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Speaker 1: You guys can probably notice that Joel Rico here behind
Speaker 1: the mic, joined by my dear friend Casey Bubba. We
Speaker 1: are going to be taking you through about two thirds
Speaker 1: of the remaining shows of the baseball season. We're still
Speaker 1: gonna have wells, shehy on on Mondays. Bubba and I
Speaker 1: are going to be taking you through the Wednesday and
Speaker 1: Friday shows and now we're gonna be switching off on the
Speaker 1: Mondays and also joining Welsh. But this is great. This
Speaker 1: is really fun for me. Get to join Bubba, who
Speaker 1: has been a good friend for the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: and we get to kind of talk some baseball. Here, Bubba,
Speaker 1: how you doing today? Man?
Speaker 2: I am doing great getting to talk some baseball. It
Speaker 2: seems like it's been a while since with you and
Speaker 2: I have got the chat, even though we're in the
Speaker 2: same like message groups and everything. But it's a different
Speaker 2: platform for us too, which is crazy. It's using my show,
Speaker 2: your show something else. So it's gonna be fun, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the final month of the year.
Speaker 2: Is you know a lot of people are wrapping up seasons,
Speaker 2: like we said before the show, but you and I
Speaker 2: we just keep on going. This is what we like
Speaker 2: to do, so I hope we can help some people
Speaker 2: that are still grinding till the end.
Speaker 1: If you guys are here at this time of the season,
Speaker 1: you are the diehards. Absolutely. If you're still watching baseball content,
Speaker 1: listening to podcasts, reading articles this time of year, then
Speaker 1: you automatically have a bit of an edge on the
Speaker 1: rest of your league because as we know, football's coming,
Speaker 1: people going back to school, everybody's got busy live. So
Speaker 1: if you're still paying attention this time of year, it
Speaker 1: gives you just that little bit of extra edge on
Speaker 1: the competition. We're gonna be breaking down the headlines today
Speaker 1: doing the usual stuff. Just because Joe and Welsh aren't here.
Speaker 1: We are not gonna divvy up things from different to
Speaker 1: not defer too much rem usual there as I stumble
Speaker 1: over my words here as we get going, But we
Speaker 1: are gonna go through some headlines. We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: couple of your questions if you guys want to throw
Speaker 1: some things in the chat. We're also gonna be talking
Speaker 1: a couple of fantasy playoff questions if you got anything.
Speaker 1: Later on we'll talk injuries, best bets, home runs and
Speaker 1: all that. But let's get started off off with Katee Povich,
Speaker 1: who was just brutal for a good chunk of the
Speaker 1: season and honestly not somebody that I was really trying
Speaker 1: to invest in so much, even against the White Sox.
Speaker 1: I just didn't really trust him this time of year.
Speaker 1: But seven and a third shutout innings with ten strikeouts.
Speaker 1: But but is this the sign that he's maybe figuring
Speaker 1: things out and turning the corner a little bit? Or
Speaker 1: is this just it was the White Sox.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lean more so it's the White Sox. That's
Speaker 2: why I wanted to discuss as we had Albert Swarz
Speaker 2: going on Wednesday. This will be the real telltale sign
Speaker 2: if it's the White Sox. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: Povich looked good and he got called up for a
Speaker 2: spot start a few weeks back. He's showed improvements throughout
Speaker 2: the Miners If anything, it's something to kind of keep
Speaker 2: our eye on as the season goes on, as we
Speaker 2: head into twenty twenty five. To start all that draft prep,
Speaker 2: he was a highly touttered prospect, so it is great
Speaker 2: to see him take advantage of teams you need to
Speaker 2: take advantage of. That's always like a big first step
Speaker 2: in my mind as a hitter, take advantage of bad pitching, pitching,
Speaker 2: take advantage of bad hitting. Povic got that check mark,
Speaker 2: So that's a good sign going forward.
Speaker 1: Or for ka Povic, is it something where you'd want
Speaker 1: to continue to stream him rest of the season or
Speaker 1: is it more so we'll take this gym against the
Speaker 1: White Sox and then kind of take our foot off
Speaker 1: the gas.
Speaker 2: Probably take this gym and take our foot off the gas.
Speaker 2: I know there's a privy Like the final two weeks
Speaker 2: of the year pretty favorable for Orioles pitching, But coming
Speaker 2: up here I beieve they have Boston and like Minnesota,
Speaker 2: probably take those off for Kate and look at him
Speaker 2: for the final couple weeks of the Yearnings to Detroit
Speaker 2: and maybe another White Sox start throwing in there. Too.
Speaker 1: Could be interesting. Yeah, like we were saying before we
Speaker 1: started getting going this time of year. It's really just
Speaker 1: so much about picking and choosing the right matchups at
Speaker 1: this time. Streaming against the White Sox, against the Marlins,
Speaker 1: against the Rockies, away from cours. That type of thing
Speaker 1: really just so so important this time of year. Another
Speaker 1: important thing this time of year for real teams is
Speaker 1: choosing who to pitch too and who to avoid. And
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays yesterday did not choose to avoid Kyle
Speaker 1: schwarb But even after he'd already burned them for a
Speaker 1: couple homers, he went five for six scored four runs. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the three homers drove in six. I tweeted it out
Speaker 1: yesterday he probably won some head to head leagus by himself.
Speaker 1: You know, in the average head to head week you
Speaker 1: might get like ten twelve home runs twenty five thirty ribis.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a huge, huge boost for Kyle schuber
Speaker 1: and this season as a whole. He's actually got that
Speaker 1: batting average back up into the two forty type of
Speaker 1: range that was a huge concern for a lot of
Speaker 1: people coming into the year. He's gonna kill your batting average.
Speaker 1: But being in the two forties and stealing a couple
Speaker 1: of bases again, I might add has kind of brought
Speaker 1: his value back. What are your thoughts on Schwarber going forward?
Speaker 1: Is he somebody where he'll be faded again next year?
Speaker 1: Is he going to go too low in drafts because
Speaker 1: he's been a top fifty player each of the last
Speaker 1: couple of seasons, now, is that where he should be going?
Speaker 1: You think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he should be. I know it's it's
Speaker 2: not everybody's cup of tea drafting Kyle Schubert because there's
Speaker 2: the batting average concerns, and he can literally just destroy
Speaker 2: the team's batting average because he does lead off, So
Speaker 2: it's a lot of played appearances. It's a large sample
Speaker 2: size when all things are said and done. But yeah,
Speaker 2: if you can put a two forty average out there
Speaker 2: with forty plus bombs, he's going to play one hundred
Speaker 2: or he's between runs and RBI's getting close to two
Speaker 2: hundred combined, like you mentioned, throwing some stole bases in there.
Speaker 2: That's elite stuff, Like you mentioned top fifty player in fantasy.
Speaker 2: So I know I was bullish on him because of
Speaker 2: the batting average. I thought it was really really bad
Speaker 2: and I don't like taking on that risk. But maybe
Speaker 2: that's something I should think about again. Could he revert
Speaker 2: to that? Sure? Could he be a two forty guy
Speaker 2: going forward? Definitely? And if he's two forty then that's
Speaker 2: pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: In that lineup. Yeah, I think he is generally gonna
Speaker 1: be worth it, and he might be pushed down. People
Speaker 1: will have the same conversations next year. I don't want
Speaker 1: to take the two twenty batting average risk, and that's
Speaker 1: fine with me. If people want to want to fade
Speaker 1: him again, I'll happily take him. I didn't draft enough
Speaker 1: of him this year because of that worry in the
Speaker 1: back of my head, and when I did take him,
Speaker 1: it was like I backed him up with Corey Seeger
Speaker 1: or somebody who could you know, Yandy Diaz, who we
Speaker 1: thought was gonna hit like three to twenty coming into
Speaker 1: the season. I think next year I wouldn't worry so
Speaker 1: much about that because he's probably like a two twenty
Speaker 1: two thirty hitter, and in this day and age, it's
Speaker 1: not so bad. Really, it's not so bad when the
Speaker 1: league average is about two thirty all around. Wyatt Langford
Speaker 1: hit a walk off grand Slam against the Yankees yesterday.
Speaker 1: The season as a whole for whya at Langford kind
Speaker 1: of underwhelming. It's been one hundred and eleven games. He
Speaker 1: has ten home runs, twelve stolen bases, He's hit two
Speaker 1: forty three pretty good play skills though twenty percent strikeout rate.
Speaker 1: We're talking about an eight point eight percent walk right,
Speaker 1: so he's not getting overmatched. Really, I wonder if Langford
Speaker 1: is gonna be somebody that really does take a step
Speaker 1: forward next season. I know that he was one of
Speaker 1: the best hitting prospects we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: Is your expectation that we fully see him hit his
Speaker 1: stride next season or is that maybe we need to
Speaker 1: just change our expectations a little bit from that number
Speaker 1: one overall hitting prospect.
Speaker 2: I think he definitely takes a step forward. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's a full stride. I'm horrible with prospects.
Speaker 2: That's a welshy thing if we're going to go there.
Speaker 2: But I know a lot of people are still very
Speaker 2: optimistic on him. Than that early meatball draft I did,
Speaker 2: he still went relatively decent. He didn't go like Jackson Churio,
Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill World, but he still has like a sixth
Speaker 2: or seventh round pick. So I think that moves up
Speaker 2: come further in a draft season. He's hit three homers
Speaker 2: in the last six Maybe he's getting health. He's been
Speaker 2: banged up a lot after the slow start, still down season,
Speaker 2: like you said, But I think we definitely see a
Speaker 2: move in the right direction next year for White Langford.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if we're gonna have to pay. Like
Speaker 1: you said, he was a sixth round pick, he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna get more expensive. Is he gonna be worth it.
Speaker 1: It's like you have to project that growth, but we
Speaker 1: also know that growth isn't necessarily linear. Maybe he goes
Speaker 1: for seventeen homers and twelve steels next season and it's
Speaker 1: a bit better, but it's not, you know, top fifty,
Speaker 1: top seventy five. He's one of those guys I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty worried to actually hit the draft button on.
Speaker 1: I think it's at this point in time pretty clearly
Speaker 1: like Churio and Merrill and James Wood ahead of him.
Speaker 1: Would you agree there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent agree. Again, that's where they all
Speaker 2: want ahead of him in the draft. So I probably
Speaker 2: won't have much Langford. I'm just still I'm a very
Speaker 2: cautious drafter. Good or bad in that sense, and so
Speaker 2: he just won't fit my mold when I'm picking my team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm probably on the same page with
Speaker 1: you there, although it's just so tempting with that sprint speed,
Speaker 1: there's just so much to really like, but I think
Speaker 1: I kind of need to see it before I'm willing
Speaker 1: to pay such a high price, and I do think
Speaker 1: he'll be pretty expensive heading into next season. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about David Peterson, though man six innings of one run
Speaker 1: ball with eleven strikeouts against the Red Sox. This is
Speaker 1: the start that I wanted nothing to do with. The
Speaker 1: Red Sox have been a great offense. Peterson has been
Speaker 1: really solid, but I don't really buy it when I
Speaker 1: dig below the surface. He is a two to seventy
Speaker 1: five ERA. He has a nine to one record, and
Speaker 1: yet we're looking at a four to eighty five expected era.
Speaker 1: He's a four to forty four SI era, And I
Speaker 1: think the big thing with David Peterson is the strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I mean, outside of yesterday, where they were obviously there,
Speaker 1: they haven't really been there this season. Nineteen and a
Speaker 1: half percent strikeout rate when he had been in the
Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty seven percent range the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. So are we buying into Peterson going forward?
Speaker 1: For me, I've loved him the last couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: but the dipping strikeouts does concern me. It's just strange
Speaker 1: that it's come with a two seventy five era but
Speaker 1: also a one to thirty one whip. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a hard eval for David Peterson Bubba.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And that's kind of the bummer with
Speaker 2: Peterson because I'm with you, I've been a big fan
Speaker 2: and he shows strikeout stuff. From previous seasons, it was
Speaker 2: more walk issues to go with the strikeouts. It kind
Speaker 2: of kept you a few steps back with David Peterson.
Speaker 2: This year. The walks have gotten a little better, honestly,
Speaker 2: But you mentioned you look at the Sierra as the
Speaker 2: x fips any underlying EIRA metric shows he's overachieving. The
Speaker 2: fact he strikes out eleven Boston Red Sox is just bonkers.
Speaker 2: After you mentioned that the previous six starts he had
Speaker 2: twenty seven strikeouts in thirty eight innings, so obviously not
Speaker 2: a dominating strikeout arm in that sense. But like you
Speaker 2: go deeper into that start against Boston, dude had a
Speaker 2: forty percent CSW and twenty whiffs in that start, Like
Speaker 2: he was just just dominating the Boston Red Sox, which
Speaker 2: is baffling at the same time, very very tough to
Speaker 2: trust as you were mentioning, And it's got to be
Speaker 2: a start by star basis we're at the part of
Speaker 2: the year though, or maybe you just roll the hot
Speaker 2: hand all things considered. But like when you look at
Speaker 2: Peterson's next few starts coming up here for the Mets,
Speaker 2: he takes on the Toronto Blue Jays next week, So
Speaker 2: how you feeling about that one?
Speaker 1: I mean, our offense has been a bit better as
Speaker 1: of late. Yes, yes, yes, not exactly world beaters still,
Speaker 1: so i'd probably stream him in a lot of cases.
Speaker 1: Maybe not in like a ten team league, but twelves
Speaker 1: and fifteen's I probably would do it. It's risky, but
Speaker 1: I think I would do it.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have we'll expand this out a second here,
Speaker 2: So over the next twenty eight days basically the rest
Speaker 2: of the season. So he's Toronto next week, then he
Speaker 2: gets a two step if then this is obviously could
Speaker 2: change in moments. Notice Washington and Philadelphia, so one Washington's
Speaker 2: been sneaky too, and then the last week of the
Speaker 2: year he gets the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee, so none
Speaker 2: of them are cupcake matchups, but maybe the Nets, but
Speaker 2: they just don't strike out, so that's tough tough one
Speaker 2: with Peterson.
Speaker 1: Toronto doesn't really strike out that much either. As bad
Speaker 1: as they are generally speaking, they're not a team that're
Speaker 1: like one of the ten best teams in terms of
Speaker 1: strikeout rate in baseball. So if you're looking for those
Speaker 1: strikeouts to come back and remain and it's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna happen for David Peterson. But man like, he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys. I think it's like an Edward Caperero
Speaker 1: type of thing. With me, I'll always still kind of believe,
Speaker 1: but we're getting to the point where it's like I
Speaker 1: need to see more below the surface and everybody's probably
Speaker 1: listening like two seventy five era. He's been great, but
Speaker 1: I don't buy it. I just don't buy that he
Speaker 1: should be doing that well. Randall Gritchick is also somebody
Speaker 1: I think is worth mentioning. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: home runs yesterday filling in for Lordis Guriel Junior, and
Speaker 1: honestly It kind of surprised me. It's snuck up on
Speaker 1: me a little bit how solid Gritchick has been this year.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been in a huge sample size two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen at bats, but he's hit two eighty four
Speaker 1: eight home runs, thirty four ribies, and just over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks he's hit four home runs in his
Speaker 1: last nineteen at bats. So there's a situation where if
Speaker 1: you need a little bit of outfield help, specifically in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues, would you take a shot at Gritchick. He's
Speaker 1: two percent rostered on Yahoo leagues. People aren't really paying attention,
Speaker 1: but should they be.
Speaker 2: I think they should be for a couple of reason.
Speaker 2: With Guryel going on the IL, this makes things very
Speaker 2: very interesting because now you have a team that was
Speaker 2: platuning Gritchick, and obviously Guriel was starting every day. But
Speaker 2: Gritchick looks like he's gonna slide in to that everyday role,
Speaker 2: which makes him much more enticing for fantasy. You mentioned
Speaker 2: some of the power he showcased of late, like over
Speaker 2: the last seventeen games three forty nine average, five homers,
Speaker 2: ten runs, eleven RBIs. I'll play. That'll play for sure.
Speaker 2: We know he matched his lefties, but if he's gonna
Speaker 2: play every day, why Guriel's out. There's still no timetable
Speaker 2: for Gurile's return. That makes Ritchick quite serviceable coming up,
Speaker 2: especially a team that gets to face you know, Texas
Speaker 2: Milwaukee and then they go to Colorado in a couple weeks.
Speaker 2: That's pretty nice. So Gritchick could have some viability if
Speaker 2: he gets some long term run.
Speaker 1: Arizona's offense has been one of the best, the best
Speaker 1: all of baseball too, and I think part of that
Speaker 1: is probably Corbyn Carroll's turnaround recently has really boosted that.
Speaker 1: But like, they are the number one team in baseball
Speaker 1: for the season in runs and hits per game, second
Speaker 1: in batting average, first and on base percentage in ops,
Speaker 1: seventh in home runs. Pretty basic stats we're reading off there,
Speaker 1: but they are. They are doing pretty damn well for themselves.
Speaker 1: And yes, uh cousin Donnie in the chat, I did
Speaker 1: in fact get a fresh cut because the hairhead I
Speaker 1: was looking like Pete tim linsekm Jacob deGrom there. I
Speaker 1: needed to needed to cut it off. I put it
Speaker 1: off for way too long. But yes, the flow is
Speaker 1: officially gone. Oh no, oh, No, it's finally gone. Hopefully. Man,
Speaker 1: by the time you see me in November in Arizona,
Speaker 1: it'll probably be a little bit longer. Again. One more
Speaker 1: news on the one more piece of news on the headlines.
Speaker 1: Redebtmers finally finally made his return to the majors. And
Speaker 1: I saw this and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's against the Dodgers. Why do they have to bring
Speaker 1: him up to face the Dodgers. Well, six innings of
Speaker 1: two run ball with ten strikeouts for mister reed Debtmers.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of him, because he
Speaker 1: started off looking so brilliant this season, really fell apart
Speaker 1: in a hurry, and then spent most of the year
Speaker 1: in the miners. What he did in the miners wasn't
Speaker 1: very good either. Fourteen starts down there have a five
Speaker 1: point fifty four era, a one forty whip. I don't
Speaker 1: really know if I want to trust him going forward.
Speaker 1: I think the win potential is probably pretty low with
Speaker 1: the Angels, but it's hard to say that this wasn't encouraging,
Speaker 1: especially against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a bummer because I've been writing for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. Pick Up debtmers. He's gonna be
Speaker 2: they have they just earned the extra year of control.
Speaker 2: All these things because his last like two or three
Speaker 2: starts in the miners were very good, lots of strikeouts.
Speaker 2: The whole sample sizes agreed. Horrible in the miners, but
Speaker 2: like it looked like he was trying to find his way.
Speaker 2: I told everybody for the Dodgers starts to add him,
Speaker 2: don't start him, like, stay away from this. Obviously he
Speaker 2: pitched great, and his upcoming schedule is going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: The Angels are currently using a six man rotation, so
Speaker 2: two steps are tough. In two weeks, he's for now
Speaker 2: scheduled for a two step. One of them is the
Speaker 2: White Sox. That's a plus, But Deptmers, if you need strikeouts,
Speaker 2: could be a dude. Just no blow ups are coming
Speaker 2: when it comes with three Deptmers. But very very encouraging start,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was stashing him in a lot
Speaker 1: of deeper leagues, a lot of NFBC leagues. I've been
Speaker 1: holding onto him for quite a while. Didn't have the
Speaker 1: guts to start him yesterday, but I think I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna be putting him into the lineups going forward, depending
Speaker 1: on what's going on, but I think generally speaking, he's
Speaker 1: earned another start with what he looked like yesterday. One
Speaker 1: thing in the just for fun section today ben Joyce
Speaker 1: one hundred and five point five mile an hour strikeout.
Speaker 1: It was the fastest strikeout in the stat cast era,
Speaker 1: and the third fastest pitch apparently that was ever recorded,
Speaker 1: behind a couple of our oldest Chapman pitches. This guy
Speaker 1: is just unbelievable. The thing that's kind of surprised me
Speaker 1: a little bit is that the strikeouts haven't been what
Speaker 1: you would probably expect from a guy who throws harder
Speaker 1: than probably anybody ever or close to it, like one
Speaker 1: of the top two or three hardest throwers we've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and yet the strikeouts aren't really there for him. Do
Speaker 1: you see Joyce going forward as a closer, Because when
Speaker 1: you think about a closer with a twenty three percent
Speaker 1: strikeout rate ten percent walk rate, it doesn't really jive.
Speaker 1: But I think he does probably have closer stuff. Still,
Speaker 1: what do you think.
Speaker 2: I think he's got the closer stuff. I think he
Speaker 2: should get the chance to be a closer. I agree,
Speaker 2: you'd like to see better than a basically thirteen percent
Speaker 2: k to walk. That is not going to be the ticket.
Speaker 2: Like we see a lot of guys with walk issues,
Speaker 2: but they also have like a thirty five percent K rate,
Speaker 2: So there's a big difference there. If Joyce doesn't have that,
Speaker 2: it's troublesome, especially throwing gas like he does, which is
Speaker 2: pretty wild. I think he's going to be the closer.
Speaker 2: He should be the closer. Then again, it's the Angels, folks,
Speaker 2: So take everything I said was gigantic grain of salt.
Speaker 1: Will you draft him next year as the Angels closer?
Speaker 2: He'd have to be a closer three for me on
Speaker 2: my team, kind of like how I drafted Estevez and
Speaker 2: some other guys. I won't be reaching to grab him
Speaker 2: as a as a RP one or two for my team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's that's totally fair. If he's like
Speaker 1: a third guy going and picked two hundred to two
Speaker 1: fifty type of range, just a little bit of insurance,
Speaker 1: then I can get behind it. If he saves five
Speaker 1: or six games down the stretch and pushes himself up
Speaker 1: fifty picks or so, that's probably where I have to
Speaker 1: tap out Rookie Lucky today, I just want to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Rookie of the Year race,
Speaker 1: because we know Welsh has been on this one, following
Speaker 1: it constantly. Paul Skimes at one point was minus five
Speaker 1: thousand and four of the year. He is now not
Speaker 1: even the favorite. Jackson Merrill is at minus nine hundred.
Speaker 1: The books just seem to be going whatever way the
Speaker 1: wind goes recently for NL Rookie of the Year, even
Speaker 1: with Paul Skean's tossing five shutout innings last night. So
Speaker 1: looking at their lines, Paul Skans one hundred and fourteen innings,
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty two strikeouts, a two thirteen ERA,
Speaker 1: a point nine to eight whip and three point three
Speaker 1: fangrafts war versus Jackson Merrill's sixty eight runs, twenty one homers,
Speaker 1: seventy nine runs scored, sixteen steals in a two ninety
Speaker 1: one batting average with great defense, and a four point
Speaker 1: two f woar. As a rookie, they've both been fantastic
Speaker 1: bub But do you think that it's Merrill's to lose
Speaker 1: at this point? And honestly, what do you think is
Speaker 1: your own opinion? Like, what do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 1: And what do you think should happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jackson Merril's the rookie of the year. I remember
Speaker 2: my very first show I came on this season for
Speaker 2: leading it off. Welsh brought up that minus five thousand
Speaker 2: nice to take the field. This is called gambling, folks,
Speaker 2: take the plus money and see what happens, because pitchers
Speaker 2: are one pitch away. Now Skeins is healthy, that's great,
Speaker 2: but he's also slowing down. That's the reality of the
Speaker 2: situation where Jackson Merrill that I expect him to go
Speaker 2: on this run. No, but it's been insane and it's
Speaker 2: not slowing down anytime soon. And if he actually took
Speaker 2: the field at first, now you can go take Paul
Speaker 2: Skeens at plus money and you just watch the show.
Speaker 2: Just watch the show now, and you make some money
Speaker 2: either way. So that's how you play a book. It
Speaker 2: doesn't always work that way, no, but when you see
Speaker 2: plus money like that with a to me, anytime you
Speaker 2: see a pitcher leading that kind of charge, take a stand.
Speaker 2: Skeens is awesome, and you know there's a weird world
Speaker 2: where he still probably wins it, but it should be
Speaker 2: Jackson Merril's to win. That's who I would pick.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right. I don't know which way
Speaker 1: the voters are gonna go on this one though, This
Speaker 1: rookie pitcher who's doing things that rookie pitcher shouldn't really
Speaker 1: be able to do, especially for a bad team. But
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill going twenty twenty, hitting almost three hundred, he
Speaker 1: might finish with five war for the season. That being said,
Speaker 1: I don't know if even older voters know what war is,
Speaker 1: So again, it's kind of a tricky one to actually
Speaker 1: guess what's gonna happen. But I agree like Paul Skean's
Speaker 1: at plus six hundred, a couple of bucks on that,
Speaker 1: especially if you already took him before, or if you
Speaker 1: take Meryl before a plus money, you're guaranteed to look
Speaker 1: pretty pretty good at the end of the season. Let's
Speaker 1: take a couple questions. Pistol here, who's always in the chat,
Speaker 1: always shouting us out here, good guy, wants to know
Speaker 1: what our thoughts are on David Bednar looks like he's
Speaker 1: going to be removed from high leverage role for a
Speaker 1: little while. Are you dropping Bednar Baba with some little
Speaker 1: time left in the season. Are you still holding on here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned it last night with Ryan on our
Speaker 2: show that I will be dropping Bednar if I had him,
Speaker 2: just because it's been really bad to begin with. He's
Speaker 2: shown some really rough skills of late, and I feel
Speaker 2: like they're taking him out. It's going to be for
Speaker 2: at least two weeks. So now you have a week
Speaker 2: week and a half when he comes back. What's he
Speaker 2: going to get you? Two saves maybe three at best
Speaker 2: with the Pirates, So I would use that roster spot
Speaker 2: and maximize other options on my team. So yeah, Bednar,
Speaker 2: he would be a drop for me going forward. He's
Speaker 2: just kind of a it sucks. It sucks to see,
Speaker 2: but he's lost it for now.
Speaker 1: An absolutely terrible season, But I feel like I'll be
Speaker 1: buying the dip. I feel like I will be buying
Speaker 1: that coming in the next season. He's going to go
Speaker 1: outside the top one hundred and fifty picks probably. People
Speaker 1: are going to see that era, which is disgusting, and
Speaker 1: everything's been pretty bad. Even the supporting metrics aren't great,
Speaker 1: but they're they're a bit better. But I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a pretty easy buy for me next season,
Speaker 1: considering how depressed that price is probably going to be
Speaker 1: any cheap saves out there, kind of a combination question.
Speaker 1: The big one for me, like looking at Yahoo rostership,
Speaker 1: is probably Jeff Hoffman. He's still forty three percent rostered.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like a guarantee. But there's not
Speaker 1: really so many guarantees that I'm seeing right now in
Speaker 1: a lot of leagues. But is there anybody that really
Speaker 1: comes to mind for you in terms of cheap saves
Speaker 1: or somebody that's available in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing guarantee to like the Hoffman call. I know,
Speaker 2: when I looked at Michael Kopeck at the end of
Speaker 2: last week, he was around the fifty percent bubble and
Speaker 2: he's kind of split in the role with Evan Phillips,
Speaker 2: so he's getting good ratios and strikeouts, So I'm not
Speaker 2: a posed to Copeck in that one. And then he's
Speaker 2: just gonna play the roulette and Tampa Bay or the
Speaker 2: Cubs if you want. But that's a messy, messy situation.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I like hop and call Kopek stick along
Speaker 2: those lines and see where it goes.
Speaker 1: Nothing great out there, you're really just hoping for the best,
Speaker 1: hoping for some fortunate bounces this time of year. The
Speaker 1: last question we got. We're firing up about In Francis
Speaker 1: against the Phillies today may also take the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: money line, So I have one of my bets is
Speaker 1: about bout In Francis later on today. Not to spoil it,
Speaker 1: but I feel like he's been running a little bit
Speaker 1: too pure coming up against a pretty good offense here,
Speaker 1: So I would say generally it's hard to bench him
Speaker 1: after like Pictuer of the Month in August, one of
Speaker 1: the best stretches we've ever seen from a starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I really trust him here unless
Speaker 1: you really need the volume. I think he's probably a sit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, Like I I would run him out there,
Speaker 2: and you hope because he's made the pitch mix changes,
Speaker 2: all the good stuff everyone likes to talk about, but
Speaker 2: you're just you gotta wait for the banana peel, is
Speaker 2: the way I look at it, Like it's gonna come
Speaker 2: here in one of these final starts, you think, because
Speaker 2: the one oh six era is great over his last
Speaker 2: five starts, but in the two six six years good,
Speaker 2: So like he's pitched well, but you know, a thirty
Speaker 2: percent kate of walk. How sustainable is that. Let's be real,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a setback, and he's facing the juggernaut
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. There's no hiding that I'd still run him
Speaker 2: out there, just the same way I promoted a start.
Speaker 2: Spencer Arighedtty against him last week, and he went into
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and got the job done. You could get bad,
Speaker 2: There's no doubt in that, but I'll take my chances
Speaker 2: about in Francis.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, I think in most cases it's really
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to put him on the bench after
Speaker 1: after what we've seen. I mean, just a ridiculous run.
Speaker 1: I mean even just that for that Boston start last week,
Speaker 1: I said the same thing, like that makes me a
Speaker 1: little bit nervous, I don't know, and then seven shutout
Speaker 1: innings later, here we are about in Francis. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they officially named the pitchers of the month
Speaker 1: for August, but I feel like he's he's got to
Speaker 1: be the pitcher of the month in the American League
Speaker 1: for August.
Speaker 2: What should he should be? He should be Let's still
Speaker 2: fight between him and are Getty.
Speaker 1: Honestly, yeah, yeah, it definitely definitely could be. Let's move
Speaker 1: into the three up and three down, three up. Chris
Speaker 1: Sale seven shutout innings with nine strikeouts against the Rockies,
Speaker 1: putting the finishing touches on what is probably a cy
Speaker 1: Young season. Bubba, you think it's gonna be Chris Sales
Speaker 1: first cy Young this year?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it should be. He's been great as long
Speaker 2: as that arms, so something that doesn't fall off the
Speaker 2: last three weeks of the year. It's his to lose,
Speaker 2: and nothing against anybody else. There's been some great pitchers,
Speaker 2: but it is definitely Chris Sales and real quick Dollon
Speaker 2: Francis was pitcher of the month. Just looked it up.
Speaker 1: He was Pitcher of the month. Okay, I knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. I just wasn't sure if they'd officially
Speaker 1: named it. Yeah, Chris Sale, I mean he probably should
Speaker 1: have won a cy Young back in his White Sox days.
Speaker 1: It was just so crowded in the American League in
Speaker 1: the twenty tens. Verlander and Schuzer probably won like five
Speaker 1: of the cy Youngs there, and then you had some
Speaker 1: random like Rick Porcello stuff, and Kluber won a couple.
Speaker 1: It was very crowded, so no room for him over there.
Speaker 1: Although He probably should have won one still, but it
Speaker 1: looks like they're going to make up for that this season.
Speaker 1: Paul Goldsmith three for five with a combo meal yesterday,
Speaker 1: and Vladimir Gera junior four for five with a home
Speaker 1: run himself. He has been just unbelievable in the second half.
Speaker 1: On the three down. Tyler Phillips just got destroyed by
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays two thirds of an inning, got shell
Speaker 1: for eight hits and six earned runs. Clay Holmes. We
Speaker 1: mentioned the Wyatt Langford walk off Grant slam earlier. That
Speaker 1: was off of Clay Holmes. Another blown save. Yankee fans
Speaker 1: are coming with the pitchforks. They are not happy about
Speaker 1: this one. And then Peter Armstrong, who's been very good recently,
Speaker 1: went over four with a golden sombrero yesterday. Bubba, I
Speaker 1: got a question for you in the chat here. What
Speaker 1: hat are you repping today?
Speaker 2: This is the hove Alinas from the Arizona Fall League.
Speaker 2: Got it last year. I'm sorry, first pitch Arizona, So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's one of the fun looks. They answer, cool ass.
Speaker 2: I got a scorpions hat and some other ones, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I saw this crazy looking pig on here. That's all Neon.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, that works for Bubba shows.
Speaker 1: If you guys are looking to raz Us in person,
Speaker 1: have a couple of beers, shoots, some golf, come out
Speaker 1: to Arizona over Halloween and ten first Pitch Arizona. It's
Speaker 1: a great conference that Baseball HQ puts on. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some injuries. Though we haven't been here in a
Speaker 1: few days because of the Labor Day weekend, we haven't
Speaker 1: done a show in like five days, so let's catch
Speaker 1: up on a couple of injury news and notes. Kyle
Speaker 1: Tucker surprise, surprise everybody, He did, in fact fracture his
Speaker 1: shin in June, as we all kind of expected. You know,
Speaker 1: I've talked on god knows how many shows about like
Speaker 1: what's going on. It can't just be a bruise, right,
Speaker 1: it can't just be a bruise. Well, it wasn't a bruise.
Speaker 1: I don't know why teams do this kind of thing,
Speaker 1: but it looks like he's probably gonna return at the
Speaker 1: end of the week, or so we're told. I won't
Speaker 1: believe it until he's actually on a lineup card. But
Speaker 1: can we do anything going forward with this? Or is
Speaker 1: it just like Teams lie and we just have to
Speaker 1: deal with it.
Speaker 2: Teams Lie, we have to deal with it. I'd imagine
Speaker 2: they'll talk about this in the off season, kind of
Speaker 2: like the NFL made them report injuries, because when you
Speaker 2: get into bed, like baseball is now with betting agencies,
Speaker 2: you need to have a little more accountability to what
Speaker 2: is going on in the world, because like, if Tucker's
Speaker 2: out two weeks, you're taking a future's bet on the Astros.
Speaker 2: You feel good. If you knew Tucker was out for
Speaker 2: two months, how would that affect your thoughts or three months?
Speaker 2: I should say. There's a lot of that going on.
Speaker 2: And to your point is he was expected back Wednesday
Speaker 2: or Thursday. Well, on Wednesday morning at day we're recording,
Speaker 2: they said they hope to have him back in three
Speaker 2: to five days. So yeah, so let's just and trust me.
Speaker 2: I'm a big Kyle Tucker fan. I love Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: This is beyond tilting. But I have some him to
Speaker 2: get healthy for next year because I already took him
Speaker 2: eighth overall in the Early Meet Paul Draft. So do
Speaker 2: what you gotta do, kid.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand why they wouldn't be transparent. Like
Speaker 1: I've talked with this on my show. It's not football,
Speaker 1: it's not hockey. It's not like you're gonna get targeted
Speaker 1: when you come back. I don't get it. I don't
Speaker 1: get why they wouldn't just tell us. Now, if you
Speaker 1: had been told when he first went down in June
Speaker 1: that Tucker's gonna miss three months, would you have dropped him?
Speaker 2: Then yes, I would have. Unfortunately, just because you know,
Speaker 2: you do the math. Now we're getting it back in
Speaker 2: mid September. That's three and a half months where I
Speaker 2: could have been streaming guys and doing what and he's
Speaker 2: been sitting on my bench because I'm stubborn and I
Speaker 2: kept thinking, Okay, he'll be back here, he'll be back here,
Speaker 2: and he never was. So I'm I'm not like angry
Speaker 2: about it, but I'm very frustrated about the situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some of those things.
Speaker 2: I'm not mad. I'm disappointed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's not like it was Paul de
Speaker 1: Young or you know whoever that goes down and you think,
Speaker 1: all right, well they're drop whatever. It's your first round pick.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to just hold on and hope
Speaker 1: for the best. But absolute worst case scenario. After we
Speaker 1: started the season thinking Tucker might be in the one
Speaker 1: one conversation next year, you know, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he is at this point. But still he'll probably be
Speaker 1: a first round pick just based on what he's able
Speaker 1: to do in that lineup. Another kind of interesting one.
Speaker 1: Jacob deGrom likely to make one more rehab start, but
Speaker 1: there's also been some talk that he could maybe start
Speaker 1: Saturday at the big league level and just not go
Speaker 1: through another rehab at Double A. Seems unlikely, but it
Speaker 1: has been discussed. I assume that you would throw de
Speaker 1: Grom back into your lineup first time out, Bubba.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I usually don't throw guys like that, but yeah,
Speaker 2: when it comes to Grom, we just we roll in
Speaker 2: this situation, especially if you're looking at a weekend start
Speaker 2: against the believe it's the Cubs. None of the Cubs
Speaker 2: will fleaceing the Yankees, Texas, it would be the angel
Speaker 2: So yes, you would start Jacob de Grom if he
Speaker 2: pitches this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh yeah, because the thing is like you've been
Speaker 1: holding him all season long. You haven't been holding him
Speaker 1: when he comes back to sit him right like you're
Speaker 1: getting him into the lineups. Even if he was face
Speaker 1: a tough team, I feel like personally, I'd probably do
Speaker 1: it what he's capable of doing in just a couple
Speaker 1: of starts, Like he could give you a point six
Speaker 1: ERA strikeout fifteen batters per nine and really really helps
Speaker 1: secure some championships, especially in head toad leagues, if you
Speaker 1: get that kind of reinforcement back man and I wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, I've talked about this with Well so he
Speaker 1: thinks I'm a lunatic, but I think if de Grom
Speaker 1: has a few de grom esque starts, we could see
Speaker 1: him sneak into the first round next year. Is that crazy, Bubba?
Speaker 2: I think second round first is tough, but you never know.
Speaker 2: He was a former first round guy. I just have
Speaker 2: a hard time with the first round because it there's
Speaker 2: so much talent right now doing that early meatball draft, Like,
Speaker 2: there is a lot of guys you could argue for
Speaker 2: the back end of that first round right now.
Speaker 1: It's very true. Yeah, the first round is absolutely packed
Speaker 1: this year. Another one, this one is not so great.
Speaker 1: Justin Steele, who recently did a show with us here
Speaker 1: at Fantasy Pros unfortunately scratched from his start yesterday. With
Speaker 1: elbow inflammation, it looks like a possibility that he ends
Speaker 1: up on the IL that there's been not a ton
Speaker 1: of clarity on when he's actually gonna pitch again. I
Speaker 1: think Steele is probably for those and head to head leagues,
Speaker 1: especially if you end on September fifteenth or even September
Speaker 1: twenty second, there's just not a lot of time for
Speaker 1: him to come back look like justin steel and actually
Speaker 1: be productive. Do you think that's fair to say that
Speaker 1: you should probably just drop him in most cases?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was hoping to get more information by Sunday,
Speaker 2: and right now it's kind of radio silent. He's optimistic,
Speaker 2: but we know how that goes. The Cubs aren't playing
Speaker 2: for anything. He kind of wants Steel for next year
Speaker 2: in my mind, So if you have no one to add, sure,
Speaker 2: hold him. But I think he's he's probably a drop
Speaker 2: because I would not force him to pitch if I'm
Speaker 2: the Cubs right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, common refrain on my show is if you have
Speaker 1: the IL space, then put him on the el But
Speaker 1: who the hell has IL space this time of season?
Speaker 1: Probably not too many people, But it's dicey, man, when
Speaker 1: you've got elbow inflammation. You gotta hope that he comes
Speaker 1: back and looks good. He could come back and look
Speaker 1: awful and ruin your head to headweek for you, it's
Speaker 1: a tricky situation. I think you probably hold on if
Speaker 1: you can, but it's not looking great at this point
Speaker 1: for Justin Steele. John Gray placed on the al with
Speaker 1: a neuroma in his foot. Not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 1: exactly what that is. You're not exactly dealing with a
Speaker 1: couple of doctors up here, but it looks like he
Speaker 1: will miss the rest of twenty twenty four, so you
Speaker 1: can easily send John Gray back to the waiver wire
Speaker 1: and Ludis Guriel. We alluded to it earlier because of
Speaker 1: Randall Gritschet coming into the line up and doing good things.
Speaker 1: But Guriel went to the isle with a calf injury
Speaker 1: and Christian Walker was also activated from the IL, so
Speaker 1: he goes back in the lineup. What does that mean
Speaker 1: for Josh Bell, I guess is the question. Because Josh
Speaker 1: Bell had been the replacement there had been doing pretty well,
Speaker 1: and honestly he's still done pretty well. Home runs have
Speaker 1: kind of dried up a little bit the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Do you think he still sees any playing
Speaker 1: time Josh Bell. Is he gonna get in there some
Speaker 1: DH at bats or is he more just like a
Speaker 1: deep league guy? At this point, you think.
Speaker 2: Right now they're saying Bell will still play verse left
Speaker 2: handed pitching, which is a plus. Now the question is
Speaker 2: how much does he sneak in there? Maybe the Guriel
Speaker 2: injury opens the door for free more at bats at
Speaker 2: d H or something. So it's tough like if it's
Speaker 2: just left, he's only by a drop unless you're in
Speaker 2: a deep, deep league. So keep an eye on what
Speaker 2: goes on the rest of the week. Is the best
Speaker 2: I can say on this one.
Speaker 1: Think I'd have to agree with you there, Bubba, it
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Speaker 1: leading off. Buba, what do you got for us today
Speaker 1: on the betting side, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It says, I love my prop bets. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: Francisco in door over one and a half total bases
Speaker 2: at plus one thirty five. Fun matchup for the Mets
Speaker 2: and anytime I get a little door at plus money
Speaker 2: like this, I will roll with it. Lawrence Butler, I
Speaker 2: said on the last time I was on the show
Speaker 2: as mad there is no prop bets. Will you Homer
Speaker 2: in his first at bat in that game, so that
Speaker 2: was fun. But I'll take Lawrence Butler over one and
Speaker 2: a half total bases at plus one twenty going up
Speaker 2: against George Kirby, who's been atrocious of late, so I'll
Speaker 2: take my chances there. And then you mentioned PCA going
Speaker 2: oh for four with the Sun in his last start.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take him over a half a run tonight
Speaker 2: at plus one six the little bounce back start there.
Speaker 2: The Cubs offense has been very good, very favorable matchup
Speaker 2: first Domingo Herman and the Pittsburgh Pirates, so I expect
Speaker 2: a little bounce back from PCA, So three plus money
Speaker 2: ones there for you.
Speaker 1: I will also be looking to target Dimingo Herman, the
Speaker 1: human pitching machine, and I'm taking Saya Suzuki over one
Speaker 1: and a half total bases at plus one forty five.
Speaker 1: It feels like a really nice number to get there
Speaker 1: for Suzuki, who's been really just excellent this season, so
Speaker 1: I really like that one. Spencer Araghetty over five and
Speaker 1: a half strikeouts against the Cincinnati team that strikes out
Speaker 1: a decent bit. I don't know why the line is
Speaker 1: so low, considering what we've seen from him recently. That
Speaker 1: one is set at minus one twenty five. It's in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: so there is a little bit of concern there that
Speaker 1: I have whenever anybody's pitching in Cincinnati. But I think
Speaker 1: five and a half is a very attainable number for Araghetty.
Speaker 1: And then going back on something we said earlier about
Speaker 1: bout In Francis, I just think he's run a little
Speaker 1: bit too pure recently. I'm taking over two and a
Speaker 1: half earned runs. Even if he allows three earn runs,
Speaker 1: it can still be a good start. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he's gonna get blown up necessarily. But against Philadelphia, I
Speaker 1: do think that we're gonna start to see him come
Speaker 1: back to earth a little bit, So that would be mine.
Speaker 1: Spencer Raghetti over five and a half strikeouts, say a
Speaker 1: Suzuki over one and a half total bases about in
Speaker 1: France's over two and a half earned runs, and then
Speaker 1: Bubba Francisco Lindor over one and a half bases Lawrence
Speaker 1: Butler over one and a half bases and Pete crow
Speaker 1: Armstrong over point five runs. Friends, those are the best
Speaker 1: bets of the day for Wednesday. Still got Joe and
Speaker 1: Welsh here up on the art. We're probably not gonna
Speaker 1: have any Joe and Bubba art rest of season. Maybe
Speaker 1: we could pull something off, but I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to just be reminded of Joe and Welsh going forward. Bubba,
Speaker 1: we got one more thing love to do today. I
Speaker 1: don't think there is a new home run board, so
Speaker 1: I apologize for those watching in the live chat, but
Speaker 1: let's get your home run call for today before we
Speaker 1: sign off.
Speaker 2: I love to say a call by the way, he
Speaker 2: was looking at that one quite a bit. But for me,
Speaker 2: mett Olsen started to figure things out of late, it
Speaker 2: feels like, and he get the Rockies taking the bump
Speaker 2: there in Atlanta. So give me matt Olson finding the
Speaker 2: seats there for the hometown favorites.
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen has turned the season around a little bit.
Speaker 1: I wonder how expensive he's gonna be next year. My
Speaker 1: call for today is show heyo Tani. I know, I
Speaker 1: know not the most original, but I took Reee Hoskins
Speaker 1: last week on the show, and we got a Reese
Speaker 1: Hoskins win. Went with a little more niche name last time.
Speaker 1: But we're taking show. Hey, three days without a home run,
Speaker 1: It's like, what does this guy have a temperature or something?
Speaker 1: He's facing Griffin Canning, so I think that one should
Speaker 1: be pretty easy to see tonight him taking Griffin Canning
Speaker 1: yard tonight in Anaheim. But baba, we've done it. We've
Speaker 1: taken over leading off. Thank you my friend for joining
Speaker 1: me today. It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: It's been a blast. It's almost like we've done this
Speaker 2: before together. So that was that was awesome and looking
Speaker 2: forward to Friday, and listeners liked it. The chat was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Joe and I will be with you guys every Wednesday
Speaker 2: and Friday the rest of the way here in September.
Speaker 2: So fun stuff and thanks again my friend, looking forward
Speaker 2: to chatting a few days.
Speaker 1: Always always let us know what you think. Throw some
Speaker 1: comments into the chat. If you liked us, if you
Speaker 1: hated us, if for better than Welsh and Joe, for
Speaker 1: worse than Welson, Joe, whatever it is, let us know.
Speaker 1: We always like to see any input you guys have
Speaker 1: for us. Like Bubba said, we'll be back again on Friday,
Speaker 1: twelve thirty pm Eastern nine thirty Pacific, running through the
Speaker 1: same stuff we usually do, catching up on the previous
Speaker 1: couple of days worth of action. I'll make sure you're
Speaker 1: checking out Bubba over on the Twitter at b D
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Speaker 1: am at Joel Rico ninety nine. Just my name in
Speaker 1: the number ninety nine. Very original, of course, but that
Speaker 1: will do it. Guys. We'll be back again on Friday.
Speaker 1: Until then, take care, have yourselves a great day.
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