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Speaker 1: Gregg Susman here for our number two, and we begin
Speaker 1: where we began last hour with the Jets firing head coach,
Speaker 1: firing general manager Mike mccagnan, and Brian Heiberdinger who is
Speaker 1: in their front office Adam Gaze currently the interim GM.
Speaker 1: And it looks like the Jets are going to bring in, uh,
Speaker 1: someone that Gaze really trusts, whether it's Joe Douglas from
Speaker 1: Philadelphia or Daniel Jeremiah from the NHL, from the NFL
Speaker 1: Network or both of them. Just making some changes here Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they absolutely are. If you want to go back and
Speaker 1: watch the first hour of my rant regarding the New
Speaker 1: York Jets and Mike mccagnan, Adam Gaze's entire situation, I'll
Speaker 1: just summing up for you real quickly. It's just incompetence
Speaker 1: at its finest, over and over again, they continue to
Speaker 1: make just terrible decisions. I don't know what Adam Gays
Speaker 1: has done to earn this type of role, this much
Speaker 1: power in an organization, but the Jet's gonna jet. Gregy
Speaker 1: Jets are going to Jet. Also, of course, top stories
Speaker 1: include the NBA Draft a lottery with the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks finished and number three for pick overall goes to
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans. Number two, he's Ben Fish, number four,
Speaker 1: the latt Lakers game Skime one, or the Western Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: what Steph Curry and the Warriors. And then we get
Speaker 1: to a whole lot of baseball from last night. The
Speaker 1: main event last night in Major League Baseball was Chris
Speaker 1: Paddock Clayton Kershaw, and Paddock got roughed out for the
Speaker 1: first time in his career. Frank, Yeah, he did here,
Speaker 1: but look he's going up against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 1: It's obviously a really tough spot to be in. Um
Speaker 1: it was in Los Angeles. It's going up against a
Speaker 1: tough lineup. He gives up a home run to Jack Peterson,
Speaker 1: he gives up a home run to Cody Bellinger as well.
Speaker 1: You know what, if you're gonna give up a home
Speaker 1: to home runs to lefties, that's a pretty good duo
Speaker 1: to give up home runs too. So uh, not really
Speaker 1: worried about Paddick. Overall, gives up six total runs, but
Speaker 1: it was three earned runs. So the defense kind of
Speaker 1: let him down here a little bit as well. The
Speaker 1: Padres had one error here behind him. Um wasn't necessarily efficient.
Speaker 1: Ninety two pitches in four and two thirds ending's pitched.
Speaker 1: And we spoke about this a little bit after after
Speaker 1: Chris paddox dominant performance against the Mets where he struck
Speaker 1: out eleven and he went absolutely nuts. There was gonna
Speaker 1: be some regression at some point, you know, the sub
Speaker 1: two e r A, the underlying numbers are all very good,
Speaker 1: but he was still hovering around a three x fips though.
Speaker 1: There are going to be some performances, and look if
Speaker 1: they come against the Los Angeles Dodgers of all team
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I don't have a huge problem with that.
Speaker 1: Greg fair enough, Chris Paddock says, watched me into my
Speaker 1: next start after what happened last night. He's already to
Speaker 1: get back on the mound. Uh And I have no
Speaker 1: idea that would be against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pretty good
Speaker 1: team to bounce back against, unless, of course he's gotta
Speaker 1: face Josh Bell, who is we'll get doing a second,
Speaker 1: the honest hitter in baseball. Avengers not even here to
Speaker 1: talk about him. Who knows if Clinton Kershaw seven a things,
Speaker 1: five hits, three runs, he walked, one he struck out
Speaker 1: of five allowed to him runs. The ball is flying
Speaker 1: out of Dodgers Stadium last night. Frand mill Ray has
Speaker 1: hit one in the first and Manny Machadow connected with
Speaker 1: one in the fourth. Forth Machado, He's ninth over of
Speaker 1: the year. It was a quiet ninth over the year
Speaker 1: for Manny Machado, who has the average of sixty five. Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, yeah, and I spoke about him a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. You're one of my biggest by low candidates.
Speaker 1: Regarding Manny Machado. You know, I saw the first home run.
Speaker 1: The home run to Friend mill rais that Clayton Kershaw allowed.
Speaker 1: And if you watch Clayton Kershaw's body language after he
Speaker 1: gets the ball back and he's walking around the mound
Speaker 1: a little bit, he's kind of you can tell about
Speaker 1: his facial expressions. He's like, Wow, that tells you what
Speaker 1: you need to know about Friend mill Rays. I mean
Speaker 1: that tells me Clayton Kershaw thought that he made a
Speaker 1: pretty good pitch and Friend mill Rays was just a
Speaker 1: little bit better. And that's exactly what I've been saying
Speaker 1: about him. This kid is gonna be legit. Strikeouts could
Speaker 1: be a bit of an issue at time, but he's
Speaker 1: a big, massive human being's he's starting to cut down
Speaker 1: the strikeouts a little bit as well, makes optimal contact.
Speaker 1: The home runs are gonna be there. He hits in
Speaker 1: a good part of the lineup, really really like Friend Milrays.
Speaker 1: I I liked seeing that reaction from Clayton Kershaw because
Speaker 1: it almost reassured how I feel about Fran Milrays. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to Kershaw, it's more of the same here. Greg.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been really solid. He's only allowed more
Speaker 1: than three runs once in a start so far this season.
Speaker 1: Through six starts, uh, he's allowed three ye and runs
Speaker 1: or less. Yesterday another quality start. Not that the Padres
Speaker 1: have been a great offense, They've been a little bit
Speaker 1: inconsistent here, but put together a quality start gets a win.
Speaker 1: He's three and all on the season. The strikeouts aren't
Speaker 1: where they used to be, but he's actually getting more
Speaker 1: groundballs this year three point three percent groundball rate. I
Speaker 1: think if you drafted Clayton Kershaw, you might want a
Speaker 1: toy with the idea of selling him now, because I
Speaker 1: do think at some point he's probably gonna get hurt again.
Speaker 1: But he's performing like a top twenty starting pitcher. And
Speaker 1: admittedly I didn't have him ranked there. I think I
Speaker 1: had him ranked closer to thirty, so I was worried
Speaker 1: about him. I still am kind of worried that at
Speaker 1: some point he probably gets hurt again, Greg, But he's
Speaker 1: performing like a top twenty starting picture right now. So
Speaker 1: if you can get a top twenty return for him
Speaker 1: from a starting picture that you expect to be around
Speaker 1: longer this year, Greg, and you don't have the injury concerns,
Speaker 1: then it is something that I would look into. If
Speaker 1: you could turn Kershaw on into Jack Flaherty. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna keep going back to Jack Flaerty. I know he
Speaker 1: walked a ton of guys yesterday and the walks the
Speaker 1: past couple of starts have been alarming. But this kid
Speaker 1: has filthy stuff. If I could start turn Kershaw into
Speaker 1: Flaherty right now, Greg, I would Kershaw into Flaherty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you think I'm with you? Like? I like
Speaker 1: Jack Kershaw has performed well, so like people are gonna
Speaker 1: have a pause here and they're gonna say, well, I pause.
Speaker 1: He only has one start, which wasn't a quality start.
Speaker 1: He's got a three four oh ear a and three
Speaker 1: four two xfit, so he's been pretty damn good. You
Speaker 1: have to expect that at some point he's gonna back
Speaker 1: start turning, to land on the back start turning. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to happen. Yeah, it's nothing crazy for Clint Kershaw.
Speaker 1: If I could do it with Flowerty, I might listen.
Speaker 1: You d have the Clayton Kershon thrilled. You're absolutely thrilled, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people on draft here you're getting huge
Speaker 1: discount on the get him at your SP three sometimes
Speaker 1: you're SP four And I remember writing about this on
Speaker 1: my Patreon before the season, I said, if I could
Speaker 1: get this guy at my SP as my SP four,
Speaker 1: if he continues to drop that far, like it's at
Speaker 1: that point where, yeah, I'll take on the risk of
Speaker 1: a Clayton Kershaw even if he gets hurt. He's your
Speaker 1: SP four. He's not one of the guys that you're
Speaker 1: counting on weekend and week out. Once you start getting
Speaker 1: into Sar, he's my SP two, and you know that's
Speaker 1: a guy that you're you're counting on and you need
Speaker 1: him to be there for for the longevity of the season.
Speaker 1: But I I even said this, Craig, if you're getting
Speaker 1: him as your like SP four in that range continues
Speaker 1: to fall, that's a great value. What it ulderly turned
Speaker 1: out to be a fantastic value, just like Jock Peterson
Speaker 1: was and youth. Peterson and Belinger Homer both in the
Speaker 1: same game once again. Peterson's thirteenth of the year, Bellinger's
Speaker 1: fifteenth of the season. All the Belinger. It feels like
Speaker 1: I haven't hit one in a while despite still batting
Speaker 1: over four last I really he's still hitting four hundred.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. We haven't talked about him in a while,
Speaker 1: but he's still batting over four Yeah, and Jock Peterson
Speaker 1: is doing what Jock Peterson always does, mashing against right
Speaker 1: handed pitching. The batting average is not good, but if
Speaker 1: you're playing an ob P league, if you're playing a
Speaker 1: points league, I understand you want volume in points leagues.
Speaker 1: But I think Jock Peterson might be the lone exception
Speaker 1: because when he plays against right handed pitching, he performs
Speaker 1: really damn well. The walk rate up around ten percent,
Speaker 1: the strikeout rate has been down the past three seasons.
Speaker 1: That's fine, it's right around league average. Batting average overall
Speaker 1: not good at two twenty, but he's got a fifty
Speaker 1: percent hard hit rate rate. He does exactly what you
Speaker 1: want him to do. And if you saw last night though,
Speaker 1: the home run that he hit, an absolute missile off
Speaker 1: the bat. It was a line drive. It's not like
Speaker 1: it was like this towering flyball. This was a rocket
Speaker 1: off of one of the better starting pitchers in baseball
Speaker 1: in Chris pat But what's the problem for Chris Pattick
Speaker 1: when it comes to going against Jock Peterson. He's a
Speaker 1: right handed picture Greg sorry advantage, Jock. We talked about
Speaker 1: some of the uh, some of the young players that
Speaker 1: have come up. Let's talk about Oscar Mercado as well,
Speaker 1: because his debut didn't go exactly how you would have hoped.
Speaker 1: He was over three with three strikeouts, did reach based
Speaker 1: on a hit by a pitch, came around to score
Speaker 1: another greatest debut for him yesterday afternoon. But hey, thing's
Speaker 1: gonna go up from here unless your carter keep him.
Speaker 1: A lot of home runs yesterday for Cleveland, including Josie
Speaker 1: Ramiers as you were upset about Frank, Jake Bower's, Ryan
Speaker 1: Luplow and Roberto Perez all going deep for Cleveland. They
Speaker 1: were led by Carlos Carrasco, who was wonderful in his
Speaker 1: seven things of work, six hits, six strikeouts. There. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was a nice little, nice little performance for Carlos
Speaker 1: Carrasco over the last two starts, both had been against
Speaker 1: the White Sox, and I believe his last start was
Speaker 1: even a shortened start because the game either went into
Speaker 1: a delay or ended after five innings. But it was
Speaker 1: the last two starts twelve innings pitched, eight hit, zero
Speaker 1: earned runs, zero walks, twelve strikeouts, again both of those
Speaker 1: coming against the Chicago White Sox, but Hey, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to dominate against the teams that you're supposed to dominate.
Speaker 1: So good performance here for Carlos Carrasco, and you need
Speaker 1: him to continue to build off this, because even after
Speaker 1: seven shoutout endings yesterday four point one eight e r A,
Speaker 1: that's not going to get the job done for Carrasco.
Speaker 1: And I owned him last year in a few leagues
Speaker 1: and it kind of felt similar. He got off to
Speaker 1: like a slow ish start, but by season's end, he
Speaker 1: was the Carlos Carrasco we know and love, and I'm
Speaker 1: pretty much expecting the same thing this year. So someone
Speaker 1: in your league is worried about Carrasco one year older,
Speaker 1: sees the overall ear A over four right now, that
Speaker 1: is someone that I would try and take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: I would try and acquire Carlos Carrasco because I still
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be Carlos Carrasco by the end of
Speaker 1: the season. Um, Jake Bowers coming around a little bit
Speaker 1: greg the batting average starting to creep up. I know
Speaker 1: he was in the low two hundreds for a lot
Speaker 1: of the season, but now up to two forty six hits.
Speaker 1: His fourth home run of the season yesterday. This seems
Speaker 1: like this is what we said about every player for
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians to start the year. Everyone's gotten off
Speaker 1: to a slow start. We spoke extensively about Jose ramr
Speaker 1: Is yesterday. It's a home run. It was upset about
Speaker 1: it because I'm going up against him in one of
Speaker 1: my head to head leagues where I'm two and four
Speaker 1: and I don't want to drop to two in five.
Speaker 1: But obviously, if you're a Jose Ramierror's owner Greg, something
Speaker 1: that you need to see clearly. Man Man got hurt
Speaker 1: and he won four innings, a lot of five runs
Speaker 1: and four hits. Man ma'am man bam. Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: give you permission to use that nickname? Model? Thirteen stolen
Speaker 1: bases on the year now for two Managerson still banting
Speaker 1: three twenty. Uh, he's amazing. So that's good. Anything else
Speaker 1: here for the White Sox not really, obviously, we just
Speaker 1: spoke about how dominant Carrasco was, so there wasn't really
Speaker 1: much going off for the White Sox. Yeah, I got,
Speaker 1: I got, I got nothing else there, your boy a
Speaker 1: year nominal, So I was gonna mention that I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't I mention this is just so useless. It
Speaker 1: is useless. It's it's like your love for jimmyka Bonus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Yakobonus. How's he doing the miners? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about useless. Let's not talk about that.
Speaker 1: I do love random relievers. Let's see Jimmy Yaco Bonus
Speaker 1: is dealing with the miners. We should probably like move
Speaker 1: on to another game. All right, is there again that
Speaker 1: you like to move on to? Frank Um, I'll pick it.
Speaker 1: Noah Syndergard dominated Washington last night as the Mets defeat
Speaker 1: the National sixth to synder God when he ends a
Speaker 1: lot of four hits to run struck out six for
Speaker 1: the Metsies, who were led by Wilson Rowlis, finally connecting
Speaker 1: on one his second homer of the year Dominic Smith
Speaker 1: also his first hold run of the year. He believe
Speaker 1: that was his first homer of the year. No, he
Speaker 1: doesn't play all that often, but still, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: believe it. Okay, it just doesn't play. He barely plays,
Speaker 1: and he's not really known as a home run hitter,
Speaker 1: so I think it's pretty believable. Greet all right, Darolas
Speaker 1: and his seventh run of the season, and it feels
Speaker 1: like at least three or four of those have come
Speaker 1: off Syndergard this year. Does this was at least his third? Yes,
Speaker 1: you might have three or four of his seven hold
Speaker 1: runs against nowhere Cyndergard. So can we get Victor Robost
Speaker 1: against nowhare Cyndergard, everybody, please? I don't know why of
Speaker 1: old pictures to dominate, Noahs, cynder Card is the one
Speaker 1: that Victor robosts chooses. But the batting average slipping a
Speaker 1: little bit here for Victor robos gred. He's down to
Speaker 1: two fifty. The county stats are all still really good.
Speaker 1: He's got the seven home runs, um only sixteen ribbies
Speaker 1: because he's he's been betting ninth and now he's betting second.
Speaker 1: But all right, let's let's pick a back up a
Speaker 1: little bit here. Victor Robost I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: him to kind of fall in to some kind of
Speaker 1: extended slump, which it seems like the whole Washington Nationals lineup,
Speaker 1: like I understand, they're missing players like heronic O Para's
Speaker 1: batting fifth for this team right now. Brian doeser surprise
Speaker 1: surprise over three batting one. Can we get Carter Keeping
Speaker 1: back up? Can we get him back up? Play second?
Speaker 1: Mase here, Ryan Dozer, what are we doing? What are
Speaker 1: we doing? When it comes to Brian Dozer? No Synderguard here, Greg?
Speaker 1: Interesting start? Um. I do think that streaming you're starting
Speaker 1: pittures against the Washington Nationals a profitable strategy right now.
Speaker 1: I actually use noh Syndergard on Fandel Lad tonight and
Speaker 1: he came through. Unfortunately not enough because I didn't have
Speaker 1: Chris Sale my lineup. Get to that a little bit
Speaker 1: later on, but it was a good start for Syndergard,
Speaker 1: but an interesting one. He had six strikeouts, Greg, he
Speaker 1: only had seven swinging strikes. Continue should just be a
Speaker 1: baffling year. Obviously the result are here, so you'll take
Speaker 1: it like you're fine with it, But just the underlying
Speaker 1: numbers for Syndergard seven swinging strikes consist Nationals lineup right now,
Speaker 1: they're missing a bunch of guys and they're prone to
Speaker 1: striking out and only get seven swinging strikes. Swinging strikes
Speaker 1: overall had been down this year for Syndergard, just weird overall.
Speaker 1: Like you'll take the you'll take the results, but I
Speaker 1: do want to see more swinging strikes from Syndergard moving forward. Okay,
Speaker 1: after the start, is he Syndergarden? Yes, I I agree
Speaker 1: with pretty we kind of tell a little bit about here.
Speaker 1: Let's let let's let people know what exactly did Frank
Speaker 1: two for three yesterday with a walk as well. He
Speaker 1: was on based three times in his debut with Brewers,
Speaker 1: defeated Philadelphia by the score of six to one. Brandon
Speaker 1: Woodroffe weird out because he walked five guys were there,
Speaker 1: only allowed one hit, five strikeouts. The walk did not
Speaker 1: come walks did not come back to hurt him. Uh.
Speaker 1: He allowed no runs on the evening while Corbyn burns
Speaker 1: him and afterwards, Uh, two hits, one run. It wasn't
Speaker 1: earned he did. He did strikeout four. Jaredikoff came back
Speaker 1: down an earth, gets a tough lineup in Milwaukee four
Speaker 1: and he's five runs, eight hits, two walks, two strikeouts,
Speaker 1: his worst outing of the season. Yeah, poor Jaredikof here
Speaker 1: going up against the Milwaukee Brewers again in Citizens Bank Park.
Speaker 1: Ideally I would like to avoid both of these starting
Speaker 1: pitchers in this matchup, but they both have to start weeks,
Speaker 1: so admittedly I would have had Woodroff in my line up.
Speaker 1: I did have him in the lineup. I would have
Speaker 1: had Jared i Cough in my lineup as well, based
Speaker 1: on how he was pitching. But when you get these
Speaker 1: singles starts in a week and you see the Phillies
Speaker 1: on the other side of that matchup, you see the
Speaker 1: Brewers on the other side of that matchup. Unless it's
Speaker 1: like your top starting pitchers overall in fantasy, I really
Speaker 1: want to bench starting pitchers against these teams. They're just really,
Speaker 1: really tough matchups. And Brandon Wouldroff here. I think this
Speaker 1: speaks to how good his stuff really is. The fact
Speaker 1: that he walked five guys and still got through six
Speaker 1: innings unscathed, only allowed one hit, no runs, five strikeouts
Speaker 1: against this Phillies lineup. That speaks to how good his
Speaker 1: stuff really is. And I know Modica talked about him
Speaker 1: a little bit on Monday. We've been talking about him
Speaker 1: for weeks now. He's basically been doing what we wanted
Speaker 1: Corbyn Martin to do. We spoke about Martin and Freddie Peralta,
Speaker 1: Corbyn Martin, Corbin Burns rather Corbin Burns, Freddie Peralta and
Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruff before this season as like the young starting
Speaker 1: pitcher crop coming up for the Milwaukee Brewers, and we
Speaker 1: all said that they have upside. But the one person
Speaker 1: that has capitalized on that has Brandon Woodruff. If you
Speaker 1: own him, you pick him up for the two star week,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to keep him around. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot to like about Brandon. Would would you have
Speaker 1: absolutely getting done? All back there? Absolutely getting it done? No,
Speaker 1: Luckey and Fantasy owners at this point, keep him, hold
Speaker 1: on to him and enjoy the ride while you're on it.
Speaker 1: Was there a break here? When we come back, all
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Speaker 1: was Chris Sale because he was absolutely awesome in his
Speaker 1: outing at home against the Colorado Rocky Shore. The Rockies
Speaker 1: are not what they have been over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, struggling both in Denver and away from Denver.
Speaker 1: But still, I don't think anybody expected this. Through seven
Speaker 1: innings last night, Chrysale struck out seven teen batters seventeen
Speaker 1: strikeouts in seven innings. That means he got twenty one
Speaker 1: batters out last night, seventeen of them a game by
Speaker 1: strike out, twenty one outs, seven teen by ricouts, and
Speaker 1: yet three hits two runs. Of course, those runs bill
Speaker 1: come into seven ending off the bat of No. One hour,
Speaker 1: not an inning later, Brandon Workman blows it. Ryan Brazier
Speaker 1: blows it again later, and the Red Sox fall to
Speaker 1: Colorado by the score of five to four. What an
Speaker 1: outing like Chris Sale, who seems okay, absolutely ridiculous. He
Speaker 1: has four double digit strikeout performances in his last five starts.
Speaker 1: Now his seventy three strikeouts in fifty one endings pitched. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think we're good. I think we're good now with
Speaker 1: christ I feel good. I think we're all right. I
Speaker 1: think we're feeling all right here and shout out to
Speaker 1: a rod I'm gonna keep going back to this what
Speaker 1: he said on the first day of the season, opening
Speaker 1: day with Chris Sale on ESPN, going up against the
Speaker 1: Seattle Marriagers. He said, by May, middle of May, this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be in in mid season four. He's got
Speaker 1: to get his legs underneath him. He didn't have his
Speaker 1: spring training. April was his spring training. May is the
Speaker 1: start of his season. Let's look at what he's done
Speaker 1: in the month of May. Oh, that's only three straight
Speaker 1: games with double digit strikeouts ten, fourteen, and seventeen last
Speaker 1: night against the Colorado Rockies. The team that does is
Speaker 1: prone to striking out, but twenty four swinging strikes. The
Speaker 1: v low has been right around ninety three per hour
Speaker 1: on the fastball each of his past three starts. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm good with that. We don't need
Speaker 1: ninety five. We don't need ninety six. Chris Sale. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna work at ninety three and give me seventeen strikeouts,
Speaker 1: we're all right. We're good with that. And you give
Speaker 1: up two runs. If you're gonna give it up to
Speaker 1: anyone it's non Arronado. That's fine, man, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a pass. You gave me seventeen strikeouts. In the main event,
Speaker 1: I love you. I'm sure everyone else does too. Going
Speaker 1: up against Chris Sale. Don't love him. Are you going
Speaker 1: up against him? I'll not say if that that would
Speaker 1: have been the icing on the cake. If you've got
Speaker 1: like to Vladdy home runs in a seventeen strikeout Chris
Speaker 1: Sale game, that's the I c on the cake. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Kyle Freeland with six innings start, three runs,
Speaker 1: five inch, I don't want to strike as he did.
Speaker 1: He didn't allow just want to run. He left three.
Speaker 1: Come on, Red Sox, you kidd Kyle Freeland. You let
Speaker 1: this guy get a quality start against me. Look at
Speaker 1: what he's done the past couple of started. Gotta get
Speaker 1: an ear a over six entering this start. Gosh, But
Speaker 1: if you're a Kyle Freeland owner, I don't know why
Speaker 1: you would have been. And spoke to Modiq about this
Speaker 1: on Monday. If I own that was the tell tale.
Speaker 1: If you can't start Kyle Freeland on a two start
Speaker 1: week on the road with neither of those starts coming
Speaker 1: in course field, and he probably shouldn't be owned. So admittedly,
Speaker 1: if I owned him, I would have dropped him. He
Speaker 1: would have not been in my line for this one.
Speaker 1: But overall, it is a good start, quality start here
Speaker 1: for Kyle Freeland. But even after it with the seven
Speaker 1: strike Aus got a five six eight e r A
Speaker 1: fact that he pitches in Colorado. It's I just don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of faith in Kyle Freeland. And it's
Speaker 1: nothing against him. I mean, he was really good last year, Greg,
Speaker 1: he was he was like a sub three e r
Speaker 1: A last year and he figured out how to pitch
Speaker 1: in corpse field. But for whatever reason, this year it
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same case. So maybe later on down
Speaker 1: down the line the season, if he starts to figure
Speaker 1: it out again. Is the guy that you could pick up.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that he should be on roster's
Speaker 1: right now. Michael Javis, j D Martinez, Raffie Dever's all
Speaker 1: go boom against Kyle Freeland. Here, Michael Javis, man can't stop,
Speaker 1: won't stops slumping, came back back. It's the seventh whole
Speaker 1: run of the season for Javis Devers, only his third
Speaker 1: JE eight. Really wish that I picked up Michael Javis
Speaker 1: instead of Carter keep him Greg. Sorry, Frank, it's not
Speaker 1: your fault. I had as much of a you know,
Speaker 1: as much of a handle on my own doing. It
Speaker 1: wasn't you. It wasn't you who put the bid in
Speaker 1: it was me. So without looking Raffie Devers, even though
Speaker 1: he has three home runs, never mind, what I had
Speaker 1: to say without lookings is his averages. He's crushing it
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, you want more power, and its
Speaker 1: starting to come. I feel like he's hit all three
Speaker 1: of these home runs in the past week or two,
Speaker 1: so it's starting to come a little bit. And and
Speaker 1: mind you, last night it was still really cold. It
Speaker 1: was cold here in the Northeast. It was really cold,
Speaker 1: and Boston it was it was a gloomy weather. And
Speaker 1: with all of that being said, is just hitting one.
Speaker 1: So I think that as the weather starts to heat
Speaker 1: up a little bit, maybe we don't get the same
Speaker 1: power that we wanted starting into this coming into the season.
Speaker 1: Maybe we don't get like the plus home runs we're
Speaker 1: expecting from Devers. But if he gives you twenty to
Speaker 1: twenty two with a three batting average in the middle
Speaker 1: of this lineup, the county stats are gonna be there.
Speaker 1: I think you'll take that, Greg, so you'll sacrifice some
Speaker 1: of the power you didn't get from Devors. If you
Speaker 1: give you a three batting average, you'll take that. And
Speaker 1: this this is part of the player that I wanted
Speaker 1: last year just it just didn't come to fruition. I
Speaker 1: was one year early, Endeavors, one year earlier, Raphael never, Frank,
Speaker 1: we're in this together, as we are in everything. Houston
Speaker 1: went into Detroit last night. Can we not move on
Speaker 1: yet really quickly? I just want to start at the
Speaker 1: top here of the of the Red Sox lineup against
Speaker 1: the lefty. Then Intendee over six four strikeouts, continues to
Speaker 1: struggle against lefties. How Freeland not like he's the best
Speaker 1: lefty of all time either, So I didn't over six
Speaker 1: to sixty five batting average. Now for ben Intende O P.
Speaker 1: S oh Along. What I said about him, Greg was
Speaker 1: you take him at the like two three turn. You're
Speaker 1: expecting him to take a step that he's never he's
Speaker 1: never done yet, and it doesn't look like he's doing
Speaker 1: that right now either. There still a lot of time
Speaker 1: to go, like he can turn it around, but he's
Speaker 1: got it, you know, get that out of the way.
Speaker 1: It's a double pat of the back day for you.
Speaker 1: Then Detroit fell to Houston eleven of four, and our
Speaker 1: guys knew and everybody knew he used to be going
Speaker 1: to Detroit and just crushed them, and they did. Wait,
Speaker 1: Miley didn't get a quality start though, six and things
Speaker 1: seven hits, four runs, two walks, five strikeouts, but Houston
Speaker 1: was all bombs away is George Springer is now in
Speaker 1: the lead for the most home runs in the American
Speaker 1: League with sixteen of them. Don't pat yourselfing back for
Speaker 1: that one. No, I will not. You can pat your
Speaker 1: cell phone the back for that one, Greggy Um. I
Speaker 1: apologize to John Lester and Madison Bumgarner early on in
Speaker 1: the season. Now was the time to apologize to George. Here.
Speaker 1: I am sorry George, because what you were doing right
Speaker 1: now is just otherworldly. Look, he has sixteen home runs
Speaker 1: in forty three games this year. He hit twenty two
Speaker 1: home runs in a hundred and forty games last year.
Speaker 1: So something, whatever you're doing, just keep doing it because
Speaker 1: it's working. And he's got four stolen bases on top
Speaker 1: of that. He had six and all of last season.
Speaker 1: What we've what we've said about Springer was he has
Speaker 1: the athleticism athleticism to steal bases. He just hasn't been
Speaker 1: very efficient at doing so. Look at the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, six for ten, five for twelve, nine for nineteen,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been efficient. But so far this year or
Speaker 1: for five nine batting average, sixteen homers, thirty nine runs,
Speaker 1: thirty nine r b i s, fifty percent hard hit rate.
Speaker 1: I was a little worried about Springer coming into this
Speaker 1: year because he had never posted a hard hit rate
Speaker 1: above Last year he was thirty three percent. He was
Speaker 1: below league average. So I think the process of having
Speaker 1: question marks regarding George Springer heading into the season was accurate.
Speaker 1: But he's putting together and he's been like nothing we've
Speaker 1: ever seen from him before. And shout out to Springer man,
Speaker 1: he's getting it done again. Hard hit rate, he's absolutely
Speaker 1: mashing um. He's got a career high eleven point eight
Speaker 1: percent walk great. Right now, this Houston Nastrols lineup, Creig,
Speaker 1: they're putting up video game numbers. Yea. I tweeted this
Speaker 1: out last night. It's it's like they're playing the show
Speaker 1: on rookie mode. Everything, like they're seeing the baseball like
Speaker 1: it's a beach ball right now. Everybody or those Korea
Speaker 1: went off last night, going off. He's been going off
Speaker 1: lead Miss Diaz another home run, fifth home run of
Speaker 1: the season, with the on the I l hey man,
Speaker 1: I mean that's you just want to exposeure to this
Speaker 1: lineup right now. And you know what, you know who
Speaker 1: hit a home run last night as well? It might
Speaker 1: just be an organizational thing all the way down the line.
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker hit a home run last night too. You
Speaker 1: know who went oh for five with three strikeouts d
Speaker 1: H four the Astros. That's Tyler White bringing up Greggy.
Speaker 1: Are we getting close to Kyle Tucker time? Very much? So?
Speaker 1: I think we are very much so. I think we are.
Speaker 1: And that means it's not necessarily close to you were
Speaker 1: in Alvarez time, not on the forty. It's closer to
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker time. And it's not a knock on Alvaist who.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are stashing your on
Speaker 1: Alvarez and they're excited about him, and you should be.
Speaker 1: He's been the number one hitter in the minors this year.
Speaker 1: But he's not on the forty man roster for the Astros.
Speaker 1: Now they could finagle things quite easily. Nikki Lopez was
Speaker 1: not on the forty man roster, I believe for the Royals,
Speaker 1: and he get paid like French Windel like. It's very
Speaker 1: easy to do like the Astros. If they want your
Speaker 1: Don Alvarez is they probably would have done it by now.
Speaker 1: They would have defaide someone moved someone to the sixty
Speaker 1: day I l and then you get your on Alvarez
Speaker 1: on the forty man. But they haven't, And Kyle Tucker
Speaker 1: is starting to pick it up in a major way.
Speaker 1: Of the past couple of weeks, he's been matching. It's
Speaker 1: another home run last night. I think we might be
Speaker 1: getting close to either Kyle Tucker coming up and being
Speaker 1: the right feeler for the Astros. They'll move Reddick to
Speaker 1: d H or or vice versa. We're getting close. When
Speaker 1: you said you who else? Homeward? Last night Rooney his
Speaker 1: six homer of the season. This guy packs a punch, man.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like this little stocky middle infilar dude,
Speaker 1: and he just packs a punch. Two more hits last night,
Speaker 1: six runs, three ribbis. But we picked him up a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. I picked him up in in
Speaker 1: a few leeks, and I've been reading all these benefits.
Speaker 1: He had a multi home run game over the weekend
Speaker 1: as well. Get this guy on your roster, especially if
Speaker 1: you're playing Yahoo. He has like every position eligibility except
Speaker 1: catcher and pictures. So I'm finding a way to get
Speaker 1: Ronnie Rodriguez on my team. Keeps getting it done, Grege, Yes,
Speaker 1: he does a Ronnie Rodriguez a potential replacement as well
Speaker 1: for Elvis Andres for those at last for sure. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save it. But let's not say, let's have
Speaker 1: some fun. Josh Bell Man, Josh Bell I dropped him
Speaker 1: week one. This is when my early jobs come back
Speaker 1: to haunt me. Oh gosh. Yeah. In the pit League,
Speaker 1: had Josh Bell drafted Josh Bell, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, he was really cold at the first week
Speaker 1: or two. Just be a lesson to you, Greig and
Speaker 1: everyone out there who has a quick trigger finger, especially
Speaker 1: in fantasy baseball. Man, it's so hard to have a
Speaker 1: quick trigger finger. So long had it and a job.
Speaker 1: Josh Bell, dude, I want you're gonna You're about to
Speaker 1: guess where he ranks in all statcast categories, average eggs, velocity.
Speaker 1: What percentile would you say is hard hit rate? Say
Speaker 1: you're off again x wOBA expected whoba, You're off again?
Speaker 1: Expected slugging percentage should have stuck with ninety eight expected
Speaker 1: batting average, don't sell him short man three batting average,
Speaker 1: a multi homer game, twelve home runs, thirty nine ribbies.
Speaker 1: Admittedly wasn't really a Josh Bell guy coming into the season.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Venture, Shout out to Matt Modica. Two
Speaker 1: guys that I know we're advocates of Josh Bell, and
Speaker 1: he's stuck by him the prospect pedigree, and he's just
Speaker 1: getting it done. Man. Last year his average eggs velocity
Speaker 1: nine pretty good, this year five point three. He's just
Speaker 1: seeing the ball more clearly. And what we've said about
Speaker 1: him kind of similar to yell it over the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. If he started to raise the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit, raises launch angle, hit a little bit
Speaker 1: more line drives, hit some fly balls, the guy could
Speaker 1: take off. And he's a big human being, he's strong,
Speaker 1: and he's doing exactly that he's talked about it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's something he's consciously trying to do. Last year, his
Speaker 1: average launch angle nine point two degrees on average, this
Speaker 1: year eleven point four. So hitting more line drives, putting
Speaker 1: the ball in the air. He's expected batting averages three
Speaker 1: twenty his barrel percentage, that's optimal contact. You're getting the
Speaker 1: barrel on the ball se of his batted balls. Man,
Speaker 1: It's just he's crushing it. He's been absolutely unbelievable. All
Speaker 1: the credit for that one. Yeah, I know Matt Modigo
Speaker 1: was on him too, but yeah, Chris Venture, that was
Speaker 1: this guy. He was all over it. He's got good
Speaker 1: places just when he walks as well. He's absolutely man.
Speaker 1: I've heard people ask questions of Joey Vodo or Josh Bell.
Speaker 1: Do you know do I still have faith in Joey Votto? No, man,
Speaker 1: Josh Bell the top ten first basement this year, he's
Speaker 1: absolutely legit. I'm buying in. He's made a change and
Speaker 1: the results are paying off. If you're asking me Matt
Speaker 1: Carpenter or Josh Bell, Joey Vodo or Josh Bell, any
Speaker 1: of like these middling veterans, I'm taking Josh Bell. Maybe
Speaker 1: not Jose You love your middling veterans. You'r a huge
Speaker 1: middling veteran guy. You want altlet pools this week, Well
Speaker 1: that's because Josh Bell isn't available. Greg. But I don't
Speaker 1: have Joey Vado on any of my teams, like you
Speaker 1: don't have Matt Carpenter or on any of my teams.
Speaker 1: No you don't. I do have Jose Bravey because the
Speaker 1: price was right. So I guess it's just middling. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just middling pictures vetteran pictures that you like. I
Speaker 1: get behind that. Uh, Joe Muska rebounded a big, big way.
Speaker 1: Seven innings, one hit, two walks, five strike as. Excellent
Speaker 1: start for Joe Musgrove. Will only threw seventy five pitches
Speaker 1: in this one. So why didn't he go eight? That's
Speaker 1: the question that I have. Maybe they just wanted to
Speaker 1: get him out. We get couldn't hurt along the line
Speaker 1: because I want to I want to know. Well, I
Speaker 1: can tell you why, because it looks like in the
Speaker 1: eighth inning the Pirates, uh Diamondbacks were sending up some big,
Speaker 1: big boppers. You know, he's got pitched hit fourth though
Speaker 1: maybe they had a rally going maybe potentially. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean this is a big hi haters. Joe musgro Performance here,
Speaker 1: shutting up all the haters here, seven shutout an. He's
Speaker 1: greg one hit, two walks, five strikeouts. The walks you
Speaker 1: really wanted to see the command come back here because
Speaker 1: in his previous start it was either four or five walks.
Speaker 1: And that's not like Joe Musgrove. This is the guy
Speaker 1: who prides himself and having good come in and not
Speaker 1: giving up. You know, people on bass paths via the walk,
Speaker 1: and he bounced back only two walks, only one hit.
Speaker 1: Not that the Diamondbacks are murderers row, but you need
Speaker 1: to see a guy bounce back somewhat after a performance.
Speaker 1: Two performances that he just had. So even with everything
Speaker 1: that's gone on start off the season really high had
Speaker 1: a hiccup, two or three pretty bad performances in a
Speaker 1: row as a lights out performance last night at the
Speaker 1: ear A. Greg still sits at three point five nine
Speaker 1: and last week when we were talking about Musgrove, that's
Speaker 1: exactly where I said he's probably gonna live. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna live in that three five to three seven e
Speaker 1: r A range. He's a good picture. Maybe we've overrated
Speaker 1: him a little bit over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove, but he is a good picture, and I
Speaker 1: think he's he's gonna he's gonna sit in that three
Speaker 1: five to three seven range with a good whip because
Speaker 1: he doesn't walk all that many batters. Luke, we will
Speaker 1: give you a quality start with six innings of seven hits,
Speaker 1: three runs, two walks, and five strikeouts. Zack Godley comes
Speaker 1: in to relieve. Not great, Bob. He has the home runs,
Speaker 1: uh to Cool Tucker and one of them to Josh Bell.
Speaker 1: Greg Holland came in in a mop up role, trying
Speaker 1: to get back on track, allow to hit a walk,
Speaker 1: did strike out too well? Greg, you said not great,
Speaker 1: Bob regarding Zack Godley, and I would like to say,
Speaker 1: as somebody who starts my hitters against that godly great job, Bob,
Speaker 1: I actually would like to see more z god so
Speaker 1: that we could get some more home runs in fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver puts together quality start here. The guy has
Speaker 1: been money all year. I mean three point one six
Speaker 1: e r eight, five strikeouts in six and he's pitched.
Speaker 1: Maybe you were expecting something a little bit better here
Speaker 1: against the Pirates lineup, but are you really going to
Speaker 1: complain of our quality start? Luke Weaver was going outside
Speaker 1: the top sixties starting pitchers this year, maybe outside the
Speaker 1: top seventy, and look what he's done for you so
Speaker 1: far this year. So he's really been one of the
Speaker 1: biggest surprises. Greg, I would say maybe outside of like
Speaker 1: Caleb Smith as someone who was going outside the top
Speaker 1: sixty seventy starting pitchers who has returned the most value
Speaker 1: of those far. We talked about Luke Weaver though we did,
Speaker 1: we were, we were, we were, we were perfectly because
Speaker 1: we were on him, but not enough and we ended
Speaker 1: up not drafted. Did we draft Hi anywhere? I don't
Speaker 1: think we did, Like you might have got him. Did
Speaker 1: we get him in the auction? That's what I was
Speaker 1: about to say, Like we were definitely talking about him
Speaker 1: and talking about I don't know that before. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was definitely on our radar at that spot, so we
Speaker 1: talked him up at little bit. I think we were
Speaker 1: thrown off a little bit by the spring and like
Speaker 1: the early season struggles for Luke Weaver, um, hey man,
Speaker 1: it's really turned it around. And again, outside of Caleb Smith,
Speaker 1: he's been one of the starting pitchers that's return the
Speaker 1: most value. We'll take a break. We mentioned it earlier
Speaker 1: and that was Jack Flaherty. We'll tell you what he
Speaker 1: did last night. You might get Yang in studio too.
Speaker 1: Let's do what have when we come back. Mike woldon Evits'
Speaker 1: struggling too. He's all right right now, he's eight. We'll
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, yesterday, Jack Flaherty led the Cards to a
Speaker 1: four team of three victory with a quality start. You
Speaker 1: walked five guys not so good, struck out six. That's better,
Speaker 1: three hits, three runs for Clarerty. Yeah, I was watching
Speaker 1: this start to head shut off once the NBA Draft
Speaker 1: lottery came around. But I was watching him early on.
Speaker 1: He looked really sharp. Ran into some trouble in the
Speaker 1: middle endings here where he gave up a few singles.
Speaker 1: He walked a few guys that believe he walked in
Speaker 1: a run as well. So I don't like what I've
Speaker 1: seen in terms of the walks. The past three starts
Speaker 1: five walks, three walks, eight four walks, So he's had
Speaker 1: twelve total walks over his last three starts overall here, Greg,
Speaker 1: but still gives you a strikeout for ending, still only
Speaker 1: gives you a three year and runs gives you the
Speaker 1: quality start earlier on in the season. In his first
Speaker 1: let's see to four six starts, he allowed just six walks,
Speaker 1: and now over his last three he has twelve. So
Speaker 1: this is something that was a huge issue for him
Speaker 1: last year. And once I saw those first six starts
Speaker 1: and said, wow, he's really he's gotten past the walks here,
Speaker 1: spoke a little bit too soon. When it comes to
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, the stuff is still really good. Fifty three
Speaker 1: strikeouts in forty seven and two thirds endings pitched. He
Speaker 1: has a four point three four e r A, but
Speaker 1: the x FIPS stands at three point eight zero twelve
Speaker 1: swing strike create the first bit strike percentage much better
Speaker 1: this year as well. Uh, the O swing is down
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I gotta look into this. I
Speaker 1: think the O swing might be down across the league
Speaker 1: right now because as we've seen, hitters are just laying
Speaker 1: off pitches outside the strike zone. They're not swinging at
Speaker 1: pitches outside the strike zone as much as they have
Speaker 1: in years past. So it's something that I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: into and see if the chase rate overalls is down
Speaker 1: this year because it teams, like many starting pitchers are
Speaker 1: walking more batters and not getting as many swings and
Speaker 1: misses outside the strike zone. So I'm gonna look into that.
Speaker 1: But overall, still getting a lot of strikeouts from Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 1: and I still think there's a lot of like he's
Speaker 1: he's got to write these these walks again. Though he
Speaker 1: did it in the first six starts, which means he's
Speaker 1: capable of doing it. We've seen him do it, but
Speaker 1: now he's really kind of reverted back to last year
Speaker 1: over these past three starts, So I think he will
Speaker 1: get better. And and and if anyone in your league
Speaker 1: does not trust Act Flaherty, I'm buying Low. I love
Speaker 1: moving forward. Let's just get past these walks. Loves Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty moving forward, his favorite by Low at the moment
Speaker 1: you heard of any Machado a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty now takes that mantle for Frank Standfell. What
Speaker 1: do I say? You're not buying Low might fold of Navitch?
Speaker 1: You were not, you know, on him as much as
Speaker 1: some other people were coming into this season. Four and
Speaker 1: two thirds, seven hits, eight runs, three walks, four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He gets bombed last night by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 1: It was all kind of not going great and it
Speaker 1: just only got worse as the night what went on.
Speaker 1: He has been just awful as the r right now,
Speaker 1: State's over eight. It is his last three stars. I
Speaker 1: know what the quality, they know the urn runs say,
Speaker 1: but he's allowed eight runs, five runs, six runs and
Speaker 1: four runs. He has yet to have a quality start
Speaker 1: on the season. He's been abysmal. There's just no other
Speaker 1: way to put it. Is he's still dealing with some
Speaker 1: kind of injury. I mean he was dealing with with
Speaker 1: a significant injury. Was dealing with an elbow strain, right
Speaker 1: right elbow strain. Pretty see nificant. Is he holding back
Speaker 1: some velocity? Is he holding back on some of his
Speaker 1: breaking pitches? He hasn't looked the same. And again, I
Speaker 1: didn't like Fulton Evits coming into the season because the
Speaker 1: swinging strike rate and the strikeouts just didn't add up
Speaker 1: from last year. It seems like everything kind of broke
Speaker 1: right for Fulton Evage last year, and he's still young
Speaker 1: enough where he can kind of figure all this out.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty seven years old, so I'm not writing
Speaker 1: him off completely, but he just can't be in your
Speaker 1: lineup right now. He like I would go as far
Speaker 1: as to say he might. Can you drop He's got
Speaker 1: eight point zero two e r A. He's under six
Speaker 1: case per nine, he's over three walks per nine. He's
Speaker 1: getting crushed, he has he's given up eight home runs
Speaker 1: in four starts. There's just not a lot of good
Speaker 1: going on. I mean, there's nothing good. There's nothing good
Speaker 1: going on when it comes to Mike Fulton Evite right now.
Speaker 1: So look in deeper leagues. I would try to hold
Speaker 1: onto him and keep her dynasty. I would try to
Speaker 1: hold onto him because we saw what his upside was
Speaker 1: last year. But in your standard redraft it's of these
Speaker 1: starting pitchers are floating out there, like Brandon Woodroffe or
Speaker 1: any other other of these like Fringey, starting pitcher worthy
Speaker 1: type players are available abably dropping Fulton Navage, Fulton Image,
Speaker 1: somebody that certainly is in the conversation with all these
Speaker 1: prospects that are out there. You made someone to drop
Speaker 1: faulty ultimately maybe your guy. That's how bad it's gotten
Speaker 1: from my Fulton Image. Yelina his fourth homer, although the
Speaker 1: season duster thankster fail. Rather he did his second Marcelo Juna,
Speaker 1: He's twelfth gold along last from the past, last from
Speaker 1: the past, like a month ago passed. Yes, if you
Speaker 1: have to guess how many RBI's Yadia Molina has in
Speaker 1: the season, what would you say, Well, I just read
Speaker 1: to you that he is fourth home run. Okay, so
Speaker 1: he's got four homers. I'll also tell you that he's
Speaker 1: hinting two eighty three. I don't know why the number
Speaker 1: twelve came to mind. Do you have twelve? An agents
Speaker 1: know he's thirty? What's a catcher, dude, I'm reliable, man.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going the other way when I
Speaker 1: was I was on him again. He just every year
Speaker 1: people are I want to be one year earlier rather
Speaker 1: than one year for the drop off for Molina, Well,
Speaker 1: when is it coming? When it's not happening this year,
Speaker 1: didn't happen last year. The guy just keeps getting it done.
Speaker 1: Another multi hit game. Three. Ribby's up to thirty RBIs
Speaker 1: two eight three batting average, only four home runs. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna hit for a ton of power. If he
Speaker 1: gives you fifteen home runs for the season fifteen and twenty,
Speaker 1: that's fine. That's pretty much the range that he was
Speaker 1: in last year. But thirty RBIs right now in this lineup.
Speaker 1: He's batting in the middle. He's been batting fifth or
Speaker 1: six for most of the season, so the RBI opportunities
Speaker 1: are going to be there for him. And as long
Speaker 1: as he's performing, he's gonna keep driving in runs. So
Speaker 1: we're looking at a catcher who could potentially give you
Speaker 1: seventy five RBIs this year, maybe even more than that
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty home runs. He just continues to be a steal.
Speaker 1: People don't want you, Audiar Malina because he's old. They
Speaker 1: want the shiny new toy. They want Francisco Mahia, they
Speaker 1: want Danny Jansen, they want all these young guys. Let's
Speaker 1: keep draffing out of her Malia. That's what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. Great. He had Relina and the Cardinals arch
Speaker 1: rivals Chicago Cubs last night. They went into Cincinnati defeat
Speaker 1: of the Reds by the score three to one. Kyle
Speaker 1: Hendricks rank eight innings, three hits, one run, one walk,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts. The only run that he allowed came on
Speaker 1: a Joey Vado solo shot. He was magnificent yesterday, Yle Hendricks,
Speaker 1: putting it right in my eye. Greggy must have heard
Speaker 1: me talking smack about him, because over his last three
Speaker 1: starts one t five innings pitched, twelve hits, one earned
Speaker 1: run that came on a solo home run, one walk.
Speaker 1: Where his last three starts at twenty five innings pitch,
Speaker 1: he's gone complete game three starts to going against the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: eight innings against the Marlins, eight innings yesterday against the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds, he's allowed wonder and run to twenty five
Speaker 1: innings pitched. He does have a three five five xfit
Speaker 1: during that time, but I mean even I pitched to
Speaker 1: him mid three z r A, I mean you would
Speaker 1: gladly take that from Kyle Hendricks, and he's doing it
Speaker 1: in classic Kyle Hendricks fashion. Six point one two case
Speaker 1: for nine over his last three starts again only one walk,
Speaker 1: so he's giving you the good command. Um. He's turned
Speaker 1: it around. He's he's he's making me look dumb. Um.
Speaker 1: As much as I like Cole Hamil's, it seemed like
Speaker 1: they were on like a similar playing field at least
Speaker 1: entering this week. And you know, maybe Kyle Hendricks has
Speaker 1: has surpassed him now, but I still think Kyle Hendricks
Speaker 1: is the picture that we know him to be greg
Speaker 1: the ear a when it's all said and done. As
Speaker 1: good as he's pitching right now, and he's got a
Speaker 1: two point eight ear a, the x fip is three
Speaker 1: point eight one, so he might be in that Joe
Speaker 1: muscro range, which is fine for him if he could
Speaker 1: just you know, three six, three seven, that's fine. But
Speaker 1: as good as he starts to bend, I still think
Speaker 1: that we're going to get as blow ups moving forward.
Speaker 1: That's just to Kyle Hendricks is I do want to
Speaker 1: note Kyle Ryan came in to start the ninth, got
Speaker 1: the first batter out and they brought Steve C. Shack
Speaker 1: in for the last two batters like that job, and
Speaker 1: it's the third save of the season. On the other side,
Speaker 1: four Cincinnati Tenner Roark when five innings allowed three runs
Speaker 1: on eight hits, he walked when he struck out six.
Speaker 1: Rowork's ear A sits now Frank at three point five zero,
Speaker 1: and I we talk like last week a lot about
Speaker 1: Tyler Molly Rowerk on the season has an ear A
Speaker 1: at three five and a five at three thirty x
Speaker 1: fit much worse at four six three. Caper nine right
Speaker 1: now is eight point three five, walking a lot of
Speaker 1: guys as his walks per nine is close to four.
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about Tenner Roar? He's kind
Speaker 1: of a mixed bag right now, and you look into
Speaker 1: these underlying numbers, he's giving you more strikeouts this year.
Speaker 1: The eight point three five k per nine is a
Speaker 1: career high as of now, but also walking more batters
Speaker 1: than we're used to seeing out of him three point
Speaker 1: eight eight walks per nine his previous career high three
Speaker 1: point one eight walks per nine. And you see the
Speaker 1: x fit much higher because his home run the five
Speaker 1: ball ratio is four point three percent. Now, mind you,
Speaker 1: league average home run the five ball ratio is ten
Speaker 1: to twelve percent. It's in that range. So basically, if
Speaker 1: his home run the fireball ratio were league average in
Speaker 1: that range and he were giving up more home runs
Speaker 1: like he probably should be because he's more of a
Speaker 1: flyball pitcher and he pitches in Cincinnati, in great American
Speaker 1: small park, then they're telling hims that his ear RA
Speaker 1: should probably closer to a mid four e r RA.
Speaker 1: So a mixed bag here. Should he be owned in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues? Maybe you stream him in like some fifteen
Speaker 1: team mixed roto and only sure because he has a
Speaker 1: job in a rotation. That's fine, but I'm just not
Speaker 1: buying it, Greg, twelve teamers. I see the three point
Speaker 1: five zero ear A, but I just don't trust it.
Speaker 1: The balls starts to fly out a little bit more
Speaker 1: once the weather starts to heat up, and he pitches
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, So I'm out on Sanna roar. He's perfect
Speaker 1: for your category players like the Yeah, Noah, he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not nearly as good as cold handles. Come on. Well,
Speaker 1: I I said earlier, Danny Duffy is probably like a
Speaker 1: fifteen teamer and a l only, so we're good there.
Speaker 1: He goes, Hannah ro arc is your n L Danny
Speaker 1: Duffy perfect, you get behind that, you know, think Caleb
Speaker 1: Smith before Frank Smith pick up his first loss of
Speaker 1: the season last night, I mean five in the third,
Speaker 1: four hits, two runs, two walks, eight strike and still
Speaker 1: pitch very well. Only um only runs that he allowed
Speaker 1: where thanks to have On Garcia. We had a solo
Speaker 1: homer in the second and well got involved in the
Speaker 1: six with RBI single as well. That's it. And before
Speaker 1: everyone starts going all crazy like, oh well, this is
Speaker 1: why you can't draft Marlin's pictures. You're never gonna get wins,
Speaker 1: You're gonnaly gonna get losses. This was his first loss
Speaker 1: of the season. He was three and o entering the start.
Speaker 1: So that tells you everything that you need to know
Speaker 1: about Caleb Smith. Now, the winds are still gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to come by, as we saw yesterday. Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: on the other side, pitched very well. The chicken or
Speaker 1: the egg? Did he pitch well or was it because
Speaker 1: he was going against the Marlins, doesn't matter. I think
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton is a pretty good picture, so I will
Speaker 1: give him some credit here and another eighteen swing strikes
Speaker 1: for Caleb Smith going up against a pretty tough lineup
Speaker 1: in the Tampa Bay Rays as well, so navigates his
Speaker 1: way through it. Not the he doesn't go that deep
Speaker 1: into the game, only five and a third, but still
Speaker 1: gives you eight strikeouts. Doesn't hurt your ratios. Uh six
Speaker 1: combined hits and walks that were five and a third,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't hurt your whip only two earned runs. Um,
Speaker 1: I still love Caleb Smith man. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 1: elevated himself into he is firmly inside the top thirty
Speaker 1: starting pitchers right now, maybe even top twenty five or
Speaker 1: song pitchers. The way that he is going right now.
Speaker 1: I mean we were we were giving um Tyler Glass
Speaker 1: now a bunch of credit for getting strikeouts and going
Speaker 1: deeper into games and and making strides in terms of
Speaker 1: not walking batters calebe Smith is doing the same exact thing.
Speaker 1: So I know. I mentioned Luke Weaver as as one
Speaker 1: of those pictures who was drafted later on who's returned
Speaker 1: the most value. The number one guy right now is
Speaker 1: Caleb Smith based on what he's doing. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at him for getting the loss in this one. Definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: UM four Tampa. I just want to note Amelia Plagan
Speaker 1: pitched the seventh, Diego Castillo pitched the eighth, and are
Speaker 1: in line for a save. Correct sort of running the moment.
Speaker 1: Alvarado would have come in in the ninth, it was
Speaker 1: a safe situation. Instead, Chas Row comes in and he
Speaker 1: pitches the ninth pitches well, if its one hit the
Speaker 1: nine pitches later, Um, he got out of it. How
Speaker 1: about Charlie Morton, if we're just talking about like Middle Arns,
Speaker 1: we had questions coming into the year, was he going
Speaker 1: to be able to pick up where he left off
Speaker 1: with Houston all those strides that he made. The answer
Speaker 1: greg resounding yes. This guy has a two point three
Speaker 1: to e er A. He's been phenomenal. So if you
Speaker 1: had any question marks about Charlie Morton and drafting him,
Speaker 1: arrange that he was going in. He's paid off some
Speaker 1: pretty good value so far as well. Without question, Charlie
Speaker 1: Morton has been been wonderful at that two point three
Speaker 1: to ear right undefeated here on the season. He had
Speaker 1: one bad start where he allowed five runs. Everything else
Speaker 1: it's pretty much the same five or six innings and
Speaker 1: two or less runs. He's locked in as a rock
Speaker 1: solid SP three. Although he doesn't go deep in the games,
Speaker 1: he's really well in the sixties. He's better for Rhodo.
Speaker 1: He is better for rot because sometimes like he doesn't
Speaker 1: always go deep enough to give you that quality start
Speaker 1: to give you the six innings because he does strike
Speaker 1: out a lot of guys and he does run into
Speaker 1: walks at times, so that builds up his pitch count
Speaker 1: a lot, so we see a lot of five inning performances.
Speaker 1: Better for Rohto, but overall still really good. On the
Speaker 1: hitting side, Tommy fam got caught stealing for the third
Speaker 1: time this season. I mentioned as Garcia's homer. It was
Speaker 1: the seventh of the season. Former manatting average three Is
Speaker 1: he out there? I want to see owned heat in league.
Speaker 1: That would be thirteen Look at the production that people
Speaker 1: are missing out on. Six batting average, seven homers, three
Speaker 1: stone basis. You know, he's my man. He should be
Speaker 1: owning more than thirteen percent. No, he's not like a
Speaker 1: must owned player, but but we I would imagine we
Speaker 1: have more Roto leagues than and in a five out
Speaker 1: the of the league, he should be owned. Yeah, definitely, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Okay for the one of the last games we'll talk about.
Speaker 1: It was the Mariners and the Athletics. The Mariners picked
Speaker 1: up their first save since April yesterday, a four to
Speaker 1: three victory for Seattle with run Us Alias pitching two
Speaker 1: and the third innings. Do you get the save following
Speaker 1: Mike Leak because game six and two thirds three runs,
Speaker 1: only one of them were earned, five hits, a walk
Speaker 1: and six strike. As Brett Anderson went for Oakland six innings,
Speaker 1: four run ball, he talked, I got a five while
Speaker 1: walking one. Tim Beckham home over the eighth time. Dan
Speaker 1: Vogelbach over for the eleventh time, Mitch Hagger for the
Speaker 1: eleventh time as well. Yeah, yesterday I brought up the
Speaker 1: conundrum that is the Seattle Mariners and what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: when trying to get all these guys in the lineup.
Speaker 1: While they used Tim Beckham at second base yesterday, which
Speaker 1: means shed Long is on the bench. D Gordon did
Speaker 1: pinch run for Tim Beckham in this game as well,
Speaker 1: did not start, so pay attention to that. You should
Speaker 1: have had d Gordon out of your lineup anyway. I
Speaker 1: have him in the NFPC main event, and I had
Speaker 1: him out of my lineup, even with his stolen base upside,
Speaker 1: I missed out on the stolen base yesterday as a
Speaker 1: pinch runner, but I figured he's probably gonna need a
Speaker 1: couple of days off anyway, so I should have been
Speaker 1: out of your line up. But it's good to see
Speaker 1: that d Gordon at least still able to run. Remember,
Speaker 1: he's dealing with a wrist century which obviously makes it
Speaker 1: hard to swing a bat. JP Crawford still got another
Speaker 1: start in this one, batting nine. We'll see how long
Speaker 1: he sticks around. But I think as we're gonna start
Speaker 1: to see Greg mentioned that they didn't have a safe
Speaker 1: since April. Why is that? Because the Mariners are starting
Speaker 1: to turn back into the Mariners. So as the season
Speaker 1: goes along, they're gonna try and get some of their
Speaker 1: younger players up and see what they have in these kids.
Speaker 1: And don't don't be surprised if we get Edwin and
Speaker 1: Karnoscione traded Jay Bruce and it's gonna open up playing
Speaker 1: time for some of these other guys. Greg, it's made fifteen.
Speaker 1: Alex Smith isn't up yet. Yes, let's see what happens. Yes,
Speaker 1: I need him up. I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He needs me up today. It's gonna happen tomorrow. That's fine.
Speaker 1: It happened for like the weekends. We'll take tomorrow as
Speaker 1: low as just to get called today. We're good. And
Speaker 1: that means it's you owe me two lunches right to
Speaker 1: the one I owe you. That's so. Can we just
Speaker 1: cancel it and I just owe you one? Sure sounds great.
Speaker 1: I like how this works for Frank Stafford. I'm Greg Sussman.
Speaker 1: Have me talkman day, everybody. He was joined by Brad
Speaker 1: Ziegler at Virginia Zakis Tomorrow, I have a wonderful afternoon
Speaker 1: see tomorrow, we hope