Latest / Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation / MLB DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Monday, 08/17/26
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- 0:09Speaker 1: All systems going on clear we lift on what is
- 0:42Speaker 1: going on Shipping Nation YouTube station. We are back with
- 0:45Speaker 1: another edition of the MLB Show. It's your boy Hand
- 0:47Speaker 1: filling in for Naids. I got my guy Matt here
- 0:50Speaker 1: with me. I'm normally with on Friday, but picking up
- 0:52Speaker 1: on a Monday as well. We got a seven game
- 0:55Speaker 1: slate over on DraftKings to break down. We know we
- 0:58Speaker 1: got the Dodgers in course, Phil can't wait to talk
- 1:01Speaker 1: about that one. And if you play over on FanDuel,
- 1:04Speaker 1: they've got the six to forty game over there as well.
- 1:06Speaker 1: But we're just gonna cover the seven games. Well, Matt,
- 1:09Speaker 1: the hot topic of today, I gotta get your take
- 1:12Speaker 1: on it. Would you Eat Beaver?
- 1:17Speaker 2: Wait? What you must not have been on? What did
- 1:23Speaker 2: I miss? Yeah?
- 1:24Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody in the chat probably knows. There's
- 1:27Speaker 1: a funny there's a funny thing going around on Twitter.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Just google people from Detroit. You know how people from
- 1:32Speaker 1: Detroit are? They They're different. But anyway, just google that,
- 1:36Speaker 1: Matt when we get off. When we get off the show,
- 1:38Speaker 1: would You Eat Beaver? I'll leave it at that. We
- 1:40Speaker 1: got seven games to break it all down. Let's say
- 1:42Speaker 1: alor to some people in chat. Michael as always New York, Steigle,
- 1:45Speaker 1: Philly Phantom, Avery's in the house. Appreciate it. Small crew
- 1:49Speaker 1: to join right now. But we're gonna break it all down,
- 1:51Speaker 1: all seven of Matt. How was your weekend? Man? We
- 1:53Speaker 1: didn't we didn't talk about that. How was your week
- 1:54Speaker 1: did you do anything? Fun?
- 1:57Speaker 2: Weekend was good man. You know, family time over the
- 1:59Speaker 2: weekend and so always fun chase around the two little girls,
- 2:04Speaker 2: so yeah, we had fun over here when they're still nice.
- 2:06Speaker 2: It's hot today. Yeah, we got a funky slate tonight,
- 2:10Speaker 2: but one that should be fun to break down. How
- 2:13Speaker 2: about you? How was your weekend? I always love doing
- 2:17Speaker 2: these shows with you. So happy you're here on a Monday.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Yeah, no, happy to be here. My weekend was good.
- 2:23Speaker 1: I messed around. I got a triple double Saturday morning,
- 2:26Speaker 1: was out there balling with the old men. So my knee,
- 2:28Speaker 1: my knees are intact. That's good. But other than that,
- 2:31Speaker 1: just laid low, just you know, only a couple more
- 2:35Speaker 1: Sundays and Saturdays for that matter, when they're in the
- 2:37Speaker 1: other's football around and uh so, just laid low. We'll
- 2:41Speaker 1: do that again, going up to Vegas with the boys
- 2:43Speaker 1: this weekend for the for the for the the Big
- 2:46Speaker 1: Guy events. So looking forward to seeing some of you
- 2:48Speaker 1: and definitely some of the Shiping Nation members out there
- 2:50Speaker 1: in Vegas. But yeah, I always enjoy these shows. Hopefully
- 2:53Speaker 1: we can be profitable again tonight.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Yeah, man, A bunch of good spots to talk about.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Not great pitching, but almost burying the lead, not just
- 3:05Speaker 2: going straight to the Dodgers because it's about as good
- 3:08Speaker 2: of a spot as you could ask for, and they're
- 3:09Speaker 2: looking to kind of get off the snide, so they're
- 3:12Speaker 2: excited to break this one down with you. Smallish late
- 3:16Speaker 2: for a Monday, so you know the getting different angle.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Yeah, seven games, smallish slate. Yeah, this Dodger's offense.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Say what, No, I would say getting different, you know,
- 3:27Speaker 2: means even more on a smaller So you're about to
- 3:29Speaker 2: say this Dodgers offense hasn't been great, I'm sure, say Brewers. Yeah,
- 3:37Speaker 2: I mean mis and Henderson so understandable.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Yeah, understandable. Yeah, mis was was uh was dombin it?
- 3:45Speaker 1: Your boy read Debtmer's was very hurtful over on the
- 3:48Speaker 1: Fandel streets for me on Saturday night with his sixties
- 3:52Speaker 1: Fandel's sixty seven piece eleven k performance. What a great
- 3:55Speaker 1: performance by him. And then and then yeah, so just
- 4:00Speaker 1: looking at some stuff in the chat, hey brand brand Joy, Yes,
- 4:04Speaker 1: shoot me an email, put my email in there. If
- 4:06Speaker 1: you're not a member, I don't know how to send
- 4:08Speaker 1: you a link, you can just send me an email.
- 4:10Speaker 1: We'll communicate over there without further ado. If there's any
- 4:13Speaker 1: rain or weather that we need to discuss, Matt, just
- 4:17Speaker 1: bring it up, because we're gonna go game by game.
- 4:19Speaker 1: First game up on the slate, as you see there
- 4:22Speaker 1: on the screen, I'm gonna get to it now. It's
- 4:25Speaker 1: going to be the Tigers, fresh off their series with Chicago,
- 4:29Speaker 1: headed in to Pittsburgh to take on these pirates. You
- 4:32Speaker 1: got Framber Valdez on the bump. Good little lefty there, Pirates.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I don't know the deal gets lefties, but told me
- 4:38Speaker 1: through this one Tiger's in Pittsburgh.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Man.
- 4:49Speaker 2: As far as like just pitching goes on the slate,
- 4:51Speaker 2: it leaves a lot to be desired. So I personally
- 4:54Speaker 2: think Framber Valdas is wildly in play. I mean, inconsistent
- 4:58Speaker 2: for sure, But you look at this lineup Pittsburgh rolling
- 5:01Speaker 2: out right now. I don't know if their official lineup
- 5:05Speaker 2: is out yet, but what we saw yesterday against a
- 5:08Speaker 2: lefty in Sandobal was not it. Now that add O'Neal
- 5:11Speaker 2: Cruz back to their lineup and he's awesome. But a
- 5:14Speaker 2: lefty here against Valdez, Yeah, I mean we know that
- 5:19Speaker 2: Valdez ah man. Like, I'm not a fan in real life.
- 5:24Speaker 2: He's frustrating a roster. He's a head case. He gets
- 5:27Speaker 2: in his own head. When it starts to go bad
- 5:29Speaker 2: for him, it unravels quickly. But he's still more talented
- 5:35Speaker 2: than a seventy five hundred pitcher, especially in this spot.
- 5:39Speaker 2: So yeah, on a slate where I like expensive bats
- 5:42Speaker 2: and I don't really love the top tier pitching, Like
- 5:46Speaker 2: I'm not spending coast to close to ten K McLain
- 5:50Speaker 2: against the Padres offense that's on fire when he's gonna
- 5:53Speaker 2: be popular, Give me a Valdez and a much cheaper
- 5:55Speaker 2: tag on a slate where I think bats win it.
- 5:58Speaker 2: So Valdez honestly right now might be my favorite picture
- 6:02Speaker 2: on the slate considering his price, tag, ownership, and just
- 6:05Speaker 2: how this slate breaks down. I also think you can
- 6:08Speaker 2: use Detroit bats against my Ziskey and this Pirates bullpen.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Wodzinski started the season okay, then like missed a bunch
- 6:16Speaker 2: of time. Now he's back in our lives and hasn't
- 6:19Speaker 2: been good. Detroit just got swept by Chicago. I wouldn't
- 6:22Speaker 2: be surprised if they come out and just lay up
- 6:24Speaker 2: deep down on Pittsford here. I don't know if I
- 6:26Speaker 2: want to plant my flag there, but they're in play
- 6:29Speaker 2: for me. If I were playing enough lineups, i'd get
- 6:30Speaker 2: to Detroit. I'm not interested in the Pirates against Valdez really,
- 6:35Speaker 2: even if he's off. It's more like putting guys on
- 6:37Speaker 2: base by walks and it's just I don't know if
- 6:40Speaker 2: they're gonna be the stack that wins the slate. So
- 6:42Speaker 2: it's all about the time. It's all about the Tigers
- 6:44Speaker 2: for me on this one.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Yeah, no O'Neil Cruz Junior. I do see their confirmed
- 6:48Speaker 1: lineup is in no O'Neill Cruz. Yeah, no O'Neil Cruz
- 6:53Speaker 1: there for them, the Pirates and then the Tigers are employe.
- 6:57Speaker 1: What if we get the old uh what's his face?
- 7:00Speaker 1: I mean, Framber's been bad, as you alluded to, but
- 7:03Speaker 1: you like him just based on price matchup ballpark. Is
- 7:05Speaker 1: that kind of what you're thinking.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, he's not been good, but it's
- 7:10Speaker 2: more like he's been inconsistent. He's got some good starts
- 7:13Speaker 2: in there. Yeah, so I'm also had on the matchup.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty one plus and two of his last three
- 7:19Speaker 1: LEAFTI he was pretty bad.
- 7:20Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I'm not like confident in him really,
- 7:23Speaker 2: but I like the tag. I like the I mean,
- 7:25Speaker 2: look at this Pittsburgh lineup like it's been Olo leading
- 7:29Speaker 2: off stinks. Valvez has been good, but he's come down
- 7:32Speaker 2: a bunch since a massive start. Reynolds is good, Gonzales
- 7:37Speaker 2: is okay, he's solid, Brandon Law is good. But Lefty
- 7:40Speaker 2: Lefty Flores Junior hitting six mangum seventh York and damn,
- 7:44Speaker 2: I mean this line of stinks.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to see O Neil Cruz and his
- 7:49Speaker 1: three k's in there. That would help let Lefty Lefty
- 7:51Speaker 1: for sure first game back.
- 7:54Speaker 2: True.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Just looking popularity Framburgh, we have about thirty percent, so
- 8:00Speaker 1: he is gonna he is gonna be owned. But anyway,
- 8:03Speaker 1: when we move on to the next game, Diamondbacks fresh
- 8:06Speaker 1: off there series win versus the Braves now get to
- 8:09Speaker 1: go to Fenway to take on Brian Bayo. I'm assuming
- 8:13Speaker 1: he's just a long openers he actually starting the game.
- 8:16Speaker 1: I know he's a long reliever. Yeah, so you have
- 8:18Speaker 1: BeO slated to come in. It's been a lot better
- 8:22Speaker 1: coming out of the bullpen and this PLR role. But
- 8:25Speaker 1: talk to me a little bit about this game. Got
- 8:27Speaker 1: the Snakes versus the Red Sox. Break it down for me.
- 8:33Speaker 2: I might be in here. Oh wow, Yeah. I talked
- 8:36Speaker 2: about this like a while ago, a couple of months ago,
- 8:39Speaker 2: when Bayo, before he got sent to the Miners, had
- 8:41Speaker 2: been atrocious starting, but really good in long relief. And
- 8:45Speaker 2: there was an appearance where he came out of long
- 8:47Speaker 2: relief early on where he was really good, and that
- 8:51Speaker 2: trend has continued. I don't think he's some fantastic arm
- 8:54Speaker 2: and I think there's a lot of noise in that starter,
- 8:57Speaker 2: you know, that opener like long relief thing. But the
- 9:00Speaker 2: numbers are the numbers. He's been comfortable in that role
- 9:03Speaker 2: this year, and he's cheap on a slate. I don't
- 9:06Speaker 2: like pitching and Arizona. Yeah, they're not a lineup I
- 9:10Speaker 2: usually want to target against because I like their offense,
- 9:13Speaker 2: but they're not great against right handed pitching and they
- 9:15Speaker 2: don't strike out a ton. But Beo's sixty eight hundred,
- 9:18Speaker 2: so if he's clean here, I'm fine with it. I
- 9:20Speaker 2: don't think pitching wins this slate. I just want my
- 9:23Speaker 2: starters to not get rocked. And I think Bail is
- 9:25Speaker 2: solid here, so yeah, I mean again, it could blow
- 9:30Speaker 2: up in my face. It's Bao against Arizona, Arizona in Boston.
- 9:34Speaker 2: You know, hitters upgrade for them. But man on a
- 9:37Speaker 2: slate where like I just don't like the top tier pitching.
- 9:41Speaker 2: You could maybe sell me on a couple guys. I'm
- 9:43Speaker 2: interested in Bail, not like definitely gonna use him, but
- 9:46Speaker 2: I'm interested, do you there?
- 9:57Speaker 1: Yeah, so would help if I came off with you.
- 9:58Speaker 1: But Red Sox Bats you didn't mention them at all?
- 10:01Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, I just wanted to get my Bayo piece
- 10:03Speaker 2: out there. Red Sox Bats in clay here, Mitch Bratt
- 10:07Speaker 2: is nothing special. Jamai Jones was leading off for them,
- 10:12Speaker 2: he got scratched, and now it's so guard back up top.
- 10:16Speaker 2: I like the Red Sox a lot. Yesterday they were very,
- 10:18Speaker 2: very hurtful. I kind of like Saddan Rafaela. Again. We
- 10:23Speaker 2: know he's got upside. I don't know if I want
- 10:26Speaker 2: to prioritize the Red Sox, but I like them.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Here, Red Sox versus the Tigers.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Give me the park, so give me the Red Sox.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Give him the Red Sox. Okay, next time up on
- 10:42Speaker 1: the slate, it should be an interesting. Padre has just
- 10:45Speaker 1: went into your backyard and got busy all weekend. Now
- 10:48Speaker 1: they get to take on Nolan McClain, top top price
- 10:52Speaker 1: pitcher on the slate. You said it's not gonna be
- 10:54Speaker 1: very nice paying ninety eight hundred bucks for Nolan McLain
- 10:57Speaker 1: against this team. But we talked about on Friday, Matt
- 11:00Speaker 1: red hot or I'm sorry, Padre has been red hot
- 11:02Speaker 1: and I proved that again all weekend long. Now they
- 11:05Speaker 1: take on Noel McClain, Walker Bueller, former Vanderbilt great. Kind
- 11:08Speaker 1: of been up and down this season. I would say
- 11:11Speaker 1: this Mets team. I had some Mets yesterday. They did
- 11:14Speaker 1: okay against the Nats. Francisco Lindor was very popular. He
- 11:18Speaker 1: looks nice tonight. But talk to me through this game
- 11:21Speaker 1: San Diego at New York. You're all mute if you're talking.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Yeah, my bad. I like McLain in general. He's got
- 11:34Speaker 2: a good arm. I like his stuff, and I think
- 11:37Speaker 2: he's you know, outside of Snow. Those two guys are
- 11:40Speaker 2: the top pitchers on this slate as far as overall
- 11:42Speaker 2: talent goes. But man, I just I don't know. This
- 11:46Speaker 2: Padres offense has been arguably the best offense in baseball,
- 11:51Speaker 2: the best offense in baseball in a bunch of categories
- 11:53Speaker 2: for the past couple of months. I mean, number one
- 11:55Speaker 2: in wOBA. Like, this team is just raking. They just
- 11:58Speaker 2: got to all the Cleveland stars in the pen. They
- 12:00Speaker 2: destroyed Gavin Williams. I get using McLain here because he's
- 12:05Speaker 2: really good, and if he's got his good stuff, like
- 12:07Speaker 2: good pitching most often beats good hitting, but you're paying
- 12:12Speaker 2: for it. Ownership is going to kind of be there.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I'm likely out on McClain here. He's just too expensive
- 12:18Speaker 2: for me. I don't think I want to stack the
- 12:20Speaker 2: Padre against him. Not a great park, certainly an upgraded
- 12:24Speaker 2: part for them as far as their home, you know, ballpark,
- 12:27Speaker 2: the heater, but stacking against McLain here, he's not going
- 12:31Speaker 2: to be that highly owned. I'm probably out Bueler versus
- 12:35Speaker 2: the Mets. I could see both sides. Yeah, yeah, no, yeah,
- 12:42Speaker 2: kind of a three pronger just because it's a small slate.
- 12:44Speaker 2: I really don't like either side. Bueller's cheap enough on
- 12:46Speaker 2: a slate where I don't like pitching where I don't
- 12:47Speaker 2: think it's crazy, and the Mets, who have been decent lately,
- 12:53Speaker 2: you know, Bueller's not a pitcher wherever afraid to pick on.
- 12:55Speaker 2: So I kind of get both sides of that one.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Yeah, I made the mistake, didn't listen to my boy
- 13:01Speaker 1: Matt and played some Gavid Williams. I thought he wouldn't
- 13:04Speaker 1: be highly owned because we had such a loaded pitching slate,
- 13:07Speaker 1: but man, it was it. It was good for three innings.
- 13:10Speaker 1: In the next ratings, they got what six runs or
- 13:12Speaker 1: something like that against him, but they bait him up
- 13:15Speaker 1: pretty good. Matt. I was surprised to see that, obviously.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't even getting any CA's either at first.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Like the Padres are just seeing the ball well right now.
- 13:25Speaker 2: It's really tough to want to use pitching against them,
- 13:27Speaker 2: and I just if it were, Like I'm trying to
- 13:31Speaker 2: think about who I would use in this spot against them.
- 13:33Speaker 2: At ninety eight hundred. If it were Zach Wheeler or
- 13:39Speaker 2: Chris Sale, I'd be okay with it. But if no,
- 13:42Speaker 2: mcclaim's is not that guy for me yet.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's move on to the next game
- 13:50Speaker 1: on the slate. It is going to be the Athletics
- 13:54Speaker 1: and Mason Barnett going into Coursefield two point zero, which
- 13:57Speaker 1: is not Corsefield two point oh anymore. It feels like
- 14:00Speaker 1: this Royals team, I feel like they're gonna get some ownership.
- 14:03Speaker 1: I think they may be number two if I'm not mistaken.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Run total over five. Some postman named Mason Barnett on
- 14:10Speaker 1: the bump, talk to me through this game Athletics versus
- 14:14Speaker 1: Michael Waka, one of your most favorite pitchers.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Nah, yeah, I think this game is all about the
- 14:19Speaker 2: bats here for sure. I mean, you got Mason Barnett,
- 14:22Speaker 2: who's not good going into this ballpark where it should
- 14:26Speaker 2: be offensive minded here not quite like Sacramento, but still
- 14:30Speaker 2: a good spot for offenses. You know, I guess on
- 14:34Speaker 2: this slate you could use walk up. The A's offense
- 14:37Speaker 2: is bad enough, and he's a good enough real life
- 14:40Speaker 2: pitcher where I'm fine with it here he just doesn't
- 14:44Speaker 2: have the k upside, and I kind of like the
- 14:47Speaker 2: A's offense against him, So for me, this one's gonna
- 14:50Speaker 2: be all about the bats. Casey, I think, looks like
- 14:52Speaker 2: one of the best stacts on the board outside of
- 14:54Speaker 2: the Dodgers. You get a couple of key CODs in
- 14:57Speaker 2: their line up back tonight and like kalgar Up and
- 15:01Speaker 2: Vinnie p So just much deeper here, and you're facing
- 15:06Speaker 2: a bad bullpen, a bad starter. A lot to like
- 15:09Speaker 2: about Casey if you're not going with the Dodgers, who
- 15:11Speaker 2: will obviously be the highest on team. I think Casey
- 15:13Speaker 2: looks really good as an alternative. And then man, if
- 15:17Speaker 2: you want to really get low owns the eighties against Wakap,
- 15:21Speaker 2: who can get got? And I kind of like the
- 15:23Speaker 2: top of this A's lineup. They're missing guys obviously, I
- 15:27Speaker 2: mean missing. They're three top hitters, probably Soderstrom, kurts Langaliers,
- 15:37Speaker 2: but up top it doesn't look that awful. You get
- 15:40Speaker 2: a cheat Jeff McNeil, Lawrence, Butler's up there, Zach Geloff
- 15:46Speaker 2: has been good. These guys aren't going to be owned,
- 15:50Speaker 2: so I like the ownership angle of the A's on paper.
- 15:52Speaker 2: I think the Royals look obviously better. But I think
- 15:55Speaker 2: that outside of the Dodgers, probably the too highest owned
- 15:59Speaker 2: team are the Royals and Braves, so they're not like
- 16:02Speaker 2: sneaking up on anyone playing them.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Man, there aren't many days that go by and then
- 16:09Speaker 1: in the MLB season that you don't like this A's lineup.
- 16:13Speaker 1: You love the A's but man.
- 16:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why that is either. You're right,
- 16:18Speaker 2: I do.
- 16:20Speaker 1: I learned this last Friday. Number one means the best,
- 16:23Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say that. Oh well, I thought he
- 16:27Speaker 1: was asking a question. Michael says he would rather take
- 16:29Speaker 1: Bueller than Franber. I thought he was asking a question.
- 16:32Speaker 1: But I'm with Mad on this one that I got
- 16:35Speaker 1: Framer over. I just remember Walker Bueller just being so
- 16:38Speaker 1: terrible like the last two or three years. I don't
- 16:40Speaker 1: think he's been as terrible this year. But man, I'm
- 16:43Speaker 1: not playing him. I'm not playing Waka either, who who
- 16:45Speaker 1: can't strike anybody out?
- 16:48Speaker 2: Just my take, I get it makes sense.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Next up on the Slate got the Braves heading into
- 16:55Speaker 1: the Twin City to take on Bailey Ober and Martin Perez.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Matt interested your take on Martin. Martin's been pretty dug
- 17:03Speaker 1: on good the last couple of weeks. Now he gets
- 17:05Speaker 1: to go to Minnesota, who we don't mind picking on him.
- 17:09Speaker 1: I don't like Martin Perez just because he's another guy
- 17:12Speaker 1: that's not going to wow you with ks, but he's
- 17:14Speaker 1: been uber consistent over the last I would say a
- 17:16Speaker 1: month or so, seventy three hundred bucks talk to about
- 17:19Speaker 1: this game. Braves twenty seven outs taking on the Twins.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really like the pitching here, even you know,
- 17:29Speaker 2: despite Martin Perez's success recently, I'm just not a not
- 17:33Speaker 2: a buyer. I'm not buying what he's selling here. He's
- 17:36Speaker 2: a better real life pitcher than DFS picture, so I
- 17:38Speaker 2: understand not wanting to stack against him, but I think
- 17:41Speaker 2: you can do better as far as pictures go on
- 17:42Speaker 2: this slate. That said, it's a bad enough pitching slate
- 17:45Speaker 2: where I wouldn't there's no picture you could use tonight
- 17:49Speaker 2: that I think is crazy outside of Sigano. So yeah,
- 17:55Speaker 2: as far as bats go, here, the Braves look good
- 17:59Speaker 2: against Ober. Ober has been much better at home, but
- 18:02Speaker 2: it's a Braves offense going on the road here. Nine
- 18:04Speaker 2: at bats, OBErs not good. The Braves have been hurtful recently.
- 18:09Speaker 2: They got there yesterday. Yeah, they stole some bags. Olson
- 18:13Speaker 2: got there, so maybe that's the start of things. They're
- 18:16Speaker 2: often just good enough where I never have a problem
- 18:18Speaker 2: playing them, and well I think they get like them
- 18:22Speaker 2: in the Royals are the second and third highest on
- 18:24Speaker 2: teams somewhere around there. They'll be significantly lower on than
- 18:28Speaker 2: the Dodgers, So you get that, and they're in a
- 18:31Speaker 2: really good spot. No qualms at all with loading up
- 18:34Speaker 2: on Atlanta in this spot.
- 18:38Speaker 1: What about weather concerns in PNC, which is Pittsburgh. If
- 18:42Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, I have not checked the weather. Maybe
- 18:45Speaker 1: maybe you have. Are you concerned about weather here in Pittsburgh?
- 18:51Speaker 2: Not really No, I mean not from what I've looked.
- 18:56Speaker 2: You know, I haven't looked in the past hour, but
- 19:00Speaker 2: prior to that I was checking on it. I'm not
- 19:03Speaker 2: overly concerned as of right now. We'll see if that
- 19:05Speaker 2: changes though.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously State stay tuned throughout that that stuff can
- 19:10Speaker 1: cut on a dome, So make sure you're checking that out.
- 19:12Speaker 1: With no concerns as of right now. This Braves team, yeah,
- 19:16Speaker 1: they were very hurtful all weekend long. I wouldn't play
- 19:20Speaker 1: you scrims Key he's gonna get pinched it for at
- 19:22Speaker 1: some point Austin Riley. I feel like and I don't.
- 19:25Speaker 1: I haven't looked specifically. I feel like he's been swinging
- 19:27Speaker 1: a hotter bat. Though maybe I'm wrong in saying that,
- 19:29Speaker 1: but I just feel like he's been swinging a hot bat.
- 19:32Speaker 1: So don't hate him, righty, righty down there in the
- 19:34Speaker 1: eighth hole. All right, this is what I want to
- 19:37Speaker 1: talk about. This is what uh, Matt the weather Man,
- 19:42Speaker 1: we got a new time over never mat the weather
- 19:47Speaker 1: Never when the weather Man goes out of town and
- 19:51Speaker 1: his DFS goes into shambles. All right, I always always
- 19:55Speaker 1: give him at a hard time. Though I can't get
- 19:57Speaker 1: out of the head that the White Sox s thing
- 19:59Speaker 1: to get left. Now now we've got the uh now
- 20:03Speaker 1: we got the White Sox taking on showta it's the
- 20:07Speaker 1: Subway series. Maybe aj Personinski will be punching people out again.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Michael Barrett I think that's his name. Anyway, that was
- 20:14Speaker 1: a great one. I know you remember that, Matt, But
- 20:16Speaker 1: talk to you about this game. Southsiders heading into Wrigley,
- 20:19Speaker 1: got Luis Castillo fresh off is freaking Jim That just
- 20:23Speaker 1: shoves it right in you if you're fading him with
- 20:26Speaker 1: the Reds taking on Scholza, Imanaga and this cubby bear
- 20:30Speaker 1: team PCA lead enough.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Kind of shows you how bad Davis Martin is right now.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Huh Like because everyone gets the Reds, you know what
- 20:39Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like they stink. Gwynn Matthews destroyed them today.
- 20:44Speaker 2: Who yeah, yeah, exactly exactly started for the Cardinals. That aside,
- 20:51Speaker 2: I'm not playing Castillo here against the Cubs. I mean,
- 20:53Speaker 2: I would much rather stack the Cubs against Castillo. You
- 20:57Speaker 2: usually want lefties against Castillo. Obviously a lot of the
- 21:00Speaker 2: good hitters on the Cubs are right handed, like PCA
- 21:03Speaker 2: is always an elite play, but man like, outside of
- 21:07Speaker 2: the ownership leverage you get, it's really hard to play
- 21:10Speaker 2: him over the Braves or not the Braves guys, the
- 21:14Speaker 2: Dodgers guys who are all uber pricey, so decisions galore
- 21:19Speaker 2: on this slate. PCA is going to be low owned
- 21:22Speaker 2: and him at low ownership. It's interesting because Castillo is
- 21:25Speaker 2: not very good in my opinion, despite his dominant effort
- 21:28Speaker 2: last time out, which is an outlier. The White Socks
- 21:32Speaker 2: are hot, they swept Detroit, They're cruising in the Al Central,
- 21:37Speaker 2: which is sad but true. They're not as good against lefties.
- 21:42Speaker 2: I think this is a definite. You could play show
- 21:45Speaker 2: to hear, but on this slate, I also think you
- 21:48Speaker 2: could stack the White Sox against him. Less excited about them,
- 21:53Speaker 2: but they got enough power to win any slate show
- 21:56Speaker 2: is going to be owned. So in large field GPPs,
- 21:59Speaker 2: I think the talks are in play, but in like
- 22:02Speaker 2: smaller field cash stuff, I think Shoda is at the
- 22:05Speaker 2: top of the list.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Wait a minute, so you're telling me the Cubs you're
- 22:10Speaker 1: gonna be low owned. People are scared of Luis Castillo.
- 22:14Speaker 1: I don't think it's a.
- 22:17Speaker 2: I don't think it's people are afraid of Castillo. I
- 22:19Speaker 2: just think it's that. I mean, okay, when you put
- 22:25Speaker 2: it like that, my only response would be, like, is
- 22:29Speaker 2: Castillo worse than Bailey Ober?
- 22:33Speaker 1: Yes?
- 22:34Speaker 2: No, no not.
- 22:36Speaker 1: I'm gonna Ham's hot take of the day. The Cubs
- 22:38Speaker 1: score more runs than the Dodgers, They score more runs
- 22:41Speaker 1: than anybody.
- 22:42Speaker 2: On the slate. Okay, I mean, I feel like there's
- 22:46Speaker 2: just a lot.
- 22:46Speaker 1: Of Luis Castillo. A month ago, we were running to
- 22:51Speaker 1: the ticket window to stack against him.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Yeah, but so we were also running the table to
- 22:55Speaker 2: stack against Sigano, who's way worse than's Castillo.
- 22:58Speaker 1: Bailey's terrible and in cores.
- 23:01Speaker 2: So I get it, you know what I mean, Like
- 23:04Speaker 2: Mason Barnett he stinks, Mitch Brant he's not good, my
- 23:07Speaker 2: Zinsky he stinks. So it's not that I think people
- 23:09Speaker 2: don't want to pick on Castillo's is getting used. You're right,
- 23:14Speaker 2: but it's not like Castillo's getting used here. I just
- 23:16Speaker 2: think it's a I don't know, and honestly like i've
- 23:21Speaker 2: maybe I maybe I've been a victim of this or
- 23:24Speaker 2: at fault to this. Like Castillo's not good, but I
- 23:27Speaker 2: don't know if he's like a complete gas can. Maybe
- 23:29Speaker 2: he is. Maybe that last start is messing with my head.
- 23:33Speaker 2: I get the Cubs here, like I think, they're really low,
- 23:36Speaker 2: they're really expensive, and they're not in cores, and they're
- 23:40Speaker 2: facing a much better picture than Sagano.
- 23:44Speaker 1: I'm about to print. I'm about to print with some
- 23:46Speaker 1: Cubs and white Sox. What about the white Sox versus
- 23:48Speaker 1: a lefty? I miss that. If you've already said it,
- 23:50Speaker 1: can we play these white Sox?
- 23:52Speaker 2: You can, because they're good enough to get to anyone.
- 23:54Speaker 2: But I like the show to de side more.
- 23:57Speaker 1: I mean, grit chick's got to get his early right.
- 24:01Speaker 2: They got pinch risks throughout also.
- 24:04Speaker 1: Doyle, Yeah, my boy, My boy's not even in the lineup.
- 24:08Speaker 1: Left He Lefty Colson. They don't trust.
- 24:12Speaker 2: They got even more pinch it risk, you know what
- 24:14Speaker 2: I mean with guys like that.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Out Yeah, double dung major leading off though he's in
- 24:20Speaker 1: there for sure, certainly. Oh, you know, you know who's
- 24:24Speaker 1: a walking I know you're gonna know this because we're
- 24:26Speaker 1: talking about Murakami is a walking strikeout? That guy case
- 24:31Speaker 1: more than anybody. And if he done k he gets
- 24:33Speaker 1: a bomb.
- 24:34Speaker 2: Yeah, he caves a lot. I mean, okay tonight.
- 24:36Speaker 1: But okay, at least twice tonight.
- 24:40Speaker 2: You know who else case a lot is Allie da Cruz.
- 24:43Speaker 4: He's man, man, I don't know what.
- 24:54Speaker 2: I don't even know what it's so funny about that.
- 24:56Speaker 1: But oh, met the weatherman. He got a new nickname
- 25:02Speaker 1: for when wind blowing out twenty miles an hour.
- 25:06Speaker 2: I don't I'm not sticking. I'm not even gonna respond
- 25:10Speaker 2: to that.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, here we go, last game up on
- 25:13Speaker 1: the slate, one that everybody wants to talk about. We
- 25:15Speaker 1: got the Dodgers heading into corps, some guy named Tomos
- 25:19Speaker 1: Sugano on the bump when he's got a lot of
- 25:21Speaker 1: sharp blood red down there in his next to his name,
- 25:24Speaker 1: which is not very good. And you got this potent
- 25:27Speaker 1: or former potent offense in the Dodgers show. Hey, Freddie Freeman,
- 25:31Speaker 1: Andy Pahi's Max Munsey, the Corpse of Mookie Betts, the
- 25:35Speaker 1: corpse of Kyle Tucker. The list goes on and on.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Taking on this Rockies team. Blake Snail is gonna be
- 25:40Speaker 1: super popular on the slate. Uh, he's got a ton
- 25:43Speaker 1: of k upside. But talk to me through this one.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Dodgers in Colorado taking on the Rockies.
- 25:51Speaker 2: I mean, as far as like top stacks go there,
- 25:55Speaker 2: this is about as big of a gap as you'll
- 25:56Speaker 2: find as far as the best act to the second
- 25:58Speaker 2: best on the slate. Siicano is awful. The Dodgers are amazing,
- 26:07Speaker 2: and the only reason you wouldn't want to play them
- 26:10Speaker 2: is because of ownership. But man, they're so expensive, Like
- 26:13Speaker 2: how old are they going to be as a full
- 26:14Speaker 2: stack because they are uber pricey all over. I kind
- 26:18Speaker 2: of think that limits their ownership as like a full
- 26:21Speaker 2: five man stack here and that interests me. So Sigano's bad,
- 26:26Speaker 2: He's not a decent stretch right now, but he he's
- 26:30Speaker 2: got one of the smallest Uh what's the phrasing. I'm
- 26:33Speaker 2: looking for margins for air out in baseball because he
- 26:36Speaker 2: doesn't throw hard. He needs to locate perfectly or he
- 26:39Speaker 2: gets destroyed. We've seen it since he's been here from Japan.
- 26:43Speaker 2: I mean, this was a guy kind of like Emi
- 26:46Speaker 2: for Houston. When Sagano first came over and he was
- 26:49Speaker 2: pitching for Baltimore, he just got lit up and that
- 26:52Speaker 2: has continued. So, I mean, you're not playing the Dodgers
- 26:57Speaker 2: only because of ownership, and yeah, they haven't been great recently.
- 27:00Speaker 2: It I like teams going from facing Miserowski and Logan
- 27:06Speaker 2: Henderson to Thomas Sugano. So yeah, hard for me not
- 27:10Speaker 2: to love the Dodgers. I mean, I know you said
- 27:14Speaker 2: the Cubs outscore them, and a team might outscore them.
- 27:16Speaker 2: Maybe it's the Cubs, but their their lineup just dropped too. Yeah,
- 27:22Speaker 2: I mean I like the Yeah, I like the Dodgers
- 27:25Speaker 2: a lot. Here, what's what's not to like? Really? And
- 27:28Speaker 2: then Snell is tough for me because he's making a
- 27:30Speaker 2: second start back. He was awesome in that first one.
- 27:34Speaker 2: His KP side alone makes him really hard to get
- 27:37Speaker 2: away from. But I feel like it's more risky than
- 27:41Speaker 2: the field's giving it credit for being. And I don't know.
- 27:45Speaker 2: I'm struggling with Snell here. Do you have a strong
- 27:47Speaker 2: take there?
- 27:49Speaker 1: Oh? About three years ago, I made a commitment to
- 27:52Speaker 1: myself never to roster a Dave Roberts managed pitcher again.
- 27:55Speaker 1: But I'm getting tested tonight because I like Snell a lot,
- 28:01Speaker 1: just like you know the next guy. But man, I
- 28:03Speaker 1: hate Dave Roberts will pull him after five if they're
- 28:05Speaker 1: up like seven to nothing and he's thrown like seventy
- 28:08Speaker 1: two pitches, just so tilting. I can't stand Dave Roberts,
- 28:12Speaker 1: But I love I didn't give you an answer, but
- 28:15Speaker 1: I love Snell. He did have ten k's in his
- 28:18Speaker 1: first outing, Like you said, he's got that in his bag.
- 28:20Speaker 1: But I mean, here, were you gonna play outside? I mean,
- 28:23Speaker 1: I guess frambergh Uh. I mean, I don't know another
- 28:28Speaker 1: picture on here that I feel feel comfortable.
- 28:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't feel comfortable with anyone, But
- 28:34Speaker 2: like Bayol, I don't know. I mean it might just
- 28:38Speaker 2: be Snell. It sounds like you're more you more will
- 28:41Speaker 2: lock in Snell as opposed to the Dodgers, and I
- 28:43Speaker 2: more will lock in the Dodgers as opposed to Snell.
- 28:46Speaker 1: Personally, I can't believe show has seven K two. That's
- 28:49Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous.
- 28:51Speaker 2: I don't think it's ridiculous at all.
- 28:53Speaker 1: Well, well, no, it's not ridiculous. I mean, it's just
- 28:55Speaker 1: ridiculous that it's that high. I mean in terms of
- 28:58Speaker 1: like that's just super high.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I get what you mean. It's just like it's
- 29:02Speaker 2: it's crazy to see because it's yeah, and like their
- 29:06Speaker 2: whole lineup is like five, Like it's expensive to stack them.
- 29:10Speaker 2: It really is.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you have to get down there and
- 29:12Speaker 1: the you know seven eight non stuff. All right, Uh,
- 29:17Speaker 1: three teams? How many Dodger stacks? You haven't at least one,
- 29:24Speaker 1: like at least five? You're going to say three?
- 29:27Speaker 2: Nah? I mean if I'm playing three, probably two, and
- 29:34Speaker 2: then on the third one you'd have a five man Cubs,
- 29:36Speaker 2: three man Dodgers.
- 29:37Speaker 1: I got it.
- 29:38Speaker 2: No, I probably, I mean maybe a one off, but
- 29:42Speaker 2: you know, I would go with either like the Red Sox,
- 29:45Speaker 2: the Royals. There's other good teams on this slate, Like
- 29:48Speaker 2: I would still take the field over the Dodgers, but
- 29:51Speaker 2: it's not good enough, you know what I mean, Like,
- 29:55Speaker 2: it's just not because you got to get the team
- 29:57Speaker 2: if you're going to take the field, So good luck
- 29:59Speaker 2: doing that. Maybe it's the Cubs. You feel strongly about
- 30:01Speaker 2: the Cubs. If there was another team I felt real
- 30:03Speaker 2: strongly about, I might be more interested in getting away
- 30:07Speaker 2: from the Dodgers. I like Casey, but man, like, I
- 30:12Speaker 2: don't know, bro Like they just they stink, honestly, they
- 30:16Speaker 2: just do all right.
- 30:18Speaker 1: So let's rank your top three stacks, and I'm gonna
- 30:22Speaker 1: out of these Cubs, Braves, Royals, those would be too
- 30:29Speaker 1: and we'll throw the Red Sox in there. Give me
- 30:31Speaker 1: your top three.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Go man, we'll go Braves, Cubs, Royals. We'll go Braves,
- 30:48Speaker 3: Red Socks.
- 30:48Speaker 2: Cubs, Royals. But that they're all closed, Like I could,
- 30:51Speaker 2: the Royals have the best matchup, and they got two
- 30:54Speaker 2: guys back. Also another problem with the Royals is you
- 30:58Speaker 2: got you're leading off catcher, first base hitting sixth and two,
- 31:05Speaker 2: first base only hitting third and fifth. So it's kind
- 31:09Speaker 2: of hard to stack that, you know what I'm saying, Like.
- 31:11Speaker 1: It's yeah, Yeah, they're brutal.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Yeah, like you can get there, and I like the
- 31:16Speaker 2: royals here, but like I don't really want to have
- 31:18Speaker 2: to choose between cag Leon and Finnie Pee. I want
- 31:20Speaker 2: to play them both.
- 31:22Speaker 1: No, just don't play vinnp Man first game back. That
- 31:25Speaker 1: guess thinks.
- 31:27Speaker 2: It's not having a good year. I'll give you that,
- 31:30Speaker 2: all right.
- 31:31Speaker 1: Three worst pictures on the slate not named Segun.
- 31:34Speaker 2: No, I like that question. Three worst pictures.
- 31:42Speaker 1: And I can't even go a cases gross anyway.
- 31:45Speaker 2: Sorry, probably Bailey ober as the worst or third worst.
- 31:58Speaker 2: We'll go we'll go worse for him because he's like
- 32:02Speaker 2: not even that cheap and I hate the match up,
- 32:05Speaker 2: all right, We'll go Luis Castillo as the second. Wow,
- 32:10Speaker 2: he's way too expensive. And then we'll go I mean,
- 32:16Speaker 2: but you can't play Mason Barnett, so we'll go him. Also, yeah,
- 32:20Speaker 2: there's a bunch of guys that stink on this see
- 32:23Speaker 2: it's a bad pitching night. Like I those guys aren't
- 32:26Speaker 2: even like worse than like Mitch Bratt, And like that's
- 32:29Speaker 2: why there's no like worse pitchers, because yeah, any of them,
- 32:32Speaker 2: like even Sigano is Sigano is awful but if you're
- 32:37Speaker 2: not playing the Dodgers here and you like expensive other
- 32:40Speaker 2: stacks Sigano at fifty five hundred, I mean he's coming
- 32:45Speaker 2: off a good start. You could do worse.
- 32:49Speaker 1: Uh, you asked specifically versus show too. I think my
- 32:52Speaker 1: draft has a better chance of a home run tonight,
- 32:54Speaker 1: just because he's gonna play longer. But if it's off
- 32:56Speaker 1: showed us specifically, I think rich it's probably a better choice.
- 32:59Speaker 1: But that's just my take, definitely. I mean I don't
- 33:03Speaker 1: think I don't think anybody's playing in general.
- 33:05Speaker 2: I think just in general, no one's playing the White
- 33:08Speaker 2: Sox here. Yeah, no, there're no that I gets a
- 33:12Speaker 2: good picture on the slate with good backs, I mean
- 33:15Speaker 2: they're not playing left lefty. Murakamie is gonna be like
- 33:18Speaker 2: two percent owned. Yeah, Vargas will be like five percent
- 33:23Speaker 2: because it's a good matchic he's super pricey, and it's
- 33:25Speaker 2: just not a stack of people are gonna get to.
- 33:31Speaker 1: I had two questions left. One first question Dodgers versus
- 33:35Speaker 1: the field and most runs on the slate.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Give me the field, but again, like we said, that's
- 33:42Speaker 2: not good enough.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Yeah all right. And the last one, my favorite portion
- 33:46Speaker 1: of the show your home run call of the day.
- 33:52Speaker 2: I feel like I can't use the Dodgers because it
- 33:55Speaker 2: just wouldn't be right. Give me said Rafaela that I
- 33:58Speaker 2: called out earlier in the show. I think he goes
- 33:59Speaker 2: your tonight. Also like Lawrence Butler, that's too Lawrence, you
- 34:06Speaker 2: got to stack the a's here and say fuck it.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Sorry for my language.
- 34:11Speaker 1: This is a kid friendly show.
- 34:13Speaker 2: I also think I used Waco recently with with like
- 34:16Speaker 2: talking to you about some stuff I can't remember.
- 34:18Speaker 1: I want to say you used some last Friday, but
- 34:20Speaker 1: that one, that one that was right and lougo okay,
- 34:23Speaker 1: he was awful. Yeah, thanks for the reminder.
- 34:27Speaker 2: You don't want to walk yesterday, Elder.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Yeah, you called that one so like right, ease.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Can be okay against Arizona. That's what's kind of got
- 34:36Speaker 2: me thinking about bail. Oh god, what now it's not
- 34:48Speaker 2: even funny?
- 34:53Speaker 1: Oh man? When is blowing it hard? Oh on? That no? Gok,
- 34:57Speaker 1: like that was a going in this show for my god.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Matt the weather Man, I'm him. We will not see
- 35:04Speaker 1: you this Friday. I will not see this Friday. I'll
- 35:06Speaker 1: be heading out to Vegas with the boys. Hopefully you
- 35:08Speaker 1: see you out there as well for the big guy
- 35:11Speaker 1: up there in the sky event. Can't wait to see
- 35:13Speaker 1: all you folks out there as well. Good luck tonight
- 35:15Speaker 1: in those contests. It should be a great slate. Thanks
- 35:18Speaker 1: for tuning in. Hit that like, hit that subscribe button.
- 35:21Speaker 1: We'll see you. I'll see you a week from Friday.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Matt'll be back possibly tomorrow and I think on Thursday,
- 35:27Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken that yep, good luck in those contests.
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- 36:00Speaker 2: The stop mother and still most like
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