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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.
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  Now 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 the other side on all
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  fantasy baseball news. As 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.
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  Year, 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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  All. guys, that's it.
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  This is bourbon and ball. Hold on one second.
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  I got to set up our stream. Think you muted?
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  All right, you got me now I'm I'm like pulling up the the
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  recordings for Patriot Radio while I'm I'm talking.
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  So I'm not paying attention to all this stuff that's going on.
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  Silly me. So yeah, it's bourbon and Bald
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  Man Show 44 coming. You do.
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  I'm, I'm in the man cave. I'm on the other side of The
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  Cave over here. Mikey VS down at Clearwater, FL
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  Man, what a week of baseball. What a ton of information and
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  fun videos that we have for you this week.
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  A lot of stuff going on. Yeah.
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  So this is bourbon and ball. Everybody's going to say, well,
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  why bourbon? Why ball?
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  Well, we like to sip bourbon. And, you know, I'm sipping out
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  of our, our bourbon and ball bourbon glasses right here and I
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  hope whoever's watching has a, has a nice little cocktail or
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  something for themselves. And of course, we talk fantasy
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  baseball for two hours. So we get pretty in depth.
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  We talk about our, we've been doing fantasy baseball for over
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  20 years now. It's an ESPN points league.
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  So a lot of the information that we give you are via our points
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  league information. But if you're a, you know, top
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  ten, top 15 player pitcher in a points league, chances are you
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  are the same in a cat's league pretty much.
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  It's when once you get out of like the top 25 is when you
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  start really splitting the hairs on that stuff.
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  So yeah, we've been doing it for 20 years.
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  And like I said, it's a head to head points league.
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  And of course, with that said, we're coming to you from MBR
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  Radio. We're coming to you from Patriot
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  Radio, where Roku via Patriot Radio, NPR Radio, and we're
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  simulcasting. You catch this again Saturday at
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  Roku via New England Streaming Sports.
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  And of course, with that said, a lot of military affiliation
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  because we're using a lot of military platforms.
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  I myself was a paratrooper for over six years.
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  I've jumped to Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and I was a
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  combat veteran in Afghanistan in 2011 to 2012.
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  Yeah, my father was in the Air Force or in Vietnam War let.
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  Me. I can't hear you, Mike.
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  Oh no, you can't hear me. Really.
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  How about now? Let.
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  Me, see if I can. Let me see if I can hook you up.
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  Man, you unmuted me. OK, you're good.
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  I got nothing. Really, I don't know.
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  I don't know what's going on at my end.
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  I thought I didn't click anything there.
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  I can't hear it. What were you saying?
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  Mikey V is experiencing some technical difficulties.
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  He's going to be with us in probably a couple more seconds.
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  Like I said, unfortunately we have a lot of stuff going on
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  this week and he's a busy man so he cut up some slack, but what's
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  back on? We are going to go around the
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  league. Mikey V.
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  You got me now. I got you brother back.
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  Whoof. Military affiliation shoot.
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  Well, father was Air Force during the Vietnam War and my
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  grandfather was a paramedic during World War 2, so a lot of
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  affiliates in my family as well. Doug.
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  Awesome. That's good stuff.
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  So we have a ton of stuff to go through.
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  I'm hoping we get through it all.
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  Yeah, you want to start, you want to just hop on and go
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  around the league real quick. Let's just go around the league
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  real quick. Let's see what we got here.
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  All right, man, We're to lead off first and foremost.
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  Let's talk about Diamondbacks third baseman Eugene Suarez.
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  Eugeno Suarez as they pronounce it.
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  So Saturday night, last Saturday, he against the Braves,
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  he became just a 19th player in MLB history to do this.
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  And I'm going to show you and I'm sure you all know what it
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  is, but I'm going to add it to the stage.
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  Take a look at this video. He hits 1 high and deep to left
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  field. Are you handy?
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  Suarez gets the Diamondbacks on the board.
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  Suarez fly ball left field. It's going, it's going and it's
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  gone. There's a little bit more up in
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  the zone. Suarez.
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  It's another fly ball. Oh my Gino. 3 bats and three
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  home runs. The trifecta for Suarez.
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  Last week. Was it best?
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  This week have been terrific. Suarez live ball, There's 4.
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  Edward Tied. There have been 19 four Homer
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  games in Major League history, the last two by the Arizona
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  Diamondbacks. Man, what a game for him.
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  Unfortunately, something tells me that he was probably not on a
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  ton of rosters, right? Because this is what he does.
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  You know, just to mention, three of those home runs were off of
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  Grant Holmes. Who is probably not going to
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  last that much longer than that rotation he's going against the
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  Dodgers. He did have a pretty good first
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  and 2nd inning. They were clean, but I think he
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  had a couple runners on the top of the third.
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  So I'll keep a track on that. But I mean, you know, this is
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  the type of player Eugeno Suarez is, right?
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  I mean, you look at the year sitting 202, he's got 10 home
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  runs. He's got 20 ribbies, 17 runs,
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  one stolen base and he's got 30 strikeouts, right?
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  He's got 83 total points. So he's giving you 3.1 a start,
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  but he kills you for a few weeks and then this, right, he goes on
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  a binge to begin the season with five home runs in four games.
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  It's 4 now, so that's nine. So he's got 10 home runs.
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  He hit you nine home runs in two weeks.
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  So the last, you know, 2 1/2 weeks before he hit these four
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  home runs, he was hitting under 200, right?
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  187, almost 150. Horrible and a lot.
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  And that's just the type of player he is.
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  You're going to live and you're going to die with Eugeno Suarez,
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  without a doubt. Yeah, look, he's a, he's a Major
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  League Baseball player, no doubt.
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  You know, fantasy aside, you know, from a he's not a 4A
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  player, he's not a AAA player. He, he's a true Major League
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  Baseball player. That's why he got the contract.
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  He did when he got it. From a fantasy perspective
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  though, you know, category league, he does check some boxes
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  there. So there's power, there's some
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  RBIs, but like you said, mostly in point leagues, he can kill
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  you for two or three weeks and then he can win you a week.
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  But really those aren't the guys that you want to consistently
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  have in your line UPS. But at the same time though, you
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  know, it's risky out there at third base of time, so you're
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  going to have to take a risk for some people.
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  I mean, with the Arizona Diamondback line up, the way
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  they have it right now, that's guy I would want to take a risk
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  on if I really needed a 3rd baseman, maybe a Josh Young,
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  right? But yeah, it's cool.
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  Feet four home runs. Not a lot of people do that,
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  right? That's pretty dope.
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  That's that's special. And like you said it it it's a
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  line up that's getting better. Quinto Marte back from the IL
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  today, he was one for one right away.
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  He got a hit as first at bat. Love to hear.
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  The only thing again, like they have him batting lead off,
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  right, Corbin Carroll's second, it's the line up is just, it's
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  very odd. Like the way they set that up.
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  I, I don't particularly like it. I, you know, I like a set line
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  up. I say these are you guys.
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  I understand moving to mix in a couple people, but you know, I
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  think the top of your order is the top of your order.
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  So I don't necessarily agree with that.
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  You know, I think now they moved Eugenio Suarez up, he's batting
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  like third or or 4th. And then you got Josh Naylor
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  batting after him. So Naylor's really got no
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  protection in that line up. It's tough.
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  I mean, they're still 17 and 14. They're three games above.
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  They're in the talk. They're in the hunt.
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  It's very competitive NLNLW. It'll be interesting to see what
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  happens. You know, you know, Gallon look
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  good against the Mets. Yeah, sounds ahead, looks great.
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  You know, that's what you want to see.
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  I just, I don't know what to expect from them.
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  I, I mean, I know what to expect from Eugenio Suarez.
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  Probably around 2:40 at the end of the year.
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  Maybe 220. All right, Thirty home runs.
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  Yeah, maybe 2.62 point 5, maybe. Maybe less.
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  I don't, you know, he's already got 30 strikeouts. 30 strikeouts
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  a month. That's thirty.
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  I was thinking the same thing when you said that that's at
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  least a strikeout for a game. But if you're getting thirty
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  home runs, though, that's pretty good from a guy that really is
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  going to strike out a lot. He's going to at least get some
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  of that rebound back. But like you said earlier, he
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  doesn't steal a lot of bases. So there's not a lot of
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  opportunity to get that rebound points back.
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  So it's just kind of tough. It's tough with him.
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  You you you won't guys 60. I say that every week.
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  You know, I try not to beat such a knock, but you got to call a
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  spade a spade. I totally agree.
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  All right, let's move on. Let's let's do the Yankees.
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  There's a lot of stuff going on with the Yankees as you know,
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  right? They closed with Devin Williams.
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  He's been taking out close a role after getting, I mean, he
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  was over 2 at 1125 ERA. He did have 4 saves, but he only
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  gave you a points lead, 6.84 points on the year, 6 points on
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  the year. That's not good.
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  It's it's tough and and honestly, it's, it's kind of
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  getting worse for them. I I mean, their bullpen isn't as
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  good as they thought it would be.
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  You're drafting a guy who you thought would be a top five
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  closer who's not even a top 50 closer, I think.
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  And now they're making moves and put and Stanton is going to go
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  to the they moved him to the 60 day IL.
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  So it tells me he's not going to be ready till who knows, right?
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  I mean, they talked about maybe halfway through the year, then
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  they talk about maybe the whole year he might be out.
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  So they that's all up in the air on top of that.
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  But they have been some good parts to that team, right?
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  Aaron Judge, Max Reed were named AL pitcher and AL player of the
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  month for April. And let's let's just give some
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  positivity for the Yankees. They they were the first MLB
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  team to hit 3 consecutive home runs to start a start a game off
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  in the year and they did it twice.
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  So the first team to do it twice to start a game, 33 hitters,
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  three home runs back-to-back to back twice so far.
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  And it's a month in, right. I got that clip for you.
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  Let me play that because I just love watching home runs.
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  This is I want to say, yeah, this is this was Tuesday.
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  This was against Kyle Gibson, who has fallen and it's just
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  supposed to show you how how much the Orioles have sank to
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  start a guy like Gibson in my opinion.
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  But here is here's the video. High 5 ball, right field and
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  deep. Gloriano turns, looks.
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  See ya, he's done it again. Red hot shrink.
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  Grisham gives the Yankees a run. Anger high fly ball right field
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  Loriano back track wall see ya. The Yankees open up with
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  back-to-back blast, they lead to nothing.
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  Driven out to right field, Loriano back turning looking see
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  ya. Nope.
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  They say Stanen no and he's gone a home run.
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  So back-to-back to back by the Yankees.
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  They're up 3, nothing. The only difference we've seen
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  this once before this year is it took five pitches instead of
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  three. So listen, I no one ever said
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  that we're going to hit right. And and just to to even put that
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  into bigger context, is Bellinger even hit a home run
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  that inning. He got five runs.
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  He hit four runs. So listen, they're no one ever
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  said that we're going to hit. They're they're a very they're
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  they're a great team, right. Their pitching is is all right.
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  I think, you know, Max Freed, they got their race.
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  I really think missing Cole for the years.
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  I mean that's a hurt. I don't care how you look at it.
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  I mean, you're telling me a rotation with Cole and Freed
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  versus Freed and Rondon. I mean you're talking that's
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  night day. In my opinion.
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  I think that's going to hurt them in the long run.
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  Obviously you can't replace an arm like like Garrett Cole, but
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  they're they're doing well. I think they're, I mean, Judge
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  is what, 35370 now Win a couple weeks without a home run but not
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  striking out like he did last year, which is good to see.
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  I they're definitely going to be in the thick of it in October.
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  You can't take that away from them.
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  No, they're a pretty streaky team, but they're they're always
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  going to be hitters on that team.
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  And surprisingly, like if you take Judge out of the equation
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  too, they're pretty relatively young team with Valpi, with Ben
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  Rice coming up last year. You know, just this first full
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  season looks like the Power's staying with him this year,
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  which is great for them to see. Even, you know, even talk of
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  Goldschmidt, you know, even for a little bit, he's hitting for
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  average. The Power's not there,
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  obviously, but he's still hitting for average for him for
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  sure. He's, I think what, still 37380?
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  It was a little more, might be like 350 now.
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  Yeah, he probably dipped a little bit there, but he still
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  had I think about 12 ribbies or so.
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  He's still contributing. So that whole lineup up and down
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  is very, very good. And they're also just kind of
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  still learning too as they're going back.
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  To your first point, though, with Devin Williams, you know,
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  we talked about the closes last week and that's just become a
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  theme a little bit with what's going on.
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  And you know, and and same on us last week, we didn't even
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  mention the good closer of Mason Miller.
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  I mean, that guy's been nailed this year.
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  He deserves and. Got another win yesterday too.
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  He he deserves the tip of the cap, you know, because that guy
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  is, he's a stud, you know, and there's a lot of guys this year
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  that are not studs. So it's just tough when you find
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  them now, it seems. Because even in free agency, in
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  fantasy, I don't see guys sticking out like thorns that
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  are just crushing it in the bullpen.
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  Feel like everyone's kind of getting knocked around a little
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  bit this year. You know, I feel like there's a
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  little bit of stuff, a shortage in closers and you know, if you
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  have points in the, you know, set up, I feel like you're
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  almost more successful doing that over a closer at times just
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  because sometimes they're just more nails in in those type of
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  situations in the 7th or 8th inning.
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  So yeah, again, Devin Williams, it's a shame.
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  It sucks. That was a big trade.
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  That was a big acquisition for him.
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  Not really working out right now.
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  Hopefully he figures it out. It's very early in the season,
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  but yeah, like you said about the rotation, rotation's going
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  to be pretty good. Freed's killing it right now.
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  Got to give him the credit for what he is right now.
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  I think he's going to get the best out of him early on in his
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  career as a Yankee than you will in the back end.
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  I think this is what you're paying for now.
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  Hopefully another playoff run is coming in place for him as well,
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  so he'll have another chance of hitting another ring like he did
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  with the Braves earlier in his career.
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  So there's a lot of good things there.
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  And just like one last note, I'm going on a little bit of right
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  here, but you did mention Garrett Cole.
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  And not for nothing, just between what we've seen the last
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  few years with guys that are getting into like their mid 30s
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  to 40s, they're not usually the same guy when they come back
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  from these injuries. You know, Garrett Cole's, this
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  is wear and tear already. Now he's going through this long
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  rehab with this Tommy John surgery again.
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  So I'm just not dead set on even him coming back as the same
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  Garrett Cole that we knew and we loved, you know, when we first
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  started this podcast like we did, because we did.
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  We did talk about Garrett Cole a lot.
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  But yeah, I, I don't know. I'm just going to probably stay
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  away from Garrett Cole the next couple years and really see if
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  he really does have it when he does come back.
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  You know, just as AI guess, a deep, deep 2027 prediction.
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  I guess I don't know, Going too far in my bag right now.
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  I mean, it's interesting for sure.
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  I think the only comparable maybe like I, I Jacob, you know,
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  degrom type right? That was someone who later on in
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  his career and he, he pitched good, he got to win his last
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  start up. I think the only difference is
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  though, if you look at innings on the arm, degrom has been hurt
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  so much that he doesn't have the innings that Garrett Cole does
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  because Garrett Cole wasn't hurt as much as him.
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  And Garrett Cole went out there and gave me almost 200 innings
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  and 200 strikeouts for like 5 years in a row, right?
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  And that's the only difference between the two.
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  So it it, it will be interesting to see how he does, how he
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  bounces back. I mean, nothing in my mind tells
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  me that he still probably won't go out of the top three rounds
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  anyways. Someone's going to dig him.
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  You think that early? I I think he's going to.
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  I think he's going to fall. I think he's going to fall.
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  If he if he if he was back at the beginning of the year,
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  because I'm I, you know, forgot he's still going to miss another
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  half year next year, right. So you're talking about maybe
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  after, after this, the break, if he came back like a like
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  Strider's doing now and you know, Strider at the beginning
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  of the year, you, I could definitely see him go third or
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  fourth round. If now that he's a half year now
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  I'm, I'm going to step back and say, well, maybe the 7th, 8th,
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  right, right around there. I mean, that's kind of where
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  right? Right around where Strider went.
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  I think that's a good evaluation there.
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  I think stride is a good, good talking point right there.
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  You know, Sandy, he was healthy in spring training.
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  He was his first of all season. Coming back this year, he fell
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  in a lot of drafts and then like right before drafts, he kind of
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  climbed up a little bit because he was looking good.
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  But I think Eric Cole is in just a different tier.
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  So like you said, I think maybe like fifth round, you know.
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  Like you said, the Grom, like you know, the Grom was kind of
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  high on draft boards this year too.
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  People had kind of a high ceiling fan I think, or
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  expectations at least. They're paying off.
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  He's paying off going six or seven.
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  They they're taking the training wheels off.
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  They're riding them. They're going to, although
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  something tells me that Texas, they're underperforming.
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  You know, Seger's on the IL Simeon's having a horrible year.
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  Someone tells. Me that you know you, I would be
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  surprised if degrom gets shut down like a month before the
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  season ends, maybe just because of the innings.
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  And they're just like, hey, listen, we're we're out of this
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  race, right? We're we're we're nowhere close
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  to it. There's no point in US putting
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  you out there. So I could I could definitely
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  see them shutting degrom down early just because it's just I
• 21:04
  mean, it's a very underperforming year for them,
• 21:07
  Although I will say Nate of ALDI is we're going to talk about him
• 21:10
  later on. He has been a a diamond on the
• 21:13
  rough for them. I want to say like, you know,
• 21:16
  they had signed they even even before the extension, like he
• 21:19
  still went out there and he I mean, yeah, he got an IL stint
• 21:24
  here or there, but he still to me overproduced his contract,
• 21:28
  overperformed his contract. I think he could be worth a lot
• 21:31
  more. And and we'll look at his
• 21:32
  numbers for this year. But even last year he still
• 21:34
  finished the top 25, top 30, you know, fantasy picture.
• 21:38
  The strikeouts are there. The the velocity's there.
• 21:41
  So that to me tells me, you know, if, if they can keep those
• 21:46
  two guys, you know, and, and I, I know Vivaldi will be back.
• 21:50
  I'm not sure if degrom has another year left on his
• 21:52
  contract. But you know, if you bring those
• 21:54
  two guys back and maybe, you know, lock up something at the
• 21:58
  end of that rotation, that offense, though, is going to
• 22:01
  need a revamp. That's that's, that's the thorn.
• 22:04
  You know, they're Dolores Garcia.
• 22:07
  That experiment's over. Unfortunately, I think you, you
• 22:11
  just get what you can for him. I mean, he's still a capable
• 22:13
  hitter. I'm not saying he's bad, just
• 22:14
  strikes out a ton. You know, Marcus Simeon and we
• 22:19
  all said Corey Seeger, right? We knew what they were getting
• 22:21
  when they signed to Corey Seeger.
• 22:22
  We knew they, he wasn't going to go out there and give you, you
• 22:26
  know, every single game or, you know, 140 games a year.
• 22:30
  We knew he wasn't going to do that.
• 22:31
  And now you're seeing it. And I don't know why it's a
• 22:35
  surprise to people that he's hitting the IL again, you know,
• 22:39
  and he's older too. So, you know, the the
• 22:41
  expectation in putting up like those, you know, World Series
• 22:46
  MVP numbers and 3:50 or whatever, they're out the
• 22:49
  window. Totally.
• 22:51
  They're going to have to make a decision, I think because their
• 22:53
  team is aging out a little bit. Degrom, I just looked up, he
• 22:57
  does have a contract club option all the way through 2028.
• 23:00
  So he's got this year, he's got next year.
• 23:03
  He's he just signed that deal. It's a five year deal.
• 23:06
  So he's going to be sticking around for a little bit.
• 23:08
  Let me pull up Corey Seeger's contract here.
• 23:10
  This is this is a 10A10 year contract that Corey Seeger's on.
• 23:14
  Yeah, I know they have him for for a while.
• 23:17
  So he's, he's on the club until 2032.
• 23:21
  So he's, he's there for forever too.
• 23:24
  So it's they committed, they're they're all in is what is what
• 23:29
  we were talking about here. So that's interesting because
• 23:33
  now if you look at these contracts and if they're all in
• 23:35
  on on Seeger, they got the ground for five years, they're
• 23:38
  kind of creating this little pocket right now.
• 23:40
  So they're going to be in, I think, talks in free agency this
• 23:45
  coming year when it comes to big name free agents, because I
• 23:49
  think they got a lot of holes that they need to fix and they
• 23:52
  have a lot of commitment to the team already at this point.
• 23:55
  So they're going to go and like you said about native ALDI too,
• 23:58
  What a hoss. He's just a hoss.
• 24:00
  He's the he is a great pitcher. He is, he is one of those guys
• 24:04
  that he's probably not going to make Hall of Fame, but he should
• 24:08
  be talked about more. You know, he's going to be like
• 24:10
  my my Derek Lee category and my Maglio Adonia's category, you
• 24:15
  know, because those guys had their moments in their careers
• 24:18
  where they were like one of the best pitchers or hitters in the
• 24:22
  league. And I think Nate, Nate Ivaldi's
• 24:25
  done enough in the in his career, I think to to prove
• 24:28
  that. So yeah, yeah, he's, he should
• 24:31
  be highlighted a little bit more.
• 24:32
  I'm glad we're going to talk about him later.
• 24:34
  Yeah, Oh, for sure. I, I have him on my in the Iron
• 24:37
  Hour Bourbon League and he's been, he's been lights out, he's
• 24:39
  been nails. Bourbon League, my team is
• 24:43
  atrocious by the way, I, I I'm taking a look at it earlier and
• 24:47
  I I might have to make some moves.
• 24:51
  So hey. Call me up.
• 24:52
  I'm. Going to I'm going to let that
• 24:54
  happen there 4. Wins in a row this week.
• 24:56
  It's it's going to be tough. I think we got the same amount
• 24:58
  of pictures. I think I'm down by like 10.
• 25:01
  So it's it's going to be it's going to be tough, but all
• 25:05
  right, let's let's move on. And this is more of just what
• 25:08
  what we've seen. This is what I've seen anyways.
• 25:11
  Blue Jays outfielder bar show, Dalton bar show, right.
• 25:16
  We all remember him. He was a he was a big prospect.
• 25:18
  Catcher came up, actually wasn't pretty bad, wasn't too bad maybe
• 25:21
  three years ago had a really good year.
• 25:23
  He went from the catcher to an outfielder now.
• 25:26
  And he played the Red Sox on Tuesday and he's been swinging a
• 25:29
  hot bat. By the way.
• 25:30
  I think he's hit like 2-2 or three home runs this week.
• 25:33
  So something to look at might be a guy you want to add, you know,
• 25:36
  just as a as a as a flyer or somebody of the filling out
• 25:40
  field, or, you know, just maybe see who they play and and start
• 25:45
  them based off match ups. Somebody to look at.
• 25:48
  But he made this play and it makes me laugh because people
• 25:52
  say it's the play of the year. People say it's not the play of
• 25:55
  the year because he did it to himself.
• 25:57
  So let me show you the video and and take a look.
• 26:02
  He is the engine of this team. I fly ball center field.
• 26:09
  Varsha's back, he falls down. Oh my goodness, did he just do
• 26:15
  that? Are you kidding me?
• 26:17
  He made the catch after falling down behind his back.
• 26:21
  Wow, a circus catch if you have ever seen one.
• 26:26
  Oh my God, that was ridiculous. The just the pure concentration.
• 26:32
  Oh my. Goodness, I mean he hits in
• 26:35
  barrel rolls somehow keeps his eye on this.
• 26:38
  Watch this. First I thought this was getting
• 26:41
  out of the ballpark. Loses his footing.
• 26:44
  How does he keep his eye on that ball and still make the backhand
• 26:48
  catch? That was unbelievable.
• 26:49
  You must be joking. Man, what a, what a catch.
• 26:56
  What a catch. I I mean, obviously you can say,
• 26:58
  well, he did it to himself. It should have just been a
• 27:00
  routine ball, but the theatrics in it, I, I think it obviously
• 27:04
  it was probably one of the best, best defensive plays so far this
• 27:07
  year. I just think like I, I want to
• 27:10
  say that might have been Loomer Loney that was on the side of
• 27:13
  that, but he would, you know, I think he was absolutely right.
• 27:18
  You know, the guy falls down, trips over his own 2 feet, rolls
• 27:22
  over, still manages to catch the ball backhanded behind him is I
• 27:26
  mean, it's a great play. That's a great play.
• 27:28
  Play of the year so far, 100%. That's just how.
• 27:33
  What else can you say about it? Oops.
• 27:35
  You have to, you have to relocate the ball again, try to
• 27:37
  catch it. That's one of the toughest
• 27:40
  things to do in sports is is look at a ball, fly ball, lose
• 27:43
  it, track it, get in position. That is even if he did it to
• 27:48
  himself, it doesn't matter. It looked awesome.
• 27:52
  So Yep, play of the year. Awesome.
• 27:55
  Well, I'm glad we both agree on that one.
• 27:57
  The next one I don't think we will agree on too much.
• 27:59
  Oh no. Astro Astani pitcher Lance
• 28:02
  Mccullers, junior, making his return to the mat.
• 28:05
  He's starting Sunday. This is going to be his first
• 28:09
  start since 2022. This is three years in the
• 28:13
  making. Has a really good year.
• 28:16
  You know, career numbers. He's 49 and 32.
• 28:19
  He's got a 3-4 ERA, seven seasons, all with Houston.
• 28:23
  But here's the thing, what's your expectation?
• 28:27
  What's your reaction? Because I know what mine are,
• 28:29
  but I'd love to hear what yours are.
• 28:30
  Because you're a Lance guy. You've been a Lance guy since
• 28:35
  since man, since forever, since he came out.
• 28:38
  You know, unfortunately he's been hurt every single year,
• 28:42
  pretty much every single year. So yeah, what's what?
• 28:47
  What's your expectations? So I'm going to take a step back
• 28:50
  here and instead of thinking from a fantasy perspective, I'm
• 28:53
  going to ask the question that you just asked to the Houston
• 28:56
  Astros and be like, what do I expect from from Lance Mccullers
• 28:59
  this year? And I expect him to eat some
• 29:02
  innings up for him, but really just not going to push it.
• 29:05
  He's not going to push it at all this year.
• 29:07
  I think he's going to go, you know, his first outing is
• 29:09
  probably going to be about 5 innings.
• 29:11
  Now he is getting stretched out. I was following his some of his
• 29:13
  rehabs. He's throwing 70 to 80 pitches
• 29:16
  in these in these games. So he is geared up to go the
• 29:19
  distance if he wants to. And I don't know, like at this
• 29:23
  point you just don't, you can't bank on a guy coming back from a
• 29:26
  surgery like that coming back to the major leagues and just being
• 29:29
  like a, a top 20 pitcher. That's just not realistic.
• 29:32
  That's just not really what you're looking for.
• 29:35
  So now kick it back to fantasy after saying all that.
• 29:38
  It's a guy that's definitely rosterable, but you're just
• 29:41
  you're just not going to play him every single week.
• 29:43
  I think you're going to have to let him obviously air out first.
• 29:46
  You're going to have to see some starts.
• 29:47
  You're going to see if he's going to stay healthy first.
• 29:49
  There's a lot of question marks there.
• 29:52
  Now. I think we've learned our lesson
• 29:54
  this year already with pitchers that are coming back from
• 29:57
  injuries and it is. It's all unfolding and we're
• 30:02
  going to talk about it more in the Hurt Locker.
• 30:05
  I'm going to hate this Hurt Logger segment because I know I
• 30:07
  got guys up there, especially one that's in the Bourbon League
• 30:11
  that that obviously we've talked about multiple times on this
• 30:15
  show. But going back to to the
• 30:17
  original point though, it's just like these guys, you just can't,
• 30:20
  you can't bank on being a top of form and moving forward.
• 30:24
  You know, a guy like Grayson Rodriguez too, coming back.
• 30:28
  I know he's young, but it's just like, man, you can't expect him
• 30:31
  to just go out there and just whip it right away for the
• 30:34
  people that are holding on to them right now.
• 30:36
  Same thing with Shane Bieber. It's like, you know, the Biebs,
• 30:38
  we love the Biebs. But at the same time, though,
• 30:40
  it's like you got a temp. Your expectation with some of
• 30:42
  these guys, again, they're going to come back later in the season
• 30:46
  and they're going to eat your innings.
• 30:47
  That's what they want. So going back to Lance, I think
• 30:50
  he's just going to be a little innings eater.
• 30:52
  Is he going to go 6 or 7 some of these games?
• 30:54
  Yeah, definitely. I think he will if he stays
• 30:56
  healthy. But in the beginning you just
• 30:58
  got to let him air out first couple starts here and there.
• 31:02
  That's my expectation. I'm going through a lot of
• 31:05
  injuries right now though with my team.
• 31:08
  So I'm not going to probably go out and get a guy that is
• 31:12
  already injury prone and and roster him along with my other
• 31:18
  injury guys already. You know, it's already been a
• 31:21
  tough year for me, Prayer for injuries when it comes to
• 31:24
  pitching for sure. So I'm just not going to go out
• 31:28
  there and take a risk on a guy now at this point and say, yeah,
• 31:31
  I'm going to roster him. I'd rather take a risk on like a
• 31:34
  a Tyler McGill that's out there right now in a lot of leagues
• 31:37
  still that's pitching for the Mets, that's pitching relatively
• 31:40
  well. He's got good metrics and stuff.
• 31:42
  So I think I'd rather go out and roster him than a guy that's
• 31:45
  coming back from a three-year injury, almost.
• 31:48
  So as much as I love you, Lance, I love you black cleats, I love
• 31:52
  I love you style. Seen you since day one.
• 31:55
  But, you know, I think this time he's going to have to hit the
• 31:57
  bench right now. See, I, I, I actually don't
• 32:02
  think he's rosterable. I wouldn't pick him up, you
• 32:05
  know, And you, you nailed it, though.
• 32:07
  You're right. You were like, well, how many
• 32:09
  pitchers have come back from these long IL stints that you're
• 32:14
  expecting to give you wins and and just kind of hop back on the
• 32:18
  saddle? But they haven't done that,
• 32:20
  right? Shane, Shane Mcculloughan from
• 32:24
  from Tampa Bay, he hasn't even gotten a chance to play yet.
• 32:27
  He got hurt during spring training, right?
• 32:29
  And he looked amazing during spring training.
• 32:33
  Sandy Alecantra, another one, right?
• 32:37
  He actually, he came out and he had really good like 2-2 or
• 32:41
  three starts, but he's been getting whacked pretty hard.
• 32:43
  The last couple, you know, Walker Buehler, he look, he got
• 32:47
  whacked his first start, turned the ship around, but you know,
• 32:49
  he's back on the IL, right? So it's like it's almost like
• 32:54
  what we always say about strikeouts, right?
• 32:57
  You can't have three or four or five guys that you know will
• 33:01
  give you 150 plus strikeouts a year, right?
• 33:04
  You can't have a team that's has Matt Olsen, that has even like a
• 33:09
  De La Cruz and AJ Rod. Like if you have three or four
• 33:13
  of those players, like, yeah, OK, their end numbers might look
• 33:16
  decent, right? You might get 30 plus home runs
• 33:18
  from Olsen. But fantasy isn't about the
• 33:23
  season. It's about the week or the day
• 33:25
  based off of your your league, based off of your format.
• 33:29
  So, yeah, hey, you know what, J Rod?
• 33:31
  And he gave me, you know, 20 plus points this week, next
• 33:35
  week. I've seen him give somebody -5
• 33:38
  points for an entire week -5 points for a week.
• 33:41
  You were better off not playing anybody, you know, but that
• 33:46
  Austin Riley, like, if you have a bunch of those people, yeah,
• 33:49
  they'll crush you. You could be the the top
• 33:51
  performer that week if they all hit.
• 33:54
  And then the very next week, you could be the lowest because they
• 33:57
  won't hit. They'll strike out and they'll
• 33:59
  drag your entire roster down with them.
• 34:01
  And I use that metaphor because I believe it's the same with
• 34:05
  injury prone pitchers. I don't think you should have a
• 34:08
  roster with three or four pitchers that you know are
• 34:13
  injury prone. Like, we don't have to hide it.
• 34:15
  We all know these guys are injury prone, right?
• 34:17
  We know Sandy's been injury prone, right?
• 34:19
  He's coming back. We know got even even I hate to
• 34:23
  say, but Strider is injury prone now.
• 34:25
  I mean he got hurt even before the Tommy John like he had a
• 34:28
  hamstring issue. He was on he was out for like a
• 34:30
  couple months two years ago. Then he comes back pitches
• 34:34
  pitches a good start hurt hamstring.
• 34:37
  I think again, right, it was hamstring or lat and now he's
• 34:41
  out. But it's you like it.
• 34:45
  You can't have rosters like a four or five of these type of
• 34:49
  players because they'll they'll kill you.
• 34:52
  And I think Lance Mccullers hasn't really shown me, you
• 34:56
  know, anything maybe like in 2001 or 2 or 2020 or 2021 when
• 35:04
  he first came on, you know, his first or second year, he ended
• 35:07
  it great. I think he ended up winning
• 35:08
  like, you know, 10 or 12 games that year and, and you know,
• 35:12
  because they called them up, pitched amazing.
• 35:15
  And then everybody started drafting them early and that's
• 35:17
  when all those injuries started happening.
• 35:20
  I don't think I would, I don't think I would draft.
• 35:21
  I don't think I would take a flyer on him.
• 35:23
  I, I wouldn't roster him. I, you know, I just, you know,
• 35:27
  you wait and see. You know, obviously the thing
• 35:30
  about that is let's wait and see.
• 35:32
  But then while you're waiting, somebody else is going to scoop
• 35:34
  them up and maybe they can reap those benefits.
• 35:36
  And you might not. But you also got to say to
• 35:39
  yourself, well, you know, let him pick him up and if he gets
• 35:41
  hurt again, well, then hey, I made the right move.
• 35:44
  There's so many different ways to look at it, but I just, I, I
• 35:47
  don't know if I would take a roster spot on him.
• 35:50
  Really don't. Not right now anyways.
• 35:52
  No, and honestly, you just kind of have to go with it too.
• 35:55
  You just kind of have to just be like, hey, this is what I truly
• 35:58
  believe in. Like we're talking about here.
• 36:00
  You just got to trust your instincts on it.
• 36:02
  And then when that person does pick them up and then they kind
• 36:05
  of just go South, maybe like we kind of thought then it's like,
• 36:08
  hey, look at that. No harm, no foul there.
• 36:09
  I'm glad I picked up Tyler McGill.
• 36:12
  You know, you never know. That's that's kind of the
• 36:14
  difference sometimes is, oh man, I just missed out on that guy or
• 36:19
  well, I missed out on this guy. I'll get this guy instead and
• 36:22
  maybe it works out for you. But yeah, I mean, depending on
• 36:26
  the league you're in, if it's the deeper league, I guess he's,
• 36:29
  you know, a flyer guy, you know, maybe week to week guy.
• 36:34
  But yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens.
• 36:36
  And I, I will say I know we're talking about Goldie.
• 36:39
  He just had a three run shot. And he was due.
• 36:43
  He was due. He's.
• 36:44
  He's, I'm telling you, he wasn't a bad pick.
• 36:46
  You got him really, really late, cut down on the strikeouts.
• 36:50
  He looks, you know, this is the sunset, I think for his career.
• 36:55
  So, you know, not a Hall of Famer unfortunately for me, but
• 37:00
  he's on the cusp. There's no doubt about it.
• 37:02
  Then former MVP. It's just unfortunate that when
• 37:06
  he went to the Cardinals, they didn't really give him much
• 37:09
  ammo. I mean, Arenado they got, but
• 37:11
  then it was there was nobody else in that line up.
• 37:13
  So kind of hurt his numbers, I think.
• 37:17
  And then last but not least, we have Guardians third baseman
• 37:20
  Jose Ramirez sets the team record with 250 stolen bases.
• 37:24
  He also had one today. So he's got 251.
• 37:28
  Good chance he'll get the 300, in my opinion.
• 37:31
  Maybe the 3:50, you know, still in his early 30s.
• 37:34
  I want to say he's maybe 31. So he still has time.
• 37:38
  I mean, he's him. He's on a Hall of Fame path for
• 37:41
  me. But again, I mean, a lot of guys
• 37:44
  are and then they hit that, you know, 3231 age and that's when
• 37:49
  you start to see that separation between a true Hall of Famer and
• 37:53
  a pretend. So he's on that cusp where he
• 37:56
  can go either way. And obviously, you know,
• 37:59
  starting the year off a little slower than usual like he did
• 38:01
  last year, but he's still stealing bases.
• 38:04
  So unfortunately, the Guardians, they just, they don't, they're
• 38:09
  not much. They're there, They're there.
• 38:11
  That's it. Yeah, they have an attraction in
• 38:14
  in Jose Ramirez. We we were talking in our group
• 38:17
  chat earlier this week about Jose Ramirez and Sean.
• 38:21
  Sean was kind of dunking on him a little bit.
• 38:24
  And I, I pulled up the numbers. I think I even screenshotted
• 38:27
  him. I put him in the chat and it was
• 38:29
  almost like looking in a mirror where he was to this point
• 38:33
  versus what he was last year. And I think he worked out pretty
• 38:37
  well last year. Other thing with Jose Ramirez
• 38:40
  too, is that he doesn't get injured like his his career.
• 38:43
  He's been relatively healthy. He hasn't had any like crazy
• 38:47
  major issues, you know, knock on wood, obviously, but.
• 38:50
  You know, I, I, I, I do have to say he was pulled from the game
• 38:54
  today for a pitch runner. He was 2 for two and when he hit
• 39:01
  his second single, they pulled him for a runner.
• 39:05
  So, OK, obviously some kind of injury, right?
• 39:11
  Like hopefully it's just like cramp but I mean going around
• 39:15
  lately, but. Can't say it was a jinx when it
• 39:18
  already happened, right? I mean we what a terrible thing,
• 39:23
  but still. A stud.
• 39:24
  Still a stud, hands down. I mean previous to that he's
• 39:28
  been pretty relatively healthy. So I'd like again, the moving
• 39:33
  forward, I expect nothing less from him.
• 39:35
  By that I mean, Kendall Marte is, is about 33 years old too.
• 39:39
  He's he's, you know, swinging the bat pretty well for his age
• 39:42
  too, you know, And he's kind of like that same similar size too,
• 39:46
  kind of a little bit shorter. It's got a little bit bump to
• 39:49
  him, you know, a little durability to him, like kind of
• 39:52
  similar players too. They kind of have the same
• 39:54
  element of game. But yeah, I don't expect Jose
• 39:59
  Bears to slow down and I think he is on the right projectile to
• 40:02
  be a Hall of Famer regardless of who he's playing with and what
• 40:05
  he's doing. If you got the numbers, you got
• 40:07
  the numbers. That's what we always talk
• 40:09
  about. That's what everyone looks at at
• 40:10
  the end of the day. So he is going to probably have
• 40:13
  the numbers to get there because in modern day baseball, to have
• 40:17
  as many stolen bases and home runs as he does, as he's
• 40:20
  projecting to get to, it's, it's rare company.
• 40:23
  It's good company to be in. Yeah, I totally agree.
• 40:28
  All right, so that ends all around the league and now we'll
• 40:32
  we'll dive right into the hurt locker because this this again
• 40:35
  might take up some time. So we might have to move this
• 40:37
  we're we're already 40 minutes in.
• 40:39
  We haven't even gotten to the meet the.
• 40:42
  Meet the. Advertisers right now, man.
• 40:45
  All right. I have 10 players on this list.
• 40:56
  I'm going to split it up. I'm going to go 5 and 5.
• 40:59
  All right, I'll, I'll break down 5.
• 41:01
  Mike, you can come in and, and, you know, do your spiel, talk
• 41:06
  about some of them. Some you think are probably more
• 41:09
  important than others. And then I'll, I'll list the
• 41:11
  other five. Then we'll take a break and
• 41:12
  we'll start getting the good stuff.
• 41:13
  So let me start off and then yeah, we'll just, we'll just
• 41:17
  keep moving first and foremost. And I did make this list
• 41:21
  yesterday, but I did update it. So I will, I did add the updates
• 41:24
  to them because a lot of these people were day-to-day and a lot
• 41:27
  of the tests came back today. And most of them I, I, I think
• 41:31
  all of them hit the IL for the most part.
• 41:34
  Some of them are tough. Here's one Diamondbacks, a
• 41:36
  relief pitcher, Justin Martinez. He was day-to-day with a
• 41:39
  shoulder issue. His fastball, which sat at 100.4
• 41:43
  miles an hour from opening day to April 23rd, dropped to 92.7
• 41:49
  on Sunday. Then it dropped to 93.5 on
• 41:52
  Wednesday. It doesn't sound good, whatever
• 41:55
  the issue is. So Fast forward to today.
• 41:58
  He is on the 15 day IL. He had shoulder inflammation.
• 42:02
  He's 1 and 110 innings pitched, 11 strikeouts, six walks, 3
• 42:06
  saves, 3 holds, 27 ERA, 42.9 points, 3.6 to start.
• 42:13
  I do think it's surprising to see a 270 ERA considering
• 42:16
  Wednesday against the Mets, he did not record a single out and
• 42:20
  that's when they pulled him because of the injury.
• 42:21
  He gave up two walks, a hit and two earned.
• 42:23
  And his ERA is still a 27 on the year.
• 42:25
  All right. And he he was in line to take
• 42:28
  over that closest role for them. I think when he comes back, if
• 42:30
  he can prove he's healthy, they'll they'll probably just
• 42:33
  give it to them as they should. Baltimore second third baseman
• 42:36
  Jordan Westberg hit the 10 day IL.
• 42:38
  He's got a lot of hamstring strain.
• 42:40
  They're looking at a mid-May return for him.
• 42:44
  All right, numbers not what you expect.
• 42:45
  You know, 217, four home runs, six ribbies, 12 runs, no stolen
• 42:49
  bases, 22 strikeouts. It's only giving it 35 points,
• 42:53
  1.5 a start. But on the flip side, before he
• 42:56
  did get hurt, he was hitting 385.
• 42:58
  He was five. He had five hits and 13 at bat.
• 43:01
  So in three games look like maybe he was starting to turn a
• 43:04
  corner. Unfortunately, he he didn't he
• 43:07
  didn't make the turn. Cubs starting pitcher showed a
• 43:11
  he's day-to-day. He's got a leg cramp.
• 43:14
  His next start wasn't questioned.
• 43:16
  I think they're going to start him.
• 43:17
  He's going to go out there and make it.
• 43:18
  Just something to look at. Obviously they want to keep him
• 43:22
  in from six to seven innings, but if the issue reoccurs, they
• 43:25
  might just pull him early. No sense in having him hurt.
• 43:28
  He's 3 and 139 innings pitched, 30 strikeouts, 13 walks at 270
• 43:33
  RA, 90 points, 12.9 a start. That's what you want.
• 43:37
  That is exactly what you want from a starting pitcher.
• 43:41
  I got a couple more, let me two more.
• 43:43
  Cincinnati outfielder Austin Hayes, which was a good pick up.
• 43:46
  I actually picked him up and had him in my line up for a couple
• 43:48
  weeks. He, he was day-to-day MRI was on
• 43:55
  his hamstring. So it's, he did hit the IL
• 43:57
  literally right before the pitch and at 7:00 they put him on the
• 44:01
  10 day. He was having a great year.
• 44:04
  Just coming back. It was only in three weeks.
• 44:07
  He, he put 60 points together in three weeks, which is crazy. 4.7
• 44:10
  to start, he hit 365. He had five home runs, 13
• 44:14
  ribbies, 15 runs, a stolen base, 13 strikeouts and 52 at bats.
• 44:19
  Not too shabby for him. So I I love what Cincinnati's
• 44:22
  doing. I think it's a great line up.
• 44:24
  And then last before I let you cut in, Mike, I know next week
• 44:28
  Ragan's was day-to-day with pending test.
• 44:31
  It seems it's a groin injury, which will probably cost him his
• 44:35
  next start. All the information I read seems
• 44:38
  like early next week you should be go to go.
• 44:40
  Good to go. But they're still going to wait
• 44:41
  to hear. Still don't know what's going on
• 44:44
  with that one and one. 30 innings, 46 strikeouts, nine
• 44:48
  walks, a full 4 ERA, giving you 12612.6 to start, 75 points and
• 44:54
  then to stay on the Kansas City train.
• 44:57
  Salvador Perez, the catcher, is day-to-day.
• 44:58
  He had a hip injury. He was pulled from the lineup
• 45:00
  yesterday. So I think they're just going to
• 45:04
  let him sit. It doesn't look like anything
• 45:05
  too serious, but they'll throw him back in probably.
• 45:07
  I want to say the start of maybe Monday.
• 45:09
  Well, I wouldn't be surprised if they sent him for the weekend,
• 45:11
  but we'll see. Or they might let him DH Sunday,
• 45:14
  who knows. Man, a lot of good stuff there.
• 45:19
  I mean, let's start where he just ended.
• 45:20
  Let's let's start with Cole Ragans.
• 45:22
  I think that's probably the biggest name out of this list
• 45:24
  that you just said. I think he's going to be OK.
• 45:28
  I think he's going to be fine. And I think from a fantasy
• 45:31
  perspective, this is a guy that you can probably buy low right
• 45:34
  now. Came off an All Star year last
• 45:37
  year, pretty stellar year. He was kind of the breakout guy
• 45:43
  last year. We kind of people kind of had
• 45:45
  him pegged already as a sleeper last year, Did the breakout
• 45:48
  because what he did at the end of the previous year.
• 45:51
  But he's got like a four 4 ERA right now and he's going to be
• 45:55
  coming back from an injury. He's going to be playing for a
• 45:57
  pretty good ballclub. He's going to be competitive.
• 45:59
  He's supposed to be their ace. So I think if you can, if you if
• 46:03
  you have a a team that you can trade with and they have Cole
• 46:06
  Ragans, I think you can get a pretty good deal on him right
• 46:09
  now just because of the injury. But I feel like that shouldn't
• 46:12
  spook you from making a deal just because it does sound like
• 46:14
  he is going to miss one start, right?
• 46:17
  Doesn't sound that bad at all. Yeah.
• 46:20
  The other guy that I want to talk about real quick is Jordan
• 46:24
  Westford. Man, this is a guy that was
• 46:28
  coming back from an injury. We thought he was going to be
• 46:30
  the dude. He was my dude last year.
• 46:31
  You know that, Doug. You were an eye on him, man.
• 46:34
  He was second, third base eligible like he was and he was
• 46:37
  hitting the ball really well. He ended up being an All Star
• 46:40
  last year too. Another guy, what am I looking
• 46:43
  at here? He had eighteen home runs, 63
• 46:45
  RBIs. This year so far, he's only got
• 46:47
  four home runs. He's got 6 RBIs.
• 46:49
  So the RBIs are not coming in right now.
• 46:51
  Sounds like a lot of solo shots if you ask me.
• 46:54
  Sounds like almost probably all of his RBIs probably came from
• 46:57
  the the home run, to be honest. Very good possibility.
• 47:02
  But yeah, not not too hot right now.
• 47:04
  Obviously going on to the injured list.
• 47:06
  You probably drafted him in leagues, you know, not Lolo, you
• 47:11
  know, you probably drafted them where people drafted like Matt
• 47:14
  McClain, give or take, you know, two guys that were coming back
• 47:17
  that played infield multiple positions.
• 47:21
  And, you know, honestly, they're both not playing that great.
• 47:24
  Matt Mcclain's kind of striking out a time and and doing some
• 47:27
  things, but he had to pick probably between between one of
• 47:30
  those two guys to be maybe a, you know, a corner fielder or
• 47:34
  maybe an middle infielder. But yeah, it's just not going to
• 47:38
  work with him this year. You know, I'd rather just drop
• 47:40
  him, pick up someone else, take a, take a flyer on someone else.
• 47:44
  I mean, he's really hot right now, but like a guy like Polanco
• 47:47
  for Seattle, We're going to talk about him in a second.
• 47:49
  I know. But he's just kind of, you know,
• 47:52
  on a on a tear right now. I'd rather take a flyer on maybe
• 47:55
  one of those type of guys, not him.
• 47:58
  Obviously he broke out already. But, you know, I'd rather go to
• 48:01
  the free agent pool at this point rather than just have
• 48:03
  Jordan Westberg on my bench and then Austin Hayes, you know, tip
• 48:07
  the captain. Austin, man, what a stud he was
• 48:10
  going into the into this week. You know, the injury is
• 48:13
  unfortunate. But man, I do like what
• 48:16
  Cincinnati's doing. I know they had a hard time
• 48:18
  against Saint Louis. They had that double hitter what
• 48:22
  Wednesday? And I think they almost got shut
• 48:25
  out both games. I think it was like 6 to
• 48:27
  nothing. Then it was like 9 to one or
• 48:29
  something. It was, it wasn't pretty.
• 48:31
  But when they are on all cylinders, though, they are a
• 48:34
  really good baseball team and it's a very long season.
• 48:37
  We're only a month into this. You know, we do have some stats
• 48:40
  now that we can kind of backfill and, you know, obviously good
• 48:43
  talking points for us just to to have the show.
• 48:46
  But now you've got the now you've got the the scope of what
• 48:50
  kind of what teams are masked of, you know, what are they
• 48:53
  going to be relying on? Austin Hayes is one of those
• 48:55
  guys where right-handed bat, he's going to be facing a lot of
• 48:58
  left-handed pitching. The way he was bringing the bat,
• 49:01
  he was going to be playing almost every day almost at that
• 49:03
  point until the injury. But I mean, man, what a great
• 49:08
  guy to have on like a daily roster, you know, even on a
• 49:11
  weekly team he's been great. But like on a daily team, to
• 49:14
  know that Austin Hayes is in your line up and he's he's been
• 49:17
  raking. It's just I think a little
• 49:19
  nostalgic too, because he's been around the block a little bit at
• 49:22
  this point in his career. And now he's kind of found a
• 49:24
  nice little home now he's a little bit older now too.
• 49:27
  So it's kind of it's just nice to see those guys still, still
• 49:29
  hanging around. Former Baltimore Oriole,
• 49:31
  remember? And that see, that's what that
• 49:34
  was going to be my point about Westberg and the Orioles as a as
• 49:38
  a team, right? I mean, we talked about it last
• 49:41
  week. It's like you talk about like
• 49:43
  underperforming, right? Not only are like
• 49:45
  underperforming, but they didn't they didn't sign anybody.
• 49:49
  They had Austin Hayes, you know, Santa Air, you know, obviously
• 49:53
  he's not, he's not producing like he hit 41 home runs last
• 49:56
  year. But who's to say he he'd be
• 49:59
  having the same numbers if they resigned him, You know what I
• 50:01
  mean? No one knows.
• 50:01
  We can't go down that path because we could come up with
• 50:04
  what ifs all day. But the point is they lose 2
• 50:08
  bats and they don't resign anybody.
• 50:11
  I don't think it was, it was smart to, to say, hey, these
• 50:16
  young guys are ready. I don't, I mean, they, that's
• 50:18
  what they did. They put their balls in the
• 50:19
  basket and said, hey, we got young guys.
• 50:21
  Let's just give them every day at bats.
• 50:23
  I don't think that was the right idea.
• 50:24
  They were really young. You know, you're talking about
• 50:26
  21, not 20 years old. Yeah, I, I get give them a
• 50:31
  couple at bats here and there, but full time starts aren't, you
• 50:35
  know, it just not, it's not what to do.
• 50:38
  And without replacing a big bat, you know, a 41 home run bat,
• 50:42
  your entire offense is, is struggling and you're looking at
• 50:45
  it, you know, as a first, first or second round bat.
• 50:50
  And he is. He might be outside the top ten
• 50:54
  in shortstop right now. IIA, 100% agree with everything
• 50:58
  you just said. I just think with with
• 51:00
  Baltimore, and I think with a lot of teams too, is that it's
• 51:05
  what you're the hand you dealt with, right?
• 51:08
  It's it's, it's the Baltimore Orioles.
• 51:10
  They've never went out, they never spent money.
• 51:12
  They're a small market team. They they are really not,
• 51:15
  they're not even like they're somewhat of a medium, I guess at
• 51:18
  this point now because of all the hype in the last few years.
• 51:21
  But you know, it's, it's really a small market team.
• 51:24
  So in order for them to be successful, they can't just go
• 51:29
  out and just sign players and and think it's going to work
• 51:33
  out. And you're right, because they
• 51:35
  did have Austin Hayes, they hit, they did have Anthony standing
• 51:38
  on here. So like they could have they
• 51:40
  could have, you know, they did make offers, you know, on
• 51:42
  standing on here. I know, but they they're not
• 51:45
  going to spend the money, which is their issue.
• 51:49
  So they got to bring these kids up to spark something.
• 51:54
  They got these kids on their contract for whatever seven or
• 51:58
  eight years before they hit free agency.
• 52:00
  You know, luckily for the kids, they're, you know, getting their
• 52:04
  service time in early, you know, so they're going to hit a free
• 52:06
  agency at a younger age, which is good for them in the long
• 52:09
  run. I'm sure some of them are going
• 52:12
  to sign extensions that are going to be more team friendly.
• 52:15
  But they're all very, very good. And that's something that's
• 52:18
  interesting, too, because we already saw the signings with
• 52:22
  other minor leaguers going into the majors right away, like,
• 52:25
  like a Christian Campbell, for instance.
• 52:27
  You know, he had what, no at bats and he got a $60 million
• 52:31
  contract right away. I find it interesting that I
• 52:35
  don't see those big contracts or those those type of contracts
• 52:39
  with Baltimore yet now I think didn't Henderson sign a
• 52:43
  contract? Yeah.
• 52:46
  So they got they got Henderson, but now it's like, OK, now you
• 52:50
  got Jackson Holiday that's still very, very young, not really
• 52:54
  looking great so far, to be truthful.
• 52:57
  But he's he's so he's so young, he's so green still in my
• 53:01
  opinion, even though he's got a lot of at Batson now.
• 53:04
  So I don't know. I might be talking myself out of
• 53:06
  Jackson Holiday soon, you know, But regardless, they got.
• 53:09
  No, it's not on on Jackson a while ago.
• 53:12
  You were, you were. But there's other guys in that
• 53:14
  organization like that outfielder, hide it.
• 53:19
  I forget how you say his name, but he he's a really young,
• 53:22
  powerful, talented kid and he's supposed to be.
• 53:24
  He was the one that almost got in the fight with the Yankees
• 53:26
  this week, slid in the second base there.
• 53:29
  And I forgive it as I don't know how to say it, but yeah, yeah.
• 53:34
  He, he, yeah. So he's he's he's supposed to be
• 53:39
  one of the top prospects going until into last year.
• 53:42
  And he got called up, got some at bats.
• 53:44
  Now he's getting some full time at bats.
• 53:46
  I mean, they got so many young guys that they should probably
• 53:49
  locked up sooner than later. So that way, you know, they can
• 53:53
  actually build towards something.
• 53:54
  And then when they do need to get that one guy, they can go
• 53:57
  out and get him. And they just had Corbin Burns
• 54:00
  too, you know, they they if they had the guy in their
• 54:02
  organization, I think Corbin Burns signed for 240 million,
• 54:06
  you know, is that out of Baltimore's pocket?
• 54:09
  I mean, that's it's expensive. But imagine having a guy that's
• 54:13
  a staple that is, you know, top five pitcher in the league.
• 54:18
  You know, fantasy or not, I think Corbin Burns is a top five
• 54:21
  pitcher. I'd rather him out there in a
• 54:24
  lot of different ball games than I'd rather a lot of other guys.
• 54:27
  So I mean, Baltimore, it's just a small market team.
• 54:31
  They got to think outside the box.
• 54:32
  They said, hey, we're going to go with all the kids.
• 54:34
  It's going to attract fans. We're going to sell out games,
• 54:37
  going to bring excitement this and that.
• 54:40
  Now you're paying the consequence record speaks for
• 54:43
  itself right now. And I mean, as a kid, as as a
• 54:46
  mental kid, like how do you recover from that?
• 54:49
  You know, are you going to be strong enough mentally to to be
• 54:52
  like, all right, we got to turn their ship right now because we
• 54:55
  got the Yankees in four games in New York next week.
• 54:58
  And if we lose 3 out of those four games, we could be really,
• 55:01
  really in trouble. So it's wild.
• 55:05
  It's wild. It is, and it's unfortunate, but
• 55:08
  you know, it's like you said, you know, you can sign these
• 55:11
  players early, but again, you're, you're digging a gamble
• 55:14
  and doing that. You know, I think the Red Sox
• 55:16
  did it with who's that outfielder, Castile.
• 55:20
  Oh, Rafael. Yeah, he was Rodney Castillo or
• 55:25
  something, Something like that. I forget but.
• 55:26
  They Rodney Ello. Yeah, no, I'm talking even
• 55:30
  before that. I'm going to say a couple years
• 55:32
  ago. Oh, Rosney Castillo.
• 55:34
  Yes. Rosie Castillo, they signed him
• 55:36
  early and they had same kind of game plan.
• 55:39
  Let's try to lock him up early. And he was not good at all, no.
• 55:43
  That was robbery. It was.
• 55:44
  Robbery. He he ran to the bank all day
• 55:46
  and every day of that one. But you know, it's a game.
• 55:51
  I've never seen him in Pawtucket going to the Paw Sox games.
• 55:54
  He was playing center field and I remember just looking at him
• 55:57
  being like, man, you look small, like you look, you don't look
• 56:01
  like you. You fill the fill the jersey
• 56:03
  type. You know, it looks like you're
• 56:05
  not filling that jersey. And then when I saw Eli Jimenez
• 56:07
  down there when we were playing the White Sox organization, I'm
• 56:11
  like, that looks like a Major League Baseball player.
• 56:14
  And he ended up hitting two home runs to that game.
• 56:16
  So sometimes you can just tell by the eye of yes and no.
• 56:20
  Yeah, well, unfortunately they both aren't that good, so.
• 56:25
  I would say Eloy was not a good example there.
• 56:27
  But all right, we got five more and then we got to take a break.
• 56:30
  Time is our enemy today, but let's continue on.
• 56:33
  Let me give out these five and then, yeah, we'll break them
• 56:36
  down again and we'll take a quick break.
• 56:39
  So 1st we got Angels outfield, Mike Trott, You knew this was
• 56:43
  going to happen, right? He was removed from Wednesday's
• 56:45
  game. He's got he's got left knee
• 56:47
  soreness. It's kind of it.
• 56:48
  It probably could have been because he hasn't played that
• 56:50
  many games in a long time. So probably was his knee was
• 56:53
  sword turned out being a bone bruise on his knee.
• 56:55
  He is on the IL numbers, you know, 179.
• 57:01
  But nine home runs, 18 ribbies, 14 runs, two stolen bases, 36
• 57:06
  strikeouts and 106 at bats. 63 points still give me 2.2 a
• 57:10
  start, which isn't too bad. Yankees outfield, second third
• 57:15
  baseman Jazz Chisholm. He was day-to-day with a right
• 57:18
  oblique injury. They were having an MRI Thursday
• 57:21
  to see the severity. They actually got it back.
• 57:23
  He was placed on the IL today. He was batting 181.
• 57:27
  Seven home runs, 17 ribbies, 17 runs, six stolen bases, 39
• 57:32
  strikeouts and 105 at bats. Same points as Trout, 63 points,
• 57:37
  2.1 a start. I think the difference was Jazz
• 57:41
  went a lot earlier than Trout. So you.
• 57:45
  Know. Take it for what it's worth,
• 57:47
  Seattle starting pitcher Logan Gilbert hit the 15th day IL.
• 57:50
  He's got a grade one right elbow flexor strain.
• 57:53
  He could be out three to four weeks.
• 57:56
  They're going to shut him down for two weeks.
• 57:57
  Then they're going to re evaluate where he is, how he
• 58:00
  feels. Pretty Goodyear so far, right
• 58:03
  one in 130 innings pitched, 44 strikeouts, six walks, 2-3 ERA,
• 58:08
  76 points or 12.7 a start, which is awesome.
• 58:13
  Next on the list we got Red Sox starting pitcher Walker Buehler.
• 58:16
  He travelled back to Boston to receive tests on his ailing
• 58:19
  shoulder. I guess after his last start he
• 58:21
  said it just didn't feel right. He wasn't recovering the right
• 58:23
  know how he normally recovers from a start.
• 58:26
  He was placed on the 10 day Altay.
• 58:27
  He's got shoulder inflammation. Really good start if you I mean
• 58:32
  his total numbers overall look all right.
• 58:33
  If you take out that clunker he pitched against Minnesota to
• 58:36
  start the year, they look so much better.
• 58:38
  Total Overall though, 4 and 133 in his pitch, 29 strikeouts,
• 58:42
  nine walks, a four, 2 ERA, 79.16 points, 13.2 is start with
• 58:47
  really good. And then last but not least,
• 58:51
  Tigers second baseman Gleber Torres.
• 58:53
  He's day-to-day with a hamstring injury.
• 58:55
  He might require an IL stint. I think they said he most likely
• 58:59
  will, but don't hold me to that. He's actually having a really
• 59:02
  Goodyear. Believe it or not that Tigers
• 59:04
  team is even with some of the bigger players that aren't over
• 59:08
  like performing where they should be, they're still looking
• 59:11
  really good. And Riley Green, he was a buy a
• 59:14
  buy low candidate and he has turned the corner in my opinion
• 59:17
  this last week, week and a half I think he has like 3 home runs.
• 59:20
  Anyways, Gleber Torres's total numbers, he's hitting 300 on the
• 59:24
  year. 4 home runs, 15 ribbies, 13 runs, four stolen bases, 8
• 59:28
  strikeouts and 80 at bats. 74 points, 3.7 a start.
• 59:34
  Those are really good numbers considering he's hit the IL
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  earlier, so he's going to hit it again.
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  But those are those are pretty much the significant IL stints
• 59:43
  for for this past week. Yeah, it sucks for Glee, but
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  just because like, like you said, he was having a good year,
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  you know, new home, good ballpark for him.
• 59:52
  Just a lot of open space in those gaps in that Detroit
• 59:55
  Tigers stadium and everyone, you know, that line up is so fun
• 59:58
  too, because they move a lot of guys around too.
• 1:00:00
  They got Javi Baez playing center field and we robbed the
• 1:00:05
  home run I think last night. I think that was that was
• 1:00:07
  something. So that was pretty cool.
• 1:00:09
  But I mean, going back to Gleber, though, obviously kind
• 1:00:12
  of a blow. Second base is really tough to
• 1:00:14
  fill if you don't have a second baseman.
• 1:00:17
  It's just kind of tough to find one out there and freeze and
• 1:00:19
  see, like we were talking about earlier.
• 1:00:22
  So yeah, it kind of just sucks for for Gleber and Detroit and
• 1:00:27
  fantasy owners, I guess. But you know, going back to
• 1:00:31
  Wakabua though, man, that sucks. He was just turning a corner
• 1:00:36
  too, right? He was looking good.
• 1:00:39
  And that's not that's not us saying from fantasy.
• 1:00:42
  It's from a Red Sox perspective, man.
• 1:00:44
  He was actually looking like it was going to work out for a
• 1:00:47
  second there. I mean, it still could work out.
• 1:00:49
  We don't know how serious this injury is yet.
• 1:00:51
  But when I see, you know, in quotations next to his name,
• 1:00:55
  shoulder inflammation, man, that's a red flag.
• 1:00:58
  That's that's, you know, weeks, you know that you're going to be
• 1:01:00
  missing out on him and you don't have a timable timeline yet.
• 1:01:05
  So that's that's the worst part about those kind of injuries,
• 1:01:08
  just because you just don't know what the the future holds.
• 1:01:11
  It could be, it could be really, really bad.
• 1:01:13
  It could be it could be short term, hopefully.
• 1:01:16
  But Walker Mueller, again, another guy coming back from an
• 1:01:20
  injury, pitched pretty well towards the end of the last year
• 1:01:23
  going into the World Series, right?
• 1:01:26
  Yeah, I was starting to see the wear and tear a little bit.
• 1:01:28
  So let's just, you know, keep a pulse on it.
• 1:01:32
  Let's be cool about it, Don't freak out.
• 1:01:35
  Let's see what it is. As a Red Sox fan fantasy.
• 1:01:40
  I mean, I yell them, But I mean, if you need a roster spot, I
• 1:01:43
  don't think it's the worst drop out there.
• 1:01:47
  What do you think of that? I would say based off of I was
• 1:01:51
  pitching, I I would probably IL him obviously, I don't think I'd
• 1:01:54
  want to drop him just because I do think they're going to be in
• 1:01:58
  the thick of it for at least a wild card later on in the year.
• 1:02:02
  So even though he might miss a month, I don't think it's going
• 1:02:06
  to be the end of the world because if he comes back, you
• 1:02:09
  know, I do, I do think it might be a better situation for you if
• 1:02:13
  you hold on to him, right, because think about it, he's
• 1:02:15
  coming back from injury. He might have an ennies cap.
• 1:02:18
  Now that he's missing a month that that you know, instead of
• 1:02:21
  shutting him down and you know, August, let's now we now we can
• 1:02:27
  we can keep him going till September.
• 1:02:29
  So you know, you got to look the bad with the good.
• 1:02:33
  Obviously I started him this week.
• 1:02:35
  He was supposed to be pitching today, but Brian Bellows
• 1:02:38
  actually pitched really well, even though he's not in the game
• 1:02:40
  six and a third. I think 5K1 earned really good
• 1:02:43
  start for him. But yeah, it is what it is.
• 1:02:47
  You know, I lost the start and I, but I, I, I'm definitely
• 1:02:50
  going to hold him and I yell him because he showed me that when
• 1:02:53
  he's healthy, he's still, like I said, you take that clunker out.
• 1:02:57
  I mean, the guy's ERA is probably like a three two, you
• 1:03:00
  know, so it's not, it's not horrible.
• 1:03:02
  I think. What do you give up four or five
• 1:03:03
  runs that, that Minnesota start his first start.
• 1:03:06
  So I, I don't see him. I, I don't know, I don't see it
• 1:03:11
  as a bad thing really. I really don't.
• 1:03:12
  Yeah, yeah, we'll we'll we'll see if he comes back hopefully
• 1:03:16
  sooner than later. And I'll just give Rick to
• 1:03:19
  Trout, right. I mean, let's let's just talk
• 1:03:24
  about let's I know we're against the clock here a little bit, so
• 1:03:26
  let's just talk about it real quick.
• 1:03:28
  I mean this, you know, I'm looking at his contract.
• 1:03:32
  I feel like I got to look at these guys contracts, see where
• 1:03:34
  they're at. He's about to rob the angels.
• 1:03:37
  He's got his contract till 2031. He's getting paid $37 million
• 1:03:42
  looks like annually a year. So it's going to be a very,
• 1:03:46
  very, you know, long six years if he continues to get hurt and
• 1:03:49
  just questionable as he's been the last, what, three years or
• 1:03:53
  so here. Look, he just doesn't play for a
• 1:03:56
  good baseball team. I feel like as a person, I'd
• 1:04:00
  probably be beaten up a little bit.
• 1:04:02
  You know, he's older, he's wiser.
• 1:04:04
  He's he's a leader and he he's never going to, you know, show
• 1:04:08
  his his true. Not that he's a bad person or
• 1:04:11
  anything like that. That's something I'm saying, But
• 1:04:13
  like he's not going to he's not going to go out there and talk
• 1:04:15
  to the media and he's not going to trash talk trash about, you
• 1:04:18
  know, the angels and his teammates.
• 1:04:20
  That's just not his character or anything.
• 1:04:22
  And that's being said. I I just think he it's he needs
• 1:04:26
  to just leave Anaheim. He needs to go somewhere else
• 1:04:30
  and he just needs just the DH. He just need he just he just
• 1:04:33
  doesn't need to play the field anymore.
• 1:04:35
  I mean, you know, same thing last year when he got hurt, you
• 1:04:40
  know, he had power last year. We saw her early on, but then
• 1:04:43
  you looked at his RBIs and they were very minimal because
• 1:04:46
  there's nobody on base. There's no one ahead of them to
• 1:04:48
  to get on there and and start a rally.
• 1:04:50
  You know, there's no, there's no consistency over there in
• 1:04:54
  Anaheim I feel at all. There's nothing that's getting
• 1:04:57
  the the wagon going. You know, we talk about these
• 1:05:00
  powerhouse teams, we talk about the Dodgers, we talk about, you
• 1:05:03
  know, we throw Arizona in there right now.
• 1:05:05
  You know, even like the vintage Braves teams, you know, you had
• 1:05:08
  guys just like gearing up. Didn't matter if they're about
• 1:05:11
  an 8th, 9th, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th. You had someone that can just
• 1:05:15
  start the rally. They don't have anyone over
• 1:05:17
  there in Anaheim that can start the rally.
• 1:05:19
  And he's a guy that would be a perfect fit.
• 1:05:22
  Imagine, imagine a Mike Trout in like a New York Mets uniform,
• 1:05:26
  you know, D agent for them, right-handed bat.
• 1:05:30
  I mean, just and and he would have Soto ahead of them or he
• 1:05:33
  would have, you know, Lindor around him somewhere in that
• 1:05:36
  lineup. You have Alonzo somewhere in
• 1:05:38
  that lineup. You know, he would thrive.
• 1:05:40
  And I feel like in an atmosphere like that too.
• 1:05:44
  But I think he's just so dull now in Anaheim.
• 1:05:47
  There's nothing going on. He doesn't have anything he's
• 1:05:49
  playing for. I mean, these injuries, he's I
• 1:05:53
  feel like he's just going to milk it.
• 1:05:55
  He might as well. So the injury, it could be
• 1:05:59
  minor. I know it's just a bruise.
• 1:06:01
  He'd probably be back like in a week or so could be a minimal
• 1:06:03
  stint. But it's just frustrating
• 1:06:05
  because every year you you have this hope that Mike Trout's
• 1:06:09
  going to be coming back and, you know, be be somewhat healthy.
• 1:06:13
  And even when you drafted him this year, you had expectations
• 1:06:16
  lower than you had in previous years.
• 1:06:19
  So I mean, should I be surprised No am IA little bit because he
• 1:06:26
  was hitting nine home runs. 18 RB is in in a categories league.
• 1:06:31
  That's that's pretty decent. Not the RBI so much.
• 1:06:35
  I wish there was a little bit more, but I mean the average is
• 1:06:37
  is what it is. He strikes out a ton his.
• 1:06:41
  Strikeouts are are what's I mean, you could sit there and
• 1:06:44
  say he doesn't play for a good team, which I would agree, you
• 1:06:47
  know, maybe a better bat behind him for protection, but it still
• 1:06:50
  doesn't really give an excuse for the strikeouts.
• 1:06:53
  I mean, 36 and and 100 at bats, 106 at bats.
• 1:06:58
  You know, that's a third of the time that's a lot of strikeouts
• 1:07:02
  do. You do you think he's just like,
• 1:07:05
  again, not to knock them, but do you just think he's just not
• 1:07:07
  invested? I don't know.
• 1:07:11
  I don't. I don't think he's that type of
• 1:07:12
  player. I think he is.
• 1:07:15
  If he was, if he was more to, like I said, if he was in the
• 1:07:18
  Mets uniform with the team they had right now, do you think he
• 1:07:22
  would be putting, I don't want to say putting more effort.
• 1:07:27
  I don't want to say he's not doing any effort.
• 1:07:28
  But I'm saying would he, would he be producing more?
• 1:07:31
  Do you think he would strike out 36 times in 100, in 100 at bats
• 1:07:35
  and in a Mets uniform? Well, I mean, with a soda and a
• 1:07:38
  line up, I, you know, I don't think so, but I, he's not in the
• 1:07:43
  Mets line up, you know what I mean?
• 1:07:45
  It's tough to say what his numbers would be.
• 1:07:47
  I, I couldn't tell you. You know, he strikes me as
• 1:07:51
  someone that might be like a JD Martinez, hopefully toward the
• 1:07:53
  end of his career, like he's, he might be that type of guy Now,
• 1:07:57
  unfortunately he doesn't want to accept it.
• 1:07:59
  So, you know, it is what it is for him.
• 1:08:03
  Unfortunately. I mean, you know what you're
• 1:08:05
  getting when you draft him. You're getting a couple IL
• 1:08:07
  stints, a couple, at least a couple here without a doubt.
• 1:08:11
  This isn't going to be his only one.
• 1:08:13
  I can I can guarantee that they'll be at least another one.
• 1:08:16
  I don't know what it will be. I don't know.
• 1:08:19
  But I, I totally agree though, he needs to DH, get out of the
• 1:08:23
  eye. You need to limit yourself, your
• 1:08:25
  body, you're old man. Your body is, is just starting
• 1:08:28
  to break down, man. Why don't you try to limit
• 1:08:29
  yourself, you know, make the switch.
• 1:08:32
  And Bryce Harper at least went to first, you know, do something
• 1:08:36
  similar. Get off the field.
• 1:08:38
  Get off the field. All.
• 1:08:42
  Right, man, let's let's move on. Let's take a break because then
• 1:08:47
  we still have our hottest and coldest hitter hitters and
• 1:08:50
  pitchers of this past week that we're going to talk about in a
• 1:08:53
  in a points league, which is probably translates perfectly to
• 1:08:55
  a cats league. And then some really good sell
• 1:08:58
  high buy low guys. And what I also did was I added
• 1:09:02
  some information on the sell high, buy low guys from last
• 1:09:04
  week to see how they did this week.
• 1:09:07
  Just to put a little context on it.
• 1:09:09
  Not to say we're always right, but some of these, some of these
• 1:09:14
  do look kind of right, some of them.
• 1:09:16
  All right. So don't go anywhere.
• 1:09:18
  Let's just take this break and then we'll be right back.
• 1:09:21
  All right, you going back in? damn.
• 1:09:37
  When I go home, people ask me, hey, who?
• 1:09:43
  Why do you do it, man? Wow, some kind of war junkie.
• 1:09:50
  I won't say a goddamn word. What?
• 1:09:55
  They won't understand. They won't understand why we do
• 1:09:59
  it. They won't understand.
• 1:10:04
  It's about the men next to you. That's it, That's all it is.
• 1:10:13
  Find us on the web at MB Radio dot US Want to make it clear
• 1:10:17
  that the views expressed by our hosts are not considered the
• 1:10:21
  official stance of MBR views? Remember this is all about
• 1:10:24
  having fun and enjoying the and now the guys you just love to
• 1:10:27
  hate. They're trash.
• 1:10:29
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• 1:10:33
  Man, it's a man. It's it's not.
• 1:10:36
  Doug and Mike are back with more bourbon and ball all.
• 1:10:39
  Right, let's just jump into this.
• 1:10:57
  All right, so I will show you the picture.
• 1:10:59
  These are the hottest players in our points league, which kind of
• 1:11:02
  translate to pretty much every league whatsoever, whatever your
• 1:11:05
  format is. There are two hitters and two
• 1:11:08
  pitchers. And no further ado, here they
• 1:11:16
  are. So let me go over the hitters.
• 1:11:21
  We'll talk about them, and then we'll do the pitchers
• 1:11:23
  separately. How's that sound?
• 1:11:24
  I love it. So you already talked about it.
• 1:11:27
  Mariners second baseman DH Jorge Polanco, he's batting 500.
• 1:11:33
  He hit you five home runs, twelve RBI, six runs, no stolen
• 1:11:38
  bases, one strike out. He gave you 44 points, 8.8 last
• 1:11:43
  week and he's only 63.8% owned right.
• 1:11:46
  But and this is This is why I always say, you know, he pretty
• 1:11:49
  much doubled his yearly stats in a week.
• 1:11:52
  I mean, on the year he's got nine home runs, 25 ribbies, 12
• 1:11:56
  runs. So he doubled his stats in a
• 1:11:58
  week, which tells me, I don't think he's obviously that those
• 1:12:03
  numbers are just, I don't think you started him.
• 1:12:06
  If you did, you must have a crystal ball because until the
• 1:12:09
  future because there is no way to know that that was going to
• 1:12:12
  happen. Second up, Dodgers hot field,
• 1:12:15
  Tiasco Hernandez. He batted 444.
• 1:12:18
  He had three home runs, 10 ribbies, seven runs, two stolen
• 1:12:22
  bases, only three strikeouts, which is really good for him
• 1:12:24
  because he does usually strike out a lot. 43 points, 7.2 a
• 1:12:28
  start. He's 95.9% owned.
• 1:12:32
  Those are the hitters. For the record, I have a daily
• 1:12:38
  league. It's a 12 team daily league.
• 1:12:40
  I did pick up Jorge Blanco two weeks ago, so I did reap the
• 1:12:45
  benefits of those nice, nice stats that he did have.
• 1:12:48
  So that was pretty exciting. I had to pat myself on the back
• 1:12:50
  for that one. But I mean, someone has to have
• 1:12:54
  the spark in the Seattle lineup, right?
• 1:12:55
  At least someone's doing it. I mean, this guy is really
• 1:12:58
  starting to show up here, huh? I mean, yeah, you're right.
• 1:13:01
  He did definitely double his numbers from his season total.
• 1:13:04
  But I mean, the average looks great.
• 1:13:07
  I know he doesn't play quite every single day, but I mean,
• 1:13:10
  the way the way he's swinging the bat, I think that's going to
• 1:13:12
  be changing pretty soon. Like you said that DH is
• 1:13:15
  eligible to, which in some leagues is a requirement.
• 1:13:19
  So kind of a nice back pocket position to have there.
• 1:13:23
  But yeah, I mean, again, second base, again, it's a tough
• 1:13:27
  position to fill if you don't have one.
• 1:13:29
  This is a guy only 63% owned in a lot of leagues if he's
• 1:13:33
  available. This is a guy you take a flyer
• 1:13:34
  on, you ride out the hot streak and then once it goes sour, then
• 1:13:38
  you go back to the drawing board, right?
• 1:13:39
  That's what fantasy is. You got to keep a pulse on
• 1:13:41
  everything. And Tiasco Hernandez really good
• 1:13:45
  week. Nothing much else you can really
• 1:13:47
  say about it. This is Tiasco Hernandez at his
• 1:13:49
  best. Only three strikeouts last week.
• 1:13:52
  That's a pretty, pretty good job on his part for a guy that does
• 1:13:56
  strike out pretty often, almost a strikeout per game.
• 1:13:59
  So these are the type of weeks that you really look forward to
• 1:14:02
  having at the Oscar Hernandez in the line up.
• 1:14:04
  So I don't have any of my leagues.
• 1:14:07
  Doug, we do like him. We talked about him a ton last
• 1:14:09
  year as well. Really good fit for that Dodgers
• 1:14:12
  lineup. Looks like he's continuing that
• 1:14:14
  from last year as well. It looks like a pretty good re
• 1:14:16
  sign if you ask Greg. Yeah, I was happy to see him go
• 1:14:19
  there because I don't I don't think he could reproduce his
• 1:14:22
  season last year with any other team unless it was with the
• 1:14:26
  Dodgers. So it kind of made sense for
• 1:14:28
  him. Jorge Polanco, he was always a
• 1:14:30
  really good contact hitter, really good hitter with the
• 1:14:32
  Twins, but you know, not this good.
• 1:14:36
  So ride them out. Unfortunately, a lot of times if
• 1:14:40
  you if you do end up picking them up and starting them, the
• 1:14:42
  hot streak's usually already over.
• 1:14:44
  So chances are next week in like 250, right?
• 1:14:49
  That's just the way it goes. You can't, it's tough to predict
• 1:14:53
  that. But yeah, you definitely want to
• 1:14:54
  take a flyer, you know, second base, even DH, like you said,
• 1:14:57
  that's that's a pretty good this is that's I mean, the numbers
• 1:15:01
  are amazing considering who else is in that team that just isn't
• 1:15:05
  producing at all, you know, which is which is sad.
• 1:15:07
  You know, Cal Riley's look at he he's the same type of player
• 1:15:12
  like a lot of the other guys are strikes out a ton or they get a
• 1:15:14
  lot of home runs, right. Hit you like four home runs last
• 1:15:18
  week. I mean, two weeks ago last week
• 1:15:20
  really didn't make much noise. So, you know, that's that's just
• 1:15:24
  the way it is. Let me go for the pictures
• 1:15:28
  section of this. We do have Royals starting
• 1:15:32
  pitcher who actually made this list a lot last year, of course
• 1:15:35
  fizzled toward the end of the year.
• 1:15:37
  I don't know if he's going to be able to keep this up either.
• 1:15:40
  He might fizzle again, who knows.
• 1:15:43
  But was Royals starting pitcher Seth Lugo.
• 1:15:46
  He went two and O on the week. 14 innings pitched, 13
• 1:15:48
  strikeouts, one walk, 2 earned. Tampa Bay and the Astros were
• 1:15:53
  the two games he pitched. Astros were scuffling.
• 1:15:55
  Tampa Bay is kind of not good. They're they're scuffling too, I
• 1:16:00
  guess. 47 total points, really good, right?
• 1:16:04
  72% owned. And the guy we were talking
• 1:16:08
  about earlier, right, Rangers started pitcher Nathan Ivaldi.
• 1:16:11
  He went one and O and two starts, 12 innings pitched, 15
• 1:16:14
  strikeouts, one walk, one earn the A's and the Giants.
• 1:16:18
  So, you know, those probably should have been both wins in my
• 1:16:21
  opinion. 39.76 points. He's 91.1% owned.
• 1:16:27
  I do have a couple honorable mentions.
• 1:16:29
  Dodgers outfielder Anthony Paze, he had 42 points.
• 1:16:33
  Cubs starting pitcher Conray, he had 37.
• 1:16:36
  He's only 99% owned. Joe Ryan had a turn around and
• 1:16:40
  he was a bi lo candidate last year, so we'll talk his numbers
• 1:16:43
  later on. And starting pitcher for the
• 1:16:46
  Tigers, Casey Miz. Man, yeah, we're starting.
• 1:16:51
  I mean, let's start with Nate Dogg.
• 1:16:53
  You know, Nate is a Dogg. I mean, the guy just doesn't
• 1:16:56
  doesn't now down to anyone. I feel.
• 1:16:58
  I feel like every time he goes out there, he's going to try to
• 1:17:00
  give it his best. And I mean, he throws hard too.
• 1:17:03
  I think his fastball is around 9697 right now and it looks
• 1:17:07
  harder than that. You know, a couple years ago he
• 1:17:10
  was almost pushing 100 at times. I know he was, it was he was
• 1:17:13
  pumping it when he was with the Sox for sure.
• 1:17:16
  Man. This guy's really kind of like,
• 1:17:18
  again, evolutionizing his career here in Texas and really just
• 1:17:22
  kind of doing a nice little, I don't even know what I think
• 1:17:25
  this one was fourth or fifth team potentially at this point,
• 1:17:29
  but he's just for a lot of different teams I feel at this
• 1:17:31
  point. So I feel like he's found a good
• 1:17:33
  home in Texas. I think when he signed it
• 1:17:34
  originally, I think we both said that's a really good fit for
• 1:17:37
  him. And you know, we we love Josh
• 1:17:40
  Beckett back in the day, but this guy's the new Texas tough
• 1:17:42
  guy. So I mean, what a great guy to
• 1:17:45
  have in your roster. And then Seth Lugo, I mean, but
• 1:17:49
  what what it means, the guy continues to impress.
• 1:17:51
  I feel after coming from last year, having the year that he
• 1:17:54
  did really consistent carrying over to this year, being on this
• 1:17:58
  hot list so earlier in the season.
• 1:18:00
  Now, are his numbers as good as they were already last year?
• 1:18:04
  They're about the same give or take going into it.
• 1:18:06
  But is he going to continue to produce?
• 1:18:10
  I hope he does because it's a nice little sleeper guy.
• 1:18:12
  This is a guy that's like a number four or five guy in your
• 1:18:15
  rotation again, plays for a pretty decent ball team in
• 1:18:19
  Kansas City. It's a weak division.
• 1:18:21
  He's going to have opportunities to go out there and and win ball
• 1:18:24
  games that maybe he shouldn't be winning just because of who
• 1:18:28
  their opponent is. You know, the White Sox, I mean,
• 1:18:32
  the the Twins, like they, they are terrible.
• 1:18:34
  I mean, I think Rocco is going to be out of the job pretty
• 1:18:37
  soon. It's it's looking a little grim.
• 1:18:40
  So there's going to be opportunities to get those cheap
• 1:18:42
  wins there too. And then like you said, you had
• 1:18:45
  a couple audible mentions. You mentioned Joe Ryan, he did
• 1:18:48
  pitch today. Looks like he wins 6 innings.
• 1:18:50
  He gave up one, earn 8 KS. Guys a stud.
• 1:18:53
  He's going to get no decision. The game is 1 to one at the end
• 1:18:56
  of the seven. So, but like you said, Doug,
• 1:18:59
  he's the guy that we, we thought he was going to rebound.
• 1:19:01
  He's just too good of a pitcher not to.
• 1:19:03
  And he's going out there and showing it now.
• 1:19:06
  Unfortunately for him though, he plays for Minnesota like we just
• 1:19:11
  said. So there, there is just a little
• 1:19:15
  bit of an element there, but he's just such a good pitcher.
• 1:19:17
  It's just like you kind of have to just ignore it I guess.
• 1:19:21
  And it was against Boston tonight too, a pretty good
• 1:19:23
  hitting team. So in Boston as well, that's not
• 1:19:27
  an easy task to go in there and, and go 6 innings one and eight
• 1:19:30
  KS on a Friday night in Boston. That's that's pretty damn good.
• 1:19:36
  Well, the socks are up three one now.
• 1:19:38
  Denver's had a 22 run single. Oh I just saw the update OK.
• 1:19:44
  And I will say the Jose Ramirez injury was like a freak injury.
• 1:19:47
  We were talking about him earlier.
• 1:19:48
  He ended up trying to run out an infield single, which he did run
• 1:19:52
  out. He got hit in the back with a
• 1:19:54
  baseball by the pitcher Chris Bessette, and then he trips over
• 1:19:57
  the first base bag and like sprains his ankle.
• 1:20:02
  Oh, it's a sprained ankle. Yeah, because he got hit with
• 1:20:06
  the pitch, so he tripped over the bag.
• 1:20:10
  Sprained ankle sounds like ADL stint.
• 1:20:13
  No, no, no. It's probably a minor.
• 1:20:15
  I don't know. I I I haven't seen the tape yet,
• 1:20:18
  but he definitely won't be in the line up tomorrow that's for
• 1:20:21
  sure. Yeah, I was thinking about
• 1:20:23
  dangling out there for the Bourbon League.
• 1:20:25
  That was going to be my my big trade ship.
• 1:20:28
  I still. Can.
• 1:20:32
  Not this value now when he's hurt.
• 1:20:34
  Disaster all. Right, let's let's go right into
• 1:20:43
  the cold players of the week. Some of them aren't surprising,
• 1:20:48
  but some of them are. So here they are.
• 1:20:52
  Right again, I'll read the names.
• 1:20:54
  You will do the hitters first and then the pitchers second.
• 1:20:59
  So we have first and foremost Giants third baseman Matt
• 1:21:01
  Chapman. He hit a 09/1.
• 1:21:04
  He had no home runs, no ribbies, no runs, one stolen base, 9
• 1:21:07
  strikeouts -3 points. Every time you started him, he
• 1:21:11
  gave you a negative half point on the week.
• 1:21:14
  He he's 82% owned right now. He was in the mid 90s before all
• 1:21:20
  this, this hot streak, this cold streak started.
• 1:21:23
  So we all knew the hit of Matt Chapman was we knew he struck
• 1:21:26
  out a lot. I don't understand the hype
• 1:21:29
  around him. I the the San Francisco Giants
• 1:21:32
  are a gritty team, but they're not a great team.
• 1:21:34
  Their offense doesn't do anything for me, so that doesn't
• 1:21:38
  surprise me at all. Next up, Diamondbacks outfield
• 1:21:41
  Corbin Carroll. This was tough.
• 1:21:43
  He made the hot 1 twice this year.
• 1:21:45
  Him and Nathan of all the other two players that have made it
• 1:21:47
  twice now. He's on a cold, unfortunately.
• 1:21:51
  148, no home runs, no ribbies, one run, no no stolen bases, 10
• 1:21:58
  strikeouts -1 point for the entire week.
• 1:22:01
  He's still 99.9% owned. He's still a top ten bat.
• 1:22:06
  I just hope he doesn't fall back into how we started last season.
• 1:22:11
  I, I know if he does, he'll still hit out of it.
• 1:22:15
  But I just as an owner of him, I, I would hate to be like now,
• 1:22:19
  OK, now I have to run. Now I have to ride with him for
• 1:22:22
  a month hoping he'll break out. And when he does, he will.
• 1:22:25
  It's just, you know, you just hope, well, maybe Kent, the
• 1:22:29
  Marte in that lineup going forward now, maybe that's going
• 1:22:32
  to help him a little bit. But he was raking when Mountey
• 1:22:34
  was hurt, right? It's only been this past week
• 1:22:36
  where you just you're seeing the strikeouts.
• 1:22:38
  So I don't know. I don't know what to expect
• 1:22:41
  right now. I wouldn't worry about it.
• 1:22:44
  I wouldn't just because I think he had some tough matchups.
• 1:22:47
  I think the Mets are a very good baseball team.
• 1:22:49
  I think we just have to say it out loud.
• 1:22:51
  At this point. They are just the winning
• 1:22:53
  baseball team. They showed it last year with
• 1:22:55
  the NLCS that momentum's carrying back over.
• 1:22:58
  I mean, Juan Soto had a couple home runs yesterday.
• 1:23:00
  I know he they they lost four to two.
• 1:23:03
  But if he's if his bat starts heating up and they're already
• 1:23:06
  winning baseball games, they're going to be very good
• 1:23:09
  contenders. In saying that about Corbin
• 1:23:11
  Carroll, though, Corbin Carroll's a West Coast guy in my
• 1:23:14
  opinion. I think he's a chill guy.
• 1:23:15
  I know he's from like Seattle. I think, I think he went to
• 1:23:18
  school at like UCLA. And I don't know, I think it's
• 1:23:22
  going to be one of those things where you just go out east
• 1:23:24
  sometimes and you get rocked just by the atmosphere and, and,
• 1:23:28
  and it's just a different element sometimes.
• 1:23:30
  And it's just you're not you're not used to it yet.
• 1:23:33
  You know, you're still in April and when you come to the East
• 1:23:37
  Coast, it's a little more rowdy, especially in the the Northeast.
• 1:23:40
  And I think this whole year, you know, he's had a lot of home
• 1:23:44
  games already. I feel like a lot of games that
• 1:23:47
  I watch are in Arizona. So I think he's just kind of
• 1:23:52
  just, you know, road trip might have been is what, second or
• 1:23:55
  third road trip this year? Maybe first one going out east,
• 1:23:59
  you know, long distance one could be jet lag for the week.
• 1:24:02
  I don't know what it is. I wouldn't worry about it
• 1:24:04
  though. I think he's just too talented.
• 1:24:06
  We just talked about him on the who's hot list already, right?
• 1:24:10
  I know, I know 10 strikeouts is a lot.
• 1:24:13
  That's it's nothing to not talk about, but that's what he kind
• 1:24:17
  of does sometimes at times. But again, he steals enough
• 1:24:20
  bases where he can make up for that.
• 1:24:21
  So no, I'm not worried about it. I think it's just a tough
• 1:24:24
  stretch that he's just going down right now and I'm not even
• 1:24:27
  going to waste my breath on Matt Chap guys dumps the fire.
• 1:24:32
  I don't, I don't get, I don't get the appeal.
• 1:24:34
  I love his glove, love his glove, great glove, but but the
• 1:24:38
  bat is just like it's obnoxious on how people think like he's a
• 1:24:42
  good hitter and he's he's just really not.
• 1:24:44
  I don't think he's that great of hitter at all.
• 1:24:47
  Totally agree. All right, so on the flip side
• 1:24:50
  of that, let's go to starting pitching, right?
• 1:24:53
  And unfortunately, they're both Blue Jay pitches.
• 1:24:58
  First and foremost, Blue Jays study pitcher, relief pitcher.
• 1:25:00
  Button Francis O and 1/3 innings pitched, 1 strikeout, no walk, 7
• 1:25:06
  earned -9.56 points almost -10 That start was a curse against
• 1:25:13
  the Red Sox. He's now only owned in 52% of
• 1:25:16
  leads. He was in a high 80s.
• 1:25:18
  He did finish last year on a really high note, so of course
• 1:25:20
  the expectations were he'd go higher.
• 1:25:23
  Fortunately, he didn't. He's kind of just been.
• 1:25:27
  And then this start kind of just kicked him down a little lower.
• 1:25:30
  And then Blue Jays starting pitcher Kevin Gosman.
• 1:25:33
  O and 1/2 and 2/3 innings. 2 strikeouts, five walks, 6 iron
• 1:25:38
  -7 points. That was against the Yankees.
• 1:25:41
  84.5% owned. That was in the mid 90s.
• 1:25:45
  Listen, I watched the Yankees game.
• 1:25:47
  He it was Sunday. He got through 2 perfect innings
• 1:25:51
  and then he just imploded. I think he threw something over
• 1:25:53
  like 52 pitches that inning. Didn't get a couple calls.
• 1:25:57
  Very pissed off about that, got knocked out of the game.
• 1:26:01
  Then he got thrown out of the game because he was chirping on
• 1:26:03
  his way to the dugout. It is what it is.
• 1:26:06
  I, I still think he's a good pitcher.
• 1:26:08
  He's mid to high 90s, so pretty hard.
• 1:26:11
  So I, I mean, I have him, I'll bench him.
• 1:26:15
  Obviously, I'll start him. I might start him next week.
• 1:26:17
  I think he's playing either against the Twins or the Angels.
• 1:26:21
  I think Bessette's pitching against the Angels.
• 1:26:22
  So I might start him, but I still hold on to him.
• 1:26:26
  And some honorable mentions for starting pitching really is, is
• 1:26:30
  Mitchell Parker, the Nets started pitcher he gave you -3.6
• 1:26:34
  and Tigers Giant Flaherty -2.6. I think he's kind of, he's back
• 1:26:38
  to where he was. You know, he's, he's not as good
• 1:26:40
  as he was last. He's still serviceable.
• 1:26:42
  He's still a pretty good pitcher.
• 1:26:43
  But I think last year he just played out of his mind.
• 1:26:46
  That's all there is. Yeah, yeah, those, those guys.
• 1:26:50
  Yeah, Mitchell Parker was playing pretty good.
• 1:26:52
  I mean, he knew he was probably going to hit a wall soon
• 1:26:54
  eventually. I mean, we did tip his cap last
• 1:26:56
  week just because, I mean, you know, he was performing well.
• 1:26:59
  And so we kind of knew he was probably going to come back down
• 1:27:01
  a little bit. But yeah, I mean, tough day to
• 1:27:04
  be a Blue Jay pitcher. Berwick and Bong, who's not list
• 1:27:08
  man. Holy moly.
• 1:27:10
  Let's start with the worst. Let's start with Boden Francis.
• 1:27:13
  What do you think here, Doug? How how long of a leash do you
• 1:27:16
  think the Blue Jays give Boden Francis here?
• 1:27:18
  Because these starts look pretty pretty tough lately.
• 1:27:23
  I think they'll give him a, a pretty long leash, to be honest
• 1:27:25
  with you. You know, I think he came out
• 1:27:28
  last year and he did get knocked around.
• 1:27:30
  I think his first start, his first couple starts weren't good
• 1:27:32
  at all. They set them down, they called
• 1:27:34
  him back up, pitched better, but he didn't really turn it on
• 1:27:38
  until the last 2 1/2 months of the year.
• 1:27:41
  So I think they're, they'll get Malish, you know, I, I think the
• 1:27:45
  whole team isn't playing good. So it's like, well, if you're
• 1:27:47
  going to give Bowden Francis a short lease, then sure as hell I
• 1:27:52
  got to give Kevin Mccausman one too because he's not pitching
• 1:27:54
  any better. I think they're only good
• 1:27:56
  pitchers, big, crisp set, to be honest with you.
• 1:27:59
  So I don't, I don't know what they're going to do.
• 1:28:02
  I think with Godsman, he's a vet like Godsman's a vet at this
• 1:28:05
  point. He's been around the block like
• 1:28:07
  he he's not, he's not in jeopardy of losing his spot at
• 1:28:10
  all. Like he's, you know, and in
• 1:28:12
  fantasy purposes, like I I would rather start him if I have a
• 1:28:16
  chance in a matchup. I I don't think he's just a bad
• 1:28:18
  pitcher what whatsoever. And like you said, that was a
• 1:28:21
  really tough, weird game against the Yankees where it's getting
• 1:28:27
  pinched. You know, let's just call a
• 1:28:29
  spade a spade. We have to do it sometimes.
• 1:28:31
  I was getting screwed a little bit on some of these calls.
• 1:28:34
  So I, I don't, I, I get his frustration.
• 1:28:37
  And, you know, 1 bad pitch, you know, we've seen it. 1 bad call
• 1:28:40
  can turn into the four or five runs at times, and it can
• 1:28:44
  totally change the projectile of the game.
• 1:28:48
  So yeah. Yeah.
• 1:28:49
  And when you only pitch, you know, one day out of the week
• 1:28:51
  and you're getting screwed. Yeah, I'd be a little pissed off
• 1:28:54
  too, you know, trying to, you know, get my anger out toward
• 1:28:57
  it, especially walking out of the field.
• 1:28:59
  So no, Kevin Gosman's fine. But Bowden Francis, again, I
• 1:29:04
  don't think he was. He was a guy that was drafted
• 1:29:07
  decent, like middle drafts relief eligible.
• 1:29:10
  Now he's going to be a starter. Very appealing in weekly
• 1:29:13
  leagues. But this isn't the guy you just
• 1:29:16
  throw out there every week. I think some people thought I'm
• 1:29:20
  going to draft him as a reliever and he's going to be my extra
• 1:29:22
  starter the whole year. And you know, whatever flips on
• 1:29:25
  the other side, that's what I'm going to get because I think
• 1:29:28
  he's going to be pretty decent and that's why you drafted him.
• 1:29:30
  But I think at this point, I think you have to reconsider
• 1:29:34
  that. I think you have to have him as
• 1:29:35
  just a matchups guy. Maybe he's A2 starter.
• 1:29:38
  We do know what his capabilities are, right?
• 1:29:40
  He's a very, very good pitcher when he is on.
• 1:29:43
  But right now, just like last year in the beginning of the
• 1:29:46
  year, not good. He did the same thing last year
• 1:29:50
  too. And that's why he got demoted.
• 1:29:52
  That's why it took him about 1/2 a season before he get called
• 1:29:54
  back up. And he had that phenomenal last
• 1:29:56
  five weeks of the season. And that's what you hope that
• 1:30:00
  you do see later on. So don't give up faith yet, but
• 1:30:04
  just probably throw them on your bench, cool off a little bit.
• 1:30:09
  Let's see what happens. I, I just don't think you have
• 1:30:12
  to, to make any reactionary things, especially with these
• 1:30:15
  two guys on the board that we're talking about right now.
• 1:30:18
  I totally agree and I do want to give an update.
• 1:30:20
  I it just this just broke about Jose Ramirez.
• 1:30:24
  So he was just diagnosed about two minutes ago with a mild
• 1:30:29
  right ankle sprain after leaving Friday's game.
• 1:30:32
  They're saying he he should be good.
• 1:30:35
  They they, you know, the guardians might play it safe and
• 1:30:37
  give him maybe a day or two off, but no IL stint Looks like he
• 1:30:41
  might have dodged a bullet. So that's good to know.
• 1:30:44
  Thank God. You're telling.
• 1:30:47
  Me all. Right, Yeah.
• 1:30:51
  So let's let's just hop into the last segment of the show here.
• 1:30:54
  We got 30 minutes. Try to bust it out real quick.
• 1:30:57
  Let's talk about some wheel you're dealing.
• 1:30:59
  All right, this is the part of the show where we're going to
• 1:31:07
  talk about some sell high guys based off of their week's
• 1:31:09
  numbers and some some some buy low candidates based off of this
• 1:31:13
  past week's numbers. Just for some context, our sell
• 1:31:17
  highs for last week, we had Pete Crow Armstrong, he had an
• 1:31:20
  amazing week last week. He did hit a home run today.
• 1:31:23
  I will give him that. But this is a Thursday to
• 1:31:26
  Thursday numbers, so we're not counting today.
• 1:31:28
  He gave you 15 points, so not as not any as as near what he gave
• 1:31:32
  you last week. So count that almost a win.
• 1:31:35
  Matt Olson, he hit a home run again today, but again, this was
• 1:31:40
  this is a new week for us on the show.
• 1:31:42
  So he did get you again for about 14 or 15 points last week.
• 1:31:46
  I think the week before when we told him to sell high on him, I
• 1:31:51
  think he may have given you almost 30.
• 1:31:52
  So definitely coming back down and another sell high was Walker
• 1:31:57
  Buehler, 17 points. What happened?
• 1:32:00
  Arm issue. IL could have sold them high,
• 1:32:03
  could have sold them high, but whatever.
• 1:32:07
  Some Bilo candidates we had, Vinnie P, he looks like he might
• 1:32:11
  have turned the corner around. He had a really rough week the
• 1:32:14
  week before. Now he's got you 17.
• 1:32:16
  He hit what, two or three home runs last week?
• 1:32:19
  We had him as a good Bilo candidate, Eddie Rushman, only
• 1:32:23
  one strikeout gave you a solid 12 points, right?
• 1:32:26
  I think the week before that he only gave you two or three.
• 1:32:28
  So he's also and then I think this is our biggest, our biggest
• 1:32:34
  perfect call. Our biggest call.
• 1:32:36
  Last week we said buy low on Joe Ryan, hit a couple rough starts.
• 1:32:40
  What does he do his last night? He goes out and gives you almost
• 1:32:43
  30 points. What does he do tonight?
• 1:32:45
  No decision, but gives you a quality start. 6 innings, 1
• 1:32:48
  earned, 8 or 9 strikeouts. Those, you call them right man,
• 1:32:52
  you give credit where credit's due those.
• 1:32:55
  Those are some pretty good calls so far.
• 1:32:57
  Yeah, those are those are some fun names to talk about too.
• 1:33:00
  You know, it's really good to see Vinnie P starting to swing a
• 1:33:03
  good bat again this week. They really need to have him go
• 1:33:07
  so that way Wick can get going and get the rest of that line up
• 1:33:10
  going because they really can run away with this division when
• 1:33:13
  they are the best team on the field and they need him to be
• 1:33:15
  the best on the field as well. So yeah, really good that
• 1:33:18
  especially at first base position in fantasy, you really
• 1:33:21
  wanted him to turn around. Obviously a very slow start, not
• 1:33:24
  scoring a lot of points. He was almost as bad as Tristan
• 1:33:28
  Cassis at points, right. You know, I think a lot of
• 1:33:30
  people did drop him in the leagues because he's just not,
• 1:33:34
  he's just not cutting at this point.
• 1:33:36
  Yeah. But yeah, Vinnie P was like
• 1:33:38
  really, really close, though. He wasn't he wasn't cuttable,
• 1:33:41
  but it was getting it was getting questionable.
• 1:33:44
  And you know, what are you going to get from Vinnie P this year?
• 1:33:47
  So it's really good to at least see some like, what's that you?
• 1:33:52
  Got to have faith. Man, I, I think I'm reactionary.
• 1:33:55
  That's why I think I just reaction too much.
• 1:33:59
  But but yeah, I'm excited about that.
• 1:34:01
  I mean, TCAI think he's going to be a pretty good baseball
• 1:34:05
  player. I I think he's just going to be,
• 1:34:08
  you know who I'm going to compare him to.
• 1:34:09
  You're going to love this comparison, Doug.
• 1:34:11
  It's not even like a fantasy comparison.
• 1:34:13
  It's just like a player comparison.
• 1:34:15
  I think he's going to be like a Brett Gardner.
• 1:34:17
  That's the type of guy that I can see him turning into.
• 1:34:20
  It's kind of like a, a solid outfielder, you know, a pretty
• 1:34:24
  good bat at times. You know, he's got probably a
• 1:34:27
  little bit more pop than than Brett Gardner does.
• 1:34:29
  But you know, Brett Rodgers can steal bases, PCA can steal
• 1:34:33
  bases. And like you say, he scored 15
• 1:34:35
  points, you know, that's not bad.
• 1:34:38
  You know, that's about 3 points per game.
• 1:34:40
  You know, 5 / 5 days, five games or so that you're playing.
• 1:34:45
  And, and that's what you're looking for in a fantasy player
• 1:34:47
  is about 3 points per game. So if he can do that
• 1:34:51
  consistently, he'll be something something relevant.
• 1:34:53
  But like we talked about before, he doesn't have a lot of history
• 1:34:56
  right now. This is going to be his first
• 1:34:58
  full season up here. So when a guy like that, you can
• 1:35:02
  maybe trade, get someone that you do have a track record with
• 1:35:05
  that you do know what you're going to get with.
• 1:35:06
  Because right now PCA, it's so green that you don't know what's
• 1:35:10
  going to come at the end, at the end of the tunnel.
• 1:35:13
  So yeah, I, I think that's kind of where I'm going to take it
• 1:35:17
  back to you because I don't think, by the way, I think like
• 1:35:23
  time is the time is the essence. So let's let me, we'll, we'll
• 1:35:27
  kind of breeze through these because we really only got like
• 1:35:29
  20 minutes or so. But first and foremost on this
• 1:35:33
  sell high, I want to say I would sell, probably sell high on
• 1:35:37
  Michael Harris. He's 80% owned, right?
• 1:35:41
  Had a pretty decent week. He only hit you 231.
• 1:35:44
  He didn't give you any home runs, but he gave you 8 ribbies,
• 1:35:46
  two runs, two stolen bases. Only one strikeout gave you 24
• 1:35:50
  points or four start, which is pretty good, right?
• 1:35:53
  You look at his year stats, he's 233, three home runs, 19
• 1:35:57
  ribbies, 11 runs, six stolen bases, 21 strikeouts and 116 at
• 1:36:01
  bats, 665 points or 2.2. So you went from 2.2 a start to
• 1:36:07
  four in a week. I think when you have about six
• 1:36:09
  weeks of baseball, players are putting up weeks that almost
• 1:36:11
  double their point total. They're usually flukes or this
• 1:36:15
  is opportunities. So I, I like Harris, but he's
• 1:36:18
  been very up and down and mostly down over the years.
• 1:36:21
  Obviously, you know, his first year when they called him up,
• 1:36:24
  pretty electric guy, but injuries and then he just, he
• 1:36:27
  hasn't been the person you'd expect him to be, right?
• 1:36:30
  So he still has the following pretty decent week.
• 1:36:34
  A lot of people still high on him.
• 1:36:36
  Maybe this could be a chance for you to capitalize and move on.
• 1:36:39
  And that's all I'm saying. Yeah, I love it, honestly.
• 1:36:43
  You know, I'm a Michael Harris guy, you know that.
• 1:36:46
  And you know, when he is playing good baseball, he does score you
• 1:36:49
  a ton of points. He slaps the ball.
• 1:36:51
  I mean, when he's running healthy, he can run a single
• 1:36:54
  into a double, steals bases. You know, he's a really good
• 1:36:57
  overall player and he's got some pop in his bat.
• 1:37:00
  The last couple years he's been a little wishy washy, a little
• 1:37:03
  up and down with him. So now that he's, you know, on
• 1:37:05
  this hot streak right now and maybe with this past recent
• 1:37:09
  track record here, this is a really good time to move him,
• 1:37:11
  maybe get a little piece or something that maybe you've been
• 1:37:13
  looking for. You know, I always I'm I'm you
• 1:37:16
  know, you have the Mendoza line. I'm going to call it the Bryce
• 1:37:19
  Miller line. There's a Bryce Miller line.
• 1:37:21
  I feel like that's just a comp pitcher that is just like middle
• 1:37:25
  of the road, you know, can get you some quality starts in the
• 1:37:28
  season plays for, you know, a mediocre team.
• 1:37:31
  But just that rotation is so good that Bryce Miller gets
• 1:37:33
  overlooked a little bit. So he retracted later.
• 1:37:37
  So he's probably like, you know, before five guy, so you may be
• 1:37:40
  more reluctant to get rid of him than like maybe someone else.
• 1:37:43
  So I always kind of just throw that game out there and that's
• 1:37:45
  the reason why. But I think Michael Harris or
• 1:37:47
  Bryce Miller, you know, I think you can probably even get a
• 1:37:50
  little bit more at this point than a Bryce Miller for Michael
• 1:37:53
  Harris. And then also, you know,
• 1:37:56
  position specific if you need it as well, you know, hey, I'm down
• 1:38:01
  to 3rd baseman and Michael Harris is hitting the ball
• 1:38:04
  really, really good right now. You know, maybe I can go out and
• 1:38:08
  trade for like a a junior Cameron Arrow from Tampa, you
• 1:38:13
  know, to fit the bill. It's, you know, because junior
• 1:38:17
  has got some, you know, he's got a decent ceiling ahead of him, I
• 1:38:19
  think, But I don't know if it's going to happen this year or
• 1:38:21
  not, but it depends on what your priorities are and what your
• 1:38:24
  needs are too. So again, you know Michael
• 1:38:27
  Harris hitting the ball good just may be a good time to move
• 1:38:29
  him. Yeah, no, I totally agree.
• 1:38:32
  All right, Next up. This one's.
• 1:38:36
  This one's a fun one. I like this one.
• 1:38:38
  Right. Where is he?
• 1:38:40
  Where is he? There he is.
• 1:38:42
  He's in the wrong uniform, though.
• 1:38:47
  So Yankees outfielder, first base DH Cody Ballinger, 84%
• 1:38:51
  owned. Pretty good week, right?
• 1:38:53
  He hit 316. He gave you a home run, 4
• 1:38:55
  ribbies, 4 strikeouts, four runs gave you a little over 20
• 1:38:59
  points. So about 3.5 a start.
• 1:39:01
  Again, pretty good not too, not too bad.
• 1:39:04
  Overall his year it's hitting 204.
• 1:39:06
  He's got three home runs, 16 ribbies, 14 runs, three stolen
• 1:39:11
  bases, 25 strikeouts and 98 at bats. 56 points total to a
• 1:39:17
  start. Again, you look at the point
• 1:39:20
  total compared to the season total.
• 1:39:22
  He had a good week. You know, I just don't think
• 1:39:24
  it's it's good enough to make me want to hold him to see if he
• 1:39:28
  can continue it. That's my only my thing.
• 1:39:30
  You know, I'd love to move him. He raised most of his season
• 1:39:33
  stats on this week. So any plus he plays, he's got a
• 1:39:36
  ton of versatility. He plays for the Yankees.
• 1:39:40
  So I think there's appeal there. You know, I think you can still
• 1:39:43
  get, you know, a, a decent starting pitcher or somebody for
• 1:39:46
  him, you know, nothing crazy, but still decent.
• 1:39:49
  You know, his numbers overall aren't good, but there's,
• 1:39:54
  there's worse. And he, he did go kind of late
• 1:39:57
  in some drafts, I will say. So you know, something to look
• 1:40:00
  at. And you know, when you're, and
• 1:40:02
  again, like a lot of a lot of people when they look at trades,
• 1:40:05
  they'll just look at points, right?
• 1:40:06
  They'll say, what where's this guy at versus the guy I'm
• 1:40:09
  trading. So although you know, you're
• 1:40:11
  trading somebody that has you 70 points and you're getting
• 1:40:14
  somebody who has 70 points, look at where those points came from.
• 1:40:17
  If if 35 of those points came in one week, chances are.
• 1:40:21
  That they might not be as good of a player as you think you're
• 1:40:25
  getting back in return. So, you know, Cody Ballinger
• 1:40:30
  almost doubled his points in a week and, you know, I'd look to
• 1:40:33
  move them. But it's a Yankees team and he's
• 1:40:36
  really not a horrible guy. He's just, you know, I, I want
• 1:40:39
  more consistency, that's all. I I agree, You know, we talked
• 1:40:44
  about Eduardo Suarez earlier in the show, right, and how he had
• 1:40:47
  that four home run game and if you had him in fantasy, you
• 1:40:51
  know, you just you, you cashed it right, But then you don't
• 1:40:53
  talk about the other three weeks or four weeks that he got you
• 1:40:56
  the negative points, you know, and all the strikeouts, right.
• 1:40:59
  And and that's it. You know, if Cody Bellinger's
• 1:41:03
  name wasn't Cody Bellinger and if he didn't have pinstripes on,
• 1:41:06
  you know, I don't think we'd be even even having this
• 1:41:09
  conversation because I think he kind of is in that same exact
• 1:41:12
  category as Suarez where, you know, he'll have these this
• 1:41:17
  great week or maybe like, you know, 10 games, 15 game
• 1:41:20
  stretches. But then he'll just like, hey,
• 1:41:23
  you know, his his batting average is very, very low.
• 1:41:25
  His OVP is pretty low as well. He does strike out at these
• 1:41:28
  amount of times. And you know, at that, that MVP
• 1:41:32
  season was a long time ago. That was not, that was not a
• 1:41:37
  couple years ago. That was a long time ago.
• 1:41:39
  And it it might, I cannot feel it because Cody's somewhat of a
• 1:41:43
  young guy still. And I think that's probably the
• 1:41:46
  appeal with Cody is because he's been in the league so long that
• 1:41:50
  people think he's older, but he's not.
• 1:41:54
  But like I said, I don't think we'd be even having this
• 1:41:56
  conversation if if his name wasn't Cody Bellinger.
• 1:41:59
  That being said, his name is Cody Bellinger.
• 1:42:03
  He did just have it with me. And this is probably the best
• 1:42:08
  time to move him because I don't know if there's going to be a
• 1:42:11
  lot of other pockets of window of opportunity here earlier in
• 1:42:15
  the season where then he became, you know, gets a reputation
• 1:42:19
  later on where he doesn't become expendable.
• 1:42:22
  So maybe this is like your little pocket right now to, to
• 1:42:25
  make a move because as we talked about earlier with players, he's
• 1:42:28
  also one of these guys that's due for an IL stint throughout
• 1:42:32
  the year. So I'm I'm I'm in favor of the
• 1:42:36
  sell. My only, my only thing before I
• 1:42:40
  move on real quick about the IL stint thing is because Stanton's
• 1:42:44
  not in that line up, they've been DH ING them a lot.
• 1:42:46
  So they have been taking them off the field a little bit,
• 1:42:48
  which is good to see. Obviously when Stanton comes
• 1:42:51
  back, I don't know what they're going to do, but for now, I'm
• 1:42:55
  I'm not concerned about the IL just yet.
• 1:42:58
  Not yet anyways. You know, once that DH spot
• 1:43:02
  becomes Stanton's, if he does come back this year, then, yeah,
• 1:43:06
  they'll be a little concerned for sure.
• 1:43:08
  Definitely, for sure. All right.
• 1:43:13
  And our last but not least, this was a guy that I like and I
• 1:43:20
  still believe he's still a good pitcher.
• 1:43:25
  The Predator himself, Louise Bastille, So he's 90, almost 94%
• 1:43:32
  owned pretty good. Week 1 and O 6 innings pitched,
• 1:43:35
  5K2 walk, 0 earned. Of course it was against Miami,
• 1:43:38
  but I mean, to me, Miami's offense and Seattle, Seattle
• 1:43:41
  might have a little better offense, but it's it's close to
• 1:43:44
  be honest. Still gave you 22 points
• 1:43:47
  overall, 3 and 232 innings pitched, 20 strikeouts, 14 walks
• 1:43:51
  at 36 ERA, 60 total points. He still has the right name
• 1:43:56
  recognition to me. I don't know he he hasn't really
• 1:44:00
  been that ace he was a season or even like two seasons ago.
• 1:44:04
  You drafted him, you finished as the top ten starting pitcher.
• 1:44:07
  I think the win this week helped this point total for sure, which
• 1:44:11
  is something everybody looks at again when you evaluate trades,
• 1:44:14
  how many points am I giving up versus getting?
• 1:44:16
  And that's what people are going to look at when with this.
• 1:44:19
  But I still think he's a good pitcher.
• 1:44:21
  I still think he's worth a decent bat and I I still think
• 1:44:25
  with the win, you know, if you're looking to move them,
• 1:44:28
  it's a it's a good sell. High time for for him.
• 1:44:30
  He got the win right. He's three and two.
• 1:44:32
  He's above 500 on the year. Go go with it and and try to get
• 1:44:37
  what you need out of it. If you if you don't want it.
• 1:44:39
  That's all. Yeah, I mean, you know, I'll put
• 1:44:43
  my salesman hat on and tell you, you know, Luis Castillo, you
• 1:44:47
  know, yeah, he pitched against Miami.
• 1:44:49
  But it sometimes just takes one solid start to someone to just
• 1:44:54
  get it going. And sometimes they just need a
• 1:44:56
  face of Miami or a Pittsburgh Pirate or a Chicago White Sox
• 1:45:01
  team to get the gears going. And I think we did see that a
• 1:45:05
  little bit with Wakabula before he started getting going.
• 1:45:08
  You know, that first really good quality start that he did have
• 1:45:10
  was against the White Sox early on.
• 1:45:12
  So, you know, with with Luis Castillo, maybe this is the kick
• 1:45:17
  that he needed here after the start.
• 1:45:19
  And hey, I'm, I'm buying pitching right now in a lot of
• 1:45:24
  weeks. And this is a guy that I would
• 1:45:26
  not mind having on my rotation that I think would would
• 1:45:31
  probably do pretty well. I think Even so, there's a lot
• 1:45:35
  of fun things around Luis Castillo is you're going to stay
• 1:45:37
  in Seattle this whole entire year.
• 1:45:39
  This is a guy that could potentially get moved.
• 1:45:41
  He's on the older side. He's on the other side of 30
• 1:45:43
  right now and you know, he could be pitching for a contender if
• 1:45:47
  Seattle starts to drip a little bit, which doesn't look like
• 1:45:50
  they are right now. Looks like they're kind of
• 1:45:52
  staying status quo that the whole the whole divisions wide
• 1:45:55
  up in the air I feel. But.
• 1:45:58
  But I think this is a great guy to buy.
• 1:46:00
  I I would not not just the sell high, but I'd also just buy at A
• 1:46:05
  at a market price. I think right now because I
• 1:46:08
  think maybe he is turning it around.
• 1:46:10
  So there's, you know, two different schools with that
• 1:46:13
  thought process and it's so high segment.
• 1:46:15
  But if you're just a Luis Castillo guy, it's maybe the
• 1:46:20
  time to get him now because maybe he did turn it around.
• 1:46:22
  He's not going to get a chance. Totally agree, totally agree.
• 1:46:27
  All right, so we do have the buy low candidates and again I got
• 1:46:31
  I'm going to try to to run this down because I only got 10
• 1:46:34
  minutes here. So let's try to move with the
• 1:46:39
  flow here. So you're going to be surprised
• 1:46:41
  at the first one, Hear me? He has a he had a really rough
• 1:46:43
  week. First baseman Bryce Harper, he's
• 1:46:46
  99.8% on. Only hit you 174.
• 1:46:49
  No home runs, two ribbies, one run, 6 strikeouts.
• 1:46:52
  Gave you 7 points on the week. Barely a point a start overall.
• 1:46:57
  Yeah, you know, 235, five home runs, 16 ribbies, 18 runs, six
• 1:47:01
  stolen bases, 26 strikeouts and 115 at bats, 92 total points. 3A
• 1:47:06
  start. But it seems far that someone
• 1:47:09
  would trade Bryce. I get it.
• 1:47:10
  But if you take away his week he had he had a week a few weeks
• 1:47:14
  ago where he hit like three home runs and gave you 40 plus
• 1:47:17
  points. So if you take those away, he's
• 1:47:20
  really only like a, you know, a 5060 point player, which is a
• 1:47:24
  little over 22.3 a start. So it's not horrible.
• 1:47:28
  So someone who say actually, you know, Rob in our on our money
• 1:47:32
  league offered him to me in a trade.
• 1:47:35
  So that tells me that he's trying to sell him, too,
• 1:47:38
  although he wasn't selling high at the time because I'm not
• 1:47:40
  giving Corbin Carroll to him. But, you know, yeah, he's aging.
• 1:47:45
  Yes, he goes on the IL a few times a year.
• 1:47:47
  But owners are looking to move in because in four or five weeks
• 1:47:50
  to start the year, he's been underperforming in four out of
• 1:47:53
  those five weeks, Right? I think offense, for the most
• 1:47:56
  part, in my opinion, with Trey Turner, has been underperforming
• 1:48:00
  in Philly. So, you know, you might be able
• 1:48:02
  to get away trading a first baseman, a AA1B first baseman
• 1:48:08
  for, you know, A1B pitcher type thing, A1 for one, you know, not
• 1:48:14
  nothing. Top tier.
• 1:48:14
  I don't think Harper is really a top tier anymore in my opinion.
• 1:48:19
  But you know, take it for what it's worth.
• 1:48:21
  You know, like I said, you take away that one week he gave you
• 1:48:23
  3040 points. He's really only an average
• 1:48:26
  player. So, and that was just two weeks
• 1:48:29
  ago. Yeah, I think I, I think I have
• 1:48:32
  to say I'm guilty of was over projecting them, you know,
• 1:48:35
  earlier in the season, you know, just a guy I definitely thought
• 1:48:38
  was going to be a top five contingent first baseman.
• 1:48:41
  You know, I'm like, it's Bryce Hopper, you know what I mean?
• 1:48:44
  Just like how we talked about all the other top guys that we,
• 1:48:47
  we like to talk about, but you know, reality is, you know, 235
• 1:48:51
  batting average, we're talking about a, you know, 20/20/20 ish
• 1:48:55
  percent. So clip AK rate, you know, with
• 1:48:58
  25 / 115. So you know, that's not not the
• 1:49:02
  sexiest appeal right there. I mean, the, the sixth stolen
• 1:49:05
  basis is really nice. That's a nice little appeal for
• 1:49:08
  Bryce Hopper right now. I mean, if he can continue to do
• 1:49:11
  that, I mean, he'll be a 2525 guy.
• 1:49:13
  So it's not like it's all lost in the in the sand there.
• 1:49:16
  But it's just the occasions, you know, at least in my eyes, I
• 1:49:20
  pumped up that I thought he was going to be a better player than
• 1:49:23
  what he has been to this point. So in saying that, he is
• 1:49:28
  definitely a buy low guy. First base is a tough position
• 1:49:31
  to fill at an elite level. I feel like at this point now,
• 1:49:36
  but it's a lot of voids. You got corner positions you
• 1:49:39
  also got to fill. But I don't even know what I
• 1:49:42
  would even trade for Bryce, Harper, Doug.
• 1:49:44
  I don't even know what I would even move for a Bryce Harper
• 1:49:48
  because I feel like whoever I trade with, they're just going
• 1:49:51
  to want too much. For what?
• 1:49:53
  They're going to get back. So I'm not going to I'm not
• 1:49:55
  going to go out there and and you know, give you give you my,
• 1:50:01
  my Kento Marte for Bryce Harper. You know, I'm not doing that.
• 1:50:04
  I'm going to probably do, you know, something more like a 2
• 1:50:09
  for one for Harper. You know, I'm just not going to
• 1:50:12
  give up a quality person for Harper.
• 1:50:14
  That's. Fair.
• 1:50:18
  Yeah. All right, Next up on this list,
• 1:50:21
  Again, a big name. You'll know it when you see it.
• 1:50:26
  But there again, there's a reasoning it's and you'll
• 1:50:29
  understand once you see there he is.
• 1:50:35
  Padre's third baseman, DH Manny Machado.
• 1:50:37
  He again is 99.3% owned. He had AI mean he gave it last
• 1:50:44
  week. 263 no homers, three runs batted in, one run scored, six
• 1:50:49
  strikeouts. He gave you 4 points, gave you
• 1:50:51
  less than Harper overall. 279 two home runs, just two home
• 1:50:58
  runs, right? 13 ribbies, 18 runs scored, six
• 1:51:01
  stolen bases. So that you know stolen bases is
• 1:51:03
  a surprise for them too. For me, 20 strikeouts and 111 at
• 1:51:07
  bats which is nice to make contact. 78 total points, 2.6 to
• 1:51:11
  start. But man Machado has cooled down
• 1:51:14
  a ton right? This is a guy that was averaging
• 1:51:16
  3.6 to start, you know, 2-3 weeks into the season.
• 1:51:20
  Like Harper. He's older now.
• 1:51:22
  Expectations should be limited. I think owners will be very
• 1:51:25
  hesitant to trade him when he was going strong, but now
• 1:51:28
  they're probably definitely at least taking offers on him,
• 1:51:30
  especially in re draft leagues, right?
• 1:51:32
  You might actually get a deal on him and if he continues to put
• 1:51:36
  up these numbers for another week for sure, you'll get a deal
• 1:51:38
  on them again. You know, the Padres lineup is
• 1:51:40
  pretty solid, so I don't see this cold spell lasting long,
• 1:51:43
  but I am surprised at only two home runs.
• 1:51:46
  Six stolen bases is a pretty good pretty good for him in my
• 1:51:49
  opinion. That's that's a surprise and if
• 1:51:52
  but if you take them away now you're going from somebody that
• 1:51:55
  was averaging, you know what, 2.6 to start to 2.3 or 2.2.
• 1:51:59
  So, you know, I think owners are just are looking at those
• 1:52:03
  numbers too and they see the home runs down.
• 1:52:06
  I wouldn't be surprised if now would be a time to just to just
• 1:52:09
  give them up on, you know, try to let them go if you can.
• 1:52:13
  Yeah, I mean, the two home runs is definitely disappointing,
• 1:52:15
  right? That's, I think the biggest
• 1:52:16
  number that sticks out to me. I think average is right on par.
• 1:52:20
  Even the RBIs are down this year with them, and I don't know if
• 1:52:23
  that's because of where he's back to the lineup or anything
• 1:52:25
  like that. I haven't seen too many Padre
• 1:52:28
  games, to be honest with you. For some reason, I try to avoid
• 1:52:30
  them. Don't know why, but I just don't
• 1:52:32
  watch a lot of Padre games. But yeah, I mean, Machado's been
• 1:52:37
  pretty consistent throughout his whole career.
• 1:52:39
  I can't believe he's only 32, Doug.
• 1:52:41
  I had to look him up earlier and I was like, whoa.
• 1:52:43
  I was like, man, I feel like he's like used to be like 3637.
• 1:52:47
  He's been around forever, but he got called up so young.
• 1:52:50
  So again, he's one of those guys, but I mean, only 32 years
• 1:52:53
  old. He'd just have some baseball
• 1:52:54
  left in him. Look, I mean, if you need a
• 1:52:56
  third baseman, you know what you're going to get out of him.
• 1:52:59
  Hopefully he picks it up this summer with the power and the
• 1:53:02
  RBIs for that matter, too. And I hope you think he will,
• 1:53:04
  too. I think he's a pretty durable
• 1:53:07
  guy. I feel like he does at the DIO
• 1:53:09
  maybe once a year or so, but really he's pretty minimal to
• 1:53:12
  it. Last year I think he had almost
• 1:53:14
  100 RB is I think the year before that he had 100 RB is so
• 1:53:18
  I expect him to still get your your 80s eighty or 9000 RB is in
• 1:53:22
  that range or so you're going to get a quality bat.
• 1:53:25
  You're going to get a quality bat at Manny Machado if you're
• 1:53:27
  going to buy a lot at this point.
• 1:53:29
  So you can find a guy that's freaking out that says, hey, I
• 1:53:32
  don't like what I'm seeing from him.
• 1:53:33
  I already got this other third baseman, so I'm going to move
• 1:53:35
  forward with them now. You can maybe suit a deal, get a
• 1:53:38
  guy that you can actually put in the lineup every single week.
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  That's the type of guy Manny Machado is.
• 1:53:43
  Yeah, no, I agree. And I was trying to get him
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  earlier, but he was hot when I was trying to get him.
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  And obviously, you know, you ask for a lot of stuff when
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  someone's hot, but now I feel like maybe they're just
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  hopefully looking to just get rid of them.
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  So we'll see what happens. I would still take a flyer on
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  them. Anyways.
• 1:54:00
  That's a talented lineup. And last but not least, of
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  course, our pitcher is none other than the C-SPAN.
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  I had to. I had to find a pitcher with the
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  beard shaved off. Dylan sees Andre started
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  pitcher. He's 95.4% on.
• 1:54:15
  He had a really rough week. It was against Tampa Bay.
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  O and 1/4 and 1/3 innings pitched. 6 strikeouts, four
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  walks, 2 earned. Again gave you one point. 1.08
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  overall, 1 and 229 innings pitched, 36 strikeouts, which is
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  nice. Twelve walks though, A576 ERA,
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  36 points or 6A start, which is not good at all.
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  We all know going into this year it'd be pretty, pretty tough for
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  Dylan sees to have a similar year he had last year.
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  I think he was the top top ten pitcher for sure.
• 1:54:46
  Obviously the strikeouts are going to be there, right?
• 1:54:48
  He had 224 last year. He's on pace to probably do
• 1:54:51
  about the same, but he did average 13.2 a start last year
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  and that's something you are not going to see this year.
• 1:54:57
  I can guarantee you that, right? He's a high 3, low ERA pitcher.
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  So unfortunately he was probably drafted a player that was better
• 1:55:06
  than those numbers, right? You probably drafted him as a
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  top ten pitcher in your drafts, but he probably should have
• 1:55:11
  never been. Unfortunately.
• 1:55:13
  I'm not saying he's horrible, but again, expectations when you
• 1:55:16
  look at the numbers of the whole right, he's definitely better
• 1:55:19
  than what we're seeing. So if I'm an owner, I'm still
• 1:55:22
  looking to sell. I think now would be a good
• 1:55:24
  time, you know, to, to trade them, you know, maybe even an
• 1:55:28
  Altuve for him. Why not both struggling?
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  Trades. Right, something different like
• 1:55:33
  that I or even you could even say Vinnie P, but I, I might
• 1:55:37
  want to hold on to Vinnie P just because I think he's turning
• 1:55:39
  that corner. But those those were the two I
• 1:55:41
  would have. Yeah, it depends.
• 1:55:43
  Depends on your, your, your point structure.
• 1:55:45
  You know, I think our bourbon and bottle league, you know, I
• 1:55:48
  think it's a pretty pitcher friendly league when it comes to
• 1:55:51
  points, especially when you throw Crawley starts and wins.
• 1:55:54
  So I think guy like Dylan sees when he's on, he's on.
• 1:55:57
  He's he's pretty good. You know, he's he's one of the
• 1:55:59
  best when he is pitching at his best, but he gets erratic at
• 1:56:03
  times and he gets a little wild and can't find that strike zone
• 1:56:07
  sometimes walks a lot of batters and gets into some trouble.
• 1:56:10
  So, you know, come with the good, with the bad, right?
• 1:56:13
  That's kind of how it goes with Dylan season times.
• 1:56:15
  He does play for a really good baseball team still.
• 1:56:18
  They're committed to Dylan season teams.
• 1:56:20
  So he's still going to go out there.
• 1:56:22
  He's still going to get his starts.
• 1:56:23
  He's going to get some quality, quality starts in there.
• 1:56:26
  He's still going to strike out guys and this is a guy I
• 1:56:29
  definitely would want in my rotation for sure.
• 1:56:32
  You know, I talked about Louise Castillo earlier.
• 1:56:34
  This is a guy I'd probably take a step above Louise Castillo.
• 1:56:36
  I think this guy's still elite at times.
• 1:56:39
  And again, it's only May 2nd today.
• 1:56:42
  So we got a whole season still ahead of us.
• 1:56:44
  We still have about 130, a 140 games ahead of us.
• 1:56:49
  So it's a very, very long baseball season and this is a
• 1:56:52
  bad want in the long run. Yeah, I I mean, yeah, I mean,
• 1:56:57
  you know what you're getting from him.
• 1:56:58
  At least you know, he's not going to surprise you.
• 1:57:01
  But yeah. All right, that brings us right
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  to the end, man. We just we just made the clip.
• 1:57:06
  So we were, you know, we were able to go around the league
• 1:57:08
  gig, talk some big injuries, talk about some hottest and
• 1:57:11
  coldest players from last week. And of course, some some sell
• 1:57:15
  high buy low candidates as well. So fun episode.
• 1:57:19
  Great episode. We'll be back here again next
• 1:57:22
  week, bringing it all over, starting it all over again.
• 1:57:26
  Yeah. So Mikey V, I'm Doug.
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• 1:57:33
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