Speaker 1: Leading off starts right now. I am Chris Wels. That
Speaker 1: is Andrew Seifer, and we are here to talk to
Speaker 1: you about all the baseball happenings with the Peanuts and
Speaker 1: cracker Jacks.
Speaker 2: I am feeling a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking any better, but Andrew, I'm glad to
Speaker 1: have you here your first Thursday episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me back again. It's fun to
Speaker 3: get make my Thursday debut. And I'm here in my parents'
Speaker 3: attic in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: You know they say fantasy.
Speaker 3: Managers usually are and live in their parents' basement, right,
Speaker 3: so I'm in the attic. I don't, but I'm happy
Speaker 3: enough there.
Speaker 2: I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, yeah, you're living the quintessential fantasy life right
Speaker 1: now in your parents' attic or basement. Is that a
Speaker 1: bookshelf I see behind?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: If you look in the corner over my other shoulder,
Speaker 3: you can maybe even see Albert Einstein he's right, and
Speaker 3: a bicycle there as well. So it's definitely got its
Speaker 3: attic vibes going.
Speaker 1: Okay, but is it haunted? Because that's the vibe I
Speaker 1: get from attics. I get a little haunted vibe.
Speaker 4: Maybe so maybe so it depends how you feel about books.
Speaker 1: I guess what scarier an attic or a basement. This
Speaker 1: is a great question. I think this is the ultimate
Speaker 1: question because I feel like an attic is more haunted,
Speaker 1: but a basement is just scarier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going basement because I feel like your chance
Speaker 3: of running into some sort of animal that you don't
Speaker 3: want to see, like a rat or something, or some sort.
Speaker 4: Of bugs is a lot higher in that environment.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'd love to know, chat what do you think,
Speaker 1: basement or attic. That's a good point. I hadn't thought
Speaker 1: about the animals. I was really thinking about Poltergeist. But
Speaker 1: that's where my brain goes to lots of baseball to cover.
Speaker 2: Let's get into the top stuff.
Speaker 1: Mariner's George Kirby got to a rare feat by starting
Speaker 1: a game with twenty or starting twenty four straight games
Speaker 1: with a strike, which I know is kind of like
Speaker 1: a weird staff, but it also just shows you how
Speaker 1: consistent he has been throughout the year. Also, his teammate
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez got to the twenty twenty club and by
Speaker 1: the way, the futures odds on like pretty much everything,
Speaker 1: but rookie of the year is almost laughable at this point,
Speaker 1: and Julio, it's a little bit of adle and it's
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred for Bobby Witt on the other side.
Speaker 1: But getting back into it, George Kirby's only picked up
Speaker 1: five wins this year, but as a three three to
Speaker 1: two era has a better x FIP an almost ten
Speaker 1: k per nine nine point four an elite walk per
Speaker 1: nine at one point two. And I'm gonna tell you,
Speaker 1: be it a rookie or not, George Kirby is showing
Speaker 1: all the stuff he did as a prospect in that
Speaker 1: he's got all the command that made us love him.
Speaker 1: He's showing strikeouts and he looks like he could be
Speaker 1: a big time viable maybe top twenty five SP top
Speaker 1: thirty next year.
Speaker 2: What do you think about George Kirby rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm totally on board. I honestly this He's
Speaker 3: like he's like Rodney Dangerfield. He gets no respect. Like
Speaker 3: I don't understand why his roster rates are so low.
Speaker 3: I wrote about this in my intro to my Waiver
Speaker 3: wire piece of Fantasy Pro two weeks ago. At that time,
Speaker 3: his roster rate was at forty eight percent in Yahoo,
Speaker 3: and I couldn't believe it was that low, and I
Speaker 3: made him the top guy just for that reason. It's
Speaker 3: only fifty seven percent now, even after this great outing.
Speaker 3: So like, this is a guy who was like a
Speaker 3: top thirty prospect all the like you said, all the
Speaker 3: peripherals back up the performance that he's done up to
Speaker 3: this point. Pitches in a good environment, great control, like
Speaker 3: you said, I mean that walk rate really gives you
Speaker 3: a nice margin for error even if you have some
Speaker 3: run into some bad babb block in a start here
Speaker 3: or there. So yeah, I love this guy, and I
Speaker 3: don't understand why he's not like eighty ninety percent rostered.
Speaker 2: This is why I've always loved about him. I've always
Speaker 2: been big on him in prospects.
Speaker 1: He almost has a four pitch repertoire of like double digits.
Speaker 1: His fastball's been sitting around ninety five. His slider he's
Speaker 1: throwing twenty percent of the time. There's your wipeout strikeout
Speaker 1: pitch he's thrown around eighty seven, I mean almost eighty eight.
Speaker 2: You're closing in ninety.
Speaker 1: Is an elite slider territory as far as velocity goes,
Speaker 1: and the curve ball has been on point. And you know,
Speaker 1: for a guy his age to be throwing and walk
Speaker 1: create of only like one, you know, under one and
Speaker 1: a half, it's a lead. It's a lead that you
Speaker 1: don't see young pitchers do. And I think we don't
Speaker 1: give him enough kudos. And then obviously you know Julio, Julio,
Speaker 1: but hitting the twenty twenty mark, I think they said
Speaker 1: the last Mariner to do that was Mike Cameron, who
Speaker 1: actually coaches with the Mariners and works with them. The
Speaker 1: race manager, Kevin Cash, said that wander Franco will not
Speaker 1: resume his minor league rehab assignment before next week. Franco
Speaker 1: suffered a set back with the surgically repaired right hand
Speaker 1: wrist while making a rehab stint on Tuesday, and it
Speaker 1: is looking less and less likely that we're going to
Speaker 1: get him anytime soon, which begs the question, I know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, how much do you need to hold on to.
Speaker 2: Wander Franco at this point?
Speaker 1: You know, if he's not going to even resume anything
Speaker 1: until next week, that gets you into September. Then he's
Speaker 1: going to have to get some games another weekend. Look
Speaker 1: how look at the lack of pretty duction he had
Speaker 1: before he got injured. Andrew, do you think one of
Speaker 1: Franco's a must hold in any type of a redraft
Speaker 1: league right now?
Speaker 4: I do not.
Speaker 3: I was sort of out on Fronco even coming into
Speaker 3: the season. I mean, he's obviously a tremendous prospect, and
Speaker 3: he's got one of the best hit tools we've seen
Speaker 3: from a young player in a really long time.
Speaker 4: So I think he's a great real life player.
Speaker 3: I think he's still got some steps he needs to
Speaker 3: take in his game before it fully translates to fantasy.
Speaker 3: I mean, if he's not giving you that category juice
Speaker 3: in power and in speed, then he's not really in
Speaker 3: a standard five by five league going to be as
Speaker 3: valuable in fantasy as he is in reality.
Speaker 4: And then you bring in a hand injury.
Speaker 3: I mean, even if he does come back, that can
Speaker 3: often sat power, so any power he could have hit
Speaker 3: for he's probably not going to now. And you know,
Speaker 3: he's got a very bright future. He could take his
Speaker 3: game to the next level in the next couple of years.
Speaker 3: But in a redraft format, I really just don't see
Speaker 3: the benefit of holding onto him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there is If anyone is dealing
Speaker 1: with that the two sixty batting average, five homers, five
Speaker 1: stolen bases. I feel like the majority of it came
Speaker 1: in that first month of the season, and almost one
Speaker 1: hundred percent differential on his wOBA three toho three this year.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, three oh five this year, four oh four
Speaker 1: last year, or that's actually no, I'm sorry, that's in
Speaker 1: triple A.
Speaker 2: What was it last year?
Speaker 1: It was three forty eight, So you've still got a
Speaker 1: huge differential there. He's just not a mushold. There's not
Speaker 1: a muss hold for Wanderfronco if you are dealing with that.
Speaker 1: And then yes, of course, the biggest piece of news
Speaker 1: that everybody wants to talk about. Onel Cruz hit a
Speaker 1: ball one hundred and twenty two miles an hour, the
Speaker 1: hardest hit in stat cast era. I think it was
Speaker 1: what one of you know, two hits in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks for the awesome player that's going on for
Speaker 1: this season. Hardest hit ball was a single. It smashed
Speaker 1: against the wall and bounced back, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to say anymore.
Speaker 2: I continue my thing.
Speaker 1: He's got maybe some of the most exciting tools in
Speaker 1: all of baseball. Beyond this year, he is exciting as hell.
Speaker 1: This year he's not that great. Uh, sub two hundred
Speaker 1: batting average guys don't help you that much. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stand firm to it for all the Oneo Cruz stands.
Speaker 1: You can't come at me next year because I've said
Speaker 1: I'm all game. I'm game in the future, I'll draft him.
Speaker 1: But this year was stupid. But he did hit the
Speaker 1: hardest tracked ball in stat kaz Era Andrew.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, though, So in a
Speaker 3: dynasty league, who would you prefer Onneo Cruz or Wander Franco.
Speaker 2: That's a great question.
Speaker 1: I would prefer Franco still, but I get why it's closer.
Speaker 2: O'neo Cruz is.
Speaker 1: Showing no ability to hit for batting average. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's showing absolutely nothing. He's hitting a buck ninety nine
Speaker 1: right now. He has a almost thirty nine percent k rate,
Speaker 1: and he has played. He's at over two hundred play appearances.
Speaker 2: So let's not be like, you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Got the skulls and blah blah blah, two hundred played
Speaker 1: appearances in almost thirty nine percent k rate. I love
Speaker 1: the counting stats. Ten homer six dolen bases. It's great,
Speaker 1: we can extrapolate, we could you know, hey, this could.
Speaker 2: Be a thirty fifteen guy.
Speaker 1: He's got to show the ability to hit for contact,
Speaker 1: and not only is he not doing it this year,
Speaker 1: he's doing it at maybe one of the worst clips,
Speaker 1: sub two hundred, horrible strike rate. I think he's a
Speaker 1: huge bet on, and when it gets kind of fixed,
Speaker 1: I think it'll be better. But I would bet on
Speaker 1: Wander Franco. I think Wander's counting stats are going to
Speaker 1: catch up to him, but I also don't think they
Speaker 1: could reach Cruz's level. But I think Cruise is looking
Speaker 1: like he is a two to maybe three category player,
Speaker 1: where Franco still has a five category in him. It
Speaker 1: just might not be at the same elite level. Are
Speaker 1: you Cruise over Franco?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think if it's a league where stolen bases matter,
Speaker 3: I'm still kind of leaning with Cruz here. I mean,
Speaker 3: the thing is, I agree with you he doesn't look
Speaker 3: ready for the major leagues at all. But if you
Speaker 3: look at his minor league numbers, I mean, he had
Speaker 3: a striker rate in the twenty two to twenty three
Speaker 3: percent range in the minors, so that wasn't outrageously bad.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, this is a team going nowhere
Speaker 3: that kind of rushed him up, and I feel like
Speaker 3: we can't see, you know, a thirty nine percent strikeout
Speaker 3: right and say that like he's always going to be that.
Speaker 3: I think there's as much of a chance that he
Speaker 3: makes inroads there as there is that Franco makes inroads
Speaker 3: in terms of power. So for that reason, like if
Speaker 3: you wanted to tell me who's the safer bet to
Speaker 3: play twenty years in the major leagues and be a
Speaker 3: really good baseball player, I would obviously say Wander Franco.
Speaker 3: But if you're telling me in a five y five league,
Speaker 3: I need that category, juice, who's the guy that's got
Speaker 3: the upside to be like the number one player in fantasy?
Speaker 4: To me, that's got to be O'Neil Cruz. And I
Speaker 4: guess I'd just like to shoot for the moon there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's just it's so extreme. I have
Speaker 1: a hard time with it. But I get I get
Speaker 1: what you're saying Wanderfronco. I've watched him for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think there is but like you said, there might
Speaker 1: be twenty twenty in there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Conditioning has got to be an issue he's got to consider.
Speaker 1: It's just it's so funny how especially like in the
Speaker 1: prospect world they do this, but you want to come
Speaker 1: over here. You never see passes for bad strikeout raids.
Speaker 1: You never see passes for batting average unless your name
Speaker 1: is O'Neil Cruz. He's getting all the passes in the world.
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing in that you're somebody
Speaker 1: that would give any other player passes on a thirty
Speaker 1: plus percent K percentage. But yet he does because he's
Speaker 1: a young guy and he hasn't had enough years under
Speaker 1: his belt to prove otherwise. But it's a thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent K rate. That's bunkers.
Speaker 4: It is bonkers.
Speaker 3: But I mean, we've seen guys like jave Baiaz Adallas Garcia,
Speaker 3: guys like this have really high strike out rates and
Speaker 3: still be really good in fantasy because of the category
Speaker 3: juice they provide. So he doesn't need to get that
Speaker 3: strike out rate down to like twenty three percent like
Speaker 3: you had, and the miners to be really valuable. If
Speaker 3: he can even get it into the thirty percent range,
Speaker 3: I think you're talking about a guy who could be
Speaker 3: really useful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what the weird thing is is the last
Speaker 1: thing on that the weird thing that exists with him.
Speaker 2: This is one of those.
Speaker 1: Guys where it's like, God, he would love to like
Speaker 1: go and get him right now. But even though he's
Speaker 1: like statistically looking like one of the worst players in
Speaker 1: baseball right now with a sub two hundred and the
Speaker 1: k rate, he's not available, Like, no one will sell
Speaker 1: you him for any cheap.
Speaker 2: So you have to be the person that's willing to risk.
Speaker 1: A high dollar a high dollar cost to get him
Speaker 1: and just cross those fingers, just really hope that the
Speaker 1: k raid is going to drop to a sustainable area
Speaker 1: and he'll start actually hitting for more contact, because.
Speaker 2: When he does, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I would love to buy on him because I think
Speaker 1: he has a great potential bet for any fix.
Speaker 2: It's just he's not cheap. There's huge, huge red flag
Speaker 2: warning signs and you know this, it's not that great
Speaker 2: for this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah that I totally can buy what you're saying. He
Speaker 3: could easily be overvalued in the marketplace just because you
Speaker 3: do see things like this hardest hit ball ever and
Speaker 3: you just dream about the potential.
Speaker 4: So that's absolutely true. I feel like It's like the same.
Speaker 2: Thing with flus two in the minors.
Speaker 3: I just want to point out, Yeah, it's like the
Speaker 3: same thing with like, you know, in football or something.
Speaker 3: The coaches always draft the skills because they believe they
Speaker 3: can coach the guy up and teach them the fundamentals
Speaker 3: if they have the natural ability, because you can't teach that,
Speaker 3: you know. So I feel like fantasy managers the same way.
Speaker 3: When it comes to Onio Cruz, it's like he's got
Speaker 3: the tools, he just needs to develop the fundamentals.
Speaker 2: Do you think you can help him with that?
Speaker 1: By the way, do you think the Pirates are a
Speaker 1: team that are gonna be able to help him?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know. Maybe not, I don't know.
Speaker 1: On the injury front, Jared Walsh placed on the ten
Speaker 1: day I L with thoracic outlet syndrome.
Speaker 2: No boy, no not good.
Speaker 1: Santa Boguart set out Wednesday after leaving Tuesday's game with
Speaker 1: back spasms. Tommy fam sat out Wednesday with low backspasms
Speaker 1: a lot of back stuff after slamming into the wall
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Wilson Catura sat out again yesterday with left
Speaker 1: ankle stiffness. But there's hope that he's not going to
Speaker 1: land on the iel. Hobby Baias set out with back spasms,
Speaker 1: Gas McCormick suffered dislocated Pinky Ouch and Royal's relief pitcher
Speaker 1: Josh Staumont placed on the fifteen day. I l would
Speaker 1: write bicep tendonites did, Buddy, when you were saying those
Speaker 1: guys that were similar to him, did you have like
Speaker 1: a moment of clarity of like you just compared him
Speaker 1: to Hovey Baya's and where Hobby Bias.
Speaker 2: Is right now, who is the other one? There's another one?
Speaker 4: Where I was he's having a great season, actually.
Speaker 1: Is like a better I mean those guys are like
Speaker 1: almost pull oar opposite the dolls is like five 't
Speaker 1: ten in real life. I've stood next to him and O'Neil.
Speaker 1: Cruz is a completely different type of physical player.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was saying, like that's you know, he
Speaker 3: could he could be good even if he doesn't fully blossom,
Speaker 3: because that's like those guys are flawed players. Like that's
Speaker 3: assuming that Cruz never fully puts it all together. He
Speaker 3: could I'm saying he could still be pretty valuable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Alwonky, this is my favorite thing is Cruse tall.
Speaker 1: And by the way, look at this, Joey p doing
Speaker 1: a live football show on Fantasy Pros the same time
Speaker 1: we're doing this. What a turncoat, What an absolute scab turncoat.
Speaker 2: He has given up on all of you.
Speaker 3: I have not Oh well, you got me instead of
Speaker 3: now so exactly right.
Speaker 1: Joe Pie's a pia give me a break. This day
Speaker 1: in baseball nineteen eighty six, I was three years old,
Speaker 1: Oakland A's third baseman Mark maguire hits his first major
Speaker 1: league home run, a five hundred and fifty foot blast
Speaker 1: to center off of Walt Harrell as Oakland beat Detroit
Speaker 1: eight to four at Tiger Stadium. You now, I grew
Speaker 1: up loving Mark McGuire.
Speaker 2: I grew up in the Bay Area. My whole family
Speaker 2: were as fans. My uncle who.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my uncle who's in the hospital right now.
Speaker 1: He used to run a pool business and he did
Speaker 1: Mark McGuire's pool, and he got to one time sit
Speaker 1: down and hang out with Mark McGuire, and they knew
Speaker 1: like he was just my favorite player. If you grew
Speaker 1: up in the Bay Area, Mark mc Mark McGuire was
Speaker 1: even more popular than Barry Bonds.
Speaker 2: And that was my guy. So I always loved little
Speaker 2: Mark McGuire. Pieces of news.
Speaker 1: I got some trivia for you, and this is going
Speaker 1: to be for you Andrew to play as well. Who
Speaker 1: holds the al NL record for consecutive quality starts in
Speaker 1: a single season. There's a lot of interesting names out there.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give any hints, but the consecutive
Speaker 1: al NL record for quality starts quite a big number.
Speaker 2: You got any guesses?
Speaker 4: Oh god, that's such a hard question. I mean quality.
Speaker 3: It's like you could be given up three runs every
Speaker 3: time and keep it going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one you might think of, remember is that Gallen
Speaker 1: Zach Gallon had that run of like thirteen or fourteen
Speaker 1: I think in twenty nineteen. That was one of those guys.
Speaker 1: This number is over twenty.
Speaker 2: That's a hint. I'm giving it over twenty.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The thing that just came to mind, and I know
Speaker 3: this isn't the answer, but it reminded me of Oral
Speaker 3: Herscheizer's like consecutive scoreless inning stretch. But it's probably not
Speaker 3: someone that far back right.
Speaker 1: Now, David guess, Bob Gibson incorrect. Mike Mussina from one
Speaker 1: Jedro Martinez. That's a great guess. Incorrect, it is not Pedro.
Speaker 1: How about one more hint for everybody. So I've given
Speaker 1: you the relative number. It's over twenty. It has happened
Speaker 1: within the last five years.
Speaker 4: Is it de Grom?
Speaker 2: It is de Grom?
Speaker 4: Oh right there?
Speaker 1: Clip when I was trying to say Gallon because I
Speaker 1: was looking at it.
Speaker 2: Jacob de Gram.
Speaker 1: Twenty four quality starts in twenty eighteen. De Gram is
Speaker 1: pitching today. That's why that popped up. By the way, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, another fun thing, the books, at least when
Speaker 1: I maybe there might be a singular book or two
Speaker 1: and it just has an updated on the Vetting Pros
Speaker 1: cheat sheet. I see no numbers on the de Gram
Speaker 1: strikeout numbers, and I think we saw an absurd as nine,
Speaker 1: like nine and a half for de Gram, which we've
Speaker 1: never I've never seen all season long. That they're just
Speaker 1: not even placing da Gram on the books anymore. But
Speaker 1: twenty four straight quality starts that is, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one of the most impressive singular
Speaker 1: things a guy can do. Like I think twenty four
Speaker 1: quality starts is in line with like fifty straight games
Speaker 1: with a hit or am I off here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I think that's fair, And it's interesting because it's
Speaker 3: you know, some of these pictures you associate them with
Speaker 3: their dominance, and that stat is less about dominance and
Speaker 3: more about consistency. So when you have the dominance and
Speaker 3: the consistency, than you are truly a great pitcher.
Speaker 2: You're just being mean today. Why are you so salty?
Speaker 1: Says I thought if it was to Grom, it would
Speaker 1: be over like a six year span.
Speaker 2: You're just being rude.
Speaker 1: Let's let's not talk bad about the best picture in baseball,
Speaker 1: regardless if he gets hurt.
Speaker 2: Let's be positive today. I don't feel good.
Speaker 1: I need all of the positivity for Jacob to gram stat.
Speaker 1: Heroes Jose Ramirez two homers, three for three, three RBI,
Speaker 1: huge day. Nathaniel or Nate Low Actually, I remember I
Speaker 1: was right. I was standing next to him over at
Speaker 1: Rangers camp during spring training and someone asked him. They're like,
Speaker 1: do you do you want to be called Nathaniel? And
Speaker 1: he was just like, Buddy, I don't care what you
Speaker 1: call me. Call me whatever you want, Nate Nathaniel. So
Speaker 1: I don't know why they've stuck with the Nathaniel because
Speaker 1: he doesn't care. But Nathaniel Low homer five RBIs Matt
Speaker 1: Olsen three for five with a homer. Four RBIs Willie
Speaker 1: Adamis three for four with a homer. Hunter Renfro, Hunter
Speaker 1: Renfro was on the prop sheet yesterday. He had a
Speaker 1: bomb three for five, a couple RBIs Austin Barnes, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about him in a minute, had a homer. Jt
Speaker 1: Romuto three for five with a homer. Continuing that and
Speaker 1: maybe number one catcher spot. We talked about that last time.
Speaker 1: Andrew was on with the Adley versus rem Ute. Franchi
Speaker 1: had a homer. William Contres had a homer. Corey Seger
Speaker 1: did not, but he went two for four, two RBIs
Speaker 1: and three runs. Anybody up on this list jump out
Speaker 1: to you and their performances lately, Low, Renfro. There's a
Speaker 1: couple lesser own guys. Franchie Cordero is kind of interesting,
Speaker 1: probably not as owned in as many leagues as we think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think with Low it's
Speaker 3: just he's one of these guys that kind of flies
Speaker 3: under the radar a little bit. He doesn't really excel
Speaker 3: in any one statistical category or anything like that. He's
Speaker 3: just the classic guy that chips away and gives you
Speaker 3: solid numbers everywhere. His batting average is up to two
Speaker 3: ninety five now and he's got twenty home runs decent
Speaker 3: run in RBI production, So even though he's not doing
Speaker 3: stolen bases like, he's just a really solid across the
Speaker 3: board provider of fantasy goodness.
Speaker 1: Cole Irvin was a monster yesterday. Went seven, give up,
Speaker 1: three hits, struck out eleven. What a performance. What a
Speaker 1: back half of the year I've had. I have him
Speaker 1: on a couple squads, just holding up the rotation when
Speaker 1: anything goes wrong. Kyle right At eight strikeouts and seven
Speaker 1: Framber seven with eight k's Shane McClanahan nine strikeouts, six innings,
Speaker 1: Cal Quantrell seven with six strikeouts, five hits and a walk.
Speaker 1: Have I Someone was asking me this last night, do
Speaker 1: you how much Dynasty like ranking do you do?
Speaker 3: Andrew not a ton, but I you know I do
Speaker 3: play in such formats, So I'm always thinking about it from.
Speaker 1: A value perspective, is where's McClanahan as like a Dynasty
Speaker 1: sp for you think of age and everything like that?
Speaker 2: Is a one two three further down, you know.
Speaker 1: You probably have guys like obviously Corbyn Burns is gonna
Speaker 1: be on that list, Sandy al Contra, I don't Dylan cease,
Speaker 1: and then after that, like you can't really put like
Speaker 1: you're gonna put Verlander to Grom maybe Cole, Like, where
Speaker 1: do you think he sits on a dynasty sp rank?
Speaker 3: I think he needs to be pretty high up. I
Speaker 3: know he's gone through a little bit of a rough
Speaker 3: stretch recently, but you still look at his numbers for
Speaker 3: the season and they're phenomenal. I mean, walk right under
Speaker 3: two k per nine over eleven two twenty era great
Speaker 3: pitches in a great pitchers park. He's twenty five years old,
Speaker 3: so just really entering the prime of his career, so
Speaker 3: he's he'd be right up at the top for me,
Speaker 3: I will say that depending on your format, you know,
Speaker 3: I I don't worry about age as much for pictures
Speaker 3: as I do for hitters when it comes to keeper
Speaker 3: and dynasty value, because you just don't know the longevity
Speaker 3: of pitchers careers. I mean, we've seen a lot of
Speaker 3: these guys flame out early, and then we see guys
Speaker 3: like Schuzer that just keep going strong in Verlander that
Speaker 3: go strong to the very end of their career, you know,
Speaker 3: so who bump.
Speaker 2: In your mind?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that you're making a case for
Speaker 1: like Garrett Cole potentially being still at the top. Like
Speaker 1: I just I still don't see how you could. Like
Speaker 1: I actually rank like the sus and Deo Gram's like
Speaker 1: a little bit high in Dynasty, but they're still they're
Speaker 1: not like remotely close to SP five or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Oh, I agree, I'm saying that, like just generally speaking,
Speaker 3: like I just don't factor in age quite as much
Speaker 3: for pictures as I do for hitters when I'm comparing
Speaker 3: different players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that, and I think you're right
Speaker 1: about that, Like I think, you know what a hitter
Speaker 1: declines at thirty one, is a pitcher declining at thirty
Speaker 1: seven or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And imagine if you sold Verlander like when he
Speaker 3: was thirty three or something like that, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I know he just missed the entire season, but like
Speaker 3: you would have missed a lot of good seasons.
Speaker 4: Out of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: On your stat zero's to Oskar Hernandez good old oh
Speaker 1: for four with four straight k's your three strikeouts and
Speaker 1: fors Rowdy telez was ozh for five with three strikeouts,
Speaker 1: Atanio for four with three, Evan Longoria three ks, Brian Anderson,
Speaker 1: Nolan Gormant, and Jose Miranda all big three strikeout performances,
Speaker 1: if you want to call them performances on.
Speaker 2: The picture side.
Speaker 1: Jose Arena, who what do we need like? Three strikeouts
Speaker 1: on the prop he got one walk, three, gave up
Speaker 1: nine hits, nine in runs, did not get out of
Speaker 1: the second inning. TJ Zetsch two two thirds. Feel like
Speaker 1: he's on this every time he pitches. Six earned runs,
Speaker 1: seven hits. Blake Snell didn't get to the fourth, gave
Speaker 1: up six earned runs, four walks, no k's, oh myn
Speaker 1: and Adrian Hauser two and one third, five earned runs,
Speaker 1: four walks, four k's, no point, no Logan Web as well,
Speaker 1: four and two thirds, six earned runs, six strikeouts. The
Speaker 1: home run calls yesterday, Wonkey gave us the respect your
Speaker 1: elders bonus. You just got to pick somebody who's over
Speaker 1: thirty two to hit a homer, and it looks like
Speaker 1: we got one waking life called Austin Barnes, who uh
Speaker 1: thirty two years old? They hit a homer and they
Speaker 1: got a bonus, but the overall board did not change
Speaker 1: at all. High Cove You is still at forty six,
Speaker 1: de Blum is at forty five, Go Cards at forty three,
Speaker 1: Mayor and Terry at forty two, and cat Fox at
Speaker 1: forty one. Still six people with forty or plus homers.
Speaker 1: It is anybody's race because none of the bonus has helped.
Speaker 1: Two others call okay, so that two others called out
Speaker 1: two A two, So they were a couple you were,
Speaker 1: I think you Wonky was just giving me a note
Speaker 1: of like someone called Austin Barnes and that was incredible,
Speaker 1: So good for them.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Over on the betting, oh, you know what, I was
Speaker 1: going to open up a brand new one.
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Speaker 1: total base play, the top money play, and then I've
Speaker 1: also got the other side of those. Oh you know
Speaker 1: what I screwed up on the hitting side, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you. Let me see if I remember it.
Speaker 1: I do remember the other one. So the top play
Speaker 1: for the day for total bases on bettingpros dot Com
Speaker 1: mlbprop cheat sheet is Kyle Stowers rookie Baltimore needs one
Speaker 1: hit against the White Sox. The juice isn't horrific. It's
Speaker 1: at minus one forty five. This is on DraftKings. He's
Speaker 1: projected almost.
Speaker 2: Two and a half. So there you go.
Speaker 1: The top plus money play. I copied it wrong, but
Speaker 1: I remember it was Jordan Alvarez who is at one
Speaker 1: and a half and it was plus one ten, I
Speaker 1: want to say, and I think that was over at Sugarhouse.
Speaker 1: So Stowers is your top play. Jordan is your top
Speaker 1: Jordan is your top plus play on the pitching side.
Speaker 1: Drew Rasmussen against the Angels. He is the top strikeout
Speaker 1: play of all of them. And it's under six and
Speaker 1: a half strikeout, so you got to get under six.
Speaker 1: They're projecting only five. It's juice at one thirty nine.
Speaker 1: And then your top plus play is Louis Garcia against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The strikeouts are five and a half and it is
Speaker 1: plus one ten.
Speaker 2: He's projected at six.
Speaker 1: So Andrew, you've got Louis Garcia, Drew Rasmussen, Jordan, and
Speaker 1: Kyle Stowers.
Speaker 2: What do you like out of this?
Speaker 3: I mean the Jordon one seems like pretty easy to me.
Speaker 3: I mean, that wasn't a huge number against him.
Speaker 1: To day, I had a little hit prop three parlay
Speaker 1: because they had a boost on DraftKings and I played it.
Speaker 1: I played Jordan is one of the three, and I hit,
Speaker 1: So I had Gallon, Mullins.
Speaker 2: And him, and that was a nice little payday.
Speaker 1: He had one hit the other day, a double last
Speaker 1: night I didn't interrupt to you. But his family's in town.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things where it's like you
Speaker 1: use stupid logic to be like his family for the
Speaker 1: first time ever is watching him play from Cuba in
Speaker 1: a major league stadium. You want to think he's gonna
Speaker 1: show up and he had a double yesterday.
Speaker 3: Cool, Well, my logic says that he's a complete masher,
Speaker 3: so give me, give me.
Speaker 2: Him, So you like that when any of the others
Speaker 2: are Now.
Speaker 4: I'm not going on that ras muse in one.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's exceeded seven k's and at least
Speaker 3: his last two starts, so he's missing a lot of
Speaker 3: bats right now.
Speaker 4: So would I wouldn't want to bet the under on
Speaker 4: sex right now with him?
Speaker 2: You know, I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I think they're all getting really tough. All the numbers
Speaker 1: are gonna be in tough. But I do feel like
Speaker 1: betting pros. The unders have been hitting a little bit
Speaker 1: more so, just to monitor that a lot of the overs,
Speaker 1: especially their top plays the algorithm. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's quite catching up and they're struggling a little bit,
Speaker 1: but the unders might be so not that I'm interested
Speaker 1: in making that bet with Rasmussen, but I.
Speaker 2: Want to monitor it. I do want to monitor that one.
Speaker 1: Over on the DFS side, you've got only two teams
Speaker 1: today projected with five or more total team runs, and
Speaker 1: that's Philly in Toronto. If you want to play any
Speaker 1: stacks on the pitching side, a bunch of high priced
Speaker 1: guys on FanDuel de Grom was at twelve five, Gosman
Speaker 1: is at ten to five, and Aaron Nola was at
Speaker 1: ten eight. I kind of like Nola think the matchup
Speaker 1: is the best if you're going to pay those high dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, de Gram is to Gram. But like I said,
Speaker 1: if you want to go on the DFS side for
Speaker 1: Philly Toronto lineup stacks, I mean I like Schwarber today.
Speaker 2: I think there's a bunch you can play into, and
Speaker 2: there's some.
Speaker 1: Other high end, you know, bad matchups that you can exploit.
Speaker 1: But there's some pitching, there's some hitting, and that actually
Speaker 1: takes us to the home run board here, Andrew, what
Speaker 1: are you going.
Speaker 2: To do today? There's no extra bonuses? What do you got?
Speaker 3: I'm going back to the Paul goldmiitt. Well, it didn't
Speaker 3: work for me last time, but I got a good feeling.
Speaker 3: This time he's facing Marcus Stroman. He's hit three bombs
Speaker 3: in thirteen at bats against Roman over his career for
Speaker 3: sixty two batting average. Couple you know, a double in
Speaker 3: there as well. So he's been making a lot of
Speaker 3: hard contact over his career against Marcus Stroman. And of
Speaker 3: course he's having a turned back the clock kind of season.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to keep riding the gold Smith train.
Speaker 1: Looks like Wonky has got fran mil and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Schwarbs.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Swarbs.
Speaker 1: Against the high era of Justin Dunn.
Speaker 2: That is what I like.
Speaker 1: And positive Grouch wants us to know that they called
Speaker 1: alaseel tuve so I incorrectly said that there were no
Speaker 1: other old man Homers, but there were.
Speaker 2: There was al two veg.
Speaker 1: In them, friendos, That is it. I didn't realize I've
Speaker 1: been wearing this the whole time.
Speaker 2: At least keep it on. I usually take the front.
Speaker 2: Gonna start coughing. That was good stuff.
Speaker 1: As you can tell, I'm still recovering a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a lot better though, So thank you guys
Speaker 1: for hanging out. Thank you guys for choosing us over
Speaker 1: that turncoat rat Joe Piezapia, who is doing live stream
Speaker 1: football on the other side while we sit here and
Speaker 1: still burn through what Okay, I was in sure if
Speaker 1: doctor Glenn was here. So doctor Glenn, I didn't get
Speaker 1: out of the fifth Okay, I don't understand the logic
Speaker 1: nowhere and runs. I walked three and I didn't strike
Speaker 1: anybody out. So doctor Glenn is saying this is a
Speaker 1: bad performance by me today. So apologies that it was
Speaker 1: a bad performance.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: I kind of disagree with the manager here on the
Speaker 1: stat call. I think I got some rough lines here.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was great, but I do think
Speaker 1: I had a couple of strikeouts one hundred and ten pitches.
Speaker 2: I went deep.
Speaker 1: Thank you, doctor Glenn, and thank you Brian. I am
Speaker 1: grinding and should be a lot better next week. Friends,
Speaker 1: That is it. Chris Cleig is gonna be with us tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Andrew you're gonna be back on Monday. Correct, that's right, Boom,
Speaker 1: that's all we got. Good luck in all your matchups.
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