Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle, Part three of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Warmley, joined as always by Mike Mayer. Be
Speaker 1: sure to check out parts one and two if you
Speaker 1: miss them Part one if you want to see me
Speaker 1: do a shot at Tequila Live at ten am on
Speaker 1: the air as I celebrated the Orioles firing Brandon Hyde.
Speaker 1: I'm getting that in. So Mayor can't make a joke
Speaker 1: about me needing to do another shot here on part
Speaker 1: three as you already did on part two, because I
Speaker 1: already did that on part one. By the way, I
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Speaker 1: your winning lineup today. All right, Mayor, we're diving into
Speaker 1: our streamers. What do you got for us?
Speaker 2: All right? So using the Fantasy Pro Streamer tool, and
Speaker 2: also I will say for the Tequila shot. It was
Speaker 2: tenning mirror of time, but it was after twelve pm
Speaker 2: my time, so it is socially acceptable where I am
Speaker 2: just not worthy.
Speaker 1: Hey it's it's five o'clock somewhere right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not in America though, So using the Pitching Streaming tool,
Speaker 2: I kind of I try to filter this by I
Speaker 2: put in one of because you can like sink your
Speaker 2: teams and kind of look at how this all works
Speaker 2: and see who's available. I put in one of my
Speaker 2: shower alert shallow where that's hard word to say, leagues
Speaker 2: in here, just to kind of really hone in on
Speaker 2: players who should be available for you to stream on Monday.
Speaker 2: The really the only name I'm interested in it. It's
Speaker 2: when I brought up a few times already and so
Speaker 2: far it's gone well. Is Nick Martinez at the Royals.
Speaker 2: If you listen to the daily juice around the vetting
Speaker 2: pro side, Matt Parral has just been hammering the Royals
Speaker 2: team total under just over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: It just keeps winning. I think it just was. I
Speaker 2: think it just lost yesterday after like a pretty incredible
Speaker 2: streak of like hitting so many games, and according to
Speaker 2: our tool, that's a good offensive target. And Matt Parral
Speaker 2: has proven that, so you can win some money too
Speaker 2: if you want to just tell the under team total
Speaker 2: for the Royals. There's no other names. I'm really excited
Speaker 2: about Zach Lettel against the Twins. I don't really know
Speaker 2: about that, and no one else. I'm really very excited
Speaker 2: about Tuesday. I had as a stay away day question
Speaker 2: mark because I kind of looked at this day and
Speaker 2: I don't see.
Speaker 1: A whole lot this week's Friday is what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Pretty much. The top name available is Bowden Francis, but
Speaker 2: he has not had a good year and also like
Speaker 2: might still be roster in ther league. He has the
Speaker 2: best matchup according to this tool with VBR versus opponent.
Speaker 2: He's at the Texas Rangers. You know, offense is not
Speaker 2: very good right now, but still when it comes to streaming,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I trust Bowden Francis, And like
Speaker 2: similar story for Lucas Gilito, like he's been like good bed,
Speaker 2: good bed, good bet, and so not exactly someone I
Speaker 2: want to trust in his seven point zero eight ear right,
Speaker 2: even though it is a decent matchup against the Brewers
Speaker 2: and then the only other one Chris Paddock at Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay is you know, probably the best option here. But
Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay lineup is not scary, but that ballpark
Speaker 2: is scary, so you know that's probably the best. You know,
Speaker 2: someone he's been pitching better and you know, decent matchup,
Speaker 2: So probably Chris Baddock. But I would also just lean
Speaker 2: stay away. On Tuesday, Wednesday, I had It's another pretty
Speaker 2: light day in terms of like filtering by names available,
Speaker 2: This might just not be a great streaming week kind
Speaker 2: of looking at this, the top name is at least
Speaker 2: Severino at Houston. I don't hate that, especially with your
Speaker 2: and on Alvarez. I assume we'll still be out. I
Speaker 2: don't think I'll be back by then, so I don't
Speaker 2: hate that, especially outside of that A's ballpark. But other
Speaker 2: than that, not a whole lot I like on that day.
Speaker 2: Thursday is a funny one because, like I said before,
Speaker 2: I filter this by like one of my shallower leagues,
Speaker 2: not like super shallow, but on the shallow side, and
Speaker 2: so it removes players who are rostered in that league.
Speaker 2: And so because Thursday is a small slate and I
Speaker 2: have my league sainct, there is one name available. Normally
Speaker 2: there is like fifteen or you know, like that I'm
Speaker 2: looking at and some of them are just started to
Speaker 2: mention because they're bad. A Thursday, small slate is one name,
Speaker 2: so it's Jeffrey Springs or bust. So it's do you
Speaker 2: want to stream Jeffrey Springs at Toronto? And there are
Speaker 2: no other options that day. But also he's been pitching
Speaker 2: a lot better, so I don't know that I hate
Speaker 2: that one. It's not that bad.
Speaker 1: I don't hate that one. I will say I would
Speaker 1: I would do Springs if he's available.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Friday, I managed to find a name this week,
Speaker 2: Colin Reya again against the Reds, not on the road.
Speaker 2: He's at home against the Reds. You could also do
Speaker 2: Justin Berlander at the Marlins. Jose Siriano at the Guardians
Speaker 2: is probably my third choice there, but I don't think
Speaker 2: I want to get in bed with anything else there
Speaker 2: unless you want to do Dean Kramer against the White Sox,
Speaker 2: but I assume you probably don't.
Speaker 1: I mean against the White Sox maybe, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not really. On Saturday, the top name of album
Speaker 2: was when we just mentioned Ben Brown, but we don't
Speaker 2: know if he's one hundred pcent going to make that start,
Speaker 2: So we'll see Charlie Morton against the White Sox. Probably
Speaker 2: not gonna do that. I don't think I want to
Speaker 2: get into anything Charlie Morton's up to these days. How
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 1: You you very literally could not pay me to start
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton.
Speaker 2: Would you do Zebbie Matthews against Seattle at Seattle?
Speaker 1: I mean, it depends on how much of a need
Speaker 1: it was, but I'd consider it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean his first start wasn't that great, but yeah,
Speaker 2: that's probably well. I will warrant, Oh, will warrant if
Speaker 2: it's at the Dodgers. Now, I'm not streaming Will Warren
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I saw Will Warren. I got excited and then I
Speaker 2: saw the matchup, so I'm not doing him against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I actually have him, like I mentioned, in a deeper league,
Speaker 2: but I didn't start him this week even though it
Speaker 2: was a two star week because the second start was
Speaker 2: against the Daughters. But his first start was really good.
Speaker 2: And then to close out the week, there's Nick Martinez again,
Speaker 2: but he's at the Cubs. I'm probably not going to
Speaker 2: do that. Here's a question for you, though, Nick Martinez,
Speaker 2: if you have to do him in a for a
Speaker 2: two start week and you have to lock him in
Speaker 2: your lineup? Are you doing it with the starts Monday
Speaker 2: is at Kansas City and then Sunday would be at
Speaker 2: the Cubs. Are you running that risk or are you
Speaker 2: just staying away from that.
Speaker 1: M That's a tough one. I think I would not
Speaker 1: run that risk. I think I would only start him
Speaker 1: if I could just do Monday as a streamer. I
Speaker 1: would not lock in the two star week.
Speaker 2: I think it depends on how desperate I am in
Speaker 2: a league. I have a couple of these.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty scared of at the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes me nervous. Yeah, I think that's fair.
Speaker 2: And then other than that, there's bound in Francis again
Speaker 2: at home against the Athletics. So again, if you streamed
Speaker 2: him on Monday, you'd be streaming him in it's a
Speaker 2: weekly league, you'd be streaming.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I would prefer Francis locking in
Speaker 1: a two start week over Martinez given the matchups.
Speaker 2: What was his first matchup, Okay, at Texas and then
Speaker 2: against the Athletics, but at home. I don't hate that.
Speaker 1: I would I'm not saying it's like the perfect no matchup,
Speaker 1: but like that's better to me than having one of
Speaker 1: the starts to be at the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there aren't many other good options here. They're
Speaker 2: either really bad pitchers or have really bad matchups. So
Speaker 2: I think, you know, not a great streaming week, but
Speaker 2: those are the options.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to our two start picture competition. You
Speaker 1: do have the lead four to two, although I still
Speaker 1: maintain that one of those weeks was blatantly unfair that
Speaker 1: you got the win, so it really should be three
Speaker 1: to three, but it is currently four to two. So
Speaker 1: we'll see see how our current week goes, where I
Speaker 1: have Schooble and you have Framber. You won the most
Speaker 1: recent week with Michael King. I did have to go
Speaker 1: as Shane Boz obviously because Hunter Green was hurt, which
Speaker 1: I knew it was a risk, and you know Boz
Speaker 1: was not good, particularly in the second start, so that
Speaker 1: was an easy win for you. Like I said, we'll
Speaker 1: see how week seven wraps up. Of For week eight,
Speaker 1: we actually had some good names. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is the first week in like a month where there
Speaker 1: were multiple options and it was guys that we hadn't
Speaker 1: used already, Like we really had a number of good choices.
Speaker 1: I ultimately went with Jacob de Gram, and the main
Speaker 1: reason I went with him was because I think it
Speaker 1: was Yamamoto had at least one start that I didn't love,
Speaker 1: and I figured, I'm gonna like him again later in
Speaker 1: the season. I'll just save him. But the other real
Speaker 1: main thought was I don't I have been really on
Speaker 1: the train of I do not want to Gram. I
Speaker 1: do not trust him to stay healthy. He's pitching awesome
Speaker 1: right now, and I mean I expected him to be
Speaker 1: good when he was on the mound. I just didn't
Speaker 1: think we'd get the innings out of him. So I
Speaker 1: want to use him before you've already used him. I
Speaker 1: also want to use him early, before the inevitable injury
Speaker 1: comes that I keep predicting. Plus, he gets Toronto and
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, like, you know, I'm comfortable with those matchups obviously,
Speaker 1: So he's on a heater. He's actually healthy. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, knock on wood jinxing it, but I'll
Speaker 1: take to ground while I can.
Speaker 2: I'm doing something similar on the other side. I'm going
Speaker 2: with Garrett Crochet, you know, similar injury concerns, just because
Speaker 2: you know we've only ever seen this last year and
Speaker 2: before that pretty lengthy injury history. But right now, Garrett
Speaker 2: Crochet has been incredible. You know, despite what Welsh says,
Speaker 2: I'm leading off, he's been really, really good. He's got
Speaker 2: a sub two era looks incredible. His matchups are at
Speaker 2: the Brewers and at the Brave, so don't necessarily love
Speaker 2: that I'm streaming two road starts, but also not the
Speaker 2: worst matchups. Although the unfortunate thing is I could be
Speaker 2: playing with fire with that second start because it's at
Speaker 2: the Braves. But Acuna is going to be back, so
Speaker 2: that could be interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one reason why I went away from
Speaker 1: Crochet because I got to the sheet first. I considered
Speaker 1: taking him though, because you couldn't take de Graham and
Speaker 1: then forcing you to use a different player. But I
Speaker 1: just figured I want to take de Grom and I
Speaker 1: like the matchup.
Speaker 2: Some gamesmanship for me. There there were some other names,
Speaker 2: think about it.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of good options.
Speaker 2: Yamamoto, but one of those starts against the.
Speaker 1: Yankees, Yes, that's what it was, the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan is not I don't know if I've used
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan, but Joe Ryan's another.
Speaker 1: Really, this was not a week where like, if your
Speaker 1: first choice was gone, you were gonna have to fall
Speaker 1: back on Shane Boz or Shane's Smith. I went Shane
Speaker 1: back to back weeks thanks to Kelly. That's brutal shock
Speaker 1: are They both lost? All right? So we'll see how
Speaker 1: that goes, and then our weekend excitement. We'll go quickly
Speaker 1: here because I got to get out of here. Hunter
Speaker 1: Green returns on Friday, the aforementioned Hunter Green to face
Speaker 1: the Cubs. So I mean, that's a really fun matchup
Speaker 1: if he's back in healthy that I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: watch that one. Green versus the Cubs, Freddy Praultzo versus
Speaker 1: Paul Skins, fun matchup, a couple of pictures. And then
Speaker 1: Zach wheel Or versus your beloved Jeffrey Springs. I don't
Speaker 1: highlight that one as well, but really, like the big
Speaker 1: one for me is Green on Friday against the Cubs
Speaker 1: is kind of the big highlight of the weekend for me.
Speaker 2: What about you, I gotta say, you write verse vs.
Speaker 2: Without the period? I don't care for that. I don't
Speaker 2: really like.
Speaker 1: I actually definitely do both. Like sometimes I write with
Speaker 1: the period and sometimes I don't it. There is literally
Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason to my logic. There.
Speaker 2: For my weekend excitement, I have the battle of the
Speaker 2: Cell Highs, Nick Pivetta versus Chris Sale, Nick Pavetta being
Speaker 2: more of a sell higher than Chris Sale, but two
Speaker 2: people I've talked about on the show as Cell Highs
Speaker 2: in the past. Also Ronald Lacunya returning. The great irony
Speaker 2: being I can't I'm in Georgia, but I can't watch
Speaker 2: the Braves because of wonderful MLB blackout rules. They are
Speaker 2: not on the cable provider that I have, so that's awesome.
Speaker 2: But you know I'll see highlights of ron Lalguni returning.
Speaker 2: And then the last one is, like I mentioned, I
Speaker 2: recently traded for san Diel Contre because I'm interested in
Speaker 2: buying low on him and he has a pretty rupe
Speaker 2: will start against Angels, and I want to see if
Speaker 2: this is the beginning of him turning things around.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go ahead and wrap things up there.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for tuning in to our pitching focused episode.
Speaker 1: We of course did Routing the Bases is part one
Speaker 1: where we went through Brandon Hide and we did some
Speaker 1: grade the trade, we talked some rules changes we'd like
Speaker 1: to see. We did a whole bunch of stuff in
Speaker 1: Part one and super fun. I also did it tequila
Speaker 1: shots to go watch that if you want to see
Speaker 1: that on YouTube. And then part two we did our
Speaker 1: usual buys and sales and waiver stuff. So a great
Speaker 1: bunch of episodes this week. Hope everybody enjoyed them this weekend.
Speaker 1: For Mayor, I'm Ryan Warmley. Thanks for tuning in. We'll
Speaker 1: see you again next time. And by the way, next
Speaker 1: week we'll be Kelly Kirby instead of Mayor. You get
Speaker 1: a fun, rare worm and Kelly episodes, so that'll be
Speaker 1: fun to chat with her and see. I told her
Speaker 1: already I want to do a segment on some lessons
Speaker 1: she's learned in the first few months of this season,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. We'll see what Kelly has to say.
Speaker 1: But for Mayor, I'm Ryan, thanks for tuning in. We'll
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