This week,

809
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: Let's kick it off with your favorite hitter.

810
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: This is my favorite hitter, like in the way that

811
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 2: maybe you know this is my favorite old pair of socks.

812
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: I believe I don't know Mark in the sheep before

813
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: you may have deleted it. I believe it was your

814
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: question I did.

815
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I put it up there because I always leave

816
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 2: a question mark if I'm like, maybe I can find

817
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 2: someone else. Yeah, So I'm going with Harrison Vader for

818
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: right now. I don't like it. I don't. I don't

819
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: even kind of like it. But he is doing pretty well.

820
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 2: Yeah he's batting ninth, but he's batting ninth in a

821
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: good line up, and I just think that there's some

822
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 2: value to be had he's rostered absolutely nowhere. So yeah,

823
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 2: I feel like if I needed some outfield help, I

824
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 2: would go ahead and stick him on my roster and

825
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 2: just hope. But I mean, he's batting two seventy four

826
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 2: in August, has two home runs. You know, it's it's

827
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 2: like he's just doing a Harrison Bader thing, but it's

828
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 2: not exciting. It's just fill in if you need it.

829
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not very excited about Harrison Bader. And one

830
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,479
Speaker 1: of the main reasons you mentioned is that he's batting

831
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: at bottom of that lineup, which always is hard for

832
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: me to get around. He has moved up a little

833
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: bit against lefties, but he also doesn't play every day.

834
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean he's playing most days, but over the last one, two, three, four, five,

835
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: six seven. Over the last fifteen games, he's set three times,

836
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: which is not a ton, but he sat three times

837
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: against righty's. He has played one, two, three for five

838
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: games in a row. But yeah, I don't love the

839
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: the idea of you know, I'm already kind of like

840
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: mailing it in by starting Harrison Bader, and then what

841
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: if he sits once or twice a week? Like now,

842
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: I have like eighty percent of Harrison Bader, which is

843
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: already like sixty percent of someone better. But so I'll

844
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: talk about a much better player. Colin Cowser's my hitter,

845
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: waiver hit or target of the week. But this is

846
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: a little bit different than yours. This I feel like

847
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: this is a higher ceiling, lower floor pickup. He's really

848
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: kind of just a power streamer right now. He is

849
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: hitting in the middle in the mostly in the middle

850
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: of that lineup. He's hit like they drop him down

851
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: to six against lefties, but he's hitting either clean up

852
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 1: or fifth against right e's right now. He's also let

853
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: off once recently, and he's a prospect they really like.

854
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: We've kind of waited for his breakout for a while.

855
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: He's a first round pick from twenty twenty one, and

856
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: we're finally seeing some glimpses of it. Although we saw,

857
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: I guess some glimpses last year. He hit twenty four

858
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: home runs in one hundred fifty three games, so we

859
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: saw some flashes. It seems like they're finally going to

860
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: let him play every day, even against left which is,

861
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: you know, something that worm used to complain about all

862
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: the time. He strikes out a ton thirty two point

863
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: seven strikeout rate, twelve four runs of sixty six games.

864
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: He's been better recently. If I pull up his splits,

865
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: he's only batting two twenty six in August, but it

866
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: does have three home runs. But I did pull up

867
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: over the last I looked at his game log. Let

868
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: me pull that up. He's been heating up and philibuster, philibuster, philibuster.

869
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: So he went over four yesterday, but before that one, two, three, four, five,

870
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: six seven game hitting streak with multiple hits in two

871
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: of those games and three of his home runs in

872
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: those games, and so showing some signs of life. But

873
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: like I said, high ceiling, low floor pickup, and so

874
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: tough to trust in head to head if you, you know,

875
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: unless you really need to like sell out for power.

876
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: But also someone I would be interested in even picking

877
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: him up and stashing you just kind of like see

878
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: how this goes, because if he really heats up, he

879
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: could give you a lot of value down the stretch,

880
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: but probably better options and head to head. But he's

881
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: very intriguing because he's a former top prospect with a

882
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: lot of power. Has my attention, Let's go over to

883
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: your favorite pitcher.

884
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 2: I went back and forth on my favorite pictures, and

885
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: I still don't really know if I landed on the

886
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 2: right one at all, mostly just because I didn't really

887
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: know a lot about him until I was looking at

888
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: streaming options. But yeah, so I'm looking at Ian Seymour

889
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: pitches for Tampa Bay and I don't mean to laugh

890
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 2: as much as I'm just like, it seems it just

891
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: seems like an odd baseball name to me. But anyway,

892
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 2: he has only he's played in thirteen games. He's only

893
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 2: started once, but that was his last one. So I

894
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 2: believe they're sticking him in the rotation at this point.

895
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 2: And he offers you some He offers you some upside.

896
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 2: I think he let me see I just want to

897
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 2: pull this up. Yeah, I mean he went five innings,

898
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 2: he gave up one hit, one walk, and struck out

899
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 2: eight guys, and that was against Cleveland in Cleveland. So

900
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 2: I think he he's just kind of an intriguing He's

901
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 2: available absolutely everywhere. I mean, again, I'm looking. I really

902
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: started this episode as made me really understand how you

903
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 2: and I look at things when it comes to this

904
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: playoff time. And I'm just like, he's got some upside,

905
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 2: but he also seems to like kind of control the

906
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: game the way that like to help your ratios out.

907
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: So so Ian Seymour is my dude.

908
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:28,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's really intriguing. And I the first

909
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 1: thing that jumped out of me when in researching him,

910
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: because I looked at him earlier this week too. He's

911
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: an older prospect. He's twenty six years old, twenty six

912
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: and eight months over twenty six and a half and

913
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: this is like his debut, but when you look at

914
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: his minor league numbers, it's really good, like he kind

915
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: of probably should have earned a promotion a long time ago,

916
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: at least, you know, I think there was I think

917
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: there were some injuries in there, like he missed some time.

918
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: But in twenty twenty four, across Double A and Triple A,

919
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: two point three five ERA one hundred and sixty two

920
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: strikeouts and one hundred and forty five and a third

921
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: innings is expected ERA is like slightly higher, but still

922
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: like mid three is like still really good. And so

923
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: he's just kind of a name you haven't really heard

924
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: of he but he's a former second round pick in

925
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and yeah, he's got he doesn't have like

926
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: great like stuff metrics, but his overall numbers are pretty good.

927
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: The era looks good, whip looks good, more than a

928
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: strike up er inning. You know. I feel like he's

929
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: one of these kind of like unherralded prospects that like

930
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: we might see a solid career from Ian Seymour despite

931
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: getting a pretty late start. You know, almost turning twenty

932
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: seven is kind of a pretty late debut to make,

933
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: So I think he's intriguing.

934
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean the other thing that like, that's

935
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay situation, right, Like the things they do

936
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 2: with pitchers and how they how they work them around

937
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 2: is very It's interesting. I think it's hard to tell

938
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 2: kind of almost how they feel about someone because of

939
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 2: how they work it. So yeah, I mean I'm totally

940
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 2: I'm just totally willing to give give him a shot

941
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: to Scott.

942
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. For my favorite picture of the week, I cheated.

943
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: I just chose all of them. I just wrote all

944
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: of the pictures specifically Jonah Thong, Nolan McLain, Emma Chan.

945
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: You can include Ian Seymour in there. In your leagues,

946
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: if these young pictures are available, just gobble them up

947
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: because they're going to be better than someone on your roster,

948
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 1: Like if you tell, have you say Kakuchi or Eric Lawer.

949
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: Jose Katana is probably a deeper name. But like there

950
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: is a picture on the bottom of your staff, who

951
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: is not as good as one of these young pitchers.

952
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: So just look for all of them. Go over the

953
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: last two episodes we talked about every young pitcher, see

954
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: if any of them are available in your league and

955
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: pick them up over your worst picture and some of

956
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: those other names deeper league targets. But still, you know,

957
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: I put these like a tier below the names you

958
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: just talked about. But Cam Schlittler we talked about last week,

959
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: still waiting for a good nickname for him. Parker Messik,

960
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: Ryan Bergert, he's now with the Royals, he was with

961
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: the Padres, but he's doing some intriguing things. Kyle Finnegan

962
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: is kind of a speculative ad since the trade. He

963
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: could be taking over as a closer soon with Will

964
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: vest is not really impressing. Abner Ureibay, whichever McGill going

965
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: to the IL could be a closer. He seems like

966
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the closer there. And then Bubba Channely

967
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: we already mentioned bulk reliever role but showing some early things.

968
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: Maybe moves through the rotation to the rotation, So he's

969
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: kind of a stash. If you have a roster spot,

970
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: especially like a daily liamster, you can kind of move

971
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: them in and out. Yeah, let's move on. Actually first

972
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,920
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973
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,360
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974
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,440
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975
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:39,359
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976
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977
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978
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,480
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979
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: your winning lineup today. And speaking of setting your lineups,

980
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: let's set some pitching streamers. And as always, we use

981
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: a Fantasy Pro streaming tool to see the best pitchers

982
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: available for each day of the week. And from there

983
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: I will toss it over to you to talk about

984
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: your favorite streamers for each day of the week. Take

985
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: it away, Kelly, all.

986
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 2: Right, So streaming options again, I'm looking at our streaming

987
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: picture rankings and kind of seeing who fits our roster

988
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 2: percentage slash where they are in VBR, and so there

989
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 2: are some days with a couple options that I sort

990
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 2: of like, and there are some days with nothing. So

991
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: starting off on Monday, I do like Ryan Nelson. If

992
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 2: he is available in your league, and according to our

993
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 2: roster percentage he's only at twenty percent, he gets to

994
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 2: take on Texas at home. He's been pretty solid so

995
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 2: far this year. He's not going to give you all

996
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: the strikeouts that you want. But if you're looking for that,

997
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 2: the riskier pick is Kyle Bradish. He's going to San Diego.

998
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 2: So I don't love it, but I think that either

999
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: one might be a worthwhile streamer. Would I would just

1000
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: go British is ranked higher by VBR Nelson. I think

1001
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 2: it's the safer option.

1002
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Padres don't really strike out, which is kind

1003
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: of the tough part about the Bradish, you know, because

1004
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: obviously with him you want strike outs. The Padres very

1005
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: famously do not strike out. Maybe not famous it, maybe

1006
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: didn't know that, but they're not. They're not a big

1007
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: strikeout team.

1008
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's a It's a kind of one of

1009
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 2: those deals where I'm like, I like Nelson better, but

1010
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 2: I also really like cal British. Tuesday, we talked, I

1011
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 2: mean really we're talking about like Epish and he gets

1012
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: the Pirates. I will take that kind of all day

1013
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 2: I believe. Yeah, and he where is his roster percentage

1014
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 2: according to US is nine percent, But.

1015
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: It's a copy that is being dragged down by ESPN.

1016
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: We always say that. But even even being dragged down

1017
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: by ESPN, nine percent is very low, you.

1018
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: Know, right, yeah, I mean you can kind of figure

1019
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 2: that it's not too high if it's at there ESPN.

1020
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 2: Yeah it's yeah, it's it's in Pittsburgh. But whatever, I'll

1021
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 2: take that all day long. On Wednesday, I saw Uri

1022
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 2: Perez was only listed as thirty seven percent, and I

1023
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 2: was like, I don't get it. But if he is available,

1024
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 2: he's at Washington. He's the highest ranked guy by VBR

1025
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 2: aside from Nestor Cortez, who I don't know. VBR seems

1026
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: to like Nestor Cortez a whole lot more than I

1027
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 2: like Nestor Cortez, so I'm just not I'm not touching it.

1028
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 2: On Thursday, I saw conflicting reports on who's starting for

1029
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,959
Speaker 2: the Twins, but I was kind of okay with either

1030
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 2: one because they're facing the they're facing the White Sox

1031
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 2: at home. Neither it's Taz Bradley or it's Mickable. Neither

1032
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 2: one has been great. Neither one has been something that

1033
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I definitely want to make sure you

1034
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 2: get him in your lineup against the White Sox. I'm okay,

1035
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 2: given that a shot then, especially when they're at home.

1036
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 2: So Friday, the afore mentioned Ian Seymour gets Cleveland at home,

1037
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 2: which is worse it's in Tampa, but you know, if

1038
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: it's not a weekly league, you can just check and

1039
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 2: see what the home run forecast looks like for that

1040
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 2: and if it's a ten, you just said him. Saturday,

1041
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,240
Speaker 2: Michael Waka shows up all the time as this really

1042
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 2: high like high person to pick up and stream, and

1043
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 2: he gets Minnesota at home in Kansas City. So again

1044
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm just not believing in the Twins doing

1045
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 2: anything at this point. And he his numbers are also

1046
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 2: not terrible. He doesn't strike a lot of guys out,

1047
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 2: but I mean he's got a season three point three

1048
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 2: nine year a and a one point one eight whip

1049
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 2: and so I think he could do worse. And then

1050
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 2: on Sunday Sunday's kind of ugly. I believe I wrote

1051
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: down Luis Morales just because he gets the Angels in

1052
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,320
Speaker 2: Anaheim and they strike out a ton, and so I

1053
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 2: feel like he would definitely be worth a stream there.

1054
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 2: I don't remember who his first matchup is against, but

1055
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 2: I don't see him as a to start that i'd want.

1056
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, so those are your streamers from my Yeah.

1057
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: The one name I would add not the best matchups,

1058
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: but he is projected to be a two star pitcher

1059
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: is Parker Messick. You know, young pitcher we've talked about.

1060
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: He gets the Red Sox and the race of two.

1061
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: Not ideal matchups, but you know, maybe in points leagues

1062
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: where you kind of, you know, line up points over

1063
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: across two starts. He's an intriguing name and also just

1064
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: a name I want to roster the rest of season

1065
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: just to see how it goes, because he's been impressive.

1066
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: So that was the one name that stuck out to me.

1067
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone else really jumped out. I

1068
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 1: was I was trying to look while you were talking. Obviously,

1069
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: Dolan McClain is probably rostered everywhere by now, but if

1070
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: he's not, pick him up. It looks like Louis Morales

1071
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: is potentially a two start pitcher. He gets the Cardinals

1072
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: on Tuesday in Saint Louis, So that's a very intriguing

1073
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: option too, especially with one of those starts coming in

1074
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: is the Angels, where you can rack up tho strikeouts.

1075
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Let's close things out with our

1076
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: two start pitcher competition. And we talked a little bit

1077
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: before the show, but two weeks ago we picked pitchers

1078
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: who I had pretty much identical weeks. I don't know

1079
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: that we've ever had pictures, you know, we've had a

1080
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: couple of times before where we had you know, we

1081
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: deemed it a tie. We had pictures who had the

1082
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: exact same score in points leagues. And so I had

1083
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta, who scored thirty six point five points in

1084
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: the points league that I've used to a track this.

1085
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: You had Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who also scored thirty six point

1086
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: five and points in our points league, and I checked

1087
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: it against the other league that Worm and I are

1088
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 1: in that I will not talk about because I hate

1089
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 1: it now. But even that one was twenty nine point

1090
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: three points to twenty nine point one points, So I

1091
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: think we're just gonna have to call that one a

1092
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: tie because they scored the exact same number of points.

1093
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: They got there in very different ways. Peralta went one

1094
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: to No. One quality start eleven in its pitch, three hits,

1095
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: zero earned runs, seven walks in twelve strikeouts. Yamamoto went

1096
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,320
Speaker 1: one to No. Two quality starts thirteen names pitch, eight hits,

1097
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: five earned runs, four walks, twelve strikeouts, so same strikeouts,

1098
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: probably have more walks. Yamato had five runs versus zero

1099
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: both want to know, y'all. Mott an extra quality start

1100
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 1: and had two extra innings, so they got the same

1101
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: amount of points, but got there very different ways. For

1102
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: this upcoming week, we you had Kevin Gosman and I

1103
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: had Cam Schlittler, So we'll see how that goes that

1104
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: that week. It's in progress, and why don't you and

1105
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the standings here on the graphic. Last

1106
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: week production got it wrong. They had Worm's name on

1107
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: there still and they gave Worm the extra point. I

1108
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: am in the lead eight to seven to two, so

1109
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: let's let's get that corrected this week. I am winning.

1110
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: I am beating Kelly and Worm in this contest, just

1111
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:40,439
Speaker 1: so you know. So who's your pick for this week?

1112
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: Who's going to be your loser this week?

1113
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I looked at your pick and I think that

1114
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 2: worm have already used him, so and again, I don't

1115
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 2: like doing this because they're both home games, but I'm

1116
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 2: going with Drew Rasmussen, who you traded to me in

1117
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 2: our in our rotal league, and that has worked out

1118
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 2: nicely for me. He gets Seattle and Cleveland at home.

1119
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 2: I believe Seattle likes to strike up, but he's just

1120
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 2: Rastmuss has just been pretty solid. So he may not

1121
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 2: strike out a ton of guys, but I like he

1122
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 2: strikes out I believe like a pretty average number of guys.

1123
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 2: So you're but he just doesn't give anything up right now.

1124
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with yeah, And.

1125
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,240
Speaker 1: I feel like a month ago we got a report

1126
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: that like his names were going to be limited. He

1127
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: might be backed with Joe Boyle, and it's just like

1128
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: not happy or not, it's just like still fine. So

1129
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: that's pretty annoying. The other thing I wanted to mention

1130
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: you and I were talking a little bit before the

1131
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: show in terms of two star pitchers. This is the

1132
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: worst week I've ever seen, like ever, like since we

1133
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: started this contest, like last year or the year before.

1134
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if this year two or three for

1135
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: this contest. I've never seen options as bad, like whether

1136
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: it's just like not great pictures or just terrible matchups.

1137
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: This is I've never seen like fewer matchups to pick from.

1138
00:54:57,719 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: Like Hunter Green is a good name, but he has

1139
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: two matchups, and I think we both already used him. I

1140
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: used him week one because I was like, this guy's

1141
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: gonna get hurt, let me use him immediately. Parker Mastic

1142
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: is an option, but like again as I talked about

1143
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: it last segment, tough matchups and also like hard to

1144
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: trust him. But then it's like you get like Aaron

1145
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: Savali Morton, you say Kakuci, like Jacob Mizzi. Roski is

1146
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: a good name, but like he's got the Phillies and

1147
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: the pirates, but also like he might only go four

1148
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: innings and so that kind of limits your points upside

1149
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: barey ober, no, thank you. A lot of teams are

1150
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: moving to a six man rotation so they have no

1151
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: two start pictures, like the Mets and Dodgers. Max Freed,

1152
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: like Tylan Walker. You're trying to get down with Tylan

1153
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 1: Walker against the Brewers and the Marlins. No Burrows still

1154
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,800
Speaker 1: in seaside pick the last Castillo has been really bad,

1155
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: so I'm not trusting him. And it's more names like that,

1156
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: like Sonny Gray against the Athletics and Giants, if you

1157
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: want to get that. But like it's bad week, bad matchups.

1158
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to say bad pictures. I

1159
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 1: don't want to be too negative, like they're better pictures

1160
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: than me, but like you know pitchers who are not

1161
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: having great.

1162
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 2: Or they are struggling in pictures.

1163
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's a rough week. But I am going

1164
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:09,320
Speaker 1: with Dylan Seas versus the Orioles at the Rockies in Colorado,

1165
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: So that could blow up in me. You know, you

1166
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: never know where you're gonna get with Dylan Cease. That's

1167
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: part of the Dylan Seas experience. I'm hoping for a

1168
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: lot of strikeouts and I'm hoping that he keeps the

1169
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: ball on the ballparking in Colorado, and I'm hoping that

1170
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: the Orioles have one of their bad Orioles days. You know,

1171
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: they have their good days and their bad days. I'm

1172
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: hoping we get a bad day from them. Yeah, that's

1173
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 1: where we're going. I'm currently leading eight to seven to two.

1174
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,439
Speaker 1: Just to remind everyone that I'm winning anything else before

1175
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: we wrap.

1176
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 2: Up, just remind everyone else that I've only gotten to

1177
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 2: pick like four people. So this competition isn't one that

1178
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, I have a lot of stock in. I mean,

1179
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 2: I want to beat you, obviously, but I'm not. I'm

1180
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 2: not awake at night wondering how i can take it down.

1181
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 1: So me versus two people, so it's like I me

1182
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 1: even a disadvantage.

1183
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 2: No, because we steal from each other. So no, you're not.

1184
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 2: We can argue about that next week. Anyway, I wanted

1185
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 2: to just tell everyone to have a good, happy Labor Day,

1186
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 2: because that's this weekend right.

1187
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: My hometown loves Labor Day. I don't live there anymore,

1188
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: but my hometown, New Jersey, it's the biggest day of

1189
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: the year. They shut down the town, there's a huge parade,

1190
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: the governor comes, it's they look forward to it for months.

1191
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: It's like the biggest day of the year. It's like

1192
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: a blue collar town. They love Labor Day. It's like

1193
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: the biggest weekend parties of the year. It's bigger than

1194
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: a Memorial Day. Also, like in my hometown in the Northeast,

1195
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: they don't start school until the Tuesday after Labor Day,

1196
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: so it's like their final, like, you know, the summer's

1197
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: over party. So they love Labor Day. I kind of

1198
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: missed that. I'm not there. I'm down here in Suckville,

1199
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: but you know, all right, let's wrap it up there.

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00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: For Kelly Kirby, I am Mike Mayor. This has been

1201
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,800
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1202
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,160
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1203
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,560
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1204
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1205
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