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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie stamp Well. I am
Speaker 1: Greg Susman. Frankie. What's happening but Greg a happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Lots to recap from last night? It Alex for dugo time, Greggy,
Speaker 1: how about that one show planned Baseball? First hour? Um
Speaker 1: pull the second hour? You gotta recap some of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft top skill position players that were drafted, what
Speaker 1: it means for Fantasy football redraft, dynasty fits and where
Speaker 1: wets to talk about? Yeah? Very excited to do both
Speaker 1: sports today. June will join us for that as well
Speaker 1: as Yeah, it'll be good. It'll be really really good
Speaker 1: to do that and and have that have football conversation back.
Speaker 1: I did a little bit with g J, Zack and
Speaker 1: Ryes and a fanal probably asked him to come on.
Speaker 1: Probably we got Jim. We'll get him at some point. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: look very happy to have Jim Fantasy test obviously, but
Speaker 1: I want to try and get as many different guests
Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah, of course. So I took to j
Speaker 1: J about a time before. I took j J about
Speaker 1: it yesterday, and he's got some feelings and so I
Speaker 1: know where he's at, so I can. I feel like
Speaker 1: I know more information now, So that's good. I'd sleep
Speaker 1: lest night, you know, I slept well. I was up
Speaker 1: vividly at three thirty, Like I had like a very
Speaker 1: vivid dream and this this is not funny, but um,
Speaker 1: Chris's mom is having surgery in a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: and I had a dream that I was in the
Speaker 1: hospital having the same surgery, not with Chris's mom, but
Speaker 1: I guess because it was in my head during the day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was having that surgery today and I was fine,
Speaker 1: Like the surgery has under anesthesia. Like four hours later,
Speaker 1: I woke up fine and like they said you could
Speaker 1: only drink certain fluids. Was like now I'm ready for
Speaker 1: like real food. I was like trying to stress the
Speaker 1: doctor and were watching a movie and I woke up.
Speaker 1: I thinking like the morning it was like three thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, and then I had it was very strange,
Speaker 1: and then like closer to the time I wake up,
Speaker 1: I was having like very vivid I don't know, memories
Speaker 1: or dreams of thoughts that like Todd Fraser would make
Speaker 1: a great manager Salt and Pepper. It was like it
Speaker 1: was like Todd Fraser. For some reason, I had this
Speaker 1: vivid thought that Todd Fraser like future manager in the mats.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, all right, maybe do you remember your
Speaker 1: dreams often right when I'm right when I wake up?
Speaker 1: I do not, like not at this point, like the
Speaker 1: details that I remembered hours ago, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't remember at all now, you know. But when I
Speaker 1: was in it, like when I woke up, like I
Speaker 1: one thousand percent, I remember them very vividly, like characters
Speaker 1: that are in it and thoughts. Yeah, I never remember
Speaker 1: any of my dreams when you just wake up, it's
Speaker 1: like you remember anything. Yeah, I said it pretty late
Speaker 1: last night because I was watching a Nuggets game. Great game,
Speaker 1: great game between the Nuggets and the Blazer. So I
Speaker 1: stood up to watch that, a little bit of back
Speaker 1: and forth. Nuggets pulled away monster game from Yoki. Um
Speaker 1: watch some baseball. Early on, I was watching the Rod
Speaker 1: versus Mantas. I was doing great there, I was watching.
Speaker 1: I was watching a lot of sports last night because
Speaker 1: I was between that the Mets because Wheeler was on
Speaker 1: the mound, um and we'll be network on so I
Speaker 1: switched between that. The early game. I had that going on.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of sports. One then at raw
Speaker 1: so well I'm laughing. Yeah, I'm probably just gonna take
Speaker 1: a break from wrestling until summer stime. I wish I
Speaker 1: could too. I wish I wish I could too. I
Speaker 1: don't have enough time to watch for artsma guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I just I, like I said, I do
Speaker 1: it in about it, like fast forward the entire show.
Speaker 1: I don't have time for it. You got that. I
Speaker 1: watched Killed Me Eve last night as well. I watched
Speaker 1: the You think it was pretty cool? It's funny, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I liked it all right, cool, Yeah, it was interesting.
Speaker 1: I watched last week. Oh I did. It was good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do look forward to watching more. It's very quick.
Speaker 1: Seemed to somewhat enjoy it. Twenty it's long. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, what's up? Much better at choosing shows
Speaker 1: than King. She put on a show just before that.
Speaker 1: She's like, let's try this out. It's funny show, is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta I don't even remember the name.
Speaker 1: It was so bad. You know anything tails about it?
Speaker 1: Something about leaving Netflix? It is it leaving? Is that
Speaker 1: the name of the show. I don't know. Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'll text her, I'll find out. I'll get
Speaker 1: it to you before shows over, Okay. I mean I'm
Speaker 1: always interested. Yeah, I don't remember the name of it. It
Speaker 1: It was so bad. It like random, like comedy, like
Speaker 1: skits together. Oh yeah, I heard about this. It's not good.
Speaker 1: I heard it was not good. I heard it was bad.
Speaker 1: She's like, so you didn't like it, right? I didn't
Speaker 1: want to tell the truth. They didn't, you know what.
Speaker 1: You gotta be honest. I was like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't really like it, but deep down I was like
Speaker 1: this is the worst. And then what did she say
Speaker 1: about brock Meyer. She was like, you know, it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: It's good. Okay, you're gonna take it. She probably hates
Speaker 1: it too, so I remember in the same boat. So
Speaker 1: the problem was, after I watched brock Meyer season, like
Speaker 1: the first season, I walked down the apartment saying, I'm
Speaker 1: Jim brock Meyer, and she was like, I think hate that.
Speaker 1: Please off. At least I couldn't. I couldn't stop for
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. You just want to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, right now, you don't know. You don't
Speaker 1: want to do the accent. I can't even pull it off.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy just has a very very interesting
Speaker 1: He's great, he's awesome. All right, let's get to baseball.
Speaker 1: Last night we spent we mentioned on ESPN. You had
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and the Athletics. It was ed E.
Speaker 1: Rodriguez against my man Floreni Montas and it was not
Speaker 1: a pitching gem from either side. Ed Edward Rodriguez get
Speaker 1: a lot of four runs in the second inning and
Speaker 1: that was it, got himself in a bit of a
Speaker 1: trouble in the fifth, got pulled. He was upset by this,
Speaker 1: went nuts in them in the dugout, but he Henry
Speaker 1: got him out of it. And that was the final line,
Speaker 1: which is four four and third, seven hits, four runs
Speaker 1: oh in the second ending two walks, seven strikeouts. The
Speaker 1: Red Sox bullpen was fantastic after that, working in and
Speaker 1: out of trouble. Ryan Brazier pitched in the seventh after
Speaker 1: working on him a little bit of trouble. Raiser got
Speaker 1: him right out of it, and Burnes wind up getting
Speaker 1: to save his first since opening day. On the other side,
Speaker 1: for Oakland's Frankie Montas, who was you know, I wasn't
Speaker 1: just breezing through. We got to the first couple of
Speaker 1: innings pretty easily, and then all hell broke loose in
Speaker 1: the fourth in the third inning, where a horrific throw
Speaker 1: at Jerrickson profile followed up by a Frankie Mantas error himself,
Speaker 1: allowed six runs to come through in the third, none
Speaker 1: of which were earned. Came back out for the fourth,
Speaker 1: all good, came back out for the fifth, not all good,
Speaker 1: as he allowed another run. He went four in the third,
Speaker 1: eight hit, seven runs, only one were earned, a two walk,
Speaker 1: struck out four seventy five pitches. We knew as a
Speaker 1: brutal matchup, and it was for Frankie Montas had to
Speaker 1: see this pitching matchup. Frank, I don't understand why why
Speaker 1: Rodriguez was so angry. I mean he was, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: just didn't pitch well overall. I mean it's a pretty
Speaker 1: it's a pretty tough matchup. Four left handed pitchers going
Speaker 1: up against the AIDS line. There's a lot of really
Speaker 1: strong right handed bads in this lineup, obviously, semi in
Speaker 1: Matt Chatman, Piscotti, Chris Davis, Pinder matches against lefties as well,
Speaker 1: Ramon Loriano, even Jerks and pro far your boy Greg
Speaker 1: Jerkson profar was betting one sixty, got on the board
Speaker 1: last night and had a hit in two ribbys. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: just overall, so it's not a good matchup for left
Speaker 1: handed pitchers going up against the Oakland A's. So I
Speaker 1: saw that here with e rod still did have the
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts in four and two thirds endings page, but
Speaker 1: overall just didn't really have it here. Reggie Mantas, Ye,
Speaker 1: it's just terrible defense behind him. You see that by
Speaker 1: the line um seven runs, only one of them was earned.
Speaker 1: I mean he caused that himself. Obviously you mentioned it
Speaker 1: with the era that he had, but still gave up
Speaker 1: eight hits only four and a third endings pitched. And
Speaker 1: I still like Mantas a lot. It's just start geking
Speaker 1: a little bit worried the past two stars. He's given
Speaker 1: up a lot of hits, and that's kind of what
Speaker 1: Floria was talking about. Doesn't miss enough bats. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pay close attention to Mantas. I still like him
Speaker 1: a lot. I still think that his arsenal is really interesting.
Speaker 1: You'll watch him pitch. He's got the mid to upper
Speaker 1: nineties fastball. He's got you know, a near ninety mile
Speaker 1: per slider, near prower splitter that he's implementing this year.
Speaker 1: So he has an interesting arsenal. Much just kind of
Speaker 1: gives off that Eovaldi vibe to me a little bit
Speaker 1: sometimes that he has the stuff but doesn't really know
Speaker 1: how to pitch, doesn't really know how to mix miss
Speaker 1: bats all that much. Maybe it's a sequencing thing. It's
Speaker 1: he's still learning how to pitch like on the fly
Speaker 1: right now. So that's that's my biggest issue with Mantas.
Speaker 1: I still like him, but I want to start to
Speaker 1: see him develop a little bit here, and then the
Speaker 1: stuff with the Red Sox bullpen just more of the same.
Speaker 1: It was interesting. Ryan Brazier comes in in the seventh
Speaker 1: um with two outs, he pitches, you know, in any
Speaker 1: in a third. At the time when he came in,
Speaker 1: it was seven to four. So there are days where
Speaker 1: he's used in the ninth inning. There are other days
Speaker 1: where he's kind of using a setup role, and yesterday
Speaker 1: was one of those days where he was a set
Speaker 1: up picture and that Barnes ultimately comes in once there
Speaker 1: was bases loaded a ninth thing, picks up a safe
Speaker 1: even though they were up by five runs. Greg, do
Speaker 1: you see any rhyme or reason to the Red Sox
Speaker 1: bullpen right now? It's kind of matchup base but they're
Speaker 1: both right handed pitchers, so yeah, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: kind of just like a field thing for Alex Cora
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox. Yeah. So I was actually trying
Speaker 1: to figure that out, and it just seemed like, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they trusted Barnes more than the middle innings
Speaker 1: Brazier more at the end. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was because they trusted Barnes like multiple innings or whatnot,
Speaker 1: and they just trusted Brazier for that one that ninth inning,
Speaker 1: and last night Brazier goes an inning in the third.
Speaker 1: So I wish I knew they're they're both right handed.
Speaker 1: As you said, I don't know, it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: a it's a field for some way. What are the
Speaker 1: differences of how they could pitch, Frank, do you having
Speaker 1: to know that bou any chance? Not? Really? Like only
Speaker 1: from what I've seen with the Red Sox facing the Yankees,
Speaker 1: Like when Brazier came in to face Bred Gardner, like
Speaker 1: that was a big spot. Again, It's like there are
Speaker 1: times where he's been and it wasn't even a good
Speaker 1: matchup because I think Gardner had, like all get a
Speaker 1: small sample size solid career numbers against him. He might
Speaker 1: have been like two for five or three for five,
Speaker 1: something like that. But Brazier comes in and gives up
Speaker 1: the grand time to Gardner earlier on in the season. Overall,
Speaker 1: I think Matt Barnes is the better picture. He has
Speaker 1: a better ability to miss bats, He gets more swings
Speaker 1: and misses, he gets more strikeouts. He was like better
Speaker 1: suited for like the high levelge situations. But then last
Speaker 1: night he comes in, I guess technically it was a
Speaker 1: high levelge situation, right. So he comes in the ninth
Speaker 1: ending with the Red Sox off nine to four. He
Speaker 1: ends up picking up a save because the tying run
Speaker 1: is the next man on the day, so it's not
Speaker 1: really a traditional save, but he did come in a
Speaker 1: big spot. It's just again, there doesn't really seem to
Speaker 1: be any gem of reasons for the way things like.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it now. The Red Sox numbers for
Speaker 1: the year. Ryan Brazier has been in for seven of
Speaker 1: the Red Sox save opportunities. He has six saves. Matt
Speaker 1: Barnes for three save opportunity, has one save. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so he should have two saves one opening any one
Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, But Matt Barnes has twenty one strikeouts
Speaker 1: in the eleven innings, pitch Sounds has twelve strikeouts. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like that to me, like Barnes is the fireman.
Speaker 1: But why was he using that role last night? I
Speaker 1: don't get it. Yeah, that's that's why we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. But I think overall I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that Brazier had this many more saves and Barnes.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little bit, but he does
Speaker 1: have six of the seven Red Sox saves this here,
Speaker 1: so so seems like it's more so in phasion in
Speaker 1: favor of Braziers. Let me put it this way. Put
Speaker 1: it this way for our fantasy unders, right, if you
Speaker 1: count holds, both of these guys are owned obviously if
Speaker 1: you're just in a standard you're twelve team home league.
Speaker 1: Right in my league, for instance, both of them are
Speaker 1: owned by the same guy. Both of them are owned
Speaker 1: by the same guy. Because you're getting Iran Wim kind
Speaker 1: of like we talked about, not necessarily Josh Hayter, but
Speaker 1: somebody really good releaserons Ryan Pressley comes to mind, and
Speaker 1: you're getting essentially Matt Barnes in that role, and you're
Speaker 1: getting the saves from Brazier or if they flipped them
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, like we saw last night, he gets
Speaker 1: to save. Anyway, would you recommend doing that or would
Speaker 1: you just own Brazier, Like what would you do in
Speaker 1: your standard twelve team league? So if it's a twelve
Speaker 1: team let's say rhoto or head to head categories where
Speaker 1: you just kind of start a bunch of pictures. I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem owning both of them. But for example,
Speaker 1: in my head to head points league, my two home leagues,
Speaker 1: you just start two relievers, so I'm not going to
Speaker 1: own both of these. Maybe I'll just own Brazier because
Speaker 1: he has six of their seven saves and he seems
Speaker 1: more likely to get saves at this point, so I'm
Speaker 1: more likely to own him where I just have to
Speaker 1: start two relievers at too head points league, whatever. But
Speaker 1: I think in your rooto leagues, where normally you just
Speaker 1: start nine pictures it doesn't matter, you know, if they're
Speaker 1: starters or relievers. I think there you can own all
Speaker 1: both of them. And I think in the head to
Speaker 1: head categories league, especially in the holds league, you can
Speaker 1: own both of them. Um, so you know in two
Speaker 1: out of the three main formats, yes you can own both.
Speaker 1: But in the head to head points league or if
Speaker 1: you just start two relievers and that's all you have
Speaker 1: to start, I probably wouldn't own Matt Barnes unless holds
Speaker 1: is a category. Okay, reasonable enough, let's get into the
Speaker 1: hitting last night. I know you hit on the Oakland
Speaker 1: side of things. Let me with the Red Sox where
Speaker 1: Michael Chavis once again came through. He was two before,
Speaker 1: he had three ribbis, solidifying he's spot in the lineup,
Speaker 1: and now he's talked about him a lot recently. Just
Speaker 1: wanted to be clear, like, once again, he gets the
Speaker 1: job done. Last night about this story, played first base, Greig,
Speaker 1: which is what we kind of thought could happen Mitch
Speaker 1: Moreland right now. So look, they're gonna find ways to
Speaker 1: get his bat in the lineup Greig. Also, um and
Speaker 1: also of note, with j D. Martinez being the the
Speaker 1: d h U suway, Lynn started at second so it
Speaker 1: wasn't like the second base position wasn't eligible for him.
Speaker 1: I just think they wanted to get him some reps
Speaker 1: at first base to see where he could fit in
Speaker 1: the line up when some of these other infielders come
Speaker 1: back from Boston. Yeah, I think it makes sense. And Um,
Speaker 1: as I've said, I think as long as as long
Speaker 1: as he's hitting well and performing well. Look, he's got
Speaker 1: the batting average up to two eighties six now, Um,
Speaker 1: he gets two singles yesterday, one of them was a
Speaker 1: bluep Three ribbies got ops over a thousand, will beat
Speaker 1: a small sample size. Michael Javis is performing well, and
Speaker 1: how about Mookie Betts. We were just talking about him
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Three hits last night, the
Speaker 1: batting average all about utter two eighty seven gread. No
Speaker 1: concern for Mookie Betts, no concern whatsoever. He came through.
Speaker 1: One name that when you have the Mookie Betts I
Speaker 1: was looking up was Rafael Devers because his name we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about at all here. So Rabhail Devers on
Speaker 1: the year at six o BP sits at nine. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. What's not good is the zero home runs,
Speaker 1: seven rivies, fifteen runs score. That's good. He has four
Speaker 1: stolen basis in six attempts when he's running a lot.
Speaker 1: What do you make what we've seen thus far from
Speaker 1: Rafael Devers really interesting name. Started looking into him because
Speaker 1: Florio texted me. That's exactly why I am bringing him up.
Speaker 1: Rafael Devers has just had like a weird start to
Speaker 1: the season. Um So his launch angle this year is
Speaker 1: four point two degrees on average. Last year it was
Speaker 1: ten point nine. So ten point nine is kind closer
Speaker 1: to a line drive obviously four point two. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's hitting a lot of groundballs, and you see that
Speaker 1: in the battle ball data, right now, he's got a
Speaker 1: fifty five percent groundball rate. He's the only hitting flyballs
Speaker 1: twenty of the time. He's striking out. He's striking out
Speaker 1: sixteen point seven percent of the time. So it seems
Speaker 1: like he's kind of making more of a conscious ever
Speaker 1: just to make contact and not necessarily worrying about hitting
Speaker 1: flyballs and trying to hit home runs. It seems like
Speaker 1: he's just trying to make contact right now and get
Speaker 1: on base and maybe hit for batting average, which he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's got a two ninety six average, but he's got
Speaker 1: zero home runs. I mean, I mean personally, as a
Speaker 1: fantasy owner, I would tell Dever's he sacrifice some of
Speaker 1: the batting average. I thought, you hit two seventy two
Speaker 1: seventy five and give me twenty five home runs. That's
Speaker 1: what I want. It's good to see him running though, too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some more infoone Devers on the
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Speaker 1: we look forward to that, certainly, AJ Pollock, Anthony Rendon
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Speaker 1: before we have the break, we're talking about Raphael Devers
Speaker 1: and what to expect and what I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up Frank was in seventeen that year that he broke
Speaker 1: out and we were super high on him going in
Speaker 1: the last year was I was kind of looking at
Speaker 1: the batted ball profile a bit and he was a
Speaker 1: fifty groundball guy back then, and that number, you know,
Speaker 1: went down a little bit last year back now this year.
Speaker 1: So even though the flyball percentage was obviously higher than
Speaker 1: it is now, he's always been a strong groundball guy.
Speaker 1: He's hard hit rate back then same as it is now.
Speaker 1: I don't know any of any indications all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he's just going to start lifting the ball and
Speaker 1: get back to where we think he could be this
Speaker 1: home run guy. I don't don't see any data that
Speaker 1: makes this thing that's gonna happen all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: In fact, what the only thing I see is that
Speaker 1: all right back in he's vi it was at three
Speaker 1: two this year, is at three sixty seven last year
Speaker 1: to eighty one. I assume it's going to be somewhere
Speaker 1: closer to three in his three sixty seven. I think
Speaker 1: these numbers across the board probably for him go down.
Speaker 1: Outside of the on base percentage, where he seems to
Speaker 1: have a good eye, I think the number comes down
Speaker 1: a bit. Frank, I do like the fact that he's
Speaker 1: walking more this year. It just seems like he's trying
Speaker 1: to mature this season in terms of cutting down the
Speaker 1: strikeouts of swinging strike rate is down, he's walking more so,
Speaker 1: he's got a better recognition of pitches while he's at
Speaker 1: the plate. He's not chasing as many pitches outside the
Speaker 1: strike zone. The line drive rate is up nine percent,
Speaker 1: so he is hitting line drives and he's hitting a
Speaker 1: lot of groundballs, but he overall his fly ball rate
Speaker 1: is down eighteen percent from last year. So it just
Speaker 1: seems like he's making a conscious effort right now to
Speaker 1: make contact and he's not trying to do too much.
Speaker 1: But he's not trying to lift the ball. He's just
Speaker 1: kind of taking a picture giving tim. Yes, he's hitting
Speaker 1: more line drives, he's hitting more groundballs. It seems like
Speaker 1: he's naturally maturing as a hitter. You know what. It
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of a little bit Greg Chris
Speaker 1: Bryant the past couple of years, who when he first
Speaker 1: came into the year into the league, he started hitting
Speaker 1: a ton of flyballs, strike out a lot. Seems like
Speaker 1: he was kind of selling out for power, and over
Speaker 1: the past couple of seasons he cut down the strikeout rate.
Speaker 1: He's starting to hit more line drives, starting to hit
Speaker 1: more for batting average, but the power is going down.
Speaker 1: We'll about this a little bit yesterday regarding Chris Bryant
Speaker 1: and that the groundball rate has been up. It reminds
Speaker 1: me a little bit of that regarding Devor's here. But
Speaker 1: if this continues to go the way that it's going,
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we gonna get home runs out
Speaker 1: of him? Maybe that I mean, he he could be
Speaker 1: one of these guys who already hits his home runs
Speaker 1: and bunches and whatever that they'll come. But I mean
Speaker 1: there's nothing right now in the battle ball data that
Speaker 1: that says that that's gonna happen. Like it severely says
Speaker 1: that we underestimated his home run output for the season. Correct,
Speaker 1: we were probably expecting closer to home runs. Correct, It's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. I mean, you look at the projections
Speaker 1: on fan graphs from the rest of like Steamer has
Speaker 1: n't for sixteen home runs the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: You didn't draft Roffie Devers for sixteen home runs. Derrick
Speaker 1: Cardi the bat projection hasn't for twenty but seventy three
Speaker 1: batting average. So they just have to change. You know
Speaker 1: what did I get there? Though? Yeah, It's just it's
Speaker 1: been a really really odd starts of the year because
Speaker 1: like there's some good again, there's pros line drive rape
Speaker 1: being up, the wall rape being up, the strikeout rape
Speaker 1: being down. But the cons are that kind of sacrificing
Speaker 1: any shot at power. Here another name we a lot
Speaker 1: of infield fly balls too. It's just Nevers is all
Speaker 1: over the place right now. I don't I don't feel
Speaker 1: great about him. Another name that we wanted to mention
Speaker 1: on the red soxes Andrew Benintendi. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: do that because there's a name that you were off
Speaker 1: very much in draft season now that you hated him,
Speaker 1: but you liked all the other guys going around him
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot more. Ben Intendee on the
Speaker 1: season two seventies six with the o b P at
Speaker 1: three fifty four, you got two homers, thirte runs, scores,
Speaker 1: the g RB. I has stolen a couple of bases
Speaker 1: being caught once. When you look at the bat and
Speaker 1: ball profile of Andrew Benintendi, what do you see, Frank,
Speaker 1: He actually is trying to hit a little bit more flyballs.
Speaker 1: This year. He's been around, you know, thirty five to
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent throughout his career. Last year he was
Speaker 1: at thirty five percent. This year he's up to forty two,
Speaker 1: so he's lifted his fly ball rate by seven percent
Speaker 1: this season. Um, the hard hit rate is actually up,
Speaker 1: so overall, I don't think the battaball data is bad.
Speaker 1: He's actually striking out a little bit more this year,
Speaker 1: which has put a bit of a damper on his
Speaker 1: batting average. To start, he's at two seventy six. He's
Speaker 1: got two own runs, two stolen bases. That's fine. The
Speaker 1: counting stats are okay, considering the slow start that the
Speaker 1: Red Sox lineup has gotten off to thirteen runs thirteen
Speaker 1: r b i s. But again, look at the projections
Speaker 1: the rest of the way Steamer fourteen home runs, thirteen
Speaker 1: stolen basis. That would make him a sixteen homer fifteen
Speaker 1: stolen base player for the season. That's just that's part
Speaker 1: of the reason why I didn't want Andrew benn in Tennie,
Speaker 1: Like I say, he's probably gonna be close to a
Speaker 1: twenty homers twenty stolen base guy. The fact that he
Speaker 1: was leading off for the Red Sox who expected probably
Speaker 1: a hundred runs scored as of now, it looks like
Speaker 1: he would fall short of that. And look, the Red
Speaker 1: Sox lineup could get hot at that give an eye
Speaker 1: and you know he'll still probably give you eighty to
Speaker 1: ninety runs scored. But overall, Andrew ben attend to me
Speaker 1: was it's kind of a boring player unless you were
Speaker 1: projecting him to do something that he hasn't done before,
Speaker 1: Like this was gonna be his third full season in
Speaker 1: the majors. Did you expect a third year breakout. If
Speaker 1: that was the case, then you probably took Andrew ben
Speaker 1: Attendee at that two three turn, you know, end of
Speaker 1: round two, early round three. He personally, you know, as
Speaker 1: you referenced, there were just other hitters going in that range.
Speaker 1: I would you know, I would have taken Stalling Marte
Speaker 1: over him. If you know, Freddie Freeman, Jean carliston, any
Speaker 1: of those guys following towards the end of the second round.
Speaker 1: You know I was taking any of those players. I
Speaker 1: was just kind of a boring player for me. I
Speaker 1: didn't project him to take that next step. He still
Speaker 1: struggles against left handed pig. He has done so this year.
Speaker 1: He's hitting around two thirty against lefties. It's always been
Speaker 1: an issue for him. It seems like he sat out
Speaker 1: a few games here and there against lefties. Are ready
Speaker 1: to start the year, not my gay? Had you been attending?
Speaker 1: Not my gay? The Dodgers yesterday started Alex Verdugo once
Speaker 1: again in center field. You get pitch hit for it
Speaker 1: in the game, but Alex Verdugo started in center field.
Speaker 1: And that's because A. J. Pollock has been placed on
Speaker 1: the disabled list or the injured list rather and Alex Verdugo.
Speaker 1: We have kept saying, he's worth picking up if he
Speaker 1: gets a chance. What do we do with Verdugo. It's
Speaker 1: a common conversation that we have had on this show
Speaker 1: thus far. Well over the next ten days or so,
Speaker 1: it's the store elbow for Pollock. Verdugo is going to
Speaker 1: get his opportunity to play every day. Verdugo last night
Speaker 1: was batting seventh in the Dodgers line up, a Dodgers
Speaker 1: team that fell to San Francisco three to two. Alex
Speaker 1: Verdugo in the line of every day, How interested you
Speaker 1: are you in him? Frank? Yeah, he has to be
Speaker 1: a musclown player for now. Um and hopefully these things
Speaker 1: kind of figured them selves that we talked about Michael
Speaker 1: Javis and all these other young players. The cream, the
Speaker 1: cream always rises to the top, and alec Rodugo right now, look,
Speaker 1: he's just been he's been crushing it this year. There's
Speaker 1: just there, There's no way around it. He is a
Speaker 1: pure hitter. You look at his minor league numbers as
Speaker 1: a guy that does not strike out. He's only striking
Speaker 1: out eleven point three percent of the time this season.
Speaker 1: He's betting three thirty three. He's got four homers, sixteen RBIs,
Speaker 1: and limited plate appearances. He has seventy one plate appearances
Speaker 1: on the season. Hitting the ball harder than usual. This
Speaker 1: is a guy who has also hit too many ground
Speaker 1: balls at times gregs so far in his brief major
Speaker 1: league career, but upping the flyballs a little bit more
Speaker 1: this year, hitting more line drives. And I don't worry
Speaker 1: about splits with him. I know that this is something
Speaker 1: like the Dodgers are super into splits. They it seems
Speaker 1: like they always bench Max Monty against lefties, and they'll
Speaker 1: bench Jock Peterson against lefties. But I don't think that
Speaker 1: Alex Verdugo is a bad hitter against leftiest smallest sample size.
Speaker 1: He's four for eleven against lefties so far this year.
Speaker 1: He said one of his four home runs against them,
Speaker 1: and I looked into the minor league numbers to Greg
Speaker 1: at Triple A last season. In nineties six at bats
Speaker 1: against lefties, he hit three six at Triple A N
Speaker 1: S O p s against lefties. I think the guy
Speaker 1: can handle his own. In twenties seventeen ninety four games
Speaker 1: against lefties, ninety four at bats against left he rather
Speaker 1: he had to seventy seven ps. That's fine. He can
Speaker 1: handle himself against left handed pitcher. I just, please, Dodgers,
Speaker 1: give this guy a chance to play every single day.
Speaker 1: I think you do have to own him in every league.
Speaker 1: Right now. Um, right now, Polic is dealing with an
Speaker 1: infection in his elbow. This was the same elbow I
Speaker 1: believe that he had surgically repaired in the past. So
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like it's gonna be a long stint
Speaker 1: on the I l But if Alex Verdugo just kind
Speaker 1: of takes off here, I think he's kind of gonna
Speaker 1: work himself into every day playing time for the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers. Funny funny the fact, Greg I actually read
Speaker 1: an article yesterday regarding Alex Verdugo and the Dodgers, and
Speaker 1: it was basically saying that the Dodgers have a great
Speaker 1: problem on their hands and that A J. Pak was
Speaker 1: already starting to lose some playing time to Alex Verdugo
Speaker 1: because he's been so awesome, so they need his bat
Speaker 1: in the lineup. They're trying to find ways to get
Speaker 1: him in there. He's now gonna play every single day.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't love the A J. Pollock signing
Speaker 1: when they did it. It's still kind of confuses me
Speaker 1: now because they have this young stud ready to go
Speaker 1: unless they plan on trading him away at some point
Speaker 1: for you know, assets to help them win. What just
Speaker 1: very weird signing with the A J. Polly signing for
Speaker 1: the for the Dodgers. Overall, I do think that Verdugo
Speaker 1: needs to be owning all leagues right Kensomanna started four
Speaker 1: l A. He would have five innings, seven hits, walked too,
Speaker 1: struck out of three for the first time this season.
Speaker 1: Ross stripping came out of the bullpen for l A.
Speaker 1: It didn't go well. You only got one out and
Speaker 1: allowed three rons on a couple of hits, the big
Speaker 1: blow being Evan Longoria with a basis loaded double. Uh
Speaker 1: and that was the basiness clearing. No, I really should
Speaker 1: say against raw stripling. The big blow against him. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Baby Shark Jeff so margin pitched well
Speaker 1: five innings, two hits, no runs, one walk, only struck
Speaker 1: out one, which isn't great. But facing the Dodgers, you
Speaker 1: want five shot on anythings, I think we'll take that. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: If you started some margins four of this to start week, um,
Speaker 1: I would have liked to see him go deeper into
Speaker 1: the game. He only pitched seventy nine pitches and only
Speaker 1: you know, through five innings, So if you were able
Speaker 1: to get the quality star if that would have been great,
Speaker 1: But hey, don't press your luck when it comes to
Speaker 1: the baby Shark Jeff some margins, the fact that he
Speaker 1: went five shutout innings. Of course you would have liked
Speaker 1: seen more strikeouts, but it is a tough to Hodgs
Speaker 1: line up a lineup that doesn't strip out all that much.
Speaker 1: So overall, I think if you started him in a
Speaker 1: two star week, you're fine with this, Greig, You're perfectly
Speaker 1: fine with it. I mean, he gave you an under
Speaker 1: under one whip, even zero point six whip. He gave
Speaker 1: you zero e r A. Of course you want more strikeouts,
Speaker 1: but overall, starting for the two star week, you avoided dangerous.
Speaker 1: You did, Yes, you did, absolutely, absolute freaking lily. It
Speaker 1: worked out all right for you. Evan Littgoria is the
Speaker 1: name I wanted to bring up. It was a he
Speaker 1: pitched hit last night as Pablo Sandoval started this one
Speaker 1: for San Francisco. Lagorio's betting just to ten with an
Speaker 1: ov P of two forty eight. He'd be owning it
Speaker 1: all in fantasy leagues right now. Only I know only okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's just kind of washed, and he's not in
Speaker 1: a good hitting environment that I mean, that's ultimately what
Speaker 1: it comes down to. The skills have kind of been
Speaker 1: dissipating the past couple of years. The walk grade has
Speaker 1: been dropping. He had only two forty four last year,
Speaker 1: only sixteen home runs. Just not a good ballpark to hitting,
Speaker 1: not a good line up to hit in. He's only
Speaker 1: hitting two ten right now. Just there's not a lot
Speaker 1: that's gonna end up going right here for Evan long Gloria.
Speaker 1: Like the power numbers, he's not gonna give you my much,
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to give you counting stats in
Speaker 1: this lineup, and now only he should be owned just
Speaker 1: because he has a job and most of the time
Speaker 1: he's gonna play, But anything other than that, like even
Speaker 1: in a fifteen team mix Rhodo Greg, I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: him as my corner infielder. He just dropped in the
Speaker 1: main event, So that kind of tells you how you
Speaker 1: should feel about him. Only only only place worth oning him.
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler started for the Mets last night and just
Speaker 1: didn't have his best stuff. He allowed six four runs
Speaker 1: over his six innings, he walked three, struck out four
Speaker 1: seven hits. I will say this, he got better as
Speaker 1: he went on. Um Again, it wasn't a great outing
Speaker 1: by Zach Wheeler. Um. He allowed those runs all in
Speaker 1: the second inning, but I thought he was actually getting
Speaker 1: better as he had a feel for what was working
Speaker 1: and what wasn't. Frank, I watched a lot of this
Speaker 1: start on the other side of Tanna row Ark. Tanna
Speaker 1: Roark line of three innings and two thirds, four hits,
Speaker 1: four runs, four walks and three You started him in
Speaker 1: a two star a week. You don't feel great if
Speaker 1: you would have got that, Jeff Somerg just start out
Speaker 1: of Tanna row or you would have been all right
Speaker 1: with that. I know it was the second ending that
Speaker 1: really doomed Zach Wheeler yesterday. But he was in the
Speaker 1: base runners on our all night, to be fair, but
Speaker 1: he pitched a lot better after that second inning. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: So he he walks Pueaked to lead off the end
Speaker 1: of he walks Schebler, then gives but Double a single.
Speaker 1: And I didn't catch this because I was actually on
Speaker 1: my way to go play basketball, Craig. But Florio was
Speaker 1: saying that he was getting hit with a lot of
Speaker 1: dink and dump, kind of like really soft like bass hits,
Speaker 1: doubles that were just finding the right spots of following.
Speaker 1: That's part of the game. Obviously he was, but the
Speaker 1: concern was the velocity was down. After averaging around in
Speaker 1: his last start, he was back around ninety five for
Speaker 1: an average, I believe last night, and it was freezing
Speaker 1: in City Field. I don't know if that is what's
Speaker 1: going on there, but it was worth noting. I read
Speaker 1: that he threw a pitch that was like on the gun,
Speaker 1: and Mickey Calloway came out to talk to him. He's like,
Speaker 1: are you all right right, because you know you're not
Speaker 1: used to seeing that. If you see a straight fastball
Speaker 1: ninety one miles problem from Zach wheel You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what the heck is going on? This guy is normally
Speaker 1: per hour, sometimes touching a hundred. But you you're absolutely
Speaker 1: right about the the velocity being down. He had been,
Speaker 1: you know, on average, and then yesterday he was around.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pay attention to Zach Wheeler or for here.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's not dealing with anything a guy who's kind
Speaker 1: of always been nicked up in his career with a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries. So we're keeping a close signs. Zach
Speaker 1: Wheeler just was not a great start, but honestly, it
Speaker 1: could have been a lot worse the way of that
Speaker 1: second anyone. Absolutely again, he got better as things went on.
Speaker 1: The reason I also bring up this game is well,
Speaker 1: it's twofold first man Jesse Winker. It is eighth home
Speaker 1: run of the season. Whenever I look at Jessie Winkers
Speaker 1: game log, I'm shocked it's not Homer every day. It's
Speaker 1: not just feels that way, um, but Winker, he's finally
Speaker 1: getting hit the ball better. He's much more comfortable in
Speaker 1: the cleanup spot. I know this is not a lot,
Speaker 1: but the average now back up to forty. Like if
Speaker 1: he just continues seeing the ball better and getting better contact.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be back when you want it, really, OK's
Speaker 1: not over three. Things are going better for Jesse Winker obviously.
Speaker 1: Is Who would you rather own? Jesse Winker Alex Verduga.
Speaker 1: I will take Jesse Winker just because I think his
Speaker 1: playing time is more solidified for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: If I knew that they were both going to have
Speaker 1: a starting opportunity every day from here on out, I
Speaker 1: would probably take for Dougo just because the lineup is
Speaker 1: a little bit better with the Dodgers, parks a little
Speaker 1: bit better for Cincinnati. It is true we'rest putting hairs
Speaker 1: here for sure, because I do like both guys a lot,
Speaker 1: But in a vacuum right now, I would take Winkers
Speaker 1: just because I think the playing time the rest of
Speaker 1: the way is a little bit more solidified. Hit his
Speaker 1: eighth home run last night, Greig, already your career high.
Speaker 1: How about that for Jesse Winker. You mentioned the playing
Speaker 1: time being solidified. Well, that's interesting because it looks like
Speaker 1: the Reds potentially as soon as this weekend, may have
Speaker 1: another outfielder brought up. As it seems as if lads
Speaker 1: up it's now time for Nick Senzel. Senz he'll return
Speaker 1: to the minors after his ankle injury from the spring
Speaker 1: about eight games ago. Things are going well in his
Speaker 1: first home run of the season last night, and Senzel
Speaker 1: evidently has taken to center field very very nicely for
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and been playing Scottie Cheveler in center field for
Speaker 1: most of this season. Chevler's batting one thirty five two
Speaker 1: seventy three b V certainly doing nothing to hold down
Speaker 1: the job. Yashl Twig has been bad and Matt Camp
Speaker 1: is herb. The only outfielder performing. It's winker and Nick
Speaker 1: Senzel gets called up. He's going to play every day
Speaker 1: and we could be just a few days away from
Speaker 1: Senzel time. Absolutely, Greg and Nick senzeill owning forty three
Speaker 1: percent of YAHOO league's right now, So you might be
Speaker 1: out there in your league, if you're playing a ten
Speaker 1: team league, maybe a shallower a twelve team league, just
Speaker 1: go out and check and make sure that Nick Senzel
Speaker 1: is owned, and if not, make sure to get him
Speaker 1: on your team. UH. The hit tool is absolutely legit, Greg.
Speaker 1: That was really the UH calling card for Nick Senzel
Speaker 1: the past couple of years he's dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries, but his hit tool is his number one tool.
Speaker 1: But he does have an interesting power speaking combination as well.
Speaker 1: Just a few seasons ago in twenty seventeen, he had
Speaker 1: fourteen home runs with fourteen stolen basis and bad three
Speaker 1: twenty one with a nine oh five o ps. So
Speaker 1: there is a lot to like about Senzel here and
Speaker 1: just joining this lineup overall, Uh, they get another shot
Speaker 1: in the arm. Yesterday I mentioned a they lead off
Speaker 1: Jose Perazzo with ends up working out well. He goes
Speaker 1: to for five hits and RBI double, So maybe this
Speaker 1: is a sign of things to come um with they
Speaker 1: can they can use him at the top of the order.
Speaker 1: They can use Ums at the top of the lineup,
Speaker 1: and and in Votto second, and then they still have
Speaker 1: Suarez and they still have Jesse Winker and the Senzel's
Speaker 1: coming to So this line is gonna get better. It's
Speaker 1: a good ballpark to hit in. Once the weather starts
Speaker 1: to heat up a little bit, I think this Red's
Speaker 1: lineup will do so um with the weather as well.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to Senzel joining there, just make sure
Speaker 1: he's owning new lead when we come back. I want
Speaker 1: to ask Frank about a Mets player, kind of like
Speaker 1: we did with Ben and Tendie Endeavors, and that's Michael
Speaker 1: cold Aford all because we haven't talked all that much
Speaker 1: about Conford, so we're talking about him. We'll also mentioned
Speaker 1: Jake Oderesi and what he did against Houston and it's
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Speaker 1: s Y. I said before the break, I want to
Speaker 1: discuss maybe a good Ford just another meaning that very
Speaker 1: popular in draft days, but we haven't really spoken all
Speaker 1: that much about him. What can you tell us from
Speaker 1: his batted batted ball profile? Another guy who's buying into
Speaker 1: the launch angle revolutions so far this year fly by
Speaker 1: all rate, that would be a career high for him.
Speaker 1: UH as of now, last season, he was right around
Speaker 1: thirty six point six percent UM. The hard hit. The
Speaker 1: hard hit rate is not great, it's right around league
Speaker 1: average thirty five percent. But the fact that he's putting
Speaker 1: the ball in the air more, striking out less, walking
Speaker 1: a ton seventeen point six percent walk. Right, if you've
Speaker 1: got this guy in O b P or points lee,
Speaker 1: I mean, you feel great about it. Right now, he's
Speaker 1: got a nine's got twenty runs scored because the Mets
Speaker 1: lineup is a solid one, and the fact that he
Speaker 1: bats towards the top of it and he's walking as
Speaker 1: much as he is, and he's got six home runs.
Speaker 1: Chipping in some stolen bases now to not really a
Speaker 1: part of his game that we were expecting. He's already
Speaker 1: got two stolen bases. I think Michael Conforto has done
Speaker 1: everything asked to him so far, right to seventies, six hommers,
Speaker 1: thirteen ribbies, twenty runs scored, UM, striking out less, hitting
Speaker 1: more flyballs. There's lots of like working. Yes, there is
Speaker 1: actually doing what you would hope he would when you
Speaker 1: selected him on Draft Dead. I mentioned Minnesota and Houston
Speaker 1: last night. It was a pitching battle between Justin Berlinder
Speaker 1: went six innings, two hits, one run. The only run
Speaker 1: aloud was an Age Nanza solo shot in the thirties.
Speaker 1: First hommer of this season, I struck out seven while
Speaker 1: walking to well. Jake Odorici seven innings, four hits, one walks,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts against that Astros lineup, Frank ODORESI. If you
Speaker 1: look at what he has done thus far this year,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Only one only one outing where he couldn't
Speaker 1: get through the first thing. Other than that, not on
Speaker 1: Stephen Matt's like, he's been really good. What can you
Speaker 1: tell us about Jake LODORIZI They don't really trust it
Speaker 1: all that much. I will say this, The swinging strikes
Speaker 1: are up. The k per nine is up this year
Speaker 1: as well, which helps because there's a guy who normally
Speaker 1: when he gives up contact, he gives up a lot
Speaker 1: of flyballs. He just has a twenty three percent groundball rates.
Speaker 1: So that's why you see is he raised three point
Speaker 1: three four but his x FIT is four point seven
Speaker 1: one because if you normalize his home run the fly
Speaker 1: ball ratio to league average, which is around ten eleven,
Speaker 1: and this is basically his he's adjusted e r A
Speaker 1: based on a normalized home run the flyball ratio. So
Speaker 1: a guy who gives up this many flyballs but hasn't
Speaker 1: given up this many home runs to start the year.
Speaker 1: He's been a little bit lucky. I like the fact
Speaker 1: that he's getting more swings and misses and getting more
Speaker 1: strikeouts Greg, But overall, he's just not a guy that
Speaker 1: I trust. You know, he goes out here and has
Speaker 1: a great performance against the Houston Astros. He's the type
Speaker 1: of picture that you put him in your line up
Speaker 1: the next time out, and he's going up against the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, ibout the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: It's that starts in Yankee Stadium too, Like doesn't that
Speaker 1: just scream Like that's a game where like the home
Speaker 1: run to flyball ratio regression kind of comes into play
Speaker 1: there because it is in Yankee Stadium. Look, if you
Speaker 1: if you start him for a two star with you
Speaker 1: obviously against the Astros, And yeah, we asked Modi yesterday.
Speaker 1: He said no, there's no way, and I agreed with him,
Speaker 1: Like he was available in my league. I didn't pick
Speaker 1: him up. I didn't start him anywhere. If you started
Speaker 1: him yesterday for a two star a week and you
Speaker 1: got that start out of him, you feel from phenomenal.
Speaker 1: You'll basically take whatever you get out of him, and
Speaker 1: Yankees at him in his second start later this week. Greg.
Speaker 1: But overall, if I just play in a head to
Speaker 1: head daily league where I can pick him up and
Speaker 1: scream him, I would He was not be one of
Speaker 1: my active targets going up against Yankees. All right, So JAGODORESI,
Speaker 1: Frankstanville not buying it at this moment. St. Louis and Washington.
Speaker 1: Last night you had Michael Waka come off the d
Speaker 1: L to face off against Patrick Corban and I bring
Speaker 1: this game up now. Uh talk about Corban, who he
Speaker 1: brought up a couple days ago where you're saying, maybe
Speaker 1: I deserved the L on that he went at five innings,
Speaker 1: allowed six hits, six runs, he walked four, he struck
Speaker 1: out five. The fifth inning was where all the damage
Speaker 1: having for Corban, who was just cruising right along. He
Speaker 1: did not have it in that fifth inning. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: walks are really uncanny for him. I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of what did him in here, gives up a solo
Speaker 1: home run to Harrison Bader. I mean, it's a really
Speaker 1: tough St. Louis Cardinals lineup, and kind of similar to
Speaker 1: what I said about Irod going up against the Oakland
Speaker 1: A's earlier on. This is a really tough lineup for
Speaker 1: left handed cheers because you have gold Schmid, who's a righty.
Speaker 1: You got de Young who's a right you got alrighty,
Speaker 1: Jose Martinez who by the way, Greg, good call with
Speaker 1: Martinez continuing to get it done too for four yesterday
Speaker 1: with another RBI Yadier Molina is a righty. They take
Speaker 1: Colton walk out of the lineup, they put in Jajerko,
Speaker 1: who's a right They have Harrison Bader. So this is
Speaker 1: a really really tough lineup for left handed pitchers to
Speaker 1: navigate here. And I think, you know, once he starts
Speaker 1: walking four guys, Greg and a start, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's basically what's gonna do Patchri Corbin And I believe
Speaker 1: he also walked in a run at some point he
Speaker 1: had based on it and walked someone in UM. But
Speaker 1: this is a guy who last year he was two
Speaker 1: point one six walks per nine. This year he's two
Speaker 1: point three nine walks per nine, so normally has pretty
Speaker 1: good command, doesn't walk all that many so to see
Speaker 1: him walk four guys. I think last night was just
Speaker 1: one of those nights where he just didn't have it
Speaker 1: against a really strong Cardinals line up. Like a walk
Speaker 1: A walk three guys and his five innings work he
Speaker 1: lot of four hits, three runs, he struck out five.
Speaker 1: Jordan Higgs did come on in the ninth inning and
Speaker 1: take off. I'm is not a walk done, man, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm long passed a guy. He walks too many guys
Speaker 1: he normally doesn't get that many strikeouts. Is just nope, pass.
Speaker 1: I do want to note in this one Carter here
Speaker 1: Boom he went over three head his first ever, which
Speaker 1: isn't good. That had sixth in the lineup defense. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are one reason he may not last. Just I'm
Speaker 1: just putting out there. It's truth. Here Key Boom, that
Speaker 1: had sixth in the lineup yesterday, ahead of Brian Doser,
Speaker 1: ahead of Young and a head of Patrick Corman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you'd like to see that. Obviously, the over here
Speaker 1: feel really really small sample size. Hit two home runs
Speaker 1: over the weekend in this game, and without Anthony Rendon,
Speaker 1: who remains out of the line up, they're gonna make
Speaker 1: it a decision on the i L today because it's ridiculous. Ready,
Speaker 1: So in this lineup you had Eaten robe Less, Juan Soto,
Speaker 1: and Howard Kendrick was playing third and batting fourth. Matt
Speaker 1: Adams and Ryan Zimmerman also had the lineup, batting fifth.
Speaker 1: It just shows you how much of the don't like
Speaker 1: Raindoser right now? To me, Yeah, it's true. Look, he
Speaker 1: was batting below Carter key Boom. Is that a sign
Speaker 1: of you know, things to come? They like keybo more
Speaker 1: than Doser. Perhaps we'll see what happens in the long term.
Speaker 1: Here for the Nationals. Everyone kind of getting hurt here
Speaker 1: for the Nationals lineup, this isn't and they're not the Yankees,
Speaker 1: It's true, but you know, this seems like a far
Speaker 1: cry from the lineup that we saw on opening Day.
Speaker 1: He's weird seeing like Howie Kendrick in there and Matt
Speaker 1: Adams batting in the middle of this lineup. It seems
Speaker 1: weird for the Washington Nationals. So hopefully Anthony Rendon could
Speaker 1: get back sooner rather than later. Um, we'll get that
Speaker 1: decision regarding Randon soon. And I'm sure that they can
Speaker 1: kind of like retroactive back to whatever days they can't
Speaker 1: remember he played one game in there. He's just seven
Speaker 1: out of eight. So they've been retroactive for the weekend
Speaker 1: until the weekend, so he's he's still gonna be out
Speaker 1: without him for a little while. Here, Hayes's aguilar who
Speaker 1: we started because we had to this week? Did it
Speaker 1: worked for us? To home runs last night in Miller
Speaker 1: Park against the Rockies against Kyle Freeland, who came off
Speaker 1: the d L. Freeland went six in six hits, five runs,
Speaker 1: walking to and striking out three. Well, Zach Davies improved
Speaker 1: you three and oh Frank on the season five and
Speaker 1: the third three hits, one run. It was not earned.
Speaker 1: He walked three while striking out two. Oh man, Zach Davies,
Speaker 1: what is going on with the world right now? Greg?
Speaker 1: Zach Davis has a one point three eight e R,
Speaker 1: a five point seven case for nine, three point five
Speaker 1: eight walks for nine. It's just what's happening? You just
Speaker 1: did that against the Rockies lineup two is like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to downplay what the guy did. It was
Speaker 1: fine start for him, but you got one point three
Speaker 1: eight year a four point nine six exits, So just
Speaker 1: don't buy into Zach Dave for some reason you were
Speaker 1: thinking of buying into Zach Davies. Yeah, this was great
Speaker 1: to see from Hazer's aglar. We needed to see this
Speaker 1: from him. We were debating dropping him in our fifteen
Speaker 1: team roto league over the weekend. We ended up not
Speaker 1: doing that. We get him in the lineup, he gets
Speaker 1: off the schni here, Greggy. Three hits to home runs
Speaker 1: and I really like the fact that one of them
Speaker 1: was to straightaway center field and the other ones was
Speaker 1: to opposite field to right field for a r. So
Speaker 1: it seems like it's one of those things like once
Speaker 1: you start seeing you see a few home runs pop,
Speaker 1: and the way that they did center and right field,
Speaker 1: it seems like, all right, this these are the types
Speaker 1: of things that we need to see and maybe Hayese's
Speaker 1: is about to come around. It was against the left
Speaker 1: handed picture. Eric Thames wasn't in the lineup. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens the rest of the week when they're going
Speaker 1: up against the righty. Do they get Eric Thames in
Speaker 1: the lineup? Do they find ways to get both of
Speaker 1: these guys in the lineup. It'll be interesting to see,
Speaker 1: but definitely something we needed to see from haere if
Speaker 1: he was dropped in twelve team leagues, should people go
Speaker 1: out and start freaking out. I gotta get back on
Speaker 1: my team because he's about to do what he did
Speaker 1: last year. No, I'm not making a rash decision one day.
Speaker 1: If you just dropped him, and you dropped him over
Speaker 1: the weekend, I'm not running in the way over wire.
Speaker 1: We should give it a week. There's no worse feeling,
Speaker 1: though there is. On Sunday he goes three for four hits,
Speaker 1: two long runs, gives you four ribbies, and you're just
Speaker 1: staring at it on the waiver wire now and someone
Speaker 1: else is gonna pick it up so potentially reap the
Speaker 1: benefits of Hazel tagging out of the rest. It's a
Speaker 1: terrible feeling. So what do you do? Now? Do you do?
Speaker 1: You blow some of your had to get him back
Speaker 1: on your team. You obviously drafted him for a reason.
Speaker 1: There was something there that you liked. We it's a
Speaker 1: tough situation. I mentioned Zach Davies, Lion. You were shaking
Speaker 1: your head while I was giving it. How come he's
Speaker 1: not good? He pitches to contact your pitches in Miller Park,
Speaker 1: Greg pitches in a tough division, I say that all
Speaker 1: with him having a one point three a e R
Speaker 1: A and he's three and oh, but the underlying numbers
Speaker 1: from were just not good. He's gotta he's got nowhere,
Speaker 1: he's got a five k or nine and he almost
Speaker 1: has a four walks for now. His x FIP is
Speaker 1: almost five. It's bad, not good. It's very bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's have somebody did then, and it's it was your
Speaker 1: boy versus my boy last night? Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to figure out what I'm telling you about?
Speaker 1: It was Mike Saroka Mikeska who went six inties, allowing
Speaker 1: four hits, one run, striking out eight, neck meshes five
Speaker 1: and two thirds, three runs, also strike out three. He's
Speaker 1: defense let him down. Anything else on Nick Viscious Craig
Speaker 1: and they also Mike Sarroca was awesome last night. He
Speaker 1: just every start continues to impress me. I mean, his
Speaker 1: arsenal was really good. Like his it seems like all
Speaker 1: of his pitches have movement, like his slider is legit.
Speaker 1: Eight strikeouts last night. I was a little surprised that
Speaker 1: it was either last start or the start before this.
Speaker 1: They let him go over a hundred endings almost a
Speaker 1: hundred and ten hundred pitches, like a hundred and ten pitches,
Speaker 1: and then last night he gets through six with only
Speaker 1: one pitches. Would have been nice to see him go seven,
Speaker 1: but I guess you know, if they stretched him out
Speaker 1: a little bit too far last time. They didn't want
Speaker 1: to push their limits. Uh and ultimately me too. I
Speaker 1: don't want to get too greedy when it comes to
Speaker 1: to Roca, because this is a guy who has had
Speaker 1: shoulder issues. But it's awesome star last night only one walk,
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts, the whip well below one. There he's getting
Speaker 1: it done. And I would recommend streaming pictures against the
Speaker 1: Padres line up right now. They they're very cool. I know. Um,
Speaker 1: one of these days I would like to do some
Speaker 1: like an all encompassing hitters Tobai and picture Tobai. Well,
Speaker 1: I think one of them is. Tomorrow, we're gonna look
Speaker 1: at some of the underlying statistics for the month of April,
Speaker 1: because you know how I like to kind of summon
Speaker 1: all up in April and March you're done. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a look back at the month of April
Speaker 1: and see certain numbers and who to buy and who
Speaker 1: to sell, not to who we should believe in, who
Speaker 1: we should not believe in. We do that on tomorrow
Speaker 1: show for two hours. Let's do it all right, cool um?
Speaker 1: And do you want to know? Ozzie Albis hit his
Speaker 1: sixth homer of the year last night, leading off again
Speaker 1: for the Bravos to average three fifteen at o b P.
Speaker 1: So Chris Bench is feeling good. But by the way,
Speaker 1: he loved Ozzie Albi's gonna get you next. That's a
Speaker 1: venture man. Josh Tomlin picked seven yesterday and then in
Speaker 1: the ninth without a j Mints are available, without Luke
Speaker 1: Jackson available. They started out with Jerry Blevins, who struck
Speaker 1: out the lefty, and then they bring in Jacob Webb,
Speaker 1: but no Religions Joe Webb. They bring Jacob Webb, who
Speaker 1: struck out a batterer on seven pitches, got another out
Speaker 1: and picked up his first save ever. This team needs
Speaker 1: to sign Craig Kimberle and be done with it. That's
Speaker 1: all I got. Yeah. The only thing that I see
Speaker 1: in their way right now, Greg is that draft compensation.
Speaker 1: I think you know, once we get past that, once
Speaker 1: we get past the MLB draft, I do believe that
Speaker 1: Craig Kimber will be signed. I wouldn't be wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me at all if he ends up with the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1: But it seems like this is kind of like the
Speaker 1: next issue in a long line of issues when it
Speaker 1: comes to MLB and Major League Baseball in general. The
Speaker 1: fact that people are not signing Dallas Kigl, who is
Speaker 1: a former cy Young Award winner. I know, I thanks
Speaker 1: to forget that Kai goes out there. Yeah, like, no
Speaker 1: one's signing down, it's Kikol, No one signing Craig kimberall.
Speaker 1: And we have like all these issues with like haying
Speaker 1: baseball players right now and draft compensation and and you know,
Speaker 1: leaving players down who deserves to be playing because of
Speaker 1: service time. Like there's a lot of issues going on
Speaker 1: in baseball overall. But this guy, Jacob Webb just looked
Speaker 1: into him. He has twenty three careers saves in the minor,
Speaker 1: so he has been used as a reliever. He has
Speaker 1: some experience as a closer, um at least saving games.
Speaker 1: I don't really expect much from him here. I think
Speaker 1: it's just because those guys had the night off a
Speaker 1: j mentor. But Mintor has not been good. Luke Jackson
Speaker 1: has been pretty good. So we'll see what comes of this.
Speaker 1: Would be another you know, three headed situation here for
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. We mentioned Tim Anderson before. Tim Anderson
Speaker 1: is arguably the hottest player in baseball at this point.
Speaker 1: Another home run last night for Tim Anderson. He's six
Speaker 1: of the year. Um, he's just been on a fight.
Speaker 1: If you just look at what he has done on
Speaker 1: the self proclaimed Jackie Robinson of baseball, He's got a
Speaker 1: three seventy five with six homers, eighteen ribbyes, he has
Speaker 1: ten stolen bases or Eddie uh. Anderson has been on
Speaker 1: a fire. As the White Sox proved to five and three,
Speaker 1: just two games under five. Now have tension basis, Yes
Speaker 1: he does. Gosh wow, two games under five. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Man.
Speaker 1: And how about this man Bam picks off his second
Speaker 1: win five and two thirds, five minutes, two runs, three walks,
Speaker 1: six strikeouts, with Urban Santana being designated for assignment, Manny
Speaker 1: Manualos staying in the rotation. I have to ask it, Frank,
Speaker 1: are you interested in Manny Manualos? Gregg, Yes, you're late
Speaker 1: to this one. I picked him up in a league
Speaker 1: man picked him up in the Great Fantasy based Limitational
Speaker 1: and started him last night, Greg, I had Homer Bailey
Speaker 1: on that team. I needed to pick up a two
Speaker 1: star picture. I was like, all right, Manny bn Wualos
Speaker 1: owned in my league. That's insane, dude, Look Manny Ben
Speaker 1: Whales so not is not a must owned player by
Speaker 1: any means. I picked him up because he had a
Speaker 1: two star week maybe in fifteen team. Mixed a little
Speaker 1: bit of interest there. I mean, this is a journeyman.
Speaker 1: He did have prospect pedigree with the Yankees back in
Speaker 1: the day, just twenty eight. This is a guy who
Speaker 1: I know Nando wanted to be a thing forever. Seems
Speaker 1: like he's getting a bit of an opportunity here for
Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox. They don't have a ton of
Speaker 1: great pictures on their team, So mild interest, Like AO
Speaker 1: only he should be owned. Maybe make sho that like,
Speaker 1: don't not pick this guy up in a twelve team.
Speaker 1: So here's what Frank is the reason he's saying that.
Speaker 1: So it's caper and he's okay, it's eight and a half.
Speaker 1: The walks for nine not as okay at around five
Speaker 1: nine five. This season, he's piping x FI over four
Speaker 1: not like terribly over former, but over four hr. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's man, I mean having that second start to me
Speaker 1: shrike right right now, Boston h started star Well. I
Speaker 1: got what I needed to last night against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: They get a win out of Manny band Wlas. I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta do a little bit of a deep
Speaker 1: dive to Manderson walk rate that's standard to Manderson. So
Speaker 1: that was my question right with Tim Anderson hard hit rate?
Speaker 1: What are you selling Tim Anderson for? What are you
Speaker 1: buying Tim Manderson? Four? How real is Tim Anderson? This
Speaker 1: is a guy, in all fairness, he has a tent
Speaker 1: hard hit rate. He's a thirty percent hard hit rate
Speaker 1: for his career. So he's been able to put up
Speaker 1: good numbers even without the best bat a ball data.
Speaker 1: He's not going to maintain a three seventy five batting average.
Speaker 1: This is probably one of the guys for the next
Speaker 1: couple of days that we'll talk about. Greg's like, what
Speaker 1: do you do Ryan? Sell them? Do you just keep him?
Speaker 1: I think I would just reap the rewards for the football.
Speaker 1: Next with Jim and Chris