Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley,
Speaker 1: joined today by Mike Mayor. It is the day before
Speaker 1: fourth of July, kind of an unofficial ish midway point
Speaker 1: of the season, and I think if you look at
Speaker 1: the games played, we're technically a little bit pass it
Speaker 1: at this point, Mayor, but we wanted to use this
Speaker 1: holiday and this like pseudo midway point to look ahead
Speaker 1: to the second half. So on today's episode of Rounding
Speaker 1: the Bases, which is part one of the cycle, we're
Speaker 1: kind of taking a different approach. Instead of our usual
Speaker 1: run through of different trending topics than maybe a specific debate,
Speaker 1: we wanted to have some news notes and injuries. We're
Speaker 1: running through some key questions for the second half of
Speaker 1: the show. These kind of burning questions type shows is
Speaker 1: one of our favorite formats to do here at Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 1: We did one for the whole year prior to opening day.
Speaker 1: So now we're going to kind of do one of
Speaker 1: key questions for the second half here. We've got three
Speaker 1: each that we're gonna go back and forth and kind
Speaker 1: of talk through. Here, we are going to jump into
Speaker 1: some quick news updates at the very top. One in particular,
Speaker 1: that just happened this morning that we felt it was
Speaker 1: worth hitting on. But that's what will look like and
Speaker 1: just everybody knows. Instead of our usual three parts on
Speaker 1: the episode this week, because of the holiday and you know,
Speaker 1: editors and everything, we want to be able to kind
Speaker 1: of enjoy this friday off for fourth of July, we're
Speaker 1: just going to do two parts this week instead of three.
Speaker 1: So instead of that part two, we're going to loop
Speaker 1: the waiver pickups into part three. We'll have our pitching
Speaker 1: streamers episode to help everybody get ready for next week.
Speaker 1: Throw some waivers, you know, additions at you in that segment,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to do that part two that
Speaker 1: we usually do. Does that all sound good, mayor.
Speaker 2: That sounds good? It sounds like a lot. While you
Speaker 2: were talking, I thought to myself, I wish we would
Speaker 2: have gone back and looked at the preseason burning questions
Speaker 2: because it would have been fun to kind of look
Speaker 2: back at those right now at the midway point and
Speaker 2: see how all those questions looked. But we didn't think
Speaker 2: about that, and it's.
Speaker 1: Too late now, yeah, definitely too late. Absolutely no chance
Speaker 1: we could just quickly pull up the old outlines and
Speaker 1: see how this did. I'm going to try and pull
Speaker 1: it up just to see. I don't know if I'll
Speaker 1: actually be able to fine or not, but before we
Speaker 1: do that, if we do end up doing that, the
Speaker 1: big news update that we did want to hit on
Speaker 1: Louis Ortiz being investigated for gambling. Now, this news literally
Speaker 1: dropped minutes before we started taping this show, so we
Speaker 1: don't really have any kind of follow up to this
Speaker 1: news story. But obviously this is something that has been
Speaker 1: going on in the NBA, like this is you know,
Speaker 1: there's a history of gambling and baseball. Obviously we talked
Speaker 1: about Pete Rose earlier when he passed away, but this
Speaker 1: is something that has become more prevalent. It feels like
Speaker 1: since gambling has become more legalized, where you kind of
Speaker 1: have these issues of athletes, you know, participating. We don't
Speaker 1: know if this is we're assuming he's being investigated for
Speaker 1: gambling on baseball. Again, this story is brand new, so
Speaker 1: we don't have information yet. And not like you, uh,
Speaker 1: those Lions players, I think it was last year, maybe
Speaker 1: two years ago, we're gambling, not on football, but they
Speaker 1: were gambling in the Alliance facility and then they got suspended.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is that type of situation
Speaker 1: or a baseball situation, but when you saw this news story,
Speaker 1: mayor what was the first thing that came to your mind.
Speaker 2: So the first thing that came to my mind was
Speaker 2: as someone who was a proponent of sports betting, I
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, no, this is another kind of knock
Speaker 2: against sports betting. It's another piece of ammo that you know,
Speaker 2: opponents of sports betting are going to use to say,
Speaker 2: this is why we can have legalized sports betting, this
Speaker 2: is why we can't have it in the country. I
Speaker 2: have a pretty different take on this in that I
Speaker 2: think this kind of thing has been happening for decades
Speaker 2: and I actually think this is a good reason for,
Speaker 2: like a good argument for legalized sports gambling, because I
Speaker 2: think this is how people get caught and there's just
Speaker 2: a ton of regulation around this stuff. Now that these
Speaker 2: sports books have a lot of really advanced like geo
Speaker 2: targeting and like they track not only like performance pretendencies,
Speaker 2: and we saw it with the NBA, like you know,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of weird activity on Terry Rosier's
Speaker 2: props in a game or two, and all that stuff
Speaker 2: gets flagged and that's kind of that's how the Lions
Speaker 2: players got flagged too, Like they were gambling into team facility,
Speaker 2: which is a no gambling area, and they got they
Speaker 2: got caught for it. So I think a lot of
Speaker 2: this stuff has been happening for a really long time,
Speaker 2: and that legalizing sports betting is actually leading to more
Speaker 2: people getting caught, which is you know, an argument for it,
Speaker 2: because it's you know, you're gonna help keep it out
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 1: I assume you would have no problem with like a
Speaker 1: lifetime ban on anybody who was gambling on the sport
Speaker 1: they're playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, especially you know in these days,
Speaker 2: it's it's very clear this is like a no go zone,
Speaker 2: and so if you get caught, I'm you know, you
Speaker 2: got to go. I was in favor of letting Pete
Speaker 2: Rose back in after all that.
Speaker 1: Time though, prior to his to his passing.
Speaker 2: Yeah well yeah, yeah, well, I.
Speaker 1: Just mean I think the timing would have been nice
Speaker 1: if it had happened before he had one hundred comes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about that already, we sure did. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't really disagree with anything you said. I think it
Speaker 1: is like I think anybody who use points to this
Speaker 1: as a reason that gambling is that legalizing gambling is bad,
Speaker 1: is missing the big picture. And I think it's a
Speaker 1: good thing to find stuff like this because I.
Speaker 2: Will also say that he is innocent until proven guilty
Speaker 2: or found guilty. You know, there was an investigation, and
Speaker 2: we saw that there are a lot of triggers that
Speaker 2: can cause an investigation for this or call for an
Speaker 2: investigation like this, and we saw it, you know, just
Speaker 2: referencing the Terry Rozier situation from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: They just Sham's just reported the other day that he's
Speaker 2: at least for now been cleared and that like, you know,
Speaker 2: there were other people involved in that situation, but at
Speaker 2: least in terms of his standing, there's nothing pending right now,
Speaker 2: and so it could just be that, like, he's not
Speaker 2: involved and it's just you know, there was some suspicious
Speaker 2: activity and they want to look into it. So it's
Speaker 2: also possible that's the case, which is again even more
Speaker 2: reason to have these legalized books with all the increased
Speaker 2: regulations that come with them.
Speaker 1: Different scenario, but I mean, just think about the reactions
Speaker 1: when all the first stuff came out with shohe and
Speaker 1: his interpreter and some of the jokes and some of
Speaker 1: the not conclusions that were being jumped to, but some
Speaker 1: of the like possible outcomes that could have played out
Speaker 1: from that. So it's it's important to let the investigation
Speaker 1: play out, and like you said, innocent until proven guilty.
Speaker 1: I did mayor pull up our key questions from before
Speaker 1: the season. Do you do you want me to run
Speaker 1: through them quickly?
Speaker 2: Sure? I wasn't sure if you're gonna be able to
Speaker 2: do it, just because I know on my end, I
Speaker 2: don't have the episodes labeled other than by the.
Speaker 1: Date I see I do label them. So I was
Speaker 1: able to pull that up relatively easily because I am organized.
Speaker 1: Question number one, We'll go through these really quickly. Question
Speaker 1: number one, how does sho Heo Tani follow up his
Speaker 1: historic twenty twenty four season, especially now that he's pitching again.
Speaker 1: He's still really so far he's not really pitching, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not really pitching, but he's still really good.
Speaker 2: He's still really good. Just I think we thought he'd
Speaker 2: be pitching sooner than he's like just starting to start
Speaker 2: pitching right now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of historic twenty to twenty four seasons, Paul Skeens
Speaker 1: has the highest ADP of any pitcher as he enters
Speaker 1: a year two. Will he justify a first round pick
Speaker 1: this season so far?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Kind of not. I don't feel like he's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been good, but I don't feel like he's been
Speaker 1: a first round player. Yeah, in terms of I'm not
Speaker 1: looking to actual VBR right now.
Speaker 2: That's P three. In terms of, you know, if you
Speaker 2: were going to take a picture, he's one of the
Speaker 2: three you would have had to take it school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I think to be a first
Speaker 1: round pick, you need to be like better than that.
Speaker 1: Like just being the third best starting pitcher to me
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're a first round pick in the way
Speaker 1: I approach first rounds at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Question three, Any chance we get more two hundred plus
Speaker 1: innings pitchers this year? Just four of them in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, Logan Gilbert's two hundred and eight and two
Speaker 1: thirds innings were the smallest number to lead the league
Speaker 1: in the years. Do we feel like we're on pace
Speaker 1: for that this year or I mean, obviously we don't
Speaker 1: have any two hundred any pictures yet, but yet.
Speaker 2: We have a couple that could do it. Just looking
Speaker 2: at the the top pitchers with a ton of Dings.
Speaker 2: Schooble has one hundred and nine. Skiings himself has one
Speaker 2: hundred and eleven. I don't know that they're gonna let
Speaker 2: him get to two hundred, though, depending on what September
Speaker 2: looks like. Max Freed is one hundred and fourteen. He's
Speaker 2: a candidate. Garat Crochet is one hundred and fifteen. Maybe
Speaker 2: more unlikely depending on how things go in Boston. Logan
Speaker 2: Web one thirteen. So there's a couple that are within
Speaker 2: shouting distance who are kind of on pace.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four was a bit of a down year
Speaker 1: for top hitting prospects making their debuts. Get in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five rookie class buck that trend.
Speaker 2: No, No, they cannot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an easy one. Here's the fun one. Question
Speaker 1: number five, Will we get one last ride from a
Speaker 1: hopefully healthy Mic Trout? Ooh, that feels like I do no.
Speaker 1: Question six. Stolen bases are up across the league after
Speaker 1: recent rules changes, but even still, Ronald Acunya is the
Speaker 1: only player to hit seventy stolen bases in a season
Speaker 1: in the last fifteen years. With lots of candidates, this year,
Speaker 1: Will any player top that mark?
Speaker 2: Uh? No, it doesn't look like the league leaders has
Speaker 2: a Cabierra with thirty O'Neil cruz as twenty eight, peak
Speaker 2: arm turns twenty six. If they gave Chandler Simpson a
Speaker 2: full year, I can.
Speaker 1: Say if they didn't send Chandler Simpson down, maybe he
Speaker 1: would have had a shot.
Speaker 2: He's got twenty three in like Nalys, a third of
Speaker 2: the time of everyone else.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Akunya, how will the Brave Stars look coming
Speaker 1: off injury? Will Spencer, Stryder and Acunya reca't reclaim their
Speaker 1: perchase atop their respective positions or will it take some
Speaker 1: time to work back from their injuries?
Speaker 2: I think mixed? So far Acunya hit the ground running,
Speaker 2: he home runs his first pitch back. Stryder has been mixed.
Speaker 2: But we you know you can see it still, you
Speaker 2: know you can see the potential there.
Speaker 1: Just how good will Garrett Crochet be in Boston with
Speaker 1: the presumed full workload?
Speaker 2: Really good, very good unless you ask wells.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are any White Sox worth rostering besides the Louise.
Speaker 2: Robert not even Louise Robert.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you want to make the case for uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like Sean Burke or somebody.
Speaker 2: I Chase Mydrath it is like fine, he's not like
Speaker 2: a must roster guy, but he's you know, he's fine.
Speaker 2: Let me see if there's anyone else that in VBR.
Speaker 2: Luise Robert is one thirty three and he is the
Speaker 2: top ranked either, although maybe I don't know. Chase Mydrath
Speaker 2: is one ninety eight, so I would have to be
Speaker 2: let me check pictures. Uh no, I mean Chane Smith flashed.
Speaker 2: There was like a little bit of like a Shane
Speaker 2: Smith era that we had the.
Speaker 1: Picked Shane Smith for me in the two Star pitcher
Speaker 1: competition one week.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I mean he was hot. He was
Speaker 2: hot and then then he was not. That how it goes.
Speaker 1: Last last question here from before the season, pick one
Speaker 1: player in the first round this year who will be
Speaker 1: outside the top twenty five and twenty twenty six, and
Speaker 1: pick one player outside the top twenty five who will
Speaker 1: be a first rounder in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Was one of the James would do we predict?
Speaker 1: James Wood, I was gonna say, I forget who you picked.
Speaker 1: I do remember my two picks for this, and I
Speaker 1: was very correct. About the player outside the top twenty
Speaker 1: five who will be a first round of next year,
Speaker 1: because I did pick James Wood, I was very incorrect
Speaker 1: about the player in the top twenty five who will
Speaker 1: in the first round, who will be outside in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, because I believe I said, I don't want
Speaker 1: to pick any of them, but if you had to
Speaker 1: make me pick, I would pick Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a mess. I feel like I might have
Speaker 2: picked Jared Durant as a potential first round pick, but
Speaker 2: that's not looking he's having a down year. I don't
Speaker 2: know who I would have picked to be out of it.
Speaker 1: I remember us saying like there we feel really good
Speaker 1: about these first rounders and also like feel like they're
Speaker 1: gonna be good next year. So like, I don't think
Speaker 1: either of us was like, oh, this is the clear
Speaker 1: first rounder who we don't like. Like I wasn't saying
Speaker 1: I'm definitely predicting that. For Judge, it was just if
Speaker 1: I had to pick one, I was trying to paint
Speaker 1: a case for it, which obviously didn't pan out, but
Speaker 1: that James would call looks great, and.
Speaker 2: So I can't remember, like, not a non Yankee stadium.
Speaker 1: Would, I think is a really good U test case
Speaker 1: for sometimes, Like I think a lot of the conversation
Speaker 1: not a lot, but some of the conversation around Wood
Speaker 1: during March was well, you're drafting him at his ceiling, right,
Speaker 1: like you're projecting this step forward, but he's already going
Speaker 1: like just inside the top fifty. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: proven that if a player is talented enough and you
Speaker 1: really like them and believe in them, like you don't
Speaker 1: really know what their ceiling is all the time, Like
Speaker 1: he clearly his ceiling is a first round player, not
Speaker 1: just a guy who's inside the top fifty. So not
Speaker 1: not to say like maybe he's the exception not the rule,
Speaker 1: but I was not scared off by the high draft
Speaker 1: capital on James Wood this draft season, and I have really,
Speaker 1: you know, reaped those rewards because of it. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a good lesson that not every young, totally
Speaker 1: unproven player who there's a lot of helium around is
Speaker 1: at their ceiling. There is always a chance for a
Speaker 1: step forward if the players talented enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I just pulled up, But not that
Speaker 2: we have to spend the whole episode looking back, But
Speaker 2: I just pulled up another random episode of was our
Speaker 2: preseason superlatives, and the very first one is pretty funny,
Speaker 2: most likely to succeed Shane McClanahan for you and Brian
Speaker 2: Reynolds for me.
Speaker 1: That definitely was before the injury. I think I think
Speaker 1: one of those superlatives or like maybe it was our
Speaker 1: bold prediction. I one of the ones I remember is
Speaker 1: Chandler Simpson leading the league in song bases, and then
Speaker 1: I know I remember another one was Devin Williams will
Speaker 1: get Cy Young votes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that did not happen.
Speaker 1: Those were supposed to be bold though, right, Like, there's
Speaker 1: there was always a good chance they were't going to
Speaker 1: pan out. All right, let's doeb you into our key
Speaker 1: questions for the second half, because we are already fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes into this episode. We just came up with three each,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, well just go for I'll go first year,
Speaker 1: which surprise fantasy MVP will have the better second half?
Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong or Cal Raleigh. When you read this question,
Speaker 1: I'm curious who you kind of settled on after thinking
Speaker 1: about it, But what was your gut reaction like two
Speaker 1: seconds in if you had to answer when you first
Speaker 1: read it, who was the first name that jumped ahead
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: My honest gut reaction was like, ooh, that's a good question,
Speaker 2: and I don't know who I'm going to pick. And
Speaker 2: then my second gut reaction, I don't know how many
Speaker 2: gut reactions I can have, how many guts I cand half.
Speaker 2: But my second reaction was maybe I lean Pca just
Speaker 2: because of the stolen base floor that he offers. But
Speaker 2: then my third gut my third reaction was like, well,
Speaker 2: cal Raleigh is he has a little bit better of
Speaker 2: a hitter profile, and he also has been stealing some
Speaker 2: bases oddly enough, and so I lean and he also,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, he walks a lot more, and
Speaker 2: so I lean cal Ray. But I think it's it's
Speaker 2: really good. Even if you look at their stats year
Speaker 2: season to date in terms of VBR, like you know,
Speaker 2: the fantasy value so far Aaron Judge one, Choio Tani two,
Speaker 2: Peak a Roamstrong three, cal Rally four. So they're three
Speaker 2: and four already, even with cal Rawley has thirty three
Speaker 2: home runs to peak. Roamstrong's twenty one batting average is
Speaker 2: almost identical cal Raley's on base percent on base percentage
Speaker 2: is a little bit higher. So it could be a
Speaker 2: situation where if we're talking points leagues, it's probably cal Rally,
Speaker 2: but if you're just talking straight Rodo, it's it's a
Speaker 2: coin flip.
Speaker 1: I you might remember that in late April in one
Speaker 1: of my leagues, which is a roto league, these two
Speaker 1: guys were traded for each other, and it's a keeper
Speaker 1: league too, and it was this whole big thing where
Speaker 1: like at the time people thought it was really lopsided
Speaker 1: one way, and then they started to think it was
Speaker 1: lapside of the other way, and now it just looks like,
Speaker 1: really even it is a two catcher league, so cal
Speaker 1: Rale even more valuable. It's also a five outfielder league,
Speaker 1: so PCA.
Speaker 2: I remember talking about that. At the time, it wasn't
Speaker 2: immediately clear. You're like this, this was proposed as a veto,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I don't even I'm not entirely
Speaker 2: sure which side is Vito.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. My gut reaction was that it's really close,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know how to pick. My second gut
Speaker 1: reaction was cal Raley just given the kind of the
Speaker 1: fact that he's a catcher, it's going to be such
Speaker 1: an advantage over other players at that position, especially with
Speaker 1: a lot of the other elite catchers having down years.
Speaker 1: It just feels like that gap is even wider than
Speaker 1: we would have guessed for the top catcher. And I've
Speaker 1: also been kind of expecting a dip from PCA for
Speaker 1: most of the year, not a dip into unplayable. I
Speaker 1: think he's a very good player like this. This is
Speaker 1: a strong enough first half to be a believer, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But I've been expecting regression more
Speaker 1: from him than I have been from cal and so
Speaker 1: I gave this slight lean to Roley, but I think
Speaker 1: it's really really close.
Speaker 2: I could see this situation, like I think we talked
Speaker 2: about this last week week before. It is this kind
Speaker 2: of phenomenon where even though the All Star break is
Speaker 2: not that long of a break, you see players who
Speaker 2: are like running hot, then they take the break and
Speaker 2: then they're completely different player out of the gate. Like
Speaker 2: I could see that, like peak Romstrung getting out of
Speaker 2: the gate slowly just because of his profile. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I also agree, I've kind of been predicting regression for
Speaker 2: a while now. It's you know, he's kind of outliving progression,
Speaker 2: and so I think he's really good. And again, I
Speaker 2: think if it was just like twenty one, you know,
Speaker 2: twenty something home runs and he had like eight or
Speaker 2: nine stolen bases, I would be more concerned the fact
Speaker 2: that he already has twenty what is it, twenty six
Speaker 2: stolen bases? That makes me a little bit more excited,
Speaker 2: you know, with like the floor that he offers there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let us know in the comments who you think
Speaker 1: is going to have a better second half Pee Korarmstrong
Speaker 1: or calra Maybe we can put a poll up on
Speaker 1: YouTube or something and see what the listeners think, because
Speaker 1: I think it'd be pretty close. Would be my guess
Speaker 1: peakro Armstrong or cal Raleigh. So that was my first
Speaker 1: key question. What was your first one?
Speaker 2: My first key question was who's the player most likely
Speaker 2: to be moved at the trade deadline? Who could see
Speaker 2: a bump in value in the second half.
Speaker 1: When you came up with this question, did somebody kind
Speaker 1: of jump to the front of your mind.
Speaker 2: It's the same name, and it's kind of had like
Speaker 2: a really bizarre season, and so I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's necessarily the best answer, but it's the answer that
Speaker 2: kind of everyone had coming into the season at Sandy
Speaker 2: l Contra that everyone was just like, all right, last
Speaker 2: year's contract, coming off a big injury, the Marlins just
Speaker 2: want to get him healthy, get him up and running,
Speaker 2: and then trade him at the deadline. And then he
Speaker 2: looked awful to start the season. It's kind of in rocky,
Speaker 2: but he's shown flashes and he has been a lot
Speaker 2: better of late, and so I do still think he's
Speaker 2: going to be traded. The other obvious one was Louise Robert,
Speaker 2: who has also not been very good. And you know,
Speaker 2: there was even a rumor like earlier in the season
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers were interested in bring in Louise Robert.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what they still are unless you know,
Speaker 2: they get him for pennies on the dollar. So those
Speaker 2: are the two most obvious ones, and then I was
Speaker 2: just kind of trying to think who else could be moved.
Speaker 2: You know, there's obviously some relievers that are going to
Speaker 2: be moved. Jaron Durant hadn't mentioned in trade in trade talks,
Speaker 2: but I don't really think like he's already like valuable,
Speaker 2: even though he's kind of having like a down year.
Speaker 2: I don't think like a trade is kind of have
Speaker 2: a huge impact on Daron Durant, So I don't think
Speaker 2: we would see that. I think it would have to
Speaker 2: be someone going, you know, like a San Diel Contra,
Speaker 2: like on a you know, a bad Marlins team although
Speaker 2: they've been playing better of late, going to like a
Speaker 2: big contender where he's gonna get run support, or someone
Speaker 2: in a bad lineup it's going to a better lineup.
Speaker 1: I think for me, I mean that there weren't a
Speaker 1: ton of obvious like this superstar is likely to be
Speaker 1: on the block types of players. It was a lot
Speaker 1: more of like these are some pretty good players that
Speaker 1: in the right situation, you know, could be more valuable.
Speaker 1: Like I think the Orioles I hope are likely to
Speaker 1: sell and they have good players like Ryan o'hearan is
Speaker 1: an all star. Cedric Mullins. I think he's been kind
Speaker 1: of banked up lately, but when health he had a
Speaker 1: really good start to the year. Maybe they moved Felix
Speaker 1: Felix Bautista and he gets way more save opportunities on
Speaker 1: a better team. But again, those are all like good players.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're like stars who are gonna
Speaker 1: like reshape your Fantasy league or anything like that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't feel like there's a lot of those
Speaker 1: options this year, so it's kind of hard to come
Speaker 1: up with like a really like high impact what I mean,
Speaker 1: sticking with the Orioles, Like R Hearn, I mean, O
Speaker 1: Hearn's really good, but I don't think he's I mean again,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be like oh, in a new lineup.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna all of a sudden take
Speaker 1: another step forward. I think he's gonna be what he is.
Speaker 1: I would have maybe felt differently if they were still
Speaker 1: not playing him against lefties, which they were doing under
Speaker 1: Brandon Hyde, but now that Mantlino is playing him against
Speaker 1: lefties too, more like, I think wherever he goes would
Speaker 1: just be pretty similar. If anything, it might hurt if
Speaker 1: they go back to a team where they do use
Speaker 1: him in a platoon, you know, sticking with the Orioles,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, e Flyn before the last couple
Speaker 1: of starts where he's been really bad, has largely been
Speaker 1: very good in Baltimore, and if he goes to you know,
Speaker 1: a good ballpark and a team that's gonna win more
Speaker 1: games than the Orioles have this year. He's another guy
Speaker 1: that I would have been interested in prior to recently.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I didn't think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: great choices.
Speaker 2: To your point, I just pulled up a list of
Speaker 2: like trade candidates while you're talking, and like the position
Speaker 2: players are exactly what we said, like Josh bell Adolice Garcia,
Speaker 2: Austin Hayes, Danny jans and Brandon Law, Ryan McMahon, Ean Mancatta,
Speaker 2: Ryan mountain Castle, Cedric Mullins, Ryan O'Hearn, Luis Robert juhannioscaraz
Speaker 2: Daln Barso, Taylor Ward. Like there's no like league winner
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Speaker 1: It's not like when Manny Machado went from the Orioles
Speaker 1: to La or you know, these these real studs that
Speaker 1: we've seen in previous years. It doesn't it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get surprised and that'll be fun if we do,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like this time.
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Speaker 2: Zack Allen isn't pitching.
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Speaker 1: This one's for me. Which rookie, either already up or
Speaker 1: still in the minors, is going to become an impact
Speaker 1: fantasy option in the second half now, mayor you might
Speaker 1: remember just last week we did kind of a second
Speaker 1: half look ahead on the rookie class. There were tons
Speaker 1: of names. I think we read out eighteen different rookie
Speaker 1: names and that doesn't even hit on everybody. We just
Speaker 1: had to cap it eventually. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: options here. You could go with some of the bigger
Speaker 1: names who are already up, like a Roman Anthony, Jack Caglione.
Speaker 1: You could go with I know, when we were talking
Speaker 1: about the show beforehand, you threw out the name of
Speaker 1: Andrew Painter as sort of a stash who's not up
Speaker 1: in the big leagues. Get when you read a question
Speaker 1: like this, where does your mind first go? Who is
Speaker 1: a type of player that you think could become an
Speaker 1: impact fantasy option in the second half.
Speaker 2: Well, the timing of this answer isn't good because he
Speaker 2: just got lit up by the Red Sox in his
Speaker 2: last start. But I do think that, like when Chase
Speaker 2: Burns first came up, my initial thought was like, this
Speaker 2: guy could be a league winner, you know, if he
Speaker 2: gets enough innings. He's that good. You saw in a
Speaker 2: lot of leagues, especially like NFBC leagues, where he kind
Speaker 2: of came up at the very beginning of the week.
Speaker 2: He wasn't available in those leagues, and then you had
Speaker 2: to wait the full week, and then you know, you
Speaker 2: saw the Yankee start, and then everyone had to bid
Speaker 2: their fab on it. He was going for thirty or
Speaker 2: forty percent of fab and it's because people see that ceiling. Now.
Speaker 2: Of course, the timing of this doesn't look great because
Speaker 2: he had one like pretty good start against the Yankees
Speaker 2: where he struck out the first five batters that he
Speaker 2: saw and ended up allowing three runs, and then he
Speaker 2: just got boat raced against the against the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: but it does seem like he was probably tipping his chip,
Speaker 2: tipping his pitches in that start. You know it, it's
Speaker 2: MLB teams have a little bit of tape on him.
Speaker 2: There was even a clip on the broadcast where it
Speaker 2: looked like Jaron Durant came around and was talking to players,
Speaker 2: you know, in the dugout and in the on deck circle,
Speaker 2: like something that he may have seen. So if that's
Speaker 2: the case, I assume it's going to get corrected and
Speaker 2: he's going to be that good going forward. For that reason,
Speaker 2: I think he's won a buy low. And two, I
Speaker 2: think he might be the answer to this question, even
Speaker 2: though it's it's odd timing coming off of how he
Speaker 2: just looked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to say him given the most recent
Speaker 1: thing we've seen of him, but I totally get it right.
Speaker 1: He's been so good for his entire professional career that like,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you be willing to look past one really
Speaker 1: really really really really bad start. I was trying to
Speaker 1: look at some of the hitters. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you can make a case for any of these, like
Speaker 1: high level guys. I wonder somebody like Dylan Cruz when
Speaker 1: he gets back from injury, like has had enough time
Speaker 1: to adjust where he starts to look more like the
Speaker 1: elite prospect he was. I mean again, somebody like somebody
Speaker 1: like Nick Kurtz has already had stretches where it looks
Speaker 1: like he's kind of figured it out, so he maybe
Speaker 1: doesn't even really fit the question. I'm like trying. I'm
Speaker 1: like looking through a list. You know, Jacobzerowski, if they
Speaker 1: let him pitch enough, I think he'll be really good
Speaker 1: in the innings he is pitching.
Speaker 2: But Logan Henderson, you can just say the same thing
Speaker 2: for Logan Henderson is the same team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the pitchers are always tricky for that reason. I
Speaker 1: think Matt Shaw as somebody who could get you a
Speaker 1: lot of steels and look better in the second half
Speaker 1: that he did in the first half. So he's somebody
Speaker 1: that I would like to, uh, you know consider for this.
Speaker 2: How about this one. He's a player we mentioned either
Speaker 2: last week or week before. I brought him up because
Speaker 2: he was someone I was very high on coming into
Speaker 2: the season, and he got to a very slow start
Speaker 2: to the point where he looked like he was gonna
Speaker 2: get sent down, but he didn't. The Astros kept him
Speaker 2: up and it's Cam Smith, who is someone quiety batting
Speaker 2: two eighty five now despite in April batting two thirteen,
Speaker 2: and he he has his average up because in May
Speaker 2: he batt at three oh seven and in June he
Speaker 2: had a three oh three and he didn't hit any
Speaker 2: horme runs in May, but he did come back and
Speaker 2: hit four in June, And so he might be someone who,
Speaker 2: especially at a really thin position like third base, He's
Speaker 2: someone that in a couple of leagues I've I've learned
Speaker 2: with dropping him all season and I haven't, and he's
Speaker 2: someone who could just be really solid at a really
Speaker 2: thin position in the second half and make a big difference.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great call, speaking of players who
Speaker 1: looked at they were going to get sent down and
Speaker 1: then did get sent down. When he comes back up,
Speaker 1: I think Christian Campbell is the guy that it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me if he does a lot better kind of
Speaker 1: the second time up up. The other dame I was
Speaker 1: going to throw out, not as a serious pick, but
Speaker 1: that I wish I could pick him is Chase Dolander
Speaker 1: because I went to the Rockies game two nights ago
Speaker 1: Rocky's astros and as we were walking in. I point
Speaker 1: out to my friend. I was like, oh, look, there's
Speaker 1: two kind of elderly people wearing Chase Dolander jerseys in
Speaker 1: front of us. I was like, are those his parents? Like?
Speaker 1: What are the two? You know, kind of older fans
Speaker 1: both having a Chase Dolander jersey of all things. And
Speaker 1: as we got up closer to them, we were right
Speaker 1: behind them in the security line, and the older gentleman
Speaker 1: was wearing a Master's hat. And my friend that I
Speaker 1: was with has gone to the Masters before, so he
Speaker 1: made a comment. He was like, oh, have you been
Speaker 1: to the Masters? And the guy goes no, but my
Speaker 1: grandson went he's actually pitching tonight, and we were like, oh,
Speaker 1: we do it. So Chased Dolader's grandparents, very very nice couple.
Speaker 1: It was a shame for them. Dolander I didn't get
Speaker 1: out of the third ending in that game, so that
Speaker 1: was a tough start for their boy. But nice was
Speaker 1: gonna say.
Speaker 2: I was wondering where that story was going because I
Speaker 2: remember that being a not good start.
Speaker 1: No, it was not a good start. I did see
Speaker 1: Cam Smith get a base hit, though, so that's what
Speaker 1: they think of it. All right, let's go to question
Speaker 1: number four, What do you got here before?
Speaker 2: Which starting pitcher currently flying under the radar will be
Speaker 2: a top twenty five starting pitcher rest of season?
Speaker 1: And your pick?
Speaker 2: So when you were going to pick, so, I had
Speaker 2: a couple of interesting ones. One I've mentioned a few
Speaker 2: times on the show, and you always roll your eyes.
Speaker 2: But what if it's Max Scherzer and I'll throw another one?
Speaker 1: I metaphorically roll my eyes again.
Speaker 2: Another one, Maybe you're more open to Uri Peretz, who
Speaker 2: is working his way back and has the talent to
Speaker 2: be a top twenty five starting pitcher in the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm more open to that one for sure. I
Speaker 1: wonder how you define under the radar. Are you defining
Speaker 1: this as just anybody outside the top twenty five or
Speaker 1: are you saying you want somebody that's pretty low that
Speaker 1: you think could rut because like somebody like Casey Mice,
Speaker 1: for example, I'm looking out our rest of season rankings
Speaker 1: right now to see where these guys are. He's SP
Speaker 1: fifty five. I think he'll be better than that rest
Speaker 1: of season, but he's not really under the radar because
Speaker 1: everybody knows he's had like kind of this breakout like
Speaker 1: first really good year of his career, so I don't
Speaker 1: know that he would like totally qualify.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of those things like how do you
Speaker 2: define a sleeper, Like everyone has their own definition definition
Speaker 2: of what a sleeper is, and I think you have
Speaker 2: to be pretty clearly outside of the top twenty five.
Speaker 2: And then maybe someone who hasn't been talked about, like
Speaker 2: maybe it's Shane McClanahan because he's coming back and like
Speaker 2: we've just forgot it.
Speaker 1: I was just I was literally just about to say,
Speaker 1: what about coming back from injury? How about Shane mclan
Speaker 1: and he just threw a bullpen session on Tuesday. I
Speaker 1: was just about to use him as an example, So
Speaker 1: that's funny. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like kind of scrolling through
Speaker 1: the rest of season rankings right now just to see
Speaker 1: if there's anybody that I'm forgetting, you know, somebody. One
Speaker 1: of the rookies that I did really like earlier was
Speaker 1: Mick Abel, but he's been so bad lately that he
Speaker 1: can't pick him. Charlie Morton I talked about as a
Speaker 1: waiver pickup recently, he's actually been like sneaky, really good
Speaker 1: the last month and a half.
Speaker 2: Shock though it feels like a taking time bomb. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like what happened here, It's like he rediscovered his curveball.
Speaker 1: Right, That's exactly what it is. His curveball was not
Speaker 1: working the first month and a half. He kind of
Speaker 1: had a reset in the bullpen, and it's been working
Speaker 1: since he came back. I mean, he said from the
Speaker 1: beginning that he he felt like he said the stuff,
Speaker 1: he just it just was not clicking totally. Like he
Speaker 1: was like, if I felt like I didn't have the stuff,
Speaker 1: I would retire, because a lot of fans were calling
Speaker 1: for him to do that because he was so bad
Speaker 1: to start, but he was like, no, I have this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's just not clicking now, and now it is. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you look a little higher, like
Speaker 1: somebody like Andrew Abbott we've talked about to see legit
Speaker 1: or not, he's, you know, well outside the top twenty
Speaker 1: five in rankings. Matthew Liberatore is SB fifty eight in
Speaker 1: the rest of the seasons rankings. I think he's very
Speaker 1: good and could get there. So some interesting names there.
Speaker 1: All right, we have one more key question each mine
Speaker 1: kind of sticking on the mound. Are there any non
Speaker 1: closing relievers with a chance to take over ninth inning
Speaker 1: duties in the second half and become new elite closers.
Speaker 1: And there was I mean, there's there's always gonna be
Speaker 1: a few names for this, like whether be you know,
Speaker 1: if somebody gets hurt, or you just kind of earned
Speaker 1: the job because the guy in front of you isn't
Speaker 1: pitching very well, or because there's a trade at the
Speaker 1: deadline and all of a sudden a new role opens up.
Speaker 1: So there's kind of a lot of different ways that
Speaker 1: this can go. When you saw this, I can go
Speaker 1: first of you want, but I wanted to hear what
Speaker 1: you have as your guy that you think could elevate
Speaker 1: into that role.
Speaker 2: So I wrote down a few notes and what was
Speaker 2: kind of hanging me up was the the inclusion of
Speaker 2: the word elite because I wasn't sure, like who can
Speaker 2: be and a new elite closer? I think a likely
Speaker 2: trade candidate is a worldest chapman, but he's already a
Speaker 2: valuable closer and he's already in the closer closer role.
Speaker 2: And then you start looking at teams like that, like
Speaker 2: who has a closer that is most likely to trade
Speaker 2: their closer? And then who's going to step up behind them?
Speaker 2: And is you know, is there a potential elite option there?
Speaker 2: But then again, if that player, if that team is
Speaker 2: trading their closer, they're probably not that good, and so
Speaker 2: is that new clos are going to be elite. So
Speaker 2: you can see how I got. I went down a
Speaker 2: rabbit hole and got hung up on the word elite.
Speaker 2: The I kind of struggle with this one.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a pick, if you want me
Speaker 1: to give it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have some notes, but none of them like
Speaker 2: perfectly answer your questions. So why don't you go first?
Speaker 1: Okay, So my favorite pick here is Randy Rodriguez in
Speaker 1: San Francisco because he has been completely filthy this season.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven to two thirds innings pitch, He's only allowed
Speaker 1: three earned runs. That's an ERA of zero point seven
Speaker 1: to two. His whip is zero point seven to seven.
Speaker 1: He only has eight walks in those thirty seven innings,
Speaker 1: and he has fifty three strikeouts. He has been very,
Speaker 1: very good in his second season here, and it's not
Speaker 1: like there's some elite option already. Like Doval has thirteen
Speaker 1: saves this year. His ERA is over three, right, his
Speaker 1: whip's one point one to three. He has a strikeout
Speaker 1: and inning. He's also been a little worse lately dove
Speaker 1: all in some of the like he just blew a
Speaker 1: save yesterday, so I think there's an opportunity if he
Speaker 1: blows a couple more saves. And I think Randy Rodriguez
Speaker 1: has the kind of stuff that makes for an elite
Speaker 1: fantasy culib if he gets the opportunity. So yeah, Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: twenty five years old, like I said, just absolutely ridiculous
Speaker 1: numbers here early on in the season. So he's my pick.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who. I talked about him really early
Speaker 2: in the season when Emmanuel Class was having his struggles
Speaker 2: because the Guardians have two pretty good setup men and
Speaker 2: it looks like they're going to be sellers. So I
Speaker 2: think if they decide to move either Aboth both of
Speaker 2: these players, which I don't know that they necessarily will
Speaker 2: because they're not very expensive yet, but Hunter Gddis and
Speaker 2: Kate Smith are both really good. And Hunter Gaddis is
Speaker 2: from I think right around where I live, because I
Speaker 2: met someone a couple months ago who was friends with
Speaker 2: Hunter Dadis and so that's why he's always top of
Speaker 2: mind mine for me, now is my neighbor Hunter Gaddis,
Speaker 2: but he's someone that, you know, if they decided to
Speaker 2: flip him to a contender, they could probably get a
Speaker 2: lot of value for. And now that Class A is
Speaker 2: back to being Class A, it's not clear that Gaddis
Speaker 2: or Smith are going to have a clear path to
Speaker 2: being a closer anytime soon. And so it's just a
Speaker 2: matter of do the Guardians want to hold on to
Speaker 2: these affordable arms or do they want to see if
Speaker 2: they can really cash in with prospects. And I think
Speaker 2: if either one of them moved to the Tigers, you know,
Speaker 2: if they moved to that like any if either one
Speaker 2: of them get moved to Detroit, they're instantly the best
Speaker 2: reliever that the Tigers have on a surprisingly good Tigers team,
Speaker 2: and so they could instantly become like one of the
Speaker 2: best closing closer values in fantasy.
Speaker 1: Randy Rodriguez has given up one earned run since April.
Speaker 1: Just look at his game log right now. He's so good.
Speaker 2: Kate Smith has a two three six ERA and a
Speaker 2: one point three to one FIP.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the last key question here. What
Speaker 1: do you got for us to wrap things up?
Speaker 2: The last key question is which player who had a
Speaker 2: disappointing first half is most likely to bounce back in
Speaker 2: the second half.
Speaker 1: I feel like this one there is actually a lot
Speaker 1: of options.
Speaker 2: Do you.
Speaker 1: Did you feel the same like trying to answer this
Speaker 1: question that you actually had a bunch of answers or
Speaker 1: did you struggle with this one?
Speaker 2: I didn't struggle with it. I struggled to decide who
Speaker 2: I want to do include because you know who was
Speaker 2: the first name I thought of. It's Mike trap I'm
Speaker 2: sure one of the first names you thought of was Adlie,
Speaker 2: Adley Richmond, assuming he is coming back healthy.
Speaker 1: Adley was one of the first names I thought of,
Speaker 1: and Gunner Henderson was one of the first names I
Speaker 1: thought of because while he hasn't been atrocious, he has
Speaker 1: not been a first round player, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the underlying stats look still excellent for him. Same with Adli.
Speaker 1: And although Adley's not as good as Gunners, I don't
Speaker 1: want to put them in the same bucket. Gunners really
Speaker 1: does look like he's hitting the ball hard. He's just
Speaker 1: not elevating it to get those home runs. But he
Speaker 1: still is like just hitting the crap out of the ball,
Speaker 1: and his stack cast data looks great Adley's it's more
Speaker 1: like his statcast data looks better than his real performance,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look as mega elite as gunners.
Speaker 2: I think you could also look at this question similar
Speaker 2: to our second question with likely to move to the deadline,
Speaker 2: because it could be a player like a Luis Robert
Speaker 2: who gets traded to a contender and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's just like re energized and has better lineup protection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be pretty interested in really like any stud
Speaker 1: that there's not like there's not a reason to think that, oh,
Speaker 1: because of some injury they're dealing with or something, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be bad the rest of the year, Even like
Speaker 1: a Mookie Bets who had some stuff early in the year,
Speaker 1: like when he was sick and some of the toast
Speaker 1: stuff like nine home runs, six solen bases, batting average
Speaker 1: is two forty six. It's just hard to imagine Mooki
Speaker 1: Bets isn't better than that in the second half, right.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of names on the
Speaker 1: list in that same vein.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately, you're naming a bunch of players who are
Speaker 2: on my team, and when the leagues weren't together, which
Speaker 2: is like why I'm like near the bottom of the standings.
Speaker 2: It's like I was actually looking at my rossa this
Speaker 2: morning because I was talking with Dan about potential trades,
Speaker 2: and I was like, why am I so bad? It
Speaker 2: was it was Gunner Henderson. It was Bryce Harper, who's
Speaker 2: another you know, he's been banged up, but he's another
Speaker 2: potential answer to this. It was Mookie Bets, and then
Speaker 2: my pitching has just imploded. Like you know, even if
Speaker 2: they weren't like top of the line starters, I thought
Speaker 2: I was going to get like solid, reliable innings out
Speaker 2: of these guys. But like Dylan Ceese has not been great,
Speaker 2: Zach Allen has been awful. And so it's like you
Speaker 2: can pick any of those names. I hope, I hope
Speaker 2: they have better second half unless I trade them, then
Speaker 2: you know, curses to them.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to feel too bad for you
Speaker 1: in that league. Considering all my injuries. I think I'm
Speaker 1: sitting on like, well, you.
Speaker 2: Were riding high and now you're all fall all the
Speaker 2: way back to where I am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not through picking bad players just because they
Speaker 1: keep getting hurt. So I have I have a good
Speaker 1: excuse for that.
Speaker 2: Well, also in that league, there's which I think more
Speaker 2: leagues should do. There's a second half penalty for the
Speaker 2: bottom two teams, you know, because it's like a keeper
Speaker 2: with salary ramifications. And so I am in second to last,
Speaker 2: but I've been much better over the last few weeks.
Speaker 2: And so even though it's a keeper league and you
Speaker 2: want to you know, trade assets to get better future assets,
Speaker 2: you also have to think about, hey, I need to
Speaker 2: feeld a competitive team here and stay out of the
Speaker 2: bottom two. And so one of the players that I'm
Speaker 2: getting interested is Chandler Simpson because it's road a league
Speaker 2: and you can, you can like jump four or five
Speaker 2: spots in the stolen based standings just by having Chandler
Speaker 2: Simpson on your team. And so for me, it's like,
Speaker 2: do I want to use Chandler Simpson to stay out
Speaker 2: of the bottom too, or should I see what I
Speaker 2: can get for him on the trademark?
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think you should always see what
Speaker 1: you can get right on the trade market, but you
Speaker 1: don't have to accept the offer. But a guy like
Speaker 1: him in a league like that is really valuable. Any
Speaker 1: other kind of thoughts just about the second half, anything
Speaker 1: you're looking forward to and just kind of excited to
Speaker 1: see you know, maybe we didn't already hit on so
Speaker 1: far already. I mean, we're going to do a more
Speaker 1: of a bullet predictions episode for the second half next week,
Speaker 1: kind of heading into the All Star break. That'll be
Speaker 1: of our fun episode for that, So it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to neces to be a prediction, but it's kind anything
Speaker 1: you're thinking as we had into the second half.
Speaker 2: One thing that I'm really interested to see, just not
Speaker 2: even just from a fantasy perspective, but also as like
Speaker 2: a baseball fan is we talked recently about just like
Speaker 2: how many young players have been called up this season.
Speaker 2: It feels like more than any ever any other year.
Speaker 2: And we've also talked about how many of the hitters
Speaker 2: have struggled, but then you know, all not all, but
Speaker 2: like a lot of the best hitters, you know, they
Speaker 2: kind of hit that wall and then they get on
Speaker 2: the other side of it. How many of those hitters
Speaker 2: are we in to see in the second half take
Speaker 2: that step, like we're going to see a new version
Speaker 2: of Jack Aglee and Christian Campbell Roman Anthony, you know,
Speaker 2: like Nick Kurtz is getting hot camp Smith, you know,
Speaker 2: there are so many young hitters, Like, what if we
Speaker 2: just get like really good second halfs from like even
Speaker 2: half of them, it could be a wild and really
Speaker 2: exciting second half of baseball with a bunch of young stars.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great thing to keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for. We'll go ahead and wrap things up there
Speaker 1: for rounding the bases are kind of key question episode
Speaker 1: here at the midway point of the season for mayor.
Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Warman. Thanks for tuning in to be sure to
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