Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome into the cycle, Part three of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Warmley, joined as I have been all week
Speaker 1: by Kelly Kirby. Kelly, thanks for hopping on in place
Speaker 1: of Mike Mayer. Definitely upping the war on this week's show.
Speaker 1: For these weeks episodes, all three parts of them you
Speaker 1: joined us for, we did some of your lessons learned
Speaker 1: in part one, we went through some buys and sells
Speaker 1: and waiver pickups from you. In part two, now we
Speaker 1: are talking some pitching streamers the way we usually do
Speaker 1: this as Mayor kind of runs through somewhat using our
Speaker 1: FP streamer tool, which you can find Fantasypros dot com,
Speaker 1: picking some of his favorite streamers for each day of
Speaker 1: the week. Fridays are always really tough. We'll see what
Speaker 1: you came up with on Friday for whatever reason. There's
Speaker 1: never good good streamers those days, and and we'll see
Speaker 1: what we think about these streamers. So we've got one
Speaker 1: for every day of the week. Kick us off with
Speaker 1: Monday of next week.
Speaker 2: All right, So there's a theme to you know, doing streamers,
Speaker 2: which is find find the bad teams and hit them up,
Speaker 2: no matter what the pitcher has recently been doing so
Speaker 2: on Monday, going with Max Meyer versus Colorado, So anytime
Speaker 2: I can get to Marlin at home and well, I
Speaker 2: guess it doesn't even matter if it's Colorado's offense, like
Speaker 2: even just give it to me. Meyer has been a
Speaker 2: bit of a wild card lately, Like he is, he
Speaker 2: has not looked sharp.
Speaker 3: That's putting here kindly, Yeah.
Speaker 2: He has not looked sharp whatsoever. But I also, given
Speaker 2: what was out there on Monday, I think he was
Speaker 2: just the best option because it's the worst offense. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to take him Monday. I have him in
Speaker 2: a couple of leagues. I'm giving him like one more
Speaker 2: week basically, like if he if he can't get through
Speaker 2: the Colorado starting, I'm done.
Speaker 1: So in his last six starts, his era on the
Speaker 1: season has gone from two ten to four fifty three.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just been really bad yep as of
Speaker 1: late for him, and I have started him in pretty
Speaker 1: much all of those starts been in my rotation.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, you felt so good right and then and
Speaker 2: now it's just like, okay, well that was that was
Speaker 2: a blip. That was a blip, and then now it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: is that.
Speaker 1: A Blipper, you know for some of the other ones,
Speaker 1: like at least he was still getting you strikeouts, but
Speaker 1: he was also giving up five earned runs. This week
Speaker 1: against the Padres, he had four earned runs allowed in
Speaker 1: just three and a third innings and no strikeouts.
Speaker 3: That was alarming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was very alarming.
Speaker 3: And his second start this month with no strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I said something on leading off where I was
Speaker 2: just like, I'm like, I can deal with a blow
Speaker 2: up start here and there, but I can't abide no strikeouts.
Speaker 1: How many pitchers in baseball in the same like six
Speaker 1: week span have a start with fourteen strikeouts and a
Speaker 1: start with zero.
Speaker 2: If I was faster on stad head, I would look
Speaker 2: that up. But I can't fathom that it is. I
Speaker 2: can't fathom it's many.
Speaker 3: So here's the Max Meyer on Monday. Who you got next?
Speaker 4: Next?
Speaker 2: I've got Jackson job at the White Soxes. So again,
Speaker 2: Detroit Tiger. He's not been overly impressive.
Speaker 4: I was gonna look that up really quick. But he
Speaker 4: also gets.
Speaker 2: You know, the other worst team in baseball, So I
Speaker 2: think that I have no problem kind of running him
Speaker 2: out there and seeing what happens. Yeah, he's got a
Speaker 2: four to twenty two era and a one four nine
Speaker 2: whip on the year, but sometimes facing the white soxes
Speaker 2: the cure than any picture needs. So I'm as far
Speaker 2: as streamers go, I think he's a good option and
Speaker 2: could possibly pick up the win, which is another thing.
Speaker 2: You don't want to chase wins, but you want to
Speaker 2: give yourself a chance.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I agree on Joe. Sorry, I was gonna
Speaker 1: let you just keep running through.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sorry. I don't know how Mayor does it,
Speaker 4: so I can keep going.
Speaker 3: I know you're good.
Speaker 1: I like to interrupt him when I want to, but
Speaker 1: otherwise I just let him cook in this section.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, Okay?
Speaker 2: It was like, I don't you want to talk more
Speaker 2: about job so done? Wednesday, I've got Miles Mikolas versus
Speaker 2: Kansas City. I think Kansas City is a very targetable offense.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what what Mikolas michaelas yeah, is doing,
Speaker 2: but you know, he's kind of just hanging in there
Speaker 2: doing little things. And again like with Kansas City, and
Speaker 2: I think it's it's at home and Saint Louis has
Speaker 2: looked really good, so you're back to the win situation.
Speaker 2: He tends to go deep in games, so I am
Speaker 2: fine rolling him against the Royals on Wednesday. Thursday was
Speaker 2: the mess this week. I didn't like a lot of options.
Speaker 2: So Tony Gonsolin has, you know, come back down to earth.
Speaker 2: He gets the Mets at home. The Mets right now
Speaker 2: are they seem like a little bit of a mess,
Speaker 2: you know, Soto, They're kind of Soto and the door
Speaker 2: like everyone's sort of underperforming. The rest of the lineup
Speaker 2: needs to kick it into gear. So I am not
Speaker 2: a fan of this, but if I had to dream someone,
Speaker 2: I would go Gonsolin against the Mets at home. So
Speaker 2: you do without what you will, but please don't blame
Speaker 2: me if he blows up. Okay, Friday was was a
Speaker 2: little bit easier. Zach Lyttel versus Miami. The only problem
Speaker 2: is it's in Tampa's little, you know, ballpark, so if
Speaker 2: the wind's blown out, I wouldn't do this. But I
Speaker 2: think Miami's again another offense right that You're just kind
Speaker 2: of like, I'll target this, see what happens. And Littel's
Speaker 2: been He's been all right depending on who he's facing,
Speaker 2: so I see him as a pretty strong streamer. Saturday,
Speaker 2: I've got the Cubs are visiting Detroit and Jamison Tyne
Speaker 2: versus the Tigers again not my favorite. Like the part
Speaker 2: of the problem with the streamers is like you're just
Speaker 2: throwing a dart and hoping that the matchup works out
Speaker 2: in your favor. But tywone's been okay, they've late, so
Speaker 2: I'm not as.
Speaker 4: Scared of that. I was just gonna look up.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I thought I wrote it down, but yeah, So,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got a three eight six ERA, but
Speaker 2: he's only got a one o three whip, so he
Speaker 2: is pretty good on the ratios, and the Tigers have
Speaker 2: a great offense. But it's also like that ballpark is
Speaker 2: pretty friendly to pitchers, so I would I would roll
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 1: And then on side, I'll interrupt there and say that
Speaker 1: Ben Brown the last time I streamed a streamed it
Speaker 1: for two starts last week very nearly lost me the week.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little burned by the Cubs pitching streaming options.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, yeah, I would go with the veteran
Speaker 2: on this one versus Yeah, I dropped him. I dropped
Speaker 2: Brown in our league. And then like he started off
Speaker 2: that first start with like he like was on fire,
Speaker 2: struck out like three or four guys in the first
Speaker 2: two innings and then blew up because at that point
Speaker 2: I was just like, right, I just can't make any
Speaker 2: correct decisions. But then I felt better about it later
Speaker 2: and then on Sunday, this one, you know, is the
Speaker 2: battle of ineptitude. But I like Shane Smith for the
Speaker 2: for the White Sox, and he's facing the Royals home,
Speaker 2: so same rules. I wouldn't stream him if it's if
Speaker 2: the wind is blowing out too hard, if they call
Speaker 2: it kegle own, I absolutely would probably hold off. But
Speaker 2: I like Shane Smith as a pitcher in general, so
Speaker 2: that is my streaming week.
Speaker 3: I know you like Shane Smith.
Speaker 1: You picked him for me in my stead for our
Speaker 1: two start picture competition a few weeks ago, Shane Smith
Speaker 1: against Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 3: Who would have thought Mayor would win that week?
Speaker 4: Did he actually make both his starts?
Speaker 3: I think he did.
Speaker 1: I think he combined in our in our scoring format
Speaker 1: in the league that we're in that I use just
Speaker 1: to as a kind of catch. If these points are
Speaker 1: very different, then it's easy to track, as opposed to
Speaker 1: when they're really close and you kind of get into it.
Speaker 1: Who actually won this week? But in that week. In
Speaker 1: his two starts, he combined for fifteen point eight points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Zach Wheeler combined for forty six point five points.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was kind of one of those I didn't want
Speaker 2: to burn a good picture for you, so it was like,
Speaker 2: I'll just throw this one out there and you can.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 1: I think you made a better pick for Mayor this
Speaker 1: week than you did with Shane Smith for me, So
Speaker 1: I am taking that personally.
Speaker 2: I will just say, well, or you could see it
Speaker 2: as I was gonna, I wanted to pick Wheeler, but yeah,
Speaker 2: so that was a little bit of a problem the
Speaker 2: first time. But yeah, I know, I yeah for my competition,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to give may Or anything. But
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan for the Twins, like I've been talking about,
Speaker 2: he's looked fantastic lately. I'm not super confident, so I mean,
Speaker 2: I might still screw Mayor over here, but he gets
Speaker 2: the Athletics in Sacramento and then he gets to host
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, so I feel like that's a the
Speaker 2: you know, it's always a little dangerous when with the
Speaker 2: Athletics in that ballpark, but he's been on a roll
Speaker 2: enough that I feel like he's a good to start pitcher.
Speaker 1: This week, I went for Carlos Rodan, not somebody that
Speaker 1: I have a lot of, but he's been pitching really
Speaker 1: well as of late, and obviously, like you know, the
Speaker 1: strikeout potential with him as always there, you know, pitching
Speaker 1: for a good team, gets some wins. He gets home
Speaker 1: against the Guardians and home against the currently struggling Red Sox.
Speaker 1: We'll see maybe if they call up Anthony that will
Speaker 1: look a little bit different. But he's also somebody that,
Speaker 1: like you know, fair or not, it's just hard for
Speaker 1: me to not think of him as like an injury risk,
Speaker 1: and so I kind of want to use him early.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of options this week. So some
Speaker 1: weeks we've had it's been really tough. The last two
Speaker 1: weeks we've actually both kind of had a lot of options.
Speaker 1: I'm annoyed because I finally went to Grom last week
Speaker 1: and I've been so anti de Gram all year, and
Speaker 1: he had, you know, the first start this week was
Speaker 1: not his best, So we'll see how how that finishes up.
Speaker 1: By the way, so the last completed week I forgot
Speaker 1: to update people on was Mayor had Franbur Valdez. He
Speaker 1: got thirty five point eight points. I had Trink Scooball
Speaker 1: who had his insane thirteen strikeout Maddox, which that alone,
Speaker 1: like I didn't even need to look at the other
Speaker 1: outing like that was a win for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you get thirteen strikeouts and Amatox.
Speaker 4: That's just crazy.
Speaker 1: Best start of the season by any picture, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I just can't short of a no hitter.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine a picture having a better start than that.
Speaker 1: So that would very you know, I had to burn
Speaker 1: Schooble to get it. But if you're going to use him,
Speaker 1: that's the type of start you want to you want
Speaker 1: to get out of him. So Mayor is currently head
Speaker 1: in the standings through seven completed weeks four to three.
Speaker 1: We'll see, Uh, we'll see if I can start to
Speaker 1: catch up here. We kind of did the reverse last year.
Speaker 1: I used a lot of the good pictures early and
Speaker 1: he saved him. This year it's been kind of the
Speaker 1: opposite approach. So well, Uh, I mean I've used some
Speaker 1: good ones, right, Like I've used Tunor Brown already, you know,
Speaker 1: Michael King.
Speaker 3: It's not like I'm using Shane Smith every week.
Speaker 4: But I just wanted to get creative.
Speaker 3: Listen I was.
Speaker 1: I tried to pick Hunter Green the next week, and
Speaker 1: that was a week he was hurt, so I had
Speaker 1: to pivot to Shane Boz. So I went Shane's back
Speaker 1: to back week, and let me tell you, I didn't
Speaker 1: win either.
Speaker 4: That doesn't that doesn't usually work out.
Speaker 1: Well, No, No, let's wrap up with some weekend excitement here.
Speaker 1: I wrote down just a few things. There wasn't like
Speaker 1: a ton of highlights. Obviously Yankees Dodgers is going to
Speaker 1: be the big series, as it always is, but you know,
Speaker 1: with both teams being good, that's obviously a huge one.
Speaker 1: Garret Crochet versus Spenser Strider could be a really fun
Speaker 1: pitching duel. And then I wrote down, like, how does
Speaker 1: Scooball follow up his thirteen strikeout Maddox again, like it
Speaker 1: was the most strikeouts in amatics ever. By the way,
Speaker 1: for those who just happened to not know, I think
Speaker 1: if you're listening to the show you probably know. But
Speaker 1: if you don't, a Maddox is a complete game with
Speaker 1: under one hundred pitches. Yeah, and Scooball did that with
Speaker 1: thirteen strikeouts, which is the most ever in a Maddox
Speaker 1: so extremely impressive. I'm very excited to see how he
Speaker 1: follows that up. I only have him in one league
Speaker 1: this year. I wish I had been more, but he's
Speaker 1: just that dude's so good at pitching.
Speaker 4: Is so good.
Speaker 2: I have him in my keeper league. I think, I
Speaker 2: think I have him. Like it's single digit amount of money,
Speaker 2: so I mean it goes off every year, but like
Speaker 2: I at this point, I can have him probably for
Speaker 2: the next Like I have, we have.
Speaker 1: Like a deep it's not technically dynasty, but it's like
Speaker 1: you have five minor league spots and you keep like
Speaker 1: fourteen a year. So it's like a very very deep
Speaker 1: keeper league with a minor league element. And one guy
Speaker 1: in the league has Scooble for a dollar. It will
Speaker 1: go up eventually, but right now he has Schoble for
Speaker 1: a dollar, and I have Bobby Wit Junior for a dollar,
Speaker 1: and we're always like arguing who has the better, like
Speaker 1: best asset in the league.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic, yeah for me. This weekend, I also am
Speaker 2: interested in the Yankees Dodgers. The Cubs host the Reds.
Speaker 2: They got into it a little bit last week when
Speaker 2: they visited Cincinnati. Ian Hap is a Reds Killer, so
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that right now. I'm an oilers
Speaker 2: fan as well, so I'm a little into the hockey playoffs.
Speaker 2: I do live stream Tuesdays and Fridays for betting on
Speaker 2: that they could wrap it up tonight and get ready
Speaker 2: for the Stanley Cup finals, and then I'm also in
Speaker 2: charge of the WNBA prop bet cheat sheets, so my
Speaker 2: attention is split. But I'm enjoying that season as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's kind of the weekend and I'll probably
Speaker 2: go out on a pontoon ride if we're getting real specific.
Speaker 1: No, No, I love that Mayor likes seeing I usually
Speaker 1: don't up, but Maryor likes to include like, you know,
Speaker 1: real life, like you know, whatever fun stuff is going
Speaker 1: on too, so I encourage that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll go ahead and wrap up there.
Speaker 1: Thank you again for filling in, not only for Mary
Speaker 1: this week, but for me next week. We'll be getting
Speaker 1: a lot of Kelly Kirby next couple of weeks here,
Speaker 1: but for Kelly and for Mayor, I suppose I'm ryding warmly.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for tuning in. If you missed the earlier parts,
Speaker 1: please go check them out. But yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: cycle for this week. We'll see again next time. Thanks
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