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Speaker 1: What's Up, Nobody? Welcome inside Studio thirty four Fodica Monday,
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Speaker 1: It was very eventful weekend in the baseball world. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we lose another first round pick in Aaron Judge, and
Speaker 1: we gained another one back. So you gotta give one up,
Speaker 1: you gotta sacrifice one to get one back. So we
Speaker 1: get Frankie Lindor back. Over the weekend but we lose
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. It was a big waiver wire weekend because
Speaker 1: all these prospects get called up For me, and I'll
Speaker 1: throw this to you, Matt Modica of the Athletic at
Speaker 1: CTN Baseball. To me, this was one of the hardest
Speaker 1: weekends in terms of FAT because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: really interesting prospects that got called up. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: I don't know how long they're gonna be up, how
Speaker 1: well they're gonna play. I mean that's always, you know,
Speaker 1: part of what we're trying to figure out, how well
Speaker 1: they're gonna play. But I just don't know how long
Speaker 1: some of these guys are gonna be up. So it
Speaker 1: was really really tough FAB weekend for me overall. How
Speaker 1: was your your fab? How was your your Fantasy baseball weekend?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Madimo? Um, Happy Monday to you. First,
Speaker 1: let's start off that way. I was, you know, a
Speaker 1: tragic weekend, starting with the Friday afternoon late news of
Speaker 1: Jacob de Graham and you know m R. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's throwing the next day. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's just the Mets. But in terms of FAB,
Speaker 1: I really wanted Mike Sarokia where I didn't own him already,
Speaker 1: and in the leagues where he didn't, he was getting
Speaker 1: scooped up after the first week, and that's why I
Speaker 1: was acting accordingly in other leagues. But I did get
Speaker 1: him in two spots. Look the cold Tucker thing, I
Speaker 1: totally understand. I didn't bid over ninety nine dollars for him,
Speaker 1: and I would have liked to have owned him. But
Speaker 1: I was aggressive on Clint Frasier a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm spending money in other places, so
Speaker 1: you gotta save some fab and you can't just get everybody.
Speaker 1: So I understand the aggressive nature and the wanting to
Speaker 1: get the speed that Tucker can possibly give you. You
Speaker 1: could possibly be in the minors in two weeks as well.
Speaker 1: I heard that about Clint Fraser, so I don't like,
Speaker 1: I really want to get on anybody. If they spent
Speaker 1: three dars on him, I wouldn't have done it. I
Speaker 1: wish I would have gotten him an our main event
Speaker 1: that I think I only been fifty nine that when
Speaker 1: I was like the lowest one I had on him,
Speaker 1: and I would have wanted if I did my other
Speaker 1: eight bids, I would have wanted be in that league,
Speaker 1: and that was a mistake. Yeah, and I actually saw
Speaker 1: that the lowest bid four Cold Tucker over the weekend
Speaker 1: in the main events was actually in our league. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a seventy seven dollar bid, and I had
Speaker 1: the backupout seventy three. So I was pretty sad about that,
Speaker 1: missing out on a Cold Tucker by four dollars. We'll
Speaker 1: get into the rest of these prospects, all the waiver
Speaker 1: wire stuff from the weekend with that, welcome in my
Speaker 1: buddy Greg Suspend, what up? Hey, Frank? How are you sorry?
Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. How's your weekend? It was okay,
Speaker 1: a lot of traveling this ken, a little trailing for
Speaker 1: the holidays this weekend. Yeah, eventful passover. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it was eventful, which is so I was lie on Friday,
Speaker 1: Philly on Saturday, back in New York on Sunday. A lot,
Speaker 1: just a lot of trail. Well that's why he's so late.
Speaker 1: You know, it's one weekend. It's Do you have a
Speaker 1: good easter, Maddie, muh yeah. I had a pretty good easter,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing like truly eventful, but you know, baseball
Speaker 1: was on court on the Ten Commandment. Saturday night. I
Speaker 1: watched that everything. Oh we saw that. I was watching
Speaker 1: as well, Maddie. Yeah, that that movie is still in the
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifty six and it's still fantastic. Well, we're
Speaker 1: totally all the same page we had it. It is long.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it in Commandments. I don't I've never seen.
Speaker 1: Do you know what it's about, Well, something something religious,
Speaker 1: I would guess, Greg, I don't know. It starts. I
Speaker 1: have no idea. What you know. The Ten Commandments are
Speaker 1: all right, there's a lot that I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: so it's it's about Moses, right, just you know, breaking away,
Speaker 1: going to Israel. Yeah, by the way, Moses Modica would
Speaker 1: be I like, you should name your kid Moses Modica.
Speaker 1: I like that. That's biblical reference. I like that. I
Speaker 1: like the alliteration too. I'm with it. What was this Modica?
Speaker 1: I'm in soon, hopefully not too soon, unless unless you
Speaker 1: know that's in the plans for you, Matt. You know,
Speaker 1: I get I'm not dictating your life. But whatever happens happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you look at me, I'm I don't know. Do
Speaker 1: you start thinking about like little Susman names too. I
Speaker 1: don't know. No, I hope not absolutely not, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep great last night, or that question is coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Why was that? I was alright, I don't
Speaker 1: know it was. It was on and off. I just
Speaker 1: too many thoughts running through my head and it just
Speaker 1: didn't feel right. We're disappointed in Game of Thrones. No,
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved the Game of Thrones last night,
Speaker 1: and I kind of flip flopped from it was amazing
Speaker 1: next it wasn't bad. It had some cool moments last night.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't want to talk about anything
Speaker 1: specific in case someone hasn't watched it yet, but um,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, there were some cool moments. But
Speaker 1: and I know the fight, you know, the Battle of
Speaker 1: Winterfeld's coming next week. But I wanted to see some
Speaker 1: I wanted to see some action. I think I'm just
Speaker 1: getting a little a little greedy, little selfish greeky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought last week was was slar right, whatever,
Speaker 1: We're back, and it was like and last night was
Speaker 1: last night. Just the banter was hysterical, Like I laughed
Speaker 1: out loud of a torment. I felt good for brand Um.
Speaker 1: It was great I loved it. I really did. What
Speaker 1: do you think Matt and Danny, He'll turned his coming.
Speaker 1: It's great. I was very happy for Area, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that Brand's part was fantastic, fantastic overall. I thought it
Speaker 1: was one of their worst episodes. Too much cheesy like
Speaker 1: Week one. I was fine with except for that dragon
Speaker 1: ride that was like, you know, like out of a
Speaker 1: high school, you know, movie or something like that. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's four more episodes. You're gonna be action packed.
Speaker 1: I love the series. I loved book, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to hate on it. It's interesting different perspectives because Matt,
Speaker 1: you know, Matt says he thought it was one of
Speaker 1: the worst episodes in Downstairs, Alex video producer said, I
Speaker 1: thought it was one of the top five episodes in
Speaker 1: the series. Yeah, it was an amazing episode. It really was.
Speaker 1: I'm without, I'm more without. It's cool that you know,
Speaker 1: you find different want you guys are smoking down there, man,
Speaker 1: you know, so I don't know, we must be missing something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't know, man. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: You know what's coming next week, It's gonna be it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: That was your fab How was your fab weekend? How
Speaker 1: was my fab weekend? My pit teams in disaster. I've
Speaker 1: lost everybody on the team, Like my entire team is hurt.
Speaker 1: That sucks. I think I think you're suffering from some
Speaker 1: karma because you said that I didn't know how to
Speaker 1: play in the headset categories. Never, I'll never know that one.
Speaker 1: I'm in the first place understanding you're in twelve. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not last surprised. Yeah, I just looked at it
Speaker 1: before we came because you know, if you were in
Speaker 1: LA I was gonna blast you. So yeah, so that
Speaker 1: wasn't That wasn't so good. But you know, it's Mike
Speaker 1: Talkman's world and we're just living at it. And so
Speaker 1: that's how I feel. That's the sockman. Seriously, fact was
Speaker 1: the guy because we lost outfielders everywhere, Frankly, multiple outfielders.
Speaker 1: We lost in all of our leagues, including the pit
Speaker 1: league for me, and I feel like everybody that the
Speaker 1: number one guy I kept trying to add was Mike
Speaker 1: Talkman and I'm i out of my mind, frank No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that you are. I will say it
Speaker 1: could be a potential short term Uh, you know, open
Speaker 1: up like the playing time that's opened up from it
Speaker 1: might be short term again. And look, the cream rises
Speaker 1: to the top. That's what we talked about with Clint Fraser.
Speaker 1: And you know, Talkman's performing well. And you know, over
Speaker 1: the past week he had three homers and the Yankees
Speaker 1: play seven games. They're going on a road trip. They
Speaker 1: expect to get Standing back sooner rather than later. They're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, him returning during this road trip
Speaker 1: at some point. But you know, once he returns, uh
Speaker 1: to Talkman necessarily play every day. I think he will
Speaker 1: play every day for now until Stanton's back. And you know,
Speaker 1: you know what like an exposure to the Yankees line,
Speaker 1: but it's not like it was before, Like the Yankees
Speaker 1: lineup right, what does that mean? Not a good line?
Speaker 1: Triple A and and the thing like him, And you
Speaker 1: know I was you know, I had like five six
Speaker 1: per cent bids on him. Nothing too crazy, But I
Speaker 1: think I think you should like him, like you know,
Speaker 1: three three or four career hitters in the minors and
Speaker 1: you know, hit twenty home runs last year across multiple levels,
Speaker 1: twelve stolen basis, so I think there's there's a little
Speaker 1: something there with Talkman is as long as he's gonna
Speaker 1: play every day for now. And the thing with Talkman
Speaker 1: is and more specifically Stanton, right, it's that he's he's
Speaker 1: not a mac an all that soon. That's the issue,
Speaker 1: Like he's not fee well they're saying, brought this road trip.
Speaker 1: He should be back, except you don't believe it when
Speaker 1: you see it. There's like no optimism around the Yankees
Speaker 1: right now, and rightfully so no, But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: like he's not swinging or he hasn't hit live pitching yet,
Speaker 1: isn't thrown from the autfield yet, isn't there anything yet?
Speaker 1: He's hitting the ball off a tap Frank Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean whatever, he could be a d H and kind
Speaker 1: of he's not hitting live pitching yet. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying like it's gonna be. He's gonna be. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's on the shelf for another month. Right,
Speaker 1: He's probably back with I'm glad, Matt, I'm glad. How
Speaker 1: does Jacob the grounds elbow? Well, you can't do that,
Speaker 1: and I expect it real quicker on Mike Cochman, I
Speaker 1: said out a street yesterday with a picture of an
Speaker 1: Iraq g and I said, I can't confirm, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident this car. Whatever we'll take it, we'll take it.
Speaker 1: Mike Talkingman, the guy I added everywhere, Frank, I don't
Speaker 1: believe I just said that. Yeah, look it was. It
Speaker 1: was a tough weekend for for injuries. Again, we lose
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows this day you wake up on a Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows in the I L, Aaron Judge on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and Starling Marte also lands in the I L. So
Speaker 1: we have a lot of high profile outfielders who were
Speaker 1: landing on the I L. And you know, in deeper leagues,
Speaker 1: fifteen teamers, you know, talking when someone who's out there
Speaker 1: again gonna play every day, when once they get back
Speaker 1: in Yankee Stadium, it should be all right, Like you know,
Speaker 1: they play in San Francisco and uh Los Angeles Angels
Speaker 1: of Anaheim over this next week. So it's something the
Speaker 1: greatest ballparks. But at least he's gonna play every day. Matt,
Speaker 1: did you have any bids in on Talkman or not interested? No?
Speaker 1: I really didn't bid on him him this week, and
Speaker 1: I get it in certain formats off like vlat Sadler
Speaker 1: put out a tweet today and it's it's really important
Speaker 1: for people, and you know, any kind of competitive lead
Speaker 1: its weekly. If you look at it weekly, that will
Speaker 1: help you a lot. I mean, I always go with
Speaker 1: the understanding of by talent and it will win out
Speaker 1: in the long run. But like Howie Kendrick, this week
Speaker 1: was an excellent ed And when we talk about our league,
Speaker 1: that's the guy that I don't know how I had
Speaker 1: a ligoria over him this week. That was a mistake,
Speaker 1: but you know he's playing three games in Colorado, So
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta look at it in specific uh,
Speaker 1: in specific ways, and fab is difficult, but there are
Speaker 1: ways to manage it and be very effective. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I saw last tweets well that it's a weekly at
Speaker 1: least in year leagues. Right, it's it's a weekly league,
Speaker 1: and you can't worry about the day to day that
Speaker 1: when the season's over or three two or three weeks
Speaker 1: on the line, things will kind of play themselves out
Speaker 1: how they're supposed to. Everyone kind of reverts to the
Speaker 1: mean and reversed to what they are, and you want
Speaker 1: to be on top of that. And not necessarily worry
Speaker 1: about just this week or just these couple of days.
Speaker 1: And I think that's certainly a good way to look
Speaker 1: at it in weekly leagues. And that's why I don't
Speaker 1: like those leagues right because I can't. I can't help myself.
Speaker 1: I get very anty. It doesn't work for me. I
Speaker 1: want to drop everyone. I didn't even want to drop
Speaker 1: anyone yesterday. What do I want to drop? I wanted
Speaker 1: to drop Wade Miley, my guy, yeah, which surprised me
Speaker 1: because he finally has a two star week. And you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we have so many open roster spots because again
Speaker 1: we had Meadows, we had Starley Marte, so you know,
Speaker 1: we have some open roster spots and put those guys
Speaker 1: in the I L and we have to pick up outfielders.
Speaker 1: What's up real quickly? On Orsten Meadows, who's he's been fantastic,
Speaker 1: I have to say, absolutely fantastic. But I treated out
Speaker 1: like an hour or two ago. Orston Meadows stats this
Speaker 1: season and Clint Fraser stats this season, and they're pretty
Speaker 1: much identical with the only exception was the three stolen bases. Yeah,
Speaker 1: click Fraser has been awesome. I know that was your
Speaker 1: guy a couple of weeks ago when he came up
Speaker 1: you this is where you were spending heavy. This is
Speaker 1: the type of guy that you liked can help you
Speaker 1: throughout this season. And and Frank, we did it. In
Speaker 1: one of our leads. We spent what we needed to
Speaker 1: do to go out get Cliff Frasier. Uh and thanks
Speaker 1: to him that we're kind of a float of the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we spent twenty seven dollars out of a hundred dollar
Speaker 1: fab budget in the in g D D, which is
Speaker 1: a fifteen team mixed Rhodo. So yeah, we you know,
Speaker 1: we spent a decent jumpp there, But you know, feeling
Speaker 1: good about it now. Just and I tweeted this yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Yankees find a way to screw
Speaker 1: this up, I don't think that they will. But once
Speaker 1: everyone comes back healthy, you know, is Aaron Boone gonna
Speaker 1: do an Aaron Boone thing? And we need you know,
Speaker 1: Britt Gardner's leadership or whatever. No, no, we don't. You
Speaker 1: know that that ship has has sailed. I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that Clint Fraser, I hope, so you know,
Speaker 1: I hope so I have I'm cautiously optimistic yeah, they
Speaker 1: look at this team and it's really not very good.
Speaker 1: I'm litt now excited. They were getting about Tyro Extrada
Speaker 1: bunting yesterday. This was a big spot. And it was
Speaker 1: a big spot. I was I was listening to I
Speaker 1: was listening to Sterling on the radio and it was like,
Speaker 1: and you would you look at that? What a bunt?
Speaker 1: What a bunt? And Susan like, exactly need to do
Speaker 1: the kid. The kid got here yesterday. That kiddy got
Speaker 1: you last night, and what a bunt. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. I was surprise. I was actually watching
Speaker 1: it started an hour earlier whatever, but I was still
Speaker 1: watching that Yankees game over the met game because Paxson
Speaker 1: was just unbelievable. He was good, and the minute he
Speaker 1: stopped pitting, the minute they took him out, I stopped
Speaker 1: watching it. And then I see the yankeeslusion. I was like,
Speaker 1: what happened here? You're like, this is the perfect perfect game.
Speaker 1: You watched Paxson go six shutout at twelve shot I counts,
Speaker 1: and the Yankees on the verge of losing. There's nothing else,
Speaker 1: Matt Modi. You can ask for amazing the window. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lot in general for your for your fandom. Obviously,
Speaker 1: um I mentioned I mentioned the Ground that the Ground
Speaker 1: story was like the most met story ever and like,
Speaker 1: obviously I haven't killing them for it, but it is
Speaker 1: literally the most met story ever where Jacob the Ground
Speaker 1: had the flu, and the flu turned into an elbow injury,
Speaker 1: which turned into an m R I, which turned into
Speaker 1: being placed on the I R, which turned into no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't need an m R I. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: have them throw a couple of days in a row,
Speaker 1: which turned into maybe we should haven't get the m
Speaker 1: R I, which turned into gotten. The hell knows what's
Speaker 1: going on with Jacob the Ground? Yeah, new GM hab
Speaker 1: Brody van Wagen and still the same old bets. Huh.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just I don't I love the
Speaker 1: flu being like a precursor to like an elbow injury.
Speaker 1: It's insane. It's insane. You would think with the dubious
Speaker 1: medical history, they would be like ultrue conservative, how much
Speaker 1: of gon MR get a course? Assume Mr the guy
Speaker 1: you just gave it a hundred fifty million dollars through
Speaker 1: and is you know your h you set a piece
Speaker 1: of your stamps just mr after you say he was
Speaker 1: a diagnosed the elbow injury. It's not like I wunna
Speaker 1: take a couple of days off. He was throwing the
Speaker 1: next day. Have you ever heard of an elbow barking?
Speaker 1: I have never heard. It's not good. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound good to me either. So you know, you see
Speaker 1: the report that his elbow is barking on Friday, when
Speaker 1: you wake up Saturday, and all these pictures and videos
Speaker 1: of him, you know, throwing in the offield, Like, what
Speaker 1: is going on? What is the latest underground? Like what
Speaker 1: is the story? You might pick the end of the
Speaker 1: weeknd's returning on Sunday? What do you know? And that's
Speaker 1: the best? All right? Okay, take a break. We'll go
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Speaker 1: Frank Standford, Grace Sussman joined by Menimo, as we are
Speaker 1: each and every Monday, talk about the Weaver week that
Speaker 1: was help us set our lineups h for this week.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Aaron Judge's interview Interview injury. Uh, Mike Talkman
Speaker 1: is probably gonna play every day now. Unbelievably enough, Yank's
Speaker 1: gonna do something. I don't know that is you mentioned
Speaker 1: Jacob D. Graham as well, Logan Morrison, Greg Obviously that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a plays Mike four. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is such a joke. Alright. We mentioned
Speaker 1: Mike Siroca, that was your guy here if he was
Speaker 1: wasn't owned. Let's move on from there, and let's let's
Speaker 1: kind of get more into Cold Tucker, Frank, because you
Speaker 1: said you've been seventy three dollars for him in your
Speaker 1: main event. He wound up going for seventy seven dollars
Speaker 1: and Tuckerer was or is I believe the Pasburgh or
Speaker 1: one of their top prospects gets called up play shortstop
Speaker 1: every day as their story shortstop went on the d
Speaker 1: L sixty d d L immediately Tucker homers in his
Speaker 1: first game on Saturday. What do we need to know
Speaker 1: about Cold Tucker? Who is he? What's the prospect pedigree?
Speaker 1: What can he become? So? Cold Tucker is the fifth
Speaker 1: rank prospect in the Pirates organization according to MLB dot com,
Speaker 1: and he's an interesting player. He's a guy who has
Speaker 1: a lot of speed. Last year in Double A he
Speaker 1: stole five basses. A year before at Double A and
Speaker 1: High A ball in he's still forty seven bases greg
Speaker 1: and so far this year at Triple A he was
Speaker 1: hitting three thirty three with three homers and five stolen basses.
Speaker 1: And he's he already hit a home run over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and we know that the way that the ball is
Speaker 1: flying out this year, Greg which his juice ball, there's
Speaker 1: a chance that he actually sees an uptick in power
Speaker 1: getting to the major league level. But we know that
Speaker 1: the speed is legit. He's not a prototypical leadoff man
Speaker 1: because he still strikes out quite a bit. He also
Speaker 1: does walk a lot, So he's an interesting guy. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you add him or speed, and you're you're
Speaker 1: just hoping, you know, whatever power you get along with that.
Speaker 1: And if act that he's let off over the weekend, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the injuries to the Pirates, now
Speaker 1: with UH, with Starling Marte going down, you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're hoping that you can get a you know, let's say,
Speaker 1: to fifty to sixty batting average with some speed and
Speaker 1: the fact that he's gonna score runs because he's gonna
Speaker 1: be at the top of the Pirates lineup. So that's
Speaker 1: why people were pretty aggressive with him. I should have
Speaker 1: been more aggressive. It's frustrating because in the Great Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Invitational, I had an eighty three dollar bid and
Speaker 1: then in UH in the main event, I had seventy
Speaker 1: three because I had I had a you know, like
Speaker 1: fifty dollars less, so I went with seventy three. And
Speaker 1: you know, if I go with my eighty three dollar bid,
Speaker 1: I end up winning him. And I would have been
Speaker 1: pretty pumped about that. But ultimately I saw him anywhere
Speaker 1: from you know, eighty two. There's some people like over
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars in our g s. He le he
Speaker 1: went for one. Um, I can't knock people. If you
Speaker 1: need speed and you need run scored, which are Harard
Speaker 1: categories to come by, you gotta be aggressive with him.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Cold Tucker? Matt? How excited
Speaker 1: to you about him? What he could bring to the table.
Speaker 1: I'm with Frank, you know you you're buying speed right now.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to come by. Uh. You got guys
Speaker 1: like Trade Turner, who you know that was a top
Speaker 1: half in the first round that you invested on. So
Speaker 1: I mean I get it. Uh, And like everything else,
Speaker 1: I see the upside. There is downside if he does
Speaker 1: you know, if he doesn't hit, I know he let
Speaker 1: her off and hit the home run. But if he
Speaker 1: has you know, one of those weeks where it's just
Speaker 1: a bad week or two he could go back down.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to be aggressive. I just wasn't going
Speaker 1: over a hundred dollars because, as we stated, I was
Speaker 1: aggressive on Frasier. I really wanted Sarroca, and that was
Speaker 1: the guy I had the big bit on. I think
Speaker 1: I had like one, you know, fifty or something like
Speaker 1: that on him, and I didn't win that one. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why I had a fifty nine bit
Speaker 1: on Tucker in this one when I had eighty nine
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollar bits everywhere else. That was an epic
Speaker 1: fail on me. So I'm pretty pissed on my fab
Speaker 1: on in this Do you in particular do you get
Speaker 1: you said that you were most aggressive on Mike Saroka?
Speaker 1: Were you the runner up bid in our league? For one?
Speaker 1: Because he ended up going for you? Were the backup?
Speaker 1: I pretty much had Sarroka anywhere where he was available.
Speaker 1: Was one nine one league. I went one thirty five
Speaker 1: because I had to save a couple of hours in
Speaker 1: that one. I was trying to be as tight as
Speaker 1: it possibly could. You know, it's basically almost a month in,
Speaker 1: We're not really even a full month in, and you know,
Speaker 1: Fabil is going and I think sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: spend on certain guys and you know, tighten up the
Speaker 1: budget for later on. Yeah, I think I think it
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, that's why I feel like I should
Speaker 1: have been more aggressive on Cold Tucker. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually all right in the speed department. But this overall,
Speaker 1: you know, having a young, exciting prospect like that, you
Speaker 1: can plug him into your middle endfield and the upside
Speaker 1: that heat possesses. I probably should have been a little
Speaker 1: bit more aggressive. Ultimately, you know, I end up with
Speaker 1: a few guys here that I gotta plug into my
Speaker 1: lineup because I had Aaron Judge of my main event team,
Speaker 1: so I needed an outfielder and I had to make
Speaker 1: some tougher decisions this week. Um, pick up a guy
Speaker 1: like Tommy Lostella because he's playing and he's hitting at
Speaker 1: home runs, which is just like crazy to talk about.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I actually should have picked him up. Tommy Lostella. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't I don't know what he has
Speaker 1: like six home runs already, right, Matt, he actually has eight.
Speaker 1: You know, the two home run game yesterday. See the
Speaker 1: thing where I'm piste off. That is what Mustaka is.
Speaker 1: Having the finger injury even though he's not going on
Speaker 1: the d L, I may need a second baseman, and
Speaker 1: I had Kendrick, I had David was Bote body, and
Speaker 1: I even had uh Tommy Lostella, and somehow, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I moved I must have moved Lo Gloria
Speaker 1: up or something, because they were all like sixteen dollar
Speaker 1: bids or something like that, and I got Longloria over
Speaker 1: those guys when I probably need that guy to fill
Speaker 1: in a second base if they do play some soccer's
Speaker 1: on the thing. So just a bad family for myself.
Speaker 1: I actually liked the moves you made, Frank a lot.
Speaker 1: You got Danny Santana for about like thirty five, yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty two out of a thousand dollar budget, and there
Speaker 1: was no one else was bidding on him. He was
Speaker 1: he in other leagues. I saw him going for over
Speaker 1: a hundred and stuff. So that was a good move.
Speaker 1: Lostella is a good move for this week, especially with
Speaker 1: the matchups and all that. And he's hot. You always
Speaker 1: want to ride the hot hand, So yeah, going with
Speaker 1: the greggy approach here, riding riding the way with Tommy Lostello.
Speaker 1: Put we've put Danny sand had a backup bids everywhere. Um,
Speaker 1: we got him in g S T. I think I
Speaker 1: got him in both my main event and the Great
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball batting second for the Rangers. He's got seven
Speaker 1: games this week. He has three stolen bases over the
Speaker 1: past week. It could just be a short term thing,
Speaker 1: but once renetto Door returns. But you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: break the bank for him. You know, I spent about
Speaker 1: three percent of my budget. So I just wanted some
Speaker 1: stolen bases, and I need a I needed an outfold.
Speaker 1: They were plug in with Aaron Judge going down, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, So you know, I that's that's the route
Speaker 1: I went down. I was. I was pretty aggressive on
Speaker 1: him this weekend. Say, you had an excellent fab weekend
Speaker 1: in this league and I had a terrible one. You
Speaker 1: really have south or something I've never seen, like how
Speaker 1: we Kedrick I should at least had on his team. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's playing three games at course field or even like
Speaker 1: David Bote who's got nine games at second base, already's
Speaker 1: third base eligible. And I think he's gonna play a
Speaker 1: lot for this Cup team going forward. And they gave
Speaker 1: him some money. They like him, and I think he's
Speaker 1: a pretty good hitter Modica. Were you surprised that, unless
Speaker 1: I'm missing something here, Michael Javis was not picked up
Speaker 1: in our main event league. Yeah, I was surprised because
Speaker 1: in a couple of my big leagues, my you know,
Speaker 1: uh high stage ones, he went for over two hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: which was even three hundred and one of them, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's kill the music, Pamona, we would bring in ten
Speaker 1: minutes from that body, you know. Strange, but I was
Speaker 1: like that to change sor I don't know, like, come on,
Speaker 1: we want to hear him, Matt talking about here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to hear more about this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: regarding Michaels, so, Chavis was one of the ones that
Speaker 1: was kind of referencing earlier on in the show that
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick him up, but well, hey, I
Speaker 1: have a ton of injuries on this main events heave,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't afford to stash him. And uh, I
Speaker 1: actually like some of the guys that I'm already stashing,
Speaker 1: like I have Jimmy Nelson and Otani waiting to come back,
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to drop any of those guys.
Speaker 1: Javis was one of the hardest guys for me to
Speaker 1: figure out, because he's the top hitting prospect in the
Speaker 1: Red Sox organization, but I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: play every day, Like is he going to be ample
Speaker 1: enough defensively to play second base. He's more of like
Speaker 1: a first third baseman. So they're going down this Mustakis
Speaker 1: Ryan mcmon route with Javis, where I guess they're gonna
Speaker 1: try and play him at second base, But I just
Speaker 1: a don't know if he's going to play enough here
Speaker 1: to make a difference. How long is he gonna be up?
Speaker 1: So you know, Chavis for me was one of the
Speaker 1: hardest guys to figure out. I did pick him up
Speaker 1: in a few locations, but it was very It's always
Speaker 1: interesting to see Greg from league to league how much
Speaker 1: he could go for it and then how little because
Speaker 1: he doesn't even get picked up in our main event.
Speaker 1: And then you were just talking about leagues where he
Speaker 1: went for over two hundred dollars, Matt, So ultimately, where
Speaker 1: do you stand on Savis? Well, the one thing that
Speaker 1: I found to be concerned was when he was activated,
Speaker 1: and when he was called up, he spent the first
Speaker 1: two days on the bench, and then finally got to
Speaker 1: start yesterday, So I'm with you. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna start every day, and he could easily be
Speaker 1: backed down in a week or two. I was willing
Speaker 1: in most of my league's and I said, this is
Speaker 1: another indication why I felt so miserably in this fan one.
Speaker 1: It's a probably a case of just having too many leagues.
Speaker 1: But uh, what you know, for twenty dollars thirty five dollars, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm in on that. I'll take that shot.
Speaker 1: But two hundred dollars, I'm a guy that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could see it for Cold Tucker because of the
Speaker 1: speed up side. You guys watch stolen forty four bases
Speaker 1: in forty six bases. I don't care that he hasn't
Speaker 1: played over he only played a few games of a
Speaker 1: double A. He's he has that track record, at least
Speaker 1: in the miners. So I you know, it is bewildering
Speaker 1: and interesting. So we'll see that what goes for next
Speaker 1: weekend in our league if he's still on the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially if he has a big week. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what we talk about being a week early rest,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, being week earlier rather than a
Speaker 1: week late, Greg, But it's just the circumstances. In an
Speaker 1: NFBC league, you don't have an I L spot, so
Speaker 1: I have, I have Daniel Murphy, I have Aaron Judged
Speaker 1: now on on the I L. And you just have
Speaker 1: seven bench spots, so you have to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you fill out your bench the way that you want
Speaker 1: to do it. But if you have a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that are on the I L. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for Otani to come back. You know, some people
Speaker 1: might have cut baid on him, but he's expected to
Speaker 1: return in May, so I'm gonna hold on to him.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Nelson, I still have a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: faith in him, assuming that he comes back. You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen some video of him, uh playing in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues and looks like he's performing well. So I
Speaker 1: have a few guys that am already stasking. I just
Speaker 1: couldn't afford to take on another player to stash in Shavis.
Speaker 1: But you know, I understand maybe a five six percent bid,
Speaker 1: but anyone over a hundred two hundred dollars, I think
Speaker 1: this is just people getting too excited about prospect pedigree here. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I get that, and we're always excited about
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree. But I remember when I read you the
Speaker 1: note he was on Friday that he was getting called
Speaker 1: up your problems, that you were really excited about it.
Speaker 1: But like Matt said, thinks you start to the first
Speaker 1: two games that he's on the roster, so it's you know, what,
Speaker 1: what are the what is the Red Sox actual plans
Speaker 1: for him? Why do they call him up and then
Speaker 1: not play him? And it's kind of a different situation
Speaker 1: because again, he's a corner and fielder. He could play third,
Speaker 1: he could play first, and now they're trying to force
Speaker 1: him to play second, which he did a little bit
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues this year. But he's not natural
Speaker 1: second basement. So look, if they want to just put
Speaker 1: the best offense on the field that they possibly can,
Speaker 1: then sure he'll play. Because you know, he does have upside.
Speaker 1: I don't want to downplay that. I mean two years
Speaker 1: ago he had thirty one home runs with a two
Speaker 1: eighty two batting average between high A ball and double A.
Speaker 1: I think he has potentially, but I think he has upside.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, I really do have concerns about
Speaker 1: whether or not he's gonna play. If he plays a
Speaker 1: lot this week and he's gonna go for a lot
Speaker 1: of money in our main event league next week, I
Speaker 1: think that it's worth picking up. It's worth not breaking
Speaker 1: the bank for. I'm not spending the two hundred bucks
Speaker 1: that that we just heard about, I'm spending. I would
Speaker 1: have spent it for him that was interested in him.
Speaker 1: If you have someone who's just on your bench, if
Speaker 1: not playing or doesn't have upside, then sure take a
Speaker 1: shot on one of these. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: prospects got called up this weekend very randomly to Cold Tucker.
Speaker 1: Michael Chavis gets called Tyro Estrada, And now I don't
Speaker 1: think tyro Strada's gonna play very much for the Yankees.
Speaker 1: But Brian Reynolds another one that we can get into
Speaker 1: who doesn't have the biggest prospect pedigrees. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's not one of these, uh one of these higher
Speaker 1: known names that people are talking about, but he is
Speaker 1: still a top ten prospect in the Pirates organization um.
Speaker 1: And it seems like, at least until Gregory Polanco is back,
Speaker 1: a guy like Brian Reynolds is gonna play every day.
Speaker 1: And I don't really think that the Pirates owe anything
Speaker 1: to Monkey Cabrera. So if Brian Reynolds performs well, he
Speaker 1: had three hits yesterday, he could play every single day
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He brought up Bryan Reynolds last night.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about Brian Reynolds. I all I
Speaker 1: knew that Plato does seem to be coming back very
Speaker 1: very soon. Who is he? Why should we know about him? Alright? So,
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds the top ten prospect in the Pirates organization.
Speaker 1: I believe he's number eight on MLB dot Com. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's hit three twelve in the minor leagues. He's a
Speaker 1: very high batting average. Uh, it kind of seems like
Speaker 1: he might be empty batting average. You're hoping that maybe
Speaker 1: some of the power comes with the juice ball here
Speaker 1: at the major league level. He had five home runs
Speaker 1: in the minors this year. At Triple A. He was
Speaker 1: hitting three sixty seven, again three twelve career batting average
Speaker 1: in the minors, but has never hit more than ten
Speaker 1: home runs in the minors either. So he might just
Speaker 1: be an empty batting average guy. But I'm willing to
Speaker 1: learn and see if he developed more power with this
Speaker 1: juice ball here at the major league level. So I
Speaker 1: think I had a few, you know, three percent bids
Speaker 1: on him. I got him, uh in the Great Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Invitational. I believe we had a bid in g SC.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think we got him, though, Matt,
Speaker 1: were you interested in Brian Reynolds at all? Did you
Speaker 1: have any bids on him? I didn't get him, but
Speaker 1: I'll give a camp like the week before I picked
Speaker 1: up Bustin Dean, figuring that it's gonna be a long
Speaker 1: term and getting everyday bats. He had a four or
Speaker 1: four game that first weekend and then he like struck
Speaker 1: out every other bat, so he got sent back down,
Speaker 1: which I don't understand what the malls you're doing with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody, you got guys like grand your Sin
Speaker 1: and Neil Walker. Let these young kids play. But you know,
Speaker 1: for for like you're saying, and one percent, just to
Speaker 1: take a flyer if he has a good week, yeah
Speaker 1: it's great. If not, you you cut bait and you
Speaker 1: you move on to the next guy. Yeah, sure, for
Speaker 1: for three percent, like whatever, it ultimately doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: just I'd rather take a shot on there. Frank and
Speaker 1: you gave us some names last night as we were
Speaker 1: going through waivers, like Dexter Fowler and Carlos Gonzalez like
Speaker 1: another thing Seanan Brian Reynolds for what he could be
Speaker 1: long term, then those guys probably it's the unknown. It's
Speaker 1: the upside of a prospect, a young kid coming up.
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, we kind of know who Dexter Fowler
Speaker 1: is at this point. Carlos can Zallas is. You know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't signed all the way up until basically the
Speaker 1: start of the season. Then he gets a minor league
Speaker 1: deal with the Indians. And I haven't really done much
Speaker 1: yet either. But you know Dexter Fowler, you know, while
Speaker 1: he doesn't have power and doesn't steel like he used
Speaker 1: to get like four hundred the past week, and it's
Speaker 1: cheap exposure to the Cardinals lineup. So I did pick
Speaker 1: up a few shares of Dexter Fowler. I don't have
Speaker 1: huge expectations, Greg, but I think in a deeper league,
Speaker 1: given the injuries to the St. Louis Cardinals, at least
Speaker 1: he's gonna play every day. So that's what I'm looking
Speaker 1: at regarding Dexter Fowler. I get it. You need any
Speaker 1: injuries there for you, matt On Dexter Fowler. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: the guy that if if I had, you know, if
Speaker 1: I need if if I was just cutting somebody to
Speaker 1: cut and I need to pick somebody up, I had
Speaker 1: him was like a seventh conditional bid in a couple
Speaker 1: of box or something like that. And I think that
Speaker 1: makes sense. I think that seventh conditional it's about right, uh,
Speaker 1: for a guy like Dexter Fowler. Um, after the break,
Speaker 1: I want to go get into the relievers um for
Speaker 1: this week, and I think I want kind of just
Speaker 1: hold to do that. UM. Some od our names though
Speaker 1: they got picked up, and I want to bring up
Speaker 1: now it's Jaredikough And we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: him last week. But Jared I cough get some of
Speaker 1: the rotation as Nick Povetto was sent down, pitched in
Speaker 1: Colorado and then next week, I believe, faces off against
Speaker 1: the Marlins and his only start. How interested are you
Speaker 1: met in Jared I cough. I's been a guy I've
Speaker 1: always liked. I would be interested. I'm still like, you know,
Speaker 1: the way Pavetta started, he deserved to be demoted. I
Speaker 1: think that was best for him. And you know he
Speaker 1: can figure it out. But yeah, I think, uh, I
Speaker 1: co ups the guy to be interested. He's on a
Speaker 1: good team. Uh. The start yesterday was going well. I know,
Speaker 1: he started walking people and I think at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the sixth inning, I was actually listening to it
Speaker 1: on the radio. I was driving into Manhattan, and you
Speaker 1: know by that he should get some wins. You know,
Speaker 1: a good team. I think he's a good picture. I
Speaker 1: think he's great. I think he's a good picture. So
Speaker 1: I think you should have interested him. Yeah, Greg, I
Speaker 1: highlighted up five single start pitchers this week that have
Speaker 1: really good matchups on my Patreon and I have them
Speaker 1: on the runnow so we can get into these guys
Speaker 1: at some point to see him now. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: jaredia cough was one of them because he faces Miami.
Speaker 1: You know, anytime I could get starting pitcher going up
Speaker 1: against the Marlins, it is in Citizens Bank Park, so
Speaker 1: it's not as good of a start as if it
Speaker 1: were coming in Marlins Park. But he is one of
Speaker 1: these single start pitchers that I do like to speak with.
Speaker 1: A good matchup, Gregg. Okay, Jared jaredia CoV obviously gives
Speaker 1: the Marlins something. You want to consider targeting and one
Speaker 1: of the five pitchers that could be out there that
Speaker 1: Frank really likes. I think one star pitcher this week,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break. When we come back, we'll give
Speaker 1: you the relief picture rankings essentially for this week on
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Speaker 1: celebrate Earth Day? I'm going to the Mets game tonight,
Speaker 1: Holly this afternoon. My wife scored some good uh some
Speaker 1: good seats yesterday, so I'm excited. Hopefully Steve Matt doesn't
Speaker 1: stuff for the same fate last time he faced the
Speaker 1: philip That is, I was supposed to be driving down
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia for that game with my partner, Andy Shaxton,
Speaker 1: and I was so happy. Something came up and he
Speaker 1: asked if we could, you know, do it next time around,
Speaker 1: And thankfully I got the only listen to that on
Speaker 1: the radio and not watch it. Yes, thankfully. Well you
Speaker 1: might get it tonight, gonna We're gonna find out, mad Mill,
Speaker 1: But you know, solid matts up tonight. You know, Jake
Speaker 1: Arietta sweing Shrike Ray going down every single year. Greg,
Speaker 1: Let's keep getting it done. I know, I hear you
Speaker 1: is pitch tonight. I guess I I I yes, I'm listening.
Speaker 1: I understand. I'm just I actually recommended Arietta this week,
Speaker 1: and it was, you know, against all my beliefs, but
Speaker 1: I shaid, going forward, you really, you know, the Frank
Speaker 1: said that the swinging stripe percentage is just abysmal. What
Speaker 1: you couldn't think you could get any worse than last year.
Speaker 1: But this year I'm taking six and the X fit
Speaker 1: is just you know, screaming at you be be afraid,
Speaker 1: be very afraid. So you know, so you're selling Jake Arietta.
Speaker 1: Look in at Team League. You know you're gonna roll
Speaker 1: them out there and stuff. But I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: if it turns bad, I don't I don't think anybody's
Speaker 1: gonna be surprised by that. There's just a lot of
Speaker 1: indicators saying, you know, I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: continue to succeed. All right, So Jake Arietta be very
Speaker 1: very nervous about him. Let's get in, gentlemen, to the
Speaker 1: relievers from this week, who you spent money on, who
Speaker 1: you stayed away from. I want to start in Seattle,
Speaker 1: because Frank, we own Anthony Swarzak, he's one of your guys.
Speaker 1: And do you think of what two savors last week?
Speaker 1: The two staves last week? I know Seattle wanted a
Speaker 1: bit of a losing streak after that um, but it
Speaker 1: certainly seems like Scott Service feels very very comfortable with
Speaker 1: Ruenna's Elias in the ninth inning as well. How much
Speaker 1: would you have spent on Alias, Frank and what do
Speaker 1: you think these prospects are to be the closer at
Speaker 1: least for the near term. Look, if you were desperate
Speaker 1: fourth saves in a deeper league, I could see going
Speaker 1: as high as like six seven per cent. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that Alias is going to be the guy
Speaker 1: that gets the bulk of the saves. Now, I could
Speaker 1: be wrong about that. I still have a lot of
Speaker 1: shares of Swarzak. My thing regarding the Mariners bullpen is
Speaker 1: there hasn't really been a rhyme of reason to the
Speaker 1: to the way that you know these guys have been deployed.
Speaker 1: I know, you know Swarzak has pitched in some tough
Speaker 1: spots and like the eighth enning of games and Alias
Speaker 1: picked up two saves last week, and then sward Zak
Speaker 1: bounces back on Saturday and ends up picking up the
Speaker 1: save there, So, um, you know it could be just approach,
Speaker 1: or you know they'll they'll Swarzak in the tougher spots
Speaker 1: earlier in the game, and then you know they'll use
Speaker 1: Rowanius Alias in the knife. But you know, I saw
Speaker 1: leagues where people were pretty aggressive picking up a lie
Speaker 1: because everyone's trying to find saves. And he goes for
Speaker 1: seventy seven dollars in my great Fantasy based momentational and
Speaker 1: then in our main event league that me and Matter
Speaker 1: in together, he goes for a hundred and sixty three
Speaker 1: and the runner up bid was thirty eight. So I'm
Speaker 1: probably closer to that thirty eight than I am the
Speaker 1: one sixty three, But I was I didn't really need saves,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't really in on the bidding for Alias,
Speaker 1: but I you know, if you needed it, I could
Speaker 1: see going in times like six seven mat. This is
Speaker 1: one of those closers that you seem to want to
Speaker 1: avoid when it comes to it to fantasy baseball that
Speaker 1: just like seems like a fab drainer where you're gonna
Speaker 1: spend some money, get this guy. He'll save a game.
Speaker 1: Or to lose his job and then that'll be it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with Frankie. I would you know, maybe six to
Speaker 1: seven percent. I think you'll get some more saves. I
Speaker 1: think the thing here, I think it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the Boston bullpen. Whish war Zack is the Matt Barnes
Speaker 1: and Brazier right now is the Romans Alias. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think Schwarzak's a better overall picture, though I do
Speaker 1: kind of I am warming up to Alias this season
Speaker 1: in this role. He seems to be getting somewhere better.
Speaker 1: Uh he doesn't, you know, he's I don't think he
Speaker 1: really was having a start of material and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And right now Seattle, you know when when they started
Speaker 1: twelve and two and you know, we're having a bad
Speaker 1: week until they h we're having a bad stretch until
Speaker 1: they ran into the Angels, who we just got awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had lost six in a row between the Astros
Speaker 1: and the Indians, and then they're right, they run into
Speaker 1: the Angels. They end up winning three out of four.
Speaker 1: All three of those wins ended up being close games
Speaker 1: that they needed to save. So you know, Swarzak picked
Speaker 1: up the win on Thursday, which but he came in
Speaker 1: in the eighth, I think he gave up a run
Speaker 1: and it was a tie game, and they took the
Speaker 1: lead in the ninth and then Ryno's alias picked up
Speaker 1: the save. So yeah, three close games and you know
Speaker 1: it was two out of three. Maybe that closer to
Speaker 1: what we see moving forward. Uh, Like it's a sixty
Speaker 1: percent Alias fort swarzag Uh. You know, I think the
Speaker 1: way that Matt broke it down, kind of comparing it
Speaker 1: to the Red Sox bullpen um, it's fair. Although you
Speaker 1: know there's no there hasn't really been rhyme for reasons.
Speaker 1: So I guess we'll just you know, cross our fingers
Speaker 1: moving forward and and hoping that we get saved from
Speaker 1: both of them. Greg, Yeah, absolutely, And you just kind
Speaker 1: of hope that things are going in your direction. That's
Speaker 1: always how you feel with Philadelphia, Frank, and I know
Speaker 1: how strongly you feel about Gabe Kapler and the situation
Speaker 1: in that bullpen where strengthing Domingian has continues to not
Speaker 1: really see Knight receive a ninth inning chances, and they've
Speaker 1: mostly gone to Hector Neiris, who certainly seems to be
Speaker 1: the favorable option right now for gave Kavler in that
Speaker 1: ninth inning. How much do you trust Hector Neius? Not much, Greg,
Speaker 1: And it's not Hector Neis, it's how much do you
Speaker 1: trust Gabe Kapler? And it's Gabe Kapler is gonna do
Speaker 1: what Gabe Kapler wants to do. And you know, if, uh,
Speaker 1: if analytics say that to go to Hector Nearis in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning, or if he asked use Hector Narius
Speaker 1: in a different spot in a game. We've already seen
Speaker 1: that multiple times this year where he was used earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, and you know, then he picked him
Speaker 1: a save early on, and oh, we thought Hector Nerris
Speaker 1: is the guy, and then what happens He's pitching, you know,
Speaker 1: in the seventh, eighth inning or whatever it might be,
Speaker 1: and then you know they go with someone else in
Speaker 1: the ninth. So, look, this is what the Phillies are
Speaker 1: gonna be for now, Yes, it looks like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Hector Narris. He's converted his past two save opportunities
Speaker 1: in a row. And then, you know, I've said this
Speaker 1: regardless of of sport, whether it's football or baseball, if
Speaker 1: you're giving an opportunity and you succeed in that opportunity,
Speaker 1: then you should be given more of the same opportunities.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I feel about Narras for now.
Speaker 1: But would it surprised me, you know, this time next
Speaker 1: week if we're talking about the Phillies with three save
Speaker 1: opportunities this week and it went to three different guys. No,
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me one bit. Yeah, not, no question at all.
Speaker 1: All we can tell you is that Nearis seems to
Speaker 1: be pitching the best out of these guys at the moment,
Speaker 1: and of course a moment can change on a dime.
Speaker 1: How confident matter you and Hector Nerris, I mean, for now,
Speaker 1: I was really hoping he'd blow that shave up chat
Speaker 1: after the Universe the Mets. He threw that fastball right
Speaker 1: down the middle to Broxton and he swung and missed
Speaker 1: to end the game. But you know, he's converted the
Speaker 1: two for two now on these last couple of opportunities.
Speaker 1: And it's frank point that I really don't seem to
Speaker 1: want to give so anythingy a opportunity right now. And
Speaker 1: I had to drop him in any leagues, I still
Speaker 1: owned him. But one thing I would say, keep an
Speaker 1: eye on if Robertson comes back and coming off this
Speaker 1: elbow injury, whatever it was, doesn't seem anything serious. Seems
Speaker 1: like he could be back relatively soon. Maybe now they
Speaker 1: only want to use him for one inning and not
Speaker 1: like a multiple kind of thing, so he may get
Speaker 1: an opportunity upon return, you know, if everything works out
Speaker 1: where he's healthy and get be be given a chance
Speaker 1: to close. Yeah, it's it's a really good point when
Speaker 1: it comes to David Robertson, how quickly he can get
Speaker 1: back and unfil he limited anyway due to this injury.
Speaker 1: They'll just take it a little bit easier on him.
Speaker 1: It's a very very good point of David Robertson was
Speaker 1: dropped anywhere. You know, maybe this is your opportunity to
Speaker 1: take a step. Yeah. I guess in twelve team leagues
Speaker 1: he might have been dropped fifteen teamers. Again, it depends
Speaker 1: how many injuries you have, how many guys you can
Speaker 1: hold onto at even time. But yeah, it's a good
Speaker 1: point regarding David Robertson. And you know, when they signed him,
Speaker 1: I just wonder in their minds, what was the thought
Speaker 1: process like when they originally signed him, did they think
Speaker 1: he was going to be the closer. Did they think
Speaker 1: it was just gonna be you know, fifty him and
Speaker 1: Domingez or it was just just like the thought process
Speaker 1: all along, it was just Scape Capital is gonna all right, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll mix it up. I'll do whoever has
Speaker 1: the best matchups against these guys in the past. In
Speaker 1: the sending, I just wonder, like what the Phillies mindset
Speaker 1: was coming into this, because you know, we know that
Speaker 1: they had interest in Craig Kimberll too, and you know,
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberll was not signing with the Phillies unless he
Speaker 1: was told he was going to be the closer like
Speaker 1: he was, he was not gonna go there and be
Speaker 1: part of some all right, I'm gonna pitch in the
Speaker 1: him any kind of thing. Wherever Craig Kimberll goes, he's
Speaker 1: going to be the closer. I wonder if that is
Speaker 1: part of the reason he didn't end up with the Phillies. Potentially. Potentially,
Speaker 1: So we keep hearing Kimberll mentioned with Atlanta, and yet
Speaker 1: everyday passes in Atlanta has not made a decision and
Speaker 1: sticking with a J Minter for now as they're closer
Speaker 1: despite their relief issues. So that's kind of the deal
Speaker 1: with the Phillies and the Atlanta Braves in it. Miami,
Speaker 1: Sergio Romo seems to be the guy right now, Frank
Speaker 1: and disputing that. No, you're right right now is the
Speaker 1: is the main phrase there because you know, we've seen
Speaker 1: Sergio Romo for a while now, and you know barely
Speaker 1: touches ninety miles per hour and it uses a slider
Speaker 1: a ton and you know it gets killed by left
Speaker 1: handed hitters, but he do. He does have two saves
Speaker 1: on the year. I know everyone's kind of been flocking
Speaker 1: towards Nick Anderson as the guy there because he has
Speaker 1: like crazy strike out to walk crazy to start the year.
Speaker 1: He's striking everyone out, so they're looking at Nick Anderson
Speaker 1: as potentially the next guy up. Is something were to
Speaker 1: happen to Romo, but threw steckand Rider has been terrible.
Speaker 1: Adam Connelly has been used, you know, in in certain matchups.
Speaker 1: Teyron Guerrero was actually the one that I was looking
Speaker 1: at before the season, great because it was a big duty.
Speaker 1: He throws like over a hundred miles per hour, but
Speaker 1: struggles with command. He's kind of like your standard throws
Speaker 1: really hard, gets a lot of strikeouts, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: know where the ball is going half the time. So
Speaker 1: he was the name that I was looking at coming
Speaker 1: into a year as a dark horse. But it does
Speaker 1: seem like it's Sergio Romo's job for now. If he
Speaker 1: performs well, did they end up trading him? There are
Speaker 1: the Marlins, after all, they're not competing for this season.
Speaker 1: And at that point, is Nick Anderson the next man up? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, I would think it's it's probably him if
Speaker 1: something were to happen in real more if they trade him.
Speaker 1: And then you brought up Nick Anderson because man, I
Speaker 1: saw you tweeting quite a bit about Nick Anderson this
Speaker 1: morning and taking your stabs on him. What makes you
Speaker 1: so interested in him? Well? I think number one is
Speaker 1: is the strikeout upside. He's got a you know, like
Speaker 1: I mean the season, his last night opportunities, He's got
Speaker 1: a twenty strikeout, two walks u Uh, he gets multiple strikes,
Speaker 1: he pitches. Uh. He's pitching an ending in all nine
Speaker 1: of his last appearances, and he's pretty much either struck
Speaker 1: out two or three batters and everyone except for one game,
Speaker 1: So you're gonna get a lot of strikeouts. I know
Speaker 1: he's getting up a homewer in the last two, but
Speaker 1: as Frank stated correctly, stacking rounder is just he's just atrocious.
Speaker 1: Romo is a guy that I think he could be
Speaker 1: used in several different spots. He's not a guy that
Speaker 1: needs to get saves to build up his trade. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's uh make him sexy for a trade, which you know,
Speaker 1: teams know who Romo is. They're requiring Romo uh to
Speaker 1: be in a different role, not to be a closer
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So Andersen to me, even if
Speaker 1: he doesn't get the saves right now, it's gonna give
Speaker 1: you the strikeouts. And you know, if I got him
Speaker 1: for nine dollars, if he was named the closer this week,
Speaker 1: he'd go for you know three plus. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Again, Rather be sooner rather than
Speaker 1: later when it comes to picking up some of these relievers.
Speaker 1: Many I wanted to ask you about Robert Stevenson. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have been talking about Stevenson with the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds, and everyone's trying to always find, oh, well,
Speaker 1: the next Josh Hater, the next the next Andrew Miller.
Speaker 1: You know, Robert Stevenson, a former top pitching prospect for
Speaker 1: the Reds. You're supposed to be a starting pitcher, kind
Speaker 1: of similar to Josh Hayter in that regard, does have
Speaker 1: the prospect pedigree and you know, being converted to a
Speaker 1: reliever this year. At least the velo is up across
Speaker 1: the boar. I know, the fastball is up about a
Speaker 1: mile and aout half, the sliders up two miles per hour.
Speaker 1: Is Robert Stevenson a guy that you can see maybe
Speaker 1: not picking up saves? Uh maybe if if Rice Elly
Speaker 1: Glaciers continues to struggle, but a guy that can at
Speaker 1: least give you good ratios and strike out. Is he
Speaker 1: someone that can do that for you this season? I
Speaker 1: think so. I think he's got to be a person
Speaker 1: of interest in that Cincinnati bullpen along with a Mere Garrett.
Speaker 1: You know, those are two guys that you know, they
Speaker 1: said they wanted to use a Glaciers as a super
Speaker 1: reliever this year as well. So that's another way of look.
Speaker 1: Stevenson was always somebody that I feel like we're talking
Speaker 1: to balking about this guy for at least five years,
Speaker 1: and he is not going to be a starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's pretty evident. I think he can't.
Speaker 1: He can't excel, you know, that's what most relieves are
Speaker 1: failed starters, right And given the opportunity, if the velocity,
Speaker 1: you know, can get that uptick which we always see
Speaker 1: in the bullpen for for most cases, and he gets
Speaker 1: the secondary stuff, you know, when he gets a second
Speaker 1: you know, that second pitch that you know can really
Speaker 1: be effective, then he could be a he could be
Speaker 1: able a weapon. Matt. Before we let you go in
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes with you and every single week
Speaker 1: on the Athletic you go over your favorite to start
Speaker 1: pitchers for the weeks, we wanted a chance to do
Speaker 1: that with you. I had a chance yesterday in my
Speaker 1: league to make a decision. I'm sure other people in
Speaker 1: twelve team leaves have this choice between Pablo Lopez and
Speaker 1: Eric Swanson, which direction would you go? Swanson has a
Speaker 1: has has a nice schedule this week, So I do
Speaker 1: get it, Lopez that they believe that top of my head,
Speaker 1: the second start is at Philadelphia, correct. I'm just maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just a little rational because I think this kid
Speaker 1: is close to figuring it out and he's going to
Speaker 1: be a star. I'm really you know, I pushed all
Speaker 1: my future. If he was just stocking it was options,
Speaker 1: I'd be betting on the future. For Pablo Lopez, I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna roll with him. He doesn't walk anybody, which
Speaker 1: is really good, and he should get you some strikeouts
Speaker 1: and even in the game. I watched this patch week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm really impressed. All right, So you's used
Speaker 1: Lopez over Swanson. Oh, which is actually what you told
Speaker 1: me yesterday too, frank Yes, precisely. I like Paublo Lopez
Speaker 1: a lot as well Eric Swanson at San Diego and
Speaker 1: versus Texas. On paper to the matchups are better. But
Speaker 1: for Pablo Lopez does get Cleveland not not as good
Speaker 1: of a match up as it was a week ago
Speaker 1: because he didn't have Francisco. They didn't have Frankie Lindor
Speaker 1: in their lineup, and now they do, so the Indians
Speaker 1: lineup is gonna get better. I don't love Philly, but
Speaker 1: I agree that you're just you're trusting the stuff with
Speaker 1: Pavol Lopez took overall. I just think it's better than
Speaker 1: a guy like Eric Swan. All right, what two a
Speaker 1: couple of other to start pitchers this week? Wait, Miley's
Speaker 1: facing Minnesota and Cleveland, Luke Weaver, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Luke Weaver.
Speaker 1: People are kind of jumping back on board here, Matt, No,
Speaker 1: I think you got to be impressed. The last two
Speaker 1: Star Games seventeen strikeouts to one walk. A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, we were falling. Everybody was falling all over
Speaker 1: themselves with draft him in like the beginning to sticks around.
Speaker 1: Uh so you know, it's not like you didn't have
Speaker 1: any pedigree or any attraction prior. So I'm a launch
Speaker 1: again right the hat hand, He's at Pittsburgh and I
Speaker 1: think home verge the Cubs. I'm in a right so
Speaker 1: in on a guy like Luke Weaver. You're Jerry Hellix
Speaker 1: down here. Huh. That's not somebody you're starting. No, I
Speaker 1: just I just wrote all the name ps. But I
Speaker 1: do like god alright, last one of the day, Matt.
Speaker 1: Are you starting in Boston and in Chicago? Are you
Speaker 1: running with the ball Spencer Turnbull? Baby? Look, I think
Speaker 1: that ten. I like him, but I think that's ten
Speaker 1: strike at performance earlier, maybe everybody jumped their skis a
Speaker 1: little with the expectations. I stated, I really don't want
Speaker 1: to put him in versus Boston. I want that. I
Speaker 1: really do want that White Sox upside. So it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a game call for me. Uh. You know what,
Speaker 1: you only live once thrown in. He's running with a ball,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's why met Modica is allowed on every week.
Speaker 1: So he's a friend of the program because he's a
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Speaker 1: Pictures uh every week. And you also a podcast now, right, Matt, Yes,
Speaker 1: every Sunday morning with Al Milk here nice Al and
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Speaker 1: every Sunday morning. So definitely check that out and read
Speaker 1: all of Matt's coverage over the Athletic. Matt, we appreciate
Speaker 1: it time. We'll talk to you next week. Ye, thanks again,
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