WEBVTT - Brandin Cooks Trade, Ohtani the Stud!, Gabe Kapler, & SPEEDZ' Draft Preview 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:09.559 Rock Daily Fantasy Sports. You're listening to the Fantasy Sports 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.920 Radio Network. You are now about to witness the strength 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:22.760 of fantasy knowledge Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.120 tuned into the Speeds and spitting Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.320 Next on that safer on the microphone. You know that 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:42.960 I'm one of the best yet, Martinez, you know what 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.159 it is. It sh your boy, Dame Martinez a k A. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.920 Speeds a k A to Spitting Statistician a k A. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.040 The stable genius and vocal minority. And welcome to the 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.959 Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Network. Check 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.920 it out. We got a great show for you. I 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.800 got my man Danny Auto down there in the fantasy 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.480 pit of misery down there on the fourth floor making 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.480 me sound good, keeping it so hot that we sweat steam. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.360 We got a good episode for you here on a Tuesday, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.920 we start a Major League Baseball I'm gonna give you 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.880 my takeaways, you know from opening weekend, a lot of 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.559 fun stuff we're gonna get into. I'm gonna talk about, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.440 you know, Mr Otani and if his first start lived 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.520 up to expectations and what we can expect out of 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.280 Otani moving forward, I'm gonna tell you something. There were 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.440 some indicators in his first start that I really really like, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.920 and we're gonna get into that a little bit later on. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.200 We gotta pull question up as always on Twitter, and 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.200 if you want to follow me on Twitter, you can. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.679 I ain't gonna say no. Hit me up on Twitter 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.920 at spit and Speed. You could always tell a friend 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.680 to tell a friend about the stats Overbeat Cipher. We 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.200 will hook you up so you can win your leagues 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.320 and win that cash. As always, we're gonna get into 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.720 football as well. We're in a kind of the duldrums 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.360 of the NFL. You know, calendar. We had the franchise 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.360 tag happened, we had the new league year happen, free 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.360 agency waves have happened, we had the combines in pro days. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.560 We're now kind of organizing for the draft. We'll talk 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.520 about the news and notes in the NFL, and I'll 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.880 also talk about why one top five pick that is 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:21.840 a quarterback may not be a fit in NFL locker rooms. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:26.800 And as always we put the fun in functional sports content. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.200 Here with the Stats Overbeat Cipher, we're gonna break down 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.480 yet another rapping athlete for you. Okay, we're sort of 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.760 improving now. The first couple of rapping athletes that we did, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.960 we were like, na, not so much. The next guys 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.680 were doing in the month of April. This is some fire. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.200 We are going to be bringing some fire, not only 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.520 from a rapping athlete, but from a friend of ours, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.000 my man Kenna Cashman in Roto where we're gonna get 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.200 down with that on the stats Overbeat Cipher. We got 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.959 the pole question up. We have so much to get into. Listen. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.600 You can hit us up on Twitter. You can watch 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.600 us on Twitter, you could watch us on YouTube, you 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.360 could watch us on Twitch. So many ways to be 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.639 down with the stats Overbeat Cipher. Let's get it started 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.160 right now, though. We're gonna start with baseball today. Okay, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.480 it is opening day, but listen, Honestly, if you were 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.800 here in New York like I am with the with 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.639 the Lost Junkies, uh, there was snow on the ground. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.840 You know. The home opener for the Yankees was yesterday 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.919 and there was snow on the ground. It got postponed. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.840 And d D wind up with eight ribbies today for 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:33.839 the New York Yankees. Yes, indeed, some d D D glorious. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.720 But we're gonna get into the baseball stuff. First of all, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.920 a couple of injuries to note. Listen to catcher position 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.200 is being hit hard early in the season. JT. Real 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.920 Muto is gonna miss a couple of weeks. He is 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.720 now still with the Florida Marlins. I believe he's gonna 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.400 be traded at some point. He's got a back issue. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.040 He's gonna miss about two weeks. Like I said, two 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.920 weeks more, Okay, it's more than that ten day d 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.360 L stint um. The problem with this for real Mute 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.640 is I think it's gonna hurt his trade value. Okay, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.440 I think real Muto is one of these Marlins that 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.200 are going to get moved. Remember they did the fire cell. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.360 I think real Muto is gonna get moved. But could 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.600 this hurt his trade values? To keep an eye on that. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.160 Also in Seattle, Uh, Mike Zunino, he's on the ten 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.400 day del He's got an oblique injuries. So you may 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.920 need to go ahead and find some catchers early on 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.839 in your fantasy baseball season. What I want to do 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.800 is talk about some of my biggest takeaways from opening week. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.200 You know, the bumping is on the stadiums, on the 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:35.560 facade Hope Springs Eternal. You know, everybody's really excited about it. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.479 Here's some of the things I took away from opening weekend. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.760 If you are a friend of the show and you 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.240 listen or watch the Fantasy Freestyle, you part of the 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.160 stats over Beat Cipher, I told you about some things 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.640 that you need to keep an eye on all season long. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.080 I talked about the dramatic shift to left handed hitters. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.400 We might have four or five outfielders these days against 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.480 guys like Joey Vado, against guys like Joey Gallo. Okay, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.320 so keep an eye out on that. Will continue to 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.240 talk about that. We talked about the ball itself and 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.800 how changes to the ball itself is making it fly 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.000 further and helping out this home run spike that we 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.760 are seeing. Chicks do love the long ball, so we'll 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.760 talk about that a little bit more. And some other takeaways. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.279 For example, the New York Metropolitans. I don't know if 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.880 you remember this last year, it was a Mets fan 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.240 that had this like thumbs down thing that he was 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.479 doing that. Then the Yankees kind of embraced, specifically Todd 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.120 Frasier embraced and That's what they did a lot of 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.279 teams these days when they get singles, you know they're 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.039 doing things like or they're doing like hey, or the 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.880 Mets are doing like this right now. You know they're 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.000 always doing something back at the dugout. And last year 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.320 the Yankees used to go thumbs down right because some 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.680 guy was like a meme or something. Well, this guy 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.919 is actually a Mets fan. And now Tom Todd Frasier 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.320 is on the Mets this year, so what they do 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.679 that he went from this to this like a little 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.279 Facebook like as long as the Russians are okay with it, right, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.920 and um so now that's what they're doing. And he 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.479 was at the game literally would have thumbs up. I 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.599 thought that was cool. In Opening weekend, also, did you 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.400 see this Bryce Harper. He was in Cincinnati and one 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.440 of the fans start taunting Bryce Harper right channing like 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:15.440 overrated at him. Literally seconds later, he jack's a home 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.000 run into right center field. I thought that was funny. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.320 Bryce Harper is off to a hot start. Bryce Harper 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.080 is speeds is pick for n l m v P 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.000 the Washington National Are speeds is pick for the nl Pennant. Okay, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.279 I think they're off to a hot start. You definitely 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.440 like that. Hello to everybody out there in studio thirty four. Um, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.960 so I liked Washington Nationals. They're off to a hot start. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.920 I think Bryce is just gonna keep it going and 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.040 ultimately what might be his swan song with the Washington Nationals. Also, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.479 did you see my man each ye Row? Each Yearrow 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.520 as a forty four year old robbing home runs, getting 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.719 hits in that Seattle Mariners lineup, big shout out. We 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.279 tip our cap to Mr Ichio Suzuki. He's using that. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.320 Wah if you know about that? Do you guys know 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.760 about that? I don't usually do this, but book references, y'all, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.599 book references. If you have any time, check out The 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.880 Samurai Way of Baseball and you gotta have WA. If 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.000 you are a big time baseball fan, these are two 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.680 books you definitely need to read because Speeds does more 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.400 than just you know, vomit into this microphone. I'm a 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.080 learned dude as well. Okay, you gotta have WA and 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.760 The Samurai Way of Baseball too, incredible books about Japanese baseball, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.440 some of our players that have gone over there, some 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.960 of their players that have come over here. Maybe you 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.880 know about the way each year, oh certainly has the 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.280 way I told you about these three true outcomes as well. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.240 In baseball, how you know, we care less about the strikeout. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.000 We care more about launch angle. We care more about 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.080 removing the variable of defense out of it and just 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.560 hitting home runs. Right, the three true outcomes. Will check 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.400 this out. Ian happ on the first pitch of the 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.880 two thousand and eighteen Major League baseball season, he went yard. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.280 Three true outcomes. Check this out. On opening day there 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.840 were thirteen games. They were thirty three home runs hit. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.440 We're talking about two or three home runs per game. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.640 We are continuing to surpass these records I told you 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.240 about in the last episode. How we have set a record. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.440 I think the ball is changing. Three true outcomes. People 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.000 don't care about strikeouts, People only care about the launch angle. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.720 This is going to continue to happen. We're gonna keep 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.360 an eye out on this and then an opening weekend. Honestly, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.200 the team, or should I say the manager that was 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.520 in focus was Gabe Kapitler over there in Philadelphia. This 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.760 guy is really changing the way he's managing, and some 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.000 people don't like it. Okay, check this out one of 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.199 his best players, Audible Herrera. He sat on opening day 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.440 because he didn't like the matchup. Kapitler has also used 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.080 twenty one pitchers in the first three game set. My 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.360 man is averaging seven pitchers a game. He is wearing 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.040 out the path from the dugout to the mound. I 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.560 thought we only had six mound visits. He was also 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.040 guaranteeing that the Philadelphia Phillies. I hear it's always sunny 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.000 in Philadelphia, but he's guaranteeing that the Phillies will be 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.120 a playoff team this year. Philadelphia is all of a sudden, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.199 like title town, right, Villanova just cut down the nets. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.640 Big shout out to Jay Wright and his game, which 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.040 is on point. Big shout out to the Philadelphia Eagles. Fly, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.440 Eagles Fly. If you're a friend of the show and 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.920 the stats over beat Cipher, you know your boys Speeds 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.760 was on the Eagles early preseason. I told you about 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.000 the Eagles. Will it continue at the Phillies probably not. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.319 Will it continue with the seventies sixers though the process 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.439 certainly looks good. But Gabe Kapler think about this. MLB 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.920 is even reprimanding him because once he went out and 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.800 made a pitching change when no one was warming up 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.400 in the bullpen. I'd call that a rookie mistake. Keep 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.080 an eye on what's going on in Philadelphia, all right. Also, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.480 I told you about how the Tampa Bay Rays are 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.880 changing the idea of the rotation. Right, A lot of 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.960 teams are doing the six man rotation. There's the stad 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.880 the five man rotation. Well, the Tampa Bay Rays are 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.400 using a four man rotation and then every fifth day 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.959 they're gonna have a bullpen day. They're just gonna have 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.320 a bullpen day, Okay. And it worked. Uh the first 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.280 time around. They had Andrew Kittridge throw for three and 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.439 a third innings, then Yard Row through for four innings, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:22.040 then um Chas Row and Sergio Romo finished up, and 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.360 it actually worked. And I'm gonna tell you something. Watch 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.960 small market teams do this because you're not gonna pay 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.000 a picture. You're not gonna pay a picture. This there 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:35.400 three year, sixty two million dollar contract. If you're not contending. Okay, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.600 that's what's going on these days, right. If you ain't 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.199 first your last, like Ricky Bobby would say, so, if 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.360 you're not competing, then why sign some mid level number 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.800 three starter to a twelve million dollar a year deal. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.439 You're not doing that, So the bullpen is interesting. They 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.560 also had um, this is the raise they had Nate 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.079 Eovaldi go on the d L. He's gonna have Tommy 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.160 John surgery. That looks like so they might have to 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.800 do the bullpen day two out of five. That might 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.200 be a stretch. Keep an eye out on that. But 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.480 the biggest thing to me in opening weekend was the 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.000 debut of Otani. Shown Otani. Okay, this is the kid. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.480 They called him in Japan the Babe Ruth of the 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.720 Japanese League because this dude was like a stud pitcher 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.360 and a stud hitter. Okay, he's coming over to the Angels. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.960 He got signed by the Angels. He's gonna be a picture. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.280 He's gonna d H on certain other days right uh, 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.520 not today, right before he starts, to the day right 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.560 after he starts, but in those kind of like throw days, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.880 he's gonna also serve as the d H for the 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.480 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who I'm kind of high 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.719 on this season. I like Garrett Richards, I like Otani, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.520 I like Tyler Skaggs, I like Shoemaker, I like a 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.120 lot of them to bounce back and kind of be 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.600 above where they were in previous years. I like them 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.040 to take a step and I like their offense. You know, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.160 I know kindlers on the d L, but the Cozart 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.640 move a full season of Justin Upton and with men 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:03.199 on base and protection, look out for my trout. Okay, um, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.000 but let's talk about Otani okay, because we gotta pull 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.079 question up on Twitter. You can hit me up at 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.400 spitting speeds. My poll question is will Otani ever become 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.800 an All Star in Major League Baseball? And if so, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.160 will he use to as a picture as a hitter? 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.320 Both or neither? You can hit me up on Twitter 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.439 right now. We've got that poll question going. We'll check 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.720 in on it a little bit later on in this show. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.160 But I gotta tell you something. I like what I 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:31.800 saw out of the Otani debut. Okay, Um, he's only 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.679 one for five hitting. I think last Thursday he hit 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.520 as the DH he went one for five, But this pitching, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.320 he could be something as a picture. To me. Okay, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.400 I was worried about him a little bit because in 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.280 spring training is e r A was like seven, which 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.280 was absolutely ridiculous and his fastball velocity was at like 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.960 that was a problem to me. I was a little 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:57.160 bit I had, you know, tampered expectations when it came 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.920 to Altani. Oltani was not on any of my teams 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.400 in my drafts. But now he's a thing. And let 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.760 me tell you why. I look deeper. You know how 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.800 we do with the diamonds and fulghazes, would look a 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.640 little deeper to see if they were a diamond in 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.920 the rough or if they got some imperfections and if 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.040 there are a foul gaze to forget about. I think 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.680 Otani is a diamond. And here's why I check this out. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.960 It's not only the fact that he went six innings 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.640 and gave up three yearned runs, because that's like a 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 pedestrian line. You it's a quality start, but it's a 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.320 pedestrian line. All three runs came from a home run 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.800 from Matt Chapman, which is an up and comer himself. Right. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.680 But here are the stats that I like. One, he 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.679 threw ninety two pitches, sixty three of them were for strikes, 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.880 and eighteen we're swinging misses. That's what you're looking at, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.400 the swinging miss stuff. The with rate as it were, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.640 and that was on par with your studs in the 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.280 American League, specifically on his fork ball. On his splitter. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.560 He threw his splitter twenty four times. He got ten 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.800 swinging missus. That is double the rate that like Massahiro 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.240 Tanaka gets on his split finger, double the rate of Saya, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.080 Kevin Gosman and other good fork ballers in the American League. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.360 So that is going to translate. I'm telling you, I'm 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:18.480 building the case right now for why Shanyo Tani is translatable. Okay, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.560 swinging miss stuff, a forkball that plays it looked like 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.640 a video game pitch, alright, So I like that. The 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.520 other thing I like, I gotta tell you something that 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:33.600 vel in spring training. That was dude hit nine and 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.280 a hundred on the gun in his first start against 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.280 Oakland over the weekend. His average fastball was nineties seven 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:46.120 point eight miles an hour. Last year, the best average 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.480 fastball in all of Major League Baseball was Severino for 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.280 the Yankees. His was ninety seven point five. This dude 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.480 was averaging point eight. If you have literally the best 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:02.960 fastball in the league and a video game splitter, I'm 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.120 gonna tell you something that's gonna play I know he's 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.280 got the high slider, and I know that's what Chapman 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.080 took yard, but I think this plays. I'm gonna tell 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.920 you right now, he's developing that third pitch. I do 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.480 believe Shanny Otani will eventually be an All Star, and 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.560 it will be as a picture. Right now, we got 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.800 the poll question up right now at about a hundred 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.920 of you have voted already in the last hour. I 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.080 appreciate it. Shout out to the stats over beat cipher. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.920 Of you say yes he will be an All Star 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.840 as a picture, seven percent say only as a hitter, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.800 ten percent say both say neither. You can always hit 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.560 me up on Twitter, ask me questions or answer the poll. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.720 But we got my man, Danny Otto down there in 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.160 the fantasy Pit of Misery, and Danny, I want to 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.680 talk you through this next story. So, Danny, are you 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.320 with me down there on four down there in the 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.200 fantasy pit of misery? Are you with me? Danny? All right? 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.080 Check this out? Okay, we got a guy's a picture 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.920 on the Cleveland Indians, and I talked about this a 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.120 little bit on the last podcast, The Light the Late 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.360 Week podcast last week. Okay, so if you subscribe, like 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.680 you should. You should rate, review, subscribe to the podcast. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.800 You may have heard this already, but my man Danny 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.640 Otto has not. Danny. There's a picture on the Cleveland 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.240 Indians named Trevor Bauer. Okay, okay, cool. He was going 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.120 for arbitration. And that's like when he says how much 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:23.920 he should make and there's like an arbiter before you 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.080 hit like free agency, you can go through arbitration with 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.440 your team. Okay. And this is he's a decent picture. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.320 He's on one of my fantasy teams. He's a legit picture. Okay. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.160 He was looking to basically make a mockery of the 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.560 arbitration system. All right, Danny, So, like you and your 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.680 agents submit what you think you should be paid, the 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.600 teams has another number, and then the arbiter decides what 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.760 your salary is. You get on the concept, Danny. So, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.680 Trevor Bauer is kind of like, you know, a fun 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.960 loving guy, shall we say he he suggested for his salary. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.680 Get this, Danny. He originally wanted his alleried is be 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.680 six point nine million, sixty nine. His agent was like, nah, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.320 don't do that, don't do that, So instead they settled 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.840 on this number. Get ready for this, Danny. Six million, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.640 four hundred and twenty thousand, six hundred and ninety dollars 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.840 and sixty nine cents. That's what he wanted his salary 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.639 to be. Okay, the Cleveland Indians came out with another number. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.919 He eventually was like, okay, I'll remove all weed and 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.960 sex references from my salary and eventually was like, nah, 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.960 I want um six point five two million whatever. He 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:41.160 won the arbitration. Okay, Danny, So he is making six 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.560 point five to five million dollars this year, which is awesome. Yeah, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.120 he was like, na, na, na, I'm only gonna pay 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:55.199 myself six million, four hundred and twenty thousand, six hundred 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.840 and ninety dollars and sixty nine cents. So check this out. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.879 Here's what he's doing with the difference. It's something like 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.760 a hundred thousand dollar difference right that he um got 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:10.680 in the arbitration. He is starting, Danny his sixty nine 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.840 days of giving. So what he's doing is on Twitter, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:20.600 He's asking his followers to just nominate different charities, okay, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.720 and he is going to get this, Danny. He is 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.640 going to give four hundred and twenty dollars and sixty 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:32.359 nine cents to the charity of choice from Twitter for 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.879 the next sixty nine days in a row. Is awesome. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.840 It is awesome. It is absolutely awesome. This is Trevor 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.840 Bauer picture of the Cleveland Indians. He is giving away 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.119 four hundred and twenty dollars and sixty nine cents for 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.399 the next sixty nine days to a charity of choice. So, Danny, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.920 I ask you, what charities should the stats over Beat 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.320 Cipher like holler at uh you know Trevor Bauer and 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.240 be like, yo, give to this charity. What do we think? 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.159 Do you have any front runners already? Not necessarily. I 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:07.720 think we should put it out to the stats over 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.640 Beat Cipher. Uh So, if anybody's there in the chat room, 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.080 whether it's strong style, I know we got some big 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.560 time stats over Beat cypher's. I know my homegirl Jilly 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.479 Dilley is watching or listening right now. Big shout out 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.080 to Jilly Dilley and her father in law Stanley. I 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.520 see you out there, Stanley. I hope you become part 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.720 of the stats over Beat Cipher and do me a favorite, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.200 suggest a charity that we can get at Trevor Bauer 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:36.119 and see if he'll donate four to Danny. Is this 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:37.760 not the best thing you've ever heard of in your life? 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:43.080 One of the greatest. Absolutely. Absolutely. Jeff Passing out of Yahoo, 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.479 who I know from back in the Day's go Orange, 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.920 Let's go cus Um. He reported this, and he's saying 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.880 that this is a whole new section of charity. He's 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.560 calling it quote unquote benevolent trolling. And that's what I 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.040 think he's doing. He is trolling the arbitration system, making 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.159 a mockery out of the arbitration system, and I, for 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.520 one love it. Okay, So do me a favor, hit 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.520 me up at spitting speeds and let me know what 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:13.520 charities should we tell Trevor Bauer to donate FI cents 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.240 to check this out, Danny. Here's what he says, quote, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.240 I'm just trying to give to charity. Man. I'm fortunate 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:21.840 enough to be in a position where I have the 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.600 ability to do that, I have the means to do that. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.720 I'm in a good spot and if I can use 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.119 my platform to spread stuff that I'm passionate about, I'd 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.520 love to do so. This is the kind of guy 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:38.120 we we love and support, right Danny, Absolutely, Okay, check 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.760 it out. You can check it out on my Twitter. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.280 I retweeted his video where he announced the sixty nine 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.320 Days of Giving. So we're gonna be doing this for 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.800 the next two months. So here in the Fantasy Freestyle 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:50.960 with the Stats over Beat Cipher, we're gonna check in 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.320 on Trevor Bower and his sixty nine Days of Giving. 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.320 But you know here, what we do here speeds, the 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.880 spitting statistician, the stable genies, and vocal minority. We put 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:02.800 the fun and functional sports radio. And there's no way 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.280 to do it than aligning ourselves with Trevor Bauer and 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:10.600 the sixty nine Days of Giving. So, Danny, I'm gonna 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.240 give you some think time. When we come back at 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:14.600 the end of the show and we break down the 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.240 rapping Athlete, I'll see if you have any other charities 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:21.320 that we should um, you know, suggest to Trevor Bauer. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.000 Sound good. I'm sure it does. It sounds great. All right, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.000 check this out, guys before we switch into football. I 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.600 gotta tell you about my favorite DFS site. It is 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.000 www dot Fantasy factor dot com. If you know about 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.760 the Stats over Beat Cipher, if you know about Fantasy Freestyle, 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.080