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  The people have spoken. That's something I don't think I
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  would take a chance out of. In my opinion, 218 strikeouts
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  were a guy who was his third year in the league now.
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  That's a lot of strikeouts. And they're here to deliver.
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  He wants to be on a competitor, period.
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  Bringing you the facts. Jose brings trash man.
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  I fell for that hard. While keeping you up to date.
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  Man, like what a like question mark that is after you leave
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  Cole, you get him out of the game and all of a sudden you
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  don't know what you're going to get on.
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  The other side on all fantasy baseball news.
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  There's a slouch man. He's.
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  Just a a potential he's a. Slug.
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  Dark horse winner of a Cy Young candidate.
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  Welcome to Bourbon Involved. Averaged like 160 strikeouts
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  prior to his breakout year. I don't even call that breakout
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  year. I would call that a career year
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  because I don't think you have another year.
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  We're going to talk about a lot more baseball.
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  This is just the beginning guys. That's right.
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  I'll call a belt in it. All right, man, this is bourbon
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  and Paul, this is man show 46. Can you believe that, man?
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  We're God. And you know what the weird part
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  is? We're we're about, I would say a
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  little past 1/4 into the season now, right?
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  Yeah, about a month and 1/2. So it's it's flying by, man.
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  It is flying by. So this is bourbon and ball.
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  I'm Doug. I'm along here with my lifelong
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  friend over there coming from Clearwater, FL, Mikey V.
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  And we're here bringing you bourbon and ball.
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  Well, why bourbon and ball? Well, we like to sit bourbon.
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  I have my my bourbon glass over here and we like to talk fantasy
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  baseball. We've been doing fantasy
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  baseball now for 20 years. Still don't consider myself an
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  expert. I'm sure Mikey V would tell you
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  the same. But we, we look at trends,
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  right? We're, we're kind of like
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  analysts almost in a way where, you know, we, we like to give
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  advice based off of trends, past year trends maybe two years ago,
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  just trends and how these people, you know, coming up with
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  expectations, you got to put them in check.
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  And we'll be talking a lot about expectations, this show in
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  particular because there are some people coming back from the
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  IL and you are hearing people talk about some huge things and
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  you got to put that into check real quick.
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  So yeah. So we're coming from you from
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  NPR Radio, Patriot Radio, where Roku, we're simulcasted so you
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  can catch the same episode on New England Streaming sports
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  tomorrow from 12:00 to 2:00 because it is a 2 hour show.
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  And yeah, I mean, you know, all that military stuff with Patriot
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  Radio and Military Broadcasting Radio, there is some affiliation
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  there. I myself, I'm a paratrooper in
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  the army. I was.
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  I did over six years jumps on Ireland, Germany, the
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  Netherlands and over a year in Afghanistan, believe it or not.
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  Yeah, my father was in the air first or Vietnam War and my
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  grandfather was paramedic during World War 2.
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  So a lot of ties there as well, Doug.
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  Awesome, man. Well, yeah, so a lot of the like
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  I said, we've been doing this for 20 years.
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  So all the stats we're giving you are from our ESPN head to
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  head points league. So it's a points league, it's a
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  weekly league. But if you're a top ten, top 15
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  player in a points league, chances are you are a top 10 or
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  top 15 player in a in any format, whether it be roto or
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  whatnot. So yeah, we're going to talk
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  about some of the better players this week, some of the not so
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  better players this week and just go with the flow.
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  So you want to just jump right in and and take it around, take
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  it around the league. I mean, why not hear the?
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  Music man there. There are a couple good things
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  on here. We'll record our little bit
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  because. Of.
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  Injury, I mean, I feel every week I feel like the injury list
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  is just crazy. Same thing last.
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  Year too. I remember that last year we had
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  a just a string of and especially early on too.
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  It happened early on as well. So last week, Ranger starting
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  pitcher Jacob the Grom became, well, let me show you the stat
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  right here because I know everybody's going to say he
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  became the fastest pitcher ever to 1700 strikeouts.
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  He's 36 years old, 36 years old, man.
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  I mean, if he could only have stayed healthy, he would be a
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  slam dunk Hall of Famer without a doubt.
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  I mean, when he's healthy, he's a fantasy stud.
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  He would be a slam dunk Hall of Famer.
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  However, he's not 87 wins, he's got 58 losses.
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  He's got a crazy 2.5 ERA for his career, right?
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  1400 innings pitched, 1700 strikeouts.
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  I mean man, what could have been?
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  I don't know. It's just listen, he's a stunt.
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  I was always at the ground guy. I loved him.
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  He came up with the Mets, they expected big things from him and
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  he delivered, but he didn't deliver nearly as consistent as
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  he should have. Well, I mean, I shouldn't say as
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  he should have, but as everybody expected him to.
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  So he's still kicking, he's still strong, he's still
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  pitching good. We're going to be talking about
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  him later on in the show. For fantasy aspect, he's still
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  very relevant being 36 years old.
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  But yeah man, 1700 strikeouts, the fastest player ever, but
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  he's 36 years old, man. What do you think about that?
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  He was always a stud man. He, he had his chance, you know,
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  in New York when he was playing the World Series against Kansas
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  City, right? And, you know, they'd lost in
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  that World Series. And, you know, that was really
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  his only chance with New York to win a championship.
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  But from the talent perspective, I mean, wear and tear, obviously
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  always going to come to someone. No one plans their their demise
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  of their career and and the ground for his credit after the
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  last few years recovering from these Tommy John surgeries,
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  these rehabs, and now he's finally pitching and he's
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  looking like he's going to be productive, which he has been.
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  And now that he has this milestone, who knows what can
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  happen with them. He's only 36.
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  You know, we look at Verland and we talk about Max, right?
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  And those guys are in their 40s, but they still have some stuff.
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  Four or five years ago they were still very relevant, not just in
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  fantasy, but just, you know, as front guy rotation dudes.
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  And the Grom, I think he still has a little bit flair left in
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  him and it looks like, and if he stays healthy, who knows, maybe
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  2000s in the the realm in the next couple years.
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  And you know, who was the last 3000 strikeout guy?
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  Was that Tom Glavin? Was that Was it really that far
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  back? Or maybe Kershaw down?
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  Maybe Kershaw? Maddox.
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  So, oh, yeah, stairs are too, you know, one of those, you
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  know, but but it's just kind of a rare feat to hit nowadays.
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  And you do have to stay healthy your whole career to do it.
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  And the Grom obviously went through a little bit of a period
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  of time for for injuries. But Doug, you said you were
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  always at the Grom guy all the way up, all the way up when he
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  got called up through through the organization.
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  Always a top pick, you know, in fantasy, right, for second,
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  third rounder, obviously Cy Young winner.
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  Just a just an absolute hammer when you're playing against
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  them. You know, he can absolutely kill
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  you, especially in two start weeks.
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  So yeah, dude, he, he deserves to tip the cat because I mean,
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  he might have been forgotten for a little bit, but he's, he's
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  been found. I will say, I mean, he went
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  pretty late in drafts this year anyways because obviously he's
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  coming back from injury and a lot of people weren't totally
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  sure what to expect. But as we'll talk about later on
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  in the show, I mean, the training wheels are off.
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  This guy's going 7-8 innings. He's still throwing 9697, not as
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  hard as he used to. I mean, he was hitting almost
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  triple digits at some points in his early career.
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  But, you know, I totally agree with you that 2000 strikeouts is
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  a possibility, but when you're looking at 87 wins for a career,
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  87, right, A-25 ERA, that's great. 87 wins.
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  I mean, man, I look at that and I'm like, dude, that's, that's
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  crazy that I mean, he doesn't have a chance, in my opinion,
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  for Hall of Fame at all, no matter what.
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  I mean, he can win 40 games the next three years and still he's
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  not even going to have 150 wins. So it's tough.
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  You know, I would love to have seen him in there.
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  You know, I would have loved to get his jersey and put it on The
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  Cave for sure, but it's just it's yeah, man, if you you know,
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  2 Tommy Johns, so you're talking about missing three years right
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  there. It's and then he has some weird
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  freak injuries. I know his hamstring in a lad
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  issue early, early, early in his career.
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  But man, you know, that's it's a shame because if he stayed
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  healthy, you know, it just, it just goes to show you that he,
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  he could have probably had two hundred wins by now.
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  You know what I mean? It just, it just blows my mind.
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  He's got 87 wins, He's got 58 losses.
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  He's got an ERA OF23A25. So you're telling me he could
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  give up two to three runs a game and get a loss, right.
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  He's 87 and 58. Dude, Tony G, we talked about
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  last episode with 16 and one playing for the Dodgers 2 1/2
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  years ago. You go from 16 to 1 and this guy
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  with 87 and 58 that I mean, man, it's it's tough to you know, if
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  if it's just tough because you know, I'm I'm the grand guy.
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  Like you said, he's still going to throw.
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  He's still throwing good. You know, he's still fantasy
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  relevant. Oh yeah, he's going to be great.
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  I think he's still great. We're going to talk about him
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  later on in the show. But man, what could have been if
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  he could have just stayed healthy is is crazy and going
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  on, man, Adam going to give you a first loss in a couple weeks.
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  Don't even worry about that. Adam, you are on fire, brother.
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  Holy Moe. He's.
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  Undefeated in our bourbon league and but in our money in my money
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  league, I'm, I'm like, right, I'm, I'll be 7 to one this this
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  week. So I'm I, it's nice to, to get
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  that. I, I was telling Mike I'm like,
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  it's nice to, to get like a lot of wins early in the season.
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  So at least you know you're going to make the play offs so
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  you're not sweating at the end and you're like, oh man, I got
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  to win. Like if you're 7 and O or, you
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  know, 7:00 and 1:00 or 8:00 and O you started the year, you're
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  like, dude, I'm I'm in like I'm at least guaranteed the ship in
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  the 12 team league. You're like, I'm in.
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  But yeah, it's it's going to be interesting to see that that
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  league and and how it turns out at the end.
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  But yeah, man, I sent some trades around too.
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  I sent Dean a trade today. I don't know if he's going to
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  take it, but I thought it was good.
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  So listen to this. Mikey B right and Adam right.
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  So we I sent him for Josh Naylor, Albies and Luis
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  Castillo. OK.
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  Bryce Hopper and Tony GI don't think it's a horrible trait.
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  I think Tony G is better than than Luis Castillo.
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  Yeah, yeah. And obviously Bryce is better
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  than than Josh Naylor. No, but not by much.
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  But I'm saying he's still on paper, he's better, right?
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  And Alby's is on his bench, so you know, and he's not having a
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  great year. So we'll, you know, But I did
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  send him that. So you're you're trading Josh
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  Naylor. No, I'm trying to get Josh
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  Naylor. OK.
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  OK. So you're trying to get Josh
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  Naylor and you're trading Harper?
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  Harper and Tony G for for Naylor and Alby's who's not having a
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  Goodyear, who we're going to talk about because he's cold,
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  and Luis Castillo. I think you need.
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  I. Think you need a little bit
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  more? I think you need to give up just
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  a little bit more. This.
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  I think Harper. Harper is not the same guy.
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  He's not, but he's like, I feel like the only reason I think,
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  yeah, I see. I mean, Adam says, yeah, I'd
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  take Tony G over Castillo, and I would too, yeah.
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  I agree with that. So and I'd also take Harper over
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  Nailer, but not by much. I would still take Harper over
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  Nailer, not by a lot, right. So I'm thinking maybe since
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  Harper's a little better and Tony GS better than Luis
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  Castille, that's enough to land me L BS in the deal as well.
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  I see. You know I'll.
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  Be I'll be is good though that's a.
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  Bad, bad year. That's.
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  A guy you're you're just kind of buying low on and it's not a bad
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  buy low, but I just I think we know what the ceiling can be or,
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  or you know, yeah, it can be. So I don't know.
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  I think just a little piece. What do you got on your bench?
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  I'll have to look up to be. I don't think he has to be.
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  I did send. Out him a trade and he just
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  declined me and and then, you know, never sent anything back.
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  But I'll have to look and maybe send him something his way,
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  maybe juice it up a little bit. I know he likes to juice.
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  Dude, I was, I was feeling nervous a few weeks ago, but my
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  team's starting to turn around now.
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  Jose Ramirez is hitting the ball.
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  Well, Yeah. I mean, yeah. 2 later.
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  Joe Ryan was in pitching well, he's back in that rotation.
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  George Kirby's on his way back. We're going to talk about him
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  later too. I mean, there's there's a lot of
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  good to talk about for for Trout soldier right now, except for
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  Mike Trout. But but no, I mean, seriously
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  though, Adam's team, I'm going to pull it up real quick just
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  because I mean seven and oh, you know, that's that's nothing to
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  sniff at. You know, and this is the
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  bourbon and ball league here that we are talking.
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  So just real quick, you know, I'm going to run it down real
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  quick. Wilson Contreras, Jonathan
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  Aranda, Jorge Polanco, Isaiah Paraitis, Beau Bouchette,
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  Lawrence Butler, James Wood, Jason Dominguez.
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  And then it gets juicy. That's where Aaron Judge comes
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  in. Now we now we see where the
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  heavy hitter is and he's starting Paz, who's playing
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  pretty good right now too. But I think it's the rotation.
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  He's got Hunter Brown, right? Good.
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  Rotation. You know, Hunter Brown's a stud.
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  Absolute stud. He's got Garrett Crochet.
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  How's he pitching today? Yeah, he's OK.
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  He's OK. He's 2.
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  Two runs in the second or the first I think.
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  Yeah, he's through 5 now. He's good.
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  He kind of made it over the hump, but he's also got Cole
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  Reagan's too, who's starting to the the heat up a little bit,
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  but not about. Him later on too.
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  Yeah, I know we're going to talk about him, but I mean, overall,
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  he's got soda still, you know who's hurt right now?
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  And he's got our friend Bailey over.
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  What a good luck charm that guy is.
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  I ain't over man the over man, no.
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  But we're going to really seriously though, we're going to
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  take down Adam, you know, we can't.
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  We're still playing for bourbon too, you know.
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  Dude, I mean, I, I don't want to tell anybody, but if there was
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  one person I'd want to at least lose to, it would be Adam.
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  I had such a ball with him at the draft because he was, I
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  mean, it's so funny because you, you, we never met any of these
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  guys going into this, this permanent ball draft.
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  And it's I, I'll tell you, man, we really lucked out because
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  they're all a pretty good group of guys, man.
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  They're all pretty good, real friendly, the kind of guys you
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  would want to a 12 man league with, you know?
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  Sincerely too. It's, it's very, very, very
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  lucky that it all kind of worked out for our first year.
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  So hey, it's. Refreshing that there's good
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  people out there, man really is it's.
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  True. So we'll we'll see.
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  I don't know, like I don't know, maybe Adam was like maybe we
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  should make this a yearly thing but turn into a money league.
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  I don't hate it. We'll think about it.
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  I mean, I like, I like playing with all the people and stuff.
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  So, you know, it'd be fun. It'd be fun to think about for
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  sure. I'm in all right.
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  Let's let's move on a little bit with time is of the essence
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  here. OK, I.
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  Only got a couple more. On this around the league,
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  because then a lot is going to be on ILS man, there is a lot.
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  This one should be a quick one though.
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  Arizona, the Diamondbacks. Speaking of Josh and Ellen, the
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  Diamondbacks offense, right, called up their top prospect,
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  shortstop, third baseman Jordan Lawler.
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  He was their number 4 prospect according to MLB.com.
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  Now listen, I mean, his stats for AAA Reno, I mean, got 336,
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  he's got 15 double S6 home runs, 31 ribbies in 37 games this
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  year. So nothing tells me that he
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  shouldn't be called up and given a shot anyways.
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  He's only in four at bats as of yesterday with a strikeout, so
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  no hits. But I still, you know, I think
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  it's tough to break out in that lineup right now because it is,
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  in my opinion, it's a stack lineup.
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  It really is. You know, even I didn't think
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  they'd expect Tawa their their second baseman to to start hit.
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  And then he's been producing at the bottom and you know, so it's
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  it's a fun lineup, a lot of stuff moving around there.
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  I just I don't think he's going to get a ton of bad bats,
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  unfortunately. And that's not, I think when
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  you're calling somebody up, you want to do it like the Red Sox,
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  you know, you want to keep them in like Campbell's in that line
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  up almost every day, right? That's what you want to do.
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  And that's why they're not calling up Roman Anthony right
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  now anyways. I'm sure they will something
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  nothing would tell me otherwise that they wouldn't call him up
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  at least first base or something.
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  But, you know, it's, it's tough to see, you know, you call up a
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  guy and he's been in the the big leagues now for four days, 4-4
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  days and played one game. So I don't know what they're
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  going to do. But obviously I think he's going
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  to be fine. I think he's going to be a stud.
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  Hopefully he hasn't turned into like a Jordan Walker with the
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  Cardinals, but you know. No, I think he's fine.
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  You know, I think there's a reason for the call up too.
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  I don't know if Marte is 100% healthy yet.
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  You know, they gave him the day off Wednesday, they had a day
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  off Thursday anyway, so they gave him a couple days off to go
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  into the weekend. And you're right, there's really
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  not a spot for him right now in that infield.
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  So his at bats are going to maybe not be everyday at bats,
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  but I mean, you look at the numbers like he was doing.
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  I also think he has like 13 stolen bases too down at AAA.
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  So the guy is an overall just hammer, you know, in my opinion,
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  great guy to have on your on your roster.
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  It's just a matter of where he's going to get the playing time.
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  And it's funny you mentioned Christian Campbell too, because
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  going into spring training, he was kind of in a similar boat as
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  well. But now you look at him and he's
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  playing all these different types of positions now just to
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  stay in the field, including now playing first base.
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  He's getting some reps in before games now.
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  So they might even transition from there.
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  We'll see how that works out. But you know.
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  Lawler might be on the same path for all we know.
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  Just to get at bats, You know, there's three outfield spots.
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  I don't think anyone's really cooking out there right now in
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  Arizona. So what happens?
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  You know, he takes some reps in the outfield just to get on the
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  the field and get some at bats or you know, you get ADH spot
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  right there too. There's no one really crushing
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  it there either. Goreal, I think is really their
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  main guy right now. That's DHR, right?
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  So there's not a lot going on in a couple different areas if they
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  do want to move him around the, the the field.
• 20:34
  So, but I agree, Doug, there's, there's going to be far and few
• 20:37
  between at bats early on, especially unless someone goes
• 20:40
  down. But it is what it is.
• 20:43
  The guy's a stud. He should be a Major League
• 20:45
  Baseball player and he and he will be an everyday player down
• 20:48
  the road, just maybe not in the short term.
• 20:51
  Right. All right.
• 20:54
  Now, when we started the show, I talked about expectations,
• 20:56
  right? Well.
• 20:58
  Yeah, Braves. Outfielder Ronald Cunha, Giorgi,
• 21:01
  we all know, right, He's coming back.
• 21:04
  He played in his first game of his rehab stint on Tuesday.
• 21:09
  Now, man, if you want to talk about people just going wild,
• 21:13
  here's, I mean, here's what he did in his first game and here's
• 21:18
  one of his at bats. Guy Homer's in his first, his
• 21:38
  first game, his rehab game. Good for him.
• 21:42
  Here's my expectations of him. Let's pump the brakes, right?
• 21:47
  It's a minor league game. And let's not forget his stats
• 21:51
  before he got hurt, right? The guy was only hitting 250.
• 21:55
  He had four home runs, 15 ribbies, 16 stolen bases.
• 21:59
  That was the only thing that kept him fantasy relevant.
• 22:01
  And that was in 50 games before he got hurt a year and a half
• 22:04
  ago. They're not stellar stats like
• 22:09
  pump the brakes, right? Do I think he's going to jolt
• 22:12
  that line up? Oh, obviously, right.
• 22:15
  But I don't I think the expectations that like Braves
• 22:18
  fans and people that are holding on to all these Braves players
• 22:22
  in their line up, like I'm I'm assuming their expectations for
• 22:26
  once he comes back, like everybody's going to perform.
• 22:29
  It's just not going to happen, man.
• 22:31
  You look at his stats before he got hurt.
• 22:34
  Look, I'm not saying it's a bad lineup.
• 22:36
  I'm just saying it's not as good of a lineup that, you know, that
• 22:40
  produced those crazy numbers for everybody two years ago where
• 22:42
  everybody had career years. It's not that lineup.
• 22:45
  And we're seeing that. We're seeing Austin Riley, who's
• 22:48
  been struggling ever since that. Alby's struggling ever since
• 22:52
  that, You know, even Matt Olson. I mean, the only staple in that
• 22:58
  lineup is is Ozuna. So I listen, I, I think they're
• 23:05
  going to it's going to help them.
• 23:06
  They finally just hit 500 on the year as a team.
• 23:09
  That's good for them. But I just, I think the
• 23:13
  expectations need to be in check.
• 23:14
  It's a it was a minor league game, for God's sakes.
• 23:18
  Let's let's pump the brakes. No, I mean, it's good for him,
• 23:21
  you know. I mean, you know, coming from
• 23:23
  rehab and then you play your first game, you hit a home, like
• 23:25
  that's cool and stuff. You know, from a fantasy
• 23:28
  perspective, you got to pump the brakes a little bit.
• 23:30
  It's OK to be excited. You know, you drafted the guy
• 23:32
  kind of early, you know, probably third, fourth round,
• 23:35
  fifth round in that ballpark or so you stashed them.
• 23:38
  You're getting ready for him to come back.
• 23:39
  And I mean, when you did draft him, you probably did have a
• 23:42
  high expectation for him to come back and kind of be like that
• 23:45
  guy he was a few years ago. But the reality is that Braves
• 23:49
  team's just not the same kind of going week in week out with it.
• 23:52
  But it they're just not, I'm looking at their their record
• 23:55
  right now. They're 500 team in the last 10
• 23:58
  games. It's not like they turned it on
• 23:59
  or off. They're six and four and they're
• 24:02
  they're down right now to the Sox, I think 2 nothing.
• 24:04
  So there's there's not a lot of good going on.
• 24:09
  What's that? They're beating the Sox 2
• 24:11
  Nothing. Oh, they're beating the Sox 2
• 24:14
  Nothing. That's right, Crochet game up
• 24:15
  their runs. So OK, so maybe they'll be 7 and
• 24:19
  4 the the the last, you know, 11.
• 24:22
  But it's not like they're playing that hot.
• 24:24
  There's not a lot to look forward to there.
• 24:26
  They still need pitching, I think, in my opinion, and that
• 24:28
  rotation, they're not the the killer Braves like we remember
• 24:32
  him as. So for him to come back and he's
• 24:35
  not even a clubhouse guy to be realistic too.
• 24:37
  You know, he's not a big Yeah, I, I don't, I don't think he is,
• 24:41
  he said. That tweet out last year about
• 24:42
  his, his boss, yeah, as a manager, what's the name being?
• 24:47
  I mean, like discriminating against him or something like
• 24:50
  that. Remember that couple years, like
• 24:51
  a year? And you just apologized for
• 24:54
  something for this year that he. Apologized for Yeah, there's.
• 24:58
  Just a lot of noise. I, I just, I don't.
• 25:01
  And you can't mask it like you just can't.
• 25:03
  You can't ignore it. It's out there in the world now.
• 25:05
  And you know, you can say all the right things sometimes, but
• 25:08
  in reality, it's just a spade's a spade.
• 25:10
  You got to call for what it is. And it's it's an opinion.
• 25:14
  You know, that's just my opinion on it.
• 25:15
  And it's not maybe the the best opinion or the hottest opinion
• 25:19
  or the most logical. But when I just hear these
• 25:21
  things, I'm like, you know, I don't even know if this is a
• 25:23
  great guy you know, to have on your team, whether if he's
• 25:26
  talented or not. Sometimes you play 162 games.
• 25:29
  That's a freaking long season, if you ask me.
• 25:32
  And to have the guy that acts up, you know, periodically gets
• 25:35
  old real fast, especially, you know, if you're a veteran
• 25:37
  player, you just don't want to deal with that shit.
• 25:39
  So, you know, if he comes back, if he's healthy, that's great.
• 25:44
  But yeah, we're let's, let's hold the brakes because let's be
• 25:48
  honest, the Braves aren't doing that good this year.
• 25:51
  No, no, it is what it is. I mean, like I said, he'll bring
• 25:55
  a jolt, but I don't think it's going to be as big as
• 25:57
  everybody's anticipating it to be.
• 26:00
  No. And last but not least, Dodgers
• 26:03
  starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw is making his season debut
• 26:07
  Saturday against the Angels. If there was ever a confidence
• 26:10
  boost team to play, it would be the Angels.
• 26:13
  I mean, this comes at a time right, where the Dodgers, the
• 26:19
  Dodgers rotation is just it's in shambles.
• 26:22
  And we're going to talk about some of that later on.
• 26:25
  But the guy's 37. His fastball tops out at about
• 26:29
  88 Again, expectations. I don't know.
• 26:35
  It's not I don't I don't know how he's going to perform.
• 26:39
  I have no idea. I don't have a crystal ball.
• 26:42
  I I don't know. I, I'm hope like I'm hoping
• 26:46
  let's say he's healthy and they have like from what I heard,
• 26:49
  he's not going to be limited. I think they're going to just
• 26:52
  let him run loose for the rest of the year.
• 26:55
  Obviously I'll probably get hurt, but if they do that, I
• 26:59
  mean, 10 plus wins is I wish anything more than 10 would be
• 27:02
  solid. You know, if you can get like a
• 27:04
  3538 ERA, that's solid. You know, I think those would
• 27:10
  probably be what I'm hoping for. If I own him and I do own him
• 27:14
  and I did stash him. That's what I'm hoping for.
• 27:18
  If it happens, I don't know. I don't know.
• 27:19
  I really have no idea what to expect.
• 27:21
  He's not throwing hard. He never threw hard anyways.
• 27:23
  His fastball was only 9293, you know, it wasn't, wasn't like
• 27:27
  crazy hard. He really got his strikeouts
• 27:30
  almost like Greg Maddox, you know, just switching speeds and
• 27:34
  hitting location. And that's what he did.
• 27:36
  So I don't think, you know, yeah, 88 in today's day and age
• 27:41
  is not a fastball. But I mean, if your speeds are
• 27:45
  different and you weren't throwing hard to begin with, is
• 27:48
  it really that much of a difference?
• 27:50
  You know what I mean? It's fair.
• 27:53
  It's fair. You know, if I had to make a
• 27:55
  projection on them, I would maybe match them up with what
• 27:58
  kind of Verlander's doing right now in in San Francisco, which
• 28:03
  is, you know, not doing too hot. And I think Hershaw is going to
• 28:07
  be more of a a matchups guy, if anything.
• 28:09
  And I know you said ten wins, but you know, from the last
• 28:12
  previous seasons that we saw Hershaw, he still needs to go 5
• 28:16
  innings to get the the win and they might let him loose, which
• 28:21
  is cool. You know, I, I like the, the
• 28:22
  sound of that, but I got to temper my expectations here
• 28:25
  because, you know, that's not a really, that doesn't mean he's
• 28:30
  going to just, you know, throw 200 innings and just go at it,
• 28:33
  you know what I mean? But I guess it's just like he's
• 28:35
  going to, they're going to let him do what he wants to do.
• 28:38
  It sounds like he feels good. He's going to go out there and
• 28:41
  he's going to stay out there as long as he can until he can't.
• 28:45
  And 88's a little concerning, like you said, Greg Maddox,
• 28:48
  dude, he was a stud. He he knew how to make it work,
• 28:50
  especially late in his career, right?
• 28:52
  And it's just a different game, though.
• 28:55
  And that's what I'm a little nervous about with Kershaw is
• 28:58
  how he's going to adjust. And you're right.
• 29:01
  He he has that that Big 12 to 6 curveball and he's got that
• 29:05
  nasty splitter that goes into that dirt, which is sick.
• 29:09
  And if he brings all that back to his peak, he might be just
• 29:13
  fine. And he's what, 37 now?
• 29:19
  You know, he's only a year older than the Grom.
• 29:21
  I just think there's so much wear and tear on Kershaw.
• 29:23
  He just seems older and he's been in the league for so long.
• 29:27
  But I think it's part of that. I'd like to have him on my team.
• 29:31
  He's Kershaw. I'm a fan.
• 29:33
  It's hard to. I don't want to knock him ever
• 29:35
  because he's just kind of in that GOAT category for me.
• 29:39
  I think he's a clear cut Hall of Famer.
• 29:43
  I I think he's just so good. And I'm so glad you stayed in
• 29:47
  with LA too, his whole career. There is some question if he was
• 29:50
  going to do that or not. And he he did it.
• 29:53
  He he stuck it out. And I think that's so unique.
• 29:56
  You don't see a lot of that as much as you used to.
• 30:01
  So it's it's cool. So yeah, let's let's go Kershaw,
• 30:05
  let's go. I'm open.
• 30:07
  I'm. Not expecting the world, but he
• 30:10
  like he that offense is just so good.
• 30:12
  They're going to give him wins if he it gives up four runs.
• 30:15
  You know what I mean? I mean, God, like 16 yesterday.
• 30:18
  So I you know, nothing tells me otherwise.
• 30:21
  So that's always a positive. That's what was missing from
• 30:24
  degrom. If degrom had that type of
• 30:26
  offense behind him, I mean, God that you're looking at another,
• 30:29
  you know, you could probably have almost 100 wins, which is a
• 30:33
  little different, but you know, he's only got 85 S the.
• 30:37
  Whole team you play for sometimes, you know, King Felix
• 30:40
  with the same headaches. You know, Seattle never never
• 30:43
  made a playoff, never made a playoff.
• 30:45
  So that means he only pitched regular season games and they
• 30:48
  didn't even win enough games to make the playoffs.
• 30:49
  That tells me he didn't get enough wins.
• 30:52
  He was such a stud. I mean, remember peak Jake
• 30:55
  Peavey? He wasn't getting a lot of wins
• 30:57
  either, you know. He got the way he got.
• 31:01
  At least he got a ring with him with the socks.
• 31:03
  He did, you know, But when he was with the Padres, I mean,
• 31:06
  that Padre's team was not very good.
• 31:09
  And he was the just, he was just the bright star that was out of
• 31:13
  it. I I think the ZRA was like, at
• 31:15
  one point a sub, a sub, two maybe.
• 31:18
  And I think the only end of the season with like 10 or 11 wins,
• 31:22
  it was, it was like bonkers. Yeah.
• 31:26
  It's it's crazy. All.
• 31:29
  Right. So let's let's just dive right
• 31:32
  into the locker, man. The hurt locker.
• 31:45
  sometimes. So there are 10 people on this
• 31:48
  list because it is a massive list.
• 31:50
  Again, just like last week, we can try to break this down a
• 31:56
  little. We can go 1 by 1 if you want.
• 31:59
  I mean, you know, for the sake of time, maybe some would be a
• 32:02
  more important than others to talk about.
• 32:06
  So I'll just start out with Arizona DH second baseman Quito
• 32:10
  Marte. We already talked about him.
• 32:12
  He is day-to-day. He's got that hip injury.
• 32:14
  I think he's in the he should be in the lineup today.
• 32:17
  But I I think it's safe to say where he's hit that stage where
• 32:20
  he kind of is become an injury prone.
• 32:21
  He's older, but when he's out there, he's producing, right?
• 32:26
  I mean, overall for the years, 262, he's got 5 homers, 8
• 32:30
  ribbies, 14 runs, no stolen bases, 65 at bats and just, you
• 32:36
  know, 11 strikeouts, 57 total points, 2.9 a start.
• 32:41
  And his last seven games he hit you five home runs.
• 32:43
  So, you know, you hate to see him get hurt at this time
• 32:46
  because he it looked like he was really starting to find a
• 32:48
  groove. But I still think he's one of
• 32:51
  the best second baseman when he's healthy.
• 32:54
  He's just older. And of course, that means the
• 32:58
  injury bug bites a little harder.
• 33:01
  Yeah, you don't want to be holding that bag sometimes.
• 33:03
  And we we talked about Kendall Marte a lot because he was in my
• 33:06
  keeper league for one with you, Doug.
• 33:08
  And it was discussion if I was going to keep him or not.
• 33:11
  You know, what was going to be the plan with him.
• 33:12
  And he was so good last year, like you said, like top second
• 33:17
  baseman pretty much in the whole league.
• 33:19
  That's really tough to find. And especially this year too,
• 33:21
  it's not like anyone's there's not, there's not a lot of guys
• 33:24
  smashing at that second base. So he is so good when he is
• 33:28
  healthy. So hey, keep your expectations
• 33:31
  realistic though, right? You know he's going to get hurt.
• 33:34
  You got to start everyone he plays and you might, you know,
• 33:38
  ball some to injuries during the week and you got to miss a
• 33:40
  couple games here and there and you hope that doesn't happen.
• 33:44
  You don't plan for injuries, but you just have to be ready for
• 33:47
  him. So if you do have Kento Marte,
• 33:49
  maybe go pick up like a lawyer right now if he's still
• 33:52
  available and you'll be just to stash him.
• 33:54
  He'll probably be playing second base when he's not playing
• 33:56
  second base. So he'll get that eligibility
• 33:59
  sooner than later. If he, you know, happens to have
• 34:02
  this hip injury go a little bit longer.
• 34:05
  But you when you want to have just a security blanket just to
• 34:07
  make sure because like you said, these guys that are injury prone
• 34:10
  now a little bit older at second base or maybe just not
• 34:13
  producing, right. You know, I'm talking about
• 34:15
  Altuve, I'm talking about Simeon.
• 34:17
  You know, just make sure you have an exit strategy.
• 34:20
  Yeah, very good point. All right, Red Sox started
• 34:24
  pitcher 10 Hulk. He's on the 15 day IL.
• 34:28
  He's got a right flexor pronator strain should be back by the end
• 34:34
  of the month, but he has looked so lost since his breakout year
• 34:39
  last year. I wouldn't even call it breakout
• 34:40
  year the first half of the year last year.
• 34:44
  So I do have his last year numbers, his current year
• 34:47
  numbers, he's Owen three. He's got 43 in his pitch, 32
• 34:50
  strikeouts, 17 blocks and 8 ERA. 13 points or 1.6 a start, 13
• 34:59
  points. So here.
• 35:02
  So he was drafting pretty high because last year, 9 and 10,
• 35:08
  right, 178 innings, pitch, 154 strikeouts, but a 312 ERA.
• 35:14
  Pretty good, right? Really low.
• 35:16
  However, compared to his first half of that year, those numbers
• 35:21
  don't look so hot. So up to the All Star break, he
• 35:24
  was seven and six. He pitched 117 innings, he had
• 35:28
  112 strikeouts and he had a 25 ERA.
• 35:34
  So you go from 7:00 to 6:00 to 9:00 to 10:00 and his ERA, I
• 35:39
  think the second-half was over 4 and he kind of carried that into
• 35:43
  this year. And he actually became here's a
• 35:46
  here's a fun stat. He is there.
• 35:50
  There have only been two games in the entirety of Major League
• 35:53
  Baseball history where in a pitcher when exactly 2 1/3
• 35:57
  inning allowed exactly 12 base runners and surrendered exactly
• 36:04
  11 earned runs. 11 earned runs. Both of them are Tenehawk.
• 36:10
  Both of them this season. Look at that.
• 36:13
  That is a disgusting stat. That is that is tough man.
• 36:18
  If you're a fantasy owner and you you drafted him, you didn't
• 36:21
  draft him early, you drafted him later on, but still you the
• 36:24
  expectation is he'd be decent, right?
• 36:29
  Dude, he's lost. He is lost.
• 36:31
  He even admitted he was lost. So you know, when somebody
• 36:36
  somebody does that, I don't it's I don't know.
• 36:39
  It's when they lose faith in themselves.
• 36:41
  That's not a good sign. That's a terrible sign.
• 36:45
  That's a terrible sign. That's like that's like Alec
• 36:49
  Manoa terrible sign. Like that is you don't want to
• 36:52
  hear anyone ever say that about their their skill in their
• 36:56
  craft. I mean what, you know, I didn't
• 37:00
  mean to to mention Alec Manoa like that, but I mean, what a
• 37:03
  comparison that is, huh? Alec Manoa, right before he went
• 37:07
  downhill, started the All Star game, you know, very similar,
• 37:12
  very, very similar. And you know, if you look at the
• 37:16
  ages, they're probably about roughly the same age too, give
• 37:19
  or take. So, yeah, awful for Tana Hulk,
• 37:23
  awful for the Red Sox right now, especially when you had Walker
• 37:27
  Buehler on the IL for as long as he has been right now.
• 37:31
  And you know, Giolito is, is kind of, you know, up and down
• 37:35
  right now. So you don't have a lot of
• 37:37
  stability right there. So Tanneholk coming off last
• 37:40
  year, especially the first half, just you thought he was hoping
• 37:44
  to repeat some of that and he just never came back.
• 37:47
  And it's just, it's tough to see.
• 37:49
  You don't want to to see that in a guy.
• 37:51
  But man, it's, it's just bad. So maybe they're going to take
• 37:55
  this IL stint, maybe extend it a little bit longer, get a couple
• 37:59
  extra starts down in AAA when he is ready and healthy, but maybe
• 38:04
  even just work on a couple things, you know, So if you do
• 38:07
  have him on your team, I do think he is just droppable at
• 38:10
  this point because you can't trust him for one, when he does
• 38:13
  come back. And for two, I don't think he's
• 38:16
  coming back immediately once he is ready and healthy.
• 38:19
  I think he's going to have a couple extra starts down there.
• 38:22
  But on the flip side of that, though, good news is Walker
• 38:25
  Buehler's coming back and he is skipping his rehab start.
• 38:29
  So he's going to rejoin the rotation immediately on Tuesday,
• 38:33
  which lines them up as A2 starter.
• 38:36
  So it's it's, I don't think I those.
• 38:39
  Are tough match ups though. I don't think I would start
• 38:41
  them. I I don't think I would even at
• 38:43
  2 start. I think it's the Mets and then
• 38:46
  the weekend is it was a little bit more favorable, but you
• 38:51
  know, it's kind of a risque 2 start if you ask me, especially
• 38:56
  with New York. NY is a very good baseball team,
• 38:59
  so I'm not messing with them at all, especially for a guy coming
• 39:04
  back from injury. But yeah, you know, back to San
• 39:06
  Hawk, though. Just just terrible to see.
• 39:08
  Terrible to see. Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
• 39:13
  there's only so much you can say.
• 39:14
  I mean, we're going to talk about him later on because he
• 39:16
  obviously made our who's who's not hot list.
• 39:20
  So we'll we'll probably discuss that a little more.
• 39:23
  Cubs outfielder Ian Hat, he is on the 10 day IL.
• 39:26
  He's got a left oblique strain, but he should be back again
• 39:29
  later this month. He was having a really good
• 39:32
  year. He's like a sneaky, I don't know
• 39:34
  what it is. It's like you someone drafts Ian
• 39:37
  Hat, you laugh, but then he produces because he's still
• 39:40
  pretty decent and he's even that lineup is just even better
• 39:43
  because because Tucker's in it. I mean, God, guys, 269.
• 39:47
  He's only got three home runs, 19 ribbies, 29 runs, two stolen
• 39:51
  bases. He's got 35 strikeouts at 160 at
• 39:54
  bats, 105 points or, you know, just give you 2.7 a start.
• 40:00
  So anything over about 2223 is actually, you know, decent,
• 40:03
  really decent. It's above that.
• 40:04
  So he's just a sneaky, I don't know, it's just like you laugh
• 40:09
  when people have them, but then when you get them and you're
• 40:11
  just like, wow, he's actually pretty decent.
• 40:13
  I'll field it. He.
• 40:15
  Does this like every year? I feel every year he kind of
• 40:18
  just sneaks up on everyone. But really if you draft them and
• 40:21
  you started week to week, you're getting pretty good production
• 40:24
  out of them. Obviously a tough bat to lose.
• 40:26
  If you have the Cubs, as good as they've been playing lately,
• 40:30
  they've they've kind of cooled off a little bit, but they're
• 40:32
  still a very, very good baseball competitive team.
• 40:36
  Definitely going to probably be a front runner in the NL
• 40:38
  Central. So hopefully in hat comes back
• 40:40
  sooner than later. Oblique strains are really
• 40:42
  tough. We talked about that before.
• 40:44
  You know, that's not just an injury that you just spent 10
• 40:46
  days resting and you come back immediately.
• 40:49
  That's, you know, a little bit more legwork to that.
• 40:52
  So he's going to have to work on a couple things before coming
• 40:54
  back, maybe a rehab assignment depending on how long he's gone
• 40:58
  for. So it's going to be, you know, a
• 41:03
  little bit, but they're they're saying, you know, by the end of
• 41:06
  the month he should be back. I'd be very surprised.
• 41:09
  I'd be very surprised if he is back.
• 41:11
  But you have him on your team. Obviously you just IL him like
• 41:14
  Doug just said, he's actually sneaky productive in a in a
• 41:18
  position where you have multiple of them, whether if you have 3
• 41:21
  outfielders, I gotta leave, that has five outfielders, which
• 41:24
  makes him very, very more valuable.
• 41:26
  So just that's just the hold, right?
• 41:28
  We like to hold here sometimes in the fantasy worlds and that's
• 41:32
  one of them. You do.
• 41:33
  Exactly this, this next person we could, we could probably just
• 41:37
  zoom through real quick because he he, he did start today.
• 41:41
  Reds outfield, TJ Friedel. He had the bone bruise on his
• 41:44
  right wrist. Actually, he had a really bad
• 41:46
  day. I think this was Tuesday and I
• 41:49
  had the videos of how bad his day was, which I will play to
• 41:51
  you shortly. But he's been he's also been
• 41:53
  very productive as well. You know he's giving you 2
• 41:57
  points, 6 points a start as an outfield in a points league,
• 41:59
  which is pretty good, 102 points total.
• 42:03
  But here's here's how his day started hit.
• 42:08
  Him, I think Friedle's got first.
• 42:10
  One more time hit him and. It got. 1st So he gets hit on a
• 42:18
  wrist and then later on, literally about an inning later.
• 42:23
  Poke to shallow center, De La Cruz and McClain way out.
• 42:25
  Friedle and a slide and a bump and the ball pops free.
• 42:29
  Fire to 2nd is late. So the guy gets hit on his wrist
• 42:35
  and then he injuries it trying to avoid a collision with Bailey
• 42:38
  De La Cruz. So I mean, I like Cincinnati.
• 42:42
  I think they're, I think they're a good story, man.
• 42:46
  I do. I like everything, you know,
• 42:47
  they're doing over there. Austin Hayes hit another home
• 42:50
  run today. He's been having a great year.
• 42:54
  I I like that that Cincinnati line up is I like, I just like
• 42:58
  it. It's very unique, isn't it?
• 43:00
  You know, they got Gavin Lux is having a little bit of
• 43:03
  resurgence career over there. Not like you know, he's not I'm
• 43:07
  not telling you to to pick him up, but I'm just saying he is
• 43:10
  being an actual baseball player in Cincinnati.
• 43:12
  I think Terry's getting the best out of him there.
• 43:15
  You know, I think Matt McClain is an interesting story because
• 43:18
  obviously he got hurt, came back.
• 43:21
  His batting average is very low, but he hits the ball so hard and
• 43:25
  he just got some bad luck. So according to the analytics,
• 43:29
  as the analytics would say, so that guy has a lot of upside too
• 43:33
  still and and he's got some juice in his bat.
• 43:35
  That guy could be a 2020 guy long term.
• 43:38
  You know, if you're in a category league or, or you know,
• 43:41
  a daily league or some type in a weekly league, sometimes he's a
• 43:45
  little tougher to trust, but he can still produce at times.
• 43:48
  You know, I think one game this past week, he just had 10
• 43:51
  points. I think he had a a home run, a
• 43:53
  couple of slim bases. So he he can be very, very
• 43:56
  productive. That team is it's a fun team to
• 43:58
  watch. I mean, LA De La Cruz is
• 44:01
  obviously the centerpiece. You know, he he might not be
• 44:04
  playing as good as he did last year to this point, but he is
• 44:07
  definitely the star of the team. You can just see it.
• 44:11
  But yeah, I and and like you said, Austin Hayes been playing
• 44:13
  really good. I do think they're just one
• 44:15
  piece away from really being a true contender in that division.
• 44:19
  And I don't know if they're going to do it this year or not.
• 44:21
  They. Are man, they need an ace.
• 44:24
  Yep, you know hunter Green's been fantastic, but we know he's
• 44:27
  injury prone as well and and we saw it across the league so far
• 44:30
  this year. So many injuries, especially
• 44:32
  pitchers. So it never hurts to to load up
• 44:35
  on on guys. So I wouldn't be surprised if
• 44:37
  they're very active during the trade deadline to add a a
• 44:40
  quality arm. You know, they went out got
• 44:42
  Brady Singer, which was affordable for them.
• 44:45
  You know, they they are mid market team, low market team.
• 44:48
  So you got to play, you know, the back card sometimes, but you
• 44:53
  know, if they're trying to make with what the best they can get.
• 44:55
  So they went out and got Gavin Lux.
• 44:57
  They said Jonathan India, you still got value.
• 44:59
  We're going to get you for a pitcher to stabilize their
• 45:01
  rotation a little bit. They just had so many question
• 45:03
  marks. But I do think they need another
• 45:06
  bat and I do think they need another pitcher.
• 45:11
  Yeah, but it's, I mean, they're they're they're beating their
• 45:15
  projections for sure. And they're, they're fun to
• 45:17
  watch. So, you know, I I I feel like
• 45:21
  you got a really good deal if you're owning, you know, a
• 45:23
  couple of those starters on your fantasy team.
• 45:25
  Anyways, next one should be pretty straightforward.
• 45:30
  So I can just breeze through this one just for the sake time.
• 45:34
  Tigers starting pitcher Casey Miz.
• 45:36
  We already talked about him. He I think he was day-to-day
• 45:38
  last week. He actually got placed on the
• 45:40
  15th day out. He's got that left hamstring
• 45:42
  strain. He's looking late May, early
• 45:46
  June return. Great year, right?
• 45:48
  6 and 142 2/3 and pitch 35 strikeouts, nine walks at 25
• 45:53
  ERA. He's giving you 16.2 points
• 45:56
  every time he takes the mount and you start him in a points
• 45:58
  league. Total 113 points.
• 46:02
  So looks like he's finally put it together.
• 46:07
  Yeah, I'm that's a fun team to watch too.
• 46:10
  Not going to lie to you. There's still a couple pieces
• 46:12
  away in my opinion. I think Jack Flaherty, we said
• 46:14
  before the year started, Jack Flaherty is not the answer and
• 46:18
  he is not, I mean still. Not.
• 46:21
  The answer, this one we could spend some time with because
• 46:28
  it's just fun to not fun, but it it's good to talk about this
• 46:32
  one. So Dodger's newly acquired
• 46:34
  starting pitcher Rokie Sasaki, when he landed on the 15 DIL
• 46:39
  with a right shoulder impingement, they're saying he
• 46:42
  could take a while. And that's what Dave Roberts
• 46:44
  quoted as saying he's shut down from throwing.
• 46:48
  His numbers are nowhere near what anybody suspected.
• 46:52
  And This is why not only signing a player from overseas, but
• 46:57
  drafting a player that early is. So it's tough to evaluate.
• 47:02
  And that's why I was trying to I I try to stay away from it.
• 47:04
  I think I always, I think before, you know, the drafts
• 47:08
  happened, I said like, you know, probably want to stay away from
• 47:11
  him, but it is what it is. He's one in 134 1/3 innings
• 47:16
  pitched, 24 strikeouts, 20, two walks, a 470 RA, 32 total
• 47:23
  points, 4.1 a start and put that in the retrospect, Otani gives
• 47:28
  you 4.1 a start and that's every day.
• 47:33
  So again, something we talked about going in the drafts and
• 47:36
  that just really, I mean, look at the rotation now, right?
• 47:42
  So this needs to get updated a little bit, but you're really
• 47:46
  Tony GS coming back so you can take that X out of there.
• 47:50
  But then Rokie Szaki's hurt so you can cross his name off.
• 47:54
  So it's a one for one. I don't.
• 47:59
  I don't know what to expect, man.
• 48:03
  Yeah, man, it is tough, tough, tough, tough for Sazaki.
• 48:08
  I mean, he never really got a going at all right from the
• 48:12
  gecko. They really kind of just forced
• 48:13
  them in there. It felt, look, he was young.
• 48:18
  What's he, 2324 years old? Yeah.
• 48:22
  He'll he'll be fine long term. And I think especially like
• 48:27
  that, I think it was like the second or third game, he was
• 48:29
  kind of getting emotional in that dugout.
• 48:31
  You know, he was frustrated and he could tell he wants to do
• 48:34
  good and, and be good. And, you know, he thought the
• 48:37
  transition was probably going to be a little easier coming here.
• 48:39
  And, and in reality, it's, it's very, very different over here
• 48:44
  in the states. So he's fine.
• 48:47
  I don't think there's a rush to bring him back either.
• 48:49
  I know there's a lot of cross cross outs here, but I don't
• 48:54
  think there's a rush to bring a kid like this back into a, a
• 48:59
  rotation where I feel like he feels overwhelmed.
• 49:01
  So let him take his time, let him get his rehab in.
• 49:05
  This is a great time to really just kind of build him back up
• 49:11
  mentally and physically. So from a fantasy perspective,
• 49:17
  though, honestly, Doug, it's a drop, right?
• 49:21
  This is, this is a hard drop right now.
• 49:23
  And it's, I know it's not an easy, but that's why I call it a
• 49:25
  hard drop because you don't know when he's going to be back.
• 49:29
  It's going to be a while. He's going to go through his
• 49:31
  rehab assignment and you know how long it takes to to build up
• 49:36
  again. So if he is dashed for later in
• 49:39
  the season, maybe. But I mean, if you got the IL
• 49:42
  spot, that's fine. If you got like, you know, only
• 49:45
  one or two spots and you already got one or two guys in there,
• 49:48
  you're going to have to make a decision.
• 49:50
  But I think honestly, he's looking on the outside in just
• 49:53
  because for now he hasn't produced anything.
• 49:55
  Like you said, 20, two walks. That's a lot of walks.
• 50:00
  You can't do that and then win fantasy baseball matchups.
• 50:04
  So again, it's a hard pill to swallow, but that's a drop for
• 50:08
  me right now. So what are what are they going
• 50:12
  to do? Maybe Bobby Miller gets called
• 50:13
  up again. I haven't really been checking
• 50:15
  his stats out in in AAA since he's been demoted, but they do
• 50:18
  need some help short term before Kershaw comes back this weekend.
• 50:23
  I know Snell's on a throwing program right now.
• 50:26
  He started throwing again, which is good to see.
• 50:29
  And he is, you know, and, and both those guys, you know, snow
• 50:34
  and glass now they're weeks away and that's if everything goes
• 50:39
  right. And that's a big question mark
• 50:40
  for both those guys. So maybe Bobby Miller's a short
• 50:43
  term solution for the Dodgers. I don't know if they're going to
• 50:48
  go out externally. They usually do at times.
• 50:51
  They've been doing pretty well with the opener.
• 50:53
  I was, I was looking that up earlier today and they've been
• 50:56
  pretty decent with the opener. So they may continue to do that
• 50:59
  for a, you know, a start or two during the week and and take it
• 51:03
  from there. But yeah, Suzaki, in my eyes,
• 51:06
  you know, it's unfortunate because it's, you know, we root
• 51:08
  for everyone on this show. But that's a drop in my book.
• 51:14
  I would be hesitant to drop them just because I feel like if you
• 51:17
  do own them, which I do not, but if you do, you probably invested
• 51:21
  a pretty decent pick on them and you don't want to cut ties with
• 51:26
  somebody this early that you wasted an early pick on not yet
• 51:30
  anyways. I I would stand pat.
• 51:32
  I would bench him obviously, and just or IL him if you have the
• 51:35
  spot and not bench him and and just see what happens.
• 51:40
  Just just see what happens. You know, I, I wouldn't, I
• 51:42
  wouldn't do anything more. And even when he's come, when
• 51:45
  he's back and he's healthy, you know?
• 51:48
  Just. Not start him until you know.
• 51:50
  Give him two or three starts and see how he does and if you're
• 51:53
  like, OK, well, I think maybe he's found his groove now.
• 51:56
  You know the time off help them, then you start them.
• 51:59
  But I don't think I don't think I would drop him right now.
• 52:02
  I would understand why people would.
• 52:04
  I mean, he's done give you nothing.
• 52:06
  He gave you you can find better pictures off the free agent
• 52:09
  list. But just because you wasted such
• 52:12
  a I'm pretty sure he went at least in the top 10 rounds,
• 52:16
  right. So you're not going to just.
• 52:19
  Drop them. I don't think, but I could
• 52:21
  understand why you'd want to for sure and.
• 52:25
  That's fair. Like you said, there's, there's
• 52:26
  draft capital that you put into someone and there is some value
• 52:30
  to that. I, I guess just to play devil's
• 52:33
  advocate because I do think that's a really good point.
• 52:37
  But to play devil's advocate, we're 1/4 of the way through the
• 52:39
  season. You know, we just talked to me,
• 52:41
  just said earlier in the show, we're we're deep into the season
• 52:44
  right now and the expectation of him coming back is, is I'm
• 52:50
  looking at probably at least two months.
• 52:51
  I'm looking at probably at least after the All Star break, right?
• 52:54
  A while tells me, you know, probably two or three weeks of
• 52:58
  not throwing it all, maybe getting back into a program the
• 53:02
  week after that or so. You're already 4 weeks in there.
• 53:05
  You know, you got to build up your counts.
• 53:07
  And he's 2324 that just had 20, two walks.
• 53:11
  He's going to have more than one rehab start, unfortunately.
• 53:15
  So I I think yeah, maybe after the All Star break, that's the
• 53:18
  guy that's going to be coming back.
• 53:22
  But I'm still not I'm still probably going to drop them.
• 53:26
  You know, I don't have them in any of my leagues.
• 53:28
  Easy for me to say I. Don't either.
• 53:31
  You know, so like, it's easy for me to just say, oh, just drop
• 53:34
  them. It's easy.
• 53:35
  It's never easy to drop a guy that you drafted, like you said,
• 53:37
  7th, 8th, 9th round, you know, top 100 pick.
• 53:42
  So that's where I it's that's where it gets a little dicey.
• 53:45
  But again, it's about, you know, what have you done for me
• 53:48
  lately? Sometimes for me.
• 53:50
  And there's a big enough sample size now out there that tells
• 53:54
  me, you know, where you did draft them.
• 53:57
  It's not even the production. You're even getting so far from
• 54:00
  it or going to get it. You draft a guy like that,
• 54:03
  that's like your number 34 guy, 7th, 8th round, give or take.
• 54:09
  You know, you expect those guys to go 6 innings, 7 innings, you
• 54:12
  know, get you a quality start, get you a few KS and you know,
• 54:16
  get you to win. But he hasn't even done that.
• 54:19
  He hasn't even showed up to be a a start at #3 yet or 4.
• 54:23
  So it's tough. It's tough.
• 54:26
  That whole Dodgers rotation. It's one big headache, you ask
• 54:31
  me. Yeah, and that's why we had said
• 54:34
  earlier, you know, if you're going to draft one of the
• 54:37
  alarms, just draft one of them because you know, you start, you
• 54:41
  know, stocking up on those guys, they're all injury prone.
• 54:45
  And I mean even Yamamoto, I mean, don't forget last year he
• 54:48
  missed a couple, you know, three months, three or four months
• 54:51
  missed a while too with his injury.
• 54:54
  So it is very injury prone. The the entire rotation is at
• 54:58
  this point. Everybody's been on the IL last
• 55:00
  year or this year. So you know, I don't know.
• 55:03
  I still stand pat, but I like I said, I would totally understand
• 55:06
  why you would want to drop them. All right, let me so we still
• 55:13
  have a bunch more. Let me go down.
• 55:16
  Let me go down these next two real quick because we and then
• 55:20
  we'll discuss the third one. All right, so the next step
• 55:24
  would be Pirates shortstop outfield O'Neill Cruz.
• 55:28
  Excuse me? He's day-to-day.
• 55:29
  He's got that back injury. He's actually been out of that
• 55:32
  line up for four days now. He's having a pretty good year,
• 55:34
  you know, 238, eight home runs, 18 ribbies, 23 runs, sixteen
• 55:38
  stolen bases, 47 strikeouts, 47115 points.
• 55:45
  He's giving you a 3.1 to start in points leagues.
• 55:48
  Listen, these numbers tell me he KS a lot.
• 55:51
  He KS over a third of the time. Every 3rd at that he strikes
• 55:54
  out. Now when he doesn't steal bases
• 55:57
  to offset that, you'll see a significant decline in his
• 56:00
  points and his overall numbers in any type of league.
• 56:03
  Just like LA De La Cruz. He's a poor man's LA De La Cruz.
• 56:08
  Not a lot of not as much power, but the stolen bases are there.
• 56:16
  He was. He's ranked 7th for shortstop
• 56:18
  and O'Neill is 8th, so they are right neck and neck.
• 56:22
  Next up would be Mariners starting pitcher Bryce Miller.
• 56:26
  He was day-to-day last week. He got officially moved to the
• 56:29
  15th day out. He's got a right elbow
• 56:31
  inflammation. He's going to be joining Logan
• 56:33
  Gilbert and George Kirby, even though George Kirby will be
• 56:36
  coming back shortly. Miller should be back by the end
• 56:39
  of the month they say. Just the minimum.
• 56:42
  Not really a good year for him either.
• 56:44
  You know, 2 and 439 innings, 35 strikeouts, 21 walks, God, 5
• 56:51
  ERA, 31 points, 3.9 a start. I mean, they're, they're not
• 56:55
  really good numbers. And then this is a guy I kind of
• 56:58
  wanted to talk about a little more.
• 56:59
  But we can always go back to some of the ones we just
• 57:01
  discussed. Texas shortstop Corey Seeger, he
• 57:05
  is back on the IL for a right hamstring again.
• 57:08
  It's the same injury this time they say it's going to take
• 57:14
  longer than the minimum, so they're looking at an early June
• 57:16
  return. He was having a really Goodyear,
• 57:19
  you know, 306 home runs, 12 ribbies, 15 runs, no stolen
• 57:23
  bases, only 18 strikeouts and 100 at bat.
• 57:26
  So not horrible. 68 points. He's giving you 2.6 a start,
• 57:30
  which is above average. I think.
• 57:33
  You know he, here's the thing, he goes off against Detroit,
• 57:36
  right? He goes three and four.
• 57:38
  He hits you two home runs, three ribbons.
• 57:39
  He gives you 16 points in one game and a points that you gave
• 57:43
  you 16. Then he lays on the IL the next
• 57:45
  day. If only he could stay healthy.
• 57:49
  You're talking about someone that you could probably have
• 57:51
  made a Hall of Fame case. You talk about the Grom and
• 57:54
  injuries, Corey Seeger and injuries is the same exact
• 57:57
  thing. Same.
• 58:00
  Yeah, I mean, if he just if he just stays healthy, he is on the
• 58:03
  right projectile and he got got called up really young too.
• 58:07
  Really young. You know how old he is, Doug,
• 58:10
  he's only 31. He's only 31 years old.
• 58:15
  I mean, he can he can still potential.
• 58:17
  You know, we talked about Trout going to the HA lot and this is
• 58:21
  maybe a little taboo thing to say, but if I wouldn't Corey
• 58:25
  Seeger, he's such a good pure hitter and he's got power.
• 58:28
  Like, you know, he does go through a little bit of a
• 58:30
  strikeout streak sometimes, but it usually evens out better than
• 58:34
  than worse. This is a guy maybe he's in this
• 58:37
  point of his career where maybe you consider it like a more of
• 58:41
  ADH, you know, maybe not full time DH.
• 58:44
  She's still very like I say, she's still young.
• 58:47
  He can still play the field. He was a Gold Glover.
• 58:50
  So I mean, you know, maybe the part time thing now because now
• 58:55
  he's hurt again. With the same.
• 58:57
  Hamstring, it's it's just kind of the same story over and over
• 59:01
  again with them. It's time to cut back a little
• 59:04
  bit. I think once you hit a certain
• 59:05
  age, a certain point and when you do have continuous injuries
• 59:07
  like Trout does and Seeger does, you got to reconsider how you're
• 59:13
  playing these guys on a day-to-day basis.
• 59:16
  So Seeger, it sucks because you're right.
• 59:19
  You know, he is on a, he was on a projectile.
• 59:21
  He could have been, you know, first Battle Hall of Famer.
• 59:25
  He still could be a Hall of Famer.
• 59:26
  He's only 31. I don't want to knock him down
• 59:28
  yet, but right now he needs to play more baseball games.
• 59:31
  That's his problem. He doesn't play enough games
• 59:33
  during the year to be, you know, he he's going to fall into like
• 59:37
  the David Wrights of the worlds of of, you know, having these
• 59:41
  really good, you know, Evan Longoria, you know, shout out to
• 59:44
  Evan for retired dispatch. You know, these guys that just
• 59:49
  came out of the the gates hot and they were excellent and at
• 59:53
  one point maybe the best their position.
• 59:55
  Kyle Seeger. I'm sorry, Kyle.
• 59:57
  It's his brother Corey Seeger, MVP.
• 1:00:02
  Right. He had an MVPC.
• 1:00:04
  So there's a lot, a lot of good. But I do think there's
• 1:00:07
  eventually a time where you do just have to make a decision on
• 1:00:11
  someone on how you're playing them every day to make sure you
• 1:00:13
  get an all of it, not just some of it.
• 1:00:17
  Yeah, the Bryce Miller thing. It's it is what it is.
• 1:00:19
  He kind of peeked way too early. If you traded him after the
• 1:00:22
  first week, good for you, because that was the Max value
• 1:00:26
  you're going to get out of him. And then O'Neil Cruz, you said
• 1:00:29
  it, poor man's Ellie De la Cruz. Pretty much same size, same
• 1:00:34
  build, same same everything, same skill set, except you just
• 1:00:38
  get a ton of strikeouts with O'Neill Cruz, like so many
• 1:00:43
  strikeouts, we're talking to like almost 36%, give or take.
• 1:00:48
  He's not even at 150 at bats and he's got 47.
• 1:00:51
  Like, what are we talking about here, You know?
• 1:00:56
  And do you some of these times some guys can get away with it.
• 1:01:00
  We've seen it in the past, but it's far and few between.
• 1:01:04
  You know, I'm talking about like Austin Riley a few years ago,
• 1:01:07
  ton of strikeouts, so many strikeouts, but he had so much
• 1:01:10
  power and he drove in so many runs and had so many runs where
• 1:01:14
  he was still a leap at that one year that he had that over 400
• 1:01:19
  point season. You know, this could be one of
• 1:01:22
  those outliers this year for O'Neill Cruz, the way he's been
• 1:01:26
  going playing really good baseball.
• 1:01:28
  Really it's just a strikeouts. It's just a, you know, a a tell
• 1:01:32
  sign of how things are going to go long term for you.
• 1:01:35
  So it sucks, but you just have to call him a spade spade and he
• 1:01:41
  is one of them. Well, you, it's funny because
• 1:01:44
  you, you know, you talk about people who strike out and then
• 1:01:47
  offset those numbers. I mean, De La Cruz last year,
• 1:01:49
  222 strikeouts, a ton of strikeouts.
• 1:01:54
  If he didn't see all those bases, he would not I I still
• 1:01:58
  don't think he was a first or second round in my opinion, but
• 1:02:01
  you know, some people did and they waste, I don't want to say
• 1:02:04
  they wasted a pick because he's still producing, but he's ranked
• 1:02:07
  7th, you know, in, in our league anyway.
• 1:02:10
  So I mean, chances are a lot of those numbers carry over.
• 1:02:13
  So he's out of the top five, I'd say in almost any format, but
• 1:02:18
  you know, you, you're wasting a, a pick on a, on somebody in the
• 1:02:21
  first round. I I don't think I would, I would
• 1:02:25
  draft them on the first round or keep them, but it's.
• 1:02:29
  Just no, no, it's it's so far a few between, like you said, you
• 1:02:33
  know, it's just it's so tough to do that year in, year out.
• 1:02:37
  You have to focus on the negatives and and work on those
• 1:02:40
  in the offseason. And I know, I know Ellie has
• 1:02:42
  he's even spoke about it. He's even said I got to cut down
• 1:02:46
  on my strikeouts. That's way too many strikeouts.
• 1:02:49
  So there's some self recognition what he's doing to fix it.
• 1:02:52
  I don't know what that is. Honestly.
• 1:02:55
  I haven't even checked his numbers too much recently.
• 1:02:59
  I know he hasn't had that great every year, so that's probably
• 1:03:01
  why. But I'm sure the strikeouts are
• 1:03:03
  there though, if I had to guess. So how do you fix that?
• 1:03:08
  That's I think the toughest thing.
• 1:03:10
  You know, they say the toughest thing in sports, whether if it's
• 1:03:12
  football, baseball, basketball, whatever, hitting a fastball,
• 1:03:15
  Major League fastball, toughest thing to do in sports, you know,
• 1:03:20
  you could do it well for a little bit, but man, if you
• 1:03:22
  can't do it consistently, you're not going to have a good career.
• 1:03:25
  So yeah, yeah, you, you just you, you can't have strikeouts
• 1:03:30
  just that's we're part of our 10 commandments.
• 1:03:33
  We're going to have a 10 commandments thing here probably
• 1:03:36
  #1. So I got two more and they they
• 1:03:41
  should. I'll just go over them right
• 1:03:42
  now. Twins shortstop Carlos Correa
• 1:03:45
  outfield Byron Buxton are both placed in the concussion
• 1:03:47
  protocol after colliding Thursday.
• 1:03:50
  You hate to see it, especially with Buxton playing so well, but
• 1:03:53
  that's what he does, right? He puts together these great
• 1:03:55
  weeks and then he just has this weird freak injury that puts him
• 1:03:58
  on the IL. So Buxton on the year 261.
• 1:04:01
  Ten home runs, 27 ribbies, 33 runs, eight stolen bases, 56
• 1:04:07
  strikeouts. Kind of a lot, but was still
• 1:04:10
  giving you 2.8 points a start. 113 total points.
• 1:04:13
  Correa 55 points, 1.4 a start. He's a free agent.
• 1:04:18
  And then this just broke this afternoon.
• 1:04:21
  Erinola hit the 15 day IL. He had a sprained right ankle.
• 1:04:27
  Maybe that's the reason why he got shelled yesterday.
• 1:04:31
  He is not look good I feel like. I think he's only averaging like
• 1:04:34
  3. Almost very similar to
• 1:04:36
  Tennehawk, 3-4 points a start. He's still throwing hard, He's
• 1:04:42
  still throwing 9394 like he always has.
• 1:04:44
  I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's maybe the
• 1:04:46
  weather I don't like. You know, he had a couple decent
• 1:04:50
  strings of, you know, 2 pretty one win and one pretty no
• 1:04:53
  decision that was pretty good. But other than that it's just
• 1:04:57
  been trash. Complete and utter trash.
• 1:05:04
  Disappointment. Disappointing.
• 1:05:07
  So it's a disappointing parent. You watch a guy throw 200 plus
• 1:05:11
  innings year in, year out, just be Mystic consistent for so
• 1:05:16
  long, have a year like he's having so far.
• 1:05:18
  It's just disappointing. No one wants to see it.
• 1:05:21
  It's not what you planned. It's not what he planned either.
• 1:05:25
  Maybe it was the ankle. I hope it was the ankle.
• 1:05:28
  That would make a lot of sense because that was just a
• 1:05:30
  unorthodox Aaronolis thought that we don't usually see if
• 1:05:33
  ever. Probably his worst thought of
• 1:05:35
  his career. So hopefully he has a speedy
• 1:05:37
  recovery. We'll see how that ankle injury
• 1:05:39
  turns out and and go from there. Hey, funny story.
• 1:05:44
  I have a daily league that I do and it's 14 teams.
• 1:05:50
  You got second base, shortstop, first base, third base, two
• 1:05:56
  utility spots and five outfielders.
• 1:05:59
  So you got a lot of spaces to fill.
• 1:06:02
  Well, I had Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa in the lineup, and
• 1:06:10
  they both hurt each other and they both got to go into
• 1:06:12
  concussion protocol immediately. So I got to find some
• 1:06:16
  replacements real fast. I think I got Alex Burleson on
• 1:06:19
  on deck. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:06:23
  And I, I picked up Jorge Polanco like a month ago and he's kind
• 1:06:28
  of been riding and riding hot. So that's, that's been a nice
• 1:06:31
  wake up. But yeah, it's kind of funny.
• 1:06:33
  I had both those guys on my team starting.
• 1:06:36
  What a highlight to watch. All right, so that pretty much
• 1:06:40
  all are are going over the the injured list in the hurt locker.
• 1:06:46
  So let's take a quick break and then we come back for, I mean,
• 1:06:49
  the bread and butter show here, right?
• 1:06:52
  The who's hot, who's not, The sell high, the buy lows.
• 1:06:56
  And of course, we'll discuss last week's sell high and buy
• 1:06:59
  lows. And I'm going to tell you the
• 1:07:01
  numbers look good, man. You know, they look pretty good.
• 1:07:04
  We're going to pat, pat ourselves on the back, but they
• 1:07:06
  do, and you'll see them. So don't go anywhere.
• 1:07:09
  It's only going to be about a minute, little over a minute,
• 1:07:12
  and then we'll come back and we'll dive right in.
• 1:07:14
  All right. You're going back in.
• 1:07:20
  There's still men out there, When I go home, people ask me.
• 1:07:35
  Hey, who? Why'd he do it, man?
• 1:07:39
  Why? Some kind of war junkie?
• 1:07:43
  I won't say a goddamn word. Why?
• 1:07:48
  They. Won't understand.
• 1:07:49
  They won't understand why we do it.
• 1:07:55
  They won't understand. It's about the men next to you.
• 1:08:01
  That's it. That's all it is.
• 1:08:07
  Find us on the web at MB Radio dot US.
• 1:08:10
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• 1:08:13
  not considered the official stance of MBR views?
• 1:08:17
  Remember, this is all about having fun and enjoying the ride
• 1:08:19
  and. Now the guys you just love to
• 1:08:21
  hate. They're trash.
• 1:08:22
  It's, it's, it's a dust fire man.
• 1:08:26
  It's a man. It's it's not.
• 1:08:29
  Doug and Mike are back with more bourbon and ball.
• 1:08:33
  All right, man, we are. Yeah, we're just, we're just
• 1:08:37
  jumping. All right, so here are this
• 1:08:53
  week's hottest hitters and pitchers in our points league,
• 1:08:57
  which translates to pretty much any other league.
• 1:09:00
  I will read off the first hit. Two hitters.
• 1:09:03
  We can jump in and dissect them, but they probably should be
• 1:09:06
  pretty straightforward because these are guys who drafted
• 1:09:08
  pretty high that were expected to perform and they're
• 1:09:10
  performing. And then we can do the same with
• 1:09:13
  the pitchers. So first and foremost, Jose
• 1:09:16
  Ramirez, Guardians DH third baseman, he's 99.8% owned with,
• 1:09:22
  which is practically 100% in ESPN leagues here.
• 1:09:25
  I mean, got 453 home runs, five ribbies, seven runs, four stolen
• 1:09:31
  bases, 2 strikeouts and 20 at bats.
• 1:09:34
  He gave you 39 points, 6.5 a start.
• 1:09:37
  And then Shohei Otani is back. He made the not list and then
• 1:09:43
  the hot list now. So he is.
• 1:09:46
  He's on a row. He's.
• 1:09:48
  Yeah. Although I think Corbin Carroll
• 1:09:50
  might own that record. So far.
• 1:09:52
  I think he was on it three times.
• 1:09:55
  But he's a stud. It's close.
• 1:09:57
  So yes, Dodgers starting pitcher DHOI Otani, he's again 99.8% Oh,
• 1:10:02
  which is about 100 percent, 385. Four homers, 12 ribbies, seven
• 1:10:06
  runs scored, no stolen bases, 5 strikeouts and six more at bats.
• 1:10:10
  So 26 at bats gave you 39 points 6.5 a start.
• 1:10:15
  I will say Jose Ramirez hit a home run today too.
• 1:10:19
  So he is listen, I looked at his numbers earlier today.
• 1:10:25
  I cannot believe like he he is practically and in my opinion,
• 1:10:31
  you're looking at someone that could possibly be, you know, a
• 1:10:35
  400 home or 300 and, you know, plus stolen base guy.
• 1:10:39
  Like his numbers are great. Not a lot of strikeouts, right?
• 1:10:44
  His most strikeouts in a year. He had 87.
• 1:10:46
  I mean, he is, he's good. He is good.
• 1:10:51
  Yeah. He's, you know, he's in his 30s
• 1:10:52
  now, early 30s, I want to say with 3132.
• 1:10:55
  But he produces, man. They give him his time off and
• 1:10:57
  DH him when he needs it. They're doing it right.
• 1:11:01
  Yeah, he's just a an animal. You know, we talked about him a
• 1:11:04
  few weeks ago and we we said he was off to a little bit of a
• 1:11:08
  slow start, right? And then we compared it to last
• 1:11:11
  year though, too. We said, OK, well, what do you
• 1:11:13
  do last year, right. And then we knew last year he
• 1:11:17
  had that series against the Red Sox at home.
• 1:11:19
  I remember that double hitter that they had.
• 1:11:21
  And he had he had a mega day. And then he kind of just never
• 1:11:24
  looked back from there. And he's kind of just doing the
• 1:11:27
  same thing again. So good for him.
• 1:11:30
  Like this guy we talking about Hall of Farmers, French Hall of
• 1:11:33
  Farmers, not going to be Hall of Farmers.
• 1:11:35
  I mean, man, if he could just stay at this projectile for a
• 1:11:37
  few more years, you know, we're going to have a conversation
• 1:11:40
  about that. That's going to be a legit
• 1:11:42
  conversation. But he's on the right path.
• 1:11:45
  And then, you know, Doug and I talked about Otani off air a
• 1:11:48
  little bit earlier. The guy's a Unicorn.
• 1:11:50
  Shouldn't say Otani. The guy is just a a stud through
• 1:11:55
  and through. He had what, 1 bad week?
• 1:11:57
  But I believe last year he did the same thing as well.
• 1:12:00
  I think last year he had like just a kind of a poor week, just
• 1:12:04
  not really with it, and then he came back like a monster like he
• 1:12:08
  has been. I think this is a second
• 1:12:10
  straight week on this list as well.
• 1:12:13
  If I'm not. No, no.
• 1:12:15
  Am I wrong on that? No, I think it might have been
• 1:12:18
  the week prior. Week prior, yeah.
• 1:12:21
  So hey, still 2 out of three weeks and you're the the best
• 1:12:24
  hitter on on fantasy in our eyes.
• 1:12:26
  Like, jeez, like you're, you're doing something right.
• 1:12:29
  So yeah, well, Tawny's just going to be an absolute just
• 1:12:33
  animal Unicorn, Unicorn guy. As the reason why they're
• 1:12:38
  saying, you know, these guys are first rounders, I would say
• 1:12:41
  maybe even top five rounder. You know, in the first, you
• 1:12:46
  know, you can make the point. Well, you know, Judge, maybe
• 1:12:48
  before Tawny I, I, I would get it, You know, I mean, Judge is
• 1:12:53
  right around 400. I mean, he's having a career
• 1:12:55
  year, you know, but yeah, I mean, you're going with these
• 1:13:00
  guys and then Jose Ramirez probably would be later on and,
• 1:13:03
  you know, with your 5th or 6th pick.
• 1:13:05
  So you're drafting these guys to produce, and that's what they're
• 1:13:08
  doing, hands down. That's so tough.
• 1:13:11
  I, I feel like we, we give Jose Ramirez his flowers, but I don't
• 1:13:16
  know if everyone else gives Jose Ramirez the flowers as well.
• 1:13:20
  You know, this guy's been a staple inside and out for the
• 1:13:25
  last like 5-6 years. Doug, like you've had him for a
• 1:13:29
  few years now. I mean, like we're talking,
• 1:13:31
  we're talking, you know, for at least four years of consistent
• 1:13:35
  work that we've been seeing and he continuously still gets
• 1:13:38
  drafted kind of outside the top five every year.
• 1:13:42
  You know, people draft Soto, they draft Judge, they draft
• 1:13:45
  Otani. You know, you mentioned Kyle
• 1:13:47
  Tucker. So many people want Kyle Tucker
• 1:13:49
  over hose and meetings Bobby Witt, right?
• 1:13:53
  Like there are just so many guys that that people want to get on
• 1:13:57
  top of before they get to the stability guy.
• 1:14:02
  Which is weird you know, because the guy is so good every year.
• 1:14:07
  Steals bases, does a straight guy, hits home runs, hits RBIs,
• 1:14:10
  doesn't matter if his team sucks or not.
• 1:14:12
  Like the guy is just still producing every single year.
• 1:14:16
  So no shock he's on this list. We deserve.
• 1:14:20
  We should break a 2 hour show just of Jose Ramirez one night.
• 1:14:23
  Well, I gotta say, I mean, he had 41 stolen bases last year.
• 1:14:26
  He's he's projected to be a 3030 guy at the very least again.
• 1:14:32
  So like you said, a staple of consistency and I think a lot of
• 1:14:38
  people are drafted him outside the top five, maybe because
• 1:14:41
  they're expecting a fall, but it just hasn't happened, you know,
• 1:14:46
  and honestly, I I feel like when it does, it's not going to be
• 1:14:52
  hard. You know what I mean?
• 1:14:54
  I feel you'd be like Goldie, you know, just like, I mean, I would
• 1:14:58
  not last year's Goldie, but I'm saying like prior, like when you
• 1:15:01
  went to when he went to Saint Louis, like he just steadily
• 1:15:05
  like just, you know, that that 320 average you used to see and
• 1:15:08
  kind of just went to like, you know, 315 and 300 and 280.
• 1:15:13
  And that's what it will now it's almost 3.
• 1:15:15
  It's over 350. But like, I feel like it's just
• 1:15:18
  a graceful decline. And that's what I think would
• 1:15:21
  you would see with Jose Ramirez. It's it wouldn't be like a kick
• 1:15:24
  in your face decline where you're like, man, I wish I'd
• 1:15:27
  never dropped him in the top five.
• 1:15:28
  It would. It would more.
• 1:15:29
  It would be more like, yeah, drafted in the top five,
• 1:15:32
  probably could have waited around.
• 1:15:35
  Yeah, I mean, the guy doesn't strike out.
• 1:15:37
  So I mean, if you even have 100 and fortyish strikeouts or so,
• 1:15:45
  you know, you're saying to yourself, well, that's not
• 1:15:47
  horrible. You know, it's not a strikeout
• 1:15:49
  per game. If you do use 600 at bats per
• 1:15:52
  season, you know, you're under that 30 percentile.
• 1:15:55
  You want to be much lower than that.
• 1:15:56
  But you know, anything over that's in trouble.
• 1:16:00
  And even if Jose Ramirez did that, he's, he's still producing
• 1:16:06
  from a family perspective. So like you said, the grace is
• 1:16:10
  going to be there. He's in the age like fine wine,
• 1:16:13
  like he really is. That's that is the guy that is
• 1:16:17
  going to probably have an easier farewell tour later in his
• 1:16:21
  career because he he just, he does it all.
• 1:16:25
  He he does it all and he does it with grace.
• 1:16:27
  Yep. Totally agree.
• 1:16:30
  And that'll bring us to our pitchers.
• 1:16:32
  Now we talked earlier off air about starting pitching and that
• 1:16:37
  every year it varies, right? I mean, you're drafting a guy
• 1:16:41
  that you think he's going to be a top pitcher and he ends up not
• 1:16:43
  being and then next year he is pitching to me is so
• 1:16:49
  inconsistent that I don't even think I would draft it early
• 1:16:53
  anymore. You know, that's actually I
• 1:16:55
  haven't. That's the one thing I learned
• 1:16:57
  anyways, is that you could get a good picture.
• 1:16:59
  And if you look at, you know, when I made this list, I'm going
• 1:17:05
  to give you the top five pictures.
• 1:17:08
  So these are the two top 2, but then there's three more.
• 1:17:11
  So I do have some honorable mentions and look at the
• 1:17:13
  percentages that they're owned. OK, so let let's just break this
• 1:17:18
  down first and foremost, right? You got Cardinal Stoney pitcher
• 1:17:21
  Eric Fetty. He's 11% owned, 11%.
• 1:17:25
  OK, the guy went one and O2 starts.
• 1:17:29
  Obviously those numbers are very padded because he pitched a
• 1:17:32
  complete game. Shut up.
• 1:17:33
  That was the reason why he's got so many points.
• 1:17:36
  But 14 2/3 innings totaled, 11 strikeouts, four walks.
• 1:17:41
  He didn't give up any earn, no earn on both starts.
• 1:17:44
  So he did get the no decision, give you 47 points, right?
• 1:17:49
  The complete game shot out came against the Nationals.
• 1:17:52
  The no decision came against the Phillies, but he only went five.
• 1:17:54
  So he didn't get a quality start either.
• 1:17:57
  I can understand. I don't think he's this good.
• 1:17:59
  I think he just, you know, he just played a Nationals team
• 1:18:01
  that's kind of just bobbling right now.
• 1:18:04
  So he got lucky. He's always a contact pitcher,
• 1:18:07
  as you can see, 11 strikeouts and and you know, almost 15
• 1:18:10
  innings. So but I think he just got
• 1:18:13
  lucky. And then this was the guy we
• 1:18:14
  talked about next, Jacob the ground, you know, 94% owned.
• 1:18:19
  He went two and O 13 innings pitched, 17 strikeouts, 2 walked
• 1:18:24
  two, earned 46 total points. And they were actually against
• 1:18:27
  good teams. He played the Tigers and the
• 1:18:29
  Astros, so he beat them both. Now here's the honorable
• 1:18:33
  mentions, right for hitters. Aaron Judge had 33 points.
• 1:18:36
  Fernando Tatis had 33 points. Now for pitching, Chris Paddock
• 1:18:41
  of the Twins, who's 5% owned, had almost 45 points.
• 1:18:46
  Randy Vasquez, the Padres, he's 1.8% owned.
• 1:18:50
  He gave you 43 points. And then of course, Hunter Brown
• 1:18:54
  gave you about four, a little over 4040.56.
• 1:18:57
  But that's just telling you that, you know, it's it's so
• 1:19:03
  tough to judge pitching. I kind of just stay away from
• 1:19:08
  it. Maybe the first 3.
• 1:19:09
  I actually, I did stay. I don't think I drafted pitcher
• 1:19:11
  until the fourth round, to be honest with you, at least not
• 1:19:14
  until the Bourbon League. The Bourbon League was the
• 1:19:16
  fourth round, but in our league, maybe the third.
• 1:19:19
  But I know I wouldn't hit her, hit her for sure.
• 1:19:22
  But yeah, man, pitching is you can you can find good pitchers
• 1:19:26
  on a free agent market depending on how deep your league is.
• 1:19:30
  Yeah. And.
• 1:19:30
  It's important, I think to find them early because you got guys
• 1:19:33
  that kind of go on these like little stretches, right, 3
• 1:19:36
  inning, you know, three starts, four starts, you know, 6
• 1:19:39
  innings, you know, quality start.
• 1:19:42
  They get the win. Maybe they get three out of four
• 1:19:44
  wins. All of a sudden that point total
• 1:19:46
  starting to add up and then it comes crashing down and hey,
• 1:19:51
  Fetty, Fetty Wap here. Great week, but I still think
• 1:19:57
  eventually he's going to come back down to reality.
• 1:20:00
  Now last year, you know, he had a a tough team, right?
• 1:20:03
  He was playing with the White Sox.
• 1:20:04
  He was pitching quality starts there.
• 1:20:06
  That's why he did get traded during the trade deadline.
• 1:20:09
  And you know, that's what you kind of root for when you have a
• 1:20:11
  guy like this on your team is can you get me 6 innings and can
• 1:20:15
  you get me the win? This is a guy that he's probably
• 1:20:17
  a little bit above average pitcher when it comes to that
• 1:20:21
  and you have to play the matchups and he had good
• 1:20:25
  matchups from doing these games too.
• 1:20:28
  So, yeah, great week. And then Jacob degrom again
• 1:20:31
  talked about Amelia just having a really big resurgence here,
• 1:20:34
  healthy, looking like he's really healthy.
• 1:20:36
  I love the 13 innings, 17 strikeouts, 17 and two.
• 1:20:39
  Love that. And then only two are in runs.
• 1:20:41
  That's beautiful. That's exactly what you want
• 1:20:44
  pretty much in your ace. So if he's showing me 17 two
• 1:20:47
  like that, that's really promising in my eyes.
• 1:20:49
  I think for a long term, I think degrom, I think his back.
• 1:20:53
  I think I'm very comfortable saying that at this point now.
• 1:20:56
  I think we've seen a big enough sample size of him really
• 1:20:58
  starting to produce again. And man, if you got him, you
• 1:21:03
  know, I think he went kind of high in drafts actually too.
• 1:21:05
  I think people kind of reached for him.
• 1:21:07
  You know, people wanted to to see a healthy degrom back.
• 1:21:10
  I know he did change his arm slot too.
• 1:21:11
  So I think that's helping a lot as well.
• 1:21:15
  But like you mentioned, Doug, you know, I, I'm looking at the
• 1:21:17
  top pitchers this year so far to date #1 pitcher right now is
• 1:21:22
  Hunter Brown, absolute stud. I mean, he's got 20 more points
• 1:21:27
  than the guy in second place. And Max Breed, you know, those
• 1:21:32
  guys were not top three top 4 rounds.
• 1:21:36
  You know, those guys were a little bit later.
• 1:21:38
  So you can find great quality. Great quality.
• 1:21:41
  Later in drabs, you know, and then you get the Zach Wheelers
• 1:21:43
  of the world. You know he's going to be up
• 1:21:45
  there. He's he's kind of, you know, the
• 1:21:47
  modern day ace. I feel I feel like he's just
• 1:21:49
  missed it consistent the last few years, especially in Philly.
• 1:21:53
  Nathan Ivaldi's on this list up here.
• 1:21:55
  You know, Nate Dogg went late. I'm looking at Robbie Ray.
• 1:22:01
  Robbie Ray's on this list too. He he wasn't drafted very high.
• 1:22:05
  So I think he nailed it. I think it's just one of those
• 1:22:07
  things where you can get value later on in, in other aspects.
• 1:22:12
  Some places you can't get that later on and that's certain
• 1:22:15
  positions like we talked about before.
• 1:22:17
  So pitching is just like you got to have a good eye for it.
• 1:22:20
  You got to have a good eye for it.
• 1:22:22
  You got to get the guys early and you got to see if they're
• 1:22:25
  the real deal or not. Don't pick up like The Beatles
• 1:22:28
  of, you know, the A's, you know, and think, oh, he's going to be
• 1:22:31
  my ace, you know, because he pitched, you know, six straight,
• 1:22:34
  you know, 5 inning wins. It's never going to be the case
• 1:22:37
  ever. You know, that's why I like to
• 1:22:40
  target sometimes two guys that are coming back from the IL.
• 1:22:44
  So I like to look, you know, not just like how many points, you
• 1:22:48
  know, people are scoring week to week.
• 1:22:49
  I might go further or maybe all the way down the list depending
• 1:22:52
  on what the league is and see who's coming back from an injury
• 1:22:55
  list. Because it's easier to find a
• 1:22:57
  guy coming back from an injury than maybe trading for a guy
• 1:23:00
  that maybe is, you know, out of your price range.
• 1:23:04
  You don't want to really make too many moves like that or
• 1:23:06
  trades, you know, So like, you know, the Shane Bieber's of the
• 1:23:10
  world. I know a lot of guys stash Shane
• 1:23:11
  Bieber, but he might be floating around in a free agency pool
• 1:23:14
  somewhere. You know, he's going to be
• 1:23:16
  coming back in about a month or month and 1/2 or so.
• 1:23:20
  You know, I took the risk. It didn't work out.
• 1:23:22
  You're going to laugh at me, Doug.
• 1:23:23
  And one of my deeper, deeper leagues that the that the
• 1:23:26
  pitcher heavy 14 team league. I did pick up Kyle Gibson
• 1:23:30
  because he was hurt and you know, Baltimore needed a
• 1:23:35
  pitcher. He knew he was coming back from
• 1:23:37
  it, but instead of me trying to train for someone that I don't
• 1:23:41
  know what I'm going to get on the other end, you know, that's
• 1:23:43
  the whole point of this conversation, right, Is
• 1:23:45
  pitching. You just don't know what you're
• 1:23:47
  going to get. I'd rather just take a flyer on
• 1:23:48
  a guy that's coming back sometimes and say, hey, maybe
• 1:23:51
  he's due. Another great guy too.
• 1:23:53
  Brandon Woodruff, right? He's going to be coming back
• 1:23:56
  sooner than later. I know he had a little bit of a
• 1:23:57
  set back, but doesn't sound like it's going to be too serious.
• 1:24:00
  So he should be coming back pretty soon too.
• 1:24:03
  So there's some alternative routes that you can take to find
• 1:24:06
  good quality pitching at times it's just it's they're far Yupi
• 1:24:09
  queen, but they're there you can find them.
• 1:24:11
  Yep, I. Totally agree with that.
• 1:24:15
  All right, let's dive into who's not.
• 1:24:21
  Oh no. And some of these names we
• 1:24:24
  talked about earlier, you're going to know, you're going to
• 1:24:27
  see him. No, no, let me go through with
• 1:24:32
  the hitters and then we'll do the same thing with the
• 1:24:34
  pitchers, OK? And we probably should, we
• 1:24:37
  probably don't need a ton of time on the pitchers just
• 1:24:40
  because we we're at almost at 13130 point man.
• 1:24:43
  We're breezing today. But Braves second baseman Ozzy
• 1:24:48
  Alvis, 95.7% owned hit you 138 no homers, 1 ribby, one run, 5
• 1:24:55
  strikeouts, 29 at that. So give you a point, a point one
• 1:25:00
  point all week. And then Mets first baseman Pete
• 1:25:03
  Alonzo, he's 99.7% owned. He hit you two O 8.
• 1:25:07
  He gave you 2 ribbies, 2 runs, no stolen bases, no home runs.
• 1:25:11
  Gave you 10 strikeouts and 24 at bats.
• 1:25:14
  He gave you 2 points. Some honorable mentions O'Neill
• 1:25:17
  Cruz gave you one. Trey Turner, Lawrence, Lawrence
• 1:25:20
  Butler, Jared Duran, Matt Olson, they all gave you 3.
• 1:25:25
  So again, you know, we talked about Alby's having a bad year
• 1:25:30
  down year. The jolt that you think Hakuna
• 1:25:35
  will bring into that lineup I don't think will be as strong as
• 1:25:37
  everybody thinks it is. And Pete Alonso, unfortunately,
• 1:25:42
  you know, I know he's still having a great year.
• 1:25:45
  I know he's I think he's still number one first baseman, but
• 1:25:51
  that's what he does, man. He strikes out a lot.
• 1:25:54
  And he wasn't doing it at the beginning of the year that much.
• 1:25:56
  And, you know, again, that's what Soto brings to that line
• 1:25:58
  up. But now it's kind of like
• 1:26:02
  pitchers are learning how to, you know, go through that line
• 1:26:08
  up with Soto in it now. And I think they know who to
• 1:26:12
  attack, when to attack. So I, I think he just needs to
• 1:26:15
  make some kind of adjustment. I think because they're going
• 1:26:18
  right after him now, like they're not really messing
• 1:26:21
  around or, or playing around. I think it's just, you know,
• 1:26:25
  we'll walk Soto and then now we'll just go after Pete Alonzo
• 1:26:29
  and 10 strikeouts and 24 at bats is is not a good thing to to
• 1:26:33
  have, especially in a points league.
• 1:26:36
  Yeah, I mean. You.
• 1:26:38
  Know, I think I I said it before quarter way through the season,
• 1:26:42
  the sample size out there now and I think pitchers are just
• 1:26:46
  adjusting to Pete Alonzo at this point and now Pete needs to
• 1:26:50
  adjust to them now. So I think he's just a little
• 1:26:54
  behind on that. I think he's a great player.
• 1:26:56
  I think he's going to be just fine.
• 1:26:58
  Obviously a tough week for him with the strikeouts as well.
• 1:27:01
  And he he does tend to strike out.
• 1:27:02
  You know, that's, that is part of his game.
• 1:27:04
  So it's not a surprise there by any means.
• 1:27:07
  But yeah, I think that's what it is.
• 1:27:09
  I just think pitchers are catching up to him.
• 1:27:11
  He just needs to catch up to that.
• 1:27:13
  They're Ozzy Albees, you know, he, he just kind of, he's still
• 1:27:17
  a very good baseball player. I don't want to take anything
• 1:27:19
  away from Ozzy Albees. I, I think there's some recovery
• 1:27:23
  left with him in this line up. I just think it's too good of a
• 1:27:26
  line up. Still, even when Hakuna comes
• 1:27:29
  back, I just, I just think where he hits in the line up and he,
• 1:27:33
  he's going to I, I have faith. I don't know why, no reason.
• 1:27:38
  I have no facts. I just think I'd rather take I'd
• 1:27:41
  rather take a risk on Albees than like Marcus Simeon at this
• 1:27:44
  point. Because you know, I think for
• 1:27:47
  one, if you don't have either of those guys, I think it's easy to
• 1:27:50
  get Albees than Simeon because like you said, Doug earlier, the
• 1:27:53
  draft capital does matter to people still in some aspects.
• 1:27:57
  And if you draft the Marcus Simeon, you draft them some semi
• 1:28:00
  high because for one second base tough position to fill last
• 1:28:04
  couple years in Texas, you've been fantastic.
• 1:28:06
  And you know, if you miss out on, you know, pretty much him or
• 1:28:11
  Marte, you're kind of seeing the rest of the the group, right?
• 1:28:15
  You're you're seeing, you know, the Albies, the Altuve's and and
• 1:28:18
  etcetera. So if you miss out, it's just
• 1:28:20
  kind of what it is. So people reach out for those
• 1:28:22
  guys. So there is some value still
• 1:28:24
  left in those people's eyes, even though I think now you're
• 1:28:27
  quarter way through the season, you just got to call, call for
• 1:28:30
  what it is. And then you got to you got to
• 1:28:32
  make a decision. So like I'm saying, if you have
• 1:28:34
  Marco Simeon make a move, but that's not about Marcus Simeon.
• 1:28:38
  We're talking about Alby's. You know, you mentioned the the
• 1:28:42
  the trade off for the Dean. You're trying to buy low on
• 1:28:45
  Alby's right now. So I think you I think you got
• 1:28:49
  some value on him as well that there's some potential still
• 1:28:51
  there and you can get him at an affordable price.
• 1:28:55
  And I think that's the storyline right there.
• 1:28:57
  So if you need second base help, you know, this could be
• 1:29:01
  potentially a buy low guy with almost a little asterisk next to
• 1:29:06
  it saying, you know, nothing's guaranteed buying low on a guy
• 1:29:11
  like this. It's a it's still a risk, but
• 1:29:14
  you know, there's some some potential there.
• 1:29:17
  Does that make sense? No, I kind of.
• 1:29:20
  Rambled there for a minute. Yeah.
• 1:29:21
  And and, but and we'll talk about that when you're the the
• 1:29:25
  buy low candidates later on. He's not in it, but there is a,
• 1:29:29
  a point where you're like, OK, well, if I'm taking a chance on
• 1:29:32
  this guy, like, who am I going to give up?
• 1:29:34
  You know, am I paying for his potential or am I paying for how
• 1:29:38
  he's playing right now? And that's the tough part about
• 1:29:41
  trades. You know, it's all about how
• 1:29:44
  people value their hitters. You know, I mean, Sean, in our
• 1:29:46
  league, he, he wants the world for his guys.
• 1:29:50
  But in my opinion, some of those guys just aren't worth it.
• 1:29:53
  You know, I think what do you do?
• 1:29:54
  He asked me for Logan Webb and Stephen Quan, for Pete, for, you
• 1:29:57
  know, Pete Crow Armstrong. Logan Webb's a top five pitcher.
• 1:30:02
  He's got more point. He's got, he's like 2.
• 1:30:04
  Well, he's pitching today, but he's only two points behind
• 1:30:06
  Yamamoto, so and he's playing the A's.
• 1:30:10
  So which is a very winnable line lineup match up for him anyways.
• 1:30:15
  So in my opinion, he'll get more points in Yamamoto.
• 1:30:17
  But you know, you're telling me you want a top five pitcher and
• 1:30:22
  a A a guy who's averaging like 2.82 point 9A star and Stephen
• 1:30:28
  Kwan who's hitting, you know, over 300.
• 1:30:30
  I want to say like 3-10, three, 20 Pete Crow Armstrong, who
• 1:30:34
  yeah, he's he's he's great. I just don't think it's
• 1:30:37
  sustainable. So I'm not going to give that
• 1:30:39
  up. Now if you want to trade me, you
• 1:30:44
  know, if you want Logan Webb, I told them why not try?
• 1:30:47
  I'll give you you give me Mookie.
• 1:30:48
  I'll give you Logan Webb, obviously, I mean, points wise,
• 1:30:53
  they're both very similar, both have the same one, almost the
• 1:30:56
  same amount of points. But you know, he values those
• 1:31:00
  people way higher than I think they should.
• 1:31:03
  But that's the that's the difficulty of buying low on on
• 1:31:06
  players. And it is my my thing with that.
• 1:31:12
  I think that's a very fair trade, by the way, I I think I
• 1:31:14
  like I really like that trade a lot LED for for Mookie Betts.
• 1:31:18
  I think you're getting a obviously a sled bat for a sled
• 1:31:21
  pitcher. That's what you're getting right
• 1:31:22
  there. But when I look at the points,
• 1:31:25
  you know, between batters and pitchers, pitchers are way more
• 1:31:30
  valuable in in a Lee like hours. There's more guys in pitching
• 1:31:36
  that can get you more points than hitters from what I'm
• 1:31:39
  looking at right now from a point standpoint.
• 1:31:41
  So you got to pay for pitching. Is this the bottom line?
• 1:31:46
  You have to pay for pitching. If you're going to try to go out
• 1:31:49
  and get a guy like a Logan Webb or Yamamoto or a Paul Skeens or
• 1:31:54
  something, you're going to have to pay top dollar because
• 1:31:58
  there's still, there's still stuff that carries with that.
• 1:32:01
  There's still a lot of valuable. What am I trying to say here?
• 1:32:08
  I'm, I'm trying to say pretty much pitchers of kings still.
• 1:32:14
  They're still kings. I I see, I see about 10 pitchers
• 1:32:20
  that have over 150 points on this and I'm looking at batters
• 1:32:23
  and I see only about 5-6. So, and then in the list is
• 1:32:29
  there's more one 40s. There's a lot of one 40s on here
• 1:32:31
  for pitchers too. So this is more valuable in
• 1:32:35
  pitchers. So they have a guy like Sean try
• 1:32:39
  to rear end you like that, you know, like, you know, you know
• 1:32:45
  what, you know what he did. You know what he did?
• 1:32:47
  Like he overplayed his hands with PCA.
• 1:32:50
  He overplayed. It's it's, it's you're trying to
• 1:32:53
  sell a guy high. I respect it.
• 1:32:55
  You know, that's what we all try to do.
• 1:32:57
  But when you do it like he does, you can't, you can't expect
• 1:33:02
  people to be running at the door, you know, because you
• 1:33:05
  already saw a couple trades that we already made in this league.
• 1:33:08
  And I think people are a little bit more skeptical trying to
• 1:33:10
  make a deal now with Sean. Yeah, of course.
• 1:33:14
  All right, let me just run through these pitchers.
• 1:33:16
  I don't think we really have enough time to talk about them.
• 1:33:19
  We're we're past that mark. But let me just run through them
• 1:33:22
  anyways. Tanner Hawk, he's only 28% on.
• 1:33:26
  He was in the mid 90s to start the year again.
• 1:33:30
  He had a rough week. O1, 1/2 and 1/3 innings, no K3,
• 1:33:34
  walk, 11 in -14.88 points. That was the answer.
• 1:33:38
  Tigers Phillies starting pitcher Aaron Nola, who was 98% owned,
• 1:33:43
  is now only 85.7. He went O and 2/8 and 2/3 inning
• 1:33:47
  7K3 walk 13 and gave you a -11.84 points.
• 1:33:53
  Those came against the Guardians and the Cardinals honorable
• 1:33:56
  mention Bryce Miller -6 Jack flirty -4.5 and Nick pavetta -4
• 1:34:03
  so and we, we talked, we could beat the drum.
• 1:34:06
  We talked about Aaron Nolan antenna hawk earlier.
• 1:34:10
  So, you know, it's, it's a shame to see him, but I don't know.
• 1:34:17
  It is what it is. Hey.
• 1:34:18
  Nick, Nick Pivoter coming back down from grace, huh?
• 1:34:22
  Yep, it happens. It happens.
• 1:34:26
  All right, so let's let's just dive in man.
• 1:34:31
  Let's talk about some sell high buy low type candidates.
• 1:34:34
  Picro Armstrong should probably be in there, but I'm not going
• 1:34:38
  to I'm not going to list them on there just because all right, so
• 1:34:48
  we'll do one by one right. So this is somebody I think you
• 1:34:51
  should sell high. He is.
• 1:34:54
  I think he had two hits so far today.
• 1:34:56
  He's 2 for three. I think his average is up to
• 1:34:58
  350. I think you know who he is and
• 1:35:02
  and his ESPN picture isn't even in his new uniform.
• 1:35:06
  There he is right now. Great week.
• 1:35:10
  Hit you 375. Two home runs, six runs, five
• 1:35:14
  ribbies, a stolen base, 3 strikeouts and 24 at bats gave
• 1:35:18
  you 29 points. 4.8 a start. The season 346.
• 1:35:22
  Five home runs, 22 reviews, 27 runs, three stolen bases, 30
• 1:35:27
  strikeouts at 162 at that. 119 points.
• 1:35:32
  Excuse me, 2.8 a start. He is a top five first baseman.
• 1:35:37
  This is a guy that you drafted as a bench player, you drafted,
• 1:35:41
  you took a flyer on him, you drafted him outside the top 15,
• 1:35:44
  top 20 rounds of your draft. He's a top five first baseman.
• 1:35:49
  I feel he'll probably be solid all year.
• 1:35:51
  So although I say sell high, I think he he'll remain high for
• 1:35:56
  the year. Do I think he'll finish it in
• 1:35:57
  350? I don't think so, but he's on a
• 1:36:01
  roll. He might not be as good as he is
• 1:36:04
  right now, but he'll still, in my opinion, he has a good chance
• 1:36:07
  to finish in the top 10. First baseman without a doubt.
• 1:36:11
  I say so high because we've seen enough of him to know he's for
• 1:36:13
  real this year, and because we've seen enough of him to know
• 1:36:17
  that he is real. That tells me the return you can
• 1:36:20
  get for him should be pretty substantial considering again,
• 1:36:23
  you drafted him really, really late in drafts.
• 1:36:26
  And 1st baseman is a tough position to fill in fantasy as
• 1:36:29
  far as consistency goes. IE Bryce Harper, who probably
• 1:36:32
  went 13 rounds, 15 rounds before him and is just in outside the
• 1:36:39
  is he, I think he might be like 6 or 7.
• 1:36:41
  I think Goldie might have more points than him.
• 1:36:43
  But again, based off where you got, some people probably could
• 1:36:48
  have drafted him, like got him off the free agency.
• 1:36:49
  That's how much people like wrote off wrote him off.
• 1:36:52
  But he's been hitting the ball well.
• 1:36:54
  And on top of that, I mean, Cody Ballinger is turning it around.
• 1:36:57
  He had a couple more hits again today.
• 1:37:00
  So it's a great line up. I say you he was a bench guy
• 1:37:04
  when you drafted him. Trade him.
• 1:37:06
  I wouldn't care if you if you held on to him, but if you do
• 1:37:10
  need a position or a starting pitcher he should give you back
• 1:37:15
  way more than what where you got him.
• 1:37:19
  Yeah, I mean, you know, the other thing with Paul Goldschmid
• 1:37:22
  is too, is that I'd never seen Paul Goldschmidt during a season
• 1:37:26
  take like a big dip, right? When he when he's not Paul
• 1:37:30
  Goldschmidt like we saw last year, right?
• 1:37:33
  He just never really got it going at all at any point.
• 1:37:36
  There was never a peak where he was hitting 350 for a couple
• 1:37:40
  weeks and hitting a couple home runs, right?
• 1:37:42
  We never saw that for him last year.
• 1:37:45
  And even when he was in Arizona, we never saw him go through like
• 1:37:48
  these ridiculous streaks of just bad baseball.
• 1:37:52
  So the fact that he's playing so good baseball now, I don't
• 1:37:56
  expect him to go crazy far down when he does, because like you
• 1:37:59
  said, the, the, the average is probably not sustainable.
• 1:38:02
  I I don't expect him to sustain that, but I do expect maybe like
• 1:38:07
  a three 10320 average. I think that's very fair and
• 1:38:11
  doable for a guy like Paul Goldsmith.
• 1:38:13
  We're not just talking about a guy that's just getting older
• 1:38:16
  and just kind of making the rounds.
• 1:38:17
  We're talking about a guy that's a two time MVP.
• 1:38:20
  We're talking about a guy that plays legit good first base.
• 1:38:24
  He plays a Gold Glove first base.
• 1:38:27
  He's a little bit older. I think he found the new, like a
• 1:38:31
  new home in New York, the way he's been playing.
• 1:38:34
  And he's he's loving every minute of it.
• 1:38:36
  I think he loves playing with Aaron Judge.
• 1:38:38
  I think he that's a big appeal for him.
• 1:38:41
  And yeah, you can sell him high, but you can argue pretty hard
• 1:38:46
  that you can just hold on to him because, like you said, you got
• 1:38:49
  great value on him. And maybe you drafted someone
• 1:38:52
  else that first base that you thought was going to be a first
• 1:38:54
  baseman. And now you're like, yeah, you
• 1:38:57
  know, maybe I can move that guy instead because maybe he has a
• 1:38:59
  little bit more value there still, too.
• 1:39:03
  Yeah, I, I had a league where I drafted Christian Walker and I
• 1:39:06
  drafted Paul Goldschmidt. And I I play Goldschmidt every
• 1:39:10
  week. It's not even a question at this
• 1:39:12
  point. You know, as much as I like to
• 1:39:14
  play Christian Walker, he just hasn't been cutting it either.
• 1:39:18
  You know, a lot of strikeouts, not a lot of walks, just hasn't
• 1:39:21
  really put it together yet there in Houston.
• 1:39:23
  But man, that was my security blanket was Paul Goldschmidt.
• 1:39:27
  You know, and especially in a category league where average is
• 1:39:29
  a big, big thing, you know, RB is home runs and he's checking
• 1:39:34
  the boxes right now. Even the stolen bases, getting a
• 1:39:36
  couple stolen bases here. That's that's the old Paul
• 1:39:39
  Goldschmidt that we used to watch back in his MVP days.
• 1:39:43
  So man, just it's awesome to see, awesome to see.
• 1:39:47
  Sean did write in the chat because he said I offered Blanco
• 1:39:50
  and Jose Ramirez for Pedro Alvarez and Otani, which in my
• 1:39:54
  opinion would probably be a great trade because you can't
• 1:39:56
  keep Otani. You could still keep Jose
• 1:39:59
  Ramirez. However, I don't like Pedro
• 1:40:01
  Alvarez. I don't really think I ever
• 1:40:02
  offered that trade. And I actually really like
• 1:40:05
  Blanco, the starting pitcher for Houston.
• 1:40:06
  So I don't know if I would do all that but.
• 1:40:09
  Jordan, Jordan Alvarez. No, I don't like Pedro Alvarez.
• 1:40:14
  No, but I did. I did offer him Otani and I know
• 1:40:17
  Jose Ramirez is in it. But now that I'm thinking about
• 1:40:19
  it, I'm like, man, Jose Ramirez for Otani straight up might even
• 1:40:23
  be a fair deal if you think about it, because you can keep
• 1:40:26
  Jose Ramirez for another year, but I can't keep Otani.
• 1:40:29
  So that keeper thing aspect really does drive up value.
• 1:40:34
  You know, you're getting a top five player, you can keep him
• 1:40:37
  for another year as opposed to, yeah, you're getting the best
• 1:40:39
  player in baseball, but it's a rental.
• 1:40:42
  You're not going to have him next year.
• 1:40:43
  Chances are you're not going to draft him next year.
• 1:40:45
  He's not going to be there for you, but that's a fair.
• 1:40:49
  Yeah. So just to go over last week,
• 1:40:52
  some of our sell highs that had really good weeks ended up not
• 1:40:56
  having good weeks. Matt Chapman gave you 4 points.
• 1:40:58
  Austin Riley gave you 9. Brian Wu had a had a pretty good
• 1:41:01
  start against the Yankees. I think he gave you 14 points.
• 1:41:05
  That was great for him. And and by lows, I think Marcelo
• 1:41:13
  Zunig, we said by low on him, he gave you 18 points.
• 1:41:17
  Jackson Cheerio gave you 21 and Tony G gave you 16.
• 1:41:21
  So it's pretty good. Yeah.
• 1:41:22
  And I did, yeah, we did talk about Mookie Betts and that
• 1:41:25
  trade. I think I offered him Logan Webb
• 1:41:27
  for Mookie Betts, which I thought was a great trade.
• 1:41:29
  We we just talked about that. But you know, Sean, he's he's
• 1:41:32
  babbling in the chat over there. All right, Yeah.
• 1:41:35
  So we, we got like 15 minutes. So I'm trying to like Bing bang
• 1:41:40
  Next up for sell high. And again, like this is a guy
• 1:41:44
  that I totally get if you want to keep again, this is just my
• 1:41:49
  opinion. We'll look how we how they do
• 1:41:51
  next week. But Jung Hoo Lee, he's 93% on
• 1:41:56
  he's a Giants outfielder. You know, all right, week he
• 1:41:59
  gave you 3.2 a start, 19 total points, batted you 200.
• 1:42:02
  But he gave you two home runs, six rabies, two runs and only
• 1:42:05
  one strikeout, which is nice. Doesn't strike out a lot.
• 1:42:07
  Contact guy in a points league is what you want.
• 1:42:09
  Overall, 286 six homers, 29 ribbies, 30 runs scored, three
• 1:42:13
  stolen bases, 22 strikeouts and 168 at bats.
• 1:42:17
  He's giving you 133 points, 3.1 a start, which is amazing.
• 1:42:22
  I think this is someone you probably picked up off a free
• 1:42:24
  agency when you thought he was on a hot streak, and that streak
• 1:42:27
  just hasn't stopped. He's been hot last year, his
• 1:42:31
  first year, he already has more at bats than he had last year
• 1:42:35
  because he got hurt. So I do think there'll be a
• 1:42:38
  downfall for him. Might not be anything drastic or
• 1:42:41
  crazy, but there'll still be a downfall I think.
• 1:42:44
  So why not try to move them for again another pressing positions
• 1:42:47
  again? The last thing you want, we
• 1:42:49
  always talk about is you don't want to hold these guys when
• 1:42:51
  they go cold because then you're not going to be able to trade
• 1:42:54
  them again. It's impossible to predict when
• 1:42:56
  someone goes cold, but if you look at the history, you can at
• 1:43:01
  least make an educated guess about it.
• 1:43:04
  I think, like I said, he might drop off at some point.
• 1:43:07
  And I think I, I know Mike, you put put him in a couple offers,
• 1:43:11
  so you're trying to shop him around too.
• 1:43:13
  But still a great player. You still keep him and you know,
• 1:43:16
  hopefully he doesn't get hurt and he continues to to to rake,
• 1:43:20
  but I don't know if he's gonna. Yeah, he got hurt last year,
• 1:43:24
  came back this year. He he's kind of kind of got
• 1:43:27
  thrown into a role to be a leader almost right away and a
• 1:43:29
  team that doesn't really have a lot of a lot of leadership, I
• 1:43:32
  feel. And he hasn't played a full
• 1:43:35
  season in in Major League Baseball yet.
• 1:43:38
  You know, he got hurt last last year was his rookie year.
• 1:43:41
  He gets hurt, misses the remainder of the season, comes
• 1:43:43
  back this year coming out hot and he's been doing it what now
• 1:43:47
  5-6 weeks. So it's a big enough sample size
• 1:43:51
  where you can argue, yeah, this guy could be legit 3 point what,
• 1:43:55
  2 points a game, 3.1. That's, that's, that's start
• 1:43:59
  every week type of points right there.
• 1:44:03
  What can you do for the whole year is the question.
• 1:44:07
  And I don't know if he can. I, I'm not really 100% sure.
• 1:44:11
  I mean, I, I'd like him to, especially if he like stays on
• 1:44:14
  my team. That'd be great.
• 1:44:15
  But I think I see an opportunity here where if I have a hole, so
• 1:44:21
  for instance, like my shortstop position, I could really use a
• 1:44:24
  shortstop. I feel like I'm, I'm missing out
• 1:44:26
  on a shortstop. So I, I want to maybe move
• 1:44:29
  someone like a league and, you know, maybe pair him up with a,
• 1:44:35
  a low end pitcher, make it a A2 for one.
• 1:44:38
  You know, we, we talked about Trey Turner a little bit, you
• 1:44:41
  know, on who's the cold list. You know, he didn't score a lot
• 1:44:44
  of points last week. That's maybe a buy a load type
• 1:44:46
  of candidate guy there. And a guy like Lee, like Doug
• 1:44:50
  said, he's picked up probably on free agency.
• 1:44:52
  I know I did. He was drafted.
• 1:44:54
  He he was dropped, but I, I did snag him luckily and you can
• 1:44:58
  argue that's a pretty decent trade because let's be honest,
• 1:45:01
  Trey Turner's not the same Trey Turner he was 5-6 years ago, but
• 1:45:06
  he still produces, you know, in a very good line up.
• 1:45:09
  So again, take your options, pick your options keep them.
• 1:45:13
  It's cool. Not a bad move but I think you
• 1:45:16
  have a small window to move him right now because he could just
• 1:45:19
  fall off a clip next week for all we know.
• 1:45:21
  It's. True.
• 1:45:24
  All right. And then finally concluding this
• 1:45:26
  segment of selling high, this is your boy Mike.
• 1:45:35
  Keeping with the Giants, he's 81% owned.
• 1:45:39
  He's one and O his last start, 6 innings, 9 strikeouts, three
• 1:45:44
  walks, 3 and gave you 23.88 points.
• 1:45:47
  And that was against a really good Arizona Diamondback team
• 1:45:50
  offense. Anyways, overall he's 6 and O 50
• 1:45:54
  innings pitched, 55 strikeouts, 26 walks at 30 ERA, 147 points.
• 1:46:01
  He's giving you 16.4 every time he takes the mound.
• 1:46:04
  OK, he's one of those pitchers that is good for a few rough
• 1:46:07
  starts a month in my opinion. I still think he's going to
• 1:46:10
  finish a top 15, maybe top 20 pitcher, and that's if he
• 1:46:16
  doesn't get injured, his ERA should probably go up.
• 1:46:21
  You're looking at like high threes, low fours, you know, I
• 1:46:24
  mean, if you look at some of his stats, 5 and a third, gave up
• 1:46:27
  three against three runs against the Reds, 4 innings, 4 inned
• 1:46:31
  against the Phillies, 6 innings, 3 inned against Arizona.
• 1:46:35
  I think these are starts, you know, that were no, no decisions
• 1:46:39
  that in my opinion, some of them probably could have been losses
• 1:46:42
  if he played for a different team that wasn't on at the time.
• 1:46:45
  I think the guy, he was drafted in the 19th round in our draft.
• 1:46:48
  He's currently a top five pitcher.
• 1:46:49
  So and he was absolutely taken as a bench guy.
• 1:46:53
  You wanted to take a chance on him.
• 1:46:55
  Your chance is paying off right now.
• 1:46:57
  You know, he's pitching in a pitcher's park.
• 1:47:00
  Everything is just the stars are aligning right now for Robbie
• 1:47:03
  Ray. But why not sell them high?
• 1:47:06
  Get yourself a top bat at a position you probably need to
• 1:47:09
  fill. You know this six and O is
• 1:47:11
  unrealistic to think he's got to you know, he's good for a
• 1:47:15
  clunker that that ERA, his career ERA is like a three 8.
• 1:47:19
  So just you know, if you want to keep him, I get it.
• 1:47:22
  Pitching is is a luxury. It's a good pitcher in any
• 1:47:26
  league. It's hard to find.
• 1:47:28
  That's why they pick it in our opinion is pitching is something
• 1:47:31
  that should be overvalued. But I would, I would maybe
• 1:47:35
  consider, you know, trading them if I own them.
• 1:47:40
  Hey, I mean, you didn't even mention that he's also injury
• 1:47:42
  prone as well. He he does go through some
• 1:47:45
  stretches where he does hit the IL stand.
• 1:47:47
  I mean, this is the best you're going to get right now from
• 1:47:49
  Robbie Ray Wright with the record and with, you know, and,
• 1:47:53
  and he is prone to walk guys too.
• 1:47:55
  He does get a little erratic at times.
• 1:47:57
  And like you said, if it wasn't for the Giants hot start, who
• 1:48:00
  knows where this guy would be right now from a point
• 1:48:03
  perspective, I don't want to take anything away from him
• 1:48:05
  because he has been producing. So, but it's just like you said,
• 1:48:09
  the stars are aligning. Everything's kind of just lining
• 1:48:12
  up for this guy. But again, great example of a
• 1:48:16
  guy if you have deep rotation, you kind of just had picked him
• 1:48:20
  up just because he was a a bench guy.
• 1:48:23
  It was like a wait and see type of person.
• 1:48:25
  We'll see how he comes back playing a full year.
• 1:48:27
  Came back last year part time was, you know, still so at
• 1:48:31
  times. And now it's his first full year
• 1:48:34
  in San Francisco. So yeah, he's coming out the
• 1:48:36
  gate hot. But we also know how injury
• 1:48:38
  prone these pitches are can be. And again, targeted position
• 1:48:43
  that you maybe don't have a lot of depth at, especially if you
• 1:48:46
  have the depth the the move a guy like Robbie Ray right now.
• 1:48:49
  So I'm all about it. So it's a good list, Doug here.
• 1:48:52
  I like those. I like those three guys.
• 1:48:54
  I. Appreciate that, Mike.
• 1:48:58
  Now I, I also think you'll like the buy low because you've
• 1:49:00
  already mentioned a couple of these guys.
• 1:49:05
  Let's breeze through these. We got about 10 minutes.
• 1:49:08
  I have on here Ranger shortstop Corey Seeger.
• 1:49:11
  Now again, we talk about injuries and all that good
• 1:49:14
  stuff. He's still 92.3% owned, but
• 1:49:18
  that's kind of dropping now that he hit the IL again.
• 1:49:21
  Listen, he had a pretty good week.
• 1:49:23
  He had gave you 16 points in one game.
• 1:49:25
  Like think about it. We just talked about who's not
• 1:49:29
  hot and you know, Matt Olson gave you 3 in an entire week of
• 1:49:34
  bad bats. He gave you a 16.
• 1:49:36
  So he gave you almost, you know, more points than some people
• 1:49:40
  give you an entire week. He gave you in a in a day in a
• 1:49:42
  game. Oh his overall numbers are still
• 1:49:45
  pretty good too right? 300 average, six home runs, 12
• 1:49:47
  ribbies, 15 runs, only 18 strikeouts and 100 at bats right
• 1:49:52
  68 points, 2.6 a start. I think when he's healthy, we
• 1:49:56
  all know he can produce. However, he's just not healthy
• 1:49:58
  often, and that's the problem with him.
• 1:50:00
  I think he's one of the top shortstop that was off the
• 1:50:02
  board, but owners might want to try to move him for someone more
• 1:50:05
  consistent someone that plays every day.
• 1:50:07
  I mean, I would definitely love to trade for him, but I'm not
• 1:50:10
  offering someone that was drafted around the same time he
• 1:50:12
  was because he was probably drafted in the top five or six
• 1:50:15
  rounds of any draft, right? I'd offer somebody that was
• 1:50:18
  probably drafted a little later. And I think that would that
• 1:50:23
  that's the what we were talking about earlier, you know, a draft
• 1:50:25
  position and trying to get back what you draft.
• 1:50:28
  Like that's what makes it so tough.
• 1:50:30
  But I do want to say if you are going to send an offer to him,
• 1:50:32
  just remember, you know, buyer beware, right?
• 1:50:35
  You're getting a guy that's going to be on the IL more often
• 1:50:37
  than not. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we talked
• 1:50:41
  about earlier, Corey Seeger, he has cut down his strikeouts this
• 1:50:44
  year, which is great to see. But unfortunately he just can't
• 1:50:48
  stay on the field. Again, it's tough because he's
• 1:50:53
  hurt now. So, you know, do you really want
• 1:50:56
  to go get go out and get a guy that's hurt right now and, and
• 1:50:59
  hopefully he comes back healthier and, and see how he
• 1:51:02
  does. Sure, that's that's cool.
• 1:51:06
  And you can get him at a really good price right now.
• 1:51:08
  I would love to see where he was drafted.
• 1:51:10
  I feel like he wasn't really drafted high in our league.
• 1:51:13
  I'm looking right now and I'm not seeing him in the 606 rounds
• 1:51:17
  here, six round. So he actually went right after
• 1:51:20
  Josh Naylor. So you said no Corey Seger, I'm
• 1:51:22
  not going to take you. I'm going to take Josh Naylor
• 1:51:24
  instead. I called him though.
• 1:51:27
  I said. I said that 5 or 6 rounds.
• 1:51:31
  So yeah, I'm looking at this round here, right, man, brood.
• 1:51:36
  It's it's actually pretty wild round.
• 1:51:38
  I know we're going to get a little off track here.
• 1:51:39
  I know we're up on it, but Saltube Olsen, Simeon Yamamoto,
• 1:51:43
  Naylor Seger Nola and Pete Alonso.
• 1:51:48
  So mixed bag right there. And that's why I say it's really
• 1:51:52
  tough to value guys where you drafted him at this point of the
• 1:51:54
  season. But now, because I feel like
• 1:51:57
  there's so much drastic change that's happened since Corey
• 1:52:01
  Seger's definitely a guy that when he's healthy, I wanted my
• 1:52:04
  team, but when he's not, it's a headache because again,
• 1:52:08
  shortstop's a really tough position to fill.
• 1:52:11
  And Phil and Corey Seeger's shoes are also really tough. 2.6
• 1:52:14
  points or a shortstop is really good.
• 1:52:17
  Right, All right. I think we only got like a
• 1:52:20
  couple more. Minutes, I know.
• 1:52:23
  Let's just try to rush. Next up, you talked about Trey
• 1:52:27
  Terry in a shortstop. He's 95% moan.
• 1:52:31
  Kind of rough week only give you 3 points, right?
• 1:52:33
  7 strikeouts and 25 at bats. Overall 299, two homers, 14
• 1:52:38
  ribbies, 10 stolen bases, 34 strikeouts.
• 1:52:40
  He's giving you 2.3 a start. Solid numbers.
• 1:52:44
  Nowhere near you thought what you expected when you drafted
• 1:52:46
  him. McCain, he was probably drafted
• 1:52:47
  pretty high. He was actually kept in our
• 1:52:49
  league. So I think what made him an
• 1:52:52
  appealing shortstop is similar to Seeger is that his ability to
• 1:52:55
  hit home runs. He always had that sneaky power.
• 1:52:58
  But unlike sneaker Seeger, he can also steal.
• 1:53:00
  So that makes him, I think a little more better, a little
• 1:53:05
  more better, a little more someone you'd probably want more
• 1:53:07
  than a, a Seger type just to offset some of those numbers.
• 1:53:12
  But I, I, I still like him. I think you could get him for
• 1:53:14
  someone that was drafted later. If he doesn't turn it around
• 1:53:17
  like he did the second-half of last year.
• 1:53:19
  If he does end up turning it around, then it's a steal.
• 1:53:22
  Just again, no, he's a year older.
• 1:53:24
  And at some point you have to be realistic and know that, you
• 1:53:26
  know, those home runs and those stolen bases are going to stop.
• 1:53:30
  Yeah, I agree with everything you just said.
• 1:53:31
  I think really this is a guy that you should target shortstop
• 1:53:34
  if we don't have one. You can get him at an affordable
• 1:53:37
  price right now I think without breaking the bank all.
• 1:53:41
  Right. And then last but not least,
• 1:53:45
  this is a pitcher. We had talked about him earlier.
• 1:53:48
  We were bringing him back. This is a good buy low
• 1:53:51
  candidate. Cole Ragans, he's 97.7%.
• 1:53:55
  I know he only gave you 1.4 points last start.
• 1:53:57
  He went O 115 innings, 8 KS, two walks, 4 earned overall, not
• 1:54:02
  really good. I mean he's giving you 10 points
• 1:54:04
  a start, but he's two and two. He's got a four, 2 ERA, you
• 1:54:08
  know, 65 strikeouts and 40 innings.
• 1:54:10
  That's a saving grace I think. His last eight starts the guy's
• 1:54:13
  only pitched 6 plus innings twice.
• 1:54:15
  He gave you 5567 and 2 thirds. 4355 not what you'd expect.
• 1:54:21
  Some not what you'd expect, right?
• 1:54:24
  This was again someone that was drafted at 4th round in our
• 1:54:26
  league. So I think owners might be
• 1:54:28
  looking to move on, especially those that are losing weeks by,
• 1:54:31
  you know, 10 points or less. You, you want to look for a
• 1:54:33
  change. You try to shake up your line
• 1:54:35
  up. This is a guy you know, why not?
• 1:54:38
  This is someone you could probably get for like a decent
• 1:54:40
  pitcher, A2 for one pitcher bat, you know, a decent bat, a decent
• 1:54:44
  pitcher, 2 for one. I think his numbers are better
• 1:54:47
  than what they look like. He might.
• 1:54:50
  Here's the thing though, like, you know, let's last year was
• 1:54:54
  the year they took the training wheels off.
• 1:54:55
  He pitched a career high 186 innings.
• 1:54:57
  So prior to that it was 40 innings, then it was 96 innings.
• 1:55:01
  So he doubled his output from his career high.
• 1:55:05
  So I think you could be seeing on fatigue, you know, he could
• 1:55:08
  be a Robbie Ray type, which on his strikeouts and a a high ERA,
• 1:55:14
  you know, a high low 4, high three.
• 1:55:17
  I think in any case, I'd still buy low on them.
• 1:55:19
  But just keep in mind that that innings increase was so
• 1:55:22
  substantial it it would maybe scare me away from offering
• 1:55:26
  someone a little better than what I would offer.
• 1:55:29
  Yeah, I think the innings increase with me, if I did have
• 1:55:31
  Cole Ragans, the innings increase from last year, from
• 1:55:34
  the year prior going into this year would want me to make me
• 1:55:37
  sell him to this point. And if you can still get a
• 1:55:40
  couple of decent pieces back, I know it's a buy low candidate,
• 1:55:43
  but maybe it's to the point where maybe I would be with Cole
• 1:55:46
  Ragans, where maybe I just want to move away from him just
• 1:55:48
  because there's a lot that, you know, a lot of baseball left.
• 1:55:52
  You don't want to have a guy on your team have his arm fall off.
• 1:55:56
  And you know, Cole Ragans has that potential, unfortunately,
• 1:56:00
  just because that's a big gap. We saw it with Tana Hulk last
• 1:56:04
  year going back more innings. So yeah, I'm a little on the
• 1:56:09
  fence for Cole. But you know, I totally get it.
• 1:56:11
  I get it. I get it both ways.
• 1:56:14
  Awesome, man. Well, that is actually the
• 1:56:16
  perfect timing, my man. We wrapped it up.
• 1:56:18
  We ended, we ended quick. Yeah.
• 1:56:21
  So we we had an opportunity to go run the league, talk about
• 1:56:24
  some big stuff that was going on, some huge IL stints that'll
• 1:56:29
  probably definitely hurt your fantasy team.
• 1:56:31
  A lot of, you know, over 90 plus own players got hurt and, and
• 1:56:36
  hopefully that's a trend that'll end soon and talked about some
• 1:56:40
  buy, buy low, sell high, who was hot and who wasn't.
• 1:56:45
  So, you know, we'll be back next week.
• 1:56:49
  Same information, different players.
• 1:56:51
  We'll we'll discuss and breakdown and see how those buy
• 1:56:56
  high, sell high buy low players actually panned out if you did.
• 1:57:02
  And yeah, that's it. I mean, you can catch this
• 1:57:04
  episode tomorrow. It's going to be on New England
• 1:57:06
  streaming sports on Roku. So for Mikey V, I'm Doug.
• 1:57:11
  This is bourbon and ball, right? We'll see you guys next week.
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  Finish up your drink, go to bed. Or you can catch a Logan Webb
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