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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. I am Frank Standfeld,
Speaker 1: going somewhere in the studio by Greg Sussman. My good buddy.
Speaker 1: We'll get him in here soon enough. That's a special
Speaker 1: sol planned for today. Obviously, gonna recap a lot of
Speaker 1: Wednesday action. What happened yesterday? Tyler Glass now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden is awesome, not walking the world getting a
Speaker 1: ton of strikeouts. J al To, he's legit. He's back.
Speaker 1: He's back just in time to uh completely mash the Yankees.
Speaker 1: So that's great. Get four home runs in a in
Speaker 1: a three game series. So we'll talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about Tove. I was doubting before the season, so we'll
Speaker 1: get more into that injury updates with inside injuries. But
Speaker 1: before all that, welcome in Greg. I was doing just
Speaker 1: on a different mic. That was the thing I had.
Speaker 1: I had a mic that was not on and I
Speaker 1: was doing and I was just like this, this is
Speaker 1: not working properly, and we're here, what's up? Man? Actually?
Speaker 1: How did I sleep? Pretty good? Not the best, not
Speaker 1: the worst. I was very tired, very tired all week,
Speaker 1: and I was sleeping like I was just thinking deep
Speaker 1: sleeps all night, but I would wake up. I woke
Speaker 1: up like three twenty two. I woke up at five
Speaker 1: twenty two, and I was just like I was in
Speaker 1: just such deep sleeps. Man. So you feel good. I
Speaker 1: feel very good. I feel like I've gotten good sleepers
Speaker 1: this week. I'm happy to hear that. Did you drink
Speaker 1: a couple of beers last night? Or just it's random
Speaker 1: good sleep? You know what? I think? It was just
Speaker 1: like the vaka sauce, the vodka sauce, vodka sauce, a
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit extra in there, knock you
Speaker 1: out a little bit. No, no, copacola, copacle No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was great and then you had
Speaker 1: vodka sauce last night. You didn't bring me anything in today,
Speaker 1: there's nothing left, but all right. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: the night though, because I don't know what a vodka sauce.
Speaker 1: Oh many figure it out. Um. Yeah, so I said, well,
Speaker 1: things were good. I watched The Yankee last night. I
Speaker 1: was texting you back and forth that some Frankie Mantas
Speaker 1: stats as well. And it's not the greatest, but not
Speaker 1: the worst. I believe it's called I believe it's called quality.
Speaker 1: Frankie wasn't bad. It wasn't at all getting Frankie Montas
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um it was. And also my man
Speaker 1: Nick market Vicious we will get into as well. If
Speaker 1: only he could face the giants every start, Gregor, Oh
Speaker 1: maybe he does knows You never know, Marcious, why not. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: it was a fun night. I watched a lot of baseball,
Speaker 1: watched the Little Holiday Baking Championship as well, a little
Speaker 1: or a lot. The only one said, only one episode,
Speaker 1: just a little and that was it. It was just
Speaker 1: a little sprinkle. Oh you know what I also watched
Speaker 1: last night before baseball started, watched brock Meyer. You watched
Speaker 1: brock Meyer. Uh oh oh it's so good, so good.
Speaker 1: What is brock Mark Myers Hank Gazara as a drunk
Speaker 1: uh baseball announcer who's an alcoholic who's just out of
Speaker 1: his mind as a baseball announcer and working his way
Speaker 1: back up after a mental breakdown. It's hysterical. I think
Speaker 1: of it kind of like eastbounding Down, but instead of
Speaker 1: a watched up picture, he's sort of a watched up broadcaster. Yep,
Speaker 1: sounds interesting. I feel like I've seen it's on i
Speaker 1: f C. I feel like I've seen commercials regarding the
Speaker 1: probably so for last season, like he was all over.
Speaker 1: He was everywhere doing interviews. Every radio show in the
Speaker 1: world had him, Like, I'm sure Sean who I think
Speaker 1: we're go out for lunch. I'm sure Sean had him,
Speaker 1: booked him on shows that he was producing. Good. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's great, it's great, hysterical. So do you watch it
Speaker 1: on DVR? Do they have it on? Uh? So? I
Speaker 1: watched it when I caught up through the first two seasons.
Speaker 1: I think he was just on demand. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, just watched it normally. The new season started
Speaker 1: last week, so I watched last week's episode last night
Speaker 1: and I'll probably watch last night's episode tonight. Very funny.
Speaker 1: It's a half hour, it's really a twenty it's really
Speaker 1: like twenty. It's like only twenty minutes long. It's really quick.
Speaker 1: And somebody who doesn't like baseball enjoy the show or
Speaker 1: not really. I think, so you're the one. You don't
Speaker 1: like baseball, Okay, because if I proposed it to we
Speaker 1: watched it together. She likes. I think she likes baseball
Speaker 1: enough to like baseball. It's probably actually her favorite sport. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think it's it's hysterical, okay, showing it up
Speaker 1: until the half hour. Yeah, it's easy to watch, really easy.
Speaker 1: And I tried doing his action. I'm Jim rock Barr,
Speaker 1: but I can't do it. It's a it's Southern draw,
Speaker 1: but it's Jim Rockmar. I'm not even attendive because I've
Speaker 1: never seen it, so I have no idea. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound bad than what I'm hearing. Thank you, Jim
Speaker 1: rock Mar. All right, So yeah, that's going on. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to talk to Virginia. A lot of injuries to
Speaker 1: get to. No major injuries last night, right beside J Ruse,
Speaker 1: I guess J Bruce with Travis Shaga hit in the
Speaker 1: handle as well, So see what happens with that. Michael
Speaker 1: Stockis slid over to third base when that hurt, and
Speaker 1: then they put air on Perez Man at second. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and Jay Bruce with the achilles. You know, if if
Speaker 1: Big Dan wasn't a must add before went for nine
Speaker 1: dollars last night out of a hundred home league sell
Speaker 1: it on Twitter to Michael Florio on Twitter, nine out
Speaker 1: of do you think that's fair? Is that a good amount?
Speaker 1: I would guess Jay Bruce probably lands on the I
Speaker 1: L I don't know. He says he's a Veld pinch
Speaker 1: hit man. You think, okay, because you know they've been
Speaker 1: trying to we spoke about this the past couple of days.
Speaker 1: They've been trying to find ways to get all three
Speaker 1: of those guys in the lineup, Jay Bruce, Dan vogel
Speaker 1: Box and Edwin and Carnacion. And I'll tell you this
Speaker 1: right now, Dan Vogebok is not playing the outfield, So
Speaker 1: that means, uh, Jay Bruce has been playing the outfield
Speaker 1: a little bit, and that's probably why his achilles is sore,
Speaker 1: because it's not us still running around in the outfield
Speaker 1: as much anymore. He's normally D eight that's right, you know,
Speaker 1: playing first pace for the Mariners. So these types of
Speaker 1: things might happen once they start putting him in the field.
Speaker 1: The this is crazy is baseball related? Body Kebox out
Speaker 1: of his mind? Pay Dare really the King's head coach.
Speaker 1: Just like that, that just happened. It's firing him meeting
Speaker 1: He's consolidating his power because you know, all this getting
Speaker 1: new power. Interesting. I was a little bit. I was
Speaker 1: kind of critical of of Dave Yeager early on in season.
Speaker 1: He wasn't really playing a lot of the King's young
Speaker 1: players in the years passed like they signed Zach Randolf.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was not something that he
Speaker 1: wanted to do, but just because they signed him doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to play. But they didn't do that
Speaker 1: this year. Last year was very frustrating because they were
Speaker 1: playing all these old guys like Darren Fox was barely playing.
Speaker 1: They signed George Hilly. It was just very weird. That
Speaker 1: was critical of Dave Yager last year. I thought he
Speaker 1: did a better job this season. It seems weird springing
Speaker 1: up right, what you want your young players to grow
Speaker 1: with the coach again, that's our NBA action for now.
Speaker 1: You just fin now. More later on on the NBA's
Speaker 1: Twitch channel, the NBA Fantasy Hour, where we will preview
Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs, play a little fantasy feud. Um, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about whatever else is going on fantasy wise, right,
Speaker 1: probably like season and review whatever. Yeah, the little fantasy
Speaker 1: feud probably been been a season of review. Spoiler alert. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know the category. I don't know what to study.
Speaker 1: I haven't done the categories yet, so you know, but
Speaker 1: it'll be a playoff preview and season review more. That's
Speaker 1: it'll be the whole show. So that'll be the Twitch
Speaker 1: show NBA Twitch channel, starting at five pm night. It
Speaker 1: looks in baseball. Let's do it. We're talking base ball.
Speaker 1: This is Greg's favorite talking baseball. And before we talk, basically,
Speaker 1: we want to remind you each and every Friday, for
Speaker 1: just two bucks, you we're just beating the fantasy best
Speaker 1: friends forever. Please join contact because I finished in first
Speaker 1: last week and we didn't have enough people for it
Speaker 1: to run. For Monny, I think it might the cutoff
Speaker 1: might be sixteen, because I've seen a few times sixteen,
Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen people and it's actually run for money.
Speaker 1: We had fifteen last week. I finished in first place
Speaker 1: by far in first place, and I didn't win any money. Greg,
Speaker 1: he's not enough people signed the way that it works. Again,
Speaker 1: I'll remind you what are your friends tab on fandel.
Speaker 1: If you joined this last week, you're already in the contest.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is set your line up
Speaker 1: kind of a weird way that these made up leagues
Speaker 1: on FANDUL work. But unless I can figure out some
Speaker 1: way differently to run this, Greg, this is how it's
Speaker 1: going to be. If you want to invite, please tweet
Speaker 1: at me at road on the score. Frank, let me
Speaker 1: know what your fandel user name is. I will send
Speaker 1: you an invite. Please. We want this to run for
Speaker 1: money tomorrow. Be fun. Not that it wasn't fun anyway,
Speaker 1: dominating you guys as always, but it would have been
Speaker 1: more funny. You didn't get money. It didn't happen, Frank,
Speaker 1: it did happen. I can. I can pull the scores
Speaker 1: and let you know exactly what it had seem like
Speaker 1: everyone in my line. I hit a home run. Definitely
Speaker 1: go finish in the last place tomorrow. I was terrible.
Speaker 1: It runs for money. No, I knew it wasn't for money,
Speaker 1: So I just need to make a great lineup, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and that's exactly why I made a great lineup.
Speaker 1: Greg was like, oh, yeah, there's nothing on the line
Speaker 1: pretty much. That's why the guys you tout wars, right,
Speaker 1: What why they do tout wars? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: There's no money on the line, So they just you know,
Speaker 1: make good lineups for fun. There you go, joke fantasy, BFF, Spanduel.
Speaker 1: If you're not you already just left Franker, I know,
Speaker 1: and Frank will get you in. It's probably just left
Speaker 1: Frank now. Yeah, because Greg's not really a man of
Speaker 1: the people, and very much a man of the people.
Speaker 1: I love the people and they love me. Were gonna
Speaker 1: start with baseball stuff, Greg, Um, what do I want
Speaker 1: to start? What was the big thing that I was
Speaker 1: paying attention to do last night? Um? We talked about
Speaker 1: j Bruce a little bit like it just let stuck
Speaker 1: with the Mariners, Jab Bruse, heart as Achilles and Domingo
Speaker 1: Santana who had the day off. He wound up coming
Speaker 1: in the game, but for Seattle yesterday. Ultimately, there will
Speaker 1: start stopping them. All they do is win, no matter what.
Speaker 1: Six to they take down the Royals as your boy,
Speaker 1: aff Andy swore Zack gets a win, Frank, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: pitched in the eighth ending yesterday because the game was tied,
Speaker 1: So of course they use their best reliever when they
Speaker 1: needed most. You subscribe to that theory, now, No, they
Speaker 1: used him in the eighth ending because the game was
Speaker 1: tied at the time, so it was quite I don't
Speaker 1: have the answer, not Scott surveys, but they take the
Speaker 1: lead in the ninth end. He ends up getting the
Speaker 1: win and the Rouennius Alias comes in for the save
Speaker 1: in the ninth Personally, I'm not really worried about this.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a matchup thing because there was a ton
Speaker 1: of right he's do up and rhonas Alias kind of
Speaker 1: got himself in trouble too, like the one thing you
Speaker 1: should never do if you're a picture, greg is walk
Speaker 1: Billie Hamilton's and rhonas Elias walked Billie Hamilton's. I really
Speaker 1: just don't think that he's that great of a picture,
Speaker 1: and not saying that Swarzak is the best of all time,
Speaker 1: but I think he's the best reliever in this bullpen,
Speaker 1: and I still do subscribe to the theory that he
Speaker 1: is the closer for his team. Fair enough. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: two nights in a row, picks, but winning to save
Speaker 1: if you have them in your lineup. This week, you're
Speaker 1: feeling pretty damn good about Anthony swarzak Um For this
Speaker 1: Mariner's team. Everybody in the lineup had a hit except
Speaker 1: one person, Big Dan, Big, Dan Vogel back everybody else
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, he still had an RBI, you know,
Speaker 1: Batting fifth in this lineup right now, it's I never
Speaker 1: thought I would say this this year. It's a very
Speaker 1: desirable spot to be being the fifth hitter in the
Speaker 1: Mariner's lineup because you have essentially two leadoff hitters. Once
Speaker 1: the lineup turns over, you have de Gordon and and
Speaker 1: Alex Smith nine and one, and then you have Haneger
Speaker 1: and then even if it's not Jay, it's Mingo Santana
Speaker 1: and then Edwin and Carnascione. Adding fifth in Mariners lineup
Speaker 1: is a very desirable spot to be in right now.
Speaker 1: So Dan vogel Box especially, you know, given the information
Speaker 1: or lack that of that we have regarding j Bruce.
Speaker 1: Right now, Dan vogel Box is a must add in fantasy,
Speaker 1: and Tim Beckham right behind him has been great. He
Speaker 1: returned to the line up yesterday he was dealing with
Speaker 1: an injury. Steals a base as well, his first of
Speaker 1: the season. No, Man, I wish you should. I wish
Speaker 1: for you. You stayed on Alex Man. You had that
Speaker 1: one right. I was crushing you, you know what. To
Speaker 1: be perfectly honest, Greg, I got off players because during
Speaker 1: the spring, during spring training, who were hurt, the guys
Speaker 1: that were dealing with injury. I just was off because
Speaker 1: I don't want to do to the injury optimism thing.
Speaker 1: That's one of the reason why I have zero shares
Speaker 1: of Tommy Fan was dealing with the shoulder. I emailed
Speaker 1: Virginia inside injury was there right before the season started.
Speaker 1: We had a little chain. She goes, he's already dealing
Speaker 1: with the shouldery. This is Tommy Fan that they were
Speaker 1: worried He's probably gonna be some time. And look, it
Speaker 1: could still happen at some point this season. I hope
Speaker 1: it doesn't for everyone who drafted Tommy Fan. But I
Speaker 1: was awesome because he was dealing with the shoulder injury
Speaker 1: during the spring. This Mariner's offense is awesome. Lence has
Speaker 1: been great as a catcher as well. Ryan Healy has
Speaker 1: filled in admirably for Kyle Segar. I wonder what they
Speaker 1: do with him? Right once Kyle seekers back, what do
Speaker 1: they do with Ryan Healey? He's he's out. These things,
Speaker 1: these things tend to figure themselves out, work themselves out.
Speaker 1: I tweeted something last night on the other side of
Speaker 1: this game regarding the Kansas Royals. Was this the fastest
Speaker 1: outfield in MLB history that was on the field last night?
Speaker 1: Teren score, Billy Hamilton's and Wit maryfield. That is a
Speaker 1: fast outfield. That is ridiculous. You know what, I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring up Gore because he's a really interesting player.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been technically in the league off and
Speaker 1: on for seven years, greg and still has his rookie
Speaker 1: status for seven years because he's never had enough played
Speaker 1: appearances in a season steals bass. So I got that
Speaker 1: update today from from Seth Klein. Actually, because I tweeted
Speaker 1: about this last night. Is just the fastest outfield in
Speaker 1: MLB history. And I a few people responding to me
Speaker 1: regarding Terrence Gore and if he even if he plays
Speaker 1: a couple of times a week. As fast as he
Speaker 1: is in a only in fifteen team leagues, you might
Speaker 1: have to own Terrence Gore. He might steal twenty posts
Speaker 1: basses this year just being a pitch runner. He's that fast,
Speaker 1: and now he's actually getting an opportunity to play. Why
Speaker 1: do we never actually had a chance to play? So
Speaker 1: why did he play? Last night? Who didn't play? Ryano
Speaker 1: Hern didn't play? Yeah, they had Horace Solaire at DH.
Speaker 1: There's we're missing somebody. Somebody's clearly missing here, right, I
Speaker 1: was scoring? Did he played? I was scoring? Didn't play?
Speaker 1: That's that's correct. Well, that's a pretty big deal scoring
Speaker 1: is gonna play? He is? But you know, they could
Speaker 1: get creative the same way that we talked about the
Speaker 1: Mariner situation. I don't think they care about Terren's Gore
Speaker 1: that much they have the last seven years. Why did
Speaker 1: they care enough to get him in the line up yesterday?
Speaker 1: And you know what in the lineup today? Batting nine,
Speaker 1: Terrence playing center field, Terrence trying to get him in there. Greg.
Speaker 1: They're trying to find ways to get text from you
Speaker 1: on Sunday with Terrence Gore on the list, potentially I'm
Speaker 1: not Look, this is not a twelve team and it's
Speaker 1: definitely not a points league. Add because I want guys
Speaker 1: that are gonna play every single day. What head to
Speaker 1: head categories? You want a stolen base specialist? Rodo you
Speaker 1: need stolen bases? Even again, even if he plays two
Speaker 1: or three times a week and they used him as
Speaker 1: a pinch runner, Harry Score might steal twenty and thirty basses.
Speaker 1: Greg gor stole two bases yesterday at Albert Demondsey stole
Speaker 1: two bases yesterday. I got caught stealing on a third.
Speaker 1: Mary Fields still a base yesterday. Right, This is what
Speaker 1: this team needs to do to generate offense. They don't
Speaker 1: have big boppers. As much as Florio wants Ryano, hearn
Speaker 1: to be a big bopper. Rank Swinne who played yesterday,
Speaker 1: Frank Schwind now, So they don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: big boppers. I know. So Layer hit a home run,
Speaker 1: but like Alex Gordon batting third, he's more of a
Speaker 1: contact hitter. You know why they want him to bat third,
Speaker 1: Greg because they have nine one two. So they get
Speaker 1: on second and they want him to hit a single
Speaker 1: and they score run. They're gonna let everybody run crazy
Speaker 1: this year. That's how the Royals generate. Often. I have
Speaker 1: a little bit of intrigue in Terrence Gore basis is
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network. What do you think, Frank of the
Speaker 1: Giants extending Sterling Shepherd yesterday, very similar contract of Golden Teeth.
Speaker 1: It's interesting they now have two slot wide receivers and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, maybe Sterling Shepherd has been unfairly
Speaker 1: just didn't hold as a slot receiver because I think
Speaker 1: he can do a little bit more. I think he
Speaker 1: can play on the outside. They give him the opportunity,
Speaker 1: He's probably better the slot receiver. But I don't really
Speaker 1: have a problem with it. He's young and he's proven
Speaker 1: himself at times. Obviously, a lot of it comes down
Speaker 1: to quarterback play for the New York Giants. We know
Speaker 1: Eli Manny hasn't been great the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: But if they get someone in there who can throw
Speaker 1: the ball effectively, I think its to be a bargain
Speaker 1: for them. What do you think, Yeah, I think what
Speaker 1: they're doing is very very clear. They want surehanded guys
Speaker 1: around the line that are good rockers. They're gonna try
Speaker 1: to just build the offensive line, be a running football team.
Speaker 1: Have sure like I said, surehanded receivers that's the monster
Speaker 1: for that has no downfield friends, and I don't think
Speaker 1: they want to know. Yeah, They're just gonna throw a
Speaker 1: bunch of passes close to the line of you can
Speaker 1: who have high yak who can make after the catch
Speaker 1: where elif just get it out quickly and go same
Speaker 1: with Barkley. They know Eli is not gonna have time.
Speaker 1: They know Eli can't be Eli. They all he has
Speaker 1: to do is kind of to get three steps drop.
Speaker 1: Nobody always doing this though, that should have always been
Speaker 1: a plan because the offensive line was never good and
Speaker 1: you had one of the best YAK receivers in the league,
Speaker 1: had one of the best receivers overall in Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just throw him a screen pass and
Speaker 1: lamb do whatever he wants? How many times have we
Speaker 1: seen in a quick slant to the house from O
Speaker 1: B J not enough? Why didn't he exactly? Why why
Speaker 1: didn't they do that? More so, I think I think
Speaker 1: it's okay. I know a lot of Giants fans are
Speaker 1: actually uh excited about spilling Shepherd. Like my buddy Pip,
Speaker 1: he loves throwing Shepherd. You do, you love Stirling Shepherd.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's fine personally, it's fine. Whatever, And then
Speaker 1: we'll guarantee mighty be for the next two years. Like
Speaker 1: I think everyone's kind of gonna be under contract for
Speaker 1: the next two years and then hopefully get them. We
Speaker 1: won't have a job after that. It's kind of where
Speaker 1: my heads at realistically. How how much football stuff have
Speaker 1: you been into reading anything just Twitter root a world
Speaker 1: every day football, but like a much much more dialing
Speaker 1: into baseball. Like obviously, um, you know what the draft
Speaker 1: is coming soon, so yeah, we'll work in a little
Speaker 1: bit of football stuff slowly, right like maybe the second hour,
Speaker 1: we'll do some stuff obviously after the draft, maybe we
Speaker 1: get like Jim Day on the line here talk some
Speaker 1: football and then like June July, like we'll slowly working
Speaker 1: into the show the second hour. But we're not good.
Speaker 1: We're not just gonna abandon baseball. Obviously. Now we have
Speaker 1: two hours, so we could do a little bit of each.
Speaker 1: We can do some baseball, we can do some football.
Speaker 1: It'll be fun, absolutely all right, let's probably start a
Speaker 1: best ball draft like right after the NFL draft, just
Speaker 1: kind of it's it's kind of what you do. It's
Speaker 1: kind of what I did it last year. With that,
Speaker 1: Let's bring in Virginia Zaki is of Inside Injuries to
Speaker 1: break down all of the injuries going on around MLB,
Speaker 1: Will getting back into last night's baseball adventure and coming
Speaker 1: up in a moment, what's going on Virginia? You guys
Speaker 1: has a gun to afternoon, good afternoon, it's going it's
Speaker 1: going pretty well for us, not necessarily our fantasy teams,
Speaker 1: but good for us. We're sleeping well. Let me start
Speaker 1: off with the New York Yankees, and in particular Louis Savarino.
Speaker 1: It's where we were bringing it down yesterday. He has
Speaker 1: this lat issue that the team has said, hey on
Speaker 1: related to the rotator cuff. Fank and I are on
Speaker 1: different sides of not that argument, but the argument of
Speaker 1: the Latin general. For me raularly, I'm optimistic und injuries,
Speaker 1: but for this one, I am because I'm thinking, Hey,
Speaker 1: at least there's no surgery. He rests for six weeks.
Speaker 1: Everything heals, from the lat to the rodentator cuff, he
Speaker 1: gets better. Frank saying, this guy is screwed. So what
Speaker 1: say you about Louis Severn Now? Yeah, Unfortunately, I think
Speaker 1: I'm on Frank's side on this point. This is a
Speaker 1: pretty serious lap string um. There's and I do actually
Speaker 1: think that it's related to the rotator cuff injury. There's
Speaker 1: some compensatory forces related to the rotator cuff that that
Speaker 1: definitely could have led to this um. Different injury, um,
Speaker 1: different location, but not too far apart. Unfortunately, we are
Speaker 1: obviously showing that he has a very high injury risk. Um,
Speaker 1: they're shutting him down for the next six weeks. After that, hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, his rotator cuff is fully recovered, his lad
Speaker 1: is feeling better, and he can slowly start to throw again.
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of time to take off. So
Speaker 1: even once he hits that six week mark, and if
Speaker 1: he's feeling great, he couldn't eat up to another month
Speaker 1: or so to restart his throwing program and to get
Speaker 1: back into the rotation. But again, this is a very
Speaker 1: serious injury, and I would not be surprised if we
Speaker 1: don't see him until two months of the season, and
Speaker 1: if he does return before then, if he's still just
Speaker 1: bothered by one of these injuries, or just you know,
Speaker 1: his velocity is down, or he has some control issues.
Speaker 1: But this is pretty serious. But I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: Like you're telling me he could be healthy starting after
Speaker 1: the All Star break in mid July and July augu
Speaker 1: September October, I'll go with that. You're in denial. To stop,
Speaker 1: You're a Yankee fan in denial. I'm sorry, I'm a
Speaker 1: realistic Yankee FANOM I'm much more uh negative, I guess
Speaker 1: realistic is what I would call it. But regarding Luis Severino,
Speaker 1: I'm not dropping him in fantasy, but honestly, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if we see him until the second half.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise. That wouldn't surprise me one bit. Virginia.
Speaker 1: Another player who's been injury prone, not that Severino has,
Speaker 1: but just transitioning here, David Dahl has is dealing with
Speaker 1: a core injury. We didn't exactly know what this was.
Speaker 1: He left the game on Sunday. We thought maybe it
Speaker 1: was oblique, but then it comes out that it's his
Speaker 1: abdomen and I know that he's dealt with oblique injuries
Speaker 1: in the past. So what do you guys have on
Speaker 1: David Doll? He says he expects to be back when
Speaker 1: he's first eligible. Is that what you guys are seeing
Speaker 1: regarding David Doll. Yeah, So we have this classified as
Speaker 1: a Grade one injury, which is a pretty mild strain
Speaker 1: um two weeks optimal recovery time. So I actually do
Speaker 1: think he could come back by late April. I think
Speaker 1: that's realistic. The real problem here is his overall injury
Speaker 1: risk is high at six four percent. That is an
Speaker 1: incredibly high number for a guy that doesn't have an
Speaker 1: injury that's going to keep them out for, you know,
Speaker 1: multiple months. And that's because, like you said, he's had
Speaker 1: a lot of other injuries. UM. Last year it was
Speaker 1: a foot fracture. The year before that, UM, it was
Speaker 1: back spasms and a stress reaction near his rib cage. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't think this injury is directly related to that
Speaker 1: rib injury, UM, even in the sort of a similar area.
Speaker 1: But his body has just been through a lot in
Speaker 1: the last few years. So while this injury alone maybe
Speaker 1: isn't that concerning and won't be an issue a few
Speaker 1: weeks from now, his overall injury risk is definitely something
Speaker 1: to watch going forward. Okay, so this injury not that
Speaker 1: big of a deal for David Donal, but it's everything
Speaker 1: else you have to worry about pretty much the same
Speaker 1: that you were worrying about going into the season in
Speaker 1: regards to injury risk with David Doal. But what he's
Speaker 1: doing with right now doesn't seem to be a huge deal.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll be back by this time next week. Mike
Speaker 1: Clevinger're out of nowhere, Virginia. This week it seemed like
Speaker 1: he was gonna be okay, maybe this one start, no
Speaker 1: big deal, And now he's not touching a ball for
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks. What is this going on, Mike Clevinger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is one of those very kind of odd,
Speaker 1: unique injuries. It's not something you hear about often. Um,
Speaker 1: they're calling it a terrace major muscle strain and his
Speaker 1: right upper back. This is really more of a shoulder injury. Um,
Speaker 1: this muscle runs under the shoulder joint. Um, kind of
Speaker 1: on the outside of the rotator cuff. Um, won't pick
Speaker 1: up a baseball, like you said, for six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: We're calling this a Grade three injury, which does indicate
Speaker 1: that we think there's a minor terror involved. Um. He's
Speaker 1: not expected to need surgery right now. But UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: this this is this is another one of those adults.
Speaker 1: See him coming back for the All Star break. Um,
Speaker 1: once he is clear to pick up a baseball again,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a very slow process
Speaker 1: bringing him back, just because this is so serious. So
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to see him for quite
Speaker 1: a long time. Right. Nobody said this job was easy.
Speaker 1: That's why we have Virginia here today to deliver a
Speaker 1: lot of grim news, which is what we're getting so
Speaker 1: far regarding Lis Severino and my Clevinger. But I do
Speaker 1: think it's realistic as well for both of those guys
Speaker 1: dealing with whatever you can shoulder lad Um, it's rough.
Speaker 1: It's rough again. I would try to hold on to both,
Speaker 1: but I understand a lot of these injuries are piling up.
Speaker 1: Virginia another player who just the other day we hear,
Speaker 1: all right, he's gonna sit out a game, He'll be fine,
Speaker 1: he'll return on Friday. Now we get an update saying
Speaker 1: maybe he won't be ready for Friday. Kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me a little bit of the of the Clevinger injury.
Speaker 1: You know, Clevinger is gonna be the next start, He'll
Speaker 1: be fine, Boom comes out, he's severely injured. Well, I
Speaker 1: hope that isn't the case. For one Mike Trout, he
Speaker 1: was dealing with this groin injury, and again now they're
Speaker 1: saying might not be ready for tomorrow's game. What do
Speaker 1: you guys have on Mike Trout. I know the past
Speaker 1: couple of years he's actually missed some time. Not that
Speaker 1: he's injury prone, but he has missed time. In the
Speaker 1: past couple of years. What do you guys have on
Speaker 1: my trap? Yeah, Sweeten is an elevated injury risk entering
Speaker 1: the season. UM, so a little bit of concern, but
Speaker 1: obviously not too much. Um. He's now a high injury
Speaker 1: risk at thirty. But the good news is we're calling
Speaker 1: this a soft tissue injury, which is as mild as
Speaker 1: it can be. UM. That sort of indicates that it's
Speaker 1: more of maybe some tightness or soreness versus an actual strain.
Speaker 1: So cautiously optimistic that he should be okay within the
Speaker 1: next week. UM. The concern here though, is if he
Speaker 1: does play while he's still dealing with hopefully what is
Speaker 1: just some tightness, he isn't a much higher risk of
Speaker 1: suffering a more serious strain that would sideline him for weeks.
Speaker 1: So it's important right now, take a few extra days off,
Speaker 1: get back to hopefully he's good to go by early
Speaker 1: next week, but not a surprise that he may not
Speaker 1: play Friday or even over the weekend. But as long
Speaker 1: as they handle this right, it should not be a
Speaker 1: long term issue. Right. If you play in the NFBC,
Speaker 1: you can actually update your hitting lineup on Wednesdays. I
Speaker 1: would actually take Trout out of my lineup. I would
Speaker 1: hope that they just rest him until he's completely healthy.
Speaker 1: I worry about what the groin does. It affect his
Speaker 1: ability to steal basis for the long term, right because
Speaker 1: he's had at least twenty two steals each to the
Speaker 1: past three seasons. You know you need those twenty plus
Speaker 1: stolen bases from Trout. He's been awesome to start the year.
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of worried about this. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit worried about this. To be honest, I'm not super
Speaker 1: worried about it. I'm not super either, but a little
Speaker 1: for sure, a little like it's in the back of
Speaker 1: my mind. It's got the back of mine because we
Speaker 1: haven't seen him playing since Tuesday when he loved this game.
Speaker 1: I understand why you be concerned. We talked a lot
Speaker 1: about injury prone players. Were talking to Virginia zakas here
Speaker 1: doujan Ryo injury prone player, kind of injured every single year.
Speaker 1: Last year, he heard his growing, this year, he heard
Speaker 1: his growing. How significant is this injury? So they're saying
Speaker 1: this was more of a precautionary move um, But I'm
Speaker 1: definitely concerned about this this sounds very similar to the
Speaker 1: injury that forced him to miss three months last season,
Speaker 1: also a left groin strain. Um, they're saying this one
Speaker 1: isn't nearly as serious, But as I sort of said
Speaker 1: with Mike Trout, groin injuries can very quickly become more severe.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take much, so it's really important to make
Speaker 1: sure you take enough time off so you really get
Speaker 1: back to Once you're feeling great and back to normal,
Speaker 1: take a few more days. Don't take any risks with
Speaker 1: this one. Um, he's also one of these guys. He's
Speaker 1: had eight stints on the d L in his career,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a lot, so you know this is
Speaker 1: a tough situation. Again, his injury risk is very high.
Speaker 1: He's at six and his HPF is at poor att
Speaker 1: So that tells me if he tried to pitch anytime
Speaker 1: in the next two weeks or so before he hits
Speaker 1: his optimal recovery time, he's really going to struggle. And
Speaker 1: there's a very very high likelihood that he either reinjures
Speaker 1: his groin, makes it worse, or suffers a new related injury.
Speaker 1: Just because his body isn't ready to go right, doesn't
Speaker 1: that almost worry you, you know, hearing that diagnosis for
Speaker 1: for engine rioting and the fact that he is three
Speaker 1: months last year with a growing strain. And obviously every
Speaker 1: strain is different, every player is different, but the fact
Speaker 1: that it's a groin for Trout to like, doesn't hearing
Speaker 1: something like that were you even more? Regarding Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: it does meet like why you missed three months later?
Speaker 1: And I understand groin strains, can you know the severity
Speaker 1: of them could be different, but this is I mean
Speaker 1: that can linger from Mike Trout? I don't know. It
Speaker 1: just worries me for both of these guys, and he
Speaker 1: injured Ry You look, we know that when he's on
Speaker 1: the field, he's gonna be awesome. But this is this
Speaker 1: always happens regarding the Dodgers. Dodger right buddy likes to
Speaker 1: call it. Virginia. Want to ask you about another Rockies player.
Speaker 1: People were excited about Ryan McMahon this year because he
Speaker 1: was gonna get the bulk of the playing time at
Speaker 1: second base. Now he has a left elbow strain. What's
Speaker 1: the latest you have on Ryan McMahon. How much time
Speaker 1: is he expected to miss? Because honestly, if he's gonna
Speaker 1: miss a lot of time. He might be a droppable
Speaker 1: player for us. Yeah, I actually don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: miss too much time, which China one to two weeks
Speaker 1: off tomorrowcovery time. UM. He hyper extended his elbow and
Speaker 1: a collision. UM. It doesn't sound like any real damage
Speaker 1: in his elbow, a mild strain, but nothing more serious
Speaker 1: than that. His injury risk surprisingly is still low. UM.
Speaker 1: I think this is it's because it's to his non
Speaker 1: throwing arm. UM. His HPF. It's still below average because
Speaker 1: he hasn't hit his optimal recovery time yet. But I
Speaker 1: think that's going to pretty quickly improve to above average. UM.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty optimistic that he's not gonna miss much
Speaker 1: more than I'll say another week or two. Here, some
Speaker 1: good news, so good. We needed it, we needed it,
Speaker 1: we need so don't drop Ryan McMahon yet, especially in
Speaker 1: those deeper leagues. It could be a short stinging here
Speaker 1: from Ryan McMahon. Hopefully. So we're talking to Virginia Zaga
Speaker 1: is inside injuries, cold minutes left with her now yet
Speaker 1: no one really cares about John Lester outside of me,
Speaker 1: But well, I hope so I get to ask John
Speaker 1: Lester has actually been pretty good thus far this season
Speaker 1: and then he irrationally hurt his hamstring running the bases.
Speaker 1: You want to hear my rants on that. Go back
Speaker 1: two days ago, you hear my rants on that. So, Virginia,
Speaker 1: how serious is John Lester's hamstring injury? First showing this
Speaker 1: is a Grade one strain, which is mild strain. Uh um,
Speaker 1: two weeks off form recovery time, So we're showing a
Speaker 1: healthy to return around April. If that's the case, he
Speaker 1: may just miss one to two starts. Not too bad. Um.
Speaker 1: He also said he did not feel a pop, it
Speaker 1: was more than just kind of like tightness and cramping. Um.
Speaker 1: I obviously think this is more than just a little
Speaker 1: bit of tightness in his hamstring, because that can also
Speaker 1: be This often be the sign of a mild strain.
Speaker 1: But I don't think this is anything too serious. Um.
Speaker 1: Right now, his injury risk is high at but he's
Speaker 1: right at the cut off of elevated and elevated and
Speaker 1: high is the cut off. So his HPF is also
Speaker 1: below average right now, but again not too bad. Could
Speaker 1: be much worse, So I think those numbers are going
Speaker 1: to improve pretty quickly once he gets into late April,
Speaker 1: and I'm hopeful that this is not going to turn
Speaker 1: into a long term issue. Some more good news therefore,
Speaker 1: take it, Garty, John Lester, I'm gonna move over to
Speaker 1: Justin Smoke of the Toronto Blue Jays, who has been
Speaker 1: out of the lineup the past couple of days dealing
Speaker 1: with a neck injury. Unfortunately, Greg, you know, I have
Speaker 1: a home league where I have staying on the aisle.
Speaker 1: I have Daniel Murphy, I have David Donald. I'm dealing
Speaker 1: with a ton of injuries. I actually had to drop
Speaker 1: Justin Smoke, and I didn't want to, but I just
Speaker 1: need guys that are gonna play right now, and he
Speaker 1: wasn't so. Virginia, what's the latest that you guys have
Speaker 1: on Justin Smoke regarding this neck injury? Now, Unfortunately, we
Speaker 1: don't know too much about what's really going on with
Speaker 1: his neck. You've called it, you know, soreness, maybe tightness,
Speaker 1: but they haven't indicated there's anything more serious going on.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're showing it as a Grade one injury,
Speaker 1: UM healthy to return date around ap The issue here
Speaker 1: is if he keeps trying to play through it and
Speaker 1: then get sidelined again, it's going to keep delaying that
Speaker 1: healthy to return date because it's almost like he a
Speaker 1: really aggravation. He kind of resets the clock. UM, a
Speaker 1: little setback, but his injury risk right now is elevated
Speaker 1: at nineteen, so not too bad. UM. Really in this case,
Speaker 1: I think they just need to give him more time
Speaker 1: off and wait until they're sure that he really is
Speaker 1: feeling better. UM. Trying to play through it when he's
Speaker 1: not quite a percent, especially at this point in the
Speaker 1: season and dealing with a neck injury, which just not smart.
Speaker 1: But hopefully if they give him a week or so off, really,
Speaker 1: I think they should place him on the I l
Speaker 1: give him ten days get healthy, get you know, get
Speaker 1: be ready to go, um, and then I think he
Speaker 1: should be fine the rest of the season. It's really
Speaker 1: positive sleep, positively, get back all right, So it look
Speaker 1: for your deeper leaguers. Don't drop justin smoke yet. We
Speaker 1: were talking a lot Fank yesterday in regards to the
Speaker 1: San Diego outfield and how that situation is gonna work
Speaker 1: itself out with many Margo and Hunter, renfro Uh and
Speaker 1: one of the players included Frenchie Cordero who's now on
Speaker 1: the tabled list. How long should we expect him to
Speaker 1: be out for? Yeah, so he's dealing with a right
Speaker 1: elbow strain. UM. I'm a little concerned here because he
Speaker 1: missed a lot of last season after surgery to remove
Speaker 1: a bone chip from that same elbow. UM, there's a
Speaker 1: chance this this could be somewhat related. UM. Likely not
Speaker 1: a bone ship, but worry for tending or ligament change
Speaker 1: or a cartilage injury. UM, sort of related to that surgery.
Speaker 1: So hopefully it is just a mild strain. If it
Speaker 1: is two weeks after tomorrowcovering time. UM, if there is
Speaker 1: any sort of tending our ligament get damage or it's
Speaker 1: like cartilage tear or something, this could turn into a
Speaker 1: lengthy absence. UM. He also started to experience pain a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, so this is something that's been going
Speaker 1: on for a little while. I'm definitely smart to shut
Speaker 1: him down right now for a week or two. Hopefully
Speaker 1: that solves all of his problems. But if two weeks
Speaker 1: or so from now he's still dealing with pain, I
Speaker 1: think that's a sign that there's something more serious going on. Right.
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Speaker 1: You're doing a great job, Bundy. Um. I wanted to
Speaker 1: get into as I mentioned this Pirates game that the
Speaker 1: place last night between Jordan Lyles and you, Darvish Darvish
Speaker 1: five and a third, five hits, five runs, four of
Speaker 1: them were earned. Didn't walk anybody struck out four. You know, no, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't know what to make of Darvish. What do
Speaker 1: you think now? It's hard to say that this is
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction, right the fact that
Speaker 1: he gave up five runs and five and a third
Speaker 1: and he's pitched four of them were earned. And look,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it is a step in
Speaker 1: the right direction because he didn't walk anybody, Greg, The
Speaker 1: swinging strikes were up, he sowed a little bit better
Speaker 1: command of his pitch. He had thirteen swinging strikes on
Speaker 1: seventy seven pitches, So from that regard, he was actually good.
Speaker 1: And and the vl o is is still down from
Speaker 1: two years ago. Like that's what you have to see
Speaker 1: him slowly work up. Remember, Darvish missed most of last season,
Speaker 1: and he didn't pitch a ton in the spring either,
Speaker 1: so this is kind of his extended spring training right now.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be in your lineup. I'm not dropping you, Darvish.
Speaker 1: He might even be a potential by low moving forward.
Speaker 1: But I see this as a step in the right direction, Greg,
Speaker 1: because he's getting a few more swings and misses, he's
Speaker 1: not walking anybody. I tweeted this out last night drink.
Speaker 1: This was his first start without a walk since September
Speaker 1: of two thousand and seventeen. That was two years ago, Greg,
Speaker 1: So all in all, he gives up a home run
Speaker 1: to Savelli. He gives up a home run to Starling Marte. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was an error on the defense behind him as well.
Speaker 1: The Cubs defense has not been good this year, so
Speaker 1: obviously that didn't help him. But I thought that it
Speaker 1: was stem in the right direction. Greg, what do you think?
Speaker 1: I think so too, Um. I think that I think
Speaker 1: that you Darvish not walking, anybody's showing a better command
Speaker 1: for his pitches made me feel encouraged. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good word for it. I think we need to
Speaker 1: see some consistency. Probably his best start thus far. So
Speaker 1: I'm taking this as encouraged. That's the word I'm using
Speaker 1: when it comes to which is crazy to say because
Speaker 1: runs and five and a third is not still not good.
Speaker 1: It's not what you want, but it certainly not quality.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people got him as their you know,
Speaker 1: SP three maybe SP four coming out of the draft,
Speaker 1: so you need you need a little bit more out
Speaker 1: of him. At some point we know what the talent
Speaker 1: could be. It's just can you get back to that level?
Speaker 1: Obviously you have to see an uptick in velocity, and
Speaker 1: he's not throwing as many pitches as he once did.
Speaker 1: And I think that's actually a smart thing by by
Speaker 1: Darvish here in the Cubs, because you don't want him
Speaker 1: expanding his repertoire yet. You want him to work on,
Speaker 1: you know, his bread and butter, what his best pitches are,
Speaker 1: and get back to doing those and then maybe he
Speaker 1: expands it once those things start to come. But that's
Speaker 1: the fact that he didn't walk anyone. I think it
Speaker 1: is encouraging. It's the word, man, That's that's the word
Speaker 1: of the day. Okay. On the other side, a little
Speaker 1: bit more encouraging. Jordan Lyles six things, three hits, one run,
Speaker 1: one walk, ten strike as Jordan Lyles four top prospect
Speaker 1: of the Astros. Pitch not terribly for San Diego, who
Speaker 1: then gave him away save some money at the deadline
Speaker 1: last year. Last night gets a good Cubs team, very good,
Speaker 1: pitched really well. Frank. It definitely has my attention. This
Speaker 1: is another one of those, you know, scoutless similar to
Speaker 1: Trent Thornton. Maybe you know, rank him a little bit
Speaker 1: higher than Trent Thornton, but he has my attention. Look,
Speaker 1: double digit strikeouts last night and gets the Cubs very encouraging.
Speaker 1: Great performance here as well, and he pitched well with
Speaker 1: the Padres. You know, he wasn't liked that by any
Speaker 1: means last year, but he had a four point to
Speaker 1: nine e array with the Padres last year. Comes over
Speaker 1: to the Brewers. Pitches in eleven games, only sixteen innings,
Speaker 1: so he was used as the reliever. He had a
Speaker 1: three point three one e r A. So I think
Speaker 1: he might have some kind of appeal in deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: Greg fifteen team mixed obviously, and only just because he
Speaker 1: has a role in the rotation right now. But you know,
Speaker 1: through two starts, obviously the Cubs was a a very
Speaker 1: tough matchup. And then in his first start, he goes
Speaker 1: up against the Reds, who you know, they got off
Speaker 1: to a slow start. They've kind of been their offense
Speaker 1: has been bouncing back a little bit now, but five
Speaker 1: shoutout innings against the Reds in his first start. He's
Speaker 1: allowed only one or run through eleven innings. Okay, you
Speaker 1: have my attention, but he's not a he's not a
Speaker 1: month ad for me yet in twelve team leagues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and I understand why, right, Like, he's not a
Speaker 1: guy that's had long term success or anything anything along
Speaker 1: those lines. But when he pitched like that against a
Speaker 1: good team, I'm gonna treat. I'm gonna treat. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: kind of watch what he does and maybe follow up
Speaker 1: here at some point kind of where I'm m with them.
Speaker 1: You texted us last night that maybe this is the
Speaker 1: beginning of Starling Marte getting hot. As Marte stole his
Speaker 1: third base of the year and also hit his first
Speaker 1: whole run of the year, we need more of that, Frank. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Normally you draft Starling Marte, you want him to contribute
Speaker 1: in batting average, whether it's you know, two eighties to
Speaker 1: nineties somewhere around there. But to start the season, like
Speaker 1: a lot of players, he's he's been cold, um and
Speaker 1: you know, hanging in a cold climate. Yesterday in in Chicago,
Speaker 1: still had a ball of go out, hit a home run,
Speaker 1: he had two hits, he had two ribbies. But he's
Speaker 1: only batting two to this point. So obviously people are
Speaker 1: expecting more from Stolen Morte. At least the speed has
Speaker 1: been there. That's what I'll say, right, Yes, three stolen
Speaker 1: bases already, so that's fine. Hits his first home run
Speaker 1: last year. But again, you know, we want to see
Speaker 1: that batting average creep up around to ninety and based
Speaker 1: on where he's been in his career, as long as
Speaker 1: he's healthy, which you know he's dealt with injury concerns
Speaker 1: in the past, I would expect him to get that
Speaker 1: up around that two eighty rain. I think so too.
Speaker 1: I think so too, Starling more. Hopefully, as long as
Speaker 1: he remains healthy, I will get back to where you
Speaker 1: need him to be on the covey side of Thanks
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant still his first base of the year last night.
Speaker 1: And Jason Heyward, you and mikea we are going back
Speaker 1: and forth. So I getting Jason Heyward here, here's three
Speaker 1: or four last night, batting three semi one on this
Speaker 1: season out of the seven hole. You have Florial back
Speaker 1: and forth would saying how intrigued you guys are about
Speaker 1: Jason Hayward. How come? Yeah? So he's actually doing a
Speaker 1: lot of really nice things to start the year here.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you know, he worked with
Speaker 1: a hitting coach in the off season to consciously try
Speaker 1: and lift his launch angle. He's seeing the ball better
Speaker 1: because he's clearly squaring it up. He's hitting the ball harder.
Speaker 1: This year he's raised his launch angle, and we've seen
Speaker 1: that kind of effect help players in the past. Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy comes to mind, Max Monsey did it last year
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, Justin Turner even before then with the
Speaker 1: Dodgers as well. So on the season, Jason Heyward again
Speaker 1: small sam size. He has thirty two batted balls two
Speaker 1: mile pur average eggit velocity. Each of the past four
Speaker 1: seasons before this he hasn't been higher than eighty nine.
Speaker 1: He's hitting the ball harder to start the year. His
Speaker 1: launch angle, you would almost argue that it's too high.
Speaker 1: Right now it's eighteen point nine, so clearly trying to
Speaker 1: put the ball in the air more. Hits another home
Speaker 1: run last night. His launch angle the past four years
Speaker 1: never higher than ten point nine, So now he's up
Speaker 1: to eighteen point nine. So he's lifting the ball, he's
Speaker 1: trying to hit more fly balls. He's hitting the ball harder,
Speaker 1: and these are the things that we constantly look at
Speaker 1: for guys. You know, if you're hitting the ball harder
Speaker 1: and hitting it in the air. It's gonna turn into
Speaker 1: more home runs. And he's already hitting more home runs.
Speaker 1: I saw an awesome stat last night regarding Jason Hayward
Speaker 1: which said, here we go, it's it's from Gordon Wittenmeyer.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who the gentleman is, but that's his
Speaker 1: fourth home run already, his highest total for a single
Speaker 1: month as a Cub with twenty days left in April.
Speaker 1: So maybe he was kind of tired of everyone bashing him, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you get this big contract, you haven't been able to
Speaker 1: do anything for the Cubs, and offensively to start the year.
Speaker 1: He's made adjustments and it looks pretty good. So I'm
Speaker 1: kind of buying in. I'm buying in on you're buying in.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Like how to what extent? If
Speaker 1: I play in a twelve team league where I need
Speaker 1: four or more outfielders, I think he should be owned.
Speaker 1: Somebody's in all fifteen team leagues, you think he should
Speaker 1: be owned. And I have actually owned him for the
Speaker 1: past two weeks in the main event, so I've been
Speaker 1: reaping all the rewards and I just kind of fell
Speaker 1: into it. It was, you know, I got kind of
Speaker 1: lucky here with this one. Last week I lost someone
Speaker 1: injury and I just needed a fifth outfielder and he
Speaker 1: was available, so I picked him up. And I've been
Speaker 1: reading reaping all these rewards and again I just kind
Speaker 1: of fell into this one and got lucky. But in
Speaker 1: fifteen team leagues, I think he should be owned because
Speaker 1: you need those those five outfielders. But you know, in
Speaker 1: your standard home league twelve teams, three outfielders, probably not
Speaker 1: adding him yet. I know you in your home league, right,
Speaker 1: you have to utility spots. That's a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: I'd probably own him there, and you know, daily transactions
Speaker 1: you get him in the lineup whenever he's in there. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, anything with four out fielders or less, for sure,
Speaker 1: I think he's a must OLM player. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: Four outfielders or less for for sure, he is a
Speaker 1: must own player, Grey Frank Staffeld. That obviously is Jason Heyward.
Speaker 1: We're speaking about anything else was Pirates Cubs game note perfect.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's move on to the Cardinals and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers from last night because we don't see you, Greggy.
Speaker 1: You made me pu put Jack Flaherty in my line up.
Speaker 1: Home league and he was a Flawerty was fantastic. Of
Speaker 1: six innings, three hits were on eight strike as Jack
Speaker 1: Farry is too good to bench, that's it too good,
Speaker 1: and he had a rough first start. But the Brewers
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee so obviously a really tough spot. And the
Speaker 1: Dodgers lineup has actually come back down to earth the
Speaker 1: past couple of games. Um, they obviously aren't doing what
Speaker 1: they've done early on the season. But regarding Flaherty, man,
Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm encouraged by the fact that his velocity
Speaker 1: is up this year. Greg so last year with the
Speaker 1: Cardinals obviously, you know a hundred and fifty one endings
Speaker 1: pitches first, you know, semi full season in the major leagues,
Speaker 1: the fastball velocity is on average point seven miles per hour,
Speaker 1: and early on in the season, these first couple of
Speaker 1: starts usually they're a little bit lower. They're working their
Speaker 1: way back up. How about Jack Flaherty through his first
Speaker 1: couple of starts here nine three point six mile per
Speaker 1: hour average fastball velocity, which is up a tick from
Speaker 1: last season, which tells me as the season goes on
Speaker 1: it might even go even higher. So he was really
Speaker 1: good last night. Against a really really strong lineup in
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. You saw the strikeouts. He had eleven swinging
Speaker 1: strikes one pitches. Great start, Great start from Jack Flaherty.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really really like what I see here,
Speaker 1: and I think the fact that his velocity is all
Speaker 1: already up, it might even go up more as the
Speaker 1: season goes on. Lots of love there when it comes
Speaker 1: to a Jack Flaherty, who have a lot of good side,
Speaker 1: has a lot of good signs about him. Ketcha Mayana
Speaker 1: five and a third, seven hits, five runs, only walked one,
Speaker 1: he struck out five. How the best outing for Kendam
Speaker 1: my Eta, now this wasn't a lot of it came
Speaker 1: in the sixth inning where he just kind of fell apart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he And this is what happens, you know, when you're
Speaker 1: trying to stretch out my eighta a little bit too far.
Speaker 1: And you know, he still only threw eighty two pitches
Speaker 1: but had fourteen swinging strikes. Nine on his slider, I
Speaker 1: actually throws, you know, four or five different pitches, very
Speaker 1: diverse arsenal, and entering the start he was good. So
Speaker 1: I've kind of talked this one up to you know,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals offense. It's a tough lineup. Um, he kind
Speaker 1: of just ran into one here. But he was good
Speaker 1: in his first two starts, so I'm not really ried
Speaker 1: about my a to Greg. You know, I'm not panicking.
Speaker 1: I'm not dropping him. Um. I still do think that
Speaker 1: he should be owned in the league's like twelve teams
Speaker 1: are deeper anything like. Don't don't panic regarding my especially
Speaker 1: given like he has a rotation spot, like especially given
Speaker 1: the injury to Rye and in these limits and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I feel very good at it owning kids. My anna
Speaker 1: is still. I'm not not nervous or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Jock Peterson finally homeward again, breaking his Schny his fourth
Speaker 1: home run of the year. Act Monthly. Also, he did
Speaker 1: his fourth home run of the season for the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers. For the Cubbies, Paul Deyond, we have a
Speaker 1: four B three thirty three now. Marcello's you know, also
Speaker 1: goes three for four and it was his third home
Speaker 1: run of the season, while also stealing his second base
Speaker 1: of the season. Frank guy that we were both out on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were again because he was dealing with injury during
Speaker 1: spring training. So you know, I don't have any shares
Speaker 1: of of Marcelo Zuna, but I do have a few
Speaker 1: shares of Paul Deyong, and you know, he's been awesome
Speaker 1: to this point and again batting third for the car Knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we've spoke about this a lot, ideal
Speaker 1: places that you want to be in MLB in terms
Speaker 1: of a lineup, and we spoke about Luke Voit earlier
Speaker 1: on in the season, we spoke about Dan Vogelbach earlier today,
Speaker 1: Paul the Young. I mean, it's just a great spot
Speaker 1: to be Matt Carpenter leading off, Paul Goldschmidt hitting ahead
Speaker 1: of him. Um, so it's just a really good spot
Speaker 1: from to be in. And he's capitalizing, which tells me
Speaker 1: that they're gonna leave him there as long as he's performing,
Speaker 1: they're gonna leave him third. So really really good spot
Speaker 1: for Paul Deon to be in. I was pretty high
Speaker 1: on him in the preseason coming in. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people were making comparisons to hit Uh to
Speaker 1: Glabor and Paul de Young. Well, Deon could give you
Speaker 1: what Glabor is giving you and get it, you know,
Speaker 1: hundred picks later. So at this point it seemed like
Speaker 1: a lot of people who were saying that regarding the
Speaker 1: young are right. And then Marcelo Zuna, regardless of being
Speaker 1: a terrible fielder and looking like he might hurt himself
Speaker 1: tonight before diving off of the fence another three hits
Speaker 1: home run. I'm again, it's a good spot like Izuna
Speaker 1: to stolen basis typically not a guy who's not when
Speaker 1: you drafted them, not when you're evening for you think
Speaker 1: this is part of uh an organizational philosophy thing great
Speaker 1: where they're trying to be a little bit more aggressive
Speaker 1: on the base pass Because I know Jim Sannis of
Speaker 1: number five we do the Fandel hurry up videos with him,
Speaker 1: said that all the young stole a few basses during
Speaker 1: the spring and it has it had his attention because
Speaker 1: you don't steal basis in spring unless you willingly want
Speaker 1: to do it and practice it and get ready for
Speaker 1: the season doing it. So I know de Young already
Speaker 1: has a stolen base in the year, now Zuna has too.
Speaker 1: These are not guys that's typically steal basis. This might
Speaker 1: be an organizational philosophy thing that they want to be
Speaker 1: more aggressive on the base path potentially, so potentially, so
Speaker 1: stolen basis is a matter of wanting to do it. Great.
Speaker 1: It's not like there were There were years when you know,
Speaker 1: Albert pooh Holes would steal ten or twelve bases last year,
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman ten basis. Golder guys are not fast. Paul
Speaker 1: Goldschman might be a little bit faster, but with Pool
Speaker 1: and Freeman, they're not fast. It's it's a matter of
Speaker 1: wanting to do it and picking up on things that
Speaker 1: pictures are doing. Hey, if they're not paying attention to you,
Speaker 1: you get a huge lead, you get a quick start,
Speaker 1: and you see a base. It could be something that
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are looking into. So I'm paying attention to that.
Speaker 1: If it turns out you get tensetile and basis from
Speaker 1: Juna this year, that completely gives you something you were
Speaker 1: not expecting this year. From a Roto perspective, the same
Speaker 1: thing goes for the young absolutely absolutely. Any act to
Speaker 1: that regarding the Cardinals, any extertalvation that they can give us,
Speaker 1: we'll take it. Uh Yani, let's boom a little renaissance. Rihanna,
Speaker 1: here we go two days in a row. I know
Speaker 1: the night before he had two doubles hit got off
Speaker 1: to a slow start, and I references regarding Audie your
Speaker 1: Molina was that he didn't play a lot in the spring.
Speaker 1: He had off season knee surgery, so he's slowly working himself.
Speaker 1: Remember this, he's mid thirty, mid to high thirties at
Speaker 1: this point, so he's been around for a while. But yeah, look,
Speaker 1: if we liked Young batting third, we like Zuna batting fourth.
Speaker 1: You like the guy who's batting fifth, No doubt that's
Speaker 1: Marcella's I mean, Molina hits a it's a home run
Speaker 1: last night. So turning in the right direction, getting his
Speaker 1: legs underneath him. Older guy takes some time for good
Speaker 1: for I always liked because he's under good for us,
Speaker 1: like nobody wants because he's an old, an older guy,
Speaker 1: he's gonna fall off. But you know, he hasn't had
Speaker 1: less than a two sixty batting average for like twelve
Speaker 1: straight seasons. He doesn't hurt you there. I believe he
Speaker 1: had twenty home runs last year. Is a man probably
Speaker 1: probably should be right. Like a lot of people will
Speaker 1: just look at the offensive production be like, no, there's
Speaker 1: no way, but the intangibles that he did, the fact
Speaker 1: that you know he's one World Series and as great
Speaker 1: defensively as he is and calling games and everything that
Speaker 1: he's done for the game of baseball, he probably should
Speaker 1: be like first ballot, No way, But does he sneak
Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame at some point? I think
Speaker 1: he should. What do you think? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: kind of look into it. I have no idea. I'll
Speaker 1: just present I'll just this question, but I don't have
Speaker 1: an opinion on it. I haven't compared him to other catchers.
Speaker 1: So he's thirty six years old, Greg, if he plays
Speaker 1: a couple of more years, is eighteen hundred and sixty hits,
Speaker 1: he'll get to two, you'll get to two thousand hits.
Speaker 1: He's a two eighty two career hitter. He's got a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven career home runs. Like. He's not
Speaker 1: known for being great offensively, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make that case. But everything that
Speaker 1: he's done for, you know, defensively, you look at some
Speaker 1: of these defensive wards here on fan grafs, greg Air massive,
Speaker 1: I think he is. I think yeah, he is a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Okay, well, yeah, like Cardinals, ramanor or whatnot.
Speaker 1: But if you when you think about Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people make this case, was he
Speaker 1: ever the best or top three at his position? I
Speaker 1: would say yes, yes, yes, not the best. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the best, but he was always top three, top from
Speaker 1: a fan to see perspective, but overall all right. When
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