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Speaker 1: alongside Frankie Stanfell, I am Greg. So, Frankie, what's going
Speaker 1: on about? What's happening? Happy hump day to you here
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday. Another night of MLB action. Yeah, another brutal,
Speaker 1: brutal injury, Greggy Fred Turner. This time we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that obviously. Uh, Chris snefe velocity seems to be a
Speaker 1: huge story right now as well before before all that, Greg,
Speaker 1: how did you sleep last night, Buddy? I slept pretty well.
Speaker 1: I woke up once like an hour into my my slumber.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like I thought it was one
Speaker 1: of those like four or five am wake ups. I
Speaker 1: turned to it was like twelve thirty, Like this is strange. Um,
Speaker 1: not really. I went to bed at like love thirty
Speaker 1: was literally like an hour later. Um. And then then
Speaker 1: it was fine. After that it was pretty good. How
Speaker 1: about yourself? It could have been better. He is starting
Speaker 1: to attack me again a lot in sleep, so I
Speaker 1: think I gotta woke up. I had to like lay
Speaker 1: down the law a little bit, put her back in
Speaker 1: time out a little bit because she, um, she's a
Speaker 1: big cuddler and it's affecting my sleep. Greg. We're at
Speaker 1: the point where it's affecting my sleep. So it's not good.
Speaker 1: Not good. You know, I'm not a morning guy already,
Speaker 1: as it is very hard to get out of bed
Speaker 1: for me, you know, I think Judy, it is like
Speaker 1: she was snoring about we're still embraced, and I let
Speaker 1: go and then she rolled over like a perfect great job, Greggy,
Speaker 1: we have I mean, listen, it's the system. The system.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty efficient for a long time now. No
Speaker 1: things are good. I'm happen here that buddy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can hear that. You know, it's crazy last night. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but this is just nothing
Speaker 1: that she wants to watch on TV at the moment.
Speaker 1: So I just watched like Chris Sale against the A's No, no,
Speaker 1: we watched the Yankees. I'm sorry. Then we watched the
Speaker 1: Phillies and Nats because she's a Philly fan, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: So I thought we saw Bryce. It was it was fun,
Speaker 1: which was all. Watched the Mets a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was like it was like a whole lot of baseball,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, this is crazy Gregy watching baseball.
Speaker 1: Quote crazy, No, just being gonna watch so much different baseball. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I tried. That's what I try to get
Speaker 1: through every night. I'll carve out a little bit of
Speaker 1: time to obviously spend with KINGO, watch a couple of
Speaker 1: shows or whatever. But then it's, uh, it's right back.
Speaker 1: I was watching a lot of that Chris Sale last night,
Speaker 1: and it's scary. Man. We're what a weird time right
Speaker 1: now for Chris Sale on the Boston Red Sox. We
Speaker 1: are we're gonna talking more about that coming up until
Speaker 1: twenty where we'll have a Boston beat writer on to
Speaker 1: to break that down for us, and then really the
Speaker 1: Red Sox struggles in general as they just haven't been
Speaker 1: able to hit Mookie Betts, J D. Martinez and Andrew
Speaker 1: Ben attending the rest. When you're getting shut out by
Speaker 1: Aaron Brooks and Mike Fires, some of this are wrong, weird.
Speaker 1: We might have a little world series hangover here going
Speaker 1: on for the Boston Red Sox again. Aaron Brooks and
Speaker 1: Mike Fires. You know, if you told me it was
Speaker 1: like Snell Charlie Morton, all right, you know, maybe I
Speaker 1: can understand that a little bit more. But Aaron Brooks
Speaker 1: like Fires, it is a little bit worrisome to me.
Speaker 1: The biggest story obviously, Trade Turner and Chris Sale get
Speaker 1: into that Velocity will ask him about it. It is
Speaker 1: it's Sean McAdam falm on Twitter at Shawn Underscore. McAdam
Speaker 1: of the Boston Sports Journal will have him coming up
Speaker 1: at twelve so interested to see uh and hear what
Speaker 1: he has to say. I thought, I thought it was interesting,
Speaker 1: um that Crystal, Chrissell and the Velocity remains the top
Speaker 1: stories in fantasy baseball, and I get it, But the velosophy,
Speaker 1: if I'm not stay was up last night, Wasn't that?
Speaker 1: So like he's high was up from where the where
Speaker 1: his previous start wasn't that? No, he was hitting in
Speaker 1: his first start, so I thought he reached that again
Speaker 1: last night. Oh No, he did his max last night
Speaker 1: was and he was averaging eighty nine point one miles
Speaker 1: per hour, which is his lowest for an entire start,
Speaker 1: eating back to Okay, so not good, Greg, And I'll
Speaker 1: just let you know. Look, everything that I've read to
Speaker 1: this point is that this is something that he's consciously doing,
Speaker 1: that they're slowly ramping him up, and that after the
Speaker 1: first start they wanted him to dial it back a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean, there's dialing it back and then
Speaker 1: there's eighty nine per hour, Greg, And that's a little
Speaker 1: bit different. The fact that he only had six swinging strikes.
Speaker 1: I can see Oakland A's the night before David Price
Speaker 1: had like fourteen fifteen swinging strikes. Chris Tale had six.
Speaker 1: He allows one and run alright, great fun one strikeout.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know. That's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna tell Sean McAdam about, uh and and find out
Speaker 1: where where he is on that and how worried Fantasy
Speaker 1: owners should be the big story. As you reference at
Speaker 1: the top, franc that was trades Hardner in this Phillies game.
Speaker 1: This Phillies Nats game was the story of the night,
Speaker 1: was the game of the night. As Bryce Harper made
Speaker 1: his return to Philly, returned to Washington rather amongst a
Speaker 1: chorus of booze and every Philly game now seems like
Speaker 1: a rock show, and they hit mac shows or they
Speaker 1: got up to nothing exact. Definitely, I want to get
Speaker 1: to in a second. Was wonderful. And then Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: hit the bomb hern around the world and just did
Speaker 1: a monster baff flip. It was awesome, and Phil is
Speaker 1: right away with it. Yeah, it was an awesome game.
Speaker 1: I was watching some of that. The first couple of
Speaker 1: battles between Scherzer and Bryce Harper were awesome. That was
Speaker 1: worth the price of admission alone. I was. I was
Speaker 1: watching the Nationals broadcast and honestly, one of the broadcasters
Speaker 1: was just saying, I'm gonna sit back and let you
Speaker 1: take this one. Man. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: watch like a fan. I want to enjoy this. And
Speaker 1: you know they mentioned that it felt like October baseball.
Speaker 1: It's only April two last night, so it really did
Speaker 1: have that feel. I mean, these are games that obviously
Speaker 1: matter a lot. Now I could matter even more so.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, come around October September if these two
Speaker 1: teams are in the race. But Rice Harper later on,
Speaker 1: you see the majestic home run. The bat flip was amazing.
Speaker 1: Trade Turner injury though. Man, it's like he's the second
Speaker 1: batter of the game. I understand he's super fast. Why
Speaker 1: are you trying to bunt there? Greg? Why are you
Speaker 1: trying to bunk that? And understand like you're asked, you
Speaker 1: know you want to try and bump for hit. Okay,
Speaker 1: what Trey Turner coming off a game where he hit
Speaker 1: two home runs? It's a game winning home run, a
Speaker 1: walk off home run like this guy, I don't know,
Speaker 1: It's just li doesn't seem necessary to me. His his
Speaker 1: role is is a table center for the guys behind him,
Speaker 1: and that that's why it's very simple. He has that speed.
Speaker 1: You're defending him because you're the table center for your
Speaker 1: kickboxing team and kickball team all team, and you would
Speaker 1: do the same thing you bought. I mean that's his role.
Speaker 1: I think he knows his role and shuts his mouth,
Speaker 1: and now he's on the unfortunately now on the I
Speaker 1: l yeah, well this is it is brutal, Greg, obviously
Speaker 1: a brutal loss. I mean, and there's no replacing him,
Speaker 1: but we will try and we could try and give
Speaker 1: you some same with Danny Murphy. But it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: wilmur Dafoe is going to fill in for him right now,
Speaker 1: And I know they have a prospect. He's not coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not coming up yet. He's not Yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: coming up yet. I mean, you know what he's gonna
Speaker 1: give you. He doesn't. He doesn't offer much upside for fantasy.
Speaker 1: Last year he played a decent amount. He had four
Speaker 1: and fifty six plate appearances. He had seven home runs,
Speaker 1: hen stolen basis he hit two thirty. So a little
Speaker 1: bit of pop, a little bit of speed, nothing crazy here.
Speaker 1: So it's not gonna come from within. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: come from the Uh. It's not gonna come from the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals here. Uh. In Wolmer, Dafoe and the line
Speaker 1: up as already out today, Greg, I thought there was
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance that they can move Victor robolists
Speaker 1: up in the lineup. It's Brian Doser who was hitting second,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's hit at the top of the
Speaker 1: lineup for a large majority of his career, you know,
Speaker 1: to his days with the Minnesota Twins. So it's still
Speaker 1: Adam eating leading off, it's still it's now Brian does
Speaker 1: are batting second, Victor Robot still batting ninth. I thought
Speaker 1: there was a chance that he can move up in
Speaker 1: the lineup. Greg Um, Yeah, and I think that. I
Speaker 1: think it's a obvious thought. We talked about that a lot.
Speaker 1: Thatd be a matter of time before Adam Eaton got
Speaker 1: hurt and Victor robolists and we have a lot of
Speaker 1: unfortunately with Tray Charterer that got hurt. Roby is still
Speaker 1: batting nine. And we'll see how long this last. We'll
Speaker 1: see what Dave Martinez oltenly decided to do with his
Speaker 1: line up. And speaking a lot ups, Todd's a lucky
Speaker 1: Who's a Phillies beat writer that tweeted out a little
Speaker 1: while ago that Gay Capitals used the same lineup for
Speaker 1: the first five games of the season for the Phillies.
Speaker 1: He didn't use any lineup five times last year. More
Speaker 1: than five times last year Yeah, Yeah, that's insane. Look,
Speaker 1: it's everything kind of everyone kind of fits there. They're
Speaker 1: placed in that lineup right now. It's it's a great
Speaker 1: line up. We said that coming in. Look Cutchen as
Speaker 1: their leadoff hitter, he's got great eye at the plate.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have an Ohio BP, Jean Sagura obviously speed
Speaker 1: at the top of the lineup, Bryce Reese Hoskins. They're
Speaker 1: very selective hitters. Everyone just fits what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: And even Michael Franko all the way down at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the lineup. He's been awesome. Greg. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's been mashing already, hits a home runoff
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer yesterday and then he had a few walks
Speaker 1: after that as well. It wouldn't be surprised if we
Speaker 1: see him move up in the lineup at some point.
Speaker 1: But another thing that I've heard talked about a lot
Speaker 1: um throughout these games with the Nashville and the Phillies
Speaker 1: is remember like last year Odopo Horrero was their number
Speaker 1: three hitter. He's now their number six hitters. Like, like,
Speaker 1: that's how deep this lineup is right now. So it
Speaker 1: just goes to show you where they're at, how good
Speaker 1: they are, and uh, I don't think they should really
Speaker 1: change anything the way that they're playing right now. And
Speaker 1: I agree that there's how does any human baseball and
Speaker 1: a lot of that, um, well, they're the hottesteam basically
Speaker 1: four now, um and a lot of that certainly is
Speaker 1: how good Mike Keilla Franco's gonna be, who's really has
Speaker 1: no room to move over the line up, which is
Speaker 1: kind of frustrating and as great as he is that
Speaker 1: he's a eight for thirteen to start off the year, Um,
Speaker 1: you're the lineup guy, like sort of you can move
Speaker 1: along to six though, right if he keeps mashing, can't you?
Speaker 1: If you want to break up the lefties and the righties,
Speaker 1: I get it right because they look today's lineup aslready
Speaker 1: out there playing at one o'clock cutch In, Sigura, Harper, Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Real Mutto. That's not changing and rightfully so that's their
Speaker 1: top five. But o'doopo Horrera hasn't done much so far,
Speaker 1: and he's batting six, and understanding he's a lefty, so
Speaker 1: you might want to break up the two rightis with
Speaker 1: Hoskins and Real Muto. Fourth and fifth. But Michael Franko
Speaker 1: the way that he's swinging the bat right now, I
Speaker 1: could I could see him moving up to six, and
Speaker 1: then maybe you put o'double at at seven and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe back the picture eighth and sees an end of
Speaker 1: his ninth and do something similar to what the Nationals
Speaker 1: are doing. But I do think that there's a chance
Speaker 1: that if Franco keeps swinging the bat the way he is,
Speaker 1: he can move up to six in this lineup. Greg
Speaker 1: all right, we'll see. We'll see if kape Haffler ultimately
Speaker 1: makes that happen. It's talking about pitching frank in this
Speaker 1: game as Max Scherzer nine more strikeouts, pitch well but
Speaker 1: high pitch count, five innings, five intes lets, two runs
Speaker 1: when we're earned, struck out nine, as I said, he
Speaker 1: got out pitched by Zach Eflin, who strug out nine
Speaker 1: batters uh in these games himself hiding trying a career
Speaker 1: high for Eflin. He only walked one. He seemed dominant
Speaker 1: a lot of the night. He was very good. The
Speaker 1: strikeouts were there. He had twelve swinging strikes. He was
Speaker 1: basically fastball slider a lot in this game. Greggy threw
Speaker 1: eighty two pitches. UH Sixty four of those came on
Speaker 1: his four seam and his slider combined only through his
Speaker 1: change of four times, with three out of four of
Speaker 1: those we're swinging strike. So maybe he starts to use
Speaker 1: to change up a little bit more. He used it
Speaker 1: more last season as well. I want to pay attention
Speaker 1: to the velocity for zach Eflyn because the average ninety
Speaker 1: two point eight miles per last night and last year
Speaker 1: went with the velo spike that we were all talking
Speaker 1: about in the In the preseason. In spring training, he
Speaker 1: was up over ninety four regularly. Nine point three was
Speaker 1: his average fastball velocity, so last night it was two
Speaker 1: point eight, but drizzling a little bit last night. It's
Speaker 1: his first start of the season, so I think he
Speaker 1: can ramp up. I don't want to buy too much
Speaker 1: into this because I want to see the fastball velocity
Speaker 1: take up a little bit. But if you are stashing him,
Speaker 1: I used to be owning in fifteen team leagues, I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to say he's a muscle player in twelve
Speaker 1: team league. I don't know man like. So I drafted
Speaker 1: at the end of a twelve team draft and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of upside when it came to zach Ef.
Speaker 1: I like him, People were excited about him. He's obviously
Speaker 1: on a very good team, the Nationals. A lot of
Speaker 1: it is a good lineup. And even though he only
Speaker 1: drawed up right now, is he didn't reach the velocity
Speaker 1: were hoping for. Walks were limited, strikeouts were there. There's
Speaker 1: a lot to like right now, is Jack Ethlin? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't want to downplay that. Look nine strikeouts
Speaker 1: to one walk over five innings and limiting the Nationals
Speaker 1: lineup to zero runs. It's great. It's a great feat.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a lot of many pitchers two
Speaker 1: he could have. I know he got pitched hit four five.
Speaker 1: He got pitch hit four in the top of the six.
Speaker 1: Is why he came out, and they were gonna push
Speaker 1: him once past eighty five minutes first started. It's probably
Speaker 1: not only owned in twenty seven percent of Yahoo leaguess
Speaker 1: right now, that should probably be I think that should
Speaker 1: be higher. That should probably be higher. But in terms
Speaker 1: of all the other starting pictures we've talked about, Greg,
Speaker 1: I still think I'd rather own some of those guys maybe,
Speaker 1: but Hablo Lopez, I would say Orban Burns, I would
Speaker 1: take him. I don't Ki Mantas, I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: right there. He's I think he's right there, like I understand,
Speaker 1: like the stuff is better than a guy like Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 1: And we're all EU side of my Frankie Mantas. Elan's good.
Speaker 1: People have underrated him for a while. I like him too.
Speaker 1: I like him to. I just think, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of starting pitchers right now that people are
Speaker 1: excited about and want to add. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out people to rob. You only have
Speaker 1: so many bench spots as well. So yes, I want
Speaker 1: to stash zach Ethlyn and I like him, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of starting pitchers that people want to add
Speaker 1: right now. And I think that there's a few names
Speaker 1: just for me that I have ranked ahead of him
Speaker 1: in terms of who I would rather own. Fantasy as
Speaker 1: another one, jordan'sim Run. We don't have to get it.
Speaker 1: You want to get into him now or you want
Speaker 1: to get into him later. I'm a little intrigued by
Speaker 1: Jordan's what he's done the first two games thirteen point
Speaker 1: to u endings pitched. He's allowed one ear and run,
Speaker 1: and he's actually throwing his curveball more more and throwing
Speaker 1: his fastball less, so you can do. He's gotta double.
Speaker 1: He's gotta to start week next week, Greg, and he
Speaker 1: faces the Indians. Indians suck. They do the Indians and
Speaker 1: at the Twins. The Twins line up is very good,
Speaker 1: but it's still very cold in Minnesota. The ball is
Speaker 1: not flying out there. And they learned this about jordansim
Speaker 1: Run last night Greg via the Yankees broadcast. He's from Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: so the cold doesn't face him, so he can pitch
Speaker 1: well in Minnesota. He's wearing short sleeves yesterday and whatever,
Speaker 1: it was forty five degree weather in the Yankee game.
Speaker 1: A little fun facts there for for Jordan's Immerman. I
Speaker 1: know it feels like we do with Jordan's Immerman thing
Speaker 1: every year. I can't say I'm very interested. Perfectly. I
Speaker 1: put in a few bids on him in some of
Speaker 1: my leagues. How does that feel? Not great? But to
Speaker 1: start a week next week, the Indians are bad, as
Speaker 1: I've said, you know off stream, you pitching against the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians, So Jordan'szimmerman should be able to have some success.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so anyway, Nationals Phillies, Bryce Harper, what do
Speaker 1: you think the Majestic Bomb? Oh was sick. The bad
Speaker 1: flip was what made it. It was awesome. And I
Speaker 1: texted you this last night after it hits the home
Speaker 1: run and it. Drafted Aaron Judge in the main event
Speaker 1: and all draft season I was talking about how I
Speaker 1: had Bryce Harper ranked higher than Aaron Judge. I had
Speaker 1: him ranked as my UH for No. Right behind Christian
Speaker 1: yellow Acuna and JD Martinez like that first round group
Speaker 1: right after him. I had Bryce Harper up. The reason
Speaker 1: I didn't draft him in the main event in the
Speaker 1: NFBC Main Event was because he got hit the day
Speaker 1: before and his ankle with a pitch. I didn't really
Speaker 1: have a lot of information, so I pivot and I
Speaker 1: go with Aaron Judge. It's still very early, but you know,
Speaker 1: first week of the season, I'm kicking myself a little
Speaker 1: bit because I love Bryce Harper coming into the year
Speaker 1: and it was easy to see, you know, what his
Speaker 1: upside could be playing in Philadelphia in that lineup, and
Speaker 1: so far, you know, he's done everything you could ask.
Speaker 1: A lot of people got him in the second round
Speaker 1: of drafts and he could turn out to be one
Speaker 1: of the one of the steels of the year. Greg.
Speaker 1: You know, if he hits home runs in the middle
Speaker 1: of that line up, he's gonna drive in over a hundred.
Speaker 1: You got to see the batting average bounce back, but
Speaker 1: it did in the second half last year. He had
Speaker 1: over three hundred and second half last season just more
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper and I'm a huge fan. Obviously I have
Speaker 1: his jersey, So it sucks. It sucks that I didn't
Speaker 1: end up with him there. It sucks he didn't end
Speaker 1: up with him there, and it sucks about trade Turner.
Speaker 1: What also sucks Chrysale, the Velocity and the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Right now, when we come back with talk the Sean
Speaker 1: McAdam and we'll find out how concerned fantasy owners should be.
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Speaker 1: that's your BFS. We wants to get into Chris Sale
Speaker 1: to do that. You're joined now from the Boston Sports
Speaker 1: Journal is Sean McCowen. What's going on, Sean? How are you?
Speaker 1: We're doing well, sir? How are you good? Thing? So
Speaker 1: the big story for us and fantasy owners are like,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Boston reads Ox fans as well, he's
Speaker 1: a performance of Chris All who the first few two
Speaker 1: games has not been all that effective, and a lot
Speaker 1: of that is coming from the velocity at least we think,
Speaker 1: how concerned is Chris Sale, how concerned or the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and how concerned should we be? Well, just to
Speaker 1: clarify a little bit, uh, certainly the opener last Thursday
Speaker 1: in Seattle was not good at all. Three innings, three
Speaker 1: home runs given up, um he loved seven runs and
Speaker 1: six hits. So that was not a good start by
Speaker 1: any stretch. But last night in Oakland, even though the
Speaker 1: velocity wasn't there, the results were he gave up one
Speaker 1: run over six innings and gave up just three hits. Now,
Speaker 1: he did have just one strikeout, and that's the first
Speaker 1: time in Chris Sale's career in which he had an
Speaker 1: appearance of longer than four innings where he struck out
Speaker 1: only one batter. And the velocity certainly was not there
Speaker 1: last night in Oakland. Uh, he was averaging for the
Speaker 1: first time again in a career appearance under ninety miles
Speaker 1: with his fastball, and he was five. But it seems
Speaker 1: as if that's by design. Um, you know, he used.
Speaker 1: He threw his fastball only twenty nine times out of
Speaker 1: eighty seven pitches. That's exactly one third, and of course
Speaker 1: that's very low for any pitcher in Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: to rely on his fastball at less than fIF um.
Speaker 1: But he mixed in the changeup and slider and got
Speaker 1: a lot of weak hits and miss tim hits. And uh,
Speaker 1: the only thing hit hard was a home run by Chapman,
Speaker 1: the second batter of the game, who clubbed the fastball
Speaker 1: at the top of the zone that was about ninety
Speaker 1: and hit it out. Um. But I think this is
Speaker 1: all part of the bigger plan here where Sale and
Speaker 1: the other veteran starters in the rotation are being brought
Speaker 1: along slowly because the workload they had last October in
Speaker 1: the postseason, and both Alex Corn pitching coach Daniel Levinjy
Speaker 1: have advised Sale there there's no need to on a
Speaker 1: up here in April. Let's ease into this and have
Speaker 1: you operating at peak efficiency by the time they get
Speaker 1: to September and October. So, um, you know, the fact
Speaker 1: that he could get by last night without the use
Speaker 1: of his fastball, and when he threw it, it wasn't
Speaker 1: thrown very hard is an indication to me that, you know,
Speaker 1: Sales figuring it out, how to you know, manipulate things
Speaker 1: through the first six weeks here until he feels like
Speaker 1: the the arm strength has been built up, and then
Speaker 1: it's okay to you know, put the pedal to the metal.
Speaker 1: Speaking with Sean McAdam of the Boston Sports Journal, Sean,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about the rest of the
Speaker 1: Boston starting pitchers. You touched on it a little bit
Speaker 1: last night was for sale through the first quality start
Speaker 1: of the season for the Boston Red Sox starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: And we have a lot of interest in guys like
Speaker 1: in Ward Rodriguez and Nathan Vivaldi and even Rick Porcello
Speaker 1: to an extent for fantasy purposes, just because they're gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of ins and obviously what Evaldi and
Speaker 1: Eduardo Rodriguez showed us last year, we were expecting them
Speaker 1: to build off that. It's extremely small sample size, but
Speaker 1: is there anything to be worried about with those guys?
Speaker 1: Is this kind of just like a World Series hangover thing?
Speaker 1: What about the rest of the Boston starting pitchers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with the exception of Rodriguez, the other guys meaning Price, Porcello,
Speaker 1: and um evolved the are also we're also kind of
Speaker 1: on the same gradual build up program that the Socks
Speaker 1: had for sale. Uh, you know that they pitched until October.
Speaker 1: Those weren't just late into the calendar, but they were
Speaker 1: also obviously very high leverage innings with lots of pressure,
Speaker 1: as you would expect they would be. When you're in
Speaker 1: the postseason, every pitch takes on additional significance. UM, So
Speaker 1: to help deal with that World Series hangover, as you
Speaker 1: guys correctly labeled it. UM. You know, they built up
Speaker 1: very slowly here. They didn't have the eyes UH in
Speaker 1: actual grape Fruit League games until the middle of the
Speaker 1: of March. Their first couple of outings were either on
Speaker 1: back fields and inter squad games or in minor league
Speaker 1: spring training games or controlled settings like live BP, because
Speaker 1: they didn't want to ask too much of those guys
Speaker 1: too soon considering what they did in the fall. UH.
Speaker 1: And there's a reason that no World Series winning team
Speaker 1: has repeated in this century. You have to go back
Speaker 1: to the thousand Yankees to see a team that successfully
Speaker 1: defended its title, and most teams will tell you that
Speaker 1: a lot of it is about the workload on the
Speaker 1: starting pitching staff. So the Red Sox have designed this program,
Speaker 1: which they did to a degree last year, but then
Speaker 1: uh did so even more this year. The year before,
Speaker 1: they were coming off a quick exit in the Division
Speaker 1: Series against Houston, so they hadn't pitched nearly as many
Speaker 1: stressful winnings in October as they did last year. So
Speaker 1: they amped up even more this year to hold these
Speaker 1: guys back, to ease them in gradually in April, manage
Speaker 1: pitch counts and emphasize that, Um, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: about hitting nine with your fastball in March and April.
Speaker 1: It's more about maintaining your strength and being ready to
Speaker 1: contribute in September and October again. And it seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's as good an explanation as any for
Speaker 1: why they've struggled UM from a pitching standpoint. Now, Rodriguez
Speaker 1: because he didn't put nearly as much as the other guys,
Speaker 1: and because he's far younger than the other guys. He's,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five years old as opposed to all
Speaker 1: the other guys who were in their thirty thirties except
Speaker 1: for Um, of all these twenty nine. And he was
Speaker 1: coming off Tommy John surgery a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: So that's another issue. Uh, Rodriguez didn't pitch well because
Speaker 1: he didn't really follow the game plan. They had advised
Speaker 1: him to sort of changeups to lefties for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he didn't, and he got burned by J. Bruce on
Speaker 1: a three run homer. Um, so that was more execution.
Speaker 1: But I'd say for the other guys, the veteran guys,
Speaker 1: it's been more about you know, still building arm strength,
Speaker 1: and being um, you know, perhaps not at as the
Speaker 1: season goes along and the early results have reflected that.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Sean Adam Boston Sports Journal, who is basically,
Speaker 1: I think Frankie telling us to preach little patients with
Speaker 1: some of these Red Sox starters that were building up
Speaker 1: the Red Sox long term plan. Of course, September October
Speaker 1: had the velocity be back in the playoffs and the
Speaker 1: World Series. And this is spring training essentially for a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys as they build back up and
Speaker 1: get rammed up for the summer months out of the
Speaker 1: heart of the season. But as you alluded to, Sean,
Speaker 1: like that's the pitching problem right there, building back up,
Speaker 1: and they started mid March, and this is almost like
Speaker 1: spring training for them. They don't need to throw ninety
Speaker 1: eight in March and April. But hitting wise, it seems
Speaker 1: to be a little bit different. The bats have not
Speaker 1: woken up yet. Well, actually that's only two of the
Speaker 1: last two games they you know, even though they lost
Speaker 1: three out of four in Seattle, they sparked twenty four
Speaker 1: runs in their first four games. Um, so they're actually uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hitting the ball okay. Against the Mariners, I
Speaker 1: think they have. It's a combination of things. Obviously, Oakland
Speaker 1: is not a great hitter's ballpark. Um, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: have had difficulty there over the years there fifteen and
Speaker 1: thirty seven over their last fifty two games there, which
Speaker 1: is pretty extraordinary given you know, when how good the
Speaker 1: Red Sox have been as a as a team over
Speaker 1: the last you know, three or four seasons, winning the
Speaker 1: division three years in a row. So this is a
Speaker 1: team that regularly wins ninety plus games but can't seem
Speaker 1: to win games in Oakland. Um, and then you run
Speaker 1: into kind of a bus off that is the Oakland
Speaker 1: A's rotation. I think they've allowed one run in their
Speaker 1: last thirty six innings the starting pitchers, So it's not
Speaker 1: just the Red Sox that they've quieted. They also took
Speaker 1: three out of four from the Angels, who have a
Speaker 1: pretty good offensive team as well. UM, so I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to be Uh. Look,
Speaker 1: this lineup is too good with Mookie bats and J. D.
Speaker 1: Martinez and Andrew been Attendee and Xandrew Bogart's Um, they're
Speaker 1: not going to be silence for long. But I think
Speaker 1: combination of um, uh, you know, the a's being on
Speaker 1: a pretty good role. Maybe some cooler weather in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area where the ball isn't traveling. Well, um, they
Speaker 1: did okay in Seattle, but they have definitely hit a
Speaker 1: wall here in Oakland over the last two nights, scoreless
Speaker 1: over the last eighteen innings. I want to ask you
Speaker 1: to final questions here sean first one regarding the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Obviously the team doesn't bring back Craig Kimberal eas also
Speaker 1: sitting out there in free agency. Matt Barnes had a
Speaker 1: save in Seattle, So is he the guy? Have you
Speaker 1: heard that they're gonna roll with matchups? Because I know
Speaker 1: it's what a lot of bullpens are doing nowadays baseball,
Speaker 1: And you personally, are you worried about Chris Sale? It's
Speaker 1: kind of wrap it up with those two. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: the bullpen. Um. I think you're right. Well, well, there
Speaker 1: will be a lot of opportunities for Barnes and those
Speaker 1: traditional ninth inning save opportunities the way we saw last Friday,
Speaker 1: the second game of the season, where the Red Sox
Speaker 1: took the lead in the top of the ninth, got
Speaker 1: Barnes up quickly and he came in and got a one,
Speaker 1: two three bottom of the ninth for his first day
Speaker 1: of the year. Um, he will, I think, get the
Speaker 1: lion's share of those sort of traditional ninth inning chances.
Speaker 1: But they won't be afraid to use Brazier and there occasionally,
Speaker 1: and I think they are going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of match up based Uh you know, whether they go
Speaker 1: to that um uh, you know a little trickier set
Speaker 1: up where they might use Barnes in the seventh inning
Speaker 1: to get out of a first and second one out
Speaker 1: jam because those are the highest leverage outs down the stretch,
Speaker 1: rather than coming in with the bases empty in a
Speaker 1: three run lead. Of the nights for a traditional save. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's yet to be seen. Alex Core has been kind
Speaker 1: of kg about how he's going to use the bullpen.
Speaker 1: He said he's not going to quote name a starter.
Speaker 1: But I think you're correct that Barnes will be the
Speaker 1: guy on most but not every night and occasion where
Speaker 1: there is a same situation at the night. And as
Speaker 1: far as sale goes, Um, from a health standpoint, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I wouldn't be worried. Um. You know, they
Speaker 1: gave the guy a hundred and forty five million dollars
Speaker 1: a week and a half ago on a contract extension,
Speaker 1: and part of that deal was a thorough physical examination
Speaker 1: back in Boston by the team's medical staff UH to
Speaker 1: make sure that the shoulder inflammation that limited him the
Speaker 1: last couple of months last year was a temporary thing
Speaker 1: and not everything chronic are ongoing. UM. And you know,
Speaker 1: Sale has said repeatedly that he feels healthy, that with
Speaker 1: an off season UH weight training program and shoulder program,
Speaker 1: that he's back to normal. But clearly he is UM
Speaker 1: taking his time at the urging of the manager and
Speaker 1: the pitching coach in unleashing his best fastball and trying
Speaker 1: to get by Um with other secondary pitches for the
Speaker 1: time being until that that arm strength is totally built
Speaker 1: up and they feel like it's okay to let him go.
Speaker 1: One final question from Mi Sean before we let you go.
Speaker 1: He talked to the bullpen in our score of being
Speaker 1: a little kg, what percent chance would you put on
Speaker 1: this team resigning Craig him roll below one. I just
Speaker 1: don't see it happening. Uh. You know, they were opportunities
Speaker 1: I think over the winner to get something done if
Speaker 1: they wanted to do it. UM, a big problem there
Speaker 1: is going to be their payroll and luxury tax situation,
Speaker 1: because they're about, by various accounting methods, three or four
Speaker 1: million dollars under that final third luxury tax threshold. So
Speaker 1: let's say that they give Craig Kimberle, even on a
Speaker 1: short term deal that they don't want to get into
Speaker 1: anything long term because he's a closer in his thirties
Speaker 1: and we all know the danger is there. Let's say
Speaker 1: they gave him one year at fifteen million bucks. Well,
Speaker 1: because of where they are with a luxury tax threshold,
Speaker 1: much of that outlay would actually be taxed at So
Speaker 1: a fifty million dollar contract for Craig Timbrel would cost
Speaker 1: the Red Sox closer to twenty two or twenty three
Speaker 1: million dollars because they would have on that highest threshold
Speaker 1: and attacks of seventy percent. And I just don't see
Speaker 1: them justifying that, nor should they, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: not saying that they may not need to add somebody
Speaker 1: to that bullpen or make a trade or go out
Speaker 1: and augment what they have. But if just doesn't seem like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, good finding anential sense. If you have some
Speaker 1: concerns about a closer in his thirties and his effectiveness,
Speaker 1: and I got an investment that will be uh. Even
Speaker 1: the fifteen million, you could question that decision. At twenty
Speaker 1: three million, it seems to be no question at all.
Speaker 1: So I would say, you know, nothing in this life
Speaker 1: is full proof. But gun to my head, I'd say,
Speaker 1: as I said, less than one percent that he ever
Speaker 1: that he comes back. Less than one percent chance that
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberill comes back to the Red Sox. Hopefully there's
Speaker 1: more of a one percent chance that you'll come back
Speaker 1: and hang out with us again. Sean, we appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to do so. Thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 1: You got it. That was Sean mcgadam, Boston Sports Journal
Speaker 1: breaking down everything that's going on with the Red Sox
Speaker 1: and Chris Sale and this team as a whole. A
Speaker 1: lot of patients there, Frank from Shawn saying, let's let's
Speaker 1: hang on, hump the brakes. It's a long season, and
Speaker 1: I think fantasy owners needs to do the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I agree, especially with the offense, that the
Speaker 1: offense is gonna come around. You heard the stats regarding
Speaker 1: Boston's record playing a Quinn so for whatever reason that
Speaker 1: they struggle whenever they traveled to the West coast, specifically
Speaker 1: with Oakland Um and so I'm not worried much about
Speaker 1: the offense a little bit more with the rotation. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. Obviously, you know, we have a lot
Speaker 1: of shares of EDWARDA. Rodriguez, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: shares of Nathan Vivaldi. I didn't get David Price, I
Speaker 1: didn't get Rick Porcello anywhere, but still very highly owned
Speaker 1: players for fantasy purposes. I think it won't be long
Speaker 1: before these guys turn it around. But you heard it.
Speaker 1: It was an organizational philosophy right where they're bringing these
Speaker 1: guys along slowly. I mean specifically Sale. He didn't start
Speaker 1: until you know what, two weeks before the season started
Speaker 1: in training. So you know, as you heard on the
Speaker 1: broadcast for opening Day, they asked a rod Uh, when
Speaker 1: do you expect Chris sale to be himself? And he
Speaker 1: said May one. So that's what we're kind of looking
Speaker 1: at here is the first month of the season is
Speaker 1: kind of kind of being treated as spring training for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox starting pitchers, specifically Chris Sale. Uh. It
Speaker 1: eased some of the worries that I had regarding him.
Speaker 1: I do agree that, Look, they're not going to sign
Speaker 1: him to this extension if there was anything that he
Speaker 1: saw going on wrong with him physically. So I think
Speaker 1: him throwing as as low velocity as he did last night, Jesus,
Speaker 1: this is not this as ridiculous, right, trying to make
Speaker 1: as sure he is working, and I think, uh, I
Speaker 1: think him throwing as as low as he did with
Speaker 1: his fastball last night was was by design. Just kind
Speaker 1: of crazy to say, because going from eighty nine is
Speaker 1: a huge drop, but it seems like it was by design,
Speaker 1: So I have to agree with that. At least. Let's
Speaker 1: hope it ramps up man because Chris Tale, I mean,
Speaker 1: borderline first round pick this year, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of high expectations for him for fantasy purposes and and
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox purposes as well. Yeah, and absolutely
Speaker 1: the Red Sox counting on the fantasy owners ac counting
Speaker 1: on him. You're counting on him. Um. I think that
Speaker 1: Chris Sale, Um, I think he's gonna be Okay, I
Speaker 1: listened to me music to my ears. Greg, you want
Speaker 1: to try to buy low on chrisl and some dumb
Speaker 1: owner you go red ahead. What do you think you
Speaker 1: could pull off though? To get Sall? Now, So that
Speaker 1: was like I could see people freaking out about him
Speaker 1: and just trying to ship him out for anything anything.
Speaker 1: So so let's play that game, right, are you trick?
Speaker 1: Would you you're the Chrysale owner? Right, would you accept
Speaker 1: Mike Clevinger for Crystal? No? No, I'm just saying questions.
Speaker 1: You're in the right You're in the right mindset though,
Speaker 1: in the right mindset for sure. Like if you're trying
Speaker 1: to buy low a classic by Low so high doesn't
Speaker 1: get it doesn't make more sense than that, right, trying
Speaker 1: to sell my Clevinger and get Chris Sale. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Christale owner is gonna do it because
Speaker 1: they invested a first second round pick. But if someone's
Speaker 1: really freaking out they're reading all these reports about below,
Speaker 1: maybe they do that. Me personally, if I'm the Clevinger owner,
Speaker 1: I would throw it out there. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: range for you. Yeah, that's what I was thinking about
Speaker 1: that too. Like James Paxston, if someone came to you
Speaker 1: with James Paxston, Harmon Marquez definitely not obviously not even close.
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Speaker 1: Who Celie's married to? No? I don't. I know. It's
Speaker 1: a big name though, Hallie Berry or something. It was
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Speaker 1: Did he ever have a different wife? For? This is
Speaker 1: not current? There? Right? All right, all right, well, good
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Speaker 1: I have a have a tribute question for you, if
Speaker 1: you'd like it, let's go hit me great game. There's
Speaker 1: some the Yankee Games two nights ago. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's actually baseball related, I'm gonna have a better
Speaker 1: chance it's a really politics related. Miguel Cabrera, he's one
Speaker 1: of two players in the American League to win multiple
Speaker 1: batting titles since two thousand. Can you name the other two?
Speaker 1: Related Mike Trout isn't obvious guests for me. I'm gonna yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably not true. Are you gonna like that? I'm
Speaker 1: looking at how many guesses do I get? Three? Since when?
Speaker 1: Since it's two thousand two? Players have other than mid
Speaker 1: Yell Cabrera, I have won multiple batting titles only in
Speaker 1: the American League. In the only in the nationally there's
Speaker 1: only one and it's Barry Bonds. Oh, the American League,
Speaker 1: there's two. Am I going to know this person? Our
Speaker 1: pool holes is incorrect? Okay? Our pools never won about
Speaker 1: batting tile in the American League, so that's true. Well,
Speaker 1: I just meant. I thought they meant in the American League.
Speaker 1: Now in the American League, Robinson Cano every one of
Speaker 1: batting title in the American League that is in correct.
Speaker 1: Each Yarro Suzuki survey says you are once again in correct.
Speaker 1: Actually you're not, You're correct? Okay? Greg Voda is correct
Speaker 1: me when when we guess each years correct? He said
Speaker 1: that all I miss spot from Venture down I missed
Speaker 1: each year. Who wanted in two thousand and one and
Speaker 1: two thousand four. I'm sorry, look at that. I'm better
Speaker 1: than Gregor Trivia what else is new? Interesting? It's the
Speaker 1: trick question is wrong. There's one more guy. It's done
Speaker 1: it actually, oh, outside of outside American league. I don't
Speaker 1: have a good guess. Alex Rodriguez. It is not a
Speaker 1: great guess. The answer we're looking for is very easy. Actually,
Speaker 1: he's won it three and the last five years. Oh,
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets, No, he went it last year. That was
Speaker 1: not one of the five years, three out of four years.
Speaker 1: But it was a decent guest. He won it last
Speaker 1: So Mookie Bets won it in twenty eighteen. Biel Cabrera
Speaker 1: won it in you naven want in seven. Alex two
Speaker 1: years was not a bad guest. He has years of
Speaker 1: three twenty one. Alex Rodriguez never won a batting tide
Speaker 1: on the two thousands. His last bags had a win
Speaker 1: was ninety six year. I don't have a good guess.
Speaker 1: It's not a big trout, very easy. JD. Martinez, who's
Speaker 1: lt Bay? Yeah, it was just Affel two bay this yere.
Speaker 1: He's just completely off my radar now. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Clearly I believe he's still a bass. Last night the
Speaker 1: Astros running wild. Last Night Georgia, Georgie still basis for
Speaker 1: the Astros last night they started. That's exciting. Since, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a game on a twelfth thirty here, Greg,
Speaker 1: we do Cincinnati Milwaukee. Uh underway, we're about to start.
Speaker 1: You can watch. That gives him a nasty Louise Castio
Speaker 1: change up on Twitter right now. That's that's great. Frankie, Houston,
Speaker 1: we do unbelievably. So Houston fell to Texas last night,
Speaker 1: six to four. It was justin Verlander. I'm pitching great.
Speaker 1: Four innings, six hits, four runs, three walks, four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: As frank mentioned, Houston was running wild with four stolen bases,
Speaker 1: including one from Brantley, one from al Tuve, one from Springer,
Speaker 1: one from Alex Bregman. It's the Houston side of things.
Speaker 1: For Texas, it was Shelby Miller on the mount who
Speaker 1: only went three and two thirds allowed two runs. Jesse
Speaker 1: Chavis also allows too runs. The bullpend a nice job
Speaker 1: for Texas. Yeah, Jose Laclerk locks it down again here.
Speaker 1: He has two saves on the season. Justin Verlander, huge,
Speaker 1: huge disappointment last night. I know it's tough to pitch
Speaker 1: in Texas, but this lineup is one that's prone to
Speaker 1: striking out a lot as we've seen on the season
Speaker 1: so far, and you know he had four strikeouts, he
Speaker 1: had a strikeout for ending, but he got hit hard
Speaker 1: last night. He gave up a home run to as
Speaker 1: Drew bal Carbrera, two run shots. So pretty pretty bad
Speaker 1: performance from Justin Verlander here. He wasn't exactly lights out
Speaker 1: to start his first game as well either against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: You know, gave up the leadoff homer against Austin Meadows. So, uh,
Speaker 1: keep a little bit of an eye on Justin Verlander.
Speaker 1: Look at the velocity from last night. It's not like
Speaker 1: it was bad. I mean the average nine point four
Speaker 1: miles per hour on his fastball he maxed out at
Speaker 1: its twelve swinging strikes and nine pitches. I mean probably
Speaker 1: looking at more than that. We want more than that
Speaker 1: from uh, from Verlander, But keep an eye on him here.
Speaker 1: After its first two starts, he was he was not
Speaker 1: good last night. No, he was not eating wise for
Speaker 1: the Rangers. Kind of what you expect telling a lot
Speaker 1: of ships. Did you let off Rugen and Odor Elvis
Speaker 1: andrews all Get having a nice game for Texas against
Speaker 1: Verlander and then for the astros Um who's held two.
Speaker 1: They believe that he won seventy four on the season
Speaker 1: as far with in like four games. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna worry about that. Um and man, Josh Reddick's got
Speaker 1: a bunch of hits, all singles with a bunch of hits.
Speaker 1: Josh Reddick fatting four sixty two. Greg again, small sample size.
Speaker 1: He might be owned in fifteen team mixed leagues Rhodo
Speaker 1: even I'm not getting involved in Joshua fielders. You know,
Speaker 1: they kind of mixed things around a lot. I think
Speaker 1: one of the biggest takeaways from the Astro's lineups thus
Speaker 1: far Greg has been the absence of Tyler White. No
Speaker 1: I was in. It was something that we we spoke
Speaker 1: about for sure coming into the year, and it was
Speaker 1: something I was kind of worried about with him. But
Speaker 1: Tony Kemp has been d ching and I understand he
Speaker 1: adds the speed element. They want to be aggressive on
Speaker 1: the base paths, but he's probably more useful to them
Speaker 1: in the outfield. I'd imagine, why don't you play him
Speaker 1: over Josh Reddick instead. So the baffling to me, I
Speaker 1: want to see more Tyler White here. I guess it's
Speaker 1: kind of been that's been the American League version of
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker. For me, I wanted to see more Tyler White,
Speaker 1: but a Winker actually in the lineup against today leading off.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if that sticks. But there's been some
Speaker 1: frustration there so far. I mean guys like Winker and
Speaker 1: Tyler White absolutely absolutely. What with Jesse Winker has been
Speaker 1: so so frustrating. I'll see how we go out of
Speaker 1: a lot of staves Cincinnati, Jesse Winker in the lineup,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Colorado. The Rockies get shut out four
Speaker 1: to nothing and Blake Snell in a rough opening day
Speaker 1: with all those home runs. Not a rough yesterday against
Speaker 1: the Rockies in Tampa Bay as Snell was ridiculous. Seven innings,
Speaker 1: two it's one walk, thirteen strikeouts, did not allow a run.
Speaker 1: He was amazing. Kyle Freeland, Um, it wasn't great, only
Speaker 1: four thirty three runs, but struck out ten batters in
Speaker 1: this one. So a lot of strikeouts in this game,
Speaker 1: twenty three combined. It's you're starting pictures, Frankie. Yeah, streaming
Speaker 1: your pictures against the Tampa Bay Rays is dangerous. But
Speaker 1: they do strike out a lot, and they're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to strike out a lot. That's what they've showed us,
Speaker 1: you know, through this first week of the season, is
Speaker 1: that the Tampa Bay Rays are gonna strike out a lot.
Speaker 1: So Kyle Freeland, Uh, he had a really rough first ending,
Speaker 1: settled down a little bit. The four walks. You don't
Speaker 1: like to see that on only four and two thirds
Speaker 1: ending his pitch, but he strikeouts sixteen swinging strikes. He
Speaker 1: was actually second among starting pitchers and swinging strikes yesterday,
Speaker 1: behind only Blake Snell. And what the performance. If you
Speaker 1: needed something to uh calm you down a little bit
Speaker 1: after that first opening they start from. He did exactly
Speaker 1: that yesterday and against the good Rockies lineup two. Garrett
Speaker 1: Hampson was in there. He was frozen a few times
Speaker 1: on some nasty pitches by Blake Snell. Only two hits,
Speaker 1: one walk, zero earned runs, thirteen strikeouts, twenty four swinging
Speaker 1: strikes and Greg to me, the biggest takeaway here was
Speaker 1: Blake Snell is a four pitch pitcher. He's gonna throw
Speaker 1: his fastball, he's gonna throw change up, curveball, and slider.
Speaker 1: They're all nasty pitches. Last night he only threw his
Speaker 1: fastball thirty six times out of one pitches, So easy math,
Speaker 1: it's right around a thirty six percent usage rate. Over
Speaker 1: his first three seasons, he has thrown his fastball over
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the time. So if you're telling me
Speaker 1: that he's going to reduce his fastball usage, which is
Speaker 1: a very good fastball, it's nine and he's gonna start
Speaker 1: throwing his off speed stuff even more. It's slider, his curve,
Speaker 1: his changeup, and he had at least four swinging strikes
Speaker 1: on each of those pitches. He might actually be able
Speaker 1: to replicate or come close to what he did last
Speaker 1: year if he's throwing those off speeding and breaking pitches
Speaker 1: even more great because those pitches are are money pitches.
Speaker 1: It's always his fastball. But if he has four legitimate
Speaker 1: plus pitches that he can use and go to on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, he might actually come close to doing
Speaker 1: what he did last season. Big takeaway here for for
Speaker 1: for Blakes. Now, speaking of Tim, I have a lne
Speaker 1: up question for you. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Do you got? So the Daily Change League and Garrett
Speaker 1: Hampson had him on the bench because I haven't been starting.
Speaker 1: He hasn't really been starting. I have been starting him.
Speaker 1: He's been terribly as one hit on the season. Do
Speaker 1: I he's in the lineup today betting a correct Do
Speaker 1: I start him knowing that he's going through start against
Speaker 1: Chuck Morton, Or do I play Chris Taylor, who I
Speaker 1: expect to start against lefty Derek Holland, but I no
Speaker 1: know that he's gonna start, but he has played the
Speaker 1: two the past two games against left head Um hmm,
Speaker 1: A little bit more upside with Taylor obviously the ways
Speaker 1: line up is playing. Yeah, I would probably just take
Speaker 1: the safety and put Garrett Hampson my lineup because we
Speaker 1: already know he's gonna be in there. That's what I did.
Speaker 1: You never know what's gonna happen with the Dodgers, that's right,
Speaker 1: So I put Hampson in there just I mean, you
Speaker 1: want to get as many Hampson starts as he possibly
Speaker 1: can when he's in the line of Greg. My other
Speaker 1: thought is, just in case, for whatever reason, Elvis Andrews
Speaker 1: doesn't play or Justin Turner doesn't play, I have Taylor
Speaker 1: on the bench that can kind of southern a little
Speaker 1: bit later on. I'll take the guaranteed start with Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: You must feel pretty good about picking up Elvis Andrews.
Speaker 1: He just gets done, man Like, maybe he doesn't have
Speaker 1: enough a lot of power, he's not gonna feel basically
Speaker 1: he used to. But he's rock solid man for for
Speaker 1: points leagues, I mean, gets a lot of singles sitting
Speaker 1: in the middle of that line up to I mean,
Speaker 1: just that's it done. I feel okay, you know special
Speaker 1: or anything. When I feel you have a you have
Speaker 1: a trio of misfit shortstops. This will actually be Chris
Speaker 1: Taylor's last day on my team. I'm gonna pick some
Speaker 1: money up today. Drop him. Yeah, I'm gonna drop them.
Speaker 1: You're dropping him for you can't reveal anyone they do,
Speaker 1: but hopefully by the time they listen, I already picked
Speaker 1: the guy up. I haven't decidned yet. Do I want it?
Speaker 1: It's kind of kind of waited out. Are you? Are
Speaker 1: you debating like some of these starting pitchers. No, Actually,
Speaker 1: because tomorrow's a light day for my team in baseball.
Speaker 1: Um tomorrow, there's it seems like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: games for whatever reason. I guess my team doesn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of games for whatever, so um so I
Speaker 1: think I'm picking up a hitter. Just replace Chris Taylor
Speaker 1: with and between two. What So I clicked the error
Speaker 1: to look at tomorrow's games on Baseball Press and there's
Speaker 1: a PPD next to the Mariners and White Sox. I
Speaker 1: see that also already been in that. You know what.
Speaker 1: They might have a lot of snow on the ground
Speaker 1: or something. If it's in it is in Chicago. So
Speaker 1: if this is it's just the White Sox home opener too.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've been yet about Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this this, this, this is crazy. How is it possible
Speaker 1: it's postponed a day early? Again, Greg, I mean, if
Speaker 1: they're expecting a huge snowstorm or something in Chicago, that's
Speaker 1: probably why Mariners white socks postponed. Google And you're doing
Speaker 1: a great job, Greg, I think doing a great job
Speaker 1: of googling. While you do that, we will inform everyone
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Speaker 1: time and end. Uh, we're open to the people. There
Speaker 1: are tickets tomorrow available. It's t shirt Thursday too. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna be traveling in Chicago, at least I
Speaker 1: don't think I will be. So the game isn't postponed,
Speaker 1: I don't from what you've seen, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see that outside of Baseball press.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this anywhere else. Greg Well, ESPN has
Speaker 1: the same thing. Has it postponed? Okay, so then it's
Speaker 1: probably postponed. Doesn't make sense. MLB dot Com also has
Speaker 1: it postponed. Inclement weather. Makeup on April five is the
Speaker 1: next day. This is the White Sox home opener. And
Speaker 1: this is why they leave the next day off because
Speaker 1: if it's bad weather, then they could just do the
Speaker 1: the home opener. The makeup date April Gona. They're gonna
Speaker 1: do it Friday, Okay, hopefully there's no snow on the ground.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on in Chicago, Okay. Um, anyway,
Speaker 1: so the players, I was between her at the moment,
Speaker 1: and I said this to you before as a Garrett
Speaker 1: Hampson owner, I'm thinking of picking up Ryan Mikaman. Definitely,
Speaker 1: what are we waiting for? Greg? Wait now for someone else?
Speaker 1: I'm saying my pickups? Um, how many have two left?
Speaker 1: A gap? All right, so use it and we still
Speaker 1: have one left for the week. I agree. That's why
Speaker 1: I was waying towards the end of this week. That
Speaker 1: was that was my plan. Uh, I would do it now? Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you? Now do you know who one of who
Speaker 1: the other person is on the watch list? Yandy Diaz
Speaker 1: Andy and Andy dealing with an injury left last night's
Speaker 1: game with a leg injury. I would rather have the
Speaker 1: Rockies kind of platoon situation lockdown and I can just
Speaker 1: always have a closure to the Rockies. That's me. You
Speaker 1: want to win the last person? Who is that? Greg
Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom Man Senior. I like boom boom Man.
Speaker 1: He has some eligibility here first based in outfield, and
Speaker 1: he's hot bat so and that's a little bit closer
Speaker 1: between him. No, that's so close, isn't It is very
Speaker 1: clearly the third option here I would I would still
Speaker 1: take McMahon. So what the Rockies exposure? Man, dude, I
Speaker 1: would have in this case, I would have doll Ronado
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson and Ryan McMahon, four out of the eight
Speaker 1: Rockies hitters on a daily basis. You know what I
Speaker 1: thought about in my home league, I have story Doll
Speaker 1: and had Murphy see Murphy. But I thought about this
Speaker 1: after I drafted all of them. In the weeks where
Speaker 1: they play on the road like this one, they haven't
Speaker 1: been great. Now you're gonna have awesome weeks when they
Speaker 1: play six seven games in corps Field. We're also gonna
Speaker 1: have a few clunkers when they have three games in
Speaker 1: A T and T or Oracle Park and then three
Speaker 1: games in Petco. Right, So now you're saying boom boom,
Speaker 1: This is what I'm waiting because I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think I was actually so I think it was.
Speaker 1: Actually you have Hampson, I would I would pick up McMahon.
Speaker 1: I was leaning boom boom because they played tomorrow and
Speaker 1: the Rockies don't have seven games next week as well.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pick them up in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: He's my John Carlo Stanton replacement. So that tells you
Speaker 1: where I'm at. It happens today. See see if right
Speaker 1: McMahon as well today or Booman does one to night,
Speaker 1: and you'll be on my team tomorrow and then they
Speaker 1: won't play, and then I'll be upset and they'll be
Speaker 1: a disaster. Anything else from the last night, you want
Speaker 1: to hit four before the top of the our. Here's
Speaker 1: a lot more I want to hit. And actually, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Boom Boo's game between the Orioles and the
Speaker 1: blue Jays. Hedge passionally going six shot on things like
Speaker 1: well kid and Marcus Stroman. You honestly maybe could have
Speaker 1: predicted that against the Blue Jays. Dream anyone against the
Speaker 1: blue Jays right now? Who in five and two thirds,
Speaker 1: nine hits, two runs, five strike as Mike Floria are
Speaker 1: very excited about Marcus Stroman. Can I have a mom
Speaker 1: in here? Do you mind? Do you mind if I
Speaker 1: do this? Woman for Rowdy? Ready till by the way,
Speaker 1: Rawdy Tiles had a homer here in this one. Every
Speaker 1: aftergot the start when over three Randall green Chuck replaced him.
Speaker 1: Um Rowdy had another home runs that was good, so
Speaker 1: we feel which of course, we got the text at
Speaker 1: midnight from Michael Florio's I did not not do that.
Speaker 1: Um So the first thing that you put on today's
Speaker 1: run down, I believe was about Migel Cash your getting
Speaker 1: the save. Yes, Miguel, that is correct, miel Cash, You're
Speaker 1: getting the same. And I feel like the last couple
Speaker 1: of things on the rundowns last couple of days was
Speaker 1: Richard Bleier was Michael Gibbons Baltimore. And my reaction to
Speaker 1: you was like, what why why are we doing this
Speaker 1: Baltimore thing? And then Venture walks in here this morning
Speaker 1: and he'll be upstairs about a minute. Venture walks in
Speaker 1: this morning, just oh my god, Like Miguel Casher gets
Speaker 1: to save last night. I'm like, why are we freaking
Speaker 1: out about Orioles relievers because they don't have a close here.
Speaker 1: They don't have a closer. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: times we can figure this out. Michael Gibbons isn't the closer,
Speaker 1: Richard Flyer's not the closing, but Yell Casher's not the closer.
Speaker 1: They don't have a closer. Let's stop worrying about the
Speaker 1: Orioles and they're closer. It's ridiculous already. We'll go to
Speaker 1: Seattle in a second. Where Frank's feeling awesome because you
Speaker 1: have any swards I got to save him? Is if
Speaker 1: Seattle needs to save today, hen me have me the guy?
Speaker 1: Well that I mean, you could say that about any team, Greg, No,
Speaker 1: I can't closer comes off the d L and he
Speaker 1: pitches one night, right, might not use him in back
Speaker 1: to back nights, right, but you don't know the closer
Speaker 1: he's the last night, he was the best option. You
Speaker 1: don't know that an extremely high leveled situation and on that,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna get the next save. I would feel
Speaker 1: really good that. Have any swars acade, that's fine. We
Speaker 1: don't know. We don't ee Greg flow now, I wasn't
Speaker 1: on the Kennedy were freaking out about the Royals in
Speaker 1: the Orioles. They sucked, but Yel Castro nineties six points
Speaker 1: at the yell, cashtro and effort piste off today where
Speaker 1: Michael Gibbons saves the game. Ridiculous or baseball talk Up
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