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Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:38.760 You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy Best 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:52.400 Friends Forever, m to to to Do Do Do Do 0:00:52.840 --> 0:01:00.120 Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do Yeah. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.440 This is the Fantasy Best Friends Forever here in the 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.560 Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie stamp Well. I am 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.679 Greg Susman. Frankie. What's happening but Greg a happy Tuesday. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.800 Lots to recap from last night? It Alex for dugo time, Greggy, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.319 how about that one show planned Baseball? First hour? Um 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:22.399 pull the second hour? You gotta recap some of the 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.560 NFL Draft top skill position players that were drafted, what 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:32.960 it means for Fantasy football redraft, dynasty fits and where 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.360 wets to talk about? Yeah? Very excited to do both 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.720 sports today. June will join us for that as well 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:45.120 as Yeah, it'll be good. It'll be really really good 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:50.120 to do that and and have that have football conversation back. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.320 I did a little bit with g J, Zack and 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.320 Ryes and a fanal probably asked him to come on. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.080 Probably we got Jim. We'll get him at some point. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.800 look very happy to have Jim Fantasy test obviously, but 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:04.440 I want to try and get as many different guests 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.280 as possible. Yeah, of course. So I took to j 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.680 J about a time before. I took j J about 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.440 it yesterday, and he's got some feelings and so I 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.560 know where he's at, so I can. I feel like 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.679 I know more information now, So that's good. I'd sleep 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.280 lest night, you know, I slept well. I was up 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.640 vividly at three thirty, Like I had like a very 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:26.440 vivid dream and this this is not funny, but um, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.680 Chris's mom is having surgery in a little bit, um, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.079 and I had a dream that I was in the 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.359 hospital having the same surgery, not with Chris's mom, but 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.800 I guess because it was in my head during the day. Yeah, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.200 I was having that surgery today and I was fine, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.079 Like the surgery has under anesthesia. Like four hours later, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.680 I woke up fine and like they said you could 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.880 only drink certain fluids. Was like now I'm ready for 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.679 like real food. I was like trying to stress the 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.240 doctor and were watching a movie and I woke up. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:51.920 I thinking like the morning it was like three thirty 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.440 in the morning, and then I had it was very strange, 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.400 and then like closer to the time I wake up, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.480 I was having like very vivid I don't know, memories 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.160 or dreams of thoughts that like Todd Fraser would make 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.720 a great manager Salt and Pepper. It was like it 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.280 was like Todd Fraser. For some reason, I had this 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.840 vivid thought that Todd Fraser like future manager in the mats. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.680 I'm just like, all right, maybe do you remember your 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.720 dreams often right when I'm right when I wake up? 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.240 I do not, like not at this point, like the 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.320 details that I remembered hours ago, I don't know. I 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:28.880 don't remember at all now, you know. But when I 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.360 was in it, like when I woke up, like I 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.440 one thousand percent, I remember them very vividly, like characters 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.840 that are in it and thoughts. Yeah, I never remember 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.760 any of my dreams when you just wake up, it's 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.920 like you remember anything. Yeah, I said it pretty late 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.160 last night because I was watching a Nuggets game. Great game, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.320 great game between the Nuggets and the Blazer. So I 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.360 stood up to watch that, a little bit of back 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.640 and forth. Nuggets pulled away monster game from Yoki. Um 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.560 watch some baseball. Early on, I was watching the Rod 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.760 versus Mantas. I was doing great there, I was watching. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.320 I was watching a lot of sports last night because 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.200 I was between that the Mets because Wheeler was on 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.960 the mound, um and we'll be network on so I 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.440 switched between that. The early game. I had that going on. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.760 There's just a lot of sports. One then at raw 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.200 so well I'm laughing. Yeah, I'm probably just gonna take 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.240 a break from wrestling until summer stime. I wish I 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.440 could too. I wish I wish I could too. I 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.680 don't have enough time to watch for artsma guy. Yeah, 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.479 I mean I just I, like I said, I do 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.200 it in about it, like fast forward the entire show. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.400 I don't have time for it. You got that. I 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.679 watched Killed Me Eve last night as well. I watched 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.960 the You think it was pretty cool? It's funny, right, Yeah, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.240 I liked it all right, cool, Yeah, it was interesting. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.720 I watched last week. Oh I did. It was good. Yeah, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.479 I do look forward to watching more. It's very quick. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.279 Seemed to somewhat enjoy it. Twenty it's long. Yeah, that's great. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.760 Speaking of which, what's up? Much better at choosing shows 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.680 than King. She put on a show just before that. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.479 She's like, let's try this out. It's funny show, is it? 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.600 I mean, I gotta I don't even remember the name. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.120 It was so bad. You know anything tails about it? 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.719 Something about leaving Netflix? It is it leaving? Is that 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.000 the name of the show. I don't know. Okay, I 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.040 don't know. I'll text her, I'll find out. I'll get 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.840 it to you before shows over, Okay. I mean I'm 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.880 always interested. Yeah, I don't remember the name of it. It 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.840 It was so bad. It like random, like comedy, like 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.920 skits together. Oh yeah, I heard about this. It's not good. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.320 I heard it was not good. I heard it was bad. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.520 She's like, so you didn't like it, right? I didn't 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.120 want to tell the truth. They didn't, you know what. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.040 You gotta be honest. I was like, oh yeah, I 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.039 didn't really like it, but deep down I was like 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.400 this is the worst. And then what did she say 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.400 about brock Meyer. She was like, you know, it's pretty interesting. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.440 It's good. Okay, you're gonna take it. She probably hates 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.720 it too, so I remember in the same boat. So 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.200 the problem was, after I watched brock Meyer season, like 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.720 the first season, I walked down the apartment saying, I'm 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.360 Jim brock Meyer, and she was like, I think hate that. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.880 Please off. At least I couldn't. I couldn't stop for 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.760 a couple of hours. You just want to do it, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:10.520 you know, yeah, right now, you don't know. You don't 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.760 want to do the accent. I can't even pull it off. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.680 I mean, the guy just has a very very interesting 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:19.440 He's great, he's awesome. All right, let's get to baseball. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.480 Last night we spent we mentioned on ESPN. You had 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.280 the Red Sox and the Athletics. It was ed E. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.520 Rodriguez against my man Floreni Montas and it was not 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.760 a pitching gem from either side. Ed Edward Rodriguez get 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.279 a lot of four runs in the second inning and 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:37.839 that was it, got himself in a bit of a 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.720 trouble in the fifth, got pulled. He was upset by this, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.560 went nuts in them in the dugout, but he Henry 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.920 got him out of it. And that was the final line, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.080 which is four four and third, seven hits, four runs 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.080 oh in the second ending two walks, seven strikeouts. The 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.960 Red Sox bullpen was fantastic after that, working in and 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.560 out of trouble. Ryan Brazier pitched in the seventh after 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.520 working on him a little bit of trouble. Raiser got 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.920 him right out of it, and Burnes wind up getting 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.960 to save his first since opening day. On the other side, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.280 for Oakland's Frankie Montas, who was you know, I wasn't 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.960 just breezing through. We got to the first couple of 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:17.560 innings pretty easily, and then all hell broke loose in 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.360 the fourth in the third inning, where a horrific throw 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.600 at Jerrickson profile followed up by a Frankie Mantas error himself, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.920 allowed six runs to come through in the third, none 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.280 of which were earned. Came back out for the fourth, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.440 all good, came back out for the fifth, not all good, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.560 as he allowed another run. He went four in the third, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.520 eight hit, seven runs, only one were earned, a two walk, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.640 struck out four seventy five pitches. We knew as a 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.920 brutal matchup, and it was for Frankie Montas had to 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.440 see this pitching matchup. Frank, I don't understand why why 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.640 Rodriguez was so angry. I mean he was, Yeah, he 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.960 just didn't pitch well overall. I mean it's a pretty 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.520 it's a pretty tough matchup. Four left handed pitchers going 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.080 up against the AIDS line. There's a lot of really 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.080 strong right handed bads in this lineup, obviously, semi in 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.840 Matt Chatman, Piscotti, Chris Davis, Pinder matches against lefties as well, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.440 Ramon Loriano, even Jerks and pro far your boy Greg 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.680 Jerkson profar was betting one sixty, got on the board 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.640 last night and had a hit in two ribbys. Uh yeah, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.480 just overall, so it's not a good matchup for left 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.000 handed pitchers going up against the Oakland A's. So I 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.520 saw that here with e rod still did have the 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.720 seven strikeouts in four and two thirds endings page, but 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.160 overall just didn't really have it here. Reggie Mantas, Ye, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.000 it's just terrible defense behind him. You see that by 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.040 the line um seven runs, only one of them was earned. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.719 I mean he caused that himself. Obviously you mentioned it 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.160 with the era that he had, but still gave up 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.480 eight hits only four and a third endings pitched. And 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.680 I still like Mantas a lot. It's just start geking 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.640 a little bit worried the past two stars. He's given 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.600 up a lot of hits, and that's kind of what 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.880 Floria was talking about. Doesn't miss enough bats. So I'm 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.240 gonna pay close attention to Mantas. I still like him 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.520 a lot. I still think that his arsenal is really interesting. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.800 You'll watch him pitch. He's got the mid to upper 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.400 nineties fastball. He's got you know, a near ninety mile 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.320 per slider, near prower splitter that he's implementing this year. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.720 So he has an interesting arsenal. Much just kind of 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.360 gives off that Eovaldi vibe to me a little bit 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.520 sometimes that he has the stuff but doesn't really know 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.840 how to pitch, doesn't really know how to mix miss 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.320 bats all that much. Maybe it's a sequencing thing. It's 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.720 he's still learning how to pitch like on the fly 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.600 right now. So that's that's my biggest issue with Mantas. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.199 I still like him, but I want to start to 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.439 see him develop a little bit here, and then the 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.480 stuff with the Red Sox bullpen just more of the same. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.280 It was interesting. Ryan Brazier comes in in the seventh 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.920 um with two outs, he pitches, you know, in any 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.200 in a third. At the time when he came in, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.800 it was seven to four. So there are days where 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.760 he's used in the ninth inning. There are other days 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.120 where he's kind of using a setup role, and yesterday 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.079 was one of those days where he was a set 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.760 up picture and that Barnes ultimately comes in once there 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.040 was bases loaded a ninth thing, picks up a safe 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.400 even though they were up by five runs. Greg, do 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.280 you see any rhyme or reason to the Red Sox 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.360 bullpen right now? It's kind of matchup base but they're 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.839 both right handed pitchers, so yeah, I don't think it's 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.520 kind of just like a field thing for Alex Cora 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.080 and the Red Sox. Yeah. So I was actually trying 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:17.559 to figure that out, and it just seemed like, for 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.720 whatever reason, they trusted Barnes more than the middle innings 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.559 Brazier more at the end. I don't know if it 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.880 was because they trusted Barnes like multiple innings or whatnot, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.520 and they just trusted Brazier for that one that ninth inning, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.120 and last night Brazier goes an inning in the third. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.280 So I wish I knew they're they're both right handed. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.959 As you said, I don't know, it's kind of it's 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.040 a it's a field for some way. What are the 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.480 differences of how they could pitch, Frank, do you having 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.240 to know that bou any chance? Not? Really? Like only 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.720 from what I've seen with the Red Sox facing the Yankees, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.440 Like when Brazier came in to face Bred Gardner, like 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.960 that was a big spot. Again, It's like there are 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:57.600 times where he's been and it wasn't even a good 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.240 matchup because I think Gardner had, like all get a 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.840 small sample size solid career numbers against him. He might 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.440 have been like two for five or three for five, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.520 something like that. But Brazier comes in and gives up 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.400 the grand time to Gardner earlier on in the season. Overall, 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.400 I think Matt Barnes is the better picture. He has 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.880 a better ability to miss bats, He gets more swings 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.199 and misses, he gets more strikeouts. He was like better 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:22.160 suited for like the high levelge situations. But then last 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.160 night he comes in, I guess technically it was a 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.679 high levelge situation, right. So he comes in the ninth 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.000 ending with the Red Sox off nine to four. He 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.240 ends up picking up a save because the tying run 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.840 is the next man on the day, so it's not 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.800 really a traditional save, but he did come in a 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.760 big spot. It's just again, there doesn't really seem to 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.440 be any gem of reasons for the way things like. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.079 I'm looking at it now. The Red Sox numbers for 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.480 the year. Ryan Brazier has been in for seven of 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.680 the Red Sox save opportunities. He has six saves. Matt 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.760 Barnes for three save opportunity, has one save. Yeah, and 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.320 so he should have two saves one opening any one 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.640 last night. Yeah, But Matt Barnes has twenty one strikeouts 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.160 in the eleven innings, pitch Sounds has twelve strikeouts. So 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.439 it sounds like that to me, like Barnes is the fireman. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.360 But why was he using that role last night? I 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.120 don't get it. Yeah, that's that's why we're talking about here, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.280 trying to figure it out. But I think overall I 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.760 didn't realize that Brazier had this many more saves and Barnes. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.520 I thought it was a little bit, but he does 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.880 have six of the seven Red Sox saves this here, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.800 so so seems like it's more so in phasion in 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.880 favor of Braziers. Let me put it this way. Put 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.520 it this way for our fantasy unders, right, if you 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.960 count holds, both of these guys are owned obviously if 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.200 you're just in a standard you're twelve team home league. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.600 Right in my league, for instance, both of them are 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.080 owned by the same guy. Both of them are owned 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.360 by the same guy. Because you're getting Iran Wim kind 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.440 of like we talked about, not necessarily Josh Hayter, but 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.200 somebody really good releaserons Ryan Pressley comes to mind, and 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.079 you're getting essentially Matt Barnes in that role, and you're 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.360 getting the saves from Brazier or if they flipped them 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.439 for whatever reason, like we saw last night, he gets 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.640 to save. Anyway, would you recommend doing that or would 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.760 you just own Brazier, Like what would you do in 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.960 your standard twelve team league? So if it's a twelve 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.480 team let's say rhoto or head to head categories where 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.440 you just kind of start a bunch of pictures. I 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.000 don't have a problem owning both of them. But for example, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.079 in my head to head points league, my two home leagues, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.400 you just start two relievers, so I'm not going to 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.320 own both of these. Maybe I'll just own Brazier because 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.680 he has six of their seven saves and he seems 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.960 more likely to get saves at this point, so I'm 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.640 more likely to own him where I just have to 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.520 start two relievers at too head points league, whatever. But 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.320 I think in your rooto leagues, where normally you just 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.719 start nine pictures it doesn't matter, you know, if they're 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.760 starters or relievers. I think there you can own all 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:42.719 both of them. And I think in the head to 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.320 head categories league, especially in the holds league, you can 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.920 own both of them. Um, so you know in two 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.200 out of the three main formats, yes you can own both. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.240 But in the head to head points league or if 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.280 you just start two relievers and that's all you have 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.680 to start, I probably wouldn't own Matt Barnes unless holds 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.760 is a category. Okay, reasonable enough, let's get into the 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.360 hitting last night. I know you hit on the Oakland 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.880 side of things. Let me with the Red Sox where 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.400 Michael Chavis once again came through. He was two before, 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.320 he had three ribbis, solidifying he's spot in the lineup, 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.160 and now he's talked about him a lot recently. Just 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.079 wanted to be clear, like, once again, he gets the 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.280 job done. Last night about this story, played first base, Greig, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.560 which is what we kind of thought could happen Mitch 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.400 Moreland right now. So look, they're gonna find ways to 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.680 get his bat in the lineup Greig. Also, um and 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.560 also of note, with j D. Martinez being the the 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.000 d h U suway, Lynn started at second so it 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.000 wasn't like the second base position wasn't eligible for him. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.080 I just think they wanted to get him some reps 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.680 at first base to see where he could fit in 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.480 the line up when some of these other infielders come 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.680 back from Boston. Yeah, I think it makes sense. And Um, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.440 as I've said, I think as long as as long 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.560 as he's hitting well and performing well. Look, he's got 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.920 the batting average up to two eighties six now, Um, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.240 he gets two singles yesterday, one of them was a 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.720 bluep Three ribbies got ops over a thousand, will beat 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.840 a small sample size. Michael Javis is performing well, and 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.720 how about Mookie Betts. We were just talking about him 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.160 a couple of weeks ago. Three hits last night, the 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.040 batting average all about utter two eighty seven gread. No 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.200 concern for Mookie Betts, no concern whatsoever. He came through. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.040 One name that when you have the Mookie Betts I 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.080 was looking up was Rafael Devers because his name we 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.800 haven't talked about at all here. So Rabhail Devers on 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.080 the year at six o BP sits at nine. That's 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.440 pretty good. What's not good is the zero home runs, 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.080 seven rivies, fifteen runs score. That's good. He has four 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.400 stolen basis in six attempts when he's running a lot. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.800 What do you make what we've seen thus far from 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.640 Rafael Devers really interesting name. Started looking into him because 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.640 Florio texted me. That's exactly why I am bringing him up. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.160 Rafael Devers has just had like a weird start to 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.560 the season. Um So his launch angle this year is 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.240 four point two degrees on average. Last year it was 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.360 ten point nine. So ten point nine is kind closer 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.560 to a line drive obviously four point two. I mean, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.520 he's hitting a lot of groundballs, and you see that 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.400 in the battle ball data, right now, he's got a 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.960 fifty five percent groundball rate. He's the only hitting flyballs 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:17.080 twenty of the time. He's striking out. He's striking out 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.600 sixteen point seven percent of the time. So it seems 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.480 like he's kind of making more of a conscious ever 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:26.760 just to make contact and not necessarily worrying about hitting 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.920 flyballs and trying to hit home runs. It seems like 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.600 he's just trying to make contact right now and get 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.960 on base and maybe hit for batting average, which he's doing. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.560 He's got a two ninety six average, but he's got 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.840 zero home runs. I mean, I mean personally, as a 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.320 fantasy owner, I would tell Dever's he sacrifice some of 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.560 the batting average. I thought, you hit two seventy two 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.480 seventy five and give me twenty five home runs. That's 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.400 what I want. It's good to see him running though, too. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.040 I'm gonna give you some more infoone Devers on the 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:54.200 other side, I want to get in the bed in 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.480 Tende as well. 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But 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.080 before we have the break, we're talking about Raphael Devers 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:19.480 and what to expect and what I wanted to bring 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.920 up Frank was in seventeen that year that he broke 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.960 out and we were super high on him going in 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.719 the last year was I was kind of looking at 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.399 the batted ball profile a bit and he was a 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.920 fifty groundball guy back then, and that number, you know, 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.760 went down a little bit last year back now this year. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.919 So even though the flyball percentage was obviously higher than 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.440 it is now, he's always been a strong groundball guy. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.440 He's hard hit rate back then same as it is now. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.080 I don't know any of any indications all of a 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.320 sudden he's just going to start lifting the ball and 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.399 get back to where we think he could be this 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:00.879 home run guy. I don't don't see any data that 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.560 makes this thing that's gonna happen all of a sudden. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.480 In fact, what the only thing I see is that 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.200 all right back in he's vi it was at three 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.119 two this year, is at three sixty seven last year 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.240