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Speaker 1: becomes Fantasy best Friends Forever. Welcome back to the Fantasy
Speaker 1: best Friends Forever. Our two Frank Standfeld with the closer
Speaker 1: Chris Ventra. We'll take you up to two pm Eastern
Speaker 1: Time when you'll hear full time Fantasy Adam Ronus and
Speaker 1: the Doctor Dr Rhodo. For now, we've got a lot
Speaker 1: more to talk about from yesterday's acts. I want to
Speaker 1: continue in this game venture the Angels and the Oakland
Speaker 1: A's Mike Trout was not in the lineup, dealing with
Speaker 1: a sore foot. Spoke about this yesterday with Greg. It
Speaker 1: seems like there's always something going on with Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy plays extremely hard to understand. That,
Speaker 1: but I would almost want him to tone it down
Speaker 1: a little bit. Mom, Mike Trout, we need you for
Speaker 1: the long haul. We'll get an update from Dr A
Speaker 1: in just about you know, fifteen sixteen, seventeen minutes from now,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Dr A about Mike Trout and what's
Speaker 1: going on there. Yesterday I also said Matt Olsen was
Speaker 1: going to come around, and that he is in the
Speaker 1: seventh home run of the season yesterday and to run
Speaker 1: scored to your eyes, great great game from Madame. If
Speaker 1: you could still, I feel like the window is being
Speaker 1: closed very rapidly by now. The window to buy Matt
Speaker 1: Olson is being closed very rapidly. You gotta get in
Speaker 1: neat more this guy. I mean, he's gonna go on
Speaker 1: its hair. He's gonna it's gonna be one of these
Speaker 1: weeks where the guy hits like six homers in a
Speaker 1: week and you're not gonna want to miss out on it.
Speaker 1: So if you can get matt Olsen right now, I
Speaker 1: would try my best to do that Handsel robe less Ventura.
Speaker 1: We had a Handsel robeless sighting yesterday. One of those Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. The guy blew us saved.
Speaker 1: He gave up a home run. You cannot make this
Speaker 1: stuff up. Ventra a hotshot to center field off the
Speaker 1: bat of Mark Hanna. He goes like this, it's center fielder. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: you know what he would have to do to catch it?
Speaker 1: Venture You would have to be sitting in the stands.
Speaker 1: You need a jet pack of something. Because Handsel robeless
Speaker 1: gives up a homer proceeds to blow be saved, and
Speaker 1: it's telling his center fielder, hey, catch that, even though
Speaker 1: it was a home run, you can't make it handsome.
Speaker 1: Did they show his face after, like like after he
Speaker 1: just they might have. I mean I only I watched
Speaker 1: the clip of it a highlight on my phone one
Speaker 1: because once I saw that he gave up a home run,
Speaker 1: like all right, the first thing I do I go
Speaker 1: to my MLB at bat app I said, look, I
Speaker 1: gotta see if he does the point really do the
Speaker 1: point again? And he didn't. He did it again. I mean,
Speaker 1: Hansel Roles and he's been pretty good. He's been pretty
Speaker 1: good in the closer's role. But now the e r
Speaker 1: a up to uh four point to six. I don't
Speaker 1: think that his job is in jeopardy here, but pay
Speaker 1: attention to Ty Butchery, I mean Butchery. I think they
Speaker 1: liked him in his role, so I don't think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna move him out of it. He's got one
Speaker 1: point to seventy year. He has been awesome as that
Speaker 1: you know, multi ending reliever, put out the fires kind
Speaker 1: of guy. I think the name to watch is Camber Drosan.
Speaker 1: Actually he does have closing experience. They they've used him
Speaker 1: in like the opening role this year as well, but
Speaker 1: he has closing experience. Um doesn't have Mike Sosha who
Speaker 1: used to love the guy before. But that's the name
Speaker 1: I would pay attention to Camber Drosan, And obviously Cody
Speaker 1: Allen is still on the roster. But yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's really paying attention to anything there. Hell, at this point,
Speaker 1: he's gotta be what thirty two or something like that,
Speaker 1: Ody Allen maybe thirty, I don't know, he's something around there.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's kind of he's kind of thirty
Speaker 1: is right. Yeah, I'd say something like that. Um, but
Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't a lot of people that were
Speaker 1: excited about him coming into the year. He had the
Speaker 1: closer's role. But I mean you saw it the numbers
Speaker 1: of the past couple of years. They were trending downwards.
Speaker 1: And you watched him pitch basketball, curveball guy, but his fastball. Like,
Speaker 1: I think people bought because you have enough stuff, man,
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. Yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: were bought into because he's, you know, a cheap closer
Speaker 1: that has experience and could get a streak saves for you. Now,
Speaker 1: Handel rob is though, like, who's owning this guy at
Speaker 1: this point? Actually I owned him in one of my
Speaker 1: head to head twelve team points leagues. You just believe
Speaker 1: that he had Cody Allen to start the year as
Speaker 1: my second closer. I got him, you know, one of
Speaker 1: my last round picks in the draft. He was a disaster.
Speaker 1: Guess who I dropped him for. Pedro Strope, who blew
Speaker 1: a safe against the Marlins, didn't even get a single out,
Speaker 1: and then he went on the I l He finished
Speaker 1: the week giving me like negative twelve points. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he got sat down. I think I lost. I
Speaker 1: lost because of him. Actually, never forgive you for that,
Speaker 1: pedro Strope. So I've been trying to like I had
Speaker 1: Michael Gibbons thick God, I didn't have in my line
Speaker 1: up last week? Oh my god, what would do if
Speaker 1: I had Michael Gibbons in my lineup? So now I
Speaker 1: I find myself landing with Hansel Robosts. He's really playing
Speaker 1: the closer carousel here. There's really nothing out there. I
Speaker 1: could pick up Sergio Romo, but it's like he did
Speaker 1: get his eleven saved yesterday. I know, but when is
Speaker 1: that going to run out? You don't want to pick
Speaker 1: him up, and then you know that clock runs out too.
Speaker 1: I think you're you know, he's someone that you know,
Speaker 1: people are actually as a second maybe third closer in
Speaker 1: the rodal leagues. He's getting the opportunities, but I don't
Speaker 1: think the leash is very long at this point. I
Speaker 1: think I'm probably not in danger for now, but it
Speaker 1: is something we're paying attention to. I think Cambodrosan might
Speaker 1: be in the mix if anything were to happen. Which
Speaker 1: let's move over to Texas and Seattle. Lots of runs
Speaker 1: scored in this game as well, fifteen runs combined, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know you want to talk about messy Bullpens. Gosh man,
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners. It's been you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most confusing you know, you think the closer is rowing
Speaker 1: us a lion. You thought it was Swarzak. He gets traded.
Speaker 1: They're using Royani's Elias in the middle endings of relief
Speaker 1: out of nowhere at times. Yesterday, he comes in in
Speaker 1: the eighth inning with a seven to six lead, proceeds
Speaker 1: to blow the game. They tie it seven to seven,
Speaker 1: and then Anthony Bass comes in and then he blew
Speaker 1: it in the ninth and they end up losing eight
Speaker 1: to seven and Shawn Kelly locks down another save for
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. So lots of moving parts with bullpens.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the way of the world, the way
Speaker 1: of the world when it comes to fantasy baseball. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not a shocker. But in Seattle, you know
Speaker 1: they traded away Anthony Szak. That was the best guy
Speaker 1: in the pen, really that you would want. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is coming back soon. So that's someone that's
Speaker 1: interesting to ye. If you play in a fifteen team league,
Speaker 1: you know I would I would start stashing him now, actually,
Speaker 1: because if you wait, you're gonna have to spend a
Speaker 1: lot of fab when he's actually back on the roster.
Speaker 1: He was the closer. They wanted him to be the
Speaker 1: closure of this team. He's coming back from this issue.
Speaker 1: He was on the sixty day I l but he's
Speaker 1: someone that I would stash now maybe, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: that's the guy I gotta look. I think so, And
Speaker 1: at least because I don't see anybody else here that
Speaker 1: could really get the job done it consistently. I mean,
Speaker 1: eliots got blown up yesterday. You know, there's nobody else
Speaker 1: really here that has the experience and could do it
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. So I would. I would take
Speaker 1: a chance on stricklin in you know, if your need
Speaker 1: of a closer and desperate need of a closer. I
Speaker 1: mentioned that Sean Kelly came in for the save and
Speaker 1: he was successful. And you know people might have been asking,
Speaker 1: you know, well, when is jose L Clark gonna get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to close? I don't think you will. Well,
Speaker 1: it wasn't yesterday because he was starting the game. He
Speaker 1: was the opener, and he'd been using him like that
Speaker 1: past couple of times through the rotation. Maybe he's not
Speaker 1: gonna get the closer roll back Venturan. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: using him as an opener right now. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think they. I don't think that's gonna happen. I think
Speaker 1: they like what he's doing as that opener. Um, he's
Speaker 1: been getting their job done, I guess there. And you
Speaker 1: know Kelly's been getting their job done as the closer,
Speaker 1: So why change that right now? It's not like la
Speaker 1: Clark has this, you know, huge pedigree of being a
Speaker 1: great closer. There's no reason to do it. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know Texas has this issue where they need to
Speaker 1: throw him in there as the openers. Sometimes it didn't
Speaker 1: work yesterday because Smiley came in and gave up seven
Speaker 1: or runs. They got blown up completely. But there's so
Speaker 1: many openers now, like every game, every other game I'm
Speaker 1: looking at, there's an opener starting somewhere. Angels have been
Speaker 1: using Bedrosian as well as an opener. It's it's becoming
Speaker 1: Bay obviously. Yankees, where you've been using Green, Well that's
Speaker 1: just because they have injuries, don't really have enough and
Speaker 1: they don't really have a choice. You just don't have
Speaker 1: enough body. So John Kelly converts his six save for
Speaker 1: now he is the Rangers closer. And you know we've said,
Speaker 1: all right, well when the Rangers fall out of it,
Speaker 1: well they haven't yet. I mean they're a game over
Speaker 1: five hundred, so I mean if they stick around five hundred,
Speaker 1: they're lurking. I mean they don't trade away as Shawn Kelly.
Speaker 1: So it's something worth paying attended to and something else
Speaker 1: worth paying attended to. Leading off for the Seattle Mariners
Speaker 1: yesterday was my guy, Malex Smith. Two hits, two ribbies,
Speaker 1: a walk, a run scored, and his thirteen stolen base
Speaker 1: of the season. Get greggy if you're out there listening,
Speaker 1: what's his batting average up to now? But we're not
Speaker 1: gonna talk about but Alex Smith. Baby, he's getting hot.
Speaker 1: He's getting hot. He's the week he's getting hot. You
Speaker 1: need stolen bases. Make sure you add him. And I
Speaker 1: just dropped him in the pit leag like a week
Speaker 1: or two ago. It's funny, that's the funny thing I got.
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds. I'm okay with it. Oh, your guy, Brian
Speaker 1: Reynolds with the stolen basis, I mean that was so
Speaker 1: valuable with the stone basis basis in one game the
Speaker 1: other day. You just told his thirteen base last night.
Speaker 1: That's why I told you can't. It's it's been frustrating.
Speaker 1: He's had bad bad luck is bad is extremely low.
Speaker 1: There's a fast guy. The batting average is gonna come around.
Speaker 1: He's seven first lesson. Somebody was dropped. Someone dropped him.
Speaker 1: Don't be like greg or Ventra. Hick him up. Get
Speaker 1: Malex Smith on your team venture. The Cleveland Indians and
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox. Three combined runs in this game yesterday,
Speaker 1: thirty two hits between the Indians and the Boston Red
Speaker 1: stock Red Sox. Can we get more in Webber please
Speaker 1: or Weeber whatever his name is, because I would like
Speaker 1: to start my hitters against him at all times times.
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber, I mean, this is about as as baseball
Speaker 1: as baseball gets. The guy gives up six earned runs.
Speaker 1: Its ain actually uh in the one league where I
Speaker 1: own him, my home league, head to head points league.
Speaker 1: I didn't start him because it was against Boston. He's
Speaker 1: struggled at times giving up home runs this year, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did last night, to give up
Speaker 1: three home runs, six earned runs combined or five innings pitch.
Speaker 1: But I was I was a little bit scared about
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber, so I didn't have him in the line
Speaker 1: of venture. Yeah, I understand that if you have someone
Speaker 1: with a much better, you know, much better option out there.
Speaker 1: I would do that, but I had b berin in
Speaker 1: one of my lineups. A team I'm six and two in. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I have Carrasco. I don't have a deep rotation.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. So I can't tend to keep my
Speaker 1: guys in there. I figured, you know, at the very least,
Speaker 1: he won't. You know, maybe he'll give me ten points
Speaker 1: against Boston. Maybe I get lucky and he and he
Speaker 1: gets a quality start. He got the win, so he
Speaker 1: ended up with UM eleven point one yesterday. I'll take it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I know it's not two starts,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really have much out My other option
Speaker 1: was Paddock. So it was a better stunt than Paddock
Speaker 1: overall because of the wind. Because of the wind. Because
Speaker 1: of the wind. So I'm okay, let's listen, it's Boston.
Speaker 1: Like he's gonna get blown up. We know about Bieber,
Speaker 1: we know he's been doing this kind of thing all year,
Speaker 1: but he's he's a solid picture. There's no time he's
Speaker 1: going to be in your lineup. The only reason I
Speaker 1: benched him was because he was going up against Boston
Speaker 1: in Boston, you know, most of the time, he's he's
Speaker 1: a guy that I'm gonna trust as you know, my
Speaker 1: SP three, maybe my SP four, But he's a guy
Speaker 1: that normally I want to trust and get in my lineup.
Speaker 1: But it was his match up against Boston. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to mess Hi out with this, and ultimately it
Speaker 1: ended up working out. Ventra. Five of the fourteen runs
Speaker 1: that were scored by the Indians yesterday were driven in
Speaker 1: by Carlo Santana. This guy's hot again, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been really streaky, got off to a really good
Speaker 1: start this year and he cooled off. Now he's hot again.
Speaker 1: Three for four yesterday or runs, scored a home run,
Speaker 1: his tenth of the season, five ribbies, two walks, Mr reliable.
Speaker 1: Who is who is this carl Santana? And what do
Speaker 1: he what do he do with? That's the crazy Like
Speaker 1: THEO four average is kind of shocking because last year
Speaker 1: he hit nine. He's a career hit eight four, So
Speaker 1: I expect that this year. Yeah, I expect that kind
Speaker 1: of to regress a little bit as the season goes
Speaker 1: on slowly. But the guy such a reliable, consistent hitter
Speaker 1: in terms of what you know you're gonna get from
Speaker 1: him every year. Uh, you know, he gives you that power.
Speaker 1: He walks walk Yeah, two eighty four batting average right now. Massive.
Speaker 1: It's crazy too, because like I feel like he hasn't
Speaker 1: really hit a ton of ton of homer's over his
Speaker 1: career to really be like a guy that walks a
Speaker 1: hundred times. But he walks dred times. He has such
Speaker 1: a good eye. Even though he hit two thirty eight,
Speaker 1: has one over. So he came back in two thousand
Speaker 1: sixteen when he hit thirties. You know, looking at his
Speaker 1: bad ball data, forty nine hard hit, right, I mean
Speaker 1: that's by far a career high. You guys hitting the
Speaker 1: ball really hard, hitting more groundballs this year. But it's
Speaker 1: actually working out for him groundball rate, fly ball. Normally,
Speaker 1: I would want, all right, well, come on, let's hit
Speaker 1: more fly balls here, Carl Santana. What it's working for him.
Speaker 1: So if it's working for Carl Santana, it's working for me.
Speaker 1: I don't want him to change anything because he's doing
Speaker 1: the best he's ever home runs. He's on pace for
Speaker 1: thirty I don't even need thirty home runs. Give me
Speaker 1: twenty five homers. You know the county stature there, thirty
Speaker 1: three runs, thirty four and seventy two seventy with a
Speaker 1: good O b P home runs. That's fine, you're getting
Speaker 1: more than you bogging four. Really don't change the thing.
Speaker 1: Carl Santana, you know, listen, he's a model of like
Speaker 1: an iron man, you know, consistent guy that you know,
Speaker 1: basically playing every single day, uh and getting a dump
Speaker 1: you uh. The other two guys though, in that game,
Speaker 1: Lindor Mercado, Okay, this is re hits each. I was
Speaker 1: saying yesterday, the Indians are about to break out. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna be this soon, even though
Speaker 1: you saw it yesterday against the Red Sox. Granted it
Speaker 1: was getting against Webber, but I think they're gonna start
Speaker 1: breaking out as the season goes along more and more.
Speaker 1: Once you see Ramirez starting to get hot now two
Speaker 1: for five yesterday with two r b I s and
Speaker 1: two run scored. You know Macado, this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: they bring him up. He's ripping absolutely, sitting three thirty
Speaker 1: three right now, two run scored. And then you got
Speaker 1: Lindor who's really starting to come on here. He's getting
Speaker 1: like multiple hits every game. He's been like in the
Speaker 1: last five games, three for six, two run scored in ALBII.
Speaker 1: These these two guys at the top. If Ra Mirrors
Speaker 1: starts getting hot, you got Santan in the middle there,
Speaker 1: it's not that bad of a line up. As we
Speaker 1: said at the beginning of the beginning of season, We're like,
Speaker 1: this line is terrible, yeah, because they had they had
Speaker 1: a Hanley Ramrrors, they had all these retreads in their lineup.
Speaker 1: But and they're about to get Bradley Zimmer back too,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there. Greg Allen Worth, noting
Speaker 1: that he started in left field in this game, went
Speaker 1: two for four hit two triples, actually two two triples
Speaker 1: for Greg Allen we know that he's a really fast guy. Um,
Speaker 1: see what happens there if he if he continues to
Speaker 1: stay in the lineup. They had Jake Bowers at designated
Speaker 1: hitter yesterday and jose Ra mirr Is obviously a big
Speaker 1: topic of conversation is Jose marr is gonna come around well?
Speaker 1: Back to back multi hit games? Venture But if I
Speaker 1: told you that that was the first time all season
Speaker 1: he had back to back multi hit games, I believe
Speaker 1: it where it is crazy, crazy, and you know, even
Speaker 1: with the back to back multi hit games, batting two
Speaker 1: oh nine. So let's see if he can build off this.
Speaker 1: The home runs don't have to come right away. I'd
Speaker 1: rather her, Jose Ramirez, Let's get a couple of hits.
Speaker 1: Let's string together a couple of hits. Let's get that
Speaker 1: batting average up. Let's get the confidence off, and then
Speaker 1: we'll try and stores once the weather continues to heat up.
Speaker 1: Let's get that batting average up, man, and you're a
Speaker 1: better hitter than this. This is like my my monologue
Speaker 1: to Carlo to josire mirrors. Jose, Let's get the bat
Speaker 1: on the ball. Stop trying to hit so many home
Speaker 1: runs right now. Maybe let's make contact. Hits will come,
Speaker 1: We'll get the confidence up. Then we'll start swinging for
Speaker 1: the fences. Baby, but we need to get that batting
Speaker 1: and it's coming, we hope. I'm gonna make a prediction
Speaker 1: right now. It's Thursday. I say, by June, what is
Speaker 1: the batting average for Jose? I was gonna go even sooner,
Speaker 1: but let's say, yeah, let's say June. Let's do Juli
Speaker 1: a month, a month of action. Ue, what's the batting average.
Speaker 1: I'll say to I was gonna say, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a pretty damn good June. Get his batting average from two,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have a crazy streak that he boost
Speaker 1: his batting average up like most year. We know he's
Speaker 1: capable of these crazy streaks. He was almost a thirty
Speaker 1: thirty player in the first half last year. It's unheard of.
Speaker 1: He's a great player. It's gonna happen. I said earlier
Speaker 1: on in the week. Look, if you can sell someone
Speaker 1: the way that I'm trying to sell myself right now,
Speaker 1: that Josian marriage is coming around, and you can get
Speaker 1: good value for him, and you look into trading game
Speaker 1: because I know no good friend of the program, Constantine.
Speaker 1: He told me, he said, he sent me the screenshots. Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make trades. Nobody wants Jose Ramirez. I
Speaker 1: understand that maybe now multi hit games, you could sell
Speaker 1: them off a little bit easier. Here. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what if I'm if you're in a league with me
Speaker 1: that I don't have h mirrors, I'm interested. You're gonna
Speaker 1: buy low right now? Yeah? Oh yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Here with Jose Ramirez venture of
Speaker 1: the Phillies eleven to four yesterday against the Cardinals Cardinals
Speaker 1: many six and twenty with the St. Louis Cardinals. You
Speaker 1: know what, I think it starts with the with the pitching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the pitching just hasn't gotten the job done
Speaker 1: this year. Hopefully Alex Rays could be a boost. But
Speaker 1: Genesis Cabrera um made a quick, a quick exodus yesterday. Dude,
Speaker 1: that's bad. In two thirds five runs scores, but three earned,
Speaker 1: two walks, five strikeouts, seven point three six e r
Speaker 1: a in his first start. You say he didn't do
Speaker 1: so bad. Three and two thirds is not good. I
Speaker 1: like the five case only three urned runs. Yeah, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: obviously they didn't help him, uh in the field behind
Speaker 1: them very much. But listen, it's Stanisis Cabrera. Obviously this
Speaker 1: isn't a top guy coming up. You know, who's gonna
Speaker 1: just pitch a gem out of nowhere. Um. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of expect it. The Phillies lineup and the
Speaker 1: Philly is a dude to really start getting real hot here.
Speaker 1: I think we see that a little bit here. Rice
Speaker 1: Harper Dinger, Mike cal Franco Got hot, though, I mean
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't want my two nineteen Got Kinggary,
Speaker 1: You're got Homer in McCutcheon, Homer, Let's go Philly, stay hot? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on hiatus party and somewhere, probably got a fruity drink
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Speaker 1: we'll bring in the Good Doctor, dr a of inside injuries.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Doc? How's everything? Good afternoon, guys. How
Speaker 1: are you guys doing today? Good Doc? How are you doing?
Speaker 1: This is Chris Ventra, by the way, replacing Greg Sussman,
Speaker 1: replacing Gregg. We We have to bring in some of
Speaker 1: the placements here because Greg Sussman wants to go out
Speaker 1: party and but Doc, I don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Houston Astros. I don't know if they caught
Speaker 1: whatever was going on with the New York Yankees, but
Speaker 1: a bunch of players are going down for the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Carlos Correa, who apparently fractured his rib,
Speaker 1: getting a massage in his home and expected to be
Speaker 1: out six to eight weeks. That's the timetable that I've seen.
Speaker 1: What are the algorithms saying about Carlos Correa. Yeah, so, um,
Speaker 1: you know you can get a uh you know, some
Speaker 1: of these massages are theory peutic and they put quite
Speaker 1: a bit of force on the rib, cage, etcetera. But
Speaker 1: this is not He must have had some sort of underlying,
Speaker 1: very subtle maybe non displaced fracture in the past. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of weakening, etcetera. And so it's
Speaker 1: not something that's new, probably and it just got worse
Speaker 1: over time, especially during the massage. So non displaced structure
Speaker 1: of the rib usually an optimal covery time of five weeks. Um.
Speaker 1: So we're saying July the second, especially shortstop a lot
Speaker 1: of mobility, he's going to get a lot of pain
Speaker 1: medication and pain management, etcetera. In terms of making sure
Speaker 1: that he doesn't feel this on uh um you know,
Speaker 1: uh turning a double play or you know, moving to
Speaker 1: the right side, etcetera. So, um, it's uh, probably July
Speaker 1: the second is what we're looking at right now. The second,
Speaker 1: so right around the All Star bring. And I think
Speaker 1: you know that we heard four to six weeks at
Speaker 1: First Venture and in it they changed it to six
Speaker 1: to eight weeks. And I think those things really line
Speaker 1: up together. We're probably close to the All Star break,
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't surprise me if they just hold them
Speaker 1: out all the way through the All Star break and
Speaker 1: we get him for the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Frustrating if you're a care um, another astrol, A lot
Speaker 1: of astros in a roll here, doc um A. Jingston
Speaker 1: did some cargoon news with josel two days knee Uh.
Speaker 1: May eleven, he was put on the angel list with
Speaker 1: his left hamstring injury. Any news on that and what
Speaker 1: we can expect should he be back maybe in the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks or so. Yeah, So he's got
Speaker 1: two separate injuries, you know, as you guys know, he's
Speaker 1: got the right Grade one knee injury and he's also
Speaker 1: got a Grade one hamstring injury. You know, he injured
Speaker 1: the left hamstring on May the tenth, and he was
Speaker 1: placed on i L at that point. He started that
Speaker 1: rehab assignment on Sunday, uh you know, and you remember
Speaker 1: he played two games and then was shut down due
Speaker 1: to the soreness and that right knee. And this is
Speaker 1: sort of like, uh, you know, the whole associated injury
Speaker 1: that happens after recovering from another injury, especially as you
Speaker 1: get old, are in professional sports, and so you know
Speaker 1: this is a Even though these are minor, lower grade
Speaker 1: type injuries, the astros have to be very, very cautious
Speaker 1: with al TV because he's now developed a compensatory injury.
Speaker 1: And so even though the optimal recovery time for one
Speaker 1: injury is this is two weeks, but because it was
Speaker 1: because of a compensatory injury, they probably should add another
Speaker 1: week onto that two weeks. So instead of June tenth,
Speaker 1: the algorithm is saying June the seventeenth. During the seventeenth
Speaker 1: looking like a healthy to return date for jose al
Speaker 1: tuve Ventro. I wasn't on Korea or jose Al tuve
Speaker 1: rod draft season because I was worried about all of
Speaker 1: the injuries that Parrea had over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: with the with the oblique and the back injuries. No,
Speaker 1: not that we could have seen a fractured rib coming
Speaker 1: from me, you know, massage, if that's what happened, happened.
Speaker 1: But with the thing I mean he had off season
Speaker 1: knee surgery, I was worried about that too. I mean,
Speaker 1: you had to pay a really high price for jose
Speaker 1: Al TV, somebody who you didn't have to pay as
Speaker 1: high I have price for and was phenomenal before he
Speaker 1: got hurt. Was George Springer. Again, we have this triumvirate.
Speaker 1: Really we have three injuries, main injuries to the core
Speaker 1: stars of the Houston Astros. Doc, what's the latest on
Speaker 1: George Springer. It's a great two hamstring, so that's concerning
Speaker 1: because it's not Grade one. Grade two is a pretty
Speaker 1: significant strain. It's not a tear, so that's good. Optomical
Speaker 1: covery of time is four weeks, and so we're looking
Speaker 1: at June one, so June the twenty one for George Springers.
Speaker 1: So it seems like, you know, by mid June we
Speaker 1: should start to get some of these Houston Astros back
Speaker 1: and then uh, Carl's Corey a little bit later on
Speaker 1: early June, maybe around the All Star break, whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. But I say this a lot, Doc and Ventura,
Speaker 1: when it comes to star players like this, please just
Speaker 1: take your time. I you know, I know the Astros, Uh,
Speaker 1: they are trying to win it all, um, they have
Speaker 1: aspirations of going deep in the postseason, obviously, but take
Speaker 1: your time, you know. I'd rather these guys get completely
Speaker 1: healthy and then come back um and help us for
Speaker 1: the long run in fantasy baseball venture. Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Three three players that are crucial to going into the
Speaker 1: playoffs for the Astros. They if you see any of
Speaker 1: these guys come back but before June the seventeen, that
Speaker 1: is a huge red flag. Yeah. Uh, speaking of a
Speaker 1: guy you know with star who you want to take
Speaker 1: your time when I know this might be something small
Speaker 1: and it looks like Mike Trout of the l A Angels,
Speaker 1: basically best player in baseball for many years now. Uh,
Speaker 1: he found the ball of his right foot. They say
Speaker 1: it's nothing serious. Uh, he might even be back today.
Speaker 1: So any concerns here with Trout just in case, uh
Speaker 1: foot sore neists. It's just a soft tissue bruise, not
Speaker 1: even grade one foot, so uh it's one. They're just
Speaker 1: being extra cautious. One game sit out, I mean the
Speaker 1: optimalcovery time here says one week. I don't think he
Speaker 1: needs to sit out that much. But given you know
Speaker 1: the caliber player that he is, he'll be out for
Speaker 1: probably a game or two and then he'll be brought back.
Speaker 1: Can so nothing of too much concern. Again, not too
Speaker 1: concerning here, but you know what if you gotta take
Speaker 1: your time, you sit him out a few days, that's
Speaker 1: fine because we need Mike Trout for the long run
Speaker 1: here in fantasy baseball. But it seems like he's always
Speaker 1: dealing like these Tiki Tach injuries the past couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: he's missed some time. It just it goes into the
Speaker 1: nature of the way he plays the game. It's just
Speaker 1: an animal. Yeah, that's just what happened. We're talking with
Speaker 1: Dr a of inside injuries and Doc move over to
Speaker 1: a picture here now. And Luke Weaver got off to
Speaker 1: a phenomenal start this year. He was, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the late round pictures that was actually bringing back
Speaker 1: the most value so far this season in Fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: He gets diagnosed with the dreaded strained right forearm to
Speaker 1: his pitching arm. And many times, Doc, when we see
Speaker 1: the forearm, we know that this is a precursor for
Speaker 1: you know, worst things succumb Do you think that is
Speaker 1: the case here for Luke Weaver. So the good news
Speaker 1: is is that, um, you know, he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: long history and the string of previous injuries to that
Speaker 1: elbow or to that forum. Here's the buzzwords that you
Speaker 1: need to be concerned about. Team is hopeful that he
Speaker 1: can avoid surgery, but he is going for a second opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you have to go for a second opinion, that
Speaker 1: means the team doctor and the evaluation process has given
Speaker 1: him something that is not just simple and normal and
Speaker 1: sort of sit out. It is something that requires a
Speaker 1: second opinion. So, guys, I'm not that algorithm is not
Speaker 1: ac the exact diagnosis. However, UM, you know, just not
Speaker 1: do not be surprised if he goes for a second
Speaker 1: opinion and they decide to shut him down, um for
Speaker 1: at least six to eight weeks before they can re
Speaker 1: evaluate him. This is does this does not vode well
Speaker 1: for Luke Weaver unfortunately. UM. And you know how many
Speaker 1: times guys have we seen a forearm straining this year?
Speaker 1: Right Like, it's probably the seventieth time we've talked about
Speaker 1: this with a starting pitcher. And if not so much
Speaker 1: that these injuries have never happened before, it's just that
Speaker 1: the sensitivity around pitching and the diagnostic capabilities, we're detecting
Speaker 1: these things and they're being reported and they're being treated earlier.
Speaker 1: So a lot of pictures in the past and the
Speaker 1: eighties and the nineties. They all suffered from this stuff,
Speaker 1: but it just they just kept pitching through it. Basically,
Speaker 1: now they're starting to treat it at a very early
Speaker 1: a much earlier period of time. So in this particular case,
Speaker 1: when he when he was going for a second opinion
Speaker 1: to avoid surgery. Even though the optimal recovery time right
Speaker 1: now is four weeks, so June grade to four arms
Speaker 1: strain is not a tear going for a second opinion.
Speaker 1: He may be shut down for much longer than that
Speaker 1: to avoid surgery. So just be aware it's between four
Speaker 1: and eight weeks likelihood split it down the middle at
Speaker 1: least six weeks out. Lots of moving cards right now
Speaker 1: for Luke Weaver. So pay attention to what happens with
Speaker 1: that second opinion. Yeah, I mean hearing the possibility of surgery,
Speaker 1: He's clearly going through something brasivere here mantra, and it
Speaker 1: sucks because he was finally starting to write it together. Uh.
Speaker 1: He has the prospect pedigree, he was part of that
Speaker 1: pol Goldschmid trade, looked like he might be the frontline
Speaker 1: starter of the future the Arizona Diamondbacks and then unfortunately
Speaker 1: suffers this injury Yeah, agreed. A guy we both really
Speaker 1: liked this year. Another guy that you liked this year.
Speaker 1: A guy who's been out for a while now, he's
Speaker 1: out two months at this point, Mr ol of April
Speaker 1: May with a lad injury. He lay to resume throwing
Speaker 1: this week, but they say won't be back probably around
Speaker 1: mid June. And the Seattle Bulpen that his hunter strictling
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners. Uh, you have any news on this, doctor,
Speaker 1: you think mid June sounds about right. Well, so the
Speaker 1: original after the original injury, a great two latch strain
Speaker 1: is five weeks offtimore recovery, and so he should have
Speaker 1: been back on May the fifth. So my thinking is
Speaker 1: in the algorithms readjustment is basically a lot of teams
Speaker 1: don't tell tell us when players are coming back, and
Speaker 1: their recovery is it fast as its slow as it normal.
Speaker 1: He's having a slower recovery. It maybe because the original
Speaker 1: injury was more severe and may have been a great
Speaker 1: two three like or three. Um, so they're being very
Speaker 1: sensitive with him and very careful. Uh. So we tacked
Speaker 1: on another four weeks. So basically it's June five to
Speaker 1: June the tenth right now, is what we're projecting, all right.
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty good timetable though. So you know,
Speaker 1: if the Mariners are expecting him to be back in
Speaker 1: mid June, it seems like he should be good to
Speaker 1: go by then. We spoke about him earlier on in
Speaker 1: the show. The Seattle Mariners bullpen has been a complete
Speaker 1: mess basically since he went down, so in deeper leagues,
Speaker 1: if you could stash him now, I think once he returns,
Speaker 1: he pretty much just steps into the closest role here
Speaker 1: for the Seattle Mariners. They've been trying to to figure
Speaker 1: that out. So I think once they get Hunter shrinking back,
Speaker 1: he should be good to go and obviously will help
Speaker 1: the Mariners and fantasy owners alike. Doctor Tim Anderson was
Speaker 1: you know, dealing with a risk injury injury you know
Speaker 1: missed the past four games. Did get back in the
Speaker 1: lineup yesterday? Is this anything that we need to worry
Speaker 1: about when it comes to Tim Anderson or should he
Speaker 1: be good to go because he was back in the
Speaker 1: line up yesterday. I mean it's a soft tissue. Um.
Speaker 1: They they did an X ray, it's negative for fracture,
Speaker 1: so it's just a soft tissue contusion. It'll cause him
Speaker 1: a little bit of discomfort. Typically we say let him
Speaker 1: rest a week. Sometimes teams don't care about that and
Speaker 1: they'll just play them right away. If they don't have
Speaker 1: a fracture, they'll just you know, get over the fact
Speaker 1: that he has to suffer through a little bit of
Speaker 1: pain until it gets healed completely. So nothing really to
Speaker 1: worry about for Tim Anderson. Okay, because loved him Anderson,
Speaker 1: Mr Anderson, Um, doc, we got a guy on the
Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies, Tony Walters, the catcher for the Rockies. I
Speaker 1: got I gotta Pausey for a second there, venture because
Speaker 1: this is Greg Sussman special. Tony Walters wanted to fight
Speaker 1: out Tony Walters because we own him on its team together.
Speaker 1: This is a Gregg Subsman special if I've ever seen one,
Speaker 1: you know. So normally he'll he'll he'll tell doctre. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit selfish at times. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you about one of my players. So hopefully he's
Speaker 1: watching while sitting back drinking a malbow babies. Um, Tony
Speaker 1: Walters handed dry not in the starting line up for
Speaker 1: Wednesday's game. Yesterday, Oh late, scratch, do a do a
Speaker 1: hand conclusion, is this something that we should be worried
Speaker 1: about right now? Uh, he definitely needs to take a week.
Speaker 1: And I like the fact that he um he scratched
Speaker 1: from the lineup on Tuesday and didn't play Wednesday, because
Speaker 1: this is a catcher, it's a throwing hand. There's no fractures.
Speaker 1: X rays negative, but he does have a little bit
Speaker 1: of pain. That hand needs to be completely healed, just
Speaker 1: from a soft tissue bruising standpoint. And I like the
Speaker 1: fact that one week, give him one week off. May
Speaker 1: thirty one, which is tomorrow, should be that one week
Speaker 1: after the injury. And so you know, uh, let him
Speaker 1: play on the weekend, but keep him out one more game. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. Hopefully the Rockies take a cautious approach
Speaker 1: when it comes to Tony Walters. Look, not a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna light up. You know the scoreboard for Fantasy baseball,
Speaker 1: Greg but venture Look I'm calling because you know, I
Speaker 1: got Tony Walters on the mike. But in two catcher
Speaker 1: leagues he has been serviceablie good batting average, not really
Speaker 1: any pop or anything, but good batting average from a
Speaker 1: second catcher. There, Doc, We actually got a earlier on
Speaker 1: in the chat asking us about Nelson Cruz, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a good place to go next because he
Speaker 1: was eligible to come off the i L last Friday
Speaker 1: and they were talking about it like he was gonna
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup and then he gets pushed
Speaker 1: back now and he's dealing with a risk injury and
Speaker 1: he's one year older and you know he's no spring
Speaker 1: chicken anymore. Should we be worrying about Nelson Cruz? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: so the age is the biggest factor there. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: these little injuries that come up when you're that old
Speaker 1: and you know and playing in the league and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just uh, and the fact that you know his
Speaker 1: now that he's a d H. You know, the risk
Speaker 1: is a tremendously important body part because it has to
Speaker 1: do with hitting all the time. And so, um, it's
Speaker 1: a great one. It's not a soft tissue. So he
Speaker 1: does have some tendon tendonitis and it has to be
Speaker 1: you know sort of uh, you know, given a full
Speaker 1: two weeks. But that two weeks ended, um, you know
Speaker 1: sort of on made the and then he had a setback. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he took some batting practice, um, and he
Speaker 1: was expected to be activated, like you guys said over
Speaker 1: the weekend, but there is more compromise because of that
Speaker 1: risk to his hitting motion that you know they're reporting.
Speaker 1: And so when we see that, we've upgraded that risk
Speaker 1: sprain for his original sprain from a grade one to
Speaker 1: a Grade two meaning downgraded and I'm sorry, to a
Speaker 1: grade too. And so now that that put six weeks
Speaker 1: onto that original timeline, So it's basically June the like
Speaker 1: mid June, June tenth to June fifteenth, basically, so still
Speaker 1: more two more weeks is what we're predicting. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take that. You know, considering thirty years old, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, you knew one of these years something was
Speaker 1: someone's gonna happen. That's why I think it's better. That's
Speaker 1: you know, they play it safe with him, and it exactly,
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't even really need Speaking of another
Speaker 1: Minnesota twin that a lot of people own a lot
Speaker 1: of people like, including myself, but he's been very fragile
Speaker 1: over the years. Twenty five year old Byron Buckston outfielder,
Speaker 1: of course, recently bruised his right knee running into the wall,
Speaker 1: which he tends to do from year to year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know he says he's fine, uh and should
Speaker 1: be ready for today. But should we be at least
Speaker 1: a little concerned because he has a you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries in the past. He's been fragile, and
Speaker 1: you know, we want to see make sure this guy
Speaker 1: is healthy because he could be a star. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: only got a minute left. So yeah, one week June four.
Speaker 1: If he shouldn't play today tomorrow, this week, he should
Speaker 1: wait till next week. Awesome. So there you go, Byron Buckston.
Speaker 1: Let's play it safe with him coming around a little
Speaker 1: bit this year venture, you know, hitting for a little
Speaker 1: bit more pop, making more contact, not striking out as much.
Speaker 1: He's got the nine stolen basis. So again in that
Speaker 1: Twins lineup, you know, you could do a lot of damage,
Speaker 1: but we need you to be healthy, so we should
Speaker 1: not start him to this approach when it comes to
Speaker 1: Byron Buckston, that is dr a of inside injuries. Doc.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time as always. Yes, guys, thanks, have
Speaker 1: a great day, See you next week, See you next week, doc.
Speaker 1: So there you go, Greg, Greg, Greg did have a
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I got great Susman on the mind.
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Speaker 1: We gotta talk about few more things that happened yesterday,
Speaker 1: real quick venture as I of course I'm getting updates
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals game going on right now. Marcelo Una
Speaker 1: home run hanging it at us today. We knew that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's gotta get the batting average up. That's what
Speaker 1: that's what comes down to. But I'll take the home is.
Speaker 1: Though we left off with the with the Phillies and Cardinals.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Bryce Harper three hits a home run, another
Speaker 1: guy like Hols here in mirrors. I mean just too talented.
Speaker 1: He's got a two forty three hitter. You have to
Speaker 1: imagine at some point it's gonna come around. I know
Speaker 1: he hits a lot into the shift and that's been
Speaker 1: a huge issue Bryce Harper, but the power is crazy.
Speaker 1: Like the four outfielders at some times, for hey, drop
Speaker 1: a few buts down, dropping butts down the third base line.
Speaker 1: Let's get that bas Homer's, but let's get the batting
Speaker 1: average up to This is a guy who should be
Speaker 1: able to control where he hits the bull. He's been
Speaker 1: training for the solo stife. This is like a generational prospect,
Speaker 1: and he's athletic to like he you know, like he
Speaker 1: could get it done. It's just that, Listen. The average
Speaker 1: is up to two already three. Listen. The thing about
Speaker 1: him is it's not like, oh it's two forty three again.
Speaker 1: I know he's batted poorly and batting average before and
Speaker 1: he has passed, but I think he has the capability,
Speaker 1: like he could just do That's what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: he could just do that whenever he wants. So there's
Speaker 1: no given up on him. And even with this slow start,
Speaker 1: you want to say, he's still averaging three point nine
Speaker 1: fantasy points in my home league, so good, which is ridiculous,
Speaker 1: So good for ov P league. So that's where his
Speaker 1: value gets raised. You know, if you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about the batting average O b P is always ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Noah twirl to Jammy yesterday too, Aaron, Noah Big. We
Speaker 1: want to see consistency at him. He's actually he's done
Speaker 1: this multiple times now against the Cardinals, which seems weird
Speaker 1: because they're a good lineup. It seems like he struggles
Speaker 1: against other teams, but he's been really good against St.
Speaker 1: Louis so earlier on in the season. He also went
Speaker 1: six innings wander and run, seven k's, and then yesterday
Speaker 1: seven innings, one earned run, eight ks. The problem for
Speaker 1: Noah this year? But why why? Why this guy walking
Speaker 1: so many? I'm not someone he doesn't normally struggle with
Speaker 1: walks like this, but dominant yesterday his last time I
Speaker 1: got against the Cubbies four walks. This isn't This isn't
Speaker 1: the arnouls that we're used to. He he might. I
Speaker 1: guess he's having problems, uh, you know, controlling his secondary
Speaker 1: pitches and stuff. He never had a dominant fastball last year.
Speaker 1: He you know, he'd dominated with the secondary stuff. So
Speaker 1: if it's not on on a certain day, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: probably walking people. And you know they know to be patient.
Speaker 1: You know they're seeing that he's walking people. This year,
Speaker 1: I think he'll be fine. Though I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 1: But as the r A says right now, sits at
Speaker 1: four on eight, it's not what you paid for. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not what you pay for. But be patient, it'll come.
Speaker 1: Venture Tigers Oreos. The Tigers would this one four to two.
Speaker 1: Good pitching performance here from John Means. I liked him
Speaker 1: as a single start matchup this week. Wrote about him
Speaker 1: on my Patreon earlier on on Sunday. So great start,
Speaker 1: no walks, seven cases, here you go six six Ennings
Speaker 1: wonder and run seven case and Shane Green eighteen save
Speaker 1: of the season, big one point one three d r A.
Speaker 1: Who is this guy? What are we doing? He's rejuvenated.
Speaker 1: I feel like this happens every year there's one close
Speaker 1: of that just like rejuvenates his career, Like it was
Speaker 1: Greg Holland one year, and like it's just like it
Speaker 1: happens that Greg Holland's doing it this year too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. So these guys do that. I like
Speaker 1: veteran closes. They get the job done. And you know,
Speaker 1: I have him on a few teams. I didn't start
Speaker 1: him this week. The Tigers don't trade him either. As
Speaker 1: good as he's been, let's keep him on the tip.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to trade him. Probably they're bad and
Speaker 1: thirty two they're gonna adapt to trade very bad. He's
Speaker 1: probably the most valuable asset besides Nick cast Honest, I
Speaker 1: think they end up trading him to Yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: even having the year that you know, his may has
Speaker 1: been better, it may has been better, So I think
Speaker 1: I think he'll land somewhere else. We'll see what happens
Speaker 1: when it comes to uh to Nick Cassiano's here, But
Speaker 1: same score, different game, the Marlins win against the Giants
Speaker 1: or to two Pablo Lopez another one. I like a
Speaker 1: boy as a single start to six innings, four hits,
Speaker 1: wander and run, one walk, five strike as If you
Speaker 1: look at his game log, it's one really good start,
Speaker 1: it's one really bad start. So maybe you don't start
Speaker 1: him his next time now. But look, we love streaming
Speaker 1: pitchers against the Giants against the Marlins. We knew this
Speaker 1: was gonna be a low scoring game. Bum Garner on
Speaker 1: the other side, six innings, two earned runs. He gets
Speaker 1: tagged with the loss, unfortunately, because if you look at
Speaker 1: the Giants lineup, you know they have Mike Yastrinsky batting
Speaker 1: second for them, and you know, Panda Panda, Panda Panda
Speaker 1: adding clean hand is bad and clean he's in. It's
Speaker 1: not Bumper. He's got a four point zero one e
Speaker 1: r A. The underlying number is actually a little bit
Speaker 1: better for bum Garner. It's gonna be the race for Bummy.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna end up trading for him because he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Giants come trade deadline. But you know,
Speaker 1: the Giants are in that transition period where they're rebuilding
Speaker 1: their Stage zero right now. Um, so you gotta sell
Speaker 1: off everybody. It's gonna be so weird to see Bummy
Speaker 1: a different uniform, you know, same thing. I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta ask yourself, Buster Posey. They moved him to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what. He's not himself anymore,
Speaker 1: you know, to forty eight batting average O p s
Speaker 1: another guy throughout the draft season venture I didn't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with it, and you were right. I
Speaker 1: mean coming off a hip surgery and one year older,
Speaker 1: and the powers, the power and not a batting average
Speaker 1: has gone too. I mean normally you depend on him
Speaker 1: for a two eight batting average and he is a catcher.
Speaker 1: This happens to catchers. I remember Joe Maher happened to
Speaker 1: Joe Mall was hitting three twenty like every year he
Speaker 1: won the bad at the end of his career, he
Speaker 1: gave you good batting average power. Well, they started playing
Speaker 1: him at first base in d h him and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's how you save a catcher. That's what they need
Speaker 1: to do a post care Then what do they do
Speaker 1: with Brandon Belt? What I'm saying, Brandon Belt, this is
Speaker 1: supposed to me. I thought he was gonna be their
Speaker 1: best hitter this year and he's hitting to thirty. You
Speaker 1: know he's not really Papo Set is actually their best
Speaker 1: hitter right now to um. But there's no power in
Speaker 1: this Like, there's nothing there in this lineup. You just
Speaker 1: like it's saying everyone. Guys like Posey and Belt are
Speaker 1: big commodity and trade Belt and you know what if
Speaker 1: Belt ends up in a good hitters ballpark. I always said,
Speaker 1: you put that guy in Yankee Stadium. Yeah, exactly. San
Speaker 1: Francisco SAPs your power already, and then when you're older,
Speaker 1: like Posey is, forget about it and bum Gun needs
Speaker 1: to be traded. Yeah, he's hanging by a thread with
Speaker 1: his four y r a like he's doing well, but
Speaker 1: he's hanging by a thread in the sense that his
Speaker 1: value could decline at any moment. Get rid of I
Speaker 1: would get rid of them sooner rather than later. The
Speaker 1: Giants aren't going anywhere three. They should know this. If
Speaker 1: you worry that if he gets traded the Ventura, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the comfy home ballpark of Oracle in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: That's a big ballpark, that's probably the best pitchers park
Speaker 1: in baseball. He's gonna leave there. He's gonna end up
Speaker 1: somewhere like Olwakee, Bad Houston, Minnesota, maybe the Yankees, maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: most of those. I am concerned. But maybe if you're
Speaker 1: a fantasy owner you trade him to it's together good
Speaker 1: starts you him before he gets traded. Exactly. I agree
Speaker 1: with that worry about he's gonna end up in Man,
Speaker 1: I would absolutely trade him. Uh, you know, maybe he
Speaker 1: has a couple more good starts to get him at
Speaker 1: a nice value, you know, nice value. You could trade
Speaker 1: him to something pretty good. I could see that easily
Speaker 1: happened going to another team. And this is why the
Speaker 1: John should trade him soon, because once he gets to
Speaker 1: another team, he's probably gonna start having trouble right away.
Speaker 1: You know, you've seen the desine on the fastball. Uh,
Speaker 1: Mike Floria had a great stat on his the isolated power,
Speaker 1: so isolated power for those out there, I slugging percentage
Speaker 1: minus batting average, so you're isolated power. His isolated power
Speaker 1: against his fastball last year was the same amount as
Speaker 1: Christian Yellowish is ISO overall. So like, so every year
Speaker 1: who was batting against his fastball was Christian Yellowish. That's
Speaker 1: just I mean, that's crazy, crazy, Like you're seeing a
Speaker 1: bit of a decline here from bum Garner. So makes
Speaker 1: sense he's gonna be traded. But ultimately, I don't think
Speaker 1: that helps his fantasy value. It's gonna help him get wins,
Speaker 1: but the e r a might balloon a little bit,
Speaker 1: probably give up more home runs in a different ballpark.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Sergio Romo gets to the eleven
Speaker 1: save of the season. You don't love Sergio Romo, but
Speaker 1: con then he's getting a job done for the Marlins
Speaker 1: for the time being. I think he's another guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna be traded. I'll be interested to ask Craig miss
Speaker 1: about this tomorrow because he follows the Marlins very closely.
Speaker 1: He goes to a lot of the games. He covers
Speaker 1: the games for them in the press box. I want
Speaker 1: to ask him, if Sergio Romo is traded, who is
Speaker 1: the next man up to be the closer? Because people
Speaker 1: were clamoring for Nick Anderson earlier on in the season,
Speaker 1: venture his ear A now stands at five point one six.
Speaker 1: I think it might be Teyran Guerrero, the next man
Speaker 1: up for the Miami Marlins. This guy is a flamethrower.
Speaker 1: He's like six ft eight. There was a hundred miles
Speaker 1: per hour over ad per hour. There's no idea where
Speaker 1: the ball is gonna be half the time. So he
Speaker 1: does have a three point three two ear a this
Speaker 1: year he does, I'm gonna ask it's kind of high,
Speaker 1: especially for a reliever. I just I don't know, Like ks,
Speaker 1: that's what you like to see. If he does get
Speaker 1: save opportunities, he's worth owning. In fifteen teams, but it's
Speaker 1: hard to own a closer in the my Ammy Mollins bullpen.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's a sketchy situation. And Joe
Speaker 1: Romo is on a very great streak that isn't gonna
Speaker 1: last more than the next couple of days probably. But
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not the beard either. I'm not solding this.
Speaker 1: I never really liked Romo. Yeah, well, even when he
Speaker 1: was on the Giants. Um he actually grew the beard too,
Speaker 1: as like camaraderie with Brian Wilson. Remember that the Beard
Speaker 1: beards together. That guy had a short run Ryan Wilson
Speaker 1: right two or three years. I think everyone was freaking
Speaker 1: out about the beard. Crazy dude too. He was a
Speaker 1: cool dude. Yeah, he was out of his mind a
Speaker 1: little bit. But that's all right, a little bit. You
Speaker 1: gotta be as a closer. Sometimes John Rocca comes to mind.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, John Rockets a nut job. It's just
Speaker 1: a straight nutjot. Yeah. Tampa Bay Rays win four to
Speaker 1: three yesterday in extra innings in the eleventh Any Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay raysor hot Man thirty four and nineteen Austin Meadows
Speaker 1: another quality started awesome Meadows Blakes. Now I got Aweso
Speaker 1: Medals on mind because the guy's ridiculous. More hits yesterday,
Speaker 1: m v P possible Austin Meadows MVP. Maybe in the future.
Speaker 1: I don't know about this year. Why not? Why not?
Speaker 1: He's hit three six, I'm thinking about it. Three It
Speaker 1: would have been George Springer before he got hurt, right,
Speaker 1: so now he could catch up, right, Meadows, Maybe your
Speaker 1: onto something here, Austin Meadows for m v P. Let's
Speaker 1: go Blake Snell quality starting this one six endings six
Speaker 1: hits to ur and runs, two walks, five k's. If
Speaker 1: I'm nitpicking, I might have wanted a better performance than
Speaker 1: him against the Toronto Blue Jays, but it was still
Speaker 1: really good venture. Yes, I mean you know it's still
Speaker 1: a good start, quality start. Um, he didn't get the win.
Speaker 1: Did you get the win? He did not get the
Speaker 1: wind beating because they blew it. Jose Alvarado blows his
Speaker 1: mind save of the season, gives up two hits and
Speaker 1: earned run two walks as well. The e r A
Speaker 1: up to three point three two. We know that the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays have really mixed and match using their
Speaker 1: UH closer by committee for most of the season. It's
Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado. It's Diego Castillo. Amilio Pagan has worked in
Speaker 1: for a little bit, but now he hasn't really had
Speaker 1: any save opportunities over the past couple of weeks. Has
Speaker 1: been good for the most part. Thought, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he's been great. He's got nasty stuff. He gets you
Speaker 1: a lot of strikeouts. The r A rising a little
Speaker 1: bit up to three point three two. It was due
Speaker 1: to I almost wonder if Diego Castillo starts to see
Speaker 1: a few more save opportunities here now he's been better overall,
Speaker 1: would you drop Alvarado if if that's the case, like
Speaker 1: if you just see him, I would not drop, ye
Speaker 1: would drop. I think the strikeout said he can give
Speaker 1: you and when everything's clicking for him, he'll give you
Speaker 1: good e r a good whip as well. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that they'll ever completely go away from him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had left. He's coming up in the ninth. They
Speaker 1: still use him to and he'll get some save opportunities,
Speaker 1: So I would mentioning, but maybe Diego Castillo gets more
Speaker 1: save opportunities as a result of the blown save here
Speaker 1: or Vado Tommy fans is continue he's the man guy
Speaker 1: didn't end up with him anywhere. As for Tommy fam
Speaker 1: on the other side. Venture really much to talk about
Speaker 1: here because but Lords came back up continuing to get
Speaker 1: it done. Two more hits, another home run. That's his
Speaker 1: fourth home run since he was called back up on
Speaker 1: Friday last week. You guys said four home runs in
Speaker 1: a week, and we spoke about him with the Modica
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Venture this was a guy that I was
Speaker 1: targeting heavily in FAB because I think he might be
Speaker 1: someone that can give you home runs the rest of
Speaker 1: the way from the middle infield position. I absolutely agree.
Speaker 1: I actually had him earlier this season. I drafted him
Speaker 1: on one team. I was go out there and pick
Speaker 1: this kid up. Yeah, you're right. Um. It was actually
Speaker 1: the pit League and he got sent into the miners,
Speaker 1: and I was saying to myself, like he wasn't doing
Speaker 1: that bad where he really needed to get sent down
Speaker 1: to the miners. He'd have good games here and there
Speaker 1: and show glimpses of of being a great hitter. I
Speaker 1: think he just needed that time down there to adjust,
Speaker 1: get his mechanics right, you know, get his swing down good,
Speaker 1: so he could come up and really help the team
Speaker 1: and now he's doing it. I think this guy is
Speaker 1: gonna be a very solid hitter, uh for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. I don't think you'll see him going
Speaker 1: back down. I would absolutely pick him up if you're
Speaker 1: in need of second bay, shortstop, middle and field, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Washington Nationals fourteen to four yesterday, ventra Kevin
Speaker 1: Gausman the gas can one ending, eight hits, eight earned runs.
Speaker 1: What did I say about Kevin Gausman earlier on this season?
Speaker 1: He shows his sucks, That's what I said. I think
Speaker 1: you said that too. I think he said he does
Speaker 1: show his pitch like he shows what he's gonna throw.
Speaker 1: Everybody can really uses two pitches. He uses a four
Speaker 1: seen fastball and he used a splitter. He's too predictable,
Speaker 1: and you get silled away at times if you have
Speaker 1: two pitches. You know, we've seen guys Chris Paddick fastball
Speaker 1: changeup predominantly two pitched guys. If you have a really
Speaker 1: good change up, really good splitter, you can get away
Speaker 1: with it at times. But eight earned runs just absolutely brutally.
Speaker 1: And you know, Brad rad Ziegler said earlier on in
Speaker 1: the show, he thinks the Braves are gonna sign Craig
Speaker 1: Campbell and Dallas Kaiko. Maybe that's the reason. Why do
Speaker 1: you think so Gasman suck? I'm cool with the Kaiko
Speaker 1: thing going here. I mean, listen, I got Kou in
Speaker 1: the pit league too. I've been waiting patiently, waiting for
Speaker 1: this time happen. Em great song venture. Austin Riley the
Speaker 1: only positive here for the Atlanta Braves yesterday. Everyone's waiting
Speaker 1: for Austin Riley to slow down. The guy has a
Speaker 1: three seventy five average, eleven nine o p s. Who
Speaker 1: hits yesterday in a Grand Slam. Yeah, I started him
Speaker 1: over Jose Ramires this week, and this is why he's
Speaker 1: just two hot runs. He's got twenty Ribbies in like
Speaker 1: two weeks, seventy five batting average. Dude, this lineup could
Speaker 1: be really really good, like and they're underwhelming right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not playing up to the potential. Albis dropped all
Speaker 1: the way down to eighth. He's still good now since
Speaker 1: he's still batting average. Yeah, he's not an hour slowing down. Wait,
Speaker 1: the average is what you expected? Yeah you expected that
Speaker 1: average to sixty something to seventy something. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I want a player wants. I want t steals? Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: What does he have right now? What do we have?
Speaker 1: What as with steals and hobbies? You don't have the
Speaker 1: county sets ahead of me. I could pull us up here.
Speaker 1: He's got fourven homers, he's got four steals, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think twenty four ribbies. I think I think he might
Speaker 1: be caught in his own mind trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what kind of player he wants to be. I think
Speaker 1: sometimes he tries to hit for power a little bit
Speaker 1: too much. I think you should just just do his
Speaker 1: thing right, make contact, steal bases, don't worry about and sure,
Speaker 1: but I think he might be thinking a little bit
Speaker 1: too much. Do I want to be a power hitter?
Speaker 1: You want to be a contact hitter. I don't want
Speaker 1: to steal basis. I think since that second half last year,
Speaker 1: he's kind of been all over the map. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: he's not too sure of himself. Maybe he's working on
Speaker 1: Launch Ago, very focused on that. But listen, he's still
Speaker 1: didn't do sixty four, which isn't bad. Seven homes four
Speaker 1: stone basis isn't great, but it's not terribly either. He's
Speaker 1: still got that combo. He could still end up with
Speaker 1: twenty homers and twenty bags. I still think he could
Speaker 1: end up doing that because the stone base could come in,
Speaker 1: you know, Groves at one point he could have a
Speaker 1: week where he's still three or four, and now he's
Speaker 1: on page I'm so he hasn't more stolen basis. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be fine now. But but that's what you're
Speaker 1: saying there. It's a little underwhelming right now. The Braves
Speaker 1: could do a lot better. They have the talent and
Speaker 1: they're all young. That's the best part. They're all young.
Speaker 1: On the other side, National score fourteen runs, fifteen hits.
Speaker 1: You know, since I called out Trade Turner the other day,
Speaker 1: the guys been hot, red hot, Ventra based three more
Speaker 1: hits yesterday, two run scored. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: Nationals lineup that we're expecting. This is this is what
Speaker 1: we were expecting. And you know, Anthony Rendonan coming around.
Speaker 1: Two more hits, two ribbies, Juan Soto Meanez who was
Speaker 1: across the board here, two hits, two ribbies, two walks,
Speaker 1: two strikeouts. I don't love that before run scored. How
Speaker 1: Kendricks get a lot out of guys bagging three this year?
Speaker 1: Guys a fossil. I don't know how he's eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy that they're getting a lot from that guy
Speaker 1: in the fivefold, but they haven't gotten much to more recently.
Speaker 1: Adam eating, he was really kind of having a home yet,
Speaker 1: and then he looked at does what he does. He
Speaker 1: walks three run scored. Not really all that exciting. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's been fun. We're gonna do it again in fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good times, looking forward to it. Tomorrow we'll have Frank
Speaker 1: Misch making his fmc s Y radio debut for the
Speaker 1: first hour venture here in the second hour. Thank you
Speaker 1: all for watching the closer. Frank Standfeld, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Stay Classic Fantasy Owners yep.