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Speaker 1: here in the Fantasy Sports Were Your Network. A long
Speaker 1: side of Franky stamp Well Michael Florial, I am t
Speaker 1: g I f thank god it's Friday. Happy Friday to
Speaker 1: your bud. You didn't get the memo. Everybody on this
Speaker 1: show is wearing a hat today except you. I was.
Speaker 1: No one told me there was a was the thing.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine you wearing a hat. How if
Speaker 1: you if you were to wear a hat, I would
Speaker 1: choose a bucket hat. I feel like you would look
Speaker 1: great in a bucket hat. I have. I have normal
Speaker 1: hats no, you don't. I have many of them. If
Speaker 1: I if I've never seen one, it doesn't count. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, don't. We've got the games together.
Speaker 1: You've never worn a hat, really, because no's are shave
Speaker 1: from work. That's why in your bag, I don't know,
Speaker 1: wear it afterwards. You're not a big hat gay I am.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're gonna keep that luscious head of hair for
Speaker 1: a long time. It's the man that's the goal. Mikey.
Speaker 1: How did you sleep, Bud? I slept good. And the
Speaker 1: only hat I know that Greggy has is he used
Speaker 1: to have a big, poofy winter hat. That's the only
Speaker 1: hat I've ever seen him where. I'm sure it's different
Speaker 1: I have now, but I do have a movie wind
Speaker 1: hat like you. What's going on on that hat? What's
Speaker 1: the yng yang? It's a it's a mac Miller had. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's the swimming that's pretty dope. Get me one. Thank
Speaker 1: you there online, Come on. My birthday is coming soon November.
Speaker 1: My birthdays first love, mine's already past as every birthday, Greggy,
Speaker 1: thanks man, appreciate it. Uh Floria, how is your week
Speaker 1: last week with your friends that you dished us for
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. Friday, when I, you know,
Speaker 1: couldn't make it on the show, I went and played
Speaker 1: basketball for the first time in Venice Beach. That was
Speaker 1: a really cool experience. And then day drinking Saturday and Sunday,
Speaker 1: and for the first time ever in my life, I
Speaker 1: was at a bar and I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to really be here today,
Speaker 1: Like I I think I'm getting old. Unfortunately, Well Greg's
Speaker 1: been there for about ten years now, Mike, so you're
Speaker 1: not alone. You're joining the old crew. I don't know
Speaker 1: what could be more important than hanging out with your
Speaker 1: best friends. No idea, right Greg? I mean I thought
Speaker 1: we were his best friends. Were his other friends, not
Speaker 1: living in the world, like I see you guys every Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so someone argued that you should see us more. By
Speaker 1: the way, I meant to tell you the second you
Speaker 1: got it. You walked in this morning, but I was
Speaker 1: not in the room. So there was like one comment,
Speaker 1: I don't even think you can see it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's public yet. There was one comment on
Speaker 1: our show of him yesterday. Did you see it? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did, and I said, that's Floria, Okay, I wanted
Speaker 1: to want why did you clude me in that group?
Speaker 1: Just like? This is hilarious. I didn't know if you're
Speaker 1: mad about it or why didn't You're not mad about it?
Speaker 1: It's just funny. Do you not know me? If you
Speaker 1: think I'm mad about I was like, Wow, I actually
Speaker 1: have people that defend me. That's great, dude. It was hysterical.
Speaker 1: It was. It was absolutely hysterical. I did crack up.
Speaker 1: Did you crack up? Yes? I did. Frank can attest
Speaker 1: to that I was. I was cracking. Did send me
Speaker 1: the l M F A O text that that I
Speaker 1: woke up to that text? The text? I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't in that in the message. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you felt about it. Well, we
Speaker 1: were actually all laughing about it downstairs, but you had
Speaker 1: your head headphones on, and I assumed you were listening
Speaker 1: to like top forty hits. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: I can already guess what it was Florida, exactly what
Speaker 1: I was listening to. Justin Bieber and ed Shear didn't
Speaker 1: have a new song, right, I don't care, And that's
Speaker 1: exactly how I feel about that song. Greg, you even here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't care. You haven't heard it. I bet you
Speaker 1: it's I bet you it's good. Yeah, of course it's good.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I'm a beeper guy, I'm not a shame
Speaker 1: beeper that is. Of course it was on top of
Speaker 1: new Music Friday, Florida knows what he's doing new music.
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to it yet, but I saw it
Speaker 1: came out. Of course, it's everywhere you know new music Friday,
Speaker 1: basically Spotify. He was like, like, monstrous playlists of all
Speaker 1: the new music that's come out. I guess they want
Speaker 1: to provide to anything else good besides the beaves and Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was listening on my way to work today
Speaker 1: there is a brand new Blake when song on there. No,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. That's a little blast from the bad,
Speaker 1: right And I heard that was this really sounds like
Speaker 1: Blake when the eight two, So my pocket, I was like,
Speaker 1: who's singing this? And oh my god? It is is
Speaker 1: like one of those guys. They're going on tour with
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne whose they are like, I want to go.
Speaker 1: It's a nice little duel, right there, Lie Wayne and
Speaker 1: Blank Wine eighty two? Greg, you're going no, no, you're
Speaker 1: not going you know, no, I'm not going video Greggy,
Speaker 1: you would like it. It's and Frank you wore too.
Speaker 1: I think it's a mash up. But what's my Name again?
Speaker 1: And a Millie by Lil Wayne. It's that sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I like when they do the rock rap mashups. I
Speaker 1: was a big fan of when they did all like
Speaker 1: the Lincoln Park and jay Z stuff. That was really cool.
Speaker 1: Also a big pun made a remix of one of
Speaker 1: his songs with Incubus. I like what they I like
Speaker 1: when they do that. I like when the big punt together.
Speaker 1: That sounds cool. And no, it was back to me
Speaker 1: like obviously Aerosmith and Rundum see of course, but like
Speaker 1: when jay Z Lincoing parked to that album and that
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was it was really cool. Alright, enough
Speaker 1: enough music talk for it today. Um let's get into
Speaker 1: Weaver Wire Friday's new music Friday, and it's Waiver Wire
Speaker 1: Friday here on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever, and I
Speaker 1: actually want to start with what we were just talking
Speaker 1: about Frank before we came on the air, and it
Speaker 1: was actually a player to drop. We're talking about a
Speaker 1: lot of fleet pieces to add, But I want to
Speaker 1: start with the player to drop. And it was a
Speaker 1: guy that three of us are very very highland last year,
Speaker 1: not as we start this year. But I certainly invested
Speaker 1: in him. Um, and that's Travis Shaw. The Brewers are
Speaker 1: facing three lefties this weekend in Chicago or against Chicago,
Speaker 1: and because of that, crect Council said, hey, we're giving
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw a mental rest for three days. It's now
Speaker 1: made ten Shaw's batting average, I believe is still under
Speaker 1: two hundred. Mike Floria, can we drop Travis Shaw? Much
Speaker 1: like I said with Hazy Saguilar, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: him another week. I want to see this mental health
Speaker 1: rest for him and Travis Shaw. I've read a quote
Speaker 1: today actually just before I came on that he said
Speaker 1: there is anxiety in his performance right now, like because
Speaker 1: he got off to the bad start and he obviously
Speaker 1: is trying to fix it. So he said he's feeling
Speaker 1: a lot of anxiety. I think this three day rest,
Speaker 1: you know, just to clear his head. I think it
Speaker 1: can do him some good. So I'm not I own
Speaker 1: him in a few leagues. I haven't dropped him anywhere yet.
Speaker 1: If we see him get this rest and he comes
Speaker 1: back in the next week he's still really really struggling,
Speaker 1: and then you know, if we're starting to see him
Speaker 1: lose some playing time against lefties, then I will do it.
Speaker 1: But if this is just strictly, hey, let's give this
Speaker 1: guy three days. We need him out there every day,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to drop him just yet because I
Speaker 1: know the potential he has and I know I just
Speaker 1: want exposure to that Brewer's lineup. But again, if you
Speaker 1: want to put him on the bench, I'm totally totally
Speaker 1: okay with that. And if you after this week or so,
Speaker 1: if you're getting tired of him and you want to
Speaker 1: drop him, I say you can. In ten team leagues,
Speaker 1: I think you can. But and you know, like the
Speaker 1: deeper twelve or fifteen leagues, I'm gonna hold out for now.
Speaker 1: I'm actually closer Florio on this one and then where
Speaker 1: we were at on Hazel, just because back to back
Speaker 1: seasons of thirty home runs has a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a track record than Hazos Aglar did Um. He's
Speaker 1: struggling mightily right now. There's no way around a thirty
Speaker 1: one percent strikeout rate that's much higher than anything he's
Speaker 1: done each of the past two seasons against lefties. This year, Greg,
Speaker 1: he is three for thirty one. That is a oh
Speaker 1: nineties seven batting average. He's never been great against lefties,
Speaker 1: but he's never been this bad either, So, especially in
Speaker 1: that ballpark, in that lineup, I do agree with Florio,
Speaker 1: Especially twelve team leagues are deeper. You can get him
Speaker 1: out of your lineup. But the fact that he has
Speaker 1: second third base eligibility and still does have, you know,
Speaker 1: serious power upside in that lineup, in that ballpark, I
Speaker 1: would want to hold on to him as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: holding onto Travis Shaw, and that will include holding on
Speaker 1: to him over some of the names we're about to
Speaker 1: talk about, which I guess we'll begin when the Yels.
Speaker 1: We'll be getting when the YELSA know, only because he's
Speaker 1: a third basement as well. So no coming back already
Speaker 1: on the rehab assignment for Minnesota, and it looks like
Speaker 1: he's returned, he's imminent, So no in YAHOO league's his
Speaker 1: own in just twenty six percent of leagues he's gotten
Speaker 1: out there nice starting to rehab. If he's out there, Frank,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't drop Travish off for him. I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: think they're pretty similar players. I've always been a Miguelson
Speaker 1: No guy. I think the power is legit, but at
Speaker 1: this point in his career, he's never been able to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. It's always something. I mean, he heard his
Speaker 1: heel like celebrating a win in the Dominican League. Like there,
Speaker 1: there's always something going on with Miguelson No. So kind
Speaker 1: of a headcase similar to Travis Shaw. He's gonna give
Speaker 1: you a lot of pop, he's gonna strike out a
Speaker 1: lot as well. So I'm again, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: the guy who has the better track record in the
Speaker 1: better ballpark, arguably better lineup. I think the Brewers line
Speaker 1: up is a little bit better than the Twins as
Speaker 1: much as I like the Twins line up, So I
Speaker 1: think they're similar players, except that Miguelson No Does have
Speaker 1: a little bit more risk involved with him. I do
Speaker 1: like him. I would like to stash him right now,
Speaker 1: more so in head to head categories leagues or rhoto
Speaker 1: leagues because the strikeouts are gonna hurt you a lot
Speaker 1: in points leagues. But again, I love the Twins lineup
Speaker 1: and it seems like he'll probably slot in somewhere middle
Speaker 1: to back end of that lineup, but should have some
Speaker 1: pretty serious RBI opportunities. I like him, just not more
Speaker 1: than Travis Shaw Florida. Now I agree with Frank there Um.
Speaker 1: I think the Brewers line I like the Twins line
Speaker 1: up as well, but I think the Brewers lineup is
Speaker 1: one of the best in baseball. And I think Travis Shaw,
Speaker 1: if he can get his head right, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: like right now we're sending striking out at an abysmal rate.
Speaker 1: Mcguelson know is never in a major league season struck
Speaker 1: out less than thirty five percent at the time, So
Speaker 1: to me, he is a very peaks and valley hitter.
Speaker 1: I would like to add him, but I'm not dropping
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw for him. Plus, I do have some concerns
Speaker 1: like the Twins line up starting to get healthy and
Speaker 1: they have a lot of options there so especially at
Speaker 1: the corner in field positions. So just a tad of
Speaker 1: an added concern there for Son. So that's why I
Speaker 1: would lead to lean on Travis Shaw. That's a good point,
Speaker 1: but like, where how is mcguilsono gonna play every day? Greg?
Speaker 1: That's the question rate. So I actually was reading me
Speaker 1: and occupied the d spot to have Nelson crew. So
Speaker 1: I was reading the Athletic article where uh, all the
Speaker 1: group in the Athletic the interview the beat reporters and
Speaker 1: at some questions. So they just did one and they
Speaker 1: asked about me elsa know coming back and where he's
Speaker 1: going to play. Where the deal is and according to
Speaker 1: rock Obell delhi More, Gazalez is actually gonna play the
Speaker 1: Maren Gonzalez role, the role that DJ maybe he was
Speaker 1: supposed to have for the Yankees. Everyone's healthy, Like just
Speaker 1: give everyone, give a different guy a day every day.
Speaker 1: He's an everyday player, that's a utility player, right. There
Speaker 1: was that like givething Scope a day off, the crone,
Speaker 1: the guys in the corner outfield, right, like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play four to five times a week, but in a
Speaker 1: different spot every day. So but he also know is
Speaker 1: going to be the every day third batment I think
Speaker 1: for this team also that he is. And there also
Speaker 1: is Mitch Garber, who I know they used their like
Speaker 1: at the corner infield at times. And then there's when
Speaker 1: he comes back Williams Alstadillo who they were playing at catcher, first, third,
Speaker 1: and corner outfields when he was healthy, and I don't
Speaker 1: I understand why they want him in the lineup. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a bat on ball machine. He's a great eye.
Speaker 1: So like, I understand why they want to get him
Speaker 1: in the lineup as well. There's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: talent on the Twins right now, and then Williams audio
Speaker 1: is a good way to counteract Miguel to Know because
Speaker 1: again Miguel to Know guy who swings and misses a lot.
Speaker 1: But I said, for power Williams a studio. If you've
Speaker 1: seen this guy, he doesn't swing and miss at all.
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike out, he doesn't walk either, but he
Speaker 1: does have the good bat on ball skills. Someone who
Speaker 1: I know loved Williams a stwdo. We actually had him
Speaker 1: live in studio earlier this season was Joe with a
Speaker 1: mustache Mike, and I know you went out with Joe
Speaker 1: last night to the Dodger game. How was that? It
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. He actually brought up that debate.
Speaker 1: He was like, he asked me what I thought on Arstadillo.
Speaker 1: I was like, I like him, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a huge debate on the BFS and and
Speaker 1: I don't know what the debate was exactly, but I
Speaker 1: do like Ostadillo. But going to the Dodger game with
Speaker 1: Joe was a lot of fun. He had seats like
Speaker 1: bar seats, and they let me sit with them. So
Speaker 1: we were in the first deck watching, you know, rich
Speaker 1: Hill unfortunately not have that good first ending. But it
Speaker 1: was a fun time. Oh. I mean yeah, anytime that
Speaker 1: rich Hill pitches Mike and you get to watch him, um,
Speaker 1: you know, not necessarily do what you expected it. This
Speaker 1: isn't your typical quality over quantity start for rich Hill Mike. No,
Speaker 1: but it also was a three run homer in the
Speaker 1: first thing, and then after that he settled in and pitched. Okay,
Speaker 1: my my boy, Haddie Corbyn on the other side, he's
Speaker 1: definitely not your boy. I was gonna say, I thought
Speaker 1: you were totally out. He was so out. I have
Speaker 1: one share of him in one of our home leagues,
Speaker 1: so I was rooting for him. And because of that,
Speaker 1: last night he was my boy. Gregg as unbelievable. You
Speaker 1: were so out of magic on Patrick Corbon. He's still
Speaker 1: walking more guys this year, but he was very good
Speaker 1: last It's been really good. Last night. He was great
Speaker 1: to me all right, next topic, Next topic. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that even you know on all week we talked
Speaker 1: about him a little bit. I guess it was yesterday
Speaker 1: and that's Hunter Pence, and I know Frank's thoughts. I
Speaker 1: gave my thoughts yesterday, Mike's let me go over to you,
Speaker 1: Hunter Pence. Where is he in the must owned status
Speaker 1: for you right now? Given that we do expect him
Speaker 1: to become an everyday player in Texas. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: be looking to add Hunter Pence right now. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a guy that I'm going to pick up
Speaker 1: and expect to own the rest of the season. But
Speaker 1: he's hot right now and he's going to be given
Speaker 1: the chance. And I think that's something that some fantasy
Speaker 1: owners make a mistake about, like, oh, if this guy
Speaker 1: I don't like, he's going to be this good old season,
Speaker 1: so why pick him up? And we used to talk
Speaker 1: about this all the time on the show, like I
Speaker 1: don't care about that. If he could give me two
Speaker 1: hot weeks before he starts cooling off, that's you know,
Speaker 1: production that I'm gonna get that count all year. So
Speaker 1: I would be looking to add Hunter Pence right now.
Speaker 1: With the expectation that sooner or later he's gonna come
Speaker 1: back down to earth realize he's Hunter Pence, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to drop him. He's only fourteen percent owning
Speaker 1: Yahoo right now, which makes sense. It seems not that
Speaker 1: seems criminally low, man, it's not criminally love. Because he
Speaker 1: just became an everyday player. I think it should be
Speaker 1: higher than that. Just me, I feel like it should
Speaker 1: be higher than that already. Oh, I don't agree, because
Speaker 1: he just became an everyday player. So now we're telling
Speaker 1: people go pick him up. People haven't had their waivers run.
Speaker 1: Were talking about that for the past two days, though,
Speaker 1: What about your waivers don't run until tomorrow tonight? True? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I I just imagine a lot of Yatto
Speaker 1: leagues are just first come, first served. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: think it should feel like it should be higher. Honestly,
Speaker 1: on sund Day night, I expect that. Now, like, let's
Speaker 1: recheck you somebody. Yeah, it's probably gonna be Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's chack you sometime on Monday. Hunter Pens completely read there. Now,
Speaker 1: since there, Mike, he's not gonna be a guy that
Speaker 1: you own all year longer. That's okay, but he's hot
Speaker 1: right now, so you should play him. Question is, obviously,
Speaker 1: do you dropped Travis sh Off for him? No, so
Speaker 1: let me give me somebody else here do you drop?
Speaker 1: There was one name on the on the drop list
Speaker 1: that really surprised me. Which one is it? Think he was?
Speaker 1: I think he was the first name. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that because not doing not off to pictures,
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't want to get up to that.
Speaker 1: Would you drop Day Santana for his teammate Hunter Pence? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. Right now, Hunter Pences is playing
Speaker 1: lights out ball. I know he hit his six home
Speaker 1: run last night. I put it out on Twitter the
Speaker 1: other day. I'll even admit I didn't realize how good
Speaker 1: of a year Hunter Pence was having in that limited
Speaker 1: role until I really looked into his numbers. And now
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, yeah, if he's getting this everyday
Speaker 1: opportunity most fringing guys on my roster, I would be
Speaker 1: okay drop upping, because those are the guys that you
Speaker 1: pick up while they're hot, and then when they start
Speaker 1: to cool off, you just ride the next hot wave. Mikey,
Speaker 1: I'll throw another name your way. I know you own
Speaker 1: him in a few places, but he's been pretty cold
Speaker 1: over the last thirty days, one four batting average, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's Dan Vogelo Yeah, he's really called off. Mikey, what
Speaker 1: are you doing with Dan Vogeboki dropping which before you answer?
Speaker 1: Floor out like we kind of knew he was gonna
Speaker 1: cool off, like he was not going to bat three
Speaker 1: fifty all year. I mean now right now, you just
Speaker 1: gotta hope that it's not it's a slump rather than
Speaker 1: him just you know, cooling off for good type of thing.
Speaker 1: So exactly why I would I would still ride out
Speaker 1: with vogel Box because I think the upside is higher.
Speaker 1: I do think he is a player that I could
Speaker 1: keep in my line up all year, where I don't
Speaker 1: believe that for Pens. I could be wrong for Hunter Pence,
Speaker 1: but after what we've seen the last few years out
Speaker 1: of him at his age, I'm just more inclined to
Speaker 1: take the shot on the upside of Dan vogel Bock
Speaker 1: and only twenty six years old. And and I think
Speaker 1: what the Mariners are doing right now is really interesting,
Speaker 1: Like I have no idea why they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's play and in Cronossio on its second base. But
Speaker 1: I think it's because when they call it Malex Smith again,
Speaker 1: they're trying to get Bruce, Volga, Buck and Edwin and
Speaker 1: Carnascio in the lineup every day. Speaking of Malex Smith, Mike,
Speaker 1: what do you think do you think he's called up
Speaker 1: before May fifteen? That's in five days? No TI, come
Speaker 1: on gonna say that he's crushing it right now. Six
Speaker 1: stolen mazes in six games, Greg, because from Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: we got a whole lot more players to add and
Speaker 1: players to drop when we come back here the fantasy
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Speaker 1: Cut my head got cut off on the shot played
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Speaker 1: welcome about it. Thanks, guys, you know, thanks guys. Alex
Speaker 1: usually chimes in for some Steelers talk. No Steelers talk today, Sorry, Alex,
Speaker 1: no Steelers talk today at all. Let's just tell you
Speaker 1: all with some of these players to add it was
Speaker 1: another name they brought up yesterday. Then we'll kind of
Speaker 1: moving on to some new guys and Mikey. That's David
Speaker 1: Fletcher leading off from the Angels right now, playing every day.
Speaker 1: He's been pretty good. We talked about him a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back and we kind of joked and laugh,
Speaker 1: but David Fleger has been good. Yeah. I think Dave
Speaker 1: Fletcher fits the mold of like the Hunter Penn's types,
Speaker 1: where you pick them up right now and you see
Speaker 1: if this last or not, and if not, then you
Speaker 1: you drop him and you move on. Like I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: David Fletcher is gonna hit over three and he's gonna
Speaker 1: keep up like this pace that he's playing on right now.
Speaker 1: But while he's playing well and leading off for the Angels, yes,
Speaker 1: he he should be picked up. Yeah, I agree with
Speaker 1: that and shout out to you know Sarah's I saw
Speaker 1: you Know Sarah's tweeting last night and he does like
Speaker 1: a little like box score breakdown of scrolls through and
Speaker 1: sees things that that catch his eye. Greg, and he said,
Speaker 1: Fletcher equals Jeep McNeil. Exactly what I'm saying. There's uh,
Speaker 1: I have some credibility on my name, Greg, I got
Speaker 1: something right. So that's exactly what I've been saying. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the bats of ball skills are great, Jeff. David Fletcher
Speaker 1: has a four point one percent strikeout right. The guy
Speaker 1: does not strike out at all and actually has a
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent hard hit rate for a for a
Speaker 1: smaller dude, that's pretty damn good. So considering he makes
Speaker 1: as much contact as he does. Um, yeah, I'm interested,
Speaker 1: and especially in uh who he has second, third and
Speaker 1: outfield eligibility, So definitely helps you out more there if
Speaker 1: you playing a daily line up league where we can
Speaker 1: just kind of mix and match and get him in
Speaker 1: your line up whenever he plays, and he's played five
Speaker 1: games in a row for them in a row play
Speaker 1: a lot right now? Is David Fletcher one of the
Speaker 1: hotter hitters that are probably out there on your way
Speaker 1: of wire? But Mike, who are you dropping for him? Right? Like?
Speaker 1: Where's Liz go on players to drop for him? Yeah? Like,
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm dropping Travis shaw for him. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't drop Dan vogel back. He's in the same realm
Speaker 1: as like Hunter Pence for me, like Danny Santanna's shirt,
Speaker 1: like those fringey guys that you know you've been picking
Speaker 1: up and taking flyers on. Yeah, those are the guys
Speaker 1: that I would drop. I wouldn't drop like a shawl
Speaker 1: or guy. But I think can be a season long
Speaker 1: contributor to my fantasy team. Okay, so nobody's super significant
Speaker 1: for David Fletcher here. Mike Florio, like Florial Frank mentioned,
Speaker 1: you're right, Greig like a Spas moment there, and it
Speaker 1: was natural too. It was just in one motion like Florio,
Speaker 1: like Florio. Well, I was trying to get my words
Speaker 1: all together here, would you like? Well? I was trying
Speaker 1: to say, was you measured Malex Smith? Before? And Frank
Speaker 1: and I had the argument like do you drop him?
Speaker 1: Do you hold him? But two other guys got sent
Speaker 1: down to the minors here this week in Nate Low
Speaker 1: and Carter Key Boom, you're not a keeper league, are
Speaker 1: you holding on him? Yeah? I would try my best
Speaker 1: to hold onto those guys, especially if you were the
Speaker 1: ones who spent you know, thirty of your fab I
Speaker 1: think someone spent like four hundred bucks on Nate Low
Speaker 1: and uh one of the great fantasy bass momentations, Like
Speaker 1: if that was you, There's no way I'm dropping him
Speaker 1: right now, especially Nate Low, who got it wasn't even
Speaker 1: like he played bad and he barely even got a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee. I I think we all dropped the
Speaker 1: ball in Nate lot, not expecting that when Austin Meadows
Speaker 1: came back, there just there was gonna be an odd
Speaker 1: man out. And I don't think anyone really thought it
Speaker 1: would be him, but I do expect Nate Low to
Speaker 1: be back, you know, sometime this summer, and I expect
Speaker 1: Key Boom to be back as well. Uh so I would.
Speaker 1: I would try and hold my best to hold onto
Speaker 1: these guys and put them on my bench. But I
Speaker 1: get it, if you can and you have a bunch
Speaker 1: of injuries and your thing, but that would be the
Speaker 1: only way I'd want to drop them, at least this
Speaker 1: early on. I'm pretty surprised that Nate Log got sent
Speaker 1: down personally, UM, I think he's probably one of the
Speaker 1: better hitters in the organization. Like they're opting to keep
Speaker 1: g Man Choi on the roster over like that. To me,
Speaker 1: that just doesn't make a lot of sense. And unlike
Speaker 1: car Key Boom, it wasn't even warranted for Nate Low
Speaker 1: to be sent down. He was performing well. He got
Speaker 1: the batting average up to three hundred UM. It seemed
Speaker 1: like he was performing all right. So it's just surprising
Speaker 1: to me that they ought to keep a guy like
Speaker 1: g man Choy on their roster instead of guy like
Speaker 1: Nate Mike. I would. I would try and hold on
Speaker 1: to both these guys. But I spent three fifty dollars
Speaker 1: on car Key Boom in the great Fantasy based momentational
Speaker 1: and in the main event, those are deeper leagues, fifteen teams,
Speaker 1: you have seven bench spots. There's obviously no minors, no
Speaker 1: injured list spots, um. But I can afford to kind
Speaker 1: of stash those guys right now, so I'm gonna hold on.
Speaker 1: But I think that's really different than your standard home
Speaker 1: twelve team league in all honesty, because it's true, it's
Speaker 1: not as deep team teams. Obviously, I had to. I
Speaker 1: spent craps on home home league on Key Boom and
Speaker 1: dropped him. I listen, mine is a little different. Is
Speaker 1: first come, first serve, and I spent a significant portion
Speaker 1: of my budget. I dropped him. What a I What
Speaker 1: am I doing? Especially in the daily league, it's harder,
Speaker 1: I understand, like you mean, roster spot. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit easier in a weekly league where use your spots
Speaker 1: to stash players. Absolutely understand. Look, everyone's got injuries too,
Speaker 1: so it depends, like it depends where you're at. If
Speaker 1: you have a lot of injuries, Greg, if you're falling behind,
Speaker 1: if you're playing a head to head league, or you're
Speaker 1: playing a roto league and you're starting to fold down
Speaker 1: the standings and you need help. You might not have
Speaker 1: a choice, but ultimately I would try my best to
Speaker 1: hold onto these guys. I still do think that they're
Speaker 1: really talented. Carter Keybom's got some stuff that you gotta
Speaker 1: figure out. He's struck out a ton when he was here.
Speaker 1: He didn't play well defensively either. Actually night, I have
Speaker 1: a little bit more he did. He he got sent
Speaker 1: down his first game back in the minors. He does
Speaker 1: home run only hit of the game last night. But
Speaker 1: I do have a little bit more concerns with him
Speaker 1: over Nate Low's, just because if everyone's healthy, if Randon
Speaker 1: is back and Trade turns back, where does he play?
Speaker 1: They start working him in the outfield or something like that.
Speaker 1: If he played as well, played as well as we
Speaker 1: would have hoped, he would have found his way in
Speaker 1: the lineup. Well, Matt Adams is hurt now too, and
Speaker 1: Ryan Timmerman, so maybe they moved Dozer to first, or
Speaker 1: put keybo met first, something like that, So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. I think there's more of an opportunity for
Speaker 1: a guy like Nate Low, just because I just don't
Speaker 1: really trust g Manchoy long term. For that team, and
Speaker 1: I have a question for you guys. So when it
Speaker 1: comes to these prospects, I tried to write an article
Speaker 1: this week on fan tracks like lessons we can learn
Speaker 1: from this, and my takeaway was I said, you got
Speaker 1: to ask three questions like what is this prospect ceiling?
Speaker 1: And Keyboo and Low checked out right, we all knew
Speaker 1: their ceiling was awesome. But I think the bigger two
Speaker 1: questions then have to be is the team competing because
Speaker 1: that's just naturally going to be a shorter leash, Like
Speaker 1: if if Key Boom was on like the Tigers, I
Speaker 1: don't think he gets sent down? And is there positional
Speaker 1: competition there where? And what I mean by that like
Speaker 1: is if Carter keep him isn't playing well, Hey, we
Speaker 1: have a veteran and Brian Dojer who could play his position,
Speaker 1: and we have Trade Turner coming back. Why do we
Speaker 1: are we gonna like waste it with this kid struggling?
Speaker 1: So I think those are two things that that everyone
Speaker 1: gets excited for prospects. And I totally get that you
Speaker 1: need to bid up if you want to get in
Speaker 1: on the hype, But do you guys believe that we
Speaker 1: need to start factoring in those two other Uh, like
Speaker 1: those factors more going forward with prospects or do you
Speaker 1: think we just continue to spend high and hope they hit. No.
Speaker 1: I think that makes sense. It's you can't judge every
Speaker 1: prospect the same, Greg. I mean, you do have to
Speaker 1: take all of these factors into consideration, and maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't do that enough when it came to Carter keep him.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with my stance on Nate Low unless
Speaker 1: there's something else, like there's some other baseball politics involved here,
Speaker 1: like maybe maybe to salary manipulation, because if I think
Speaker 1: they're looking at it as a man choy that different
Speaker 1: from Low right now, if we could keep Low playing
Speaker 1: time down and keep his numbers down, why wouldn't like
Speaker 1: a small market team like the Rays do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably true. And I don't know if g man
Speaker 1: Choy has options left, So I mean that's something that
Speaker 1: might factor into it as well. There are a lot
Speaker 1: there are a lot of factors, and I think that
Speaker 1: makes that makes a lot of sense. I will I
Speaker 1: will stick with what I said. I still think that
Speaker 1: Nate Low probably deserved more so than than Carter keep
Speaker 1: him to stay on the roster, but it is unfortunate.
Speaker 1: It's a good point that you bring up, Mike. I
Speaker 1: think we do have to take these things into consider
Speaker 1: consideration a little bit more. Someone tweeted me the other
Speaker 1: day and said, you're Don Alvarez isn't even on the
Speaker 1: forty man roster for the Astros, So how's this guy
Speaker 1: gonna get a call up? Manipulate that. I know, like
Speaker 1: you can put someone on a sixty day I l like, whatever,
Speaker 1: d f a somebody, but I mean, he's not on
Speaker 1: the active roster right now. It could still happen, like
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker is already on the forty man agreed, So
Speaker 1: maybe it's wrong with me. I don't get excited for
Speaker 1: Astro's prospects like everyone like I know I probably should.
Speaker 1: But if there's one team that like just doesn't care
Speaker 1: about getting their prospects up and stuff, it's the ash Shows.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Ashows have done it more man,
Speaker 1: the Ashall's time and time, like how many I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that because you had correct come out,
Speaker 1: you had Bragman come out. They both played okay, but
Speaker 1: then look for you to look at those guys though,
Speaker 1: were like they were they were earlier though since those
Speaker 1: guys have come up, there's been like five plus prospects
Speaker 1: that we've all been excited for. In the AS shows,
Speaker 1: they had like ten first basement that we were excited about,
Speaker 1: and then they bring in new Liguero, you know, like
Speaker 1: well just holding. But to be fair, Mike, they were
Speaker 1: right because all these got all those first basement they
Speaker 1: all stuck, every one of them. I think Tyler White
Speaker 1: could be very good if he ever gets everyday playing time.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe not, But like Johnson played very well
Speaker 1: last year, John Singleton not good. I always wanted Derek
Speaker 1: Fisher to get a shot and that never happened. Should
Speaker 1: never happened. Kyle Tucker hasn't really happened. Preston Tucker is
Speaker 1: a disaster, and now Colin mq is sucking. And if
Speaker 1: any of the other starting pitchers started to suck, like,
Speaker 1: are we really gonna get Forest Whitley, I mean they'll
Speaker 1: probably just find some other guy, Like pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's a little bit harder with
Speaker 1: the Astros because you're right, I mean, they are a
Speaker 1: team that's trying to compete obviously, and they're at the
Speaker 1: stage now, Greg, where you mentioned they called up Alex Bregman,
Speaker 1: they call up Korea, they call up all these guys.
Speaker 1: But now they're performing, and they're they have huge expectations
Speaker 1: to win a World Series. They can't really afford to
Speaker 1: kind of call up more young guys and have big
Speaker 1: like expect big things from those guys right away, Like
Speaker 1: they have Josh Reddick who is like top five and
Speaker 1: banging amaging baseball right now. Last year because we were like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get rid of Josh Reddick and they're gonna
Speaker 1: use there, and it never happened, Never happened, I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna happen again. This year. Everyone's excited about your don
Speaker 1: ever and rightfully so he's crushing it right now. But
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't And I said this last week
Speaker 1: when everyone was picking him up, Craig, how does it happen?
Speaker 1: How does it happen for him? Because there there are
Speaker 1: a bunch of boofs that he has to jump through.
Speaker 1: Right now, then let me move on to players, right,
Speaker 1: not that I want to don't want to ask you
Speaker 1: a question, but only what the players are canna help
Speaker 1: people here this week? Right? And you mentioned Mike before
Speaker 1: Williams Studio, who's on the d l ill coming back
Speaker 1: at some point. But Mitch Carver has gotten it done
Speaker 1: for Minnesota, has a late HEAs in casher at a
Speaker 1: Homer this week playtime. It's gonna be tough for all
Speaker 1: these catchers. If you're in a two catcher league to
Speaker 1: catcher format, are you interested picking up at Jason Caster
Speaker 1: or Mitch Carver? Mitch Garver more so. I think Mitch Garver,
Speaker 1: even in his limited role, like he's giving you power.
Speaker 1: I think as a catcher too, even in a limited
Speaker 1: role like and I have like Kurt Szuki in leagues,
Speaker 1: Tyler Flowers, guys who don't play every single day, because
Speaker 1: I think the catcher position is the one spot where
Speaker 1: your guy isn't going to play every day. So I
Speaker 1: would be most inclined at Mitch Garver of those guys.
Speaker 1: But I will fully admit like it's gonna be three
Speaker 1: three catchers for one spot, like it's going to be frustrating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Mitch Garver two and I would assume that
Speaker 1: he's owned in all two catcher leagues already Greg, but
Speaker 1: I would I would push him up into he's almost
Speaker 1: worth owning in a one catcher league just because of
Speaker 1: the way he's performing right now and the lineup that
Speaker 1: he plays in. But it is going to be frustrating.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of catchers who might be
Speaker 1: fringy in the single catcher league's worth owning like in
Speaker 1: a twelve team league, Like he's towards that back end.
Speaker 1: He's he's pushing himself into like top ten, top twelve
Speaker 1: catcher territory, even if he only plays, you know, three
Speaker 1: maybe four times a week. When he plays, he's been
Speaker 1: really damn good. This year's shout out Tonanto Dafina, who
Speaker 1: was on Mitch Garver before everyone else. He uh, Mitch
Speaker 1: Garver's just absolutely match right now. The battle ball day
Speaker 1: is really good. Also on Jabari Blash before everyone else
Speaker 1: is well he is. He is catching number ten right
Speaker 1: now in points leagues. So yeah, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: the catcher there's like eight good catchers this year. Like Wilson,
Speaker 1: Ramos has sucked a supposed we all knew was gonna
Speaker 1: suck like it's been. It's it's been a really bad position.
Speaker 1: It's been really really tough that catch position. Just a
Speaker 1: couple more hitters in your standards twelve team leaves we
Speaker 1: wanted to throw out before we moved on to pitching.
Speaker 1: Hunter Redfris in the game, that obviously really comes to mind.
Speaker 1: He's owning thirty five percent of yeahoo leaves right now.
Speaker 1: He has homered in three of his last four games,
Speaker 1: including a pinch hit home run Cold Nights Ago at
Speaker 1: home against Dodgers. And the big story is, especially if
Speaker 1: you're in a daily change league Hunter Redfro this this
Speaker 1: weekend is in Colorado. If he plays every day, that
Speaker 1: sounds like a recipe for success. Frankie, Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: a big Hunter Renfro fan for a long time. But
Speaker 1: the concerns that we had for all the Padre's outfielders
Speaker 1: coming into the year where they gonna play enough, and
Speaker 1: he has played more recently, They're finding ways to get
Speaker 1: guys in the line up. They're putting Will Myers in
Speaker 1: center field at times. Manuel Margot seems like he's been
Speaker 1: the one that kind of has taken the biggest backseat here.
Speaker 1: Friend Milray is playing every single day, um, and everyone
Speaker 1: is how I feel about Frank Milrays already at this point.
Speaker 1: But to Renfro, fifty two point six percent hard hit rate,
Speaker 1: he puts the ball in the air. You saw the
Speaker 1: pinch it Grand Slam against Kenny Jansen on Sunday. The
Speaker 1: guy can absolutely mash. He just needs an opportunity to play.
Speaker 1: He has nine home runs in a hundred and eight
Speaker 1: plate appearances so far. It's here. So the the ability
Speaker 1: to hit has never been in question for Hunter Renfro,
Speaker 1: especially um hit for power. But uh, is he gonna
Speaker 1: play enough? That's that's the biggest question mark. And I
Speaker 1: think right now, the fact that he's playing as well
Speaker 1: as he is, I think he'll be in the line
Speaker 1: up more often than not the San Diego Padres. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the way he's hot right now Floria, which means Hunter
Speaker 1: Redfro probably should be picked up, certainly for this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he should be. I know he's in the top three
Speaker 1: in their outfielders and plate appearances this year. Will Myers
Speaker 1: leads them, and I don't know, like how you can
Speaker 1: at this point in time, I would be playing Rays
Speaker 1: and Renfro over Will Myers if I was depoddress. But
Speaker 1: there doesn't look like they're gonna do that. It looks
Speaker 1: like when someone has to sit unfortunately, it probably will
Speaker 1: be Renfro, But yeah, in course this weekend he should
Speaker 1: a hundred percent be you know, you should picked up
Speaker 1: and put in your lineup. And I I agree with Frank.
Speaker 1: I love Rais and I love Renfro, and if they
Speaker 1: were both given everyday plate appearances, I think both of
Speaker 1: them could be you know, outfield threes if with upside,
Speaker 1: Like I really do like both of these guys a
Speaker 1: lot in that lineup. It's just the playing time is maddening.
Speaker 1: We had a good question just going back, for one
Speaker 1: said about Mitch Garver, and you talked about how he
Speaker 1: was a top ten catcher and Wilson Round, which has
Speaker 1: been awful. Would you drop Whizzer round which from Mitch
Speaker 1: Garver in a one catcher league? Is that for me?
Speaker 1: Here for Franks, Uh, I don't know if I'm there
Speaker 1: yet just because of the playing time, But it is
Speaker 1: so close. Like Wilson Ramos, his value was really inflated
Speaker 1: early in the year. He was hitting like five hundred
Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position. He leave, at least last
Speaker 1: night looked he was leading the league in groundball percent.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even that close. It feels like every time
Speaker 1: he comes up he grounds into a double play. They
Speaker 1: didn't even pinch it him the other day for Thomas
Speaker 1: Needo with the game on the line. That was pretty
Speaker 1: telling to me. So it's getting very close. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I'm fully there yet, only because of the
Speaker 1: playing time concerns for Garver. Yeah, I agree with Mike,
Speaker 1: and I was a Wilson Ramos guy coming into the year.
Speaker 1: He's always had issues with groundballs, but really has taken
Speaker 1: it to the next level he was entering this season
Speaker 1: in his career. He's up to sixty three percent groundball
Speaker 1: so far, and that's just not gonna work out. I mean,
Speaker 1: normally we want to go like de Gordon to hit
Speaker 1: that many groundballs, but as someone like Wilson Ramos, the
Speaker 1: big pearly catcher, dude, we can't be having you hitting
Speaker 1: sixty percent groundballs. But the past couple of years he
Speaker 1: has been someone that you can rely on for batting average. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say the cream, Greggy, the cream rises to
Speaker 1: the top here when it comes to Wilson Ramos, I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be better. It's close, but I'll stick
Speaker 1: with Ramos. A couple of other hitters we want to
Speaker 1: mention here how he Kendrew if we talked about a
Speaker 1: lot now that Carter Keebo was down, Uh, Kender's playing
Speaker 1: right every day and he's certainly doing very well right now.
Speaker 1: Kendrick hat consider picking him up and then some deeper,
Speaker 1: some deeper league adds Frank Um de Gordon's injury last
Speaker 1: night opens up some opportunities in Seattle. Yeah. JP Crawford
Speaker 1: and shed Longer both going to be called up by
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners, and I would imagine that JP Crawford's
Speaker 1: probably the guy that sees the bulk of the playing time,
Speaker 1: even though it's cool name alert with shed Long. I
Speaker 1: do like shed Long. He was actually one of the
Speaker 1: prospects that they got in returned for James Packs, and
Speaker 1: we could talk about him a little bit more when
Speaker 1: we come back. I was actually hoping he would just
Speaker 1: be the only one to get called up and he
Speaker 1: would just be able to play every day at second base.
Speaker 1: But I do think that that we'll go to JP
Speaker 1: Crawford at least in the short tim and maybe this
Speaker 1: could be the end of Tim Beckham as he's starting
Speaker 1: a short stuff potential. He's been struggling a lot too,
Speaker 1: So you could see shed Long at second and JP
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Speaker 1: and we mentioned the Seattle situation. Tim Beckham is struggling.
Speaker 1: De Gordon hurt Hittle risk last night, um by Jay happy.
Speaker 1: Gordon is not happy about that. Um JP cral for
Speaker 1: deeper leaves pick him up, um well, especially if you
Speaker 1: were a D Gordon owner, like I owned D Gordon
Speaker 1: in the main event, and I'm gonna have to figure
Speaker 1: out what to do about that situation. Now. It's not
Speaker 1: only do I lose a starting caliber player on my team,
Speaker 1: but I lose a ton of stolen basis, so that
Speaker 1: definitely sucks. We'll see what they do. In terms of
Speaker 1: Tim Beckham, I don't think that he's just going to
Speaker 1: completely be banished to the bench or anything. I know
Speaker 1: that he's cold right now. The Seattle Mariners, as the
Speaker 1: season goes along, I think they're going to have more
Speaker 1: of an eye on the future, so they're gonna give
Speaker 1: their younger players an opportunity to play guys like Shed Long,
Speaker 1: guys like JP Crawford. But in the short term, I
Speaker 1: don't think Tim Beckham just goes away right now, which
Speaker 1: could just make this a maddening situation for everybody. Greg
Speaker 1: there's a lot of names in the Seattle Mariner's line
Speaker 1: up that they're trying to fit in constantly. And now
Speaker 1: if we have some kind of situation where it's a
Speaker 1: mixing match between JP Crawford and shed Long and Tim Beckham,
Speaker 1: they're probably all just going to take away from each
Speaker 1: other overall. So it's just kind of a frustrating situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know that any of them are really must
Speaker 1: add players, even deeper leagues and al only. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you take a shot, but I don't know that either
Speaker 1: one is going to play regularly right away. What do
Speaker 1: you think? Might agree with with Frank? But I was
Speaker 1: gonna like there hasn't been an update that I missed,
Speaker 1: right because as last I saw it said the the
Speaker 1: X ray was inconclusive and the good inconclusive is bad.
Speaker 1: I know he's going to land on the I L.
Speaker 1: But it's not like it's like, oh, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: out for two months right like there's been There hasn't
Speaker 1: been a timetable yet. It could be like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: back in two weeks. Do you like either of these guys, Mike, No,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think right now they're al
Speaker 1: onely guys. JP Crawford does three homes in three stolen
Speaker 1: bases hitting three nineteen, so better than what we've normally
Speaker 1: seen from JP Crawford and the miners shed long five homers,
Speaker 1: seventy six batting average. I joked about him during the
Speaker 1: break Mac Williams should be called up for San Francisco
Speaker 1: A couple of days ago. Homeward in his first game,
Speaker 1: next one got rained out, and yesterday snow doubt snowed
Speaker 1: and rained out. Actually, and last night or yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: I don't think he did all that much. Um now
Speaker 1: Williams in the deep league, I think he's worth adding.
Speaker 1: My man Ronnie Rodriguez, not even just deeply. Ronnie Rodrigue
Speaker 1: should be owned. He's good, right right, Mike. Yeah, his
Speaker 1: ownership percentage is still last I looked, it was still
Speaker 1: pretty low, so he should be. He should be higher
Speaker 1: on than he is. Yeah. So when I was looking
Speaker 1: into Ronnie Rodriguez, he's had some interesting minor league numbers.
Speaker 1: Two in seventeen he had seventeen home runs, fifteen stolen
Speaker 1: bases to nine one batting average, an interesting power speed
Speaker 1: combination mashing right now already for the Tigers, they don't
Speaker 1: have a ton of talent on this team, so I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play every single day fifty one send
Speaker 1: hard hit rate, fly ball rate, batting average right now,
Speaker 1: three homers, twelve verybies, one stolen base. What's not to like,
Speaker 1: especially in a in a daily transactions leaue greg I
Speaker 1: picked him up in the pit league and he plays
Speaker 1: every position but catcher. This is basically the second coming
Speaker 1: of Nico Goodrum, same team. You might have a little
Speaker 1: bit more upside, doesn't strike out as much as Nico.
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Speaker 1: top three, so all of us did not cash up.
Speaker 1: We did not, But I got this connected during Ronnie
Speaker 1: Rodriguez can. I think he's one of the more interesting
Speaker 1: players to project. His heart hit rate is fifty one.
Speaker 1: His fly ball you love to see that, and you
Speaker 1: would expect him to have more than three home runs.
Speaker 1: So like that right there, I'm like, all right, cool,
Speaker 1: I want to buy in. I want to get him.
Speaker 1: Like while he's you know, we're seeing what we want
Speaker 1: to see, but the results haven't caught up yet. But
Speaker 1: at the same point in time, he's a swinging strike
Speaker 1: rate of seventeen and he's chasing pitches out of the
Speaker 1: zone forty six point seven percent of the time, So
Speaker 1: which tells me he should be striking out a lot
Speaker 1: more than he is. So like he's one of the ones,
Speaker 1: Like I think the upside is very high, but I
Speaker 1: also think like he's been getting a little fortunate with
Speaker 1: those strikeouts. Well maybe he's just the next coming of
Speaker 1: Javier Baias, Mike, how about that he could be? He
Speaker 1: could be? Those are Haavia by Javier Baias esque numbers
Speaker 1: man Habby Baya is one of the best to do
Speaker 1: it in terms of swinging and missing, chasing pitches outside
Speaker 1: the strike zone, but still being awesome and still hitting
Speaker 1: for batting average. I'm I'm I'm not ready to say
Speaker 1: that Ronnie Rodriguez Javier Bias great, but I guess we'll
Speaker 1: we'll write it out for now. Kind of similar to
Speaker 1: some of these other guys, like the Hunter Pences of
Speaker 1: the world. Uh, the underlying numbers, the battle ball data
Speaker 1: look pretty good for Ronnie Rodriguez, maybe outside of the
Speaker 1: plate discipline, but take a shot, he's performing well right now.
Speaker 1: He has a high contact rate despite you know, chasing
Speaker 1: every pitch out of his zone everyone throwing his way.
Speaker 1: That's such an interesting mix of like combination of things
Speaker 1: that he has going on right now because he you're
Speaker 1: you're saying he has the high contact great, but also
Speaker 1: you know, swings and misses and then also chases a
Speaker 1: bunch of pitches. So it actually does remind me of
Speaker 1: a lot of Javier Bias. This is a the poorest
Speaker 1: the poorest man version of Javier Bias is is Ronnie Rodriguez. Sure,
Speaker 1: like some of the guys you know, like thirty four Street,
Speaker 1: Harald Square, Ronnie Rodriguez is one of those guys. That's
Speaker 1: that's the happier Bias version. We'll go with it. Like
Speaker 1: he's out there wearing like it comes beautiful of trying
Speaker 1: to take pictures with people. Yeah, it's like the people
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Greg where they're just like, hey, I swear
Speaker 1: I'm happier Bias, even though he doesn't look like happier
Speaker 1: Bias at all. Like give me a dollar, take a
Speaker 1: picture with me. It's like Spider Man who walks around
Speaker 1: in the middle of the city. That's like at costume,
Speaker 1: dirty Spider Man. Let's get to the closer. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the closers, gentlemen. Sean Kelly, who you had prompted
Speaker 1: out my couple of days ago, was not in for
Speaker 1: the safe situation. Chris Martin got it and now you
Speaker 1: know why. Um, Sean Kelly has some sort of what
Speaker 1: is it virus? It's not a virus infection infection, but
Speaker 1: we don't know what the infection is from or any
Speaker 1: more information on it, so not great for Sean Kelly.
Speaker 1: Chris Martins given the closer for now until Josie Clark
Speaker 1: gets his job back. I would dropped Sean Kelly. I
Speaker 1: feel we're gonna out that there's no reason to hold
Speaker 1: on him because when he does come back, you don't
Speaker 1: know that he'll be the closer. You can definitely drop
Speaker 1: Sean Kelly. You definitely pick up Chris Martin because he
Speaker 1: seems to be the guy again for now. Other closures
Speaker 1: that are out there this week, Pager Stroke went on
Speaker 1: the i L yesterday. I believe Steve check is probably
Speaker 1: the favorite in Chicago, but Frank, there are other options there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a messy situation at
Speaker 1: least for the time being. Maybe once the MLB Draft passes,
Speaker 1: they get in on the bidding for Craig kimbrell Um.
Speaker 1: And if you're wondering about Brandon Morrow, I scoured the
Speaker 1: web last night and could not find a single update
Speaker 1: on Brandon Tomorrow. He suffered a setback a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago and sounds who knows when he's coming back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So like the latest timetable that I saw with him
Speaker 1: was like he's gonna miss the entire first half. So
Speaker 1: you have c Check, you have Brad Brock, you have
Speaker 1: Brandon Kinseler. All three of them have a prior closing experience.
Speaker 1: I looked into the numbers of all three last night.
Speaker 1: Uh D. C Chick has actually done better than I
Speaker 1: thought he was doing, and Brandon Kinseler was actually next up.
Speaker 1: Brad Brock walking a lot of people right now. I
Speaker 1: Steve c Check is probably gonna go for the most
Speaker 1: fab this weekend, Greg, But I think the sneaky ad
Speaker 1: is I would throw a few bucks on Brandon Kinseler
Speaker 1: and just see if he can grab a handful of
Speaker 1: saves or whatever if someone emerges here. But I think
Speaker 1: Steve c Chick is probably gonna be the most popular one.
Speaker 1: Although Madden had says it's basically just like a mixing
Speaker 1: match right now. Yeah, it's always a mixing match until
Speaker 1: somebody pulls away. I think c Check is probably my favorite.
Speaker 1: But Mike, this is somewhere where you go to just
Speaker 1: drain your faving it very frustrated. I think I don't
Speaker 1: trust Joe Madden at all when it comes to closers
Speaker 1: because since Brandon Morrow has got hurt last year, he
Speaker 1: hasn't named a closer, like even coming into this year,
Speaker 1: he was like, well, Morrows are closer and until he
Speaker 1: gets back, will piece it together, even though the whole
Speaker 1: world knew Pago Stroke was going to be the closer.
Speaker 1: I think I'm with you, guys. I think it is
Speaker 1: Steve c Check. I put it on Patreon the other day. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's pitching the best of all their relievers right now.
Speaker 1: Only Uh Kyle Ryan had a lower whip than I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: a lower fit than Steve c Check. But Kindlings was
Speaker 1: right behind him. I think that's a good call. Frank
Speaker 1: put a couple of bucks on Kind's uh kinseler and
Speaker 1: then hopefully you get maybe a handful of saves out
Speaker 1: of him. But Seek is the guy I would try
Speaker 1: to spend on right now. Steve potentially the favorite, although
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how much that means in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Some other starting pittures specifically, we could have figured out yesterday.
Speaker 1: But you Darvish, Yeah, you know, ruined it. Oh God,
Speaker 1: don't even get me starved. If he goes an inning
Speaker 1: or two longer, they probably treated like a normal game
Speaker 1: instead of having Mike Montgomery come in for for five
Speaker 1: innings in a safe situation, like it was a safe
Speaker 1: situation in the ninth. Then they left Montgomery in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't blame him for doing that at all.
Speaker 1: I Greg, I watched this entire start yesterday. You were
Speaker 1: working very hard yesterday. Yeah, come on, you know I
Speaker 1: was eating my lunch. I needed something to do, so
Speaker 1: I was a quick two and a half hour lunch.
Speaker 1: You want to throw pitches through four innings against the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins, he walked the opposing picture. Is there anything
Speaker 1: more frustrating, Greg? Then watching a start in baseball, your
Speaker 1: picture in fantasy baseball walks the opposing picture? What is
Speaker 1: more frustrating than that? Oh? Wait, crickets sucks like six
Speaker 1: walksches against the Marlins. And the last time he faced
Speaker 1: the Marlins in Marlins Park, he was really good. He
Speaker 1: was unhittable. Yesterday he only gave up one hit. That's
Speaker 1: what you'd expect against the Marlins. But he walks six batters. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm getting close to the close of the edge here
Speaker 1: with you, darvish. Greg. I'm not gonna drop him yet,
Speaker 1: but dude, Like, there's nobody more frustrating than to watch
Speaker 1: in baseball right now? Is a starting picture. I had
Speaker 1: a few writing votes yesterday for Noah' syndergard. I can
Speaker 1: see why that's frustrating, But dude, you Darvis just an
Speaker 1: absolute mess. Mike. If you owned you Darvish, even in
Speaker 1: a twelve team league, would you drop him. It's very close.
Speaker 1: I'm getting to the point where you are. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm there yet, but it's getting closer. I understand
Speaker 1: that the upside is still there because he's still getting
Speaker 1: a ton of strikeouts, but the command is shaky, man.
Speaker 1: It's it's the reason why, like I put on Twitter yesterday,
Speaker 1: like as we like Shrevior richards Man, and the upside
Speaker 1: is there. He's getting a lot of swinging strikes. He's
Speaker 1: still getting the strikeouts that you like to see, but
Speaker 1: the command is just so bad. It just it prevents
Speaker 1: them from going deep into games, and it kills your whip.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's getting to the point where if
Speaker 1: you have that poor commanded, it's really hard to roster
Speaker 1: you and start with any sort of confidence. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing with Darvis do too. If you watch the start,
Speaker 1: he's throw per hour. Greg. It's not a matter of
Speaker 1: like we have concerns about the stuff. He still has
Speaker 1: a ton of movement on his pitches. He has no
Speaker 1: idea where they're going at all. That's the biggest issue.
Speaker 1: You watch him like wipe out sliders. Still it'll go
Speaker 1: from one side and strikes one all the way to
Speaker 1: the other side. He has a cutter that that showed
Speaker 1: good movement yesterday too. He just has absolutely no idea
Speaker 1: where any of these pictures. I have a theory, so
Speaker 1: you know, like how picture moved, Like the ball is
Speaker 1: moving more than like ever with this new ball, Like
Speaker 1: like the stuff that pictures can do is like otherworldly. Now.
Speaker 1: I think batters if they like, they're just not chasing
Speaker 1: anymore because they know, like, hey, I have no chance.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying no batters are chasing, but with
Speaker 1: certain in pictures, like it feels like with Trevor Bauer,
Speaker 1: like his stuff is so filthy, but he's walking everyone
Speaker 1: every game because people are just swinging less. And I
Speaker 1: feel like that might be a philosophy when it comes
Speaker 1: to some of these more you know, these pictures that
Speaker 1: have elite movement on their pitches. This is an interesting
Speaker 1: theory because this is something that we've talked about multiple
Speaker 1: times to see Trevor Bauer being one of them, and
Speaker 1: I've said that like at times, I think he's almost
Speaker 1: trying to do too much. Is some of these guys
Speaker 1: that have filthy stuff. It just came throw it for strikes, Greg.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's part of like the ball
Speaker 1: that they're using right now, like part of the juice ball.
Speaker 1: Like you would have to do like some kind of
Speaker 1: scientific experience, something that's outside of like my hands or
Speaker 1: your hands, obviously, but like someone like you know, Sarah's
Speaker 1: could probably figure it out. But it's it's an interesting
Speaker 1: theory because this isn't the first time that I've said
Speaker 1: this about a picture of this year. It seems like
Speaker 1: there's almost too much movement with pitches, which is weird.
Speaker 1: So anyways, you're not driving you darvish quite yet. Very
Speaker 1: clear to bring it back home, trying to help the
Speaker 1: people out, very close, Greg, fair enough starters to pick
Speaker 1: up for this week is specifically this weekend. A lot
Speaker 1: of the guys am about to give you all start
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Mike, I want you to rank them for me.
Speaker 1: You know who you want to both just start on
Speaker 1: Sunday and then kind of pick up for you know,
Speaker 1: the immediate future, not forever. I don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: I just noticed one of them on this list. Can
Speaker 1: you tell me the matchups? But I'm pretty sure it's
Speaker 1: not gonna matter. But can you still tell me the matchup?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yes, of course I can do that.
Speaker 1: Let me let me just pull it up here, Just
Speaker 1: give me a second. The first name is gonna be
Speaker 1: John means, um all right, I'm pulling up the matchups.
Speaker 1: Hang on one second. John means going up against the Angels, right,
Speaker 1: so John means against the Angels. Lucas Giolito against Toronto, Toronto,
Speaker 1: still against Toronto. That's just it's not wrong. Alright, Fine,
Speaker 1: you have some pictures like to pitch at home. Ye
Speaker 1: have Free Rodriguez at Oakland, so you know it's at Oakland.
Speaker 1: Just in case you were wondering. Daniel Norris in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: He's at Minnesota. They're very clear. Uh, Ivan Nova his
Speaker 1: best start of the year. Um Eva Nova is facing
Speaker 1: Toronto in Toronto. Why is he on this list? He
Speaker 1: should not? Might be looking for a streamer this week, gentlemen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like that's like recommending Matt Harvey at this point,
Speaker 1: Michael Pineda against Detroit at home. I so you threw
Speaker 1: some names out there that weren't on the rundown, but
Speaker 1: so to me, there's two that stand above everyone else,
Speaker 1: and it's means in Geelito. Like after that, then yeah,
Speaker 1: we could put like Dania, Norris and Pinata there like
Speaker 1: I even Nova I grew with Frank shouldn't be on
Speaker 1: this list. I forget the other name that you you added, yes,
Speaker 1: wasn't on he's below means like to me, it's means
Speaker 1: in Gelto and then it's the other guys. Okay, I
Speaker 1: agree with that too. I'd rank to Leto number one,
Speaker 1: not only for the matchup because but for the long
Speaker 1: term upside. I still has to figure out the walk issues,
Speaker 1: but is getting a lot more swings and mrs this
Speaker 1: year and getting a ton of strikeouts. I know his
Speaker 1: last start, we spoke about it the other day. He
Speaker 1: was basically fastball changeup and it worked out quite well
Speaker 1: for him. He only used four breaking pitches in that start.
Speaker 1: So I would rank Gelto ahead of means what I
Speaker 1: like means as well. We'll also face Cleveland next week,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty good matchup if you're looking towards
Speaker 1: the future, Greg, the what are you gelto over means?
Speaker 1: But yeah, gelto to me, he is a twenty nine
Speaker 1: point two percent strikeout right right now, and as of yesterday,
Speaker 1: heading into Thursday's games, there was only I believe sixteen
Speaker 1: pitchers that had a thirty percent swinging strike rate, and
Speaker 1: it's littered with big name aces, like even guys who
Speaker 1: haven't pitched will but are still getting a ton of strikeouts,
Speaker 1: like you know, like uh, like Noah Syndergarten and those
Speaker 1: guys like so to me to be in that group
Speaker 1: with a lot of these you know, a split pictures
Speaker 1: and then these other breakout pictures like Caleb Smith and
Speaker 1: and uh Chris Paddock and those guys. So to be
Speaker 1: right on there with a strikeout rate that gets my attention.
Speaker 1: And additionally, he's also his hard hit rate is low,
Speaker 1: his fly ball rate is low, and he's getting more
Speaker 1: groundballs than he really ever has. So I think you
Speaker 1: guys know, I've never been a gelego guy with completely
Speaker 1: off of him. Last year, I thought he was the
Speaker 1: worst pitcher in baseball all year last year, but he's
Speaker 1: pitching different this year. He's pitching well. I would be
Speaker 1: inclined to take a chance on him before any of
Speaker 1: those other guys taking a shot here on ge Alito
Speaker 1: rather than John Means in twelve teen leagues we picked
Speaker 1: him up. Is that like the kind of area where okay,
Speaker 1: right for both of you guys when it comes to
Speaker 1: gelato and then Johnny Means we mentioned earlier this week,
Speaker 1: where did they break? When we come back, we have
Speaker 1: a bit of us a surprise, a minor surprise. I'd say,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go over some two star pitchers. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go over more players to drop. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: drop Joe Musgrove conversation. Potentially. We'll see where where that
Speaker 1: kind of leads us. And again I'm MANI surprised, right,
Speaker 1: it's just just just a mini surprise. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: nothing too crazy, nothing wild. See what happens, you know? Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: so we'll do that on the other side. By Floria,
Speaker 1: it's been a it's been a pleasure, my friend. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Guys, it's always fun. We appreciate it.
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