Speaker 1: Hey, it's leading off. What's up everybody. It's Chris Wells.
Speaker 1: Should joining me on this beautiful Thursday is Andrew Seifter
Speaker 1: and we are in the house to get you set
Speaker 1: for all your playoffs, all your stuff, all your things.
Speaker 1: Talk about rookies who we were gonna maybe cut, who
Speaker 1: hit home runs, and you know that guy, Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: Of course, Andrew Andrew fifty five homers for Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: no big deal. Also getting a little Barry Bond's treatment.
Speaker 1: Five walks in the doubleheader yesterday. Aaron Judge is quite
Speaker 1: the MVP.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's you know, we've had this discussion about Otani
Speaker 2: versus Judge, and Otani has the edge because of the pitching,
Speaker 2: but Judge is making it really hard to dispute what
Speaker 2: he's doing.
Speaker 3: It's it's really impressive.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think I saw Gray from Rasball
Speaker 2: on Twitter doing that comparison to Barry Bonds and talking
Speaker 2: about how you remembers playing fantasy when Barry Bonds set
Speaker 2: that home run record, and it really is starting to
Speaker 2: feel like that with all these walks and twenty more
Speaker 2: home runs than anybody else in the league.
Speaker 3: It's really special.
Speaker 1: It is in that range and pitchers and teams are
Speaker 1: starting to approach him like that. I don't think any
Speaker 1: team is going to want to be the team that
Speaker 1: is going to give up, you know, the call the homer,
Speaker 1: the big one that's going to break any records. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: And funny enough, we had the Wonky bonus yesterday. Dang
Speaker 1: by the way, the don't remember this the Otani versus
Speaker 1: Judge of trying not to. I'm trying to avoid going
Speaker 1: into it. Just can't help it. Sometimes it's always so
Speaker 1: tough too with these things where it's like every day
Speaker 1: one of the big pieces of news, it's like it's
Speaker 1: O Tawny or Judge doing something and they both hit
Speaker 1: homers yesterday and Judge just keeps going. So I apologize,
Speaker 1: of course, but we don't need to go through the
Speaker 1: MVP conversations or anything like that. But it was funny
Speaker 1: because yesterday Wonky had the bonus for the home run call,
Speaker 1: which the bonus was taking a player who had a
Speaker 1: double digit number like eleven, twenty two, thirty three, and
Speaker 1: you would get to rock with that, except Judge wasn't
Speaker 1: available because Judge was in a double header. That's part
Speaker 1: of the home run contest rules, which I found out
Speaker 1: a couple months ago, and there was a controversy. Bradley
Speaker 1: was calling us out on it. Joe got back into
Speaker 1: it all in fun, and Judge of course, was the
Speaker 1: only double digit number guy to hit that home run
Speaker 1: and it did not count for anybody but number fifty five.
Speaker 1: Now five away, we are in the five homer territory
Speaker 1: of greatness across the board. Five more for sixty and
Speaker 1: five more for seven hundred for pool holes. So it's
Speaker 1: actually it's a pretty kind of fun time right now,
Speaker 1: with the twenty ish days left of baseball to get going. Andrew,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get your take on this. Yesterday, Kelly and
Speaker 1: I were talking about Corbyn, Carroll talk about rookies in general.
Speaker 1: Connor Henderson has been really you know, you and I
Speaker 1: think had this conversation a week or so ago where
Speaker 1: it's like the end of the day when these top
Speaker 1: prospects are going to come up and they're going to
Speaker 1: get regular time. Most likely the person you're going to
Speaker 1: ask us, like, hey, should I cut this guy, it's
Speaker 1: probably going to be a yes. You know, we were
Speaker 1: cutting with Merrifield. We were cutting them into Rosario. We're
Speaker 1: cutting some of these players to bring in these guys.
Speaker 1: Gunner's played well and Corbin had not really been playing fantastic.
Speaker 1: First couple of games are good, kind of cool down
Speaker 1: a little bit sitting versus lefties occasionally. Well, yesterday, this
Speaker 1: does what he does, picks it back up, hits his
Speaker 1: first Carol barrel as I like to call it, got
Speaker 1: his first home run, was two for four, got his
Speaker 1: average backup. He's now into the two eighties. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get your take on how volatile you are willing
Speaker 1: to be with a lot of these rookies right now
Speaker 1: if they're struggling, How quick on the burnon churn are
Speaker 1: you going to be and how tightly do you want
Speaker 1: to hold on to guys like Gunner and Corbyn Carrol
Speaker 1: to make sure they get it right with these last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really tough because you know, in a redraft league,
Speaker 2: as we get closer to the end of the season,
Speaker 2: you just you're you're more excited about these players than
Speaker 2: it really warrants, to be honest, because they are, like
Speaker 2: you said, volatile. They could be great or they could struggle.
Speaker 2: So it depends what sort of position you're in. If
Speaker 2: you're in a rotissary league and you've got a lead
Speaker 2: and you're just trying, you know, if you just take
Speaker 2: care of business, you're gonna win. You should go for
Speaker 2: more stable players in that situation. I would argue if
Speaker 2: you're in a if you need to you know, cat's
Speaker 2: lightning in a bottle like we talk about, and make
Speaker 2: make up ground on people in these final weeks, or
Speaker 2: you have a head to head playoff matchup and you
Speaker 2: look at the other team and you say that team
Speaker 2: looks better than my team. I need something special. I
Speaker 2: need Corbyn Carroll. In that situation, I would absolutely roll
Speaker 2: the dice on it. So it really does matter your
Speaker 2: individual situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I think we tend as fantasy analysts to get super
Speaker 2: excited about these young prospects, but if you're not in
Speaker 2: a keeper of dynasty league, you're really just making a
Speaker 2: bet on who's going to be best in these next
Speaker 2: three Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the positive is that Carol's moved up in
Speaker 1: the order a little bit. I think he's hitting five dinbacks,
Speaker 1: has been hitting really well, so that's something to keep
Speaker 1: positive about with all of the rookies coming up. One
Speaker 1: of the interesting things that's going on. Bog and I
Speaker 1: on the in This League Fantasy Baseball podcast, we're looking
Speaker 1: at hot bats for the last two weeks. Pickups. You
Speaker 1: could do some of the top pickups. You have some
Speaker 1: guys that you know are stealing some basses, you know,
Speaker 1: Michael Taylor, Josey Sirius stealing bases versus let's take out
Speaker 1: Gunner and Corman for a second. Take those guys off
Speaker 1: the table versus a lot of hitting prospects. Because those
Speaker 1: two are specifically five tool there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys, and those are the biggest names, But there
Speaker 1: are some big name prospects that are sitting around that
Speaker 1: aren't like that. You've got Trista Consis, You've got Michael Tolia,
Speaker 1: who hit another homer yesterday and getting the call tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Is Josh Young jay U n G looks like Jung.
Speaker 1: It's young Josh Young with the Rangers is getting the
Speaker 1: call up. And this is another one of these guys
Speaker 1: you know. Funny enough, I told you guys, what was
Speaker 1: it like five weeks ago when he was rehabbing right
Speaker 1: across the street and I was at his first game
Speaker 1: he had had in like a year, and now you
Speaker 1: know he's one hundred and twenty four at bats through
Speaker 1: the minor leagues at least, you know, rookie ball and
Speaker 1: triple A hit nine homers, had one stolen base two
Speaker 1: sixty six. But here's my point, as you've got these
Speaker 1: guys with great hit tools, Young would be my prioritization
Speaker 1: over both causes and Tolia. Tolia might be number two
Speaker 1: right now over Casses because of the power, but these
Speaker 1: are not stolen base options. So you have high hit
Speaker 1: tool prospects getting every day playing time versus kind of
Speaker 1: boring Jose Siri, Michael Taylor's, who are doing a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything with stolen bases. How would you prioritize
Speaker 1: the boring no name, they're hot going right now series
Speaker 1: and Michael Taylor's versus no stolen bases but hot hit
Speaker 1: prospects out of Josh Young, Cassis and Michael Tolia.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it really depends again on format. You know,
Speaker 2: first of all, you need to be in that road
Speaker 2: league where you need those steals. If you need the steals,
Speaker 2: you got to follow the steels. You know, I would
Speaker 2: argue though that there's another prospect you didn't even mention
Speaker 2: that I would prefer over at least a couple of
Speaker 2: those guys, and that's Alec Burrelson, who just got the
Speaker 2: call with the Cardinals, because that guy's actually been mashing
Speaker 2: in the minors, unlike Josh Young, who I love long term,
Speaker 2: but let's be real, his minor.
Speaker 3: League numbers don't look that special.
Speaker 2: So I think we're at a part of the season
Speaker 2: now where I'm less concerned about who's the higher prospect
Speaker 2: and you know, going to be the best in five
Speaker 2: years from now.
Speaker 3: I want to know who's going to be the best
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's also an argument for stepping into
Speaker 2: the Cardinals lineup. That's a fantastic lineup. I think we've
Speaker 2: seen this with the Braves as well. When when these
Speaker 2: prospects get this opportunity in this loaded lineup, they have
Speaker 2: better lineup protection, They're going to have more ability to
Speaker 2: drive in runs. So I think that that makes a
Speaker 2: real difference in fantasy. So, you know, I like guy
Speaker 2: like TOTALLYA sure, I'll play them at cores if you know,
Speaker 2: if you see the schedule and he's got some games
Speaker 2: combat at cores. But He's still got a ton of
Speaker 2: swing and miss to his game, so he could really struggle.
Speaker 2: It's you know, and strike out four times in a
Speaker 2: game any at any given time.
Speaker 3: So I like Burlson right now.
Speaker 1: So you go, would you go? Because it's just about
Speaker 1: at the same level here, would you go Burlson over
Speaker 1: Josh Young? As far as what you're going to prioritize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's not a keeper league, I'll take Burlson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, I mean Burlson has had a fantastic
Speaker 1: minor league season this year. Twenty homers, three point thirty one.
Speaker 1: He's hit one hundred and forty three hits on the year,
Speaker 1: three seventy two LOVP, and he moved three levels last year,
Speaker 1: which was really impressive. He spent the entire year at
Speaker 1: TRIPAA this year. Last year was a pretty successful season.
Speaker 1: Doesn't steal a whole lot, but also doesn't strike out
Speaker 1: a whole bunch. You gotta imagine he's probably going to
Speaker 1: be hitting seven or eight for this team, and hopefully
Speaker 1: that's going to be you know enough, but you know,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of injuries on that front. He's
Speaker 1: going to get some work. It's not a bad gig.
Speaker 1: I still dig Josh Young. That's going to probably might
Speaker 1: be where I go with it. But Burlson is a
Speaker 1: nice sneaky pickup, and you know, sneaky pickups is kind
Speaker 1: of the game plan. It's the play of the day here.
Speaker 1: Jake McCarthy has been that large noop barge. It happens
Speaker 1: to be in the chat right here with these days.
Speaker 1: These guys have been sneaky pickups this year. And the
Speaker 1: biggest strategy really everybody can be given is just have
Speaker 1: you know, a short memory. You know, if you have
Speaker 1: to cut a guy, just kind of forget about him
Speaker 1: and move on, you know, don't think about it because
Speaker 1: there's only so much time here. And Bagman brought this
Speaker 1: great point we were talking about this is a big one.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Louise Robert and how Robert has struggled.
Speaker 1: He has struggled. I think he's like hitting under two
Speaker 1: hundred in the last two weeks, in the last month,
Speaker 1: it hasn't been great. And someone in a little bit
Speaker 1: of a smaller league was dealing with a situation of
Speaker 1: like should we drop Robert? And they listed off some
Speaker 1: players that are out there with guys like Brian Reynolds
Speaker 1: and kind of renfro and Jake McCarthy, and we said,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, here's an experiment for you.
Speaker 1: Think of what Robert's line is going to be the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, and think of what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like from those stream mean bats. If you
Speaker 1: could start streaming them, get Renfro in for three days,
Speaker 1: get McCarthy in, you're probably going to beat it exponentially
Speaker 1: what Robert does the rest of this year with those
Speaker 1: type of streaming options. So you know, it's a case
Speaker 1: by case situation of what's available out there, but streaming
Speaker 1: at this point is probably going and obviously your pickups
Speaker 1: are going to be something to think about, but it's
Speaker 1: probably going to outperform these names that are just sitting
Speaker 1: out there hitting two twenty.
Speaker 3: And I'm yeah, no, absolutely, I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's like you know, as analysts, when we
Speaker 2: put together our rankings, that's something I think is really
Speaker 2: important to do is try to actually put real projections
Speaker 2: out there in your mind, like what put numbers to
Speaker 2: your biases, you know, and see how it works out,
Speaker 2: because oftentimes, like you said, you'll find out that your
Speaker 2: bias was way off and even though one guy might
Speaker 2: be the more exciting dynamic player, the other guy actually
Speaker 2: will help you win your league more in these next
Speaker 2: few weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly a few other headlines here. Kyle Finnegan gave
Speaker 1: up five earned runs in the b botom of the
Speaker 1: ninth to allow Saint Louis a six to five victory
Speaker 1: in plosion is what we would call.
Speaker 2: That, Andrew, Yeah, you usually asked me when I come on,
Speaker 2: how I'm doing, and I was all prepared to start
Speaker 2: with that because that really ruined my day. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to close out a fantasy title here, and I have
Speaker 2: Kyle Finnegan in my lineup.
Speaker 3: That's a serious killer.
Speaker 2: The only saving grace is it's a roto league and
Speaker 2: not a head to head playoff matchup where I would
Speaker 2: pretty much sink me instantaneously, so I could still try
Speaker 2: to hold on.
Speaker 3: But that was sure not something I was looking to see.
Speaker 1: I was about to tell you it might be closed
Speaker 1: out either way for you, just the result might not
Speaker 1: be exactly what you want. And this is a very
Speaker 1: big surprise one because I was just talking about this yesterday,
Speaker 1: like I said on ITL and this is not the
Speaker 1: news that we saw and This came down today because
Speaker 1: I was at the point of saying, you probably could
Speaker 1: move on, but wander Franco is going to meet the
Speaker 1: Rais in New York and could be activated as early
Speaker 1: as Friday. Whoa, because wander Franco has had his rehabstint
Speaker 1: stopped twice with soreness and injury in that wrist, and
Speaker 1: the race just said screw it. And this is I wish,
Speaker 1: by the way, more teams would do screw it at
Speaker 1: this point in the year and having to throw a
Speaker 1: guy into a rehab stint, have him do that at
Speaker 1: the major leagues like plenty of these guys. Now, obviously
Speaker 1: he does a younger guy and he's had some struggles
Speaker 1: and stuff, so I get it. But these extended minor
Speaker 1: league times, especially for veterans and stuff, is always silly
Speaker 1: to me. And they just said, screw it, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get him at the majors. They're going to activate him
Speaker 1: as of Friday. That is not what I expected, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to get some wander production whatever
Speaker 1: that's going to be. Unfortunately, what I do hate to
Speaker 1: say is I might throw wander back into that same
Speaker 1: Louise Robert conversation of saying, you know, obviously, if you're
Speaker 1: in a deeper league, this doesn't matter, like me, But
Speaker 1: if you're in like a ten or twelve and you've
Speaker 1: got like a right full, you know, set of free
Speaker 1: agents out there that I'm not sure you won't be
Speaker 1: able to do better streaming at this point instead of
Speaker 1: just locking into one because we really just don't know,
Speaker 1: you known hand and risk and all those type of injuries,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of sapping power that kind of went
Speaker 1: away for Wander. It was really that beginning of the month.
Speaker 1: And I know you haven't been very big on Franco,
Speaker 1: so you're probably not jumping up and down for joy
Speaker 1: that he's going to be activated.
Speaker 2: No, I hate it that I'm becoming like the Wander
Speaker 2: Franco hater, but yes, I guess I'll just own it.
Speaker 2: When it comes to category leagues, you know, he just
Speaker 2: hasn't shown, you know, what power is there really to sap.
Speaker 2: I mean, he has five home runs in fifty eight
Speaker 2: games this season. Never really put up massive home run
Speaker 2: numbers in the minors either. So he's a great long
Speaker 2: term prospect, but at least with Luis Robert, like he
Speaker 2: gives you the category juice. It's just a question of
Speaker 2: can he actually be on the field. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: just always missing time. But with Franco, even when he's
Speaker 2: been on the field, even before the injury, when he
Speaker 2: was healthy, his production was not as advertised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think when you say, like where what
Speaker 1: power is, it's about the potential with him, it's there,
Speaker 1: it's just not tapped into and it's going to get there.
Speaker 1: With Franco. That's why I have such a still long
Speaker 1: term like aggressiveness on him, and the hit tool is
Speaker 1: solely But you know, I had a problem with him
Speaker 1: in draft season where I remember I remember giving a
Speaker 1: piece of p a crap for it. We were doing
Speaker 1: a draft. I think he did it with us very
Speaker 1: very early on, and he had taken Wander like in
Speaker 1: the second round, and I was like, dude, I just
Speaker 1: can't do it because there's so many guys out here,
Speaker 1: there's so many short steps out here with better counting
Speaker 1: stat potential production that I'm not going to eat all
Speaker 1: these rounds of value just for batting average. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where Franco unfortunately is sitting. But either way
Speaker 1: he's going to be activated for you guys that want
Speaker 1: to end up making those moves. Here's some injuries.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 1: Soto was removed from Wednesday's game after getting hit by
Speaker 1: a pitch on his back. He says, so definitely be
Speaker 1: ready for Friday's game to open up the weekend series
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. So a little bad, but a little
Speaker 1: good that he'll be back, you know, protect our Wan Sodos.
Speaker 1: Except you know, he hasn't really been hitting that well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think his biggest injury right now be a
Speaker 2: bruised ego actually, because he's been getting booed by his
Speaker 2: home fans there in San Diego.
Speaker 3: And San Diego is not a place that is known
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 1: We created all this stuff. Chill, chill, chill. We need
Speaker 1: him to re sign.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's not a it's not a place that's
Speaker 2: known for it's uh, you know, vitriol I would say
Speaker 2: it's a pretty laid back place from from my experience.
Speaker 2: But he's certainly struggled since he got there. And you know,
Speaker 2: Jan Soto is a really great guy, but this is
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure for him to walk into right
Speaker 2: into a playoff chase, and with with those contractual issues
Speaker 2: and the amount of of prospects that they gave up
Speaker 2: to get him, So it's a lot of pressure, and
Speaker 2: he was having kind of a disappointing season even even
Speaker 2: before he went to the Padres. He's now barely a
Speaker 2: top one hundred overall player in five by five leagues,
Speaker 2: which is really I mean, he's barely more of He's
Speaker 2: barely the most valuable Sodo in fantasy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh boo Gregory Soto's shot. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: This is actually kind of my take that Wonky had
Speaker 1: that they're taking out their anger on Tatisa.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think there's just a lot of like
Speaker 1: frustration because it's a it's like a super ish team
Speaker 1: that the Padres keep building and mortgaging future and they
Speaker 1: can't get over the hump and they can't win games,
Speaker 1: and the frustration kind of pours over a little bit.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how Sodo progresses. Tyler O'Neil
Speaker 1: sitting out Thursday with next stiffness. I thought I saw
Speaker 1: this morning. Maybe I was incorrect, but I thought I
Speaker 1: saw he went on the il and that was what
Speaker 1: pushed Alec Burlson. But maybe not.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why Dylan Carlson is on the IL. That's
Speaker 3: what it was.
Speaker 1: Dylan Carlson was put on the I L and Tyler and'
Speaker 1: neil sitting, which has got Alec Burlson in and an
Speaker 1: MRI confirmed an ankle sprain for Wilson Contreras no structural
Speaker 1: damage here, and a note is fantasy managers should consider
Speaker 1: moving on from him as he might not play the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. This is a note from Wonky, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I agree if you've got a
Speaker 1: sprained ankle near the cubs, I'm not really sure what
Speaker 1: that's going to look like the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: There's probably going to be better options that are going
Speaker 1: to be sitting out on the wire, and I would
Speaker 1: as well. I would probably move on from Contras if
Speaker 1: you need to. I always want to give that as
Speaker 1: a preface, because I think everybody throws around all these
Speaker 1: statements like, oh, you can cut him, you can get
Speaker 1: rid of him, and it's like, well, if you need to,
Speaker 1: if you've got an IL, drop the guy in an ale,
Speaker 1: then you don't have to have any of these worries.
Speaker 1: But if you are in an IL crunch. I do
Speaker 1: have a couple of leagues where miles are full and
Speaker 1: I've got to start making decisions. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: this is probably somebody you can move on from due
Speaker 1: to that injury and the lack of production. You're going
Speaker 1: to get rest of you or do you agree with that?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 2: I think you know, an added wrinkle here is that
Speaker 2: he's an impending free agent, So I feel like the
Speaker 2: Cubs they don't have any reason to rush him back.
Speaker 2: They probably need to start figuring out the position long term.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think this is a reasonable moment
Speaker 2: for them to basically say, Okay, thank you for your service.
Speaker 2: It's time for us to go in a new direction.
Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, look at the chat too. They're just they're
Speaker 1: ready to jump on the Padres to Drury fell off
Speaker 1: a wall. Chris said, wasn't he supposed to be the
Speaker 1: next mantle for Soda? Oh? They're turning they're alternate. That's
Speaker 1: actually you know, this is really funny. Bagman brought this
Speaker 1: up to me of like, he's like, have you ever
Speaker 1: seen like Padres Twitter? And I do, But I see
Speaker 1: the positive side of Padres Twitter since I cover a
Speaker 1: lot of their minor leagues out here locally, and you know,
Speaker 1: I get video of these guys. I'm around a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys, so I get all the positivity of
Speaker 1: the people that are like the future, and hey, all
Speaker 1: these prospects, and they get very excited that I'm sharing stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well I live I live in the Washington,
Speaker 2: DC area, so I have a little different perspective on it.
Speaker 2: You know, he was so beloved in this area, and
Speaker 2: you know, DC is on the East Coast, but the
Speaker 2: fan base is not like the Northeast.
Speaker 3: I mean, I grew up in Boston. You know, the
Speaker 3: fan base in d C is very different.
Speaker 2: They really love their players and they maybe don't expect
Speaker 2: that much of them, honestly. But I think the real
Speaker 2: disappointment here was, of course that when they traded trade Turner,
Speaker 2: the whole reason was so they could keep Jan Soto
Speaker 2: and then that didn't turn out happening either.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's it's always tough with these things.
Speaker 2: These guys that are loved with the team that they
Speaker 2: come up with, they go to a new situation and
Speaker 2: they don't have that history with that fan base, so
Speaker 2: it's huge expectations, a lot of pressure, and it can
Speaker 2: go sour really quickly.
Speaker 1: Very very true. No time all right, little palette cleanser.
Speaker 1: Here a couple things This day in baseball nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: Fergie Jenkins of the Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies four
Speaker 1: to three for his twentieth victory of the season. It
Speaker 1: was his It was the sixth straight year the Jenkins
Speaker 1: won at least twenty games. Can you imagine?
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can only think of a handful of guys that
Speaker 1: have won twenty games in the last like ten or
Speaker 1: fifteen years. And unfortunately, the first one that comes to
Speaker 1: my dumb brain is Ian Kennedy because with the diamondback,
Speaker 1: so think of six straight seasons. Fergie Jenkins was quite
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm curious how many starts he made that season, because
Speaker 2: I feel like that was the tail end of the
Speaker 2: era where pitchers would just throw three times.
Speaker 3: A week or something like that. I'm not sure he
Speaker 3: actually was doing that though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's psibility. Here's another modern day era question for you,
Speaker 1: and you can partake in this one. This one I
Speaker 1: just thought was fascinating. I was really interested in it.
Speaker 1: And the question is who holds no cheating Anybody who
Speaker 1: holds the modern era record for most consecutive strikeouts to
Speaker 1: begin a game. And this is a two parter. I'll
Speaker 1: give you credit for what's the number, and then the player,
Speaker 1: because I think that's like if you if someone says
Speaker 1: the guy in the number, I'm gonna immediately think you cheated.
Speaker 1: There's no way. But again, the question is who holds
Speaker 1: the modern era, modern era record for most consecutive strikeouts
Speaker 1: to begin a game? So bang, bang boom, they keep going.
Speaker 1: I will accept either the number and the name. I'll
Speaker 1: give you credit if you get the number. Any guesses
Speaker 1: to who this person is. The one other hint I
Speaker 1: will give you it is like, uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a guy that's going now.
Speaker 2: No, it is okay, because I was going now maybe
Speaker 2: it was that Fergie Jenkins trivia, but I was I
Speaker 2: had my mind back in the sixties with like Bob
Speaker 2: Gibson or Sandy Kofags or something.
Speaker 1: No, it's a guy that's pitching, you know this season,
Speaker 1: So modern day consecutive strikeouts to begin a game?
Speaker 3: How about Verlander?
Speaker 1: It's a great guess. That is not but that's a
Speaker 1: great guess.
Speaker 3: Nine nine strikeouts.
Speaker 1: That is the number.
Speaker 3: You know, Hey, I got I got half credit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna give you that. Okay, so you got
Speaker 1: the number. It is nine strikeouts to begin a game.
Speaker 1: Nine strikeouts. This actually made me laugh, vapor, said Chris Davis.
Speaker 1: Not that type of strikeout. That is the best guess
Speaker 1: I've ever you know, I mean, that's actually making me laugh,
Speaker 1: like though it's building and building and building, it's making
Speaker 1: me laugh. Nine strikeouts. You absolutely nail the number. Now
Speaker 1: the pitcher, does anybody have it? JP guess Corbin Burns.
Speaker 1: That is incorrect, Wonky, said Blake Snell. Oh man, that's
Speaker 1: not right, man, that's not it. Oh Tawny is a guest, Kershaw.
Speaker 1: These are all great guesses. It's gonna it's gonna be rough,
Speaker 1: rough for you guys to get it. I'll let you
Speaker 1: sit on it and we'll do some stuff heroes, and
Speaker 1: we'll come back to it. The I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: one extra hint. It's an NL pitcher. It's a current
Speaker 1: NL pitcher. So there's your other little hint that you get. Like,
Speaker 1: Kershaw would have been a great guest, But that's not it.
Speaker 1: Let's go through some stat heroes. Aristide is a Kenyell
Speaker 1: three for four two homers three RBI whoa This is
Speaker 1: like our once or twice a year little gift we
Speaker 1: get from a Kenyo until he goes back into his hole,
Speaker 1: until winter comes back. So two homers, three RBI. Eric
Speaker 1: Hass five for five with a homer, David v r
Speaker 1: two homers, going two for three with three RBI, Elloy
Speaker 1: Jimenez coming back into it with a homer. Ed Mundo Sosa,
Speaker 1: He's We've mentioned his name a couple times over the
Speaker 1: last week. He had a homer with three RBIs, Dalton
Speaker 1: Varshow had two bombs, Michael Tolia homer with four RBIs,
Speaker 1: Max Munci, Johannio Swarez, and von grishapihanhe Swarrez two homers.
Speaker 1: He has been quite the quite the little productive offensive player.
Speaker 1: And it makes me think back to the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year when I'm playing up his stats here, when
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer had pulled up this weird, crazy thing in
Speaker 1: the first month that essentially said Johannel Swarez was more
Speaker 1: valuable than Jose Ramirez. It was like Yahoo's Points League
Speaker 1: algorithm or some nonsense. We're all laughing about it. But
Speaker 1: Andrew Swarez has put up twenty seven homers, but only
Speaker 1: a two thirty three batting average this year. You think
Speaker 1: Swarez is on the uptick for next year? Is a
Speaker 1: guy we need to keep an eye on, or is
Speaker 1: that batting average still going to keep him down in
Speaker 1: the drudges.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard to say he's on the uptick.
Speaker 3: He's thirty years old.
Speaker 2: I think we know what kind of a player he
Speaker 2: is at this point, and he has tons of power
Speaker 2: and he strikes out thirty percent of the time, So
Speaker 2: he's going to hit for a low average. You know,
Speaker 2: back when he played in Cincinnati, I feel like that
Speaker 2: was ideal for him, and he did have that forty
Speaker 2: nine home run season back in twenty nineteen when everybody
Speaker 2: was hitting a lot of home runs. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's not quite as easy for him in Seattle.
Speaker 2: He's still big time power, but yeah, I mean the
Speaker 2: warts are are very apparent with him.
Speaker 1: Von Grisham continues to keep rolling grisome, if I say correctly,
Speaker 1: five homers, four stolen bases, three forty seven batting average,
Speaker 1: been playing some outfield, So as soon as Zzzie comes
Speaker 1: back out, I don't think that bat is going anywhere
Speaker 1: in the lineup. So feel really good about that on
Speaker 1: the pitching side, Jacob de Gram struck out eight to
Speaker 1: over seven. That under eight and a half k prop
Speaker 1: if it exists anywhere, has cashed. I think two of
Speaker 1: the last three times. Alec Manoah had five strikeouts in
Speaker 1: eight innings, Chris Bassett struck out ten over seven, Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole struck out fourteen in six and two thirds, and
Speaker 1: Kyle Frielan had eight strikeouts in six innings in a
Speaker 1: rare good Colorado performance. Now the correct name has been said,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give him credit. I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: he didn't cheat here because maybe he just as a fan.
Speaker 1: Pabo Lopez was the answer to the trivia question. Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez started off a game in twenty twenty one against
Speaker 1: the Braves with nine consecutive strikeouts. For whatever reason, that's
Speaker 1: insanely impressive to me. That like that is something that
Speaker 1: jumps out to me. And I don't know what, like
Speaker 1: perfect innings, I don't know that just doesn't really like
Speaker 1: do it for me, but that number specifically just jumps
Speaker 1: way way out to me, and I love that nine
Speaker 1: straight consecutive.
Speaker 2: Strike Yeah, there should be a name for that, because
Speaker 2: we've got to strike out the side as a name,
Speaker 2: So we need something for strike out the entire lineup consecutively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, let's think about it.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like where your head is going here. By the way, Wonky,
Speaker 1: you're right about this. You just realize we thought not
Speaker 1: one single double digit number guy hit a homer, but
Speaker 1: Aristo esu Kenya, who's forty four, that was the one
Speaker 1: guy yesterday that would have got the Wonky bonus if
Speaker 1: someone would have picked. So just pointing that out. Stat
Speaker 1: zero's Kyle Garlic went oh for seven with five strikeouts
Speaker 1: in the doubleheader. That's hard to do. Ronald guzmano for
Speaker 1: five with four k's, Cody Thomas so for four with
Speaker 1: four k's, and Tyler O'Neill oh for three with three k's.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty it's been a pretty copy and paste
Speaker 1: line for him, kind of back to his old ways.
Speaker 1: On the pitching side, Eric Lauer got lit up seven
Speaker 1: runs and two and two thirds only two strikeouts. Tommy Henry,
Speaker 1: my guy with the Diamondbacks, gave up five earned runs.
Speaker 1: He started off pretty nice, but then it unveiled and
Speaker 1: I think he gave up like three or four homers.
Speaker 1: Four and one third. Ovioto had four and runs and
Speaker 1: two innings just under two innings. Alex Cobb gave up
Speaker 1: three earned runs but couldn't get out of the fifth,
Speaker 1: and Michael Kopek did hit his k prop what we
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday, but he only went three and two
Speaker 1: thirds with four earned runs, so no point home. So
Speaker 1: as we mentioned the home run contest, no one really
Speaker 1: got to take advantage of the double double home run calls.
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind because the contest is
Speaker 1: getting real close. I don't have an overlay for you.
Speaker 1: It was not given one today. But friends, we have
Speaker 1: a tie at the top of the home run race
Speaker 1: because Cat Fox got on the board yesterday with a
Speaker 1: mic Trout homer and is now tied with d Blum.
Speaker 1: We have two people at the top with forty nine
Speaker 1: home runs. High Cuby has been at the top of
Speaker 1: this list like all freaking year, and he's down at
Speaker 1: forty eight. L Scales at forty eight, go cards at
Speaker 1: forty seven. Mike Mayer and Joey still on the board unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but Dee Blum and Cat Fox at the top. They
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Speaker 1: So here are a couple I'm gonna throw at you
Speaker 1: real quick. Andrew, you tell me what you like. Oliver
Speaker 1: on bettingpros dot com. Their prop cheat sheet always gives
Speaker 1: us good information. And I take the top total basin
Speaker 1: strikeout and the plus plays. Joyman SS is the number
Speaker 1: one play of the day, but it is Juice to
Speaker 1: Hell minus two fifteen on DK, but it is for
Speaker 1: one total base. They're projecting almost two, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to parlay that with something. There's a plus money
Speaker 1: play there. Number one is dermos Garcia, who just needs
Speaker 1: one total base in the game, and it is plus
Speaker 1: one oh five on DK, So if you wanted to
Speaker 1: play the algorithm, you can maybe parla these parlay those
Speaker 1: two together. On the pitching side, the number one K
Speaker 1: prop is Josiah Gray, who is going up against Saint
Speaker 1: Louis only need four and a half they're projecting over five.
Speaker 1: It's minus one oh eight on fan Duel, and then
Speaker 1: the plus money plays Kyle Gibson against the Marlins at
Speaker 1: four and a half strikeouts, it's plus one twelve on
Speaker 1: Fan Tools. Anything out of those that you like, Andrew,
Speaker 1: would you pick one?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you're saying it's really juice, but
Speaker 2: that Joey Manessa's one. I mean, that's like a walk
Speaker 2: in the park. Man He's gonna have that in the
Speaker 2: first inning.
Speaker 1: I kind of think so too. Yeah, well, it's not
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, as we mentioned, so it might be a
Speaker 1: little bit tougher.
Speaker 3: But it might.
Speaker 2: In my column at Fantasy Pros my Waiver Wire, when
Speaker 2: I first wrote about him like a month and a
Speaker 2: half ago, when whenever he first started hitting, I called
Speaker 2: him the nominee for the Frank Schwindell of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two award, and he is definitely earning that award. He
Speaker 2: continues to rake I see no end in sight at
Speaker 2: least until the end of this season.
Speaker 1: He actually might be one of the biggest surprises of
Speaker 1: this year. From absolute nobody, I mean, as a prospect person,
Speaker 1: was not on any type of radar whatsoever. And then
Speaker 1: hitting the way he gets is one of the bigger
Speaker 1: surprises of this year. That has some pretty good impact
Speaker 1: for you on the back end here. So if you
Speaker 1: want to, like I said, you gotta parlay that thing
Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's two to one against your money,
Speaker 1: so you got to put that with something and go
Speaker 1: and check it out. You know, there's also it's a
Speaker 1: big strikeout prop day as well. You've got Dylan Cees,
Speaker 1: You've got Sandale Contry, you got Corbyn Burns if you
Speaker 1: like any of those. I believe the cease number is
Speaker 1: eight and a half. And betting pros like the under
Speaker 1: kind of like Sandy's if I'm being honest with you
Speaker 1: guys against Philly, I think it was only five and
Speaker 1: a half, So that would be one I would take.
Speaker 1: Maybe get Sandy and Manessas and you can put those
Speaker 1: two together into a little two teamer and get some
Speaker 1: bets going. So go and check it out over on
Speaker 1: the DFS side, Dylan Cee's ten to eight on FanDuel's
Speaker 1: Sandale Contra ten two, Corbyn Burns nine to eight, for
Speaker 1: the big dog pictures. I don't think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of I don't know. I mean, obviously you might want
Speaker 1: to pivot off of some of the lower pitchers, but
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: them lineup builders for implied runs. No one was implied
Speaker 1: for over five today, but Milwaukee, Saint Louis, and the
Speaker 1: Cubs were all your top projected runs. So if you
Speaker 1: guys want to build some stacks out of those, you
Speaker 1: want to get some guys high in the lineup, Maybe
Speaker 1: a little sales Azuki or something. You could put those together.
Speaker 1: And that leads us finally to the home run call
Speaker 1: of the day. Look at this, Mike Mayor just jumps
Speaker 1: on the list and took my same guy. Unbelievable Mayor
Speaker 1: when he does this, but I love him. Though it's
Speaker 1: kind of a BVB play. I'm going with Bryce Harper,
Speaker 1: as is Mike Mayor. But what does it matter. I
Speaker 1: haven't been hitting Homer, so I just need to write
Speaker 1: anybody's coattails. But me and may are going together. Walkee's
Speaker 1: got Christian Yelich for the day, Andrew who you're gonna
Speaker 1: go with? There's not a ton of ton of great
Speaker 1: great options. Actually a lot of good pitching today. But
Speaker 1: where are you gonna go for home run call?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I feel like I always picked Cardinals, and I this
Speaker 2: like today, I have to pick a Cardinal really, as
Speaker 2: long as I'm allowed to. The game started twenty minutes ago,
Speaker 2: but I have not checked the stats yet. I just
Speaker 2: you look at the slate today and you've got a
Speaker 2: double header, So that's out. You've got a contra Sunny
Speaker 2: Gray Nester Cortez pitching. I don't really want to think
Speaker 2: against those guys. Then the you know, the Cubs and
Speaker 2: the Reds and the Marlins don't hit any home runs really,
Speaker 2: so I have to you notice I didn't pick Josiah
Speaker 2: Gray for that prop bet, I'm gonna pick the Cardinals too.
Speaker 2: I do a little bit of damage to Josiah Gray today,
Speaker 2: So give me Nolan Aeronado.
Speaker 3: Since I've been taking Gould Schmid lately, I'll go with
Speaker 3: Aeronauto all right.
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Speaker 1: a lot of football stuff going on. Waiver Wire article.
Speaker 1: Is it dropping tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be writing it tomorrow. It will be posted
Speaker 2: Saturday morning. So yeah, we're gonna keep keep that baseball
Speaker 2: waiver Wire going strong right till the end of the season.
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