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MLB DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Monday, 05/25/26 · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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  Speaker 1: How are you brother?
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  Speaker 3: I am good man. Probably the highlight of my day
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  Speaker 3: doing the show with you. Get to watch a Calves
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  Speaker 3: funeral later tonight, so not really looking forward to that,
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  Speaker 3: but at least we're still we're still hanging by a thread.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah man, it was a good weekend. We have really
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  Speaker 3: good weather like all last week. Unfortunately it got a
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  Speaker 3: little gloomy here today, so we'll take it. Least it's
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  Speaker 3: not cold anymore and the sun hopefully just stays out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the coming days. But yeah, man, excited
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  Speaker 3: to break the slate down with you. We didn't get
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  Speaker 3: too much of a time to chat before because I
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  Speaker 3: was running a little bit behind finishing up the slate plan.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, looks like a bunch of good offensive
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  Speaker 3: spots to look at, a couple top arms. Interested to
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  Speaker 3: hear your takes on this slate, and just excited to
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  Speaker 3: break it down with you, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of kind of the cash, right, there's two arms,
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  Speaker 2: Mizzerowski and McLean. It's probably you play those two and
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  Speaker 2: then figure out what bats to play. Right, There is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pretty solid offensive spots you can definitely
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  Speaker 2: spread out in pitching too, right, So it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a unique slate where yeah, you got the two guys,
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  Speaker 2: the two headed race kind of above the rest in
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  Speaker 2: McLean and Mizerowski, but misses up at eleven five, and
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  Speaker 2: there is expensive bats. I mean, the Yankees are expensive
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  Speaker 2: in Kaufman Stadium, really good hitting weather there. There is
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  Speaker 2: some high priced bats obviously the Cubs, the Brewers, which
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about the Matt's are starting to hit
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  Speaker 2: the ball a little bit as well, and they have
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  Speaker 2: some more expensive bats in there, with Soto being red
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  Speaker 2: hot and Baschet starting to hit things like that. Right, So,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's a slate where you necessarily have
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  Speaker 2: to play Mizerowski.
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  Speaker 1: He's by far and.
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  Speaker 2: Away kind of the sp one on the slate, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll do everything we can to kind of talk through
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  Speaker 2: it and break it down there. But that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the broad slide overreal, right, it's miss McLean and then
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  Speaker 2: probably the Yankees bats and some Brewers bats and some
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  Speaker 2: Cubs bats. Is kind of what the dry one dry run,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, sets up as right, But let's just
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  Speaker 2: do pitching as a hole here with only six games
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  Speaker 2: on the docket, let's do all the entire pitching pool, right,
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  Speaker 2: So hit on obviously Mizerowski and McLean, the two top
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  Speaker 2: arms on the slate ownership will follow there. Miz is
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  Speaker 2: going to be upwards of sixty percent, probably hit in
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  Speaker 2: majority contest, single entry, small field stuff I wouldn't see.
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  Speaker 2: I could see him pushing eighty plus right clean, same
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  Speaker 2: thing going to be kind of right there, right around
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  Speaker 2: fifty to sixty percent owned, and then it's everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Bradish is probably the next guy.
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  Speaker 2: People go to a little bit of Zebbie, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of McClanahan, sandwich between Miserowski and McClean So naturally
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  Speaker 2: I have interest in him being sandwiched between those two.
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  Speaker 2: And then you got some cheaper guys, right. Got Ben Brown,
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  Speaker 2: historical reliever from last year now turned into a starter
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  Speaker 2: out of desperation for the Cubs, but he's shown strikeout
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  Speaker 2: ability last year. Gets to pitch out in Pittsburgh in
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  Speaker 2: that park there. I think you can play both sides
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  Speaker 2: of that. But it's sixty seven hundred on a pitcher
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  Speaker 2: or slate like this. When you know everyone's playing the
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  Speaker 2: top two guys up at the top right, you get
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  Speaker 2: a different roster construction there. So I throw a couple
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  Speaker 2: of names there, but go ahead and give you a
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  Speaker 2: rundown here in terms of pitching.
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  Speaker 3: I actually view it really similar to that. I think
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  Speaker 3: that Miserowski is by far the top ARM. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: because he's the best pitcher in baseball right now, So
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  Speaker 3: any spot he's in, he's going to be the top ARM.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty much every slate he's on, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: step for like special circumstances is a really tough spot,
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of other aces on the slate, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: But a normal slate like today, a smaller slate, he's
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  Speaker 3: clearly the top ARM. I'm with you, and that you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to play him because mostly the Yankees themselves,
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  Speaker 3: who are the top stack on the board with the
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  Speaker 3: highest upside, are really expensive, so if you want to
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  Speaker 3: just load up on bats, you know, there are ways
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  Speaker 3: that Miserowski is just good here and not like amazing
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  Speaker 3: at that really high price of a salary. But that
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  Speaker 3: being said, I don't think he's that hard to fit,
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  Speaker 3: so in any one lineup, I'm probably just playing him
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  Speaker 3: and moving on. I like McLain a lot as well.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't been quite as good, or maybe a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more inconsistent as advertised as I thought he would
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  Speaker 3: be coming into the year, but his stuff is still elite,
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  Speaker 3: still a fan of his arm talent, good spot at
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  Speaker 3: home against the Reds, So I think his tag is
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  Speaker 3: too cheap, and those two for me are the clear
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  Speaker 3: top two arms. I get McClanahan, but he doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: the length of those two. He's a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: expensive than McLain. I think the matchup is more boom
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  Speaker 3: or busts for McClanahan. Like the Orioles haven't been great,
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  Speaker 3: they continuously let down. But you go, like spot By,
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  Speaker 3: spot through this lineup and there are a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: righties with power. So I have McClanahan third there, but
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  Speaker 3: I do think it's them three and then everyone else
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  Speaker 3: after them. I'm with you, it's Bradish Zebby. Those guys
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  Speaker 3: are cheap enough for sure where I think you can
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  Speaker 3: look at them. I'm not completely buying what Zebby has
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  Speaker 3: sold so far in his first two starts. He's been
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  Speaker 3: really good. He wasn't great in the minors before then.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like he got called up because he was
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  Speaker 3: having such a good season. They just needed the length.
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  Speaker 3: He's been good though, and we know he's talented, has
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  Speaker 3: strike got upside, So I'm interested in this spot. Braddis himself,
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  Speaker 3: that's a classic. Both sides are for me. I could
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  Speaker 3: see playing Bradish, I could see stacking the rays. Both
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  Speaker 3: sides are really cheap with upside Bradish that seemingly started
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  Speaker 3: to come into his own a little bit this season.
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  Speaker 3: Back to back Monster starts before his last one where
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  Speaker 3: he was just okay, not bad. So yeah, I get
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  Speaker 3: that play. And then Ben Brown, I'm glad you brought
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  Speaker 3: him up. I think he's cheap enough where he's worth
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  Speaker 3: at least looking at Not exactly sure what to expect
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  Speaker 3: from him, but you know, after the top three arms,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's question marks surrounding pretty much everyone, including
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  Speaker 3: Will Warren, who has been really good this year, but
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  Speaker 3: not a good spot. He's probably a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: expensive than I'd like to pay. But all in all,
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  Speaker 3: interesting slate and that there's only six games, but there's
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  Speaker 3: decent pitching options and good stacks, so a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: different ways to go today.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I like a lot of what you
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  Speaker 2: said there, Miserowski, McLean. Obviously the top two arms on
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  Speaker 2: the slate hard to say. Projections say that right. I
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  Speaker 2: ran one hundred and fifty builds projection wise and one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine and one hundred and fifty teams
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  Speaker 2: had McLean and Mizerowski. The other loans driver was Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Bradish in one lineup, right, So those are kind of
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  Speaker 2: obviously the cash game pairing.
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  Speaker 1: You can definitely do it in tournaments, right, just get
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  Speaker 1: a little different.
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  Speaker 2: In your bats if you do that. I do have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more interest in McClanahan. I know the
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  Speaker 2: leash right that the pitch count concerns are there. The
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  Speaker 2: props would would agree, right, fifteen and a half k
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  Speaker 2: prop plus one eleven, so fifteen and a half outs
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  Speaker 2: juice to the under right, So they don't really expect
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  Speaker 2: him to go what six innings right, five and five
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  Speaker 2: and some innings there, five and a third something like that, right,
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  Speaker 2: which does worry me a little bit. But you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get him at a fourth of the ownership of McLean
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  Speaker 2: and Miserowski, and he's twenty two twenty five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 2: cheaper than Miserowski and three hundred dollars more expensive than
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  Speaker 2: and Clean, so at ownership, I do think in tournaments
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  Speaker 2: I do like him, even with the pitchcount concerns.
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  Speaker 1: There and the leash.
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  Speaker 2: Will Warren I just I think he could to have
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  Speaker 2: a ceiling here, I don't love it. That's the best
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  Speaker 2: hitting environment on the slate. I know he's been really good,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd rather if I'm spending that, I'd rather just
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  Speaker 2: play McLean or McClanahan. So for me, Will Warren kind
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  Speaker 2: of misses the cut not playing Michael Walka against the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: No thanks on that, Zebbie Matthews. I don't think this dude.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to be pitching how he's pitching right now
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  Speaker 2: in the majors, Like you said, right, his underlying metrics,
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  Speaker 2: the stuff and the miners.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a guy to attack down there now as
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  Speaker 1: he mar actually figured it out. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: do think you can definitely play some of those White
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  Speaker 1: Sox bats.
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  Speaker 2: Montgomery's kind of cooled off a little bit, but Murrcami's
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  Speaker 2: still really good. Vargas has been really good, Antonasi's been good.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's a clear sign of you can
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  Speaker 2: definitely play both sides there. But at seventy seven hundred, Zebbi,
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  Speaker 2: Matthews does have a ceiling and does have a place
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  Speaker 2: on the slate to be playable, so I don't mind him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm definitely Kyle Bradish is kind of my third favorite
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  Speaker 2: behind Mizzerowski and McLean. It's probably a toss up between
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  Speaker 2: him and McClanahan. But with the two thousand dollars savings,
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  Speaker 2: I do think Kyle Bradish is really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you there. I like Ben Brown a lot
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  Speaker 1: at sixty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's great, not messing with Anthony k not
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  Speaker 2: messing with Madzinski or Libertore. I think on a different
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  Speaker 2: slate you could definitely play those guys, but I just
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  Speaker 2: don't think this is the slate to do it. Probably
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  Speaker 2: if if they hit your builds, I wouldn't kind of
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  Speaker 2: kind of throw it out just because Maud is gonna
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  Speaker 2: leverage the Cubs chalk in terms of hitting, and same
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  Speaker 2: thing with the Brewers, who are gonna pick up some
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  Speaker 2: ownership on the bat side, and he is kind of
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  Speaker 2: a groundballer over there, so I can definitely see a
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  Speaker 2: path to success here. But for me, on this slate,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like those guys too much, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty condensed pitcher pool. The only other guy would throw
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  Speaker 2: in is Nick Lodolo. The reason being is he's seventy
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  Speaker 2: five hundred. Nobody's gonna play him. He has a four
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  Speaker 2: and a half k prop heavy juice to thee over there.
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  Speaker 2: It's not it's not great, but he's pitching in City Field,
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  Speaker 2: which is a good pitchers ballpark. There the Mets are
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  Speaker 2: more people are gonna be on the Mets than they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be on the Lodolo. And I could see a
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  Speaker 2: ceiling for Nickolodola, not even a ceiling, but I could
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  Speaker 2: see him out score a guy like Cayle Bradish at
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  Speaker 2: a fraction of the ownership. I'll score a guy like
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  Speaker 2: Zebbie Matthews and be kind of that s P two
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  Speaker 2: that that you can see hit winning builds.
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  Speaker 1: So I do have.
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  Speaker 2: Some interest in him, but he's kind of clear behind
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the guys there. So for me, my
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  Speaker 2: pitcher pool kind of looks like these seven guys mainly,
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  Speaker 2: but really the focal point is mis and McLean for
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  Speaker 2: for sure, just like everybody else there. Kyle Bradish, I think,
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  Speaker 2: would be third, just like everyone So nothing to contrarian there,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes that's just how it goes. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: the controlling guys would be McClanahan, Lodolo, Brent Brown are
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  Speaker 2: kind of my favorites there as kind of lower own options.
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  Speaker 1: Any additional picture breakdown from you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think we see it pretty
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  Speaker 3: much awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let me jump over here and refresh the stone
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  Speaker 2: and talk through the hitting side of it. In terms
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  Speaker 2: of the six game offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Battles here, first game up in Pittsburgh, Ben Brown on
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  Speaker 1: the mound.
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  Speaker 2: We had an interest in Ben Brown. The Cubs look
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  Speaker 2: pretty good here, for for sure. Lodzinsky has shown to
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  Speaker 2: be a decent arm but fres Both plane something crazy,
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  Speaker 2: middle of the road, kind of right dead dead in
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  Speaker 2: the middle. In terms of weather here, it is going
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  Speaker 2: to play more hitter friendly than normal, but we know
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  Speaker 2: historically this is still more of a pitcher's ballpark here.
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  Speaker 2: Temperat is kind of in the mid seventies, a little
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  Speaker 2: wind blown out, nothing crazy. So I think the Cubs
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  Speaker 2: lefties look really good here and Lodzinski struggles against left
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  Speaker 2: handed hitters. Cubs also realize that Bumps Pca all the
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  Speaker 2: way up to the top ian hat bush. They're they're
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  Speaker 2: throwing three lefties at him right away. Bregman is hitting
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  Speaker 2: top of that lineup all year. He's been decent. Gonfordo
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  Speaker 2: has been really good. Pedro Ramirez you get a twenty
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  Speaker 2: two hundred dollars guy who has shown some power, has
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  Speaker 2: a little speed as well. I think he's a good
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  Speaker 2: play at that price point because he fits to the
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  Speaker 2: weaker positions when you when you're building teams, right, second base,
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  Speaker 2: third base usually pretty pretty weak.
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  Speaker 1: And then Ballisterio.
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  Speaker 2: So I love the lefties, mainly for the Cubs, but
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  Speaker 2: I do think the Cubs kind of check in is
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  Speaker 2: one of the top stacks. And yeah, we do like
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  Speaker 2: Ben Brown, but I mean this dude was a bullpen
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  Speaker 2: arm and kind of thrust it into the starting rotation
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  Speaker 2: on the necessity with all the injuries the Cubs had
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  Speaker 2: and Cubs bullpening. Nothing crazy special behind him, the Pirates right,
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  Speaker 2: the lefties Horwitz, Low Reynolds, Cruise that that top four
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  Speaker 2: and then Connor Griffin's been hitting as well and always
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  Speaker 2: has still the base up side, so I think this
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  Speaker 2: is a pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Solid offensive spot.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah we had interest in Ben Brown, but it
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  Speaker 2: was more of the salary and the price plag and
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  Speaker 2: what it unlocked for your roster. I think both sides
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  Speaker 2: are interesting, but definitely a lean to the Cub side
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  Speaker 2: for me, and you want the lefties on both sides here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what makes the Pirates. Interesting is that
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  Speaker 3: not that Ben Brown's some trash can or anything. It's
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  Speaker 3: that they're going to be really low owned and the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs will just be average owned. So I think the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs are in a better spot on paper, but man,
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  Speaker 3: they've been kind of atrocious recently. They had a decent
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  Speaker 3: game yesterday, but they're on a big losing streak. They've
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  Speaker 3: been very up and down this entire season, a couple
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  Speaker 3: ten game winning streaks already. I think they're on like
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  Speaker 3: an eight game losing streak right now. All that being said,
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  Speaker 3: don't really care about that from a DFS perspective. All
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  Speaker 3: we care about is today, and they're in a good
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  Speaker 3: spot against Maazinski. I don't think they're the top stack
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  Speaker 3: on the slate, but I don't think the field things
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  Speaker 3: so either, So I wouldn't mind planning my flag on
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs. As I mentioned earlier, I think there's like
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  Speaker 3: four or five stacks that look really good here, like
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  Speaker 3: outside of the Yankees, who look like the best in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion, So you have the Yankees, then like four
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  Speaker 3: or five other teams that look also really good that
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  Speaker 3: are nip at the Yankees heels that I think you
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  Speaker 3: could make a case for prioritizing in tournaments, and I
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  Speaker 3: think the Cubs are definitely in that group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely definitely agree with you. So it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like we agree there. Pirates definitely have a place on
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  Speaker 2: the slate. Is kind of a lower own team and
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  Speaker 2: won't be shocked to see the Pirates also run run
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  Speaker 2: as well, right O'Neil Cruz kind of Griffin will definitely
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  Speaker 2: run and then Horowitz Reynolds. Those guys have shown some
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  Speaker 2: power up at the top there. So yeah, definitely think
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty interesting game overall.
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  Speaker 1: There, it takes us to the next one. I'm more
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  Speaker 1: on pitching in this one.
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  Speaker 2: I do think you can definitely play some of the bats,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd rather play some of the Pirates over either
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  Speaker 2: of these teams.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We probably different a little bit here, just because when
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  Speaker 2: I take a look at this slate, I already liked
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  Speaker 2: a decent amount offense. Not the best place to hit here,
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  Speaker 2: and the weather isn't great. I mean, yeah, it's in
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  Speaker 2: the seventies, but some win blown in nothing nothing too
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  Speaker 2: spectacular there.
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  Speaker 1: I just I like other spots more. Can't play everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I do think cam Niro, Randa Diaz Tayler Simpson and
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  Speaker 2: Seeddi Mullins, who's been good. Those are kind of the
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  Speaker 2: guys from the Rays that you'd have interest in. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get some some quote unquote leverage off of Bratis,
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  Speaker 2: who's probably the sp three in terms of ownership on
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  Speaker 2: the slate, right behind MZ and McLean.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: So in that regard, I think it's interesting. But when
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: you add in the Baltimore bullpen being the best in
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: baseball so far, it's a little a little strange. I'd
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: rather pick on McClanahan more.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: With the Orioles, some of those righty powers at Lea's
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: been really good this year. Pete Alonzo murders lefties think
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: he's good. Weston Wilson hit historically, hits left. He's pretty good.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: There's some pitch hit risks there. Taylor Ward has made
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a living on hitting left handed pitching. And then we
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: already know mclanahan's not going to go super long. Props
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: would agree, And you take a look at the Tampa
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Bay Rays bullpen fifth worst in baseball in terms of
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: x FIP, so the Orioles is definitely my preferred side
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: if I was going to a side in this game.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Even though I think mcclanahan's a really good tournament option
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: and a tournament arm, there is least concerns there. And
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: if he goes as five innings, you still have four
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: innings potentially of that Raise bullpen, which isn't the best.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: What do you see here in this one?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: No, I don't disagree with you at all. I think
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: the Raised, just because of how good they've been against
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: right handed pitching this year and because of Bradish's inconsistencies,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: are in play at least because they have upside. But
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I'm with you. They're not like my top stack or
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: anything like that. I think they belong in that group
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: with the Cubs, but it wouldn't fault you. I probably
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: do like the Cubs a little bit more, but you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I have to acknowledge the race upside and how good
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: they've been against right handed pitching this year. I could
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: also get on board with some of the Orioles guys,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, really really low owned. They've got power.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: You know, obviously, the guys that you want you're paying for,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So that's probably my biggest hesitation to get there. But
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: small slate, low ownership upside, I'm about it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely agree there. Over takes us to the
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: next game here, we're going to Chicago, Zebbie Matthews. Anthony
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Kay in the mound, Twins not been a great offense
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: by any means. There's definitely some Pinchick concerns in here,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: guys like Austin, Martin Gonzales, some of these righties. Once
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: K's out of there, right, if he goes his four innings,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You're definitely gonna get some Pinchick guys.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: But guys like Byron Bucks and brooks Lee up at
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the top, I think our interesting definitely. Buxton, obviously Lefty
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: mash Or fifty nine hundred is an expensive price point,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: but brooks Lee at third base shortstop thirty seven hundred,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I think he's a decent value at the ownership here
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that the Twins are are kind of showing. I don't
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: like him much here, and I get the reason right,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Anthony Kay is not good. The bullpen behind him is
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: not great. I just don't love this spot here for
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the Twins. I'd actually rather play the White Sox oiude
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: of this game and some of those lefties, Like I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: said Antonaci Murakami, Vargas Montgomery, that top four is really good.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Ben Attende's been solid all year, So if you wanted
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: a five man stack, you got one, two, three, four six.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's really interesting.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Romo as a kind of mid tier cheap catcher, has
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: shown some upside and some power.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I definitely prefer the White Sox side.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: And you talk about bullpens, I mean the Twins bullpen
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: is by far and away the worst bullpen in baseball.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: This White Sox team has upside. They're better than they
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: were last year. They're better than people give them credit for.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: And yeah, give me the ownership discount on the White
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Sox here attacking Zebbie, who I think gets played as
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: kind of that sp two option.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: People are looking at Bratish, they're looking at Zebi as
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: kind of the first two stops if they're not playing
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: McLean in Mizerowski. So I think the White Sox in
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: tournament's here pretty dang interesting. What do you see in
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: this one?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: No?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I see it exactly the same as you, except maybe
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I like the Twins more than you. That said, I
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: get your point, like their own so the field is
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: already there. I don't love playing the Twins into ownership.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: So the White Sox really intriguing today. Mention it before
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: or Zebby has been good in his two starts, but
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: he was not good in the minors before that. He
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: got lit up in spring training. Like, this is a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: guy that gives up power and he's had plenty of
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: starts in the past where he's gotten destroyed. So you
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: look at a White Sox lineup that's pretty boom bust.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: We just saw it in San Francisco. I think they
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: to score ten runs in the opening game of that series.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: You get a bad Twins bullpen. Yeah, I get the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: White Sox for sure here and then the Twins. I
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: said it, like I like them. I'm just a little
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: bit cautious that our ownership we'll have to wait and see,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: like kind of how that settles with still a bunch
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: of time before the slate starts. But as of now,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I get playing the Twins, but I also get like
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: not playing them, considering where ownership is and how many
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: other good stacks are on this slate. They fall right
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: in line in that Cubs group.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: For me, Yeah, no, I definitely agree there.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I just I look at the Twins bullpen already being
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the worst in baseball, and then I look at their
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: bullpen usage over the last three days forty five thirty
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: five thirty two thirty. I mean they're pretty taxed a
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: lot of those arms in there which aren't already good arms, right,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: So I do think on a slate where the White
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Socks are gonna come in as a stack as kind
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: of five percent owned across five hitters, right, I think
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it's really interesting on a tournament and team total, right
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: their favorite in this game over a four and plaied
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: run total. I do think things shake up pretty good.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Twin side, Buckston Lee, are Broughron Away, It'd probably be Buckston,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Lee and Josh Bell there because I don't really want
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: to mess with the pinch hit guys. Austin Martin's a
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: pinchick risk, Gonzalez Kreedler, some of these righties right, the
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Twins are known historically for pinch hit, especially with all
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: of those lefties right, guys like Larnock Walner, all of
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: those guys on the bench. You could see two to
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: three of these guys at least get pinch hit four
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and that hurts a stack overall. So with the pinchick concerns,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I do side with the White Sox side of this
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: game more not just because of ownership, but also adding.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Adding the bullpen and the pinch at risk there as well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Next game on the slates, Cardinals and the Brewers. Mizzerowski
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: best spark starting pitcher on the mound. He can give
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: up a home run or two at times.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Right when you throw one hundred and ten miles an hour,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: it feels like, I mean, put the barrel on it
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and it'll go. The roof is going to be open
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee here tonight. They did call the hotline and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: check that out. Temperature are going to be in the eighties.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Beautiful day here in Milwaukee.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Libertar, like I said, on a different slate, if you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: wanted to, you could pitch him, but I don't think
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it's a slate to do so.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I love the Brewers here today. They're my favorite, quote
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: unquote pivot off of the Yankees. I think they're both
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: gonna be kind of stack one and two in terms
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of ownership. But Yankees are far and away going to
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: be higher round than the Brewers. So give me the
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Brewers here against Libertor and then the Cardinals. Bullpen is
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: just absolutely atrocious behind Libertare, So I'm on my Brewers
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: here lost two of three to the Dodgers, but got
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the best better half.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Of their rotation there. I think the uh.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I think the Brewers rally here behind Mizzerrelski overall. So
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: what do you see in this one?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no shame losing two to three to that Dodger squad.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I mean you get Yamamoto on the hill like, yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: it's the Dodgers. So I thought that was a real
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: competitive series. I like the way the Brewers look right now,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: and I'm not continue picking on these cardinals pictures who
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I think are just waiting to come back down to earth.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Both Librator and mc greevy, who I think we get tomorrow.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: These guys, I don't know how they're doing it, but
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: they keep doing it, getting by with smoking mirrors. We
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: saw him a Greevy last start. Finally get got a
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: little bit. And I'm gonna keep picking on Librator am agrievy.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: So we get Librator today, Brewers offense, which I like
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: they run. Yeah, I'm in on the Brewers here. They're
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: definitely in that Cubs group for me, but they might
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: be at the top of that list. I like them
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: a lot here. Librator is just a picture I want
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: to pick on I don't think he's like a gas can,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: but I think that he isn't as good as he's
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: been so far the season, and he gives up power
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: when he's not right. So I'm in on the Brewers,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: not in on the Cardinals at all here.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Cardinals.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I would look at Weatherholt, Herrera, Burlison Walker. I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: if you really wanted to, I think those four guys
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: you can play really any slate match in dependent.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Not that you want to pick up Mizzerowski in.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: As forty k rate, but if they do find the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: find the bat, right, I think there is some upside there.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And the Brewers pen did get pretty pretty taxed in
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: that Dodger series, right, because obviously we got the Dodgers
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: on the back half are four, five and six arms.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: So when that happens and you're facing the best lineup
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: in baseball, right, your bullpen takes tends to take a hit.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: So with that added in, and Miserowski has left his
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: last two starts early, right, I think it's more precautionary
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: just because obviously he's the franchise for the Brewers, so
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I think it's more precautionary. But if he does leave
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: after six, and even if he strikes out ten of
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: these dudes, I mean, you still get four innings of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: a pretty tax Brewers bullpen.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Don't love it. Definitely prefer that the Brewers side of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: this one.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I mean Libertor, he's been a fly ball guy so
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: far this season, is getting barreled up at a thirteen
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: percent rate to both sides of the play. And this
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Brewers team can hit the ball and they'll also run. Now,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: obviously this is more of a full stack or bus
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: for me, because it's hard to pick out individual hitters
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: that you really love for the Brewers against left handed pitching,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Andrew Vaughan, contreres Cherio would be the three that I
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: would start with overall. But yeah, this is a full stack,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and just you got the bad bullpen behind, and those
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: lefty bats are gonna have platoon advantage later in that game,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: which can definitely help guys like terrang Yelich, Garrett Mitchell overall.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: So Brewer is my favorite stack overall, and not just
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: because I'm a Milwaukee Homer. I just think Libertor is
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: pitching over his head and when you get barreled that much,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: which is the starting pitcher, like the wheels are gonna
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: fall off sooner than later. And I'll take the slight
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: ownership discount off the Yankees overall, with the roof umping
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: here at home in a good home run park already.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: One thing I'll say about the Cardinals too. We saw
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: a spot earlier this year where Paul Schemes was like
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: uber chalk against them and they got him. So, like,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Miserowski is amazing, and I'm not gonna stack the Cardinals
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: against him, but like he's not gonna have you know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: like he's not gonna have perfect starts every start this season.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: And also to your point, like it's a small slate,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get a few innings in the bullpen. You know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: maybe looking at a Cardinals bat or two if you're
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: not playing Miserowski makes some sense here.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think in lineups where I'm not playing Misserowski,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have a ton of Miserwski, obviously, but in
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: lineups where I'm not, I don't think it's the worst
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: play to throw one or two of these Cardinals in there,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: especially like a Herrera right at a catch up position
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: which everyone's gonna play the Yankees catchers, or play William
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Catrerez or gonna play Ballisteros right from the Cubs. I
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: think that's an interesting roster construction there that that makes
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a lot of sense.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Andrew Martinez says, can you rank the Brewers for me?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughan number one, Chario number two, Contreres number three,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and then it's probably Bowers and then Yelich.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I know lefty left e isn't great, but Bowers has
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: just been hitting beach balls.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: He can hit left handed pitching anyways.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Overall on same thing with Yelich, So those would kind
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of be the five that I would start with. But
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: don't forget about terrang Ren. Heitho has been showing some
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: signs of upside, and for whatever reason, when when the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Brewers are popular and everybody's on the Brewers, nobody plays
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Joey or Ties and that's usually when he hits a
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: home run. So I'll say, don't forget about Joey Ortiz
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: at twenty five hundred. He'll also swipe a bag or
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: two too. And if he swipes you a bag at
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: twenty five hundred at shortstop on a slate like this,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: when you want to play up for eleven five Minserowski
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: and McLean at eighty seven hundred right twenty five hundred,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: he gets you a walk and is still in the
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: base seven points. That goes a long ways right at that,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and you can wrap it up to the top. So
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: all nine for sure and play for me. But those
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: top five that I listed would be kind of the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: focal points there overall. Next spot, by far and away,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the best hitting environment on the slate here two games
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: left to talk about. We're in Kaufman Stadium with the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: new dimensions, and we got mid eighties to upper eighties,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: like eighty eight by the end of this game, gonna
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: be hot and humid in Kansas City with some wind
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: blown out here at right around eleven to twelve miles
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: an hour. And you got Michael Waka, who is a
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: decent real life pitcher, not a great DFS pitcher, he's decent,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: but man, Yankees against any right handed pitcher, especially with
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: this park, this weather. They haven't been hitting great lately,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: but this team is very, very very tough to kind
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: of go the distance with anytime. Already Yankees by far
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and away the best stack on the board on paper.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Does it come to fruition well, we'll have to wait
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: about five six hours to figure that out. But on paper,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: by far and away the best stack overall. Kansas City
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: bullpen behind Waka not good, fourth worst in baseball in
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: terms of x FIP. Will Warren's been really good.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's the craziest player to play the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Royals at no ownership really on the other side of
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: this game, obviously, Garcia wit get ownership anytime and present
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that price to get ownership anytime they're on the slate,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: so that's kind of inflating. But as a stack here,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I think the Royals also pretty interesting.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It is tough. Will Warren's a good arm.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yankees bullpen is good, so there's definitely downside here, but
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: biggest game total on the slate, best hitting conditions on
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the slate, and I think this is definitely an.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Interesting one on both sidelines.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm actually I'm not even I'm not buying
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: that the Yankees are going to be like as highly
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: owned as the projected industry wide, simply because of their
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: price tags. And it's not like an obvious easy spot.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Waka is not a gas can. Waca is good. He's
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: not great, He's good like you said he's not an
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: elite DFS pitcher, but he's better in real life. He's
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: not the type of picture people go out of their
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: way to target. Now, to your point, the Yankees against Arriety,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I think they're the top stack on the slate. But
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I do think the majority of people are gonna want
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: to prioritize the pitchers Miserowski and McClain, and it's hard
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: to full stack the Yankees using those two. So I'm
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: not overly worried about their ownership. That said, I do
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: think they'll be one of the highest owned teams, clearly
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: because they look so good. They're projected for the highest total,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. And I don't know how I
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: feel about them because Waka again isn't a gas can.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: They're really expensive, and there are a bunch of other
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: good offenses to play. This is a classic. I think
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: you can obviously make good lineups if you want to
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: prioritize the Yankees. I also don't think you have to
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: prioritize the Yankees and tournaments at all. We talked about
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the Brewers, the Cubs, the White Sox. You talked about
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: like there are other good offenses today. So I do
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: think the Yankees upside alone makes them the top stack.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: They're not like I have to jam them in tournament
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: type play for me. And then the Royals. I mean
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: you mentioned it, like Warren is a good pitcher, but
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: he's also not like infallible to getting hit or anything
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: like that. He can get got. The Royals just got
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: to Brian Wu yesterday. They got to George Kirby the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: day before that. Like, this is an offense that hasn't
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: been good this year, but maybe they're starting to see
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: the ball well at home. I don't hate them on
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: this slate. I don't know if I'm gonna get there,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: but I really don't hate them. I for me personally,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I would play them over. I would play Will Warren
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: on this.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Slate, Yeah, I would as well.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: You want the lefties against Will Warren where he's a
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: league average arm against lefties, he just is between this
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: year and last year twenty one percent k rate in
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: eleven percent walk rate as well, and he gets barreled
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: up at an eleven percent rate to a left handed
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: hitters Carter Jensen, Michael Massey, Caglione, Vinn p There's four
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: lefties that all hit right handed pitching really well this year.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Don't strike out a lot obviously outside of Jensen and
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: kag Leon, but they have powered off set that. And
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: then you got Bobby Witt, sal Prezley's cheap, you got
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a cheap switch hitter, and Isabel and Isaac Collins, So
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I think, uh yeah, I think the Royals are are
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: really interesting. And on the Yankees, it's actually the righties
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: you want more than the lefties. I mean, Waka is
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: reverse splitzy overall. He gets hit really hard by by
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: righty's doesn't get hit as hard against the left side
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: right So Judge gold Schmidth Cavallero, if gold Schmith starts
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: against righty, he's probably pinch hit concern free as well.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, but if he's in there, I
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: think i'd start with those three. If I'm going to
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the Yankees, and you're gonna get a little bit ownership discount,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: because guys like Grisham Ben Rice Bellinger are gonna be
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: probably three of the highest on bats in the slate.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Obviously Judge's is gonna get ownership there, but I think
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: adding in guy like Cavallero ass alrighty, there's always still
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the base upside with him as well, gold Schmidt.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: You play Goldie over Ben Rice.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Your Yankee stacks are instantly different, right, because historically you
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: want Ben Rice against the right hand and pitcher right.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Makes sense, But Waka has actually been reverse splitzey over
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: his career.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: So, I think the Yankees on paper, by far and
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: away the best stack. But I can definitely see the
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: downside here.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: They haven't been that great lately. They had to hit
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: a walk off home run last night on Aaron Judge
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: right to win that game, So I can definitely see
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the downside. And we've seen this before, Matt, Right, how
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: many times have we seen the Yankees on paper looked
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: by far and away the best stack. Everyone goes in
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: and slams them, and they go out there and hit
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: they score three runs right on a solo shot or
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: a two run shot, something like that, and everyone's tilting
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: their faces off.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I've just seen this way too many times.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It feels like with this Yankees offense more so than
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: anyone else overall. So there's definitely there's definitely a spot
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: in tournaments here where Yankees don't get there, right, And
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: we already talked about a lot of other teams. I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: gonna like the mat to in the next game, the Royals, right,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: the Brewers, the White Sox, the Cubs, the Pirates right,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: some of those teams. I won't be shocked to see
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: them outscore the Yankees here. And if Mizrewski goes out
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: there and get you eleven strikeouts, twelve k's whatever, scores
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: thirty plus again and McLean does his thing, maybe it's
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: not the Yankees right because of their their price points there. Overall,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: last game on the Slate City Field, knowing McLean on
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the mound, Nick Lodolo, I had interest in both of
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: these pitchers. But overall Mets look pretty good here against Lodola.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Lodola fly ball guy, kind of kind of a guy
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: we've always just stacked against, hasn't hasn't usually worked out.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Vientos, Semi and Bishet.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, Bishet's been hitting Wan Soto's red hot right
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: now left he left, He doesn't matter too much with him.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Carson Bengje always has the stolen base upside there. I
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: think the Mats kind of fitting that kind of Cubs
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: tier for me. With the Cubs, I got the Yankees
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: and Brewers kind of ahead, and then it's the Cubs
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: and the Mats.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: The White Sox and the Pirates are kind of right there.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: So I think the Mets. Mets kind of fit in
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: with those guys. But what do you see here last
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: game too?
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I would like the Mets a lot more of SODA's
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: back in that lineup. That lineup just takes a huge
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: hit without him in there. I know he was sick yesterday,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I believe, so yeah, even with him out, I think
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: they're in play because Lodolo is not good, but he
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: obviously he's one of the best ass on the slates,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: so I'd prefer them if he's in. I'm with you,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I think they belong in that tier. They look good here.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: It's more of picking on Lodolo than like how much
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: we want to use the Mets. But the Mets are
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: another team. They've got talent in their lineup, especially against
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: left handed pitching. So yeah, I'm on board with the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Mets here. The Reds McClain isn't Miserowski like. He hasn't
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: been as good as Misera. He's just not that that arm.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: He's still really good. I don't love the Reds against
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: good righties like this on the road, so I'm probably
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: out on them, but it's a small enough slate where
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't like fight anyone who wanted to play some
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: reds mostly or not even mostly. This is this game
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: is all about the Mets for me, McLean and the
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Mets offense.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you there, just looking at the small
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: sample from like the last thirty days, right eighty played
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: appearances against lefties one eighty six ICEL fly ball rate
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: right around thirty percent. So when you look at when
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: you peel back the onion to look as a longer
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: term right he's kind of splits neutral. It has just
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: been good to both sides of the plate, but recently
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: he has been somewhat gettable from the left side. So
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: JJ Blude Nathaniel Lowe have murdered right handed pitching this year.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I think those two are interesting. Then Ellie has a
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: spend up shortstop to get off of guys like Cavallero
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: in that I think are interesting.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: There more guys are going.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: To play a guy like Bobby witt up in that
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: tier or spend down to a guy like Cavallero. So
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I think Ellie blade low makes some sense. Stuart, you
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: could obviously always play there, but I don't love throw
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: throwing aariety there at McLean and chasing that thirty three
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: percent k rate, so it'd be bluedet low Ellie Day
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: La Cruz. I think that's an interesting little three man
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: mini stack there, and hey, maybe that's the lineup where
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: you go Shane McClanahan right over Noan McLean. You spend
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: up three hundred dollars, You're you're kind of flipping the
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: bill there. You got today and Cruise are obviously expensive,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: but low at thirty six hundred, can it can make
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: it work and you can play maybe some of those
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: value the Royals right who are super cheap on this
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: late and kind of flip it, flip it that way.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: So I think there's definitely a spot for some of
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: those those reds. But the game is definitely focused around
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: the met side, hitting and pitching.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Matt.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: That's all six games we talked pitching, we talked hitting,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: kind of flew through it here overall time for the
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: end of the show, here your favorite pitching combination, and
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: then your top three stacks and then home run call
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: to run us out.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say im gonna take the easy route. With
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the pitching and go Mizz and McLean. I think those
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: two are just the top two for me, and it's
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: going to take a lot for me to get off
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: though those guys. Top three stacks. We'll go Yankees, We'll
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: go Brewers, We'll go Cubs, and I'm gonna take my
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: home run is going to be not off one of
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: those teams.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be you.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: The light bulb kind of went off when you mentioned it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: You want the lefties against Will Warren, Caglean Owen gets
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: one today.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I'll go Mizz and Uh. For for the sake of show,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I'll go Ben Brown. Is it kind of a value
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: guy there? Yeah, I just I think Ben Brown has
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: a place on the slate at sixty seven hundred gets
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: you a little different auster construction than kind of the
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: two spind up arms, which majority of builds and tournaments
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: are gonna be focused around.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: For me, my overall favorite stack is gonna be the Brewers.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I'll put Yankees number two, and then I'll go Uh,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I'll go Mets three behind the Cubbies there, so I'll
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: do the Mets. My home run call here I'm gonna
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: go to UH. I'm gonna go to the Brewers.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to UH to mister Willie contreres here,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: who hit an absolute dismissal against the lefty earlier a
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: couple couple of days ago. There.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I think he I think he gets another one forty
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: two hundred, He's gonna be owned. But I don't care
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: if he gets me that home run shot. It doesn't matter.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Forty two hundred good price point there, So I'm gonna go.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Willie contrere Is hits one deep in left center field
• 39:17
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